Source Material #374 - Booster Gold vol. 2 (DC, 2007)

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The city shadows on the lines.
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The lady and gentlemen, welcome to the Source Material Comics Podcast.
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We have returned, and when I say we, it's me
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Jesse Starcher, and that over there is Evan Bevans, and
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we have decided that we are going to continue the
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Blue and Gold saga right here.
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On the Source Material Comics Podcast.
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So we covered the first volume of Booster Gold. This
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is volume two of Booster Gold. So let me try
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that again.
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The first trade of the second volume of Booster Gold. Okay,
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I'm doing good there.
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So we covered that a while back, Ladies and gentlemen,
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it was part of that whole podcast.
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We got to debut our first ever Source Material single.
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Plus we got to talk about some great time travel
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adventures Booster Gold going back in time to change an
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event that Rip Hunter said cannot be changed, and that
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was the death of Ted Cord, his best buddy Blue Beetle.
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And he did it and it was a great story.
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He got back, stopped Maxwell Lord from killing him and
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they're in the timestream now. So I was down, I
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was into it. I wanted to talk some more Booster Gold.
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So we are willing to continue that tonight. So Evan Bevans,
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you're sitting over there being patient. Look at a second,
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I guess what we can do is kind of again,
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kind of go back.
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In case anybody missed the first episode.
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You you were, if I remember correctly, you were picking
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this up off the shelf, right.
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Yes, I got. I think it ran for well forty
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nine issues. I think the last issue was forty seven.
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But as we'll talk about tonight, there were some interesting choices.
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In the numbering, Yes, yes, indeed, which.
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I approve of on like some subjective numbering the titles
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do nowadays. But yeah, I was buying it from the
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get go. I was hooked with that first storyline, which
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I think I pitched it to you as DC Superhero's
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Quantum Leap right, with Booster traveling through the time stream
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striving to put right what well originally went right and
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then went wrong. So it's not a one to one comparison,
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but we saw him make sure Hal Jordan did become
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Green Lantern and inadvertently create the Sinestro Core out, drink
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Jonah Hex to save Superman's Earth Feather's ancestor, and then
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drunk drive a time sphere into the cosmic Credmill yep.
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Rear ending, rear ending Barry Allen.
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Yes, indeed, leaving to an important life lesson for young
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Wally West.
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That's why you don't drink and drive.
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Then we saw Booster try repeatedly and fail to save
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Batgirl from being shot by the Joker in the killing joke,
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which Rip used to illustrate to Booster that some things
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in the past just can't be changed. So no, Booster,
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you can't go save your best friend. Except here comes
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the Blue Beetles of the past, present future to take
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Booster to do just that.
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That's right, the Blue Beetles.
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We have Dan Garrett, we have Hime Rays, and we
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have the Blue Beetle of the twenty.
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Fifth century something like that. Yeah, well, of our future,
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we'll just put it that way. Name is not important,
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that's right.
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We don't know much of anything else other than he
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is a blue Beetle from the very far future. So yeah,
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and he supposedly has a scareb or technology that will
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allow him to change the timestream or change events in
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the past, to which he uses to his advantage and
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saves Ted Cord, so.
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Which we should also note that if you weren't reading
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DC in the late two thousands. Ted Kord's death is
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what said in the motion various storylines leading to Infinite Crisis,
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including a Yomac Protocol, which was Max Lord's nanotechnology guardians
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fighting against superhumans. Max being the magnanimous fella he is
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just wanted humanity to control its destiny, which is neat
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considering he's a guy who can control people's minds with
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his special powers.
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Yeah. Yeah, a little contradictory there, I can't agree more.
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Yeah, that definitely changes some things because now which I didn't,
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I thought apparently Max did not die, which I can't
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remember how the how the where we ended things last time,
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if it was thought that he was dead or if
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he was just knocked out unconscious.
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I think he was unconscious.
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Yeah, I don't think they were. And then, if I
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remember correctly, the idea was that they would still get
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the information out so that ped living would not be
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because even though Ted died, that kind of set things
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in motion and exposed Max's plan early. But originally they
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were trying to leave it unchanged.
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Somehow, like Ted Cord, but leaving things unchanged as best
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as they could. Okay, all right, well that's going to
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take us to where we're going to begin here tonight.
