Ruby

Emerging from the rich, humanist world of Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson's Astro City in 1995, Ruby is one of the quietly compelling figures woven into that celebrated independent universe — a character whose presence has persisted across an impressive thirty-year span of one of comics' most beloved creator-owned series. She shares the page with some of Astro City's most iconic faces — Jack-in-the-Box, the Confessor, Quarrel, and others — which speaks to her place within that carefully crafted tapestry of superhero mythology and everyday life. For readers who prize the thoughtful, literary corner of the Copper and Modern Age, Astro City is essential reading, and Ruby is part of what makes its world feel genuinely inhabited.