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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Comics in Five Panels
A few weeks back, Booster booster Eyzmaster and Waezi2 got together over at Comics In 5 Panels to discuss Justice League : Generation Lost. The premise of the site is to use 5 panels to recap a single series, but it's impossible to talk about the impact of Generation Lost without mentioning the New 52.
Waezi2: Even weirder is that despite Booster Gold being pretty popular the last couple of years before the Nu52, Johns made him... disappear. LITERATELY!
Granted, JLI was apparently not a big success, and Johns has a reputation for using C-List characters as canon-fodder to make them seem important, but when Frankenstein was cancelled, he was at least made part of Justice League Dark(can you believe how cheap DC is today?). So that's actually n52 in a nutshell: "Hey, kids! Sorry that you will never read about Booster Gold again, but it was SO important to make it clear how BIG an impact Superman and Wonder Woman making out has."
Bottom-line: third-stringers has no place in n52.
You can find the whole article at comicsin5panels.blogspot.dk.
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Monday, July 7, 2014
Counting Up All Over Again
I did the math this weekend, and unless Booster shows up somewhere in the DCnU continuity before his announced one-shot in September, the drought between Booster appearances will total 210 days. That will tie for the 5th longest span between in-continuity appearances:
- 210 days between Haven: The Broken City #5 and Superman: Day of Doom #1 (Apr. 2002 to Nov. 2002)
- 210 days between Superman: Day of Doom #1 and JLA: Welcome to the Working Week (Nov. 2002 to June 2003)
- 210 days between All-Star Western #28 and Booster Gold: Futures End #1 (Feb. 2014 to Sept. 2014)
Of course, this count assume that we see "our" Booster this September. Given that Futures End takes place in an alternate future, none of the characters involved in that series so far should be considered to be the same characters in "current" post-Flashpoint continuity. If Booster Gold: Futures End delivers a future version of Booster Gold, this drought will move into sole possession of the 5th longest span.
The four longer spans are 336, 302, 244, and 238 days, respectively, with that 244 being Booster's long disappearance between All-Star Western issues earlier this year. Now that All-Star has been cancelled (effective this August), who knows where or when we'll be seeing Booster after September.
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014
It's about Time
Tomorrow, Booster Gold is promised to return to the DCnU in All-Star Western #28. This will end the Booster Gold drought at 244 days. To put that in perspective: the 3 longest stretches without Booster Gold appearing in a DCU-continuity book:
- 336 days between Superman #124 and Chase #4 (Apr. 1997 to Mar. 1998)
- 302 days between Martian Manhunter #24 and JLA: Our Worlds At War (Sept. 2000 to July 2001)
- 244 days between All Star Western #21 and All Star Western #28 (June 2013 to February 2014)
Where will Booster appear next? Who knows. The counter resets tomorrow, but we really need to get our hero in books more often than once a year!
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Friday, January 24, 2014
Movin' On Up
Updating our list of long Booster Gold absences, today marks the 212th day since Booster Gold was last seen in a DCnU comic book. That means the current run has broken into the top 4!
- 336 days between Superman #124 and Chase #4 (Apr. 1997 to Mar. 1998)
- 302 days between Martian Manhunter #24 and JLA: Our Worlds At War (Sept. 2000 to July 2001)
- 238 days between Stormwatch #12 and All-Star Western #19 (Aug. 2012 to Apr. 2013)
- 212 days between All Star Western #21 and now (June 2013 to present)
It's been a long, long time since we last saw Ted Kord — well over 1,100 days by my count — but as we've heard, he'll be coming back in April. Maybe he'll bring our Booster back with him.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Life Was Better When
Today is Wednesday, New Comics Day at comic shops across America. In Wednesdays past, Booster Gold occasionally showed up in a new comic or two. But not lately.
There are a lot of eras in American history that I would prefer not to revisit. Slavery. The Trail of Tears. Witch Trials. But Booster Gold appearing occasionally in my Local Comic Shop? Yeah, I could go back to that.
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