Friday, March 21, 2014
Many of you have probably read yesterday's Vanetta Rogers interview of Jeff Lemire over at Newsarama.com. If you missed it, here are the important bits (so far as fans of Booster Gold are concerned):
- Jeff Lemire thinks Booster Gold is Canadian. (He's wrong.)
- Dan Jurgens does not. (He's right.)
- Animal Man/Green Arrow are the new Blue Beetle/Booster Gold . (Because Beetle and Booster were busy?)
- Booster Gold will absolutely NOT be appearing in his Justice League United series. (Darn.)
So, no reason to buy any issues of Justice League United, then. Thanks for that, guys. I'll be saving my money for Future's End, where there's still the chance to see my hero return to action.
You can read the full interview here. Thanks to ctalbot2085 for giving us the link in the Boosterrific Forum.
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Keith Callbeck posted on Mar. 21, 2014 at 4:24 PM
Booster's Canadian status isn't a right or wrong. Editorial wanted him Canadian probably so JLI wasn't so American-heavy, Jurgens never put it on paper and JLI ended.
Didio said on twitter in Aug 2013 "given Booster is from the far future, its unclear whether there are country borders them."(sic)
Jurgens told me something similar when JLI was running but since it was never put in an issue he has recanted.
Presently all we can say about Booster is that he's awesome.
- signed, Canada's biggest Booster Gold fan
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Mar. 21, 2014 at 6:52 PM
Yes, Booster is awesome, but you'd never know it except for reading his adventures as published by his owner, DC Comics. If they made a character and called him Awesome-Man, you wouldn't have just taken their word for it, would you?
It is a fact that nowhere in published canon is Booster's nationality described as anything other than American.
No matter what DC planned or plans, nothing changes the established fact. Nothing will change that until DC publishes an "in-continunity" story that declares Booster to be anything other than American.
Dan DiDio says a lot of things. He often says things that are intentionally misleading if he thinks it will sell more comic books. It's his job. Even when he speaks the truth about his intentions, things often change between his first statement and eventual publication.
This is not a question of opinion or interpretation or intentions. In canon, Superman is not Jewish although his creator Jerry Siegel thought so. Batman is not gay although Grant Morrison said so a few years back. In both cases, those creators had opinions about their characters that were not printed, and should not be considered canon, especially in that they run contrary to their established adventures as published.
I am not advocating that Booster must remain American. I am not calling anyone a liar. I am not criticizing anything about Canada or the artists or editors who work for DC Comics. I am not telling anyone what to believe.
You are as welcome to think of Booster as Canadian as you are to think that Booster and Beetle were lovers. Just be clear that the facts do not support such an interpretation in the DC Universe.
Therefore, Lemire is wrong in stating that Booster is Canadian. If he has a problem being wrong about that, he is in position to correct it, either by changing his statements or changing Booster's nationality in the stories he writes.
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