I got impatient with reading the books one at a time, so I bought Honor Guard and Reflections simultaneously and they arrived on the same day.
Honor Guard includes 3 stories about the Honor Guard. The first is about a superhero's retirement. While a decent story I didn't consider it great. The second story was about American Chibi, and I thought that the hero had a great origin story, but again, didn't bring the uniqueness that I'd come to expect from the series. The final story was a story told from a monster's point of view, and I thought that was great!
Reflections starts off with a story from the point of view of one of the Alien races that have tangled with the Furst Family (a knock-off of the fantastic four) in the past. It's a unique point of view that was great. The second major story is about Steeljack, one of the villains from an earlier story in the series. It depicts how hard it is to go straight in the universe of Astro City, and I thought it was great!
Even mediocre Astro City is worth reading, and these were great. I'm kinda sad that I can't find good used copies any more from the series, so I'l lhave to read the next few books in digital format.
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Btw, you have "Hornor Guard" (sic) in the title.
Astro City's current reprint strategy is re-reprinting the whole thing in a series of what's called "Metrobooks", so you probably want to look for "Astro City Metrobook"; I think there are five in total but I'm not sure.
I think I'm past even the most recently published one.
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