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Astro City: The Dark Age - Book Three (4 issues)

DC Comics [Wildstorm]

#4 All The Way Down [October 2009]

Credits

Writer	Kurt Busiek
Artist	Brent E. Anderson
Colorist	Alex Sinclair
Letterer	John Roshell
Editor	Scott Peterson
Cover Painter	Alex Ross

Characters

Rex

Royal Williams

Charles Williams

N-Forcer

Augustus Furst

Julius Furst

Nick Furst

Bravo (Ruiz)

Natalia Furst

Silver Agent (Alan Craig)

Starwoman

Quarrel (Jessica Darleen Taggart)

Black Rapier

Incarnate

Grimoire

Point Man

Cleopatra (Sarah Brandeis)

Beauty

Aubrey Kendall Jason

Stormhawk

Witchling

Plot: Pyramid has seized the Apollo 11 and unleashed the power of The Incarnate... who has judged humanity as a danger to itself, to it's system, and the universe. Astro City's heroes gather around the recently-returned Silver Agent as they attempt to rescue the Apollo 11, stop Pyramid and save the Earth from the Incarnate.

Amidst the chaos, Charles and Royal close on their quarry. Aubrey Jason murdered their parents years ago. He doesn't even remember them, but the pair of brothers have been working towards their revenge for years.

#3 Deep Cover [September 2009]

Credits

Writer	Kurt Busiek
Artist	Brent E. Anderson
Colorist	Alex Sinclair
Letterer	John Roshell
Cover Painter	Alex Ross

#2 Into the Abyss [August 2009]

Credits

Writer	Kurt Busiek
Artist	Brent E. Anderson
Colorist	Alex Sinclair
Letterer	John Roshell
Editor	Scott Peterson
Cover Painter	Alex Ross

Characters

Royal Williams

Charles Williams

Starfighter

Jack-In-The-Box (Zachary Johnson)

Flannery Hawk

Beauty

Plot: Following his close call with PYRAMID, Royal Williams has gone back to Astro City to lie low. But his life keeps trying to catch up with him. Charles is leaving messages everywhere he looks, and the Deacon's men want to recruit him for a coming war with the Underlord.

And time continues to draw towards May 3, 1982 when the Silver Guardian told Honor Guard to meet him.

#1 A Cold, Gray Morning In America [July 2009]

Credits

Writer	Kurt Busiek
Artist	Brent E. Anderson
Colorist	Alex Sinclair
Letterer	John Roshell
Editor	Scott Peterson
Cover Painter	Alex Ross

Characters

Royal Williams

Charles Williams

Nick Furst

Natalia Furst

Quarrel (Jessica Darleen Taggart)

Hellhound (Harvard Amos Chester)

Hellsignor

Point Man

Cleopatra (Sarah Brandeis)

Plot: 1982 marks the debut of the second hero in Astro City to bear the name Cleopatra. It also finds Royal Williams undercover within Pyramid. During the chaos of the 60's, Royal learned that the man who murdered the brothers' parents was a high-level Pyramid operative. Now, working together, he and Charles are attempting to bring Pyramid down as well as avenge their' parents deaths.

In the belly of the beast, Royal dodges the methods by which Pyramid indoctrinates it's ground-level soldiers, while searching for information not only on Aubrey Jason, but on other Pyramid facilities, feeding it to his brother.