Summer of Superman Special
“The Past, The Present, The Future”
Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2025
Released April 16, 2025
Cover Price: $5.99
Writer: Joshua Williamson
Artist: Dan Mora
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Assistant Editor: Jillian Grant
Editor: Paul Kaminski
Hero: Booster Gold
Villains: Cosmic Boy Omega, Lightning Lad Omega, Saturn Girl Omega, Validus
Setting: Metropolis, DCU, USA, 31st-century
Cover Description: This book has multiple covers featuring various members of the Superman Family; Booster Gold appears on none of them.
Booster Gold's role in this story:
Supporting (Booster Gold plays a lesser role)
Costume Worn: MARK I.v2 power-suit
Story Notes: The story in this issue is divided into three chapters and an epilogue. Since the issue provides art credits for each chapter and Booster Gold appears only in the epilogue, only art credits for the epilogue are presented on this page.
Page 33, panel 5
Throughout this issue, Superman and his friends battle Validus, foe of the 30th-century Legion of Superheroes. Booster Gold's narrative voiceover in this panel explicitly indicates that Validus wasn't traveling across dimensions but through time.
Page 34, panel 1
Validus falls forward through time passing characters from the mainstream DC Universe.
Page 35, panel 3
Validus returns to what looks like a museum exhibit of 20th-century DC heroes where it stands over the dead bodies of fellow Fatal Five members Emerald Empress, Mano, Persuader, and Tharok.
Page 36, panel 1
LIQUIFIED TIME: Although it was implied in DC All In Special that Booster was trapped in the alternate reality of Darkseid's Absolute Universe, this panel with Booster Gold chained on a wall within earshot of the Dark Legion of Superheroes (Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad, Saturn Girl) torturing Validus makes it clear that Booster is actually trapped in the future of the mainstream DC Universe. Of course, this change in the future of the DCU also corrupts Booster Gold's history (as teased by the Dark Legion's omega symbol seen on Booster's own Legion Flight Ring in DC All In).
Boosterrific Review: I don't usually post any review of a book in which Booster Gold appears on just one panel, but here Booster provides first person narration across four of the story's thirty-six pages. That's 11% of the book, but there's still not really enough to review, as all four pages are essentially exposition for future events. (Frankly, so are the other three "chapters" in this book. Thanks again, decompression!) Given that there hasn't been a Booster Gold appearance in a comic book in six months, I guess this illustrates the old adage that beggars cannot afford to be choosers. Ultimately, I judge this issue passable but unsatisfying.
Boosterrific Rating: Gold Standard.
Average Fan Rating: (1 vote)
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