Herocopia, the officially sanctioned, fan-developed website for all things relating to the award winning comic series, Astro City. Biographies of heroes and villains, information on special places, insights on supporting cast, ordinary citizens and events, background details on weapons, headquarters, gadgets and gear. Along with histories, issue summaries, annotations, time-lines, and fan speculation galore. It's all here and we welcome you to join in the fun.
A size-shifting superhero out of Australia, Wolfspider is one of Honor Guard's newest members. Besides size shifting he also projects a venom "burst" that can stun others or melt objects, including steel. His powers formed in his youth and developed and matured as he grew into adulthood.
Born to a famous family, Astra Furst, has been blessed and cursed with media attention focused on her activities from infancy, adolescence, and College graduation. Now she's a young women, balancing a very busy life. She is a member of her family's namesake group, The First Family, and also doing part time shifts with Reflex-6. Add to that her day job at the far away Gordian Knot and it is a wonder she has time for normal activities like sleep. Then too, she has always struggled with "normal"...
In the 1940s, Fago's Funny Features was a small animation company that created many cartoon characters, including Loony Leo. These cartoons were distributed to movie theaters and shown as shorts before the main feature film. The Loony Leo cartoons featured Leo, his rascally nephews, and Leo's romance with Lola the lioness.
Now take one real life, Astro City sinister villain named Professor Borzoi. Add a wacky invention called a Belief Ray which has many applications, including bringing imaginary movie characters to life. In this case; Loony Leo.
She's loud, she's super-strong, she's naive and innocent. She's a do-gooder, she's energetic, but mainly she's just LOUD!
She's relatively new to the Astro City super-hero scene, but despite(or because of) her naivety, she is proving to be a very accomplished doer of good deeds.
Her powers source from her mystic hair scrunchies, and that's just part of her strange and perplexing origin. All that aside, she is becoming a well known fixture. Her solo adventures are making headlines, and her involvement with high profile peers like Samaritan, Honor Guard, and others is impressive. She's got spunk!
