After reading the Darwyn Cooke’s Superman book the other day, it brought be back to want to re-read his masterpeice, The NewFrontier. This book not only made Cooke’s name, but also spawned an animated feature. I hadn’t read Cooke before reading The New Frontier, but afterwords I was a fan. Cooke not only captured the superheroes, but also the 50s zeitgeist. So, what is The New Frontier?
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Superman: Kryptonite by Darwyn Cooke and Tim Sale
The Superman series Superman Confidential was designed to showcase stories from the early years in Superman’s Metropolis career. The first story in that series (which didn’t actually finish until issue 11) was Darwyn Cooke writing about Superman’s first experience with Kryptonite. This was interesting to me, since there are a lot of questions about Kryptonite. For instance, how does everyone know it’s from Krypton? How does everyone know it’s harmful to Superman? Cooke and Sale take on the challenge and create an interesting story about it. So, how does Superman find Kryptonite?