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1. DC: The New Frontier
…the Justice League formed in the ‘50s and ’60s?â€
Since I’ve called New Frontier “the greatest Justice League story of all time†and also consider it the best superhero comic of the 21st century, its spot as number one on this list should come as literally zero surprise.
New Frontier, made by the immensely talented and tragically deceased Darwyn Cooke, is novelistic and beautiful and incredible and perfect. A love letter to the silver age incorporating the red scare, the space race, racism, and everything else into one epic story that turns the superheroic experience into the American one. Aside from being literally gorgeous (Cooke’s art makes me tear up, its so pretty) the book is also wonderfully written.
Focusing on Green Lantern, The Flash, and Martian Manhunter, with supporting plays from Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, as well as most of the DC universe, New Frontier is the pinnacle of a DCU story. If you haven’t read it, you really really need to. Please do.
It’s so, so goshdarn friggin’ good.
So here’s another list of DCU alternate universe stories. There are totally enough to get a bunch more lists like this done, so if you liked this one, give it a share and maybe I’ll do another one soon.
