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Or – “Hey, Vent! You Ready To Move Out?”
When you read monthly comic books the way that I do, often times you get to the point where you feel like you know what’s coming, when every title feels like you’ve read it before. On the other hand, you have the odd experience where you read a title or issues that you KNOW you’ve read before, but you cannot for the life of you remember how it’s supposed to end. With over a hundred monthly titles coming out, sometimes you need to play catchup, you need to go where everybody knows your name to the land of the Rapid Fire Revieeeeewwww!
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DC has released a glimpse of even more Blackest Night tie-ins, and the one for Booster Gold #27 has my attention.
First up is a glimpse of the cover to Booster Gold #27, which is part II of our Blackest Night tie-in. Here, Booster Gold and Blue Beetle must team-up to stop Black Lantern Blue Beetle from eating their hearts. And as you can see by our cover, courtesy of series’ artists Dan Jurgens and Norm Rapmund, Booster’s just hanging around, and Ted, well, Ted’s dead, baby.
If done right, this could be a real mind-F of a story. The guilt of the best friend that has died, plus the guilt of having to live up to your namesake equals story telling gold – Booster Gold that is. Of course the Jamie Reyes/Ted Kord story has already been told in the Brave and the Bold animated series.
We talked about this some time ago, but DC has announced that G4’s Attack of the Show Blair Butler is Booster Gold’s Number One Fan.
(Click for 2001 x 3086 image)
When we first ran the fan club image, some of the Major Spoilerite Legion wanted to get the image on a T-Shirt. Well, your wish is granted thanks to Graphitti Designs. While the shirts are on sale at the San Diego Comic Con now, let’s hope the shirt is available through Previews or other outlets in the near future.
Or – “Of Course I’m Serious. And Don’t Call Me Shirley.”
Oh say can you see…
By the dawn’s early light!
What so proudly we hail…
In the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose bright stripes and broad stars,
In the perilous night…
For the ramparts we watched,
uh, da-da-da-da-da-daaaa…
And the rocket’s red glare!
Buncha bombs in the air!
Gave proof to the night!
That we still had our flag!
Oh say does that flag banner wave,
Over a-a-all that’s free!
And the home of the land…
And the land of the – FREE!
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DC teases us this morning with only a small portion of the cover to Booster Gold #23. Who would have thought Booster Gold would have a fan club and that he would have a number one fan. DC promises to share more of the cover image as the issue release date approaches.
As the saying goes, “You can’t keep a good man down,” and that is so true when it comes to the Blue Beetle. DC is starting to come around to the backup story in comics, by adding the Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle to the Booster Gold series. The backups will be written by Matt Sturges, with Mike Nortan taking on the art duties.
Booster Gold makes an appearance on Batman: The Brave and the Bold airing this week on the Cartoon Network. Now if there could only be a flashback story featuring Booster and Ted Kord, that would rock.
More after the jump.
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Oh boy, time travel really does a number on the head
With the latest installment of Booster Gold, Dan Jurgens gets the chance to write a scene where Booster Gold and Booster Gold have a heart to heart. Don’t worry, the universe doesn’t annihilate itself, but it will warp your head.
What goes around comes around
Time travel. I used to think stories that involved time travel were a hoot and holler as they tended to be a lot of fun as the hero would stumble through time paradoxes, try to keep from meeting himself, and generally screwing around with history. Booster Gold has been time trippin’ for the last 16 issues, so one would think the latest installment would be full of goodness. You’d think that wouldn’t you?
Faces of Evil
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m not a big fan of company wide events. For some titles the company wide event works, almost like it was planned, but for the larger majority, the company wide event gets shoe horned in a way that pulls the reader away from the story because of the “Hey, look what we’re doing!” style of writing. Fortunately, for Booster Gold the Faces of Evil event works only because there is time travel involved.
For want of a knife the kingdom was lost
Forget the time jumping, continuity screwing, reality messing tale that’s occurring in some of those other books. If you really want your mind tweaked, readers need to check out the latest time jumping, continuity screwing, reality messing tale that’s happening in Booster Gold. Unlike that other book that doesn’t explain anything, Booster Gold #15, kicks off a new story arc that not only doesn’t explain everything, but does it in a way that makes sense – providing you’ve read the previous 14 issues.
In which time travel becomes even more confusing
If I had the ability to travel through time, there are many things I’d try and go back and fix in order to make the future better. One thing I know I don’t want to do is travel to a future where a giant starfish has taken over the planet and I’m being cast into a pit of spores.
Echinoderms. Why’d it have to be echinoderms?
You gotta love time travel. Not only do you get to warp the universe around you to make all the bad things go away, you also get to warp the universe around you to make the good things happen. Such is the case with the greatest hero no one has ever heard of and his Time Lord Chrononaught Time Master son. What? That’s a spoiler that was revealed like… three issues ago! Oh Geez, gimme a break! Here, put this starfish on your face, and the bad spoiler man will go away.
Or – “The Story Takes Place In The Past… I HAD To Wait To Review It.”
I am soooo late. I can’t even begin to tell you what has happened in the last couple of weeks, other than to say that I think my hair hurts. As for the comic books, the show must go on, even when creators move on or editorial caveats force change. Geoff Johns brought Booster Gold back into the public eye, but now that he’s moved on, how will the book fare? No better way to find out then to click…
The Booster Gold title has been one of the biggest surprises in recent years. No one ever thought that Booster Gold could be developed in to a comic title that anyone would actually pine for. But with Geoff Johns writing all bets are off apparently, as Booster Gold #09 continues the mind-blowing adventures of Booster and his best friend, Blue Beetle.
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