DC's How to Lose a Guy Gardner in 10 Days
“Robots Are Red, Androids Are Blue”
Volume 1, Issue 1, March 2024
Released February 6, 2024
Cover Price: $9.99
Writer: Aaron J. Waltke
Artist: Ivan Shavrin
Colorist: Ivan Shavrin
Letterer: Josh Reed
Editor: Katie Kubert
Heroes: Batman, Booster Gold, Martian Manhunter, Red Tornado, Superman
Setting: JLA Watchtower, DCU, Earth orbit, 21st-century
Cover Description: This book has multiple covers. Booster Gold appears on none of them.
Brief Synopsis: Red Tornado regrets his troubled love life.
Booster Gold's role in this story:
Supporting (Booster Gold plays a lesser role)
Costume Worn: MARK I.v2 power-suit
Story Notes: This story does not make it clear when or where the events herein are supposed to take place. Although the text indicates the setting as the contemporary "Justice League Watchtower, Earth Orbit," the art depicts the JLA Watchtower on the Moon, destroyed in 2005's JLA #119. Also, although the story concerns Red Tornado's estrangement from his former love interest, Kathy Sutton, he was seen married to her and living with her and her daughter at least as recently as 2022's One-Star Squadron #6.
Page 11, panel 3
Booster Gold gives Red Tornado a Valentine's Day card as a thank you for his having volunteered to assume monitor duty in the JLA Watchtower Satellite while the rest of the League makes other plans for the holiday. Also present are Batman, Superman, and Martian Manhunter.
Page 13, panel 2
MEET THE PRESS: On a Watchtower monitor, Booster is seen posing for the press with a with read-head in a blue dress. This is presumably the "almost" A-list celebrity he mentioned earlier.
Boosterrific Review: Although I have my concerns about some characterizations that don't match what I would expect in usual continuity -- including Booster Gold seeming to forget the rules of time travel in the DC Universe -- this is an enjoyable anthology overall.
Boosterrific Rating: Worth Its Weight In Gold.
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