Booster Gold #4 - DC

I really like what they're doing with this book. It seems like they're taking a lot of old story-lines, that really aren't connected to anything, or seem irrelevant, and showing how they all fit into the grand scheme of things that is the DC Universe. This issue Booster and Rip run in to Barry and Wally using the cosmic treadmill the travel through time. But that leads to them running in to Supernova and Rex Hunter. A relative? Actually it's a kid who tried to join Rip's team a long time ago, named Jason Goldstein, but he wanted to be a part of it for the wrong reasons. He wanted to change time, and history. And now, he actually looks older than Rip. The scheme they've cooked up this time is to change the origins of the original Blue Beetle, and that of Barry Allen. They're going to stop the storm from causing the accident in the Police laboratory. In the skirmish with Supernova, Booster finds out that it's actually . . . . his dad. The Supernova suit has been programmed to only recognize Booster's DNA, so it can only work for someone of his bloodline. Rex decided to go to the 25th century, and recruit Michael's father from his prison cell. I'm sure he didn't put up to much of an argument. Anyways, long story short, they stop the altering of Barry's timeline, and they end up capturing Rex, but Booster can't keep ahold of his father. So he's still out there running around somewhere. But before they can worry about his, they need to go back and fix what's been undone with the Blue Beetle. But, before they can do that, they need to go back and fix what's happened to Barbara Gordon. Basically, Rex tells Booster that the whole thing with the Killing Joke . . . you know . . the Joker shooting Barbara, paralyzing her and her becoming the Oracle . . . that was all a mistake. In order to set history right, they have to stop that from happening. This next issue should be a doozy. This was a fantastic book written by Geoff Johns and Jeff Katz. It was also brilliantly drawn by Dan Jurgens and Norm Rapmond. I really like the new direction they've taken with this character.