Booster Gold #29 - DC

This is another book that I enjoy more than I care to admit. Whoever thought that not only would Booster Gold come back, but . . his book would become a pivotal part of the DC Universe? To me, this is mostly due to Dan Jurgens incredible job here. Yes he had some help from Geoff Johns in the beginning, but . . for the most part he's pretty much written and drawn this entire series. I'm guessing he has a special affection for him since he created him . . almost some 30 years ago now. Wow! Time sure does fly. Anyways, Rip and Michael are trying to stop this other group from taking out Hank Henshaw, the Cyborg-Superman. It turns out this Sondra Crain, whom Michael is trying to stop, is actually an operative of the US Government's Slipshift project . . some 80 years in the future. According to her, they're just trying to save the people of Coast City, and the future atrocities that the Cyborg-Superman commits. Which . . Michael has a hard time arguing with, but . . he also knows what he and Rip have encountered and seen. Any change to the time-stream, no matter how altruistic, can have unforeseen circumstances in the future. Generally . . not for the best, either. But still . . he doesn't like how this is going down either. But, it all may be moot because by the end of the issue we find out that they don't have days to save the citizens of this fair city, but only hours. The event has already begun. Also, I'm not sure how Michael's sister, Michelle fits into all of this, but . . she's also in Central City right now. Michael just doesn't know it yet. This book also has a huge nostalgic feel to it right now . . for me. Dan also did a lot of the work during the Death of Superman story-line, and this thing with Coast City happens right during all of that. So this book, to me, kind of feels like those old Superman or JLI issues. Speaking of which . . there's a Justice League mini-series coming out in May, Generation Lost, which contains a lot of those JLI members . . including Booster. That should be interesting. Anyways, Dan wraps up this story in the next 2 issues . . as well as putting Michelle onto whatever her future path is as Goldstar. Unfortunately though . . that will be his last. However, the good new is that Keith Giffen and JM DeMatteis will be taking over the scripting chores, with Chris Batista doing the art. So the future of Booster . . or his past, whatever the case may be . . still looks bright. Also, in the final Blue Beetle back-up, Matthew Sturges and Mike Norton finally put to rest the possibility of Jamie turning evil, because of the Scarab's Reach influence. I was also starting to think that he may become the Black Beetle in the future. But it looks like Peacemaker has put a stop to all of that. This is all because of when Jamie rebooted during the Reach invasion. The Scarab had always been damaged, but when he did that he essentially fixed it. Although fixing it meant that it gained more control. However, after Peacemaker nukes him this issue . . I'm thinking it may be broken again. Anyways, things end on a good note . . Jamie's back home with his friends. So for now, his future is simply with the Teen Titans . . and Traci 13. I'm sure.