Few comics publishers have much new to offer today, the first New Comic Day after Christmas and the final New Comic Day of the year. DC in particular is offering only reprints. That wasn't always the case.

DC's Elseworlds weird western tale Justice Riders was released 22 years ago today. I reread it yesterday, and I have to say that it stands up rather well.

As with most westerns, the premise is rather simple: Sheriff Diana Prince gathers a posse of men with unusual talents to hunt down the man who destroyed her town, a robber baron by the name of Maxwell Lord. Booster Gold earns his way onto the team thanks to his unusually potent firepower created by a familiar, gifted inventor.

Justice Riders (1996) story by Chuck Dixon; art by J.H. Williams III, Mick Gray, Lee Loughridge; letters by Bill Oakley

Everyone who has ever seen a John Wayne western can probably imagine how this plays out. The fun isn't so much the destination but how the story gets there and, for comics geeks, how it ties to post-Zero Hour DCU continuity. That and the amazing art by J.H. Williams III.

If you can't find anything else to buy at your Local Comic Shop today, consider treating yourself to Justice Riders for $1.99 at Comixology.com.

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I'd been reluctant to admit that the character seen tied to a fence in last week's Convergence Nightwing/Oracle #1 could possibly be the Justice Riders incarnation of Booster Gold. So I contacted the book's creators on Twitter for confirmation.

@GailSimone Is that #BoosterGold tied to the fence in #Convergence Nightwing/Oracle 1? (Say it ain't so!)
— Boosterrific April 10, 2015

@boosterrific @JanDuursema_art What? Where?
— Gail Simone April 10, 2015

If issue writer Gail Simone didn't see anything, I didn't either. (Thanks to Morgenstern for telling me the bad news.)

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