This issue wraps up Booster's little Coast City trilogy. He and Skeets are back there because it seems that sometime in the near future the US Government has assembled it's own time-stream continuity agency. The problem is, they're more concerned about righting their perceived wrongs, than necessarily following the rules of time-stream management. And since Michael and Rip seem to have written that book . . they should just leave the driving to the professionals. Anyways, there's an agent, Sondra Crain, that's trying to stop Coast City's destruction, or . . failing that, she'll try to evacuate all of it's citizens. However begrudgingly Booster knows . . the past is solid. It can't be changed. At least that's what Rip has told him over and over again. But this Sondra makes a pretty good case for it's 7 million inhabitants. So Booster says 'Screw it!', and tries his best to block Mongul's attempt to blow it up. We already know, though . . that effort will be in vain. It does however give Skeets the time to home in on 2 more chronal anomalies . . Michelle and her friend Drew. They end up saving Michelle, but they can't save Drew. And . . Booster ends up saving himself. That is to say . . a future version of himself has come back to stop him from trying fix something that's destined to happen. When he creates the time-portal to save Michelle and Skeets, his future self pushes him through it also. Yes it's a little confusing, but . . it works. And in the future at Vanishing Point we see that Rip also knows about this future Booster/Michael. In fact . . he's very comfortable with him because the future version knows that Rip is his son. At the end of this issue, it almost feels like the series could end. But it won't. Next issue we'll learn the final fate of Michelle. Then . . after that . . the creative staff of this book will be changing. Keith Giffen and JM Dematteis will be taking over the scripting chores. While Chris Batista will be doing the art. Oh yeah . . and Kevin Maguire will be doing the covers. It'll be sad to see Dan Jurgens move on, but . . he's done a hell of a job on this series. And since he's leaving it in such great hands . . I can't wait to see where we go from here. I really like this book. I hope it keeps it's momentum for a long time to come. I'm sorry, I forgot to mention that Jerry Ordway helped Dan out with some of the art this issue.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Booster Gold #30 - DC
This issue wraps up Booster's little Coast City trilogy. He and Skeets are back there because it seems that sometime in the near future the US Government has assembled it's own time-stream continuity agency. The problem is, they're more concerned about righting their perceived wrongs, than necessarily following the rules of time-stream management. And since Michael and Rip seem to have written that book . . they should just leave the driving to the professionals. Anyways, there's an agent, Sondra Crain, that's trying to stop Coast City's destruction, or . . failing that, she'll try to evacuate all of it's citizens. However begrudgingly Booster knows . . the past is solid. It can't be changed. At least that's what Rip has told him over and over again. But this Sondra makes a pretty good case for it's 7 million inhabitants. So Booster says 'Screw it!', and tries his best to block Mongul's attempt to blow it up. We already know, though . . that effort will be in vain. It does however give Skeets the time to home in on 2 more chronal anomalies . . Michelle and her friend Drew. They end up saving Michelle, but they can't save Drew. And . . Booster ends up saving himself. That is to say . . a future version of himself has come back to stop him from trying fix something that's destined to happen. When he creates the time-portal to save Michelle and Skeets, his future self pushes him through it also. Yes it's a little confusing, but . . it works. And in the future at Vanishing Point we see that Rip also knows about this future Booster/Michael. In fact . . he's very comfortable with him because the future version knows that Rip is his son. At the end of this issue, it almost feels like the series could end. But it won't. Next issue we'll learn the final fate of Michelle. Then . . after that . . the creative staff of this book will be changing. Keith Giffen and JM Dematteis will be taking over the scripting chores. While Chris Batista will be doing the art. Oh yeah . . and Kevin Maguire will be doing the covers. It'll be sad to see Dan Jurgens move on, but . . he's done a hell of a job on this series. And since he's leaving it in such great hands . . I can't wait to see where we go from here. I really like this book. I hope it keeps it's momentum for a long time to come. I'm sorry, I forgot to mention that Jerry Ordway helped Dan out with some of the art this issue.
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