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[NightBeetle]

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[NightBeetle]

BOOSTER GOLD #38
Written by KEITH GIFFEN & J.M. DEMATTEIS
Art by CHRIS BATISTA & RICH PERROTTA
Cover by DAN JURGENS & JERRY ORDWAY
What do Booster Gold and World War II have in common? Not a lot. What do Maxwell Lord and World War II have in common? Quite a bit, actually. Join Booster, Skeets and (Heaven, help us) General Glory as they take on Nazis, mad scientists and whatever else we can throw in. Oh yeah, and Booster is forced to make a choice that could alter the DCU forever…
On sale 10 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Who's General Glory?

 

[Tron Bonne]

If it's who I'm thinking, I believe he was like this 1940s Captain America-ish character......

....okay, after wiking, it's who I thought it was:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Glory

 

[Drz]

Ah women and tentacles. <3

 

[Micah12345]

I picked up this last issue of booster gold to try and get into the character. It was extremely wordy without a whole lot to say and I found it a really big chore to try and get through.

 

[yenaled]

Haha General Glory.

I had a General Glory action figure when I was young, and I have no idea why or where it came from.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I picked up this last issue of booster gold to try and get into the character. It was extremely wordy without a whole lot to say and I found it a really big chore to try and get through.

It's basically being written for comedy at this point. I tend to find Giffen and DeMatteis funny, but they are definitely some of the more verbose writers in comics today.

 

[Mystirious]

Ah women and tentacles. <3

Haha General Glory.

I had a General Glory action figure when I was young, and I have no idea why or where it came from.

That is so fab

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Anyone else notice the slight oversight in this week's issue where past-Booster said J'onn had gone out for "Oreos"?

 

[NightBeetle]

Forgot about this.

BOOSTER GOLD #39
Written by KEITH GIFFEN & J.M. DEMATTEIS
Art and cover by CHRIS BATISTA & RICH PERROTTA
Forced to face the reality that his best friend Ted Kord is never coming back from the dead, Booster Gold withdraws from reality by running home to his original time and place. Unfortunately, once home, he's arrested for the theft of the Time Sphere that allowed him to become Booster Gold in the first place!
On sale DECEMBER 8 * 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I really wish they'd stop milking Ted's death for more stories like this. How many times has Booster "come to terms with Ted's death being permanent" or some such nonsense now?

 

[hippie_hunter]

I don't think he has come to terms with it yet.

 

[yenaled]

I really wish they'd stop milking Ted's death for more stories like this. How many times has Booster "come to terms with Ted's death being permanent" or some such nonsense now?

Has there been another story in the Booster Gold series?

 

[BrianWilly]

I don't think the first one ever stopped.

I have to agree with Corp, BG is a good series but guddamn, there's this constant pervasive sense of Ted's corpse looming over every damn story.

 

[yenaled]

Beautiful cover though.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, it's nice. I just really wish they'd hurry up and resurrect Ted already. We all know this "permanently dead" schtick isn't going to stick anyway. It's been long enough since Infinite Crisis, Booster could use a better sidekick than Rip and the increasingly patronizing Skeets, and they've been 'dealing with' his death pretty much nonstop in the series from issue #1. It's about time Ted got to come back.

 

[hippie_hunter]

Yeah it's time to bring back Ted. Bringing back Ted, Vic, and Garth would have been much better than resurrecting Hawk, the Skank, and Deadman.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Deadman I disagree on. But replace him with the Hawks and I completely agree.

 

[CrawlingDevil]

I'm quite enjoying this book, though I'm really curious to see whether it'll be Vril Dox or some other source that will cure Ted of his current status as a talking chipmunk.

 

[NightBeetle]

BOOSTER GOLD #40
Written by KEITH GIFFEN & J.M. DEMATTEIS
Art and cover by CHRIS BATISTA & RICH PERROTTA
Coming to grips with reality at last, Booster Gold steps up his game and finally accepts the fact that his best friend, Blue Beetle Ted Kord, is dead. This is bad news for the villain who shows up this month because they're about to face an angry Booster Gold...
On sale JANUARY 12

 

[NightBeetle]

