First off, if this has been posted before, I do apologize.

Alright, so, I've been on the Comicbook site a lot more lately, given DC's announcement about one of their characters being gay in the DCnU. Looking back on some of the older posts about this, I came across some Booster links I seemed to have missed. One in particular caught my eye because, despite visiting this site about every hour everyday (even on the weekends), I never saw it mentioned by anyone.

Before I reveal it, I would like to make my opinions about the reboot brought forward. I can understand everyone's anger at it happening, what with character development being completely tossed to the wind and what not. I will admit, I haven't read as many comics as everyone else on this site, but when was the last time the entire DC Universe was reset to fit a new age and reintroduce characters? I would really like to point out, reboots can do some good. When did Booster come out? Right after a reboot.

Yes, character development is a wonderful thing and I love it, but it is nice to see a bit of a fresh start. I have my ideals of what Booster should be like, and so far, minus his fashion choice, he seems pretty much the same. BUT, because it's been reset, I want to know HOW he knows Fire and Ice. I want to know WHAT made him and Guy have such conflict in this world. I want to know WHY he and Batman are so chummy. To me, I've found the reboot to be more intriguing than irritating. Yes, I am absolutely LIVID Skeets hasn't appeared yet, and I'm incredibly upset that Ted never apparently existed. But hey, know what I got from this reboot? A new love for a character I never looked at before (August General in Irons), a chance to see budding friendships and love interests between people. I get to see Batman Batrespect Booster and not have it take 20 years (what, 10 in comicbook years?), no, it only takes 1 month (the heroes in this universe have been out and about for about 5 years instead?).

ANYWAYS. Now, with that off my chest (I had no idea where else to put it, so I present it to you's there), I would like to present you Boosterites this; http://comicbook.com/blog/2012/04/14/c2 ... ging-back/ . Booster is ALWAYS a Time Master. He is still our old Booster, he's just younger looking now.

And this makes sense. At the end of Flashpoint, what happened? Booster landed in the Time Lab, looking for Rip and Michelle. It makes sense that they would still be around.

Again, I do apologize if someone else already posted this, but I never saw it on here.

That certainly deserves a response. I'll start with the most important first:

You're right, I don't think I posted anything about that news. That story was posted on the weekend, and I retweeted it but never actually posted it on the blog. While I had planned to post it the following Monday, the breaking news that the Booster Gold television script was handed to SyFy was newer and bigger news. Therefore, this quote was postponed indefinitely.

As a general rule, I don't believe anything that is said at a panel until I see it in a book. This news is no exception. I'd love it to be true, but I'm not holding my breath. With no evidence in the comics that this is anything more than an attempt to placate fans at a convention, the real news about the Booster script took priority, and I let this quote slipped through the cracks. Sorry that you didn't see it earlier, CDN. I feel like I dropped that ball.

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On to the reboot: I'm actually glad that someone out there likes it. I hate it, and I think everyone who does prefer it is dead wrong. However, I have to admit that this reboot is for people like you, not me. DC didn't care about what I thought about their comics; they wanted fresh blood. I'm only good for so much money going forward, but newer, more enthusiastic readers should spend more than enough to make up for alienating older people like me. Sales have been declining for years: maybe they've been catering to people like me for too long.

That said, I must disabuse you of the notion that this post-FLASHPOINT "not a reboot" [DC's own words] debacle is anything more than superficially similar to the post-CRISIS DC Universe reboot. I remember CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS. Despite my initial misgivings, I was eventually pleased by the result of that reboot. These are some reasons why CRISIS was superior:

• CRISIS was a good comic, involving the entire DCU in a story that was so innovative and comprehensive that it, for good and ill, really changed the way comic events are done. It was a good, epic story, and the aftermath was equally serious, epic, and comprehensive. From CoIE, a whole new world was born. Comparatively, FLASHPOINT was a simple story blown out of proportion with hype and bloated excess. Except for preparing us for an unsatisfying, undefined partial reboot, the unsatisfying, undefined conclusion is a lesson in woefully unfulfilled expectations.
• CRISIS actually performed a full reboot on the DCU, comprehensively realigning everything. Yes, because it wasn't rolled out all at once, it was messy, especially in regards to a couple of JSA/JLA characters shoehorned into a new poaradigm. They were the exception, not the norm. Now, post-FLASHPOINT Batman and GL have not been rebooted. That's a major problem here: even with other Crisises put aside, these characters have interacted with all other DC heroes. This spotty partial-reboot has left far more questions than answers, turning every character's history and experiences into a new nightmare reminiscent of a 21st-century Hawkman. To people like me who cherish continuity as a building block for character development, this is truly hellish.
• I say again that costume redesigning has been a nightmare. Last time DC rebooted, it was still easy to tell who your heroes were. Now, everyone is a fashion victim, an exercise in piss poor design and careless coloring techniques. I hate to look at comics today, and that's a terrible thing to say about a visual media.

One more rebuttal: Booster ended up being the first post-CoIE character, but that wasn't by design. Booster's intended origin was to link closely with Superman's pre-CoIE continuity. That history was destroyed by CoIE, and the final solution for Booster's origin wasn't as cleverly merged with DC history. I love the Booster we have, but I cannot pretend that I wouldn't like a Booster Gold wearing Superboy's Legion Flight Ring and the original Brainiac's force field belt a little more.

You like your post-FLASHPOINT DCnU? That's fine. You want a continuity-free sandbox with iconic heroes so that you can reinvent their history the way you want? I don't begrudge that. Just don't try to tell me that the new way is better than the old way just because its newer. That's bull.

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Well, I forgot when the Dyfy news came out, so seeing that link I posted I didn't think anything major had happened. Let's face it, TV show>anything else really.

On the subject of the reboot though. While I may not have been a reader for long, I am an avid RPer and Booster is my most common character to play. While I may not have read many of his books, I have done hours upon days upon weeks upon months of thorough research on the character to the point I felt like I had spent my life reading him. As I said earlier, I can completely understand why people can and do hate reboots. I never argued that reboots suck. They do, they really do. And I don't think I ever said the new way was better either (if I did, my bad lol). All I was saying was, as much as I hate to see all this development go in the toilet, it could be worse....Booster could have been shot in the head by someone who had never really been evil before. I'm sure that would have been fun D:

Well, I certainly can't argue with that! I couldn't agree more.

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Don't forget "And then written out of existence entirely by the word of god..." (or in my opinion, the word of the hack with the reins -_- )