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So we want to cover the second volume, and according
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to when I looked up here, our second volume of
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Booster Gold is issue zero, seven, eight, nine, ten and
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one million. So before I get into the synopsis here, which,
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by the way, again, let's give a credit to our
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creative team. Written by Jeff Johns and Jeff Katz, Pencil
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art by Dan Jurgens, finished art by Norm Rapman, Colors
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by High Five, Letters by Randy A.
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Genteel.
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So now we're starting off with this issue zero, and
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you teased me earlier with trying to hit me with
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some trivia and ask me why, and everything I guessed
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was wrong, So I need to know why is there
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a significant Why are we starting with issue zero after
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apparently issue what was a four six, issue six?
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So what's the deal here?
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Well, Jesse, even though this isn't unspoken issues, you are
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a scholar of nineties comics and you probably remember a
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whole lot of zero issues, even a few negative one
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thanks Marvel. But DC didn't just go with the occasional
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zero issue. DC went with a whole event zero hour,
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zero hour, and every title that DC put out that
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month and at Zero Hour. The original series counted down
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to zero. They either started with issue three or four
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and counted down to zero, and then every title DC
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put out I guess it went. In that period, every
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title DC was publishing had a zero issue, I believe. Yeah,
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And if memory serves I did not go to the
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interwebs to look this up. So if I recall correctly,
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the idea of these zero issues wasn't just to tie
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in to the main event, which of course was the
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primary focus. But Zero Hour was like the Air Apparent
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to Crisis on Infinite Earth's before DC just decided you
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get a crisis, and you get a crisis, and crisis
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the DMV and all this stuff. So Zero Hour was
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to clean up their continuity a little more may Hawkman,
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a little more confusing, But I believe the mandate was
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not only for it to serve the overall the crossover,
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but to kind of really boil it down to the
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essence of who these characters were. Okay, all right, and
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so you'll get into the synopsis, but if you read
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this issue, it continues the story, but it also does
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seem to It delves into Boosters past, why he is
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who he is, and sets up or at least appears
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to set up a new status quo with him and
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Ted Cord. It's right, and yes, zero Hour, let's see
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what look on here? See when Zero Hour was released.
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But Zero Hour is definitely a product of the nineties.
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I'm going to go with ninety five.
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Let's see nineteen ninety four.
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Okay, I had ten to choose from.
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So there was that.
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And then, as you mentioned, we also have a one
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million issue in here, that's right, which DC Comics one
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million was an event in nineteen ninety eight where all
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their comics had one million issues, and that one's always
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had a special place in my fandom and heart. I
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didn't read any of it when it was coming out,
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but my brother stumbled upon some one million issues at
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a comic show we were at, and he's like, I'm
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going to track these down. So I remember, for Christmas
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that year I was in college, I was down at
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a shop in Huntington and I raided their back issue
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bends and got the original one million limited series and
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a ton of one million issues for him for Christmas
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that year.
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I still have a.
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Picture somewhere of his jaw dropping when he opened those.
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So if you're going to have a time traveling superhero,
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why not make him part of crossovers long past down
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to the issue numbers that were specific to those crossovers.
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I thought that was fantastic. I've grumbled on here before
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about oh, they do a crossover and then they have
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some limited series.
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It doesn't even affect the main title. This is great.
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Yeah, Marble's renumbering and legacy numbering and all that stuff
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gets confusing and all that.
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This is a fantastic.
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It's definitely a way of kind of paying honor to
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what came before and using it's a time travel comic.
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Why not And now that you said zero hour, when
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we get into the vins of issue zero, like you said,
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it makes sense now as to what's going on because
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there are some villains that they're going to run into
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where they're like and I was like, I know what's
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going on here. So yeah, I agree, this is some
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good stuff. Jeff Johns's I mean, using this to the
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best of his ability.
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Go ahead, Yeah, that's as close as you're going to
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get to the time traveling with Booster Gold.
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All right, Well, if you're ready, I'll go ahead and
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get into the synopsis of these first three issues, and
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then we'll talk a few anything else before anything left unsaid,
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before I jump into that.
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I think we're good. Far up your time sphere and
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let's go.
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Let's go.
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All right, So head Cord and Booster Gold together again,
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swirling through the time stream, and they're going there's right now,
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they're in a time sphere that's also got the other
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blue Beetles in there along with him, Dan Garrett, the
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Beetle from the well Himey Reyes. And then I'm trying
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to find I've got the page here, trying to see
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if they explain which century he's from.
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Twenty fifth sounds about right.
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He's from the future, and he doesn't want anybody to
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know a whole lot about twenty seventh.
