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Friday, June 27, 2025
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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Tiffany posted on Jun. 27, 2025 at 8:39 AM
My guess is, that all of Legion (Beside Abosolute Legion, Darkseid Legion, Omega Legion, whatever you want to call them,) probably aren't doing so hot. And this upcoming event will lead into the sixth Legion reboot. Written by Mark Waid and Nicole Maines. But that is just my guess. And I'm probably completely wrong. And I want to hear others guess. So that is why I'm leaving this comment. Bye. Tiffany Jay Cassidy signing off for now.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jun. 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
It feels to me like DC hasn't really given the Legion a fair chance in decades. Bendis' last stab at it was doomed from the start by his inability to write character dialogue. But now that Waid is reviving classic "the adventures of Superman when he was a boy" Superboy, it seems to me that a new volume of Adventure Comics with Superboy and the LoSH can't be too far behind.
Tiffany posted on Jun. 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
@boosterific plus with the way hyper time works at DC I would suprised, post-whatever event DC has cooking up, that we get a proper Absolute Legion. And with the way some characters ended up being shifted around. Who knows. Maybe the Absolute Legion will have ties to the Absolute Lanterns, or something, instead of Superman like with the mainverse.
Brandon posted on Jun. 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I'm probably in the minority, but I'd like to see the return of the 1994 post-zero hour Legion.
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
"You might want to change the counter."
So reads the email sent to me by Booster booster Bob. Bob's a longtime friend of the Boosterrific Blog, and he even gave us a shout out at the end of his recent YouTube video post about the schizophrenic nature of Geoff John's Rip Hunter. (Bob summarizes the problem with that characterization as "Good people don't kidnap children." Hear, hear, Bob!)
But the point of Bob's email yesterday had nothing to do with Rip Hunter. It was about Booster Gold's return to comic books.
Specifically, Bob was the first to tell me that Booster Gold will be making an appearance in today's one-shot anthology Summer of Superman Special #1.
I suppose I should have seen this coming. According to Matt Morrison's review of the issue at SuperHeroHype.com: "Finally, Joshua Williamson uses the last chapter to explore the cause of Validus becoming displaced in time. This final story ties into the larger story of DC All-In and the fate of the Legion following Dark Crisis." That does indeed sound Booster-adjacent.
Before you get your hopes up too high about the inevitable Booster Gold renaissance, know that Booster's role in this issue is actually pretty limited. (It's essentially little more than a reminder that DC hasn't forgotten about what they did to our time-travelling hero.) But the bright side is that, yeah, it definitely counts as an in-continuity appearance, and yeah, it does reset the missing-in-action counter (after reaching 196 days). These days we'll take what we can get!
So buy this book and make Skeets (who is *not* in this issue) happy. (UPDATE: As SLW points out in the comments, Skeets *does* put in a cameo appearance in this week's Challengers of the Unknown #5.)
Thanks for keeping an eye out for us, Bob!
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Tiffany posted on Apr. 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Yeah. I bet when he returns, Whenever that's (I'm betting as a cliffhanger at the end of "We are Yesterday." but I could be wrong. Have been in past.) he'll at least get a mini-series, at the very least. Most likely written by Joshua Williamson or Mark Waid. Or maybe They both co-write. Or maybe it someone else. IDK.
Rob snow posted on Apr. 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Well i saw the SINGLE PANEL he's in. Man DC lives a skinny bearded chained up Booster
SLW (Steff) posted on Apr. 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Skeets cameos in Challengers of the Unknown, at least! But yeah, I literally gasped aloud when I saw Booster's monologue-style.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Apr. 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
RE: Skeets in Challengers. Has anyone been reading this series? Does Skeets' appearance herein make any sense? I know what I *think* it's telling me (which I will not reveal at this time because potential "spoilers," just like how Booster's appearance in Summer of Superman appears to toss out everything we thought we knew about the ending to All In and the Absolute Universe), but it's possible I missed something as I haven't been following Challengers (or, frankly, anything else DC has published since they gulagged Booster Gold).
SLW (Steff) posted on Apr. 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I think it does, but I hesitate to say for sure, only because it feels very meta to me? I have been reading Challengers and quite liking it, and was really touched by the scene surrounding that cameo.
But ALSO! I will note that Booster's costume was either an art error or an interesting choice, since he'd gone back to his 80s pre-Doomsday costume at the end of the All-In special and is wearing his modern one at the end of the Superman special. (Also that somehow the man manages to have amazing hair even after at *least* a month of dangling in chains. LOL!)
