DCU Comic Book Reviews

BOOSTER GOLD #17

Reality Lost, Part III of IV

April 2009

Written by Dan Jurgens

Layouts by Dan Jurgens

Inks by Norm Rapmund

Cover by Dan Jurgens And Norm Rapmund

Synopsis

Booster Gold has been transported to fairly recent times and, in fact, turns into himself the night he first learned Supernova was his father.  Booster, instead, focuses on a nearby robbery of the museum.  When he sees Barry Allen investigated, Booster gets concerned.  Barry should be in his lab in order to get struck by lightning and turn into the Flash.  In the timestream, an unknown figure leads Goldstar on a search for the dagger.  In the museum, Booster Gold finds Chronos attempting to steal clocks.  Before Booster can stop him, the unknown figure appears, takes a dagger being held at the museum and the dagger Booster had been holding, and then leaves.  Just then Barry Allen arrives and tries to take Booster into custody.  Booster feigns being poisoned in an effort to get Barry back to his lab to conduct a blood test.  When they reach the lab, Booster leaves just as Barry gets hit by lightning.  Booster then decides he needs help to find the daggers.  So he asks himself.

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

Even for a story in which the basic premise is time travel, this issue really stretches the plausibility as far as it goes.  Booster Gold arrives just in time to see himself confront Supernova, and with him in the confrontation is the Flash and Kid Flash.  That would be Barry and Wally.  A few blocks away he encounters a Barry Allen, who had yet to become the Flash.  The accident that changes him forever is a few hours away.  Now, did I miss something (or did they time travel as well; I don’t recall the original issue)?  How could Barry be the Flash but not the Flash in the same time period?  Seems like a paradox to me and it wasn’t explained.  Because of this, I read the issue, wondering what the hell is going on?  I don’t know, maybe it is just me.  Even assuming I am completely missing the boat, the rest of the issue is just okay.  There was nothing that stands out.  The humor seems to have (once again) disappeared from this title.  I don’t particularly buy the poisoned angle that Booster uses to get Barry back to the lab; it seems way to obvious for someone like Barry to believe.  And the villain lacks any kind of credible threat to Booster or Goldstar to make the character frightening or menacing.  Right now it is just a faceless (literally) plot device that seems to be created to fulfill a role in the story rather than coming to life as a character.  Hopefully things will pick up.  Maybe Booster can give a boost to himself and inject some life into the book. 

Origins & Omens

Written by Dan Jurgens

Art by Dan Jurgens and Norm Rapmund

Commentary

Hey, look, a recap of this series so far.  This was really not necessary, since the origin of Booster Gold had just been done a few issues ago while the rest is basically a rehash of what has happened in this series so far.

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