Friday, June 27, 2025
Sing it, Rockapella
As SLW alerted us, Booster Gold (and Skeets!) does indeed make a cameo appearance in this week's Flash #22, where our hero (and sidekick!) show up in windows into the timestream inside the Linear Bureau's headquarters at the end of time where Wade West is being impossibly cryptic about current events:
Of course, that's not "current events" Booster, because Superman #27 makes it pretty clear that Booster is a little hung up at the moment.
That issue expressly identifies the setting of Booster's captivity as "the future," so today's question is "Where in time is Booster Gold?"
To recap: Last year's DC All-In Special led readers to believe that Booster Gold traveled across dimensions to the Alpha World of the Absolute Universe. Summer of Superman Special corrected course to reveal that Booster is not in an alternate dimension but an alternate future. But, as you can read above, Superman #27 combines the two, explaining that Booster did go to Alpha World before returning to the future of Prime Earth. Great. So now we know which dimension he's in (and that the dimensions can be transversed).
So what epoch is our hero in now? The setting of Booster's captivity would appear to be the 25th century Space Museum he once worked in, though presumably sometime after 2462 lest changes to the timeline write him out of existence. The logical assumption, especially considering the corpses of the Fatal Five seen in the aforementioned Summer of Superman, would be that he's being held captive in the 31st century, the native time period of the Legion of Super-Heroes. If that's true, where is the (uncorrupted) Legion native to our universe?
Since it's pretty clear now that "our" familiar Legion is not the same as the "Dark" Legion seen since DC All In Special, why did Booster's Flight Ring (native to Prime Earth) become a Dark Flight Ring in All In Special? Did Dark Brainiac 5 go back in time and leave his Dark Legion Flight Ring in the 25th century Space Museum?
And what, exactly, happened to Booster's high collar? All In Special promised more high collar! Must Darkseid destroy everything good in the world(s)?!
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