I dunno if any of that means anything, it was just interesting to me.
clonegeek posted on Apr. 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I still don't get how Rip Hunter isn't a villain at this point. I never got how if Rip's job is to preserve the timeline and keep people like Thawne from messing with it. Why did Rip let Thawne alter history by killing Barry's mom?
SLW (Steff) posted on Apr. 17, 2025 at 7:09 AM
@clonegeek -- I mean, from my POV, Rip's been an actual asshole significant amounts of his post-Crisis life. LOL! In Vol. 2 alone, there's only so far you can use the predestination paradox as an excuse to treat another human being the way he treated Booster, who you'd THINK he'd show a bit more care for. It probably wouldn't annoy me as much if they'd actually call his shit behavior out in the narrative properly.
DC has never known how to actually do time travel. They really really *really* want to use it like a shiny toy, but they don't like working out the metaphysics of it and then sticking to whatever rules they invent. Booster should have disappeared about a billion times by now; they need to kind of just unchain him from that and let him be a temporal refugee permanently whose existence is not predicated on a set future, and then stick with that. Any future knowledge he has hasn't been relevant-- at least since the 90s.
Steven Palchinski posted on Apr. 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Do you have a link to booster Bob's youtube?
bob posted on Apr. 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I ya guys. Going to get the book today but here is the link to my video that you asked for https://youtu.be/jlIbmlFCoJQ?si=87uGa9u1N18mrCFZ
Friday, October 4, 2024
I think that this should have been a good week for Booster Gold. He survived Absolute Power and earned the respect of Superman to be personally drafted into the Justice League Unlimited and be trusted enough by Batman and Wonder Woman to go spy on Darkseid. That should all be pretty cool, right?
Except I find I'm not enthusiastic.
I've not been shy about my general disinterest in Absolute Power as just the latest DC event that never felt very eventful to me. Only in the most tangential way did it lead to the DC All In Special, which, despite months of build-up, I thought read like a Free Comic Book Day giveaway teaser of empty hype for the next publishing initiative that I'm not excited about.
However, I must admit that maybe the problem isn't the quality or direction of the stories. Maybe it's me. I've been having a hard time finding the fun in much of anything recently, and that depression-tinted malaise may very well be coloring my perception of DC's comic books.
So tell me, what did you think? Is DC All In Special good? Are you excited for whatever is coming next for our hero? Should I start taking anti-depressants? Leave a comment and let me know.
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Grant posted on Oct. 4, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Not just you! Absolute Power was incredibly generic at best, if not completely uninspired. The central takeaway, that they should reform the Justice League, was incredibly dumb considering that the League never needed to disband to begin with. It also showed a lack of follow-through with DC's "push" for the Titans, who never ended up dealing with anything outside of their wheelhouse for the majority of their run. It feels like a disingenuous waste of time.
As for the "All-In" special, I genuinely don't know why this had to be a thing. So much time is spent on name cards. On top of that, Booster's writing is incredibly flat. Booster isn't an idiot and I don't see why people keep writing him like one. It reads as something out of a fan fic, like the writers were amateurs. I can't imagine we'll follow up with the Booster plot for about half a year to a year and a half.
Darkseid's material is also incredibly disappointing. In interviews, Snyder talks about how Darkseid is meant to represent Superhero Fatigue. He doesn't want to amass a great power and lead a fearsome army. He's above that. So Darkseid...amasses a great power and leads a fearsome army. It's dumb and I don't know why it's trying to be bigger than itself when it clearly isn't.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Oct. 4, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Grant, are you living inside my head? "It feels like a disingenuous waste of time" could have been *my* title for this post. (If you are living inside my head, I recommend that you get out. It's not healthy in there.)
BoosterCola posted on Oct. 4, 2024 at 7:22 PM
I feel your opinions 100% and wish we could go back to the V2 BG writing and storytelling. Even though I enjoyed Blue & Gold, the 'Booster is an idiot' treatment is played out. BG at the end of 52 to the N52 was peak. I dunno if we'll ever get that back anytime soon. In the meantime, I know it may be taboo to love Tom King(because he can't write BG well at all), but his Black Series stories are top notch, best in class! Thanks for the Booster championing as always!
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Oct. 4, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Hrumph. Tom King belongs to that group of writers who doesn't care a whit about established characterizations, so Black Label books are exactly (and only) where his work belongs.