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Oh yeah, so he is the Blue Beetle from the
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twenty seventh century. All right.
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Their mission, as they know right now, is repair the
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damage time stream and thwart a monstrous future dominated by
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mister Mind's Spawn. And to just kind of throw that
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out there, it was mentioned by the Beetle of the
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twenty seventh century that they need to try to avoid
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a future where mister Mind's spawn has apparently taken over
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and has taken over the time stream. Now as they strategize,
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they spot villains out in the times, just hanging out
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there in the times, fear Parallax an x Stant, and
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this triggers a fierce battle.
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So the architects of Zero Hour.
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That's exactly right, Parallax, Parallax, do your best there, Evan,
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explain who Parallax is because somebody might not know.
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Well.
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Parallax is Hal Jordan, who, for many fans was Green
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Lantern until Coast City was destroyed in the random Superman
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event and he went a little crazy trying to repair it.
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That made way for Kyle Rayner to become the new
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Green Lantern and for many fans to spend lots of
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time and even money trying to get DC to reverse that.
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Yeah, yeah, all right, Extant, So you got to tell
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him who Extant is now?
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Oh man, he's Tank, Hall of Hawk and Dove Fame, right,
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and he messed with the time stream. I didn't ever
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read Zero Hour. It is on my shelf. I need
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to get around to reading that at some point.
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He showed up in a JSA comic I read, and
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I have a hero click of him, and that's about it.
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This feels like it's kind of DC trying to justify
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what happened in Armaged in two thousand and one. Okay, Hawk,
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which a lot of people believe that whole thing was
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a flop at the time, I didn't care me personally.
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Remember is he was not the original choice, but when
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they got League they changed it.
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Yeah, So something must have happened after that where DC
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was like, Okay, we got to really make this due
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to bad guy and at some point he becomes Extant.
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He's involved, which is that Hawk and armagedd in two
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thousand and one is a bit different than Extant of
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all people who meddles with the time stream and has
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got all sorts of crazy ideas in regards to what
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they're going to do here. So either way, Parallax and
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Extant are teaming up. They're hanging out there in the
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time stream, and sure enough Blue Beetle all the Beatles,
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I should say, and Booster run into him and there's
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a big battle that happens. At the end of the battle,
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the heroes are thrown into the twenty fifth century, landing
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in a pivotal moment from Booster's past. Now Booster all
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figuring things out, and he realizes that this is the
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time where he makes the decision to throw the game
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that basically gets him banned from football, if I remember correctly.
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The big game between Gotham University and Ohio State.
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Ohio State.
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Yeah, but he also remembers, which I didn't know this
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was a character. But he also recalls that he needs
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to change something else. He needs to change the fate
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of his sister, Michelle, who I guess.
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Had come back in time. She followed him.
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Okay, a few months after I went back in time,
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Michelle followed me, all right, and she went on a
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costume and called herself gold Star.
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I didn't know she existed before I read this.
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This is not something like retro continuity or anything that
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she was.
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I feel like, I feel like I've heard of gold Star.
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Before Mooster Gold number six in nineteen eighty six, so
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she was from the original run, which that we should
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point out that the artist on this, Dan Jurgens, was
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one of the creators of Booster Gold.
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That's right. That's right.
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So gold Star was around back then. But she ends
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up dying. I don't know. I can't remember what they
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said how she died, but at some point she diedion. Okay,
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so she ends up dying, and Boosters like, Okay, I've
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got to save my sister.
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I've got to figure out a way to.
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I don't know if he's planning on just changing this
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event and then that will save her, or if he's
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just like, no, I gotta do this. I got to
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let the event go, but I gotta save my sister
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in some way anyway. Booster and Ted decide to hatch
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a plan to find a replacement time sphere because the
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one that they were in when it crashed into the.
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Twenty fifth century, it got broke.
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So what they decided to do is take the very
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same time sphere that Booster took in his original origin
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story and fly around with it. And they're like, oh,
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we can bring this back to just the same, It
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won't be much of a problem, and they're.
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Going to go back.
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They're going to go back, and then the plan is
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to try and save the shell if they can. Now,
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the journey of them trying to find this replacement takes
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them to a museum where they attempt to steal the
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time sphere that I was talking about only working, that's right,
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But they're ambushed, only to be confronted by some security
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bots which by the way, the security bots include one Skeets.
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And there we in a thrilling escape.
