Astro City #38 - "Hot Time in the Old Town"

[laughing_tree]

'When I was first pitching ASTRO CITY, Lou Bank at Dark Horse described it as "Like WATCHMEN...but cheerful!" I don't think cheerful was the right word, but I appreciated the sentiment.' -- Kurt Busiek















Later, a new piece of music:

Comments

[zapbiffpow]

Is it me, or did this post come before a few of the others? Also, I'm pretty sure someone commented here first. Did someone jig the timeline? Barry?

Also, I dig that costume, whoever Sunlight Flapper Lady is.

[cricharddavies]

Her name's Jazzbaby, she's her era's incarnation of musical superheroism.

[zapbiffpow]

Thanks! Now I can put a name to the face.

[locuatico]

if she is the incarnation of Jazz... shouldn't she be black?

[cricharddavies]

The theme of the progression of these avatars seems to be the gradual acceptance and embrace by white culture of what began as a Black artform, so possibly not. Or possibly she's biracial and passes for white.

[locuatico]

I am going with "biracial and passes for white" because that sounds less unfortunate than describing the complex relationship of white culture and black culture as "gradual acceptance and embrace"

[laughing_tree]

Her predecessor was.

[angry_marmot]

Jazzbaby, successor to Mister Cakewalk, each an avatar of their era's musical zeitgeist.

[zapbiffpow]

Thanks + heh, Mister Cakewalk. Man, there's so much to Astro City...

[laughing_tree]

In the new timeline, Air Ace first fought the Barnstormers on a Sunday, not a Monday. As a result, the post was made a few hours later.

[zapbiffpow]

Hey, I understood that reference!

Well played.