Noah

Few characters capture the intimate, human texture of Kurt Busiek and Brent E. Anderson's Astro City quite like Noah, who stepped onto the page in 1996 alongside some of that celebrated universe's most iconic figures — Confessor, Jack-in-the-Box, and Crackerjack among them. Emerging in the Copper/Modern Age, Noah is a quiet thread woven through a world-building project that has endured for over two and a half decades, appearing across the beloved Astro City Metrobook collections that have introduced so many readers to Busiek's richly humanist take on superhero mythology. With only a handful of catalog appearances, Noah is the kind of character who rewards the devoted reader — a small but genuine piece of one of comics' most thoughtfully crafted universes, published under Image's banner and worth seeking out for anyone who loves Astro City down to its finest details.