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7. Challengers and Losers
While I’m talking about New Frontier as the best Justice League story, it does wonders for the rest of the DCU as well.
The Challengers of the Unknown are a major part of the book, especially Ace, who is arguably more important as a character than most of the actual Justice Leaguers in the book. I usually like the IDEA of the Challengers more than I like them in practice, but again, New Frontier changes that. The men living on borrowed time come off as real heroes who may lack powers but will still hit the front lines to fight for the safety of the world.
And it’s not just them. As I previously mentioned, the Losers get a pitch perfect tribute in this. But so does a group I never thought I’d see realized in the modern age: the Suicide Squad. No, not THAT Suicide Squad, I mean the original. The OSS military unit composed mostly of crazies and war criminals who predate the supervillain one by about 20 years.
The original Suicide Squad are integral to this book and get incredibly fitting sendoffs. Again, Cooke seems to have real love for every corner of the fifties and sixties DC universe, even the ones most people have forgotten about.