The Gold Exchange Extra: J.M. DeMatteis

GX: Is the plan to have the regular art team take over covers anytime soon, or is it going to be “special guest artists” like Maguire and Jurgens for the foreseeable future?
JMD: You’d have to check with Mike Carlin about that. I certainly have no objections!
GX: How would this story have proceeded if Estrogina chewed her food?
JMD: The entire timeline would have been totally screwed up. And grossed out.
GX: Is Skeets’ “evolution” tied to the fact that upcoming solicitations have Booster “accepting” that he can’t bring Ted back? Trying to make sure you have the Abbott-and-Costello dynamic even without Beetle, maybe?
JMD: Not at all. It’s just the characters evolving on their own, as they tend to do. The dynamic between Booster and Skeets has been happening very naturally in the dialogue—and I’ve been enjoying it tremendously.
GX: The time-travel element in this story is handled in a different, fun way – the notion that even though he has no memory of it, Booster just assumes that he’s already done all this and that it came out OK, so he can travel forward, see Beetle and ask how to win the day. Still, he had to work his ass off when he was there so that it wouldn’t devolve into another of the many “making things worse while trying to make them better” stories we’ve seen so far.
JMD: I agree…and all the credit for that goes to Giffen. He’s incredibly clever for a surly, dangerous, anti-social malcontent. (That’s a joke, Keith: Please don’t try to kill me again!)
GX: Estrogina’s pretty strong, and didn’t dent Skeets while attempting to strangle him. That suggests to me he’s made of some pretty strong stuff–do we know if he’s still made of Waverider’s skin, stripped off the bone by Mr. Mind in “52&#8243;?
JMD: “Waveriders’s skin, stripped off the bone by Mr. Mind”? That’s the first I’ve heard of it. Now that’s really gross.
GX: More family-friendly fun from the creators of 52. Is there a current incarnation of The Conglomerate, by the way? I thought, when Ted mentioned them, that working with a group like that could be a perfect cover for Booster in his “dumb, crass guy” alter ego. And hey–if readers liked it maybe it could get us a fourth monthly Booster Gold title and we could be oversaturating the market as much as Superman!
JMD: It hasn’t come up, but bring back the Conglomerate is a terrific idea. Glad I thought of it!
GX: It’s my secret hope that the Gold Exchange can subtly help guide storytelling. I can’t remember the last time I saw the Zamarons–were they always yellow? And is Estrogina then a Zamaron? I ask only because I’ve been re-reading Gerry Jones’ ’90s GL run where the Zamarons are often referred to, but never seen. I think back to Millennium and feel like they were human-looking, then forward to Blackest Night and remember them as blue. Maybe they’re just prolific procreators.
JMD: All humans don’t look alike or have the same skin color—and the same applies to Zamarons. I don’t think Estrogina is a Zamaron, though. (And I have a sneaking suspicion her legal name’s not Estrogina, either.)
GX: All that being an aside, will we see Estrogina again in the present (this storyline’s future)?
JMD: I’d love to bring her back: we only scratched the surface of the character and there’s a lot of room for future development. Booster needs some recurring villains that are all his own—and we’ve got a few more coming up in the near future.
GX: I’m glad to see they’re getting the book back from the Darkstars, after my earlier concern that it would vanish into oblivion or fall into the wrong hands when the Darkstars fell in the late ’90s. Really too bad for Booster that he had no street cred with John Stewart or Donna Troy at this point in the characters’ history, it could totally go a lot faster!
JMD: You were concerned about the (kinda/sorta) Book of Destiny falling into the wrong hands? It’s not real, Russ. We made it up! These are just stories! Guess this is what happens when the baby keeps you awake night after night after night…
But seriously: the resolution with the Book probably won’t be what you expect. I know it wasn’t what I expected. (I’m not kidding when I say that I often have no idea what the story’s going to be about until i get Keith’s plot. Which certainly keeps things fresh!)

 

[storyteller]

I don't think Ted is coming back anytime soon. Jamie is basically all over the place and until a writer who really likes Ted is in charge he stays deceased. Though yeah the Ted thing is getting stale and they just need to move on.

 

[NightBeetle]

BOOSTER GOLD #41
Written by KEITH GIFFEN & J.M. DEMATTEIS
Art and cover by CHRIS BATISTA & RICH PERROTTA
A new threat from another time attacks Booster again - for the first time! Unfortunately, this http://i.newsarama.com/images/dpa3_cv19_02.jpgthreat catches Booster in Rip Hunter's lab, and the bunker takes enough of a beating to put everybody out of time-traveling commission for a long while!
On sale FEBRUARY 9 * 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I'm really enjoying this series now. I like the structure of it. Giffen and DeMatteis have one overarching plot they're touching on a bit in each issue, but each issue or two still have full, stand-alone stories. Last week's issue with Rani going off to tell on Max Lord to his mom in WWII was a perfect example.