White Lightning

Crackling with energy from the very first page, White Lightning made their debut in Kurt Busiek's Astro City #22 in 2000, born from the celebrated creative partnership of Kurt Busiek and Brent E. Anderson in one of the Modern Age's most beloved and humanistic superhero universes. Though the catalog records only a handful of appearances, Astro City has always rewarded its deep-cut characters with outsized meaning, and White Lightning shares the page with a rich ensemble — Cleopatra, Quarrel, Jack-in-the-Box, and others — that speaks to the layered, community-driven world Busiek built. Collected across the Astro City Metrobook and A Visitor's Guide, this is exactly the kind of character that rewards fans who love digging into the corners of a beautifully crafted universe.