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| − | A small country farming town a few hours distance by train from Astro City. In the story, ''Pastoral,'' [[Cammie Aarons]] spent was she thought would be a long, boring summer visiting her cousins and learning about rural life on farmland near Caplinville. | + | A small country farming town a few hours distance by train from Astro City. In the story, ''[[Pastoral]],'' [[Cammie Aarons]] spent was she thought would be a long, boring summer visiting her cousins and learning about rural life on farmland near Caplinville. |
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| + | |notes= Another rural community in the midwest near [[Caplinville]]. | ||
| + | |creator= Comic strip artist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Godwin Frank Godwin]. | ||
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|name= Hood County | |name= Hood County | ||
|notes= The county where [[Buchanan Corners]] is located. The title is a play on superheroes. According to Kurt Busiek, Cape or Cowl County would have sounded too obvious. | |notes= The county where [[Buchanan Corners]] is located. The title is a play on superheroes. According to Kurt Busiek, Cape or Cowl County would have sounded too obvious. | ||
Revision as of 03:42, 6 May 2014
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Buchanan Corners
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The small midwestern town that Brian Kinney came from. Located in Hood County. | Named after Captain America's World War II sidekick Bucky's, real name of James Buchanan Barnes.
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Caplinville
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A small country farming town a few hours distance by train from Astro City. In the story, Pastoral, Cammie Aarons spent was she thought would be a long, boring summer visiting her cousins and learning about rural life on farmland near Caplinville. | Lil Abner creator Al Capp, whose real name was Alfred Caplin. It can also refer to his younger brother Elliot Caplin was a cartoonist as well.
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Draketown, Alaska
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A town that was destroyed by Thunderhead in 1995. First mentioned Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol.1 #1. | Writer Arnold Drake. He was the writer on Doom Patrol and his last Doom Patrol story was about a threat to destroy a small town in Maine, which might also be part of the name homage...
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Hood County
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The county where Buchanan Corners is located. The title is a play on superheroes. According to Kurt Busiek, Cape or Cowl County would have sounded too obvious. |
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Magma Palace
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Ruling place of Lord Volcanus and the Insiders. Likely in a volcano near or in Central America. First seen Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol.2 #3. | None
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Mento-Verse
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An other dimensional world that is in some way related to mental energies and thought. The Silver Brain was thrown into it by Samaritan. |
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Mirror Galaxy
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A place where the First Family visited in July 1997. Possibly where the Worst Family is from. |
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| Ruled by Madame Majestrix. |
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