The Broken Man

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The Broken Man
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AstroFacts


Status: Active
Base of Operations: Astro City
Range of Operations: ?


Personal Data


Aliases: ?
Height: x’x”
Weight: xx lbs
Hair: yellow


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Appearances (in Publication Order): Astro City #1, 5


Event Timeline

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The Broken Man

"The first questions will be: Why is he broken? And what -- or who -- broke him?"

--- Kurt Busiek (interview with Mtv's Geek-News[1])

History

Crazy or insane? Neither or both?


There are hints of a past life, a possibly known identity for the Broken Man. However, currently there is not enough information available to even bother engaging in casual speculation. The Broken Man warns that he is on a mission to save something (us, the world, mankind, the universe, we are not sure at this point) from the perceived threats of an entity know as the Oubor. He somehow broke the fourth wall itself to recruit readers' aid in his efforts. With our help, he was able to nudge Ben Pullam into becoming a guide to an Alien Ambassador named Telseth. Yet while all that's going down, he's also stuck in a psychiatric facility, spending his days in a pharmaceutical haze. ("Through Open Doors (Part One)")

Who knows for sure? We might be listening to the rantings of a crazed fool, or the last sane warnings of a man driven to his mental limits by the awareness of a sinister and very real threat. So, for all of us, keeping a low profile might indeed be a good idea. At least until we know more about both the Oubor and the skinny man with the purple skin.

Powers

He has broken the fourth wall. He can communicate with the reader.

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Observations

  • He wears a white smock over a t-shirt depicting the famous Astro City Signal Rocket. The shirt is very popular with the tourists. Only the "Are You Jacked?" Jack-in-the-Box has higher sales.
  • Kurt Busiek has commented that as the series of Astro City stories have so far circled around the Silver Agent as the overall background character, the next(current) cycle will belong to the Broken Man. Interesting... very interesting.

Speculations, Theories

We know that in the real world, the Broken Man's skin is yellow, just like the Bouncing Beatnik and the Halcyon Hippie. He was once eternally young, he says. So, even though they span different eras, could all three men be different versions of the same being?








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