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They managed to secure the time sphere and return to
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a present day overrun by Omac Droids. Here's where our
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omackdroids come in, controlled by the sinister Max Lord.
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So yes, Max is back in action.
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The heroes, using their wit and advanced technology, managed to
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disrupt the Omax operations temporarily. Their mission becomes increasingly perilous
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as they face relentless attacks in the grim reality of
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Max Lord's tyrannical control. Undeterred, Booster and Blue Beetle join
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a resistance group in London. They show up in the
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present and quote Doc Brown, the timeline skewed into this
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tangent at some point and things are different, and the
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fact that it's being run by these these Omac Droids
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and Brother I in the sky. So Booster and Blue
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Beetle have to find a They have to find at
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least someplace to hide out, and they end up finding
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a resistance group in London, where they also learn that
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Max has control of one Superman. As they plan to
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infiltrate Max's stronghold, they realize they must also free Superman
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from mind from the mind control. Now, just to kind
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of throw this out here, the resistance group that Hawk
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it's Hawkman and Green Arrow who are trying to I
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guess secure some kind of resistance against Max Lord. To
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talk about what Max Lord is trying to do here.
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His idea is he wants to turn the world back
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for humanity, and in order to do this, he's trying
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to kill all the superheroes and super villains out there.
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Is my assumption. Yes, so a lot of heroes have
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been killed.
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Yeah, we even get a Days of Future Past style
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image on the video screen of.
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All deceased heroes.
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Yes, and I think at one point one of the
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O Mac droids are reporting in that they've killed Kyle
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Rainer and they've got us they've secured his power ring.
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So yeah, things are pretty bad, really bad.
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The resistance group Hawkman, Green Arrow, who are constantly arguing.
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Then we have pant is it Panther Panther Panpan.
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I think she was a Titan for.
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A minute, okay, wild Dog.
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The only recognize from Arrow is he an Arrow? Yeah, yeah,
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he was a regular on an Arrow for a while.
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Okay, And then I feel like I'm missing a fifth member.
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Oh anthro okay, anthrow who is who? I get mixed
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up with Mark from Teen Titans. Apparently the DC universe
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is big enough for two caveman heroes. Okay, all right,
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and the you're sitting there thinking like, oh, this Resistance
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and this is exactly what's going through Booster Golden Beetles' heads.
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It's like, we're gonna can't wait to see who else
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we got on the team.
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And it's like these three sea level people.
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They're just like holding on by the skin of their teeth,
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and I think they both look at each other like.
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Oh my gosh, we're dead.
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But as soon as they go back and they meet
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up with the rest of the Resistance, Hawkman's like, Okay,
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we need to go now. Everybody here needs Let's go
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ahead and infiltrate they've got.
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He wants to go right then, because Blue Beetle found
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that Max Lord used some Cord Industries tech to make
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the Omax, so he found a way to blind them
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to the presence of the bug his ship. Right, so
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they finally have a way into Max's stronghold.
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And Hawkman's like, we got to go now, Let's do this,
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let's infiltrate this stronghold. So they all hop into the
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bug and they head to the stronghold because once they
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get there, now what's interesting is you learned that Max
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has been trying to push Superman to kill other people.
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Even though he's got him under his control. He cannot
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get Superman to kill somebody. He can have him do
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it just about anything else. He can have him capture him.
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He can go fight people, but he will not straight
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up kill somebody. As they plan to infiltrate Max's stronghold,
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they realize they must also free Superman from mind control.
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The climax sees the heroes battling through waves of omax,
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with Green Arrow and other allies making critical interventions. The
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situation turns dire when Green Arrow is transformed into an Omac, which,
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by the way, it's a nanit virus that just takes
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and turns people into these androids. Green Arrows turned into
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an omac, Wild Dog is tragically mind controlled to shoot
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the Blowzone brains out. Then we have this showdown inside
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of Max's castle and.
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A desperate bid for survival.
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Booster and Ted use a mother box so they happen
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to fall into this armory, and this armory has all
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of the technology that Max is acquired from killing all
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these superheroes, one of which is a mother Box, and
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Ted knows just enough to open up a boom tube
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and they escape through the boom tube and they end
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up in an old JLI Justice League International headquarters where
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they regroup and strategize. With the timestream still in chaos,
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they understand the need to reassemble the old Justice League
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International now to counter Max's machinations.
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Who is it?
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I think it's Booster. It comes up with the ideas
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like we need to get an actual team together.
