One of the highlights of WonderCon this weekend was the premiere of Justice League: The New Frontier. I really liked Darwyn Cooke’s original mini-series, DC: The New Frontier, and I’d been looking forward to the animated adaptation. Overall, I’d say the film succeeds.
The story links the dawn of the Silver Age of comics, and the formation of the Justice League of America, with the dawn of the Space Age, set against the political background of the Red Scare. It focuses most heavily on Green Lantern-to-be Hal Jordan and on the Martian Manhunter, but touches on Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman and the Flash as well.
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I’ve never read the story, but the clips I’ve seen were pretty impressive.
I’ll add, though, that every time they said “by the creators of Superman: Doomsday,” I hesitated. I didn’t feel that was anything to brag about.
Hah! That reminds me of some movie trailer I once saw — maybe Lake Placid? — that was advertising itself proudly as “This year’s Anaconda!” 😀