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BOOSTER GOLD #14

Stars In Your Eyes, Part 2

January 2009

Written by Rick Remender

Layouts by Patrick Olliffe

Inks by Jerry Ordway

Cover by Chris Batista and Mick Gray

Synopsis

Tossed in a pool of Starros, Booster Gold manages to escape before becoming enslaved.  Then with the help of Skeets, Booster searches for a way to return to the Rip Hunter’s Lab.  At the Hall of Justice, he finds Mister Freeze’s ray gun.  Booster uses that to free Lady Chronos for Starro.  They decide to work together.  They are able to go back in time, steal another Freeze ray and then travel to the future, where they attack Starro and rescue Rip Hunter.  Then they are able to go back to the moment Starro first conquered the Earth and retrieve the spores and return things to the way they should have been.  Later, the return to Rip Hunter’s lab, where they find Chronos.  He then takes Lady Chronos and they flee, but not before they take a look at Rip’s notes.  After they are gone, Rip tells Booster that time is no longer on their side. 

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

Overall, this was an okay issue and okay two-part story.  There was nothing really bad with it, but nothing that really grabbed my attention. 

The best parts of the story are the two short scenes with Mister Freeze.  They are funny and amusing and shows what can be done with time travel.  I think these scenes are emblematic of what is wrong with this two-part story:  the tone is all wrong.  I am not suggesting that this should be turned into some kind of slapstick, joke-a-minute book (or even something close to Ambush Bug), but rather I think the tone needs to be light and amusing, a fun little trip to fix something wrong with the timelines, preferably something connected to DC history (see my previous review for more on that subject).  I don’t think we need to have the End Of The Earth scenario for every story, because frankly it lacks any type of, let’s say, oomph.  It is hard to get nervous about Starro taking over the world. 

To answer my question from the previous review (see link below, click on the back button), Lady Chronos is indeed Jia, the character from The All New Atom, the series that Remender was writing before this one.   

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