Booster Gold

This is the first issue writ­ten by Dan Jur­gens, cre­ator of Booster Gold and drawer of said char­ac­ter since issue one of this par­tic­u­lar ongo­ing. This issue is a  lot more light-hearted than the pre­vi­ous issues writ­ten by Rick Remender. While adven­ter­ous, his issues were com­pletely lack­ing in charm. But enough about ol’ Rick. How does Booster Gold stand up now?

Bet­ter. Much, much bet­ter. It’s not quite Geoff Johns level, but this Booster has just the right amount of self-indulgent goofi­ness and Skeets has the right amount of know-it-all side­kick­i­ness going for him.

I would’ve pre­ferred this to be a done-in-one issue, but it looks like we get another mul­ti­part story, spin­ning out of the sto­ry­line Remender fol­lowed. Is this Jur­gens’ way of ignor­ing Remender I wonder?

After a cute open­ing scene with Booster and Gold­star in 16th cen­tury Italy look­ing for food and fame, the story quickly becomes a search for Rip Hunter and their head­quar­ters that seems to have van­ished from the timestream. There’s a fun sib­ling fight then Skeets informs the two that all evi­dence points to time trav­el­ing knife, mis­placed dur­ing the Killer Moth mis­sion, being the cause and not Goldstar’s pos­ing for a por­trait with Leonardo da Vinci as Booster sug­gested. Booster meets up with future fel­low Jus­tice League Inter­na­tional team­ster Elon­gated Man, in a scene that would mean a lot more had I grown up read­ing JLI. Then Booster is flung through time to some­where next month’s solicit reveals to be World War 1.

This book sits fairly low on the month-by-month sales chart. Lower than Blue Bee­tle and Birds of Prey. I hope that doesn’t mean that this book is up for can­cel­la­tion. Though I wouldn’t be too sur­prised, given DC’s cancel-happy atti­tude these last few weeks.

Green Lantern Corps #31

Con­fes­sion time. Kryb scares the every lov­ing shit out of me. This is Kryb:

Seri­ously, it took all of my willpower just to post that picture.

Not only is she a super­pow­ered baby-stealing alien that runs on fear. Her “milk” also acts as a DNA-specific mind-controlling agent if it gets on your skin. Jesus H. Christ. The only way Kryb could be more creepy is if “she” was a “he”.

Despite the recent ick fac­tor Green Lantern Corps has been great to read. Expand­ing on the emo­tional spec­trum where the stand­alone GL book has become more tightly focused.

Yes, we know that the Love Lantern is going to defeat Kryb and break the hold over the other lanterns. Well at least I hope that’s what hap­pens. Before Kryb cuts the baby out of Amnee’s body, thanks. The third law of Oa, “no rela­tion­ships between Green Lanterns”, is only going to end in dis­as­ter. But if the Guardians actu­ally thought things through instead of just react­ing to every­thing then we wouldn’t have the Man­hunters or the Alpha Lanterns.

Yes, this book is creepy, but it’s creepy in a “look through your fin­gers” kind of way. And I love it for that.

Com­plete Pull List:

Booster Gold #15
Final Cri­sis #5 (of 7)
Green Lantern Corps #31
Jus­tice Soci­ety of Amer­ica HC Vol 03 Thy King­dom Come Part 2
Jus­tice League of Amer­ica #27
Secret Six #4
Trin­ity #28
Aston­ish­ing X-Men: Ghost Boxes #2 (of 2)
Secret Inva­sion Dark Reign
Wiz­ard Mag 2009 Platinum

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