Forgive me if this is not Booster Gold enough for this forum, but it turns out Dan Jurgens is the new writer and artist for Firestorm.

http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2012/07/09 ... p-solicits

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Huh. I thought DC would announce Jurgens' new home at ComicCon. Guess they wanted to get it out there before the convention.

This is FIRESTORM's third creative team, and based on its sales is probably a last-ditched effort at saving it from cancellation. Good luck to Jurgens.

(Since this isn't actually Booster Gold-related, I moved the thread into the Free For All Forum.)

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From what I am reading it now looks like Tim Drake (Red Robin) is, or rather was, no longer a Robin. Also he still is Red Robin, he just never was Robin, as in Batman & Robin.

Maybe we BG Fans are the lucky ones...at least we can pretend that our Booster Gold still remembers the pre-FP DCU..

News of Tim's retcon can be found here: http://insidepulse.com/2012/07/15/sdcc-2012-tidbits-teen-titans-reboot-detailed-tim-drakes-batman-robin-days-rebooted-too/

Everything that DC does these days blows my mind. Obviously, nothing will top how they've totally mishandled 25 years of brand-identification for Wally West as the Flash, but the change on Robin is almost as stupid.

Jason Todd was Robin from 1983 until 1988, a total of 5 years. Tim Drake was Robin from 1989 until until 2009, a total of 20 years. I personally own every BATMAN and DETECTIVE comic including Jason Todd as Robin from the time period, and I also own every BATMAN and 'TEC during Tim Drake's run in various ROBIN series. Were I to put the two on a balanced scale, the scale would fall off the table in favor of Tim Drake.

In order to correct for having too many Robins in play at one time, a mistake that DC can only blame on its own editorial staff, the company has chosen to turn its back on fans who have made Batman and Robin the company's best selling characters to support a cascading series of bad decisions for the New 52. I think that's an incredibly short-sighted decision considering there is an established fan-base that has eagerly consumed over 200 issues of Tim Drake as ROBIN over the past two decades.

What we Booster Gold fans are really fortunate about is that Booster Gold isn't a legacy hero or one of a series. If DC thought replacing the man behind the mask would make some news, they'd do it in a heartbeat. (I'm sure it helps that the original creator is still involved in the business. That has to help keep Booster involved in the DCU without succumbing to the whims of a writer/editorial staff who would sacrifice the core of the character for a short-term gain.)

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True, though I believe that another reason we are alost lucky is that BG is just a B-List (at best) character. Any iconic super-hero seems to get constantly reseted and is not allowed to have any meaningful growth (that is not forgotten after the next writer change). I mentioned i in the past and stay by it, that BG had the best and biggest character development of any dc character in the past decades.

That's the reason I'm actually curious/hopeful about the JLI Annual. Geoff Johns writing his first Booster-centric story in years, I'm hoping it moves Booster back to the "behind the scenes" hero role he was born for. Someone needs to fix this jinky Nu52 continuity and it might as well be our favorite time traveling hero. I want my SkeetsTV.

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The Annual is my own sole spot of hope for the foreseeable future wrt Booster. At the end of GL it looked all so promising. Booster had his solo title being a Time Master and working behind the scenes, while the return of the JLI would have allowed him to play his public persona, interact with the current DCU and even gets portrayed as a competent team leader. ...and look at what we got after the reboot.

There were so many stories I'd been hoping for before FP.
(The Crossover with the Batgirls, shown in Steph's last issue. I would have love to seen these two together and Booster telling her about the time her father joined the Justice League and got send to the Antarctica.

The return of Ted Kord, and the following revenge he takes on Bruce for his role in his demise..by planting whoopee cushion in the Batmobile and other juvenille pranks. All of course with the help of Booster.

The official (re)founding of the JLI & Booster Gold getting a cape from Superman as present, in reference to the one he once took away claiming that Booster was not ready for it.

And of course..resolving the goddam Black Beetle story line.)

It really seemed like that Black Beetle story was going somewhere, didn't it? I guess you just can't tease out a story for 4 years and then fail to wrap it up without expecting your audience to sour quite a bit. (Granted, I was pretty sour to start with, so I'm not an ideal test case.)

But Black Beetle isn't an isolated case. This sort of thing does happen all the time:
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2011/07/09/comic-theme-time-unresolved-comic-book-plot-threads/

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Ah yes, the never-ending plot threads...
This looks like a job for, Kurt Busiek "loose end tier-upper extraordinaire". I'm sure if he wrote the solution to the secret of Black Beetle it would connect all the way back to some obscure 1960's character from the Beetle's past who stole Rip Hunter's equipment to travel to the future to become the greatest villain of all time. Or something even more complex and unexpected.

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Based on forum comments it seems like Black Beetle will appear in Young Justice at some point. No word about Booster though.