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  <title><![CDATA[Astro City Vol. 2: Confession]]></title>
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  <default_description>The second Astro City volume collects the first extended storyline from the award-winning comics series as a young man struggles to earn his place as sidekick to the forbidding hero known as the Confessor, only to learn that his hero holds a dark secret. And while the crimefighting duo become a team, political forces are in motion to restrict the actions of the citys heroes.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_day type="integer">23</original_publication_day>
  <original_publication_month type="integer">6</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">1999</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Astro City Vol. 2: Confession</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alex Ross]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kurt Busiek]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Apr 16 12:26:20 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Everything comes together in this one. There have been a lot of stories that pay &quot;homage&quot; to the Batman mythos, but this does it the best that I've seen. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Apr 17 11:16:26 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Apr 18 08:00:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't believe how everything in this story came together.  I finished it two days ago, and I'm still marveling at the fact that Busiek was able to combine vampirism, alien invasion, superhuman registration, serial killings and summer mob violence into a Batman analog.  Take that, Civil War and Sec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53034632">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30930518">
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  <date_added>Fri Aug 22 15:02:19 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 04 23:34:23 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow. Wow. Wow.  Is it possible for a sequel to be better than the original?  For the second time only in my life I would have to say yes (the first of course being Empire Strikes Back).  Busiek and crew deliver yet again and this collection is so very different from the first.  In the first volume, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30930518">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8104578">
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Oct 22 20:10:13 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 01 08:57:30 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This time around, Busiek delivers a book-long arc, from the perspective of a boy who longs to be a sidekick.  After a close call where he mops up the floor with a modified Paste Pot Pete, the Confessor takes an interest in him.  They fight together, as our young hero tries to figure out the secrets ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8104578">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="67584401">
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Aug 16 04:16:33 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Aug 16 04:16:33 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very intriguing super hero style graphic novel. The confessor was an interesting super hero type, a priest who became a vampire due to his lust for a young woman. He continues his 'life' as a vamprire by serving good to atone for his sins. His relationship with Altar Boy is wonderful<br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="10082563">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Dec 07 07:05:54 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Feb 25 11:01:31 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first book that I've read in this series, and the first by the author. I was drawn in by the gorgeous cover by Alex Ross, and by the excellent intro by Neil Gaiman. It kind of reminded me of Alan Moore's Top Ten (which came afterward, but obviously I read first), but has a darker tone an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10082563">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="58127507">
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  <date_added>Mon Jun 01 19:29:02 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was just an incredibly solid superhero tale. Really good stuff. The single issue story at the end of the trade was also really great too. Very touching. Kurt Busiek, showing that superheroes don't need to be deconstructed to be interesting.   ]]></body>
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    <review id="3763883">
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    <name><![CDATA[Sam]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jul 29 18:31:51 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Aug 05 18:31:19 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Astro City is a great series for showing super heroes as human beings.  Confessions is a great story arc that follows some very small threads that were started in the first volume into a major story line.  Brian is a kid with dreams of being a hero - he joins forces with &quot;The Confessor,&quot; a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3763883">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73916156">
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Oct 08 18:04:49 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 08 18:08:05 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my top five graphic novels.<br/><br/>Just a great story, about a young man's coming of age, set against the backdrop of superheroes, mysterious killers and alien invasions.  <br/><br/>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked the point of view. I liked the story. I liked what is was saying. I was surprised. ]]></body>
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    <review id="77029439">
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful take on superhero apprenticeship.]]></body>
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    <review id="19453523">
    <user id="51079">
    <name><![CDATA[Brad]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A teenager from the country moves to the big, superhero-laden city and becomes The Confessor's sidekick, Altar Boy.  Kurt Busiek gets a lot of mileage in Astro City by making homages to more famous superheroes.  The Confessor/Altar Boy relationship starts out as a Batman/Robin retelling, but by the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19453523">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3455716">
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    <name><![CDATA[Grey]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Jul 24 09:44:56 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The second volume in the Astro City collection, Confession runs a little dryer than the first, although the overall writing is still good. A newcomer arrives in the City, and soon fits in as a sidekick to one of its superheroes. Sounds like another telling of Batman and Robin? If so, why is this Con...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3455716">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11367529">
    <user id="109705">
    <name><![CDATA[Jen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Cary, NC]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 31 19:46:15 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Busiek's Astro City series is not only a unique glimpse into the world of heroes (&amp; their foes and admirers), but also our fascination with them. A worthy read (the first volume is good, too)...this is my 2nd time reading the series (first time was in 1999), and I'm impressed with how well it holds ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11367529">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="31154688">
    <user id="934074">
    <name><![CDATA[Dave]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's excellent from cover to cover.  But the real sleeper surprise is &quot;Memories of You&quot;, about a man who loses his wife as collateral damage in a superheroic time travel story.  <br/><br/>&quot;No one forgets, Michael.  No one.&quot;  Good stuff.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="10076507">
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    <body><![CDATA[A wonderful deconstruction of the coming age tale, the superhero, and the best hero in training/supernatural conspiracy/alien invasion comic ever.]]></body>
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    <review id="28247362">
    <user id="1271545">
    <name><![CDATA[David]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[probably my favorite astro city comic. really interesting detective story and obvious allusions to batman that made it hard to not like. ]]></body>
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    <review id="14161488">
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