BOOSTER GOLD #7Written by Geoff Johns and Jeff Katz
Art by Dan Jurgens and Norm Rapmund
I still love Booster Gold, but the title has lost a lot of the charm it originally launched with. The first four or five issues were comedy gold and I was laughing almost non-stop every issue. Booster inspiring the Sinestro Corps or getting drunk with Jonah Hex were golden moments for me. The last two or three issues have been complete departures from that formula with the odd exception here or there.
Regardless, I'm not hating this book or anything. It's just different. I knew they couldn't keep doing the whole monthly time fixing hi-jinx, but I didn't expect the shift in writing tone either.
This issue continued the destruction of time caused by Booster saving Ted. To no one's surprise, the future Blue Beetle, or Black Beetle, was evil and actually a part of the trio of time villains introduced earlier in the series. It looks like Booster's dad is actually not just some throw away or insignificant villain either, as he's the fifth member of the Time Stealers, as they are calling themselves now. He's the one that calls their meeting to order, implying to me he's the one in charge of the group.
One thing of note was when Black Beetle was talking to Supernova, Booster's dad tells him not to worry about his enemy's predecessor, which puts Black Beetle as Jaime Reyes', the current Blue Beetle, enemy. He's also named Joshua, which means nothing to me, but must have been given to us for a reason.
I suppose I should talk about Blue and Gold, since it's technically their book. They fight OMACs, have a few laughs and meet up with the resistance of this alternate timeline, Green Arrow and Hawkman. It's great to see them together, but not much really happened on their side of the story.
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