Booster Gold

[sdowner]

Anybody else reading this?
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If you're not, you should be.
With the departure of Darwyn Cooke from The Spirit, Booster Gold is the best monthly title DC has on the stands.
The premise:
Under the guidance of Time Master Rip Hunter, Booster Gold travels the time stream repairing history damaged by Mister Mind's rampage through the 52 universes. But he's not alone: The malicious Supernova and his group of Time Stealers are out to stop Booster and put their own sinister plans into play.

The story delivers on the high concept in spades. Whether it's rescuing Jonathan Kent's ancestor from an plot to negate Superman's existence (with the help of Jonah Hex) or saving the life of the Blue Beetle from Maxwell Lord –with disastrous consequences– or attepting to stop the Joker's fateful bullet in The Killing Joke, Booster Gold is filled with high adventure, snappy dialogue and excellent artwork. Each monthly is fast-paced without a single wasted panel, and reads well in the 22 page format; a rarity in this day when stories are padded to fill a trade.

Get it, read it, and love it.

[F!]

I've been checking it out. It's a guilty pleasure. I dig the way the time travel angle allows them to use stuff from any period in DC's history, including those that DC probably want the readers to forget, particularly the late ’80s and ’90s. I mean… Wild Dog? Post-Zero Hour Hawkman? Justice League Europe? Hell, yes.

The mystery surrounding Rip Hunter's real identity is pretty intriguing too. I have a sneaking suspicion that he may actually be …Ted Kord….

[Ugga Bugga]

I know so little about comics, that your spoiler spoils nothing for me.

[sdowner]

Uggs: So you spoiled his spoiler?
F!:
Wow. I never actually gave it any thought, but that's a really interesting idea. Really interesting.

[jeremy dale]

Aren't you, um... flatting this book? ;)

Either way, I've heard a lot of good things about this book. I'll check it out.

- jeremy

[sdowner]

I'm not. I am, however, coloring a few pages in it (Just wrapped up four for issue 9 last night!) for Hi-Fi Color. It's friggin' awesome.

[nate lovett]

Aren't you, um... flatting this book? ;)

Either way, I've heard a lot of good things about this book. I'll check it out.

- jeremy



I'm not. I am, however, coloring a few pages in it (Just wrapped up four for issue 9 last night!) for Hi-Fi Color. It's friggin' awesome.


oh snap! ;)


i really need to get out to a comic shop. this will probably be one i'll check out.

[jeremy dale]

Blast, I KNEW there was something I forgot. NEXT WEEK, I SEZ!