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Yeah, he said, we need somebody that we can already
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work with. We need people who know each other's moves
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inside and out, so that they get their old team
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from the Bajaja days of Justice League when Max Lord
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was the team spokesman. It's cut him in retcon that
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he was purposely undercutting them, putting lower tier people on
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the team and things like that. Before he was just
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an opportunistic jerk. Now he's straight up people. I get
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people not liking that and that kind of darkening some
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of those stories, but they make Max a good villain
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in this.
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Their best bet is to get this old team back together.
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It provided they are still around and back in the day.
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I'm just gonna stop real quick.
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Before I finished this last sentence, were you reading some
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Justice League International?
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No?
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Okay, I was strictly Marvel in those days. I kind
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of met Booster and Blue Beetle through the Overpower Card game.
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The creative team from then JM. Demattius or Dematis I
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can never pronounce his name. Love his comics though, and
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Keith Giffen wrote it and Kevin MacGuire was the art
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and they reunited for a couple of twenty first century
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limited series I forget the Order but almost called formerly
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known as the Justice League, and then follow it up
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with a story Eric and JLA classified. I believe it
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was called I can't believe it's not the Justice League,
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that's right.
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I remember you mentioned it.
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Became fond of them after the fact and went back
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and read some of them. But no, I was not
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familiar with most of them.
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Yeah, neither was I. We have the members. I'm going
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to try to do this off the top of my head.
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We have Guy Gardner, Green Lantern, Yeah, Fire and Ice,
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Martian Manhunter mm hmm. I feel like I'm missing somebody, obviously,
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Blue Beetle, is there somebody else I'm missing?
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Mister Miracle Rocket, Red Rocket Red, Yeah, Soviet iron Man.
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Basically Okay, okay, he doesn't.
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Show up in the story, but he's in the picture
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that they're looking at at the end of issue eight.
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And then Black Canary looking as eighties as possible.
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And Batman, Batman, that's right, Batman, Okay, all right, So yes,
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their idea is like, okay, we're back here. We need
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to get we need to see if we can find
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the rest of the members of the JLI and try
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to put an endto Max's machinations. Now side story time. Okay, meanwhile,
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d'ing all of us who knows it's time travel, rip Hunter,
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Skeets and Boosters ancestors which are oh my goodness, I
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have their names here. Help me, Evan, you remember off
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the top of your head. I just saw what was
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her name? No it's not eleven, That's what I'm thinking.
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But they're his ancestors who have barely met.
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And Daniel Daniel Carter, yeah, who masqueraded as Supernova during
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fifty two for a while.
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And then oh Rose.
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Rose Okay, all right, there's.
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A reporter who's trying to get a story on Booster
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Gold and is not thrilled to know that she's destined
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to have children with this knit with Daniel.
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Yeah, I think in our previous discussion they had like
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just met, like she showed up on his doorstep, and
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then next thing, she's whipped right in this thing like
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rips like I need you too, and so she's kind
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of on. I think Rip tries to at least make
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her feel a little better by saying, Okay, you're gonna
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get your story.
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You're going to get your story.
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But yeah, she's definitely not too excited about number one
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of the situation that she she's in, plus finding out
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that she's supposedly going to be married to this nitwi.
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Meanwhile, Rip on her skeets.
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Boost and Booster's ancestors track the Black Beetle. So now
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we have a name for our twenty seventh century blue Beetle.
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At least I'm assuming they don't really tell us, Hey,
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this is the guy, but he looks darn similar. It's
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Booster's dad, I think, who calls him the Black Beetles.
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Booster's dad is dressed up as Supernova back.
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In sometime in Dinosaur times.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well, anyway, they track the Black Beetle
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to Vanishing Point, which is I guess the point where
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time ends, preparing for an epic battle against these time
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manipulating villains. Take's never been higher as our hero's brace
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for a final confrontation to restore the timeline and save
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the world.
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Okay, so there we go.
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Essentially we have we have Booster and Blue Beetle, who
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I think what ends up happening. I believe they end
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up sending the Black Beetle goes back to his own time,
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Hime goes to his time along with Dan. Dan goes
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to his time, but they are also their memories are wiped, right, Yeah.
