This is a vastly entertaining masterpiece that is intimate, accessible, and passionate. He deconstructs the perfect facade of optimism that fuelled 50s America, and approaches the artwork with an antiquated style, all the time burying underneath it with subtle insinuation. Cooke lovingly recreates the idiosyncrasies within those battered old pages with his Sprang-isms but underneath there lies a sly and subversive work. Those simplistic and ultimately idealistic yarns are bathed in a Time-Life gloss, Eisenhower-era relics as quaintly distant as bobby socks and tail-fin Chevrolets. The sky-high price, around £70, means that comic book creators need a career-defining performance to be included, and that is precisely what writer-artist Darwyn Cooke delivered.įiltered through a Technicolor baby-boomer nostalgia, it becomes a biting and gorgeous social commentary that saddles itself between high art and mainstream emotion.Ĭooke has taken a dead genre and reinvigorated it, crafting a delightfully seminal comic, a pitch-perfect homage to the work of Julie Schwartz, Gardner Fox and the rest of those luminaries. That DC chose to make this tale available in its premier Absolute format is no surprise it’s one of the best comics of the last two decades, effortlessly tweaks the origins of the DC Universe and built up so much word-of-mouth momentum from its unheralded release as a six-part mini-series that its over-sized slipbound re-release was a formality.įor those of you not aware of what the Absolute format is, it’s quite simply as good as it gets the finest stories printed on the finest paper. DC – The New Frontier is a comic lover’s dream comic, a daring project that reinterprets the unchecked ambition and four-colour inventiveness of the 1950s.
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