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BOOSTER GOLD #13

Stars In Your Eyes, Part 1

December 2008

Written by Rick Remender

Layouts by Patrick Olliffe

Inks by Jerry Ordway

Cover by Chris Batista and Mick Gray

Synopsis

After successfully restoring a portion of the timeline, Booster Gold and his sister return to Rip Hunter’s lab to find Rip has been infected by Starro.  Booster Gold tries to save him, but Rip is able to get away and jump into the time sphere.  Rip/Starro goes back in time and changes history so that all of Earth is under Starro’s control.  With the help of Skeets, Booster is able to find the first recorded appearance of Starro in history.  Booster Gold goes to that time and stop Starro.  However, when they get back to the lab, Rip has not returned.  Booster Gold then realizes that his ancestor, Daniel, was responsible when accidentally brought Starro to the lab from the past.  Suddenly, Chronos and Lady Chronos controlled by Starro appear in the lab.  They threaten Booster’s sister if he doesn’t go with them.  HE agrees.  They take him to the future, ruled by Starro.  There, Booster is tossed into a pool of Starros.  Once he is under control, there will be only one left:  Booster’s son.

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

“A Starro safe in a mayonnaise jar!!  How are we related?!”

Much like Dixon’s two-parter, I am indifferent to this storyline.  It is a decent story, but nothing that really grabs my attention.  I think a large part of it has to do with the tone and style of these stories, which is different than the stories written by Geoff Johns and Jeff Katz.  The original stories were laced with continuity jokes and winks and nods to DC comics, a kind of meta-textual view of the DC universe.  It was just that Booster was traveling through time, but he was traveling through the publication history of DC.  And I think that makes all the difference, because while this issue takes Booster through time, it lacks the flair Johns and Katz brought to the storyline.  I think the biggest difference between this issue and what Johns and Katz would’ve done is the moment with Daniel and Starro.  Johns and Katz would’ve woven the first Justice League of America story more in this issue, showing us a different view of those events and how Daniel unwittingly changed history.  Here, Remender just uses it as backdrop (if at all since I am not sure if the Paris reference is part of that first JLA story) and an almost as an afterthought.  For this series to work, I think, there needs to be more than just time-traveling stories.  These have been done over the years to the point where if it is going to be done, it needs to have something just a little bit more.  As I said, this issue is decent, it just doesn’t have the little bit extra to make it really work. 

It is interesting to note that Remender used Chronos and Lady Chronos as part of his run on the final issues of the All New Atom and they reappear here as well.  In fact, Booster Gold made an appearance towards the end of that series as well.  I wonder if the two are connected in some way.  I guess we’ll find out. 

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