DCU Comic Book Reviews

BOOSTER GOLD #3

52 Pick-Up, Part 3:  Hexed

December 2007

Written by Geoff Johns and Jeff Katz

Layouts by Dan Jurgens

Inks by Norm Rapmund

Cover by Dan Jurgens and Norm Rapmund

Synopsis

Rip Hunter has just been attacked by someone in the Supernova costume, who in turn had stolen it from Daniel Carter.  Rip Hunter believes the new Supernova has gone back to the old west in attempt to remove the Kent bloodline to keep them from finding Kal-el when he lands on Earth.  Booster Gold tracks down Jonah Hex, the gunslinger hired to kill the doctor that successfully delivers Jonathan Kent’s great-grandfather.  Just as Booster finds the doctor, so does the new Supernova.  Booster saves the doctor and then follows Supernova.  He rejoins Rip Hunter in the time sphere and attempts to fly after Supernova, but instead the crash into two Flashes:  Wally West and Barry Allen.

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

It doesn’t take much to make me love a comic as much as I love this one.  In this case, it was the simple drawing of Skeets riding a horse.  Actually, floating above the saddle, but still holding onto the reins.  That simple visual amused me to no end.  The rest of the comic does the same.  It is great stuff and fun stuff.  There are very few comic books on the market (sadly) that are enjoyable to read in the sense that it is lighthearted and goofy and doesn’t attempt to take itself seriously.  Booster Gold succeeds because it is all of that, a book that knows the basic premise is goofy and uses that as the jumping on point for the rest of the story.  A lot happens in this issue, but Johns and Katz effectively use the events to build on each other, using the drinking scene with Hex to escalate to driving a time machine drunk which in turns leads to the encounter at the end.  But, and I think this is important as well, the main glitch in history is fixed and then we move onward.  Yes, there is a bigger story going on in this book, but so far the stories are relatively one and done.  And that is a good thing.  This book is fun and getting resolution to the change in history provides a type of happy ending, which is a rarity in today’s market. 

Interestingly, the various shifts in time and the different looks at the history of the DCU seem to be window dressing to the main thrust of the book:  the rocky relationship between Rip and Booster and the self-effacing relationship between Skeets and Booster.  There interactions make the book as much fun as it is; otherwise, it just becomes a dull time-traveling story. 

As a huge, huge fan of Back to the Future series, it was nice to not only see a reference made to the movie, but to see that the characters are also aware of the movie.  How great is it that Rip Hunter has seen Back to the Future.  Well, I thought it was neat. 

 

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