Harry posted on Mar. 14, 2010 at 12:49 AM
The article does bring up one aspect of Johns' opening arc that bothered me... there is no way the Joker beats BG in a fist fight. It is complete inconsistent with BG's powers. That force field has contained a raging Green Lantern before. He has taken punches from Doomsday and lived. The Joker... seriously. The Joker is cool and all, but when stories try to integrate human and superhuman heroes and villains, the results are often silly.

tiggerpete posted on Mar. 14, 2010 at 4:24 AM
well, he is never supposed to beat the Joker since it was solidified time, so I blame destiny more than a power imballance making the Joker stronger.

 Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Mar. 14, 2010 at 3:31 PM
That's fate for you, Harry. I'm not a big Joker fan (I find the continued existence of a mass-murderer of the scale and depravity of the Joker, insane or otherwise, to stretch suspension of disbelief to its breaking point, especially when DC's super heroes have been pushed to kill the likes of lesser maniacs such as Professor Zoom or Prometheus. And that's not even taking into account the existence of the Spectre, the living Wrath of God on Earth, who has apparently never been angry enough with the Joker to have him disemboweled by a school of smiling piranha), but I always saw Booster Gold's inability to defeat the Joker during the Killing Joke as Booster always rolling a critical failure in an RPG: his stats are way better than the Joker, but when the cosmos stacks the dice against him, there's nothing he could do despite his best intentions.

Harry posted on Mar. 14, 2010 at 9:30 PM
You guys make a good point. And that the Joker hasn't been executed by now is a major stretch. I'm just saying the Joker thing shouldn't be held against Booster. All told, I enjoyed issue #5 and have like how the ramifications have played out. I guess that has to be enough. I guess that's why Morrison pushes all that metafiction into his writing... it's easier to suspend disbelief when you emphasize the quality/entertainment value of the story and not how much it makes "sense" logistically.