Rave about New Frontier

[The Xenos]

I know it's been posted before, but I just need to say again that New Frontier is amazing. It is one of the best superhero stories of the past 5 years. It just is amazing at capturing the heroism and awe of superheros.

The other day I saw the figures at a store in Boston. I had to get one. They had sadly already sold Superman. I grabbed Green Lantern and I hope to make it back for Wonder Woman and Green Arrow. I also want to get my hands on that poster even though I need another poster like a hole in the head. Actually, that same shop had given me some promo posters for New Frontier. Free at that. Got both of them up in my dorm / apartment room. One's the cover with all the hands as a large long poster and the other's a skinny one about as wide as the door frame on my closet and about two feet long.

Right now my roomate is reading it. We started to talk about picking up the fiture. He said he wanted the Superman one. I asked if he had read the book. He hadn't. I told my roomate he wasn't leaving the room without reading at least one issue.

I also told my local shop back home to order me the $75 Absolute edition. I love it that much.

[howyadoin]

The single greatest achievement in human history.

[PatrickG]

You guys have heard the buzz that one of Dini's "side projects" is an adaptation of New Frontier, right?

[Forsaken_One]

I felt, upon rereading it, it was a bit too slow at times. Still good mind you but still a bit slow.

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

You guys have heard the buzz that one of Dini's "side projects" is an adaptation of New Frontier, right?

I think you mean Timm; with Stan Berkowitz writing.


New Frontier was one of those things I missed out on the first time around. I was just taking on new title after new title by then and I thought a $6.95 comic book would've been too expensive to keep up with. But a friend of mine loaned me his copies last year and I fell in love right away. I went out & bought the trades as soon as I was able.

[Noah Johnson]

I'm a grouchy old contrarian bastard, so if you start a topic insisting that I rave about something, I have no choice but to do the opposite.

The artwork looks like if Harvey Kurtzman's later style were being done by someone who was trained as a Paul Dini impersonator. The action lies there on the page lifelessly, and the entire visual look feels flat and emotionally distant.

The story, of course, is yet another fanboy jerking off over the Silver Age, an embarrassing period of artistic adolescence that cemented in the public mind the notion of comic books as crap. This is, of course, because they were crap. At that point you might as well let Mark Waid do another of his odes to "Why everything was better when I was ten." It gives us still ANOTHER Batman/Superman fight where Batman comes out ahead, just in case we weren't completely sick of that yet, and asks us to believe in a top fighter pilot who's never shot anybody, a concept that makes about as much sense as a heavyweight champion who's against hitting people. Overall, it dresses up a lot of mid-century hackwork in a style that looks like "Challenge of the Superfriends" on meth, and tries to pass the result off as somehow breaking new ground.

Mind you, I don't actually believe most of that, I just don't like being told what I have to rave about. :)

[stealthwise]

The only thing that I disliked about it was the end villain, but that's really besides the point, because New Frontier should have launched a new line of Cooke-style books that could have been the halfway point between the current DCU and the Johnny DC books, or at least another few mini's or OGN's.

[Corrina]

Correction: the top pilot avoids killing people but eventually concludes that he has to kill to survive.

:)


I love New Frontier. It's every damn thing superhero comics should be. It even made the Hal Jordan Green Lantern interesting to me, something I never thought possible.

[Lunar Daydreamer]

I've been holding out for an Absolute edition since folks were raving about the comics & trades - so very excited to pick it up as & when.

[Azrael52]

I read the first book or two. It was a little slow to me. I'll probably go back and read it all, though, I keep hearing nothing but good reviews.

[Corrina]

The first book or two I found good reads and was glad to have but...damn, then after that, it got better. So much better. Awesomely better.

[Azrael52]

Heh. Can't argue with that review. I'll give it a 2nd chance.:D

[The Xenos]

You guys have heard the buzz that one of Dini's "side projects" is an adaptation of New Frontier, right?

I think you mean Timm; with Stan Berkowitz writing.

Oh yeah! I forgot to mention that. Though I wouldn't get my hopes up as it seems to be in early production. Not that it's not possible, it's just too early to tell what will happen.


As for the book being a bit slow at the start, I somewhat agree. Cooke didn't quite start with any well known superheros. Hell, he barely used superheros in the first issue. Yet the way he used The Losers was awesome. Plus he sets the stage for so much that comes later. It's pretty amazing looking back at it.

[Spackling Compound]

Oh yeah! I forgot to mention that. Though I wouldn't get my hopes up as it seems to be in early production. Not that it's not possible, it's just too early to tell what will happen.


As for the book being a bit slow at the start, I somewhat agree. Cooke didn't quite start with any well known superheros. Hell, he barely used superheros in the first issue. Yet the way he used The Losers was awesome. Plus he sets the stage for so much that comes later. It's pretty amazing looking back at it.
It being slow wasn't a problem.
It was one of those tales I wished would never end so the additional stuff was welcome.
Having Wonder Woman portrayed as a brawling warrior in a clubhouse of women was a good touch.
I liked it all very much.

[blackcanary_416]

I think New Frontier was one of the greatest comics I had read in a long time. It was brilliant, nostalgic and full of some great dialog and quotes.

[DubipR]

I think New Frontier was one of the greatest comics I had read in a long time. It was brilliant, nostalgic and full of some great dialog and quotes.

Agreed. And it was one of the best Hal Jordan stories I've ever read and I hate that fucker!

[Red Berens]

I actually passed it up when it first came out, but enough people on this board kept raving about it that I went and found all six issues. Wow. Thanks again YABS people!

[Noah Johnson]

Agreed. And it was one of the best Hal Jordan stories I've ever read and I hate that fucker!
That's the truth. I love the ring, love the powers, love the Corps, but the two things I always hated about Green Lantern were Hal Jordan and all that stupid mythology about the Guardians.

[Bored at 3:00AM]

New Frontier is one of my all-time favorites.

Not only is it one of the best Hal Jordan stories out there, it's one of the definitive J'Onn J'Onzz origin story as far as I'm concerned.

I could rave about this book for ages and ages, but I have to mention the Wildcat fight and the Challs sequences were just breath-taking.

And everything with Wonder Woman. And The Flash.

Okay. I'll stop now.

If you haven't read it yet. Do yourself a favor and pick it up. It's that good.