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Thursday, April 12, 2012
Need a Home? Try the JLI!
Several of you said last week's poll was a hard choice, but there was ultimately one clear winner.
Last week's poll question: If you could choose only one writer for all future Booster Gold appearances ever, who would it be? (46 votes)
Two issues ago, the Justice League International lost 4 members. Since then three new members have joined the title to replace them. With one open spot and a few other New 52 characters looking for a new home, should any of them end up in the JLI?
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
Leggo My Ego
Skeets as JLI administrator? Don't think of Skeets as the new L-Ron. Think of L-Ron as the old Skeets.
Last week's poll question: What role should Skeets be playing in the Justice League International? (37 votes)
All things being equal, Booster Gold fans were pretty fortunate in the post-Flashpoint reboot. Booster Gold is still the same character he was before. Other characters were not as lucky, sacrificing familiarity in the hopes of breathing new life into a tired concept.
Take, for example, Firestorm. Like Booster, Firestorm was a spotlight member of a top-selling, pre-reboot series in Brightest Day. But the powers-that-be at DC decided (probably justly, right, Shag?) that Firestorm didn't have what it took to generate and maintain a "modern" audience. So in the DCnU, Firestorm is now essentially two brand-new characters. Goodbye, character development; hello, artificial teen-aged angst and "fury."
Sure, that's frustrating to existing fans, but the point of comic book characters is to turn a profit. Characters must be popular to sell books, the more popular the better. Unpopular characters disappear, sometimes forever. Therefore, we Booster Gold fans should ask ourselves what risks we are willing to take to keep Booster Gold around.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
New Old Releases: F:TWOFFS #1
The final issues of Booster Gold Vol. 2 hit the stands again today, collected in the Flashpoint: the World of Flashpoint Featuring Superman. That title may seem unnecessarily long, but then so did Flashpoint.
Other than Booster Gold issues #44 through #47, the collection includes The Canterbury Cricket one-shot and the complete Project Superman and World of Flashpoint mini-series. With a retail price of $17.99, that's eleven comics for the price of six! With pricing like this, why would anyone bother buying individual issues anymore?
If you have any interest in the expanded Flashpoint universe, you can't fault the value here. This volume contains the last appearance of Skeets to date if nothing else. Buy this collection and let DC know that you want more Skeets.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
International Exchange: JLI #7
If you haven't yet read Justice League International #7, stay far, far away from this month's "International Exchange" column at ComicBook.com. Once you've read the issue, rush over for Russ Burlingame's grilling of Dan Jurgens about the events of the paradigm-shifting issue.
IX: Going on the assumption that I made last issue—that [Rocket Red's] armor would have been infected by that interface... does that now put Skeets at risk?
DJ: Perhaps. Or it's possible that Skeets might make a startling discovery of his own. Or none at all. Or might just go to an ATM to withdraw cash. Hard to tell at this point.
Believe it or not, for this issue with plenty of focus on Booster Gold, Burlingame and Jurgens don't even mention our hero. However, a hinted implication that we'll be seeing more Skeets in the future is a happy substitute. An unasked, unanswered question is whether we'll actually be seeing Skeets, who has yet to appear on panel since Flashpoint, over half-a-year ago. Where have you been hiding, Skeets?
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
No Blue and No Gold Leaves Us Seeing Red
Mega Con 2012 was held in Orlando this past weekend. Most of the details about the New 52 still just depresses me, so I'll cut to the chase: DC confirmed again in two separate panels that there will be no Blue Beetle and Booster Gold reunion in the DCnU in the foreseeable future.
Before you throw yourself off a bridge, be aware that Dan DiDio did confirm that there is a Kord Industries somewhere in the new DC Universe. But we already knew that because an advertisement for Kord Industries could be seen between Booster Gold ads in the backgrounds of Teen Titans #4. Given that more Booster Gold advertisements will be appearing in today's Teen Titans #6, maybe we'll see more Kord ads as well. That's likely the only way we'll see even a hint of Ted Kord for awhile.
Billy Hogan has posted summaries of DC's "All Access" and "New 52" Mega Con 2012 panels at SupermanHomepage.com.
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