Comments on: 3/7 – Declarative Rabbit Says…

By: Ken Raining

Ken Raining — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:42:36 +0000

But aren’t you upset that your Absolute New Frontier is now no longer Absolute?

By: J to the AAP

J to the AAP — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:57:58 +0000

I think that would be a very bad idea. Darwyn Cooke’s art is what drew me into New Frontier in the first place and remains one of it’s biggest attractions to me. Furthermore, even though it’s a very good story in an interesting world I’m afraid milking it for what it’s worth would eventually start to put a strain on it. They should only do more if Darwyn Cooke has a good idea for it and feels like it, luckily he doesn’t seem like the type of guy to milk his creations.

NF is an absolute beauty of a comic, no need to add or mess with it. Let it be, let it be, let it be.

By: Mark Clapham

Mark Clapham — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:44:38 +0000

I’m saying this anywhere people might be stupid enough to listen – I’d love love love there to be a ‘New Frontier: Teen Titans’ mini written in the Haneytastic beat style Cooke uses for that Robin drag racer story. That would be great.

By: stealthwise

stealthwise — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 03:55:25 +0000

New Frontier is MY DCU from now on.

I’ll just sit here in my dark corner and wait for another issue…

By: Stony

Stony — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:54:58 +0000

No I don’t think so, I found the non-Cooke art pretty jarring

All Cooke all the time

By: Elijah

Elijah — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:35:13 +0000

They already made the New Frontier reality part of the 52? Oh for God’s sake.

Ahem, anyway, I was actually thinking the other day that I’d love to see Cooke drawing (maybe writing, or not) a major DC book, as though he’s any other artist instead of a “cartoonish” one who can only do certain kinds of projects. He draws such a perfect Superman, I’d be more than happy to see him on Action Comics or Superman–we know from New Frontier that he can handle serious subjects in his art style, so why the hell not?

I know it won’t happen, but I can dream.

By: Dean

Dean — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:32:28 +0000

Honestly, after the Countdown to the Infinite, Final Crisis, I would be ok with DC throwing their entire regular universe and its 52 subsidiaries away to start fresh. Picking up from the end of “New Frontier” would be a perfect way to do that in my opinion.

By: Dan (other Dan)

Dan (other Dan) — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:20:28 +0000

DC greenlighting more of these probably depends in part on how well the New Frontier DVD sells. Wasn’t this basically a movie tie-in to get people thinking about New Frontier again? The more successful this comic and the DVD are, the more likely we are to see another.

By: Matt D

Matt D — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:59:56 +0000

I’d rather see four James Robinson “Times Past” specials a year.

By: Tom Fitzpatrick

Tom Fitzpatrick — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:35:08 +0000

If DC can’t get Paul Smith to do the art, they should get Jeff Smith to do it if Cooke can’t do it.

By: DB

DB — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:23:38 +0000

Can’t believe I didnt notice that Cooke didn’t pencil the Robin/Kid Flash story. Bullock did a fantastic job.

J Bone’s depiction of WOnder Woman was god-awful.

I love New Frontier, and the first thought I had after looking through the special was how much I’d like to see more on a frequent basis. That would probably kill it though. I wouldn’t mind a well-written sequel mini.

By: MarkAndrew

MarkAndrew — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:21:25 +0000

Me being me, I’d rather see Cooke do his own thing than work with previously established properties.

But, y’know, I’d totally be game for a Paul Smith drawn DCU project.

By: John Trumbull

John Trumbull — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:12:21 +0000

I’d settle for once a year as long as Cooke does the art and has good stories to tell.

By: Bill Burns

Bill Burns — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:56:51 +0000

OK, I didn’t know that, but there’s a cumulative effect. The more its just another universe, the less interesting it will be.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:50:24 +0000

Um, Bill, they already made New Frontier a part of the multiverse in 52 and crossed it over in Countdown Arena, so I don’t see how additional specials are going to change that.

By: M Bloom

M Bloom — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:52:26 +0000

An annual side trip into the world of New Frontier would be a fine thing. Just don’t do anything like that third story again – the writing was painful and the artwork by Bone was terrible. Clearly Cooke thought it was cute and funny, but it just came off as awful.

By: Glen Newman

Glen Newman — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:51:55 +0000

DC should let Cooke do the King Faraday “Agent of SHIELD” type series he wanted to do after New Frontier finished originally. Now, THAT would be awesome.

Still, 4 New Frontier specials a year would do just fine

By: Gavin

Gavin — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:49:48 +0000

I’ll disagree with you in part. Cooke needs to do the art as well. That’s part of what makes them so great. But, I do agree that we need more.

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:18:31 +0000

I’ll just say that David Bullock did a *great* job drawing that Robin story in the special.

By: Alonso

Alonso — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:40:28 +0000

You know who I’d like to see? Paul Smith. Can’t think of anyone else right now, though it makes me sad to think about how great it would’ve been to see Mike Parobeck do something in New Frontier.