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Kurt Busiek's Astro City: Family Album #[nn]
In "Welcome to Astro City," Kurt Busiek crafts a poignant moment of reckoning as The Box and Jackson vanish, leaving Jack-in-the-Box face-to-face with a stranger claiming to be his future son. With art by Brent Eric Anderson, inks by Will Blyberg and Gary Martin, and colors by Alex Sinclair, the story explores a fragile hope—this son hasn’t been warped by the past, suggesting a future still open to change. The cover, a striking portrait by Alex Ross, captures the emotional weight of the moment.
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The Box and Jackson disappear, but Jack-in-the-Box meets yet another person claiming to be his son come back from the future. Because this son has not become twisted due to being his son, Jack-in-the-Box decides that the future is as yet unwritten, and takes steps to ensure he will be able to be a good father to his son.
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