Flamethrower

Flamethrower is a piece of the rich, layered tapestry that Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson began weaving in 1995 with Kurt Busiek's Astro City, one of the most celebrated creator-owned universes to emerge from the Copper/Modern Age. Debuting in issue #4, this character inhabits a world where even figures with modest page counts carry genuine weight — Astro City has always rewarded its background players as much as its headliners. Flamethrower shares that world with a colorful roster including Quarrel, Jack-in-the-Box, Crackerjack, Demolitia, and Cleopatra, the kind of company that signals a universe bursting with imagination. For collectors who love discovering the deeper corners of Astro City's sprawling mythology — a setting that has sustained itself across nearly three decades — Flamethrower is exactly the sort of find that makes digging through those metrobook collections so rewarding.