487
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Their memories are wiped because they say Ted's death was
488
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important to history. He can't let people know his life,
489
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so he's going to join Booster. That was the other
490
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thing we didn't get into in our synopsis was the
491
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Rip told Booster he had to keep maintaining the image
492
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of this incompetent, self centered hero so that no one
493
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would realize he was protecting the time stream. That's why
494
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Rip Hunter is not his real name, and he keeps
495
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his family and everything very secret so that someone can't
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go back in time and kill him as a baby,
497
00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:56.119
right as we saw happened to one rogue time traveler
498
00:24:56.240 --> 00:24:59.680
in the last storyline. Yes, and so yeah, that was
499
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boom Cover was to be the buffoon everybody thinks he
500
00:25:03.440 --> 00:25:06.480
is while he's out here saving all of history. And
501
00:25:07.039 --> 00:25:08.880
the way they set it up in the Zero issue
502
00:25:08.920 --> 00:25:10.839
is Ted was going to join him, but nobody could
503
00:25:10.880 --> 00:25:12.039
know Ted was alive.
504
00:25:12.480 --> 00:25:15.200
Yeah, everybody had to be ignorant of the fact that
505
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Ted was still Ted had survived. So yeah, they they
506
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anybody who I guess say, I should say Dan and Hime.
507
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They get their minds kind of wiped and they cannot
508
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remember that this had happened.
509
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Everybody else goes back to when they're from. The Black
510
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Beetle goes and picks up Booster's dad in prehistory and
511
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takes him to Vanishing Point to meet the Time Stealers.
512
00:25:37.960 --> 00:25:41.960
Right, the Time Stealers Degaton, the Ultra Human eight, super
513
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and Nova Black Beetle.
514
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And I feel like there's some fifth one that I'm forgetting.
515
00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:50.440
Oh, I'm just totally blanked on his name. My gosh,
516
00:25:50.519 --> 00:25:51.960
I know this guy's name.
517
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Despero despro Des bro okay before he hulked out.
518
00:25:56.200 --> 00:25:59.319
Okay, all right, And at that point they have made
519
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a decision to try and save Michelle.
520
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They end up coming back to the present.
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Things have all been changed, so we don't know they
522
00:26:06.599 --> 00:26:08.680
They definitely didn't get a chance to save Michelle as
523
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far as we could tell. They just came back to
524
00:26:10.599 --> 00:26:13.839
the present and O Mac and Max Lord is running
525
00:26:13.920 --> 00:26:16.440
everything and they are on the outs trying to find
526
00:26:16.480 --> 00:26:18.880
somebody to try and stand up and beat Max Lord.
527
00:26:19.119 --> 00:26:20.680
And that's where we kind of leave things. Are they
528
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going after the JLI?
529
00:26:21.880 --> 00:26:23.640
So what do you think of these first three issues
530
00:26:23.680 --> 00:26:25.680
having I'm throwing it to you, Ball's in your courser.
531
00:26:25.720 --> 00:26:26.839
What are your thoughts? Oh?
532
00:26:26.920 --> 00:26:27.920
I really enjoyed it.
533
00:26:28.039 --> 00:26:30.279
Of course when I read it initially, I thought they
534
00:26:30.279 --> 00:26:33.000
were setting it up like, okay, Booster and Loue Beetle
535
00:26:33.039 --> 00:26:35.960
were back, and the storyline where they killed off head
536
00:26:36.200 --> 00:26:38.920
was it was pretty epic. It was a good send off,
537
00:26:38.920 --> 00:26:40.599
but it was also a bummer because here was this
538
00:26:40.799 --> 00:26:42.759
character that for me was new to me and I
539
00:26:42.799 --> 00:26:46.359
really liked and he made this tragic sacrifice. So I'm like, okay, cool,
540
00:26:46.440 --> 00:26:49.960
it's fits right in Blue Beetle and Booster will be
541
00:26:50.079 --> 00:26:52.279
defending the time stream. This is even better than Booster
542
00:26:52.359 --> 00:26:55.839
defending the time stream. And that's not quite how it's
543
00:26:55.839 --> 00:26:56.359
working out.
544
00:26:56.319 --> 00:27:01.640
So far right right, this is we are smacked into well,
545
00:27:01.920 --> 00:27:04.519
some type of alternate history that's got to be changed,
546
00:27:04.920 --> 00:27:08.200
and it's not good because Max Lord has come out
547
00:27:08.200 --> 00:27:08.559
on top.
548
00:27:08.599 --> 00:27:11.640
It feels like, yeah, it's kind of hard to remember
549
00:27:11.640 --> 00:27:14.599
because there have been like fifty seven crises since then,
550
00:27:14.640 --> 00:27:17.200
But I was pretty into d C then and this
551
00:27:17.359 --> 00:27:21.079
was a huge deal, this Omac project. In the original story,
552
00:27:21.119 --> 00:27:25.039
Max did have Superman under his control and pretty infamous
553
00:27:25.079 --> 00:27:27.079
moment the Wonder Woman broke.
