Kurt Busiek's Astro City: Confession

Kurt Busiek and Brent Eric Anderson’s Astro City: Confession is a standalone, 1999–2004 prestige-format graphic novel from DC Comics, offering a poignant character study within the beloved Astro City universe. It focuses on a young man who becomes the sidekick to a Batman-like hero, only to confront the dark secrets and moral compromises behind the cape. This story deepens the series’ signature blend of superhero spectacle and human-scale drama, exploring what it truly means to live in the shadow of a legend.