New New Frontier !
More New Frontier stories? Normally, I'm cynical as hell about cash-ins that are released in near-tandem with DVDs and the like, but this sounds like so much fun:
The special will be a special in that old school way. It will have a small connecting story and the conceit is that these are untold events that the government classified back in the early sixties. There are three stories in the special. The main story is something I call Chapter X, and it is the story behind the big Batman/Superman fight hoax referred to in New Frontier. In the book we only deal with that event as a squib in a magazine article along with on shot of them brawling. This 22 page story will tell about what leads up to the two fighting, and how they choose to resolve it. A host of our Frontier cast are in this story, from King Faraday and the Suicide Squad through to Wonder Woman and Hourman. We also get to meet the New Frontier Alfred.Mind you, I'm still working up exactly nil enthusiasm when it comes to the upcoming DVD itself. Yes, Cooke keeps saying they've managed to fold the story nicely to work in a 90-minute frame, but I think he may be biased on that particular matter. So much of what makes me love the original book is the detail work, and taking 400-something pages of comics and performing origami to get the big points across is just going to annoy me.
Imagine the thrills!
By the way, for anyone who may be out there rolling their eyes about a Superman Batman punch up, all I can say is suck it up. I am going to kick the hell out of those two. There is a major surprise in the story, and an element to their fight that hasn't been alluded to in any form. The story twist and climax will add to any New Frontier fan's appreciation of the main story. I'll be writing and drawing this one.
Following that will be two short stories written by myself and featuring art by two of New Frontier's alumni. J. Bone and I are tackling Wonder Woman, Black Canary and old school chauvinism in an New Frontier parody along the lines of the old Kurtzman/Wood Mad satires. The director of the New Frontier DVD is a talented young man named David Bullock. He and I are tackling a short that features Robin and Kid Flash up against Red saboteurs. Of course my men Dave Stewart and Jared Fletcher will also be on board for color and lettering.
Of course, this probably connects to my general annoyance at filmed adaptations of comics stories. Just do a new story with these franchise characters instead of hacking up something that worked really well on paper and pushing it into a box that's not quite designed for it, y'know? Expect me to bitch more about that as Watchmen looms.