554
00:27:26.839 --> 00:27:29.160
His neck broke.
555
00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:32.720
Wonder Woman killed Max because there was she saw no
556
00:27:32.799 --> 00:27:36.519
other way to keep him from controlling Superman. Yeah, and
557
00:27:36.640 --> 00:27:40.200
that put a strain on the already stream relationships of
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00:27:40.400 --> 00:27:43.000
DC's heroes, and that was kind of a foundational thing.
559
00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:46.200
But the Omas were a huge threat and playing into
560
00:27:46.680 --> 00:27:50.279
infinite infinite Crisis. So this came out maybe a year
561
00:27:50.400 --> 00:27:53.680
after that or thereabouts, so this was more of a
562
00:27:53.680 --> 00:27:56.480
product of its time, but right then it was it
563
00:27:56.519 --> 00:27:57.400
was a huge deal.
564
00:27:57.759 --> 00:27:58.480
It was an event.
565
00:27:58.839 --> 00:28:01.359
Yeah, and this was we moved on and it's like Nope,
566
00:28:01.519 --> 00:28:04.440
this is still a threat because they meddled with the
567
00:28:04.440 --> 00:28:08.359
time stream right and notes and narrations throughout these issues.
568
00:28:08.559 --> 00:28:11.359
He did exactly what his job is to prevent, which
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00:28:11.400 --> 00:28:15.920
is people manipulating history for selfish reasons. It's a little
570
00:28:15.920 --> 00:28:19.440
hard to call it selfish, but he's doing it to
571
00:28:19.480 --> 00:28:23.279
save his friend rather than preserve history.
572
00:28:23.039 --> 00:28:23.720
Right right.
573
00:28:24.119 --> 00:28:27.440
The Omac robots are definitely a threat. You'd mentioned this
574
00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:28.440
is kind of a big deal.
575
00:28:29.000 --> 00:28:29.480
They are.
576
00:28:30.720 --> 00:28:34.359
They've essentially taken over They can take over anybody who
577
00:28:34.920 --> 00:28:37.799
is just kind of unsuspecting. We watch Green Arrow get
578
00:28:37.799 --> 00:28:41.119
turned into one. They land at an old Jili headquarters
579
00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:42.759
before they land on the one in New York. I
580
00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:45.640
think it was possibly in London or somewhere around there
581
00:28:45.640 --> 00:28:50.640
in Europe, and they believe that one lady is trying
582
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to explain things and trying to help them.
583
00:28:52.359 --> 00:28:54.599
That was somebody that they had known in the past,
584
00:28:54.640 --> 00:28:55.599
but I think.
585
00:28:55.440 --> 00:28:59.039
He was a supporting character from the Justice League International
586
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or Europe days.
587
00:29:00.200 --> 00:29:02.839
And she ends up turning into a robot shortly thereafter,
588
00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:06.599
and I remember beatles like I knew it, and then
589
00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:09.559
they get promptly thrown through a wall. So yeah, this
590
00:29:09.720 --> 00:29:12.079
is we're picking up with this story kind of left off.
591
00:29:12.160 --> 00:29:14.480
He saved Blue Beetle, but the threat of Max Lord
592
00:29:14.559 --> 00:29:15.519
is not over yet.
593
00:29:16.680 --> 00:29:19.000
It was a little dark for what I would expect,
594
00:29:19.039 --> 00:29:22.759
but not unnecessarily so it manages to kind of thread
595
00:29:22.799 --> 00:29:25.359
the needle with these characters who are funny but these
596
00:29:25.599 --> 00:29:29.799
dire circumstances and a serious story. So I thought they
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00:29:29.839 --> 00:29:30.720
did that pretty well.
598
00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:33.279
I love wild Dogs. Wild Dogs.
599
00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:35.799
Look, by the way, which that guy, he must be
600
00:29:35.920 --> 00:29:39.079
really second tier, second or third tier.
601
00:29:39.200 --> 00:29:41.720
I think putting him on the second tier is generous.
602
00:29:42.599 --> 00:29:44.319
This guy is okay.
