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"Not Curative" is the key part. In other words they aren't treating the cancer, just the symptoms (i.e. pain management). Granted it may be different in the States, but up here Palliative Care is where you go to be made comfortable before the end (assuming he's home in Canada right now). We call it Hospice Care here in the States. The link I provided states that palliative care can be in conjunction with curative care. Hopefully that is the case here. But with the "aggressive cancer" that does not sound likely. Re-reading the announcement from Marsha Cooke "It is with tremendous sadness that we announce Darwyn is now receiving palliative care following a bout with aggressive cancer." It does sound like end of life.
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SHIT! He's one of my favorites....
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Aw no. 
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Really sad news. My thoughts are with his family and friends.
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Aw jeez, this one really hurts. 
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This really sucks. I'm kinda torn up by this. He was by far my favorite creator.
When "celebrities" or artists die, I usually kind of shrug and acknowledge it and move on. But I felt like I knew Darwyn through his work and interviews. He was my kind of creator and someone I would follow no matter what.
RIP. Gone way too soon.
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He was as far as a creator could get from being a hack, one of the few active iconoclasts working on mainstream superheroes. This is a terrible loss all around. R.I.P.
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To this day, New Frontier still represents the best in what modern comics can be. I feel like I've been chasing after something as cool as it since the first time I read it.
I hate that I'll never get to see the Cooke take on the Silver Age Legion that I always wanted to see.
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Just read about his passing while catching up on Flipboard. A sad day indeed. RIP
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I'm especially sad that we'll not get to see new projects from him. He had a previously announced new series coming out from Image. If he completed any work on it, I don't know. In any case we'll never see his fully realized vision on that series or another brilliant Parker adaptation or anything else imagined or unimagined by his fans.
Nothing I've read of his ever let me down. Even his Before Watchmen work on Minutemen was well worth the price of admission within an "event" we overall wish hadn't happened.
Meanwhile, hacks like Rob Liefeld are still alive... <facepalm>
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Incredibly sad and surprising news. He had such a unique style and he really understood the spirit of comics.
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I agree with all that has been said here. To build on Fat Cramer's comment, he really understood the Spirit of comics. I spent some time yesterday looking at the beautiful clean layouts of my Cooke Spirit issues, and posted an image on my Facebook page. Incredible work.
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Yeah, his Spirit run is pretty amazing. Got to go back and reread that soon.
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RIP Mr. Cooke. The small silver lining is that he did not suffer for too long.
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I can't say I'm well versed in Darwyn Cooke's works. I've never read the New Frontier but I own the movie. I will say I'm still thankful for the Catspaw headsketch he did for me at Boston Comic Con 2011. http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=758433&GSub=90046
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I can't decide which sequence of New Frontier is my favorite.
Wildcat versus Clay
The Flash in Motion
The Martian Manhunter watches TV
The Boy Wonder meets Superman
Zatanna scolding Billy Batson for giving himself an ice cream headache.
The montage as the 1960s begins with Kennedy's speech.
The Kirby-ness of the CHallengers of the Unknown.
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I can't decide which sequence of New Frontier is my favorite.
For me, it's easily the Land That Time Forgot. 
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It had easily the best Hal Jordan ever.
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This is terrible news. I'm in shock. What a loss!
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It had easily the best Hal Jordan ever.
Agreed 100%.
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I can't decide which sequence of New Frontier is my favorite.
For me: Batman fighting the cultists Wonder Woman standing up to Superman in Vietnam The invisible airplane (great in the comic book, even better in the movie)
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I can't decide which sequence of New Frontier is my favorite.
I gotta go with Hal Jordan becoming the Green Lantern when inside the alien. The psychedelic colors really pop in that sequence.
Keep up with what I've been watching lately! "Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you."
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