New Frontier craves a series of fine art prints

I admit I was weak. I’d wandered down the comics shop as normal to pick up by weekly order as I usually do. After having watched and loved the New Frontier movie I was looking forward to the Justice League: New Frontier Special. Howver, I found that their my LCS’s consignment had not arrived. That was when the cheerful shop assistant volunteered that they had just had a single copy of the Absolute Edition of DC: The New Frontier come into stock. That was when the moment of weakness came upon me. I’d bought the Absolute Crisis on Infinite Earths edition some time ago and wasn’t too impressed with the reprinting. It was nice to see the art in more detail, but I don’t think it added anything more than the previous slip case edition.

Of course I already had the original issues, but something made me gamble on the Absolute New Frontier. Darwyn Cooke’s art really benefits from being shown large and it almost attains the status of pop-art in this printing. The panels are so large and vibrant that they outdo anything that old fraud Lichtenstein managed to pull-off. Come on DC Direct, shake a leg and get those splash pages out as art prints. The reference material and annotations are interesting, but aren’t the real draw. This absolute edition is the closest that they’ve come to a coffee table art book. You could leave this out when snobbish visitors are around and never worry about their reaction.