Tearaway

Tearaway burst onto the scene in 2009 courtesy of the legendary Kurt Busiek and Brent E. Anderson, debuting in Astro City: Astra Special #1 — one of the most beloved corners of DC's Modern Age landscape. This is a character woven into the rich, humanist tapestry that makes Astro City so special, sharing adventures with the likes of Astra Furst, Medulla, and Cleopatra across a span of stories stretching all the way to 2024. With a modest but meaningful footprint across Astro City and its collected Metrobook editions, Tearaway is exactly the kind of discovery that rewards dedicated readers who dig deeper into Busiek's extraordinary world-building. If you love comics that treat their characters as real people with real weight, this is a name worth tracking down.