Comments on: Booster Gold #0

By: Sanlear

Sanlear — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:19:24 +0000

I shouldn’t talk too much, I actually have walked through snow to get to a comic store (back when I was 18 and stationed on a ship). Now I’m almost 36, and still collecting comics. But at least I can drive through the snow. :)

By: nu

nu — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:42:18 +0000

i think the fix for keeping ted around is giving him another costumed identity like when booster went supernova. maybe ted is the black beetle? or do we think that one of boosters grandparents is the black beetle and the other is supernova?

By: Roy

Roy — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:51:56 +0000

Kansas drivers can’t be as bad as PA drivers. I live in MD, and when we were kids at the beach, we’d literally run the other way if we saw PA plates coming down the street.

By: DrStrangeCubicle

DrStrangeCubicle — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:34:36 +0000

Heh, I could say the same about my area as well (San Francisco).

So I’m not completely off-topic, I really enjoyed the issue, with the highlight (perhaps not too original on my part, but…) being Parallax/Extant reacting to the time sphere and then Jaime/Dan’s banter regarding whether they’d been seen or not.

By: Stephen Schleicher

Stephen Schleicher — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:23:59 +0000

If you’ve seen the morons around here driving, you’d swear they were from another planet, so you might be on to something.

By: DrStrangeCubicle

DrStrangeCubicle — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:12:07 +0000

People still live in Kansas? Probably Skrulls

By: Joshua S. Hill

Joshua S. Hill — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:48:05 +0000

Matt - I was actually referring to my fathers generation being a bit older than your fine self… more, fans of the golden age… etc…

By: Stephen Schleicher

Stephen Schleicher — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:44:07 +0000

dude, i live in western kansas, what the hell is an uphill?

By: DrStrangeCubicle

DrStrangeCubicle — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:04:23 +0000

Was the walk to the store uphill, both ways, Stephen?

By: Stephen Schleicher

Stephen Schleicher — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:26:09 +0000

Actually in my first year or two of college I did not own a car, and when Matthew wouldn’t let me ride in one of his many $300 beaters he was always buying, I did have to walk at least two miles to and from the shop on more than one occasion and sometimes in the snow!

By: Sanlear

Sanlear — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:18:20 +0000

Back in your day, I bet you walked twenty miles through the snow to get to a comic book shop!

By: Matthew Peterson

Matthew Peterson — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:09:33 +0000

Oh, and don’t forget all the MTV video games…

By: Stephen Schleicher

Stephen Schleicher — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:04:18 +0000

Matthew: We are both old… these young whipper snappers these days! But maybe having josh writing some tutorials will bring in the younger crowd with their fancy music and parachute pants.

By: Matthew Peterson

Matthew Peterson — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:36:10 +0000

I completely agree. The new Booster series has hit very few false notes for me, from the Ted resurrection, to the Barry and Wally cameos, to the reveal of Supernova. It’s been a fascinating reworking of Booster without destroying that which has come before.

And I’ve always been a fan of the whole “one man and companions traveling through time” story structure (what some call the ‘Quantum Leap’ or ‘Sliders’ model, but what an old dude like myself calls the ‘Doctor Who’ model).

But one thing bothered me… “Comic fans of my father’s generation?” I bought Booster Gold #1 off the stands at S&S Drugs in 1982. Are you saying I’m OLD???