Time Masters: Vanishing Point

ARTISTS

Writer: Dan Jurgens
Penciller: Dan Jurgens
Inker: Norm Rapmund
Colorist: Hi-Fi Designs
Letterer: Travis Lanham
Editor: Michael Carlin
Cover Artists: Hi-Fi Designs, Dan Jurgens, Norm Rapmund

return to top

CHARACTERS & SETTINGS

heroes: Booster Gold, Claw, Green Lantern II, Rip Hunter, Superman
villaines: Serhattu, Skyle
supporting: Skeets II

Setting: 140th-century B.C. Pytharia, DCU

return to top

ISSUE SUMMARY

Cover Description: Superman, Booster Gold, Green Lantern, and Rip Hunter fall into a vortex.

Brief Synopsis: The Time Masters fight to free themselves from certain death.

Costume Worn: MARK I.v2 power-suit

Issue Notes: According to the cover, this issue (as well as the entire mini-series) is a "Search for Bruce Wayne" tie-in, despite only 4 interior panels mentioning it.

Reprints: This mini-series has been collected in Time Masters: Vanishing Point.

return to top

ISSUE ANNOTATIONS

Page 9, panel 1
Booster Gold is trapped in a dark cell with Green Lantern. Despite being forced into such tight quarters, the two still can not get along.

Page 10, panel 2
Booster teases that he has his own reality television show, Fly Along With Booster. Though Booster is insincere, he would no doubt have many, many viewers.

Page 11, panel 5
Liri Lee confirms Waverider's death in the pages of 52. Despite lasting only 4 pages, it seems that the Time Stealers' presence at the end of time is the real story of this issue, and perhaps the entire mini-series.

Page 15, panel 4
Booster communicates with Skeets and Rip Hunter via communicator. Like Booster, they are in death-trap situations.

Page 17, panel 1
SPOILER WARNING!: Booster is not in a cell, but in fact being psychically manipulated by Serhattu's tentacle beast. Also present are Claw, Starfire, Superman, and Skyle. Reveal

Page 18, panel 2
SPOILER WARNING!: While it may be understandable that Superman's vulnerability to magic may allow him to be rendered unconscious by a psycho-somatic response to believing that he is surrounded by Kryptonite (a reverse-placebo effect), once the nature of their psychically-induced entrapment has been explained to Green Lantern (who can clearly hear the conversation between Booster, Skeets and Hunter), shouldn't his superior will-power enable him to escape the situation? After all, his primary "super" power is his indomitable will. This once again begs the question of what Green Lantern and Superman are doing in this comic book mini-series if they are only providing set dressing. Reveal

For more annotations from this issue which occur at a different point in Booster Gold's chronology, click here (for Booster Gold) or click here (for Supernova).

return to top

ISSUE REVIEW

Boosterrific Review: Why isn't this a 4-issue mini-series? Why is this story a mini-series at all rather than a story-arc in Booster Gold? Nothing has significantly advanced the story in 3 issues. I'm not saying that there aren't things to enjoy in this latest issue (namely the future Booster introduction and Booster/Green Lantern banter), but I will certainly say that there is very little here outside of an affection for the art of Dan Jurgens or Booster Gold (or Skeets!) that would justify the $3.99 cover price.

Boosterrific Rating:

• Currently 2.0/5 Stars.

Average Fan Rating:

• Currently 3.0/5 Stars.

return to top

return to top