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Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Zeroing Out
This week DC releases its second reprint collection of Zero Hour: Crisis in Time this year, the thirtieth anniversary of its original release. That may seem like overkill, but so long as Dan Jurgens is getting his share of the reprint royalties, I'm for it.
UPDATE: Booster booster Coin has noticed that Booster Gold gets a one-panel flashback cameo appearance in today's Superwoman Special one-shot. Good catch!
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Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Does This Count As a Booster Gold Appearance?
Last week DC published its latest anthology one-shot, DC's I Know What You Did Last Crisis, which contains eight 10-page stories set during eight different crisis events. The third story is titled "At the Point of Vanishing,". Written by Matthew Levine with art by Jordi Tarragona and Luis Guerrero, this story is a... reimagining of events originally presented in 1994's Zero Hour issues #3 and #2. (Contrary to the conventional method of incrementally increasing issue numbers, Zero Hour issues counted backwards, starting with issue 5 and ending with issue 0.)
Now, I don't so much mind the revisionist history here. Zero Hour: Crisis in Time did come out three decades ago, and a lot of what happened then isn't particularly relevant now. So a little retconning is fine, maybe even useful. I have no problems with the change that it was Sandman, not Flash, who survived to tell the tale of the Justice Society's fateful encounter with Extant. Whatever. This isn't a Flash blog.
But it is a Booster Gold blog, and I am a bit of a stickler for Booster Gold continuity.
Which brings us to this panel:
DC's I Know What You Did Last Crisis #1 page 40
The costume worn by Waverider here belongs to Michael Carter, who became Waverider beginning in 2015's Convergence: Booster Gold #2. That Waverider was presumably removed from DC continuity following the Rebirth event in 2016 where the histories of the post-Crisis on Infinite Earths and post-Flashpoint Booster Golds were merged.
Matthew Ryder was the one and only Waverider at the time of publication of Zero Hour. His costume was simpler (and dare I say, without fear of offending artist Dan Jurgens who designed both characters, much better). But in the original panel being homaged, Waverider isn't even Waverider. He's Extant!
Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #2 page 2
One of the things we learn in Zero Hour is that Extant (also known as Monarch, also known as Hawk, also known as Hank Hall) will at some point in the future kill Waverider and steal his power. If this sounds familiar, maybe it's because stealing Waverider's time-warping power will be a plot point again in 52, Time Masters: Vanishing Point, and, of course, Convergence. Don't worry; Waverider usually gets better. (Time travel is a tricky business.)
Of course, since this story is itself a retcon, maybe it is also retconning Zero Hour such that the Booster Gold who became Waverider in Convergence is the one that Extant killed and stole powers from. Or maybe, as I expect, this is just a simple artist's error. I mean, you can't expect everyone to have read thirty-year-old comic books, can you?
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Wednesday, August 28, 2024
New Release: Zero Hour 30th Anniversary
Today, the Zero Hour 30th Anniversary Special arrives in your Local Comic Shop, where you will find the Alan Quah variant with Booster Gold on the cover.
Buy this issue and make Skeets happy.
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Monday, May 20, 2024
History Is Already 30 Years Old
DC's August solicitations are out (you can read them at AIPTComics.com). Booster's run in Batman: The Brave and the Bold apparently ends in issue 15, because Lois Lane is taking his place in issue 16.
But there is a some good news for Booster boosters. Dan Jurgens is back with another issue celebrating another 30th anniversary of an event story he created in the 1990s. This year, it's the Zero Hour 30th Anniversary Special #1.
Booster Gold didn't play a very big part of Zero Hour, but he was there, which is good enough reason for him to be on Alan Quah's variant cover.
Sure, Booster wore a different costume during the original Zero Hour, but Zero Hour was all about changing history. So maybe now... he didn't?
I guess we'll find out when the issue is released on August 28.
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Wednesday, October 23, 2019
New Release: Zero Hour 25th Anniversary HC
Zero Hour, DC's attempt to correct lingering problems left over from simplifying their multiverse in Crisis on Infinite Earths, is 25 years old. My, how time flies.
To celebrate, the company is releasing a $150 Zero Hour 25th Anniversary Omnibus which contains over a thousand pages of reprint comics. That's about 14¢ a page, a deal by modern standards.
Booster Gold didn't play a big role in Zero Hour, but he is present (and does get in a few lines) before time is rewritten to erase him from existence. (Spoiler Alert: It's only temporary.)
Thanks to series author and artist Dan Jurgens, Booster also represents the future (in his classic, high-collar costume) in the accompanying fold-out timeline of the re-ordered DC Universe. That's always cool.
Hopefully the Omnibus will include the fold-out. It's not much of a celebration without Booster Gold!
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