Although it's been a few weeks since the last installment in my ongoing series of posts covering my favorite pages from forty years of Booster Gold comics, you may recall that in my last post, Booster Gold and the Justice League were struggling against Eclipso's summer-long "Darkness Within" storyline in the pages of L.E.G.I.O.N. '92 Annual #3.

As it happens, the next issue in that storyline was released on August 18, 1992. However, it wasn't the only issue released that day to feature Booster Gold. So I'm going to take a break from Eclipso's darkness and instead flip through the much more lighthearted pages of Justice League America #67. Especially because everyone is showing so much skin.

If you judged this book only by its cover (or even by its story's title: "Transitions, Transmissions, and Transactions"), you'd expect a story borrowing heavily from the sci-fi horror movie Alien or, given the JLI's reputation as an action/comedy, its sequel Aliens. And, yes, it does indeed lean into some body horror (for laughs!), and it does eventually overtly evoke H.R. Giger's famous biomechanical Xenomorph designs.

The comparison's don't end there. Like much of Giger's work, it also leans into the erotic. The opening page is full-on cheesecake as Fire, a former swimsuit model, poses for a lingerie calendar. As much as I like it, that's not my favorite page.

That comes when Fire finds out who she's posing for:

Hmm. We thought that Darkseid was behind Booster's recent troubles, but maybe its been Fire this whole time.

As I said, there's a lot of skin in this issue. Ice chastises Fire's life decisions without any apparent recognition that her own costume leaves very little to the realm of modesty. Booster Gold takes his top off. Beetle takes his top off. Then Wally West takes their pants off. And, of course, Power Girl has a boob window.

Yeah, it's wild. Certainly not what you would expect in an issue where both the main plot and the primary subplot are concerned with contracts and rights, specifically whether one being can own another or another's whole planet. Or even the visual representation of another person without their consent. Hypocrisy or irony? You be the judge.

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