Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Gold Exchange: Booster Gold #44
Russ Burlingame's latest "Gold Exchange" column with Dan Jurgens has been posted on Comic Related.com. Among other issues, this month's column insightfully has Jurgens comparing and contrasting the current Flashpoint event with Jurgen's own Tangent line of a decade ago.
GX: In a very general way, what separates Flashpoint from something like Tangent? The creative approach seems to be the same (lots and lots of people working on a universe "led" by a couple of guys) and obviously we've got the "similar-but-not-the-same superheroes" thing. What's the big thing that should make us go "Damn!" and think that, continuity-wise, this is more of a rat's nest than when Kyle Rayner got stuck in the Tangent Universe for a while?
DJ: Tangent was structured around the idea of taking the names of DC characters and completely turning them around, upside down and inside out, in a very different universe. Flashpoint is very much about a timeline that differs from the normal DCU because of altered elements.
A word of warning: before you head over to read the rest of the interview, be sure to read Booster Gold #44. There are definitely spoilers in this week's "Gold Exchange."
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Monday, May 23, 2011
Booster Gold Sells Out!
Remember 185 18 months ago, when it became very hard to find the issues of Booster Gold that tied-into Blackest Night? Well, welcome to Flashpoint. Love 'em or hate 'em, nothing sells books like a company-wide crossover.
DC announced via The Source on Friday that Booster Gold #44 has sold out and would be going back to press in coming weeks. Flashpoint #1 was released a week earlier and also sold out of its initial printing. The second printing of Flashpoint #1 is expected to be available on June 15. It is a safe bet that Booster Gold #44, 2nd printing, should be available no later than the following week.
Can't wait that long? May I suggest downloading the book from comixology.com? I'm pretty sure that they haven't yet sold out of pixels. [EDIT: Russ Burlingame points out in the comments below that my math sucks.]
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Friday, May 20, 2011
SpringCon!
I promoted last October's FallCon, so you bet I'm going to remind you about this weekends' SpringCon! SpringCon is twice the fun of FallCon: both Saturday and Sunday (two whole days!) from 10AM to 5PM at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds. While Gail Simone and Denny O'Neil have announced that they will be unable to attend (these things happen), there's no need to worry: Dan Jurgens will still be there. With Jurgens present, what else do you need?
More details can be found at the Midwest Comic Book Association website.
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Thursday, May 19, 2011
The Only Thing I Remember
Just in time to welcome Dan Jurgens back to Booster Gold and remind you about his upcoming appearance at SpringCon (more on that tomorrow), I found this on withnailrules.tumblr.com:
For the record, I should state that I have never found Dan Jurgens to be an ass. He has always been friendly and even generous in his communications with Boosterrific.com. I am also aware that no one is on his best behavior all the time, and that applies to both creators and their fans.
This reminds me of a friend who was self-publishing his comic and tried to get John Byrne to comment on it. It had been a long day at a convention, and a tired Byrne had simply replied to my friend's request for a review with a snappish, "I don't read comics." Rather than be offended, my friend had that quote printed as a pull quote on the back of his comics. It's a prized jewel in my personal comic book collection.
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
New Releases: Booster Gold #44
Welcome back, Dan Jurgens! Jurgens makes his inevitable return to the title with the release of Booster Gold #44 today, taking the reigns back from the polarizing team of Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis. As you no doubt know, Giffen and DeMatteis had assumed creative control from Jurgens last year while he completed the Flashpoint lead-in mini-series, Time Masters: Vanishing Point.
I'm sure there will be a huge spike in sales for this issue (though mainly because of the tie-in to Flashpoint, no offense to Jurgens). Buy it and make Skeets happy.
UPDATE 05/19/11: For the first time, Booster Gold is available for purchase digitally at Comixology.com!
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