Justice League: The Omega Act Special

Cover Description: This book has multiple covers. Booster Gold appears on Cover A by Jorge Fornes and the 1:25 Incentive Variant by Don Aguillo.

Booster Gold's role in this story:
Featured (Booster Gold plays a prominent role)

Costume Worn: MARK I.v2 power-suit

Page 6, panel 4
When we last saw Booster Gold (simultaneously in Superman Volume 6 #30 and Justice League Unlimited #11), he was so weak that he needed Superman's support to stand. It's unclear how much time has passed since then. It's not enough for Booster to have shaved his beard, but he has recovered enough strength to stand alongside Time Trapper as the heroes of the DCU respond to Superman's summons and arrive at the newly repaired Justice League Unlimited Watchtower (badly damaged in Justice League Unlimited #11). Booster speaks to the Time Trapper as though they are old collaborators (they were both captives of the Dark Legion of Super-Heroes in Superman #27), but this is the first time the two have ever spoken to one another on panel.

Page 7, panel 1
The Time Trapper is something of a constant in the DC Multiverse. Each time something changes the history/structure of the Multiverse, a different entity becomes the reality-manipulating Time Trapper. In the current incarnation of the Multiverse, the Time Trapper is an evolved future reincarnation of Doomsday, the same Superman-killing monster that Booster Gold first met in Justice League America #69.

Page 7, panel 2
Booster is pretty nonchalant about standing next to Doomsday considering that the first time they met, Doomsday put his best friend in a coma and destroyed his power suit (in Superman Volume 2 #74) , and the second time they met he was stranded in an apocalyptic alternate timeline (in Booster Gold Volume 2 #44).

Page 8, panel 1
The images seen in the background of Time Trapper's flashback are all events that have taken place in the Earth-0 Universe of the DCU in the wake of DC All In Special #1.

Page 10, panel 3
How does Booster know that "clearly these jerks can track whatever special energy they think I have"? Did something happen off panel or between appearances that demonstrates this ability of the Dark Legion of Super-Heroes? They did not chase him here.

Page 12, panel 3
Wally West, the current Flash, is fast enough to catch the Time Trapper's vanishing act and rushes in to "save" Booster Gold. This might seem like Wally's way of trying to pay Booster back for helping him after he tried to frame Booster for the murder of several heroes (in Heroes in Crisis #9), but Flash, like everyone else in the DCU, had forgotten that Booster Gold even existed in the wake of the events of DC All In Special. Booster's rescue by Superman-Prime (in Superman #30) shouldn't have automatically restored those erased memories. (Unless... Superboy-Prime's punch has changed reality again?)

Page 14, panel 1
Time Trapper brings Flash and Booster Gold to the 853rd century to demonstrated that not even the Justice Legion Alpha can defeat the Dark Legion of Super-Heroes. This is the first time Booster Gold has ever been in the 853rd century, the setting of the 1998 "DC One Million" event. (In Booster's belated tie-in to that event in 2008's Booster Gold Volume 2 #1,000,000, Booster traveled to the 1,000th century.)

Page 16, panel 1
ALTERNATE REALITY: Next, Time Trapper shows Flash and Booster Gold that the Dark Legion fighting the mightiest champions "across all futures. All possible timelines," including Superman of Batman Beyond's timeline, Komandi, Mera of the Flashpoint timeline, OMAC (Buddy Blank), Artemis of Bana-Mighdall, and Batman of the White Knight timeline. He does not, however, explain why Rip Hunter or the Linear Men are not involved in this widespread assault on time.

Page 24, panel 1
POWER UP: Captured by the Dark Legion and facing death, Booster Gold surprisingly unleashes a blast of energy that temporarily incapacitates the Dark Legion. Even Booster doesn't know what he's done or how he's done it.

Page 25, panel 3
Despite what Time Trapper says, Booster is definitely not "the only being to traverse both time... and the Absolute." The entire Dark Legion, born in the Absolute Universe but recently seen murdering every hero in every timeline, has also done it. So maybe it's something else then?

Page 30, panel 1
Although very few in attendance have any idea who he is, it's Booster Gold who calls a start to the meeting in which the Justice League Unlimited begins to plan how they will fight back against Darkseid. (Contrarily, Booster's memories were never erased, so he knows everyone in attendance with the possible exception of the giant blue World Forger, Alpheus, son of Perpetua and brother of the Monitor and Anti-Monitor, a key player in the recent "We Are Yesterday" events in Justice League Unlimited.)