Monstro City

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Monstro City

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The underwater home of a race of intelligent monsters, located in the area of the Bermuda Triangle and the Atlantic Plains. While most or all of its inhabitants cannot breathe underwater, the city is surrounded by the Atmo-Sphere, a bubble-shaped forcefield which holds back the ocean. The residents of Monstro City vary widely in form, color, and size, looking not so much like one species as many.

Madame Majestrix is the queen and ruler of the city. Her son Prince Rex Zorus and his daughter Princess Astra Jeannine Majestros-Furst are second and third in line to the throne, respectively.

Judging by their names and that of Bertos Grimlar Seneschal, the naming convention of Monstro City seems to be to use the surname as a designator of profession.

When last seen, in the mid-90s, the city was in a demolished and abandoned state, almost all of its inhabitants vanished -- the result of a war with the underwater beings known as the Trenchers. There were over a million residents at one time. Described by Rex as "A jewel in the ocean depths."

First Seen: Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol. 2 #3

[edit] History

Monstro City had a long ago lunar colony, that in 1984 one member awoke from the dead and attempted to crash the moon into the Earth before being stopped by the First Family.