Colleagues and collaborators say…

“It’s also a treat when Rick says something like, ‘Hey, if we take this piece of the comics
and that piece and that other piece over there,
and we bring them together,
it accomplishes this whole new thing.’

And I’m sitting there going, ‘I made up
every piece of that years ago,
and they’re still the same pieces
but the result is very current,
very much a story about today.

How’d that happen?'”

— Kurt Busiek, creator, Astro City