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BOOSTER GOLD #30

The Tomorrow Memory, Part Three

May 2010

Written by Dan Jurgens

Layouts by Dan Jurgens and Jerry Ordway

Inks by Norm Rapmund and Jerry Ordway

Cover by Dan Jurgens and Norm Rapmund

Synopsis

Booster Gold is in Coast City just moments before Mongul and Cyborg Superman are about to destroy it.  With him is Sandra Crain, another time traveler, who implores Booster Gold to stop the destruction of the city that will cause 7 million deaths.  Skeets warns them they can’t do that.  Booster sees a little girl about to killed, so he decides to do what he can.  When flies away to stop it, Skeets then takes matters into his own hand, pushing Crain back to her time period.  Skeets then notices there are other chronal signatures.  One of them leads him to Michelle Carter, Booster Gold’s sister.  Meanwhile, Booster is having little luck in his attack on Mongul’s ship.  One attack sends him spiraling backward.  Nearby, pushes Booster to where he needs to be, with his sister.  Booster is grateful to find his sister.  He then tells Skeets to take her back. Skeets objects; Coast City can’t be saved.  Booster activates the portal, sending Michelle and Skeets.  Nearby, the stranger pushes Booster into the portal as well, sending him back to Rip’s lab.  At the Vanishing Point, Rip confronts the stranger, his father, future Booster Gold. 

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

Hey, wait a minute! I was right.  The dude carrying the sign is the other time traveler.  Of course, I didn’t think it would be a future Booster, but still I got the first part right.  Yeah, go me!

Anyway, this was a serviceable ending to the storyline.  While it was a good story, it was also a very quick read, suggesting a lack of substance in favor of making sure all of the plot developments are accounted for, almost a connect-the-dots feel to it.  In a short period of time a lot of things happen with a lot of characters getting (literally) pushed around that there was very little room for much else.  Yet, it does what it needs to do, which is to reunite Booster with his sister, Michelle (and to send Booster off on his own, as well).  But as I was reading this issue, a lot of questions (see below) kept popping in my head and I really think that this was a wasted opportunity.  There are a lot of things that could’ve been done with this story, but I think Jurgens was intent on ending it now.  I am not sure if things changed with the book, his involvement, or what, but it felt rushed. 

Is it just me or was any reason given why Coast City was destined to be destroyed?  Is there a particular reason why 7 million people need to die?  And why, since I am asking, was Booster Gold trying to stop the city for being destroyed?  Why not simply save as many people as possible by teleporting them out of the city before it is destroyed?  It seems to me that what Crain was trying to do was save the people, not necessarily the buildings that make up the city. 

Speaking of which, will Jurgens revisit Crain and the little girl that was saved?  Is this a future plot point, perhaps even connected in some way to Black Beetle?  To me, as I was reading, it seemed like the little girl was ready-made to be a time travelling villain.  Or maybe that’s just me.

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