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3.  Samaritan

(Astro City, Wildstorm/Vertigo)

Astro City is one of the greatest comic books of all time; there will be no discussion on this. If you haven’t read it, take a week and marathon the whole thing. I’ll wait.

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Back? Cool.

Samaritan appears numerous times throughout the series, but only headlines a handful of issues. Each one is magical. The first issue covers a day in the life of the world’s greatest superhero, but with a powerful and heartbreaking point behind it. The 20^th anniversary issue returns to  Samaritan’s dreams and flight time for a completely new story that really feels like a celebration of everything that came before. Samaritan is a legit fantastic Superman dupe, and one that feels more like a treatise on the original than a cheap copy.

Kurt Busiek wrote Superman a bunch, and it shows. This is another case in which it feels like the writer is writing the version of Superman he always wanted to write.