Slamburger

Bursting onto the scene in 1995 within Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson's celebrated Astro City universe, Slamburger is one of the colorful inhabitants of that richly imagined superhero world — a character who shares pages with the likes of Quarrel, Jack-in-the-Box, and Crackerjack, which tells you something about the vibrant, street-level energy they orbit. Though appearances in the catalog are select rather than sprawling, Slamburger has persisted across nearly three decades of Astro City storytelling, from its Image Comics origins through its various collected editions. For fans who love the texture and density of Busiek and Anderson's world-building — where even a glimpse of a character can feel like a corner of something much larger — Slamburger is exactly the kind of discovery worth making.