New Frontier: A Moment of Wonder

[espanolbot]

A page and a panel from the comic.



And in addition, I finally found confirmation that Wonder Woman was around in the Young JusticeVerse since WW2. So Mod Wonder Woman is technically possible, in-universe.
http://s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=14035

Comments

[kraesil]

...I'm confused.

Explanations please! Why are they in the situation they are in?

Spoilers

[espanolbot]

Ah, sorry thought that the story would be more familiar to people here than it evidently is.

Basically the idea is that in the New Frontierverse, the island upon which the War that Time Forgot comics are based is actually a country-sized Lovecraftian beastie known as the Centre. Sensing the beginning of the nuclear age, the Centre decides (after psychically causing various doomsday cults to spontaneously emerge around the world) that Earth is pretty much screwed, so he decides to go to the world's largest supply of rocket fuel and blast itself into space so it can go and live it's billion year lifespan somewhere else.

On the way there, it annihilates Paradise Island (it was going in a straight line, and the Amazons had the misfortunate to be in its way) and sends out weird mutant dinosaurs compromised of its own bodymass to get rid of the assorted heroes that are trying to stop the Centre, as it's attempt to leave the planet will ignite the atmosphere on it's way out.

Jimmy Olsen is there because Superman had attempted to stop the Centre solo, with Lois and Jimmy covering the event as journalists, and they kind of just get stuck there after Supes is apparently defeated.

Re: Spoilers

[kraesil]

Thx for the info! Always great to learn something new, yes? And I have to say, being a journalist in a metahuman world must be a hell lot of fun- or a hell lot of not-fun, depending on what you think.

I haven't been here that long- maybe the others are more familiar with this :P

Re: Spoilers

[espanolbot]

Probably, the comic's been around for a while, check it out if you can, it's definately in the Top Five I've ever read. :)

And really being a journalist in a superhero universe would largely depend on where you're posted. In Fawcett City, home of Captain Marvel/Shazam and Co. it'll be more quite hijinxs and be more fun, in Metropolis it'd be more exciting but potentially more dangerous due to the alien invasions, while in Gotham... you have about as much chance as anyone else.

[jaysonbyron]

Man, I would read a whole series about New Frontier Wonder Woman.

[darkknightjrk]

The funny thing is I see a LOT of this WW in the New 52, especially in Justice League.

[icon_uk]

I don't think that's evidence YJ Diana was Wonder Woman in WWII, only that Diana was ALIVE in about the right timeframe, no? We still don't know when she first appeared as WW.

[espanolbot]

I'm sure I read that she appeared in WW2 prior to the above thing... I'll try and get another citation, hang on a mo.

[espanolbot]

Shoot, can't find it. I'm sure that it was around somewhere. *sigh* Still, she's at least old enough to hang about with Jay Garrick, Welsey Dodds and the like though.

[icon_uk]

Oh indeed, and it's entirely likely that she did, just being a little pedantic. :) That answer simply confirmed her age, not her career path! :)

[espanolbot]

Vindication! ^^ http://s8.org/gargoyles/askgreg/search.php?qid=14901

[grazzt]

I think New Frontier would make the best basis for a live action Justice League movie. So much goodness.

[majingojira]

Hear-Hear!

[shadur]

"Fight on! All of you, to your last breath, FIGHT ON!"

And they do. All of them. And it is glorious.

Easily in my top ten of best trades ever.

[eyz]

Can't we have Darwyn Cooke back on any of the current DC books?...I miss his art :/

[riddler13]

Everytime I read The New Frontier, I listen to this, so I can get in the mood:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Nightfly-Donald-Fagen/dp/B000002KXV