Just saw this on Twitter: looks like their site's already down. If you go to http://www.astrapublications.com/ (as of right now, at least) you get an Angelfire "page not found" page.
Nobody seems to be surprised. Everybody seems to have agreed with you that whatever was going on, Astra smelled like 3-day-old fish, though not everybody seems to have picked up on your observation that some of their "publications" had names suspiciously derivative of established entities.
Thought you might be interested in the update if you hadn't seen it already.
It looks like they've already evaporated...
Nobody seems to be surprised. Everybody seems to have agreed with you that whatever was going on, Astra smelled like 3-day-old fish, though not everybody seems to have picked up on your observation that some of their "publications" had names suspiciously derivative of established entities.
Thought you might be interested in the update if you hadn't seen it already.