Booster Gold #19 - DC

I'm not going to get into all the specifics of this issue . . it's a time-travel story, remember? If I try to sort it out logically . . it's just going to give me a big 'ol headache. The long and short of it is . . this issue, Michael finally seems to have the time-line back on track. He's been going back and forth with this Egyptian knife thingy, somehow it's disrupting his control over everything, and last issue he ended up in ancient Egypt with another version of himself. He decided he needed some help. Oh yeah, they had to ensure the existence of the Blue Beetle also, which is how they ended up in Egypt. It was all somehow connected to the Scarab. So, while they're doing all of this, Rip is in the past, on a Gordanian slave-ship ensuring that Koriand'r escapes and has a future. Anyways, Michael gets everybody back to their proper places . . returns all of the time-spheres, and brings Rip back to the base. At the time, Rip was stuck because Michael had made such a mess of things that all of their futures were in question. He couldn't return on his own. So . . it appears that everything is back to normal. Well . . as normal as it gets for this group. But, there's still one more variable out there. Michelle was left at Vanishing Point and Rex Hunter showed her how she was supposed to have died. She's confused, distraught and doesn't know who to trust or believe. Now she's gone because she's used the time-portal to jump somewhere into time. And really . . that was the short version. I'm not sure where we're going to go from here, or . . what they're going to do about Michelle. And, from the way this series has twisted and turned in the past . . we could really go anywhere. I think Dan Jurgens is doing a pretty decent job here. I'm sure this is all a mess to work with and even harder to appear to have some semblance of order. But now that we've got the last story-line pretty much wrapped up, maybe we can move on to something a bit less convoluted. I love Dan's art. With Norm Rapmund's finishes, this book has a great look to it. I'd just hate for it not to have the future it deserves just because it's all a bit confusing.