![]() ![]() ![]() Darwyn Cooke’s New Frontier is a retelling of an “origin myth”, one that ties the birth of modern America and the birth of the modern superhero together in a conscious fashion. Without a millenia of iconography from a shared cultural identity bogging it down, the superhero looks like what a modern mythology – created from the ground up – might. ![]() Many are even what this story describes as a “landed immigrant” – although not those huddled masses from overseas, but from beyond the stars. Look at the archetypical superhero, typically a self-made man (or woman) who has pulled themselves up off the ground in pursuit of an ideal – the belief that their individualism can somehow make the world a better place. They have formed the cornerstone of a complex shroud of American mythology, speaking a whole manner of allegorical fairytales and secrets that underpin what is still one of the youngest (and most powerful) global entity. Some would suggest that superheroes are the new mythology. ![]()
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