Jeff posted on Oct. 4, 2024 at 9:39 PM
I liked the all in special, thought it was good not great. Thought booster accepting the justice league card was a little due to him being a time master and having to keep him being a competent hero a secret.
Tiche posted on Oct. 5, 2024 at 2:26 AM
In all honesty, I was completely unsurprised by how Absolute Power/All In turned out. Scott Snyder is very good at talking his writing up, saying how deep it is, and then delivering the most comic book writing to ever grace a crossover event of the year.
The peak of this is his Dark Nights saga. It purports to delve into deep metaphysical concepts and the fundaments of the DC "omniverse". In execution, it's a schoolyard experiment in oneupmanship. My edgy Batman OC is now a threat to all the universe... wait, all the multiverse... wait... all the omniverses!
It's infantile, and that it tries to market itself as meaningful makes it patronizing, especially when held directly in comparison to the comics that raised my standards to a level Snyder consistently fails to meet but says he's going to surpass. His latest offering was exactly on par for that. It's not without merit or value, but... it was another big crossover event in an annual tradition of big crossover events.
Brandon posted on Oct. 5, 2024 at 4:08 AM
To be honest, that post you shared a few days ago about the All-In Special with the scene of Superman saying he "always" saw Booster "as someone with the best of intentions" kind of exemplifies why I also find it difficult to get invested in anything DC publishes today.
Its so off-the-mark and so out of character, we might as well not even be reading a story about Booster Gold and Superman. It might as well be any two random characters.
I loved the JLI era and was cautiously excited about Fire and Ice finally getting a miniseries. But they felt so much like different characters, I couldn't bring myself to care.
Honestly, I'd rather see a complete, hard reboot of everything than this "It's the same characters you love and everything 'happened', but we're going to completely ignore every aspect of their established characterization".
I feel like that's the new normal.
Tiche posted on Oct. 5, 2024 at 5:58 AM
"Tom King continues to write unfamiliar characters using familiar names. At this point, I just want this series to be over."
From this site's own review of Heroes in Crisis #8. It's a sentiment I've found myself echoing a great deal. There's always a degree of characterisation changing between writers and between runs, but at this point it really does feel as though the Batman of today has nothing in common with the Batman I spent years reading, and the same applies to so many other characters.
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Monday, September 30, 2024
Preview pages for this week's DC All In Special #1 are all over the web. For example, you can the first few pages of both sides of the flip book, "Alpha" and "Omega" at AIPTcomics.com.
Page 5 of the "Alpha" preview reveals the latest meeting between longtime frenemies Booster Gold and Superman.
words by Joshua Williamson and Scott Snider, art by Daniel Sampere and Alejandro Sanchez
Part of Superman's whole schtick is telling the truth, so I'm not going to call him a liar. At least not to his face. But describing his opinion of Booster as "someone with the best intentions... who sometimes got in his own way" is a very, very polite spin on it.
Remember, this was their first meeting in 1986's Booster Gold #6:
It doesn't look there like Superman thought Booster had "the best intentions," does it?
Ah, but the DC Universe has been rebooted, what, at least 6 six times since then, so I'll give Superman the benefit of the doubt and say that he is speaking his truth... at least from his current point of view.
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Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Sep. 28, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Sigh. I really do miss thought balloons.
Eskana posted on Sep. 30, 2024 at 8:08 PM
True- they tell us what the person is actually thinking at the time. I always feel like the narration boxes are from a later time. So, when Superman is calm and collected and thinking about it, he might respect Booster as he is now. But in the moment? I'd like to know what he's thinking.
Maybe things evened out after the whole Action comics "Booster has to stop Superman when he goes back to see if his father survived Krypton" thing.
Brandon posted on Oct. 1, 2024 at 4:34 AM
Isn't that narrative box in the first image pretty much the same thing as a thought balloon? He's not saying it out loud, so it must be his "thoughts".
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Oct. 1, 2024 at 2:45 PM
They serve similar functions, yes, but they aren't identical. As Eskana points out, voice over narration doesn't feel as immediate. In literary terms, narrative boxes are third person limited point of view whereas thought ballons are third person omniscient. (In omniscient, the reader is privy to the unfiltered thoughts of the characters.) For example, that panel of Superman thinking negative thoughts about Booster would be very hard to do with narrative boxes. The difference between the two is a style choice, and both options should be available to writers benefiting the kind of story they're trying to tell.
