Comments on: A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 306

By: Callum

Callum — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:39:20 +0000

Yeah it’s supposed to be Steel, but minus the Superman influence I guess?

By: wwk5d

wwk5d — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:01:46 +0000

Er, pardon my ignorance, but who is this character supposed to be? i don’t want to say Steel…

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:14:32 +0000

New Frontier would only otherwise work as a retcon if you ignored dates, as the series ties everyone pretty tightly to the timeline of the late 1950s/early 1960s.

By: Callum

Callum — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:09:34 +0000

Haven’t read this series yet, but is this the biggest tweak that leads to this series being non-canon? All the previous moments before were different but I don’t think they were significant enough that they couldn’t be part of a retcon.

By: Nick Evans

Nick Evans — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:29:21 +0000

A Month of Grim Comic Book Moments? You know, for Christmas.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:08:37 +0000

Yeah, Nick, I was thinking of whether I should feature that. I’m leaning towards no.

By: Nick Evans

Nick Evans — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:50:47 +0000

Cool’s not the right word for it, but the way John Henry’s story ends is also powerfully done.

By: RAB

RAB — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:44:38 +0000

I’m with Joe Rice on this one. I couldn’t stand the movie version. Not so much because they cut things from the original — time constraints made that unavoidable — but because the choice of characters and events to omit rendered it utterly pointless to bother adapting New Frontier in the first place.

By: Joe Rice

Joe Rice — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:28:20 +0000

I got to say, if you’ve only seen the movie I feel sorry for you. I really didn’t like the movie at all. The series, I liked a lot. A LOT.

By: stealthwise

stealthwise — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:15:28 +0000

Damn, I need to re-read New Frontier yet again. I remember being initially unimpressed by the series while reading it in serial format (I was borrowing copies of the first few issues from a friend, and didn’t care for the pacing), but it’s become easily one of my top three favourite superhero stories of all-time.

By: chad

chad — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:45:01 +0000

another moment tha tproves what a story teller Darwyn is and new frrointer should be required dc reading. though john Henrys look looks more like he is ripping off a character known as the hangman as for why its not in the movie it got cut to meet the running time of the film.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:25:55 +0000

AWESOME!!! It is one of the best scenes in the series.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:24:05 +0000

Didn’t they show a young John Henry at the end of the movie reading a book about heroes? It’s been awhile.

By: Mea

Mea — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:07:58 +0000

Considering how his story ended, I’m not surprised it was cut. Still, it was a very good part of the series. Very happy I picked up the trades on a whim.

By: Kanye West

Kanye West — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:07:32 +0000

“Yo Brian, I’m really happy for you and I’m ‘a let you finish, but John Henry had one of the best Cool Comic Book Moments of all time. One of the best Cool Comic Book Moments of all time.”

By: T.

T. — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:06:42 +0000

Just for kicks, the real John Henry song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3vF2KVx9KQ

By: Lt. Clutch

Lt. Clutch — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:34:25 +0000

Oh, yeah. THAT rocks.

They really should have included him in the movie.

By: Blackjak

Blackjak — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:52:49 +0000

Yet ANOTHER cool moment that’s not in the movie…

I’m starting to feel cheated now…

Really going to have to buy the book…

By: Crash-Man

Crash-Man — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:22:25 +0000

Goddamn cool.