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New Frontier Movie/Book Comparison

A lot of reviews of the New Frontier (including my own) have made a big deal of how closely the animation follows the book. A few quick screen caps and scans shows just how close they got:

Hal in Korea:

Dinner with Ferris:

Superman calls for silence:

Pretty amazing really. Those images do show the one thing that I real miss about Darwyn Cooke’s style that isn’t in the movie – those heavy, expressive, almost Kirby-like, ink lines. Although I admit that I can’t for a moment think how they’d could ever have translated them.

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