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Friday, May 29, 2015

30 Years of Character Development

So Convergence is now over, and it represents a paradigm shift for our hero. We shouldn't be surprised; the first time DC tried a weekly, eight-issue event series, it, too, rewrote the book for Booster Gold.

By the conclusion to 1988's Millennium, Booster Gold was penniless and disgraced thanks to the machinations of his manager, Dirk Davis. It was revealed that Davis had all along been a sleeper agent for the evil Manhunters, and he had manipulated our hero into a corner. As a result, Booster lost his solo series and very nearly quit adventuring altogether.

Davis' personality was hard to nail down throughout Booster Gold volume 1. Some issues he was Booster's friend, and some issues he was in league with Booster's enemy or trying to steal Booster's girl. That might make readers wonder what creator Dan Jurgens might have intended for Davis if Millennium hadn't resulted in the series' cancellation.

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Naturally, I put the question to Jurgens himself.

I was merely trying to write Dirk as a more complicated individual-- multifaceted, as so many people are. So, yes, he was a huckster. The MILLENNIUM crossover came somewhat out of nowhere and we were encouraged to use important characters as Manhunters. I plugged Dirk into that role as part of the story, but was never really thrilled with the concept of doing so.

In this case, it was more about the general notion that we use fairly important characters as the Manhunters. It was also thought that it would be more effective that we use someone who'd been there from issue #1, and I wasn't about to use Trixie.

When I would have started the series, there was no plan for Davis or anyone else to be a Manhunter because MILLENNIUM didn't even exist. All of it came later and in a situation like that, you do what you can do make things work.

Nearly 30 years later, Convergence reveals that DC is still flying by the seat of its pants. Would we want our comics any other way?

The True Story of Booster Gold

As always, thanks to Dan Jurgens.

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Thursday, May 28, 2015

The End of Booster Gold

I love seeing commissions, but I'm not comfortable commissioning anything. I'm always glad to see that other people don't share my reluctance.

Last week's poll question: Have you ever commissioned a Booster Gold sketch from an artist? (42 votes)

Have you ever commissioned a Booster Gold sketch from an artist?

So, have you read Convergence Booster Gold #2 yet? I'd say it was a change to our hero's status quo, but his status hasn't been very quo since Flashpoint.

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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

New Releases: Convergence and Booster Gold

It's a Booster bonanza this week, as Booster Gold appears in not only his own title, Convergence Booster Gold #2, but also the final issue of the main event, Convergence #8.

Previews for the two issues can be found at ComicVine.com and HitFlix.com respectively. ( Thanks to Morgenstern for the links.)

Now go buy both issues and make Skeets happy!

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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

This Day in History: Batman Was Dead Then Too

DC would have us believe that following the Convergence break Batman will be dead again. If this sounds like an overused cliche, perhaps that's because it is. It was only five years ago today that Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #2 saw Booster Gold join DC's best-selling heroes on a trip through time in search of the caped crusader.

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The Time Masters played almost no role in recovering Bruce Wayne then, and they are very unlikely to show up around Gotham this time either. Rip Hunter is too busy memorizing his lines for his upcoming television series, DC's Legends of Tomorrow (a weird name for a show whose newest character first saw print nearly 40 years ago).

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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Monday, May 25, 2015

Grading on a Curve

Grab your test sheets and a red pen; it's time to grade your answers to last week's really hard Booster Gold quiz.

  1. Daniel Carter was the fifth-best Term-Life Salesman at Evergreen Insurance. Fifth. Out of six. (52 Week 19, 2006)

  2. According to Checkmate, Michelle's middle initial is "A". (Countdown to Infinite Crisis #1, 2005)

  3. Jonar Carter walked out on his family when his twins, Michael and Michelle, were 4 years old. (Booster Gold #6, 1986)

  4. Building a casino on KooeyKooeyKooey was all Blue Beetle's idea. (Justice League America #33, 1989)

  5. The resurrected Max Lord didn't bother to run a smear campaign on Booster Gold because "Booster's life needs no discrediting." (Justice League Generation Lost #2, 2010)

  6. As he told Rip Hunter, even Booster Gold knows not to tug on Superman's cape. (Time Masters #2, 1990)

  7. Future policeman Broderick found it appalling that 20th-century Americans eat meat, burn fossil fuels, waste fresh water on things like cleaning clothes, bicker over world politics, and freely possess firearms. (Booster Gold #18, 1987)

  8. Dirk Davis' daughter was Sarah. (Booster Gold #12, 1986)

  9. Superman thought Supernova was "on the level," as an experienced and well-intentioned hero. (He was right, of course.) (52 Week 10, 2006)

  10. As a reward for defeating the Royal Flush gang, Batman gave Booster Gold a smile (and membership in the Justice League). (Justice League #4, 1987)

How many did you get right? I told you it was hard. If you knew the answer to even half of those questions, give yourself a Goldstar!

(Thanks again to Erin for letting me repost her quiz.)

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