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| Astro Boy Vol 22 : 3 of 5 | |
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4.16.2005
8:47 PM | Link |
 I can't believe I'm coming to the end of the Astro Boy series of books! This volume actually has twelve short stories in it (some as short as a single page!), so Tezuka is definitely wrapping up this collection by gathering some pretty obscure tales. In a few of the stories, Astro is only a guest star, but the stories are still cool because you get to see some of Tezuka's other styles of drawing and story-telling. The first story Astro Returns is the longest, which describes how Astro is rescued and repaired after his tragic ending in the old TV series - variations of this same story were written by Tezuka several times, I think, but this one includes the creation of the Sphinx in Egypt! Some tales have screwball titles like Slippery Catfish in Imminent Danger, but I think my favorite might be You're Guilty, which is actually a Black Jack story (my first time to read this character). Astro appears as a real boy, so it's kind of like he's an actor playing a role. The last story called The End of Astro Boy is really amazing and dramatic, although Tezuka assures us in the intro notes that it's really not the end!
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