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Friday, March 29, 2024

My Favorite Pages: Hawk and Dove 1

My Favorite Pages

Do you remember that my favorite page in Justice League International #24 was Booster and Beetle behaving badly at a super-hero gathering?

If so, then you can probably already guess which page is my favorite in Hawk and Dove #1.

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These panels are a flashback to events behind the scenes of Invasion! Book Two, which means this party actually takes place before that one. So if Booster seems comparatively immature here, don't worry; he grows up fast.

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Gold Beetle Family Tree

The Gold Beetle returns — as a prisoner of the Linear Men! — in this week's The Flash #7:

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written by Simon Spurrier, art by Ramon Perez

Seven issues into this latest Flash volume, it's still a big mystery what's actually going on (thanks, decompression!), so I can't explain it to you. What I can say for sure is that the mysterious Linear Man codenamed "Inspector Pilgrim" talking to Max Mercury and Impulse claims he and the detained Gold Beetle are "kinda family."

While I'm inclined to believe that "Inspector Pilgrim" is yet another future version of Jai West (who smooched with Gold Beetle during the One Minute War), I suppose it's a possibility that Pilgrim has some relationship with Booster Gold or Blue Beetle.

Maybe one day we'll find out.

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Monday, March 25, 2024

New (Last Week) Release: Wonder Woman 7

Rasalonn writes

Hi hi. Did you see the panel in the new Wonder Woman comic? Superman and Wonder Woman go to a space mall to buy Batman a present. And the only thing they can both agree on is they refuse to buy Batman the Booster Gold autobiography! The book store even promotes Booster Gold will be there that day. Batman is missing out not getting that book!

The issue that Rasalonn is talking about is last week's Wonder Woman #7, and this is the panel:

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As Rasalonn describes, the story, titled "Gifted," is (mostly) about Superman and Wonder Woman searching for the perfect birthday gift for Batman. It is written by Tom King, who also once wrote a story about Booster Gold trying to give Batman the perfect gift and failing. That story is called "The Gift." I happen to agree with Superman and Wonder Woman that it's best not to remind Batman (or anyone, for that matter) of that fiasco, and I apologize for now having done so.

No, I had not seen this, Rasalonn. Thanks for pointing it out.

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Friday, March 22, 2024

The Time for Ethical Gambling

With the arrival of the annual NCAA March Madness basketball contest and its ubiquitous brackets, it's worth reconsidering the ethics of sports gambling. This subject is particularly relevant to Booster Gold, who as we all know, after being run out of college athletics because of a points-shaving scandal, traveled back to the past to become idolized and wealthy using stolen goods and knowledge.

At its core, gambling is a business transaction in which the "winner" takes the money of the "loser." So long as 1) both sides have access to the same information about the event they are gambling on, 2) neither side has any unequal influence on the event itself, and 3) both sides can afford to lose their stake without causing hardship, there are no ethical concerns.

That's all pretty straightforward. So long as they are aware of the rules, the self-sufficient outsider with a rooting interest should be allowed to gamble freely against like competition with no ethical qualms. But what if one or more of those conditions are violated, knowingly or otherwise?

With his future origins, Booster Gold has access to knowledge that is out of reach of the temporally locked gambler, so any bet he makes with that knowledge would be inherently unethical. As an active time traveler, Booster might — intentionally or otherwise — create rippling changes in time that could unethically alter any event. And while Booster would be willing to lose anything he bets, if he takes in winnings through a service that hasn’t properly vetted the gamblers who took the losing position, can he be sure that his actions aren't contributing to someone else's hardship?

Certainly, there are situations in which Booster Gold can gamble without tarnishing his Justice League bona fides. But, as they say, with great power comes greater responsibility.

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Booster Gold #8

Please gamble responsibly, ladies and gentlemen.

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024

This Day in History: Boosting a(nother) Time Machine

If there's one thing that Booster Gold loves, it's stealing time machines from Rip Hunter.

On this date in 1990, Booster Gold makes a 2-page cameo appearance in Time Masters #4 just so that he can help Animal Man get his hands on one of Hunter's prototypes.

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To be fair to Booster, he didn't actually know he was stealing this one. Animal Man lied about reimbursing Rip from Justice League coffers for the totally understandable personal reason that he wanted to travel back in time to save his family from being murdered. Who wouldn't do the same? (For more details on how that goes, read Animal Man #22. Spoilers: not well.)

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