I actually laughed out loud at this. Yeah, as Brian pointed out, it doesn’t quite work, but still.

I do remember being disappointed that a few grammar ‘errors’ made it into the Absolute edition, but I’ve noticed since then that they were just stylistic quirks of Cooke’s.

I’m with the dissenters. I remember wanting to be amazed by this, but… well, it didn’t work for me. /Less/ than the sum of its parts, I thought. This piece, for example… it turns out SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER that Dinosaur Island is, itself, really a huge living monster, which the Justice League would later fight and destroy. So everything on it was doomed anyway,

The art was nice, but I just didn’t see the awesome.

Doug M.

My previous favorite ‘best presentation’ were the large glossy oversized TPBs of Matt Wagner’s Mage: The Hero Discovered from Starblaze — these things are almost 20 years old now.

As for Darwin Cooke, he’s one of the coolest guys you will ever meet inside or outside of comics. Period.

I agree that I find The Golden Age a better read.

But Cooke’s art is just sublime.

The explorations of fear and the unknown, what it means to be an “American,” the alien individual/outsider and his role within that society, racism, love, hate, absolute terror, and the power of the masked stranger; there’s far too much to consider within New Frontier to dismiss it as an inferior work to nearly any other superhero story created. Ever.

The places where New Frontier excels are the art and the characterization. In fact, the only thing I don’t like is the covers…I had a terrible problem with the ink coming off on my hands for the first two issues. (Seriously. There’s visible fingerprints.)

What a great moment in pop-art New Frontier has become.

I went back and picked up War That Time Forget issues of Star Spangled War Stories, and tried to get reading copies of Brave and Bold issues featuring Task Force X. The Showcase easily filled the gap on WTTF, but
the Task Force X are very pricey, even for reading copies. I suggest to Levitz at at the first NY Comic Con that they bring out the Task Force X as a trade paperback, but so far nothing (shows my clout!).

This is actually better than All Star Superman, in my opinion only, of course, simply because I’m a huge Flash fan.

Was this the best comic of the decade, or was ALL-STAR SUPERMAN?

All Star Superman.

I don’t really get the fuss about New Frontier – it’s quite boring and directionless.
The action set pieces are good, and some of the character work is nice, but it’s a bit of a slog to actually get through.
I’ve only got the first volume, and every now and again I give it another shot, but by the time I get to the end, I just don’t want to read any more of the story.

I actually much prefer the animated film.

I finally read New Frontier a few months ago (having originally skipped it partly because I’m not into Cooke’s art style, and partly because it seemed like Yet Another Back To The Basics DC Superhero Yarn). I thought it was okay, but not exactly great or groundbreaking. (Both The Golden Age and Martian Manhunter: American Secrets work similar territory and are much better stories.)

One of my biggest criticisms was that I thought this whole prologue was superfluous, and slogging through it to get to the real story was pretty tedious.

This list is gonna be hell on my poor, beleaguered credit card….

I loved the movie, and suspected that the comic itself would be so much better. Thanks for proving me right.