Astro City Part 2

Much of my reaction to the 2nd half of Astro City is included in Part 1 of my blog, but I'll continue with Part 2. I liked the first page of the 5th story Reconaissance with the alien spy. The lettering is old and looks like something from a fairy tale story or something, but it too is as deceiving as the main character himself. I also liked how in the last 2 pages, the font of the words "Humans!" in the caption boxes gets bigger expressing the growing anger of the alien's rage.

There are nice little touches in the art I enjoyed from the story like on p.137 with the "helicopter shots" of the panels that go deeper into a closeup of the alien's face (still in human form) but his eyes have cats eyes to remind us of his alien nature.

On p.100 there's also a different version of the dream/fantasy sequences we've already seen with the blue lines that look like they've been dropped in a puddle.