Kurt Busiek's Astro City #10

A gleeful, disheveled man bursts upward from a cascading avalanche of dollar bills on Alex Ross's cover for this 1997 installment of Kurt Busiek's beloved series — arms flung wide, face turned skyward in wild-eyed triumph, money swirling around him like a green blizzard. The image crackles with a wonderfully ambiguous energy: is this ecstasy, madness, or both? With the creative team of Busiek, Brent E. Anderson, and Ross, Astro City #10 promises the kind of richly human storytelling that sets this series apart from the superhero crowd.