If you’ve read this blog for any length of time, you’ve probably picked up two things: I’m a fan of comic books, and I’m a fan of George Gene Gustines‘s informed reporting on the comic book industry for the NYT arts section. That said, even I’m willing to admit that the pipeline between DC Comics and the Times might be getting out of hand, what with Saturday’s item on the animated film of The New Frontier, a graphic novel written and drawn by Darwyn Cooke that’s most easily described as “DC’s Silver Age meets The Right Stuff.” (With, as the sample above reveals, forays into Korea and Vietnam.) It’s not that this film isn’t a big deal, at least within the comic book world, just that devoting a third of a page to a straight-to-DVD project that won’t be out for another seven months, just because there’ll be a preview at Comic-Con, strikes even an engaged fanboy like me as a bit much. Not that I don’t covet the DVD any less, of course.