Well, since Dan Jurgens does everything on this book now . . I guess this would be the 'Dan Jurgens fill-in month'. He did the cover, but that was it. Keith Giffen writes it and Pat Olliffe does the pencils. However, with Norm Rapmund doing the inks, as he does over Dan's pencils, the art really looking pretty close to Dan's stuff. Anyways, this issue was really kind of boring. There was a lot of explanation . . a lot of build-up, but then . . no real pay-off. Basically, Booster is bored when Rip's time-sphere stalls. So he decides to go visit the 50's. For some reason he enamored with that time-period. Rip's warned Booster that because of his intertwined destiny with time, that 9 times out of 10 he's going to wind up where he's needed most . . whether he likes it or not. This trip basically proves Rip right. He ends up as a rocket launch, and is immediately noticed by a very early version of Task-Force X. They're investigating the possibility that one of the scientists is a double agent. As they're pursuing this lead, they find out that he's got a rocket launch planned. A manned launch. Booster knows that this is years before it's supposed to happen so he has to stop it. "I'm going to break a few things. You guys carry on with whatever it is you have to do. Trust me, I'm really good at breaking things." Anyways, long story short, they stop the launch Booster returns to Rip. As Rip is checking to make sure he didn't disrupt anything, he finds out that the scientist actually went back to Russia, gave up his pursuit of manned flight and decided to build an exoskeleton. He was the guy who created the Rocket Reds. He was actually Sergei's grandfather. So now the question is . . who cares? As I'm reading this, I'm thinking that this story is really leading someplace. But . . it just lead to a big 'ol long winded explanation by Rip. Boring! Hopefully Dan will be back next issue and things will get back to normal. This fill-in issue? I could've done without.
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