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

[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.