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Friday, June 2, 2023

My Favorite Pages: Blue Beetle 20

My Favorite Pages

As I've been compiling this list of my favorite pages, I have avoided including books that contain less than a full page of Booster Gold. But today I'm going to make my first (and probably not last) exception to that rule for Blue Beetle #20, where Booster is visible in only three panels on page 6:

The JLI presented here feels a little... wrong. (J'onn J'onzz has his feet on the desk? Booster says "Wowzer"?) A lot of that is writer Len Wein's over-written script, but some blame has to be shared by penciller Ross Andru's Bronze Age-throwback vibe. (I admit that Andru did many things right in his long, celebrated career, but 1980s Blue Beetle belonged to Paris Cullins.)

At this point you may be asking why I am including this page of minimal, off-model Booster in my list of favorites? Because it is Booster's first appearance in a Blue Beetle comic, and that's a good enough reason for me.

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Friday, February 16, 2018

Wanted: Michael Carter

Kevin Munson writes

I picked up Swamp Thing Winter Special and found something interesting for Booster boosters. This book has a 2nd story in it that was not finished by the late great Len Wein. In this story there is a scene of the new Sheriff of Houma, LA putting up a wanted sign of Swampy. Next to that sign is another wanted poster of a Michael Carter. What kind of shenanigans could Booster have been up to...?

Hmm. What kind of backwater police department is this, anyway? Those wanted posters seem awfully amateurish. If I were Booster's lawyer, I'd argue this as a case of mistaken identity. I mean, "Michael Carter" has to be a common name, right? And everyone knows Booster's hair is blond, not brown.

As Kevin states, the unfinished story's script is included in the issue, and it makes no reference to the "Michael Carter" wanted poster. Was this added by artist Norm Breyfogle? Breyfogle has never drawn Booster Gold before. Does this count? What do you think, boosters?

(Good spot, Kevin.)

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Herb posted on Feb. 16, 2018 at 1:09 PM
Just throwing this out there, but Eric Martsolf, who played Booster in Smallville normally has brown hair...

Brady Kj posted on Feb. 16, 2018 at 9:31 PM
Well, of course he doesn't look like Booster. Breyfogle has never drawn him before. That proves it's him. If it did look like Booster, we should assume it's not.

P.S. How is Swamp Thing Winter Special?

Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Feb. 16, 2018 at 10:50 PM
I enjoyed it. The primary story kept me thinking about its meaning. I liked that. I also liked the pin up tribute to Wein at the end.

Brady Kj posted on Feb. 19, 2018 at 1:32 AM
Ooh, neat. I might check it out.

RamblerReb posted on Feb. 20, 2018 at 6:08 PM
For the record, Houma has a chief of police, not a sheriff. And I don't know what that is on that patch, but HPD's patch is an Indian in full Lakota headdress. As a resident, I assure you this is factual.

Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Feb. 20, 2018 at 10:37 PM
I didn't even know Houma was a real town! Here's what Len Wein wrote:

Brady Kj posted on Feb. 23, 2018 at 1:53 AM
That just goes to show that the current DC Earth is a very different place from Earth Prime. :) Some politicians in DC's Houma decided that Sheriff sounds cooler than Chief of Police, and some other politicians decided that a man with a Lakota headdress used as a logo is arguably racist, unrepresentative of Louisiana, or both. Butterfly effect and vibrational frequencies and whatnot.

RamblerReb posted on Feb. 23, 2018 at 10:20 PM
I am pretty sure that the Indian head is not intended to be racist, but rather to honor the Houmas Indian tribe the town is named for. Since the local Houma Nation has no problem with it, I don't see why anyone else would. I just find it interesting that the writers apparently just threw a dart at a spot on a map of Louisiana and write whatever without bothering to research the area. I know that Houma has been the setting for SW since the series started, but, hey, a little effort to the extent of looking at a Wikipedia article would be nice, butterfly effects and suchlike notwithstanding.

Brady Kj posted on Feb. 28, 2018 at 9:57 PM
Oh, I agree. What I meant was, you can use parallel universes to explain any mistake or lack of research.

RamblerReb posted on Mar. 1, 2018 at 9:10 PM
I understand, but I'm not a big fan of Handwaves like that (i.e., the away team can't be beamed up because of interference in the ionosphere or some crap, when we all know it's because Riker wants some alien poonanny).

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