BOOSTERRIFIC BLOG

Mina posted on Jul. 12, 2017 at 12:46 PM
I love-love-love this episode. It's what makes Booster Gold such a fantastic character, who is so sorrowfully underutilized in today's comics. Even the Booster we know of today (or used to know of, since he's disappeared off the face of the New Rebirth 52 etc etc verse), has all these expectations heaped upon him by the writers or the audiences. Booster Gold shines when he is depicted as someone who acts as though he desires fame, but saves the world despite not receiving the praise he deserves. He is selfless wrapped up in the disguise of someone selfish. That kind of character begs for episodic treatment. He can tell a thousand different stories, in a thousand different time periods, and it will always start and end with people not knowing how important he really is. As we left Booster in the comics, when he was last seen, they had taken his importance too far. He's not a Time Lord. He isn't Doctor Who (or, 'The Doctor' for all you newWho fans). He's a normalish guy who saves the world because it needs to be saved.

Sorry for the rambling. I can be very passionate about Booster Gold all the time.

Brady Kj posted on Jul. 12, 2017 at 1:20 PM
That was the greatest episode in all of JLU.

Mina, I think you put it very well. And I agree that they took his importance too far by turning him into that Waverider thing, but in a way, they also didn't take his importance far enough, by keeping him absent. Also, while much of his selfishness is a disguise, he definitely has a genuine longing for recognition and that gives the character a lot of depth.

CelebrenIthil posted on Jul. 11, 2017 at 3:35 PM
I managed to catch it. A good episode; I liked it better than the JLU episode, silent Skeets nonwithstanding.
Also, Booster was being played here as having a bit of an attention deficit; which felt a bit unusual (he tends to goof off a lot, but I'm not sure I've seen him depicted as having a short attention span), but it was only an 11-minute episode so I figure it was slightly exagerated in order to rapud-fire some gags. :)

Brady Kj posted on Jul. 12, 2017 at 1:02 PM
I just watched the episode online (legally) last night after I read your post. I liked the portrayal of Booster too, and the ending was touching. CelebrentIthil, I thought the short attention span seemed off too, but you're right about the rapid-fire gags.

Tinuvial posted on Jul. 7, 2017 at 9:37 AM
Continuity? What continuity? Pay no attention to our hundreds of stories or the man behind the curtain!

Jesster posted on Jul. 7, 2017 at 6:10 PM
I'm going to go back to 1986 when comics made sense after Crisis. While there I will erase DiDio and Lee and a few others responsible for this borrible mess of a universe from the timeline. And Snyder, he has got to go just because of Watchmen.

 Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jul. 7, 2017 at 10:58 PM
Frankly, I never found WATCHMEN as irritating as SUCKER PUNCH, but whatever you can do to get Snyder removed from the DC movies would be appreciated.

bob posted on Jul. 8, 2017 at 9:36 PM
hey, have you all noticed that The Web is a more successful version of Booster Gold? Just read the 10 books that hes in. I have been rereading books for 2009 or so.

 Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jul. 8, 2017 at 10:59 PM
"The Web", as in the Archie character? Or are you talking about someone else? Because The Web I knew of was nothing like Booster Gold, successful or otherwise.

Brady Kj posted on Jul. 10, 2017 at 2:06 AM
Yeah. I don't quite get the current DC continuity either. But I'm more confused about Marvel's continuity right now, ever since their thing that was named after Secret Wars but was more like Crisis On Infinite Earths. I have no clue about Marvel, but I have guesses about DC. I'm guessing that Blue Beetle takes place in the main continuity but Justice League 3000 takes place in a new one that resembles the '90s continuity. I'm trying to figure out if "Bug!" is in continuity. I discovered the second issue last week, and I'm really happy to see the Golden Age BB and Sandman in it. I think DC's trying to fix its mistakes from Flashpoint while trying to satisfy its new post-Post Flashpoint fans. This is a tricky balance that involves a lot of changes, and comics continuity has always been in flux. There wasn't much continuity in the Silver Age. I hope that DC makes a tight continuity a priority after DC figures out what versions of its characters will be most successful, not before.

bob posted on Jul. 12, 2017 at 1:18 PM
yeah the web owned by d.c now. like booster he drinks sun dollar coffee. he sold out hes technology for profit but unlike booster hes rich, also like booster he was fixed by flash point. p.s so sorry it took me so long to respond

CelebrenIthil posted on Jul. 7, 2017 at 4:31 PM
I bought both digital Injustice issues and even the darn Flintstones special - my very first comic book purchases ever - to tell DC just that.
Off to buy myself a adult-sized onesie that says "Baby's First Comic Book" I guess now ...
Don't I feel silly among you veterans sometimes

 Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jul. 7, 2017 at 10:55 PM
Congrats on your first comic book purchase!
May it not become a debilitating affliction for you as it has for so many of us.
(Must... buy... new... books....)

CelebrenIthil posted on Jul. 9, 2017 at 4:35 PM
Given the paucity of Blue & Gold, Fire & Ice and pals, I'm at little risk of addiction even if I wanted to...

Brady Kj posted on Jul. 10, 2017 at 1:50 AM
I didn't even know about this one. I'll look for it next time I'm in the store. Is it any good?

And CelebrenIthil, how did you get to be a Booster fan? Was it one of the TV appearances?

 Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jul. 10, 2017 at 2:44 AM
Though I don't care for the INJUSTICE 2 mythos and haven't been reading the series, I thought this issue was very touching.

CelebrenIthil posted on Jul. 10, 2017 at 8:57 PM
The pair of Injustice issues sure tug at the ole heartstrings, yeah.

As for your question, it wasn't the TV appearances, no; as it happens, it was someone I came to follow on Tumblr who is a Big Barda fan, and she would post choice panels from the 80s JLI days from time to time.

I ended up reading them whenever she posted one, and the funniest were always those involving Boost' and Beetle, and Fire and Ice, and Guy (who doesn't get in a pair 'cuz he's a jackass)).

So I started exploring the JLI tags, then the characters' tags, and I kinda began to get their story piecemeal.

Needless to say, it would have been hella confusing an introduction to any regular piece of literature as is, but here we're talking about American comics, and I decided to like a time travelling dude who had major parts in the especially confusing universe reboots... but still! I was just so taken about how genuinely fun and lovable and... genuine Boost and pals were that I powered on, trying to find resources -- such as this wonderful website for which I can never express enough gratitude -- to help me make sense of the storylines, then hunting for scans, then hopefully buying real issues.

Which I finally did, yay (albeit digitally)!

I am kinda angry at myself sometimes for getting attached to a bunch of goofy C-listers who had their glory days before I was born and for which there now is little content and lots of heartbreak (;v;), but hey! Maybe we'll get a movie maybe one day and maybe it won't be terrible and it might spark some renewed interest maybe! And Ted is in recent comics, and sometimes he's even breathing! And sometimes, Booster and Ted know each other! And uuh... no Bea and Tora and pals tho'... but I digress.

Sorry I wrote a novel! But it you'd like to share how you got into the Greatest Hero You've Never Heard Of's fandom, I'd like to hear it! I'm curious :)