603
00:29:44.640 --> 00:29:47.319
Imagine the punisher but number one strip away about I
604
00:29:47.359 --> 00:29:50.839
don't know half his intelligence, and then also throw like
605
00:29:50.839 --> 00:29:54.000
a hockey mask on him, and then you might have
606
00:29:54.119 --> 00:29:56.440
wild Dog. I think at one point during the battle
607
00:29:56.640 --> 00:29:59.200
and the fortress against Max Lord's soldiers, like he's just
608
00:29:59.519 --> 00:30:03.759
firing blindly, almost hitting his teammates at some point I'm
609
00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:04.200
never in a.
610
00:30:04.200 --> 00:30:06.000
Story from that takes Panta out.
611
00:30:06.119 --> 00:30:08.480
Oh that's right, and Maxwell Lord grabs a hold of
612
00:30:08.519 --> 00:30:09.680
him and he's real easy just.
613
00:30:10.279 --> 00:30:11.839
Or maybe Max got into shoot fans.
614
00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:13.240
I think Max. I think Max did.
615
00:30:13.920 --> 00:30:18.160
Regardless, he was still pretty reckless of the Olie and Hawkman.
616
00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:21.599
I don't know much about these characters. Have they never got.
617
00:30:21.440 --> 00:30:25.599
Along before, because that's that's definitely and that's definitely that's.
618
00:30:25.799 --> 00:30:29.000
History I've heard and seen, although I know when Ali
619
00:30:29.119 --> 00:30:31.839
came back from the dead, like it wasn't long before
620
00:30:31.880 --> 00:30:34.319
they were they were coming to blows. To simplify it,
621
00:30:34.359 --> 00:30:36.920
and I hate to put people in boxes, but basically,
622
00:30:36.960 --> 00:30:42.279
Olie's really liberal and Hawkman's really conservative, Okay, and so yeah,
623
00:30:42.400 --> 00:30:46.119
Hawkman's kind of a real law and order Not that
624
00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:48.440
people who are liberal are against law and order, but
625
00:30:49.039 --> 00:30:53.559
Hawkman's kind of really hardcore violence hit him hard and fast.
626
00:30:53.920 --> 00:30:55.240
He's definitely a hot head.
627
00:30:55.440 --> 00:30:58.680
And I think that when they go into the castle,
628
00:30:58.960 --> 00:31:01.359
like somebody's trying I can't remember who's trying. It might
629
00:31:01.400 --> 00:31:03.119
have been Allie's trying to talk him down, like, hey,
630
00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:05.960
we need you got to use some stealth here. We
631
00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:09.599
can't just straight up go in here and start because
632
00:31:09.640 --> 00:31:12.240
Max will know we're here and immediately have the advantage.
633
00:31:12.240 --> 00:31:14.599
We have to be quiet, and it's kind of like
634
00:31:14.640 --> 00:31:17.559
they got to try and talk Hawkman down to like
635
00:31:17.920 --> 00:31:20.480
calm down, put some thought into this first.
636
00:31:20.680 --> 00:31:24.160
Yeah, And then as quick as Ali gets turned into
637
00:31:24.200 --> 00:31:25.880
an Omac. Hawkman's gone.
638
00:31:26.880 --> 00:31:31.079
He roast Hawkman. Yeah, right right, Hawkman's dead.
639
00:31:31.680 --> 00:31:34.359
Two pages and it's down to Booster and Blue Beetle again.
640
00:31:35.279 --> 00:31:38.119
This is I love the beginning of this. Like where
641
00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:39.000
we are.
642
00:31:39.400 --> 00:31:41.480
We're kind of toying with time again, Like they take
643
00:31:41.599 --> 00:31:44.720
Booster into that and he's placed in that one moment
644
00:31:45.160 --> 00:31:49.400
where everything kind of changes for him. The Timesphere getting broke,
645
00:31:49.519 --> 00:31:52.240
that's a big deal. We haven't really settled that yet.
646
00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:54.200
They just went back in time with the timesphere that
647
00:31:54.240 --> 00:31:54.880
they have.
648
00:31:55.079 --> 00:31:57.319
Ye and then they were going to bring back the
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00:31:57.359 --> 00:31:59.759
times fear the Booster took and just have rip give
650
00:31:59.839 --> 00:32:03.960
him right, like picking up your car. Yeah, it's good
651
00:32:04.119 --> 00:32:05.000
how they described it.
652
00:32:05.039 --> 00:32:06.799
But yeah, so we got a little bit of a
653
00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:08.559
problem on our hands at this time is here doesn't
654
00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