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Friday, November 18, 2022
My Favorite Pages: Booster Gold 15
This might surprise you, but my favorite page from Booster Gold #15 doesn't have Trixie Collins in it. It doesn't even have Booster Gold in it.
Instead, it features some anonymous guy in a trucker hat.
Who says Booster doesn't have a heart of gold?
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Friday, November 4, 2022
My Favorite Pages: Booster Gold 14
Booster Gold #14 is my least favorite issue of Booster's original volume.
I can't put my finger on just one reason why, but the art is a big part. Jurgens' take on the future of the DC Universe (and sequential-panel storytelling) was clearly being influenced by Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, which had taken the comic-book-reading world by storm earlier that year. What works for Batman doesn't necessarily work for Booster.
It doesn't help that the crowded panels are oversaturated with secondary and pastel colors. I typically like colorist Gene D'Angelo's work, but his color choices, clearly intended to play up the psychological tension of our physically-ailing hero stuck in an era that's out to get him, are perhaps working too well for me.
That said, the issue is not entirely without redeeming value. For example, page 19 does efficiently introduce Broderick, the Dirty Harry of the 25th century. And the final page, with a deconstructed Skeets, builds to a good cliff hanger.
But for my money, the best page in the whole book is this one:
If you couldn't tell before now, I'm a sucker for the Booster/Trixie relationship. Seeing them support one another emotionally in the lamplight.... Yeah. This one's got to be my favorite.
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Friday, October 21, 2022
My Favorite Pages: Booster Gold 13
I hope you're in the mood for some T&A today!
Booster Gold #13 is the only time Gary Martin ever inked a Booster Gold adventure, and the difference between it and what came before is striking. Take page 10 as an example:
Surgically clean lines, heavy black shadowing, and screentone gradients all contribute to a fittingly moody environment as a weakened Booster Gold struggles back into the super-hero saddle.
Or maybe that mood is just the sexual tension between scantily-clad Trixie and full-moon Booster?
"Ready to go," indeed!
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Friday, October 14, 2022
My Favorite Pages: Booster Gold 12
Spoiler Alert!
The first year of Booster Gold's adventures built to a very cinematic page 16 in Booster Gold #12:
The presumed victim is really the villain! Booster Gold is betrayed by his most loyal friend! Close-ups! Time dilation! Silence! Death?
It sure makes you want to turn to the next page and keep reading, doesn't it?
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Friday, October 7, 2022
My Favorite Pages: Booster Gold 11
If it wasn't just the top half of a page, the sequence on page 21 where Booster Gold defeats Shockwave with a garden hose (and the sound effects "splooosh" and "crump") would be my favorite page in Booster Gold #11.
But my favorite full page is the inspired sequence on page 7 that looks like it could just as easily have come from the Marvel Age of Comics, complete with a Reed Richards-like mad scientist and Captain America's mighty shield!
The panel with Kirby dots actually has the sound effect "Crackle." Pure. Genius.
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