52: BOOSTER GOLD Discussion *Possible Spoilers*

[Lex]

This thread is for discussing and speculating on Booster Gold, one of my main characters of 52. If you want to generally discuss a certain 52 issue, please try to keep it in that issue’s designated thread.

Also remember, if you want to post any information from an issue before it hits the stands on Wed., please use [spoil ] [/spoil ] tags.

Booster Gold’s History:

Michael Carter was an unsuccessful football player in the 25th century. He had to take a job in a space museum. There he met Skeets, a security robot, and learned about the heroes of the 20th/21st centuries. Wanting glory for himself, he stole several futuristic weapons and traveled back in time to the Heroic Age he had learned about. Since then he has tried to make a name for himself in any way he can.

Covers:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/haggard/booster1.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y37/haggard/booster2.jpg

[BoosterBronze]

I'm just a tad confused.

Has there been an official, in-comic moment where we understand that the Boost is now rebooted, so that his time with the Justice League, his grief over Beetle, and stuff no longer matter, or is that all just our conjecture?

Was 52 #1 supposed to be like, the first appearance of Booster? If so, how did all the other heroes know him?

But, it goes without saying, either way, Booster Gold is the best hero in the DCU.

[Rollo_Tomasi]

egads!

http://www.newsarama.com/dcnew/Aug06/pre/52_Cv15_solicit.jpg

[CitC]

Looking at the cover above, the first thought that pops in my head is that Booster and Beetle are having the hardest time with their goggles lately.

[Dr. Killtrocity]

I'm really hoping he doesn't die. The loss of his best friend was very tragic, and to see him, one of my favorite DC heroes kick it too would be terrible. However if he died in a heroic way, like if he were to finally attain the recognition and fame he wanted so badly, then was killed, that wouldn't be so bad.

[Silvermane]

However if he died in a heroic way ... that wouldn't be so bad.

Yes, it would.:( Long live Booster Gold, Goldstar, Dirk, Skeets, that little boy who accompanied Booster and Superman into space, and that teensy weensy alien (well, maybe not him). :o

[Lex]

I'm just a tad confused.

Has there been an official, in-comic moment where we understand that the Boost is now rebooted, so that his time with the Justice League, his grief over Beetle, and stuff no longer matter, or is that all just our conjecture?

Was 52 #1 supposed to be like, the first appearance of Booster? If so, how did all the other heroes know him?

But, it goes without saying, either way, Booster Gold is the best hero in the DCU.Where are you getting that he was rebooted? I haven't seen any evidence of that.

[TCJohnson]

This is a theory I keep hearing:

WIth all the time line jumping and Alex Luthor's merging of realities, an alternate Booster Gold was created. This one had never been to our present before, he was never a member of the Justice League, he never met Ted Kord, and he didn't know Superman or Superboy. This is the one we have been seeing in 52 and it would explain his actions.

Eventually this Booster Gold is going to be killed, and the one to go after his killers is John Michael Carter. Our John Michael Carter, more mature and better armed than he was before and possibly going under the name Supernova. And this is where he will become a hero people can respect.

[K'Nort]

This is a theory I keep hearing:

WIth all the time line jumping and Alex Luthor's merging of realities, an alternate Booster Gold was created. This one had never been to our present before, he was never a member of the Justice League, he never met Ted Kord, and he didn't know Superman or Superboy. This is the one we have been seeing in 52 and it would explain his actions.

Eventually this Booster Gold is going to be killed, and the one to go after his killers is John Michael Carter. Our John Michael Carter, more mature and better armed than he was before and possibly going under the name Supernova. And this is where he will become a hero people can respect.

I'd be for it. It makes enough sense.

I have most of his original series and we were going through it this weekend, and his portrayal in 52 #1 is much more like that original version than that of anyone with any sort of history since then.

[DarthAstuart]

This is a theory I keep hearing:

WIth all the time line jumping and Alex Luthor's merging of realities, an alternate Booster Gold was created. This one had never been to our present before, he was never a member of the Justice League, he never met Ted Kord, and he didn't know Superman or Superboy. This is the one we have been seeing in 52 and it would explain his actions.

Eventually this Booster Gold is going to be killed, and the one to go after his killers is John Michael Carter. Our John Michael Carter, more mature and better armed than he was before and possibly going under the name Supernova. And this is where he will become a hero people can respect.

as I said in the solicits spoiler thread, this (or some variant) is an awesome theory, and I think it would make for some cool storytelling.

[titanfan]

That certainly makes sense as to why the future that Booster remembers (this time) is wrong.

Very cool theory. However, Supernova has a hideous costume and I would hope he goes back to being "Booster" at the end of 52.

[CitC]

I think Booster may have pushed the Beetle thing out of his mind for the moment and has allowed himself to be the old Booster because he knows the big three are about to set everything right with a big speach. Maybe he felt unworthy trying to pull off the mature hero thing and has reverted back.

I liked that Beetles death made him act more heroic- sacrificing. Oh well, I'm interested in seeing where this goes.

[geordiesteve]

I feel like I missed something as well. His promise to use his knowledge of the future to live up to his friend's memory and do better has vanished. Instead we have a vapid, media grabbing, advertising junkie, dick (who reminds me of the mildly amusing Captain Amazing from Mystery Men), who cries on demand when the cameras are there.

[BoosterBronze]

I feel like I missed something as well. His promise to use his knowledge of the future to live up to his friend's memory and do better has vanished. Instead we have a vapid, media grabbing, advertising junkie, dick (who reminds me of the mildly amusing Captain Amazing from Mystery Men), who cries on demand when the cameras are there.

I agree. During a big event they give Booster all this great characterization... and then in the coninuation of the same event it's like it's all gone.

Also the whole "knowledge of the future" thing is new with "IC". In his own book, Booster had no useful knowledge from the past, because in his timeline there had beena devastating Nuclear War that had wiped out all records.

[geordiesteve]

Weirdly enough if you go back a little further, in the JLA around the time of Ice's death, he was a major player in the invasion by the OverMaster (I think that was his name) and Booster was turned from a joke into a real hero as he nearly died, he lost an arm, and it was only due to Ted Kord's genius that he survived, and it was his knowledge of the future that helped them win the day, plus Amazing Man of course. So it has been used once or twice, but they tend to make him 'forget' it from time to time.

[titanfan]

and it was his knowledge of the future that helped them win the day, plus Amazing Man of course.

The way I remember it, his knowledge of the future was totally useless and helped get them into their predicament. His memory of the future was totally wrong and his arm got cut off as a result. It was basically this storyline all over again.

[TCJohnson]

Wasn't the OverMaster storyline written by Waid?

[DMike]

Yes, and he has since apologized for killing Ice.

[Damo]

*Gasps at the opening scene of week 6.*

Say It Ain't So, Booster!

[TCJohnson]

DOn't worry. Soon it will all be over and he will be dead.

[Damo]

*CRIES.* NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Not Booster and Skeets! DIE STEEL DIE!

[Agentum]

So another one of the JLI/E era is going to be killed now?
It's a bit to predicable if that happen, and this crisis is absolutly worthless.

[TCJohnson]

Well, we know from Wizard that one of the main six is going to die. We know from Stephen Wacker that Booster's story will be ending in a couple of months. ANd we have the cover to #14.

[mrc1214]

I really dont want to see Booster go but that cover is pretty much a give away.

[Agentum]

An end to all comic reliefs i think, BB and Booster dead and probably they come up with a new teenage replacement nobody care for.

Has nobody told them you can write intresting storys whitout killing a character of every time?
A bad as those crisis books has been it feels absolutly worthless to have so many die without a good story to back it up.

I often laugh to people that feels angry when their comic characters get killed of so i don't like that i actually begins to get really tired of this new DC ideas, ok he is not dead yet but if he will this risis will be put on my blacklist forever.

I know this is not going to destroy my old JLI/E books they are still there but it feels like the really don't like that era at all and only want the serious and grimm heroes to be in their books now, and those JLI/E eras heroes is semi popular so their death would be some chocking effects for them to display.

[titanfan]

Time Travelling is weird though. If he came from the future and died in the past, whose to say he can't come back from the future back to the past and prevent his own death?

[Agentum]

i don't see how, if he is dead he can't go to his own future again to do anything to prevent himself dying.
When he was living his normal life in the future he didn't know he would be killed in the past so no his life would be over.
But you mean that when this dc timeline finally reaches Boosters originally timeperod he would be born again to go back in time and die agan over and over :D

[Damo]

I think you're reading to much into the "end of Booster's story" line though. It's pretty clear that Booster's got a story going on about him right now. That story can "end" in ways other than him dying.

[shaunyc56]

I'm just a tad confused.

Has there been an official, in-comic moment where we understand that the Boost is now rebooted, so that his time with the Justice League, his grief over Beetle, and stuff no longer matter, or is that all just our conjecture?

Was 52 #1 supposed to be like, the first appearance of Booster? If so, how did all the other heroes know him?

But, it goes without saying, either way, Booster Gold is the best hero in the DCU.


In one of the issues of 52, Booster is speaking w/ Fire and when she takes him to task about Ted and their history, he basically says he took care of that by helpinb Batman w/ the assault on Brother eye in space. Then goes on to say its about me now, or some such schlock. To be honest I've only liked Booster during the original fight w/ Doomsday, I thought he showed some actual bravery for a change, and the aforementioned assault on Brother Eye. Mostly I thought he was just a way of keeping Blue Beetle from reaching his full potential.

[shaunyc56]

I'm just a tad confused.

Has there been an official, in-comic moment where we understand that the Boost is now rebooted, so that his time with the Justice League, his grief over Beetle, and stuff no longer matter, or is that all just our conjecture?

Was 52 #1 supposed to be like, the first appearance of Booster? If so, how did all the other heroes know him?

But, it goes without saying, either way, Booster Gold is the best hero in the DCU.


In one of the issues of 52, Booster is speaking w/ Fire and when she takes him to task about Ted and their history, he basically says he took care of that by helping Batman w/ the assault on Brother eye in space. Then goes on to say its about me now, or some such schlock. To be honest I've only liked Booster during the original fight w/ Doomsday, I thought he showed some actual bravery for a change, and the aforementioned assault on Brother Eye. Mostly I thought he was just a way of keeping Blue Beetle from reaching his full potential.

[shaunyc56]

Double Post, My bad....