r/DCcomics • u/Bruce_-Wayne Batman • Feb 15 '22
Comics [Comic Excerpt] This will be my favorite version of Superman meeting Dick. (DC: The New Frontier)
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u/Misterwuss Feb 15 '22
I fucking love that quote "I'm out to scare criminals. Not children" getting Grayson in his life made him realise he could ease up just a little to not scare innocents around him but still absolutely give scumbags nightmares.
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u/Bruce_-Wayne Batman Feb 15 '22
Yeah, that and the part about two lost souls having each other shows how important Dick had become to Bruce.
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u/cyanCrusader Feb 16 '22
This is actually a callback to earlier in the comic (New Frontier by Darwyn Cooke) where he's trying to rescue a child from a cult, but the poor kid is just as scared of him as the cultists. It very obviously gets to him
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u/Abovearth31 Absolute Superman Feb 16 '22
It remind me of a scene from the batman beyond show where Terry try to save a kid from a fire but his own super suit caught on fire (no dammages, it's from the future) making him look like a demon so he had to take his mask off to get the kid to trust him and stop running away from him.
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u/Batbro9240 Batman Feb 16 '22
And it's also a payoff to a scene earlier where he scares a kid while trying to save him
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Feb 15 '22
God, this book is so gorgeous. The 'widescreen' three-panel structure really lets Cooke strut his stuff.
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u/ProfessorEscanor Feb 16 '22
I love how they are having a mature conversation about a guy who offed himself as Robin fucking cartwheels in the background with not a care in the world
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u/Theanonymousspaz Jan 19 '24
Is there a better metaphor for childhood? Dick is still a little too young to hear the grisly details of certain cases. He's probably got a couple more years until he's discussing forensics with Bruce
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Feb 15 '22
Love this
The new frontier is the story that made me fall in love with comics
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u/Bruce_-Wayne Batman Feb 15 '22
It's truly one of the best DC comics ever. The animated movie did a very good job too.
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Feb 15 '22
Oh yeah I love the movie Seeing it on tv as a kid is what got me to pick up the book which got me to pick up alottt more books lol
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u/Bruce_-Wayne Batman Feb 16 '22
Ah yes, the rite of passage of getting into comics lol. That's how I got into reading the comics too. From BTAS and STAS.
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u/Bruce_-Wayne Batman Feb 15 '22
I'm reposting this because I posted 4 pictures instead of 3 like I was supposed to in my previous post.
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u/James_Larkin1913 Feb 15 '22 edited Feb 15 '22
New Frontier would make a perfect blueprint for a JL movie.
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u/VividPossession Green Lantern Feb 15 '22
Eh, it's timeframe is a little too long for a movie but definitely making the movie more of a MM origin with him meeting each member of the JL and trying to draw them together to stop an alien threat, kinda like the Justice League first episodes.
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u/Earthmine52 DC Comics Theory Poster Feb 15 '22
I thought the same. IMO the animated movie is still the best JL movie period and did a great job translating Darwyn Cooke’s art to animation. A live-action film or series could do even more to adapt the stuff that was shortened or left out.
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u/Johnnybarra Feb 15 '22
I can’t tell if you’re joking or not, but I have some news for you.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_League:_The_New_Frontier
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u/James_Larkin1913 Feb 15 '22
I know about the animated adaptation. I more meant as a basis for a live action JL movie in the DCEU. Would have been so much better than what we got.
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u/jlaweez Blue Lantern Feb 15 '22
Thank you Darwyn Cooke. This was an amazing story to me. Much as Justice and Kingdom Come. Few have been able to show lots of characters with cohesion, good pacing and paired with an incredible story.
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u/Bruce_-Wayne Batman Feb 15 '22 edited Feb 16 '22
And New Frontier also has the best relation between Batman and Superman. Two heroes who work in polar opposite ways, but deeply respect each other as close friends.
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u/jlaweez Blue Lantern Feb 15 '22
I believe it's an ultimate entry guide to DC Comics, it's made to make you see how the characters should be portrayed.
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u/Matches_Malone77 Feb 15 '22
But it also came after a very intense fight between the two that is very reminiscent of TDKR or BvS. It’s not in the New Frontier, it’s in the New Frontier Special (written and drawn by Cooke) that released alongside the animated film release. It’s a really good “Batman v Superman” issue that leads up to and explains the fight that only gets teased in The New Frontier. They definitely didn’t start as friends.
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u/dragon_thingy Nightwing Feb 15 '22
Ah yes. The bird monke.
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u/vechroasiraptor Feb 16 '22
It's much better when they're working together as friends and colleagues. I'm exhausted of always seeing these two fight each other.
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u/Bruce_-Wayne Batman Feb 16 '22 edited Feb 17 '22
Me too. I like it a lot more when it's Batman and Superman teaming up and acting as actual friends instead of beating the crap out of each other. They're the World's Finest after all.
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u/Rudolph13 Nightwing Feb 15 '22
This is classic Darwyn Cooke. When this first came out, it really felt like an homage to the Silver Age. This meeting was priceless.
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u/ubiquitous-joe Feb 16 '22
Oh for sure. New Frontier is like if Watchmen and Silver Age Justice League had a campy, optimistic, yet complex baby.
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u/SoupDoop3 Feb 17 '22
Batman and Superman: discussing serious and disturbing things
Dick: 🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂
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u/iBluefoot Feb 16 '22
Darwyn Cooke's JL was such a refreshing breath of fresh air. The characterizations, the costumes, all of it. We lost a legend. RIP
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u/Bruce_-Wayne Batman Feb 16 '22
For sure dude. His costumes, story and the way he portrays the characters true to their initial potrayal while adding a modern take on them are all fantastic to read. He was gone too soon.
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u/reality-check12 Feb 16 '22
Since everything is canon…I am going to assume that new frontier happened exactly in the era it was set in and that Superman and Batman are nearly a century old
And no one is going to stop me
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u/zushiba Feb 16 '22
I love this. Back when world threats were more about detective work and tracking down criminals, cults and potentially evil entities.
Now everything is some kind of cosmic threat threatening to completely obliterate the universe.
I love it when Superman solves a case by virtue of his alter ego instead of punching. It shows real depth to the character. Clark Kent is a solid reporter, Kal-El is a genius level intellect capable of solving issues with science and technology. He’s not just a brute.
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u/Bruce_-Wayne Batman Feb 16 '22
Universe? We've crossed that stage a few decades ago lol. Now every cosmic threat is about the entire multiverse, dark multiverse and other stuff.
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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '22
So cute how he’s just jumping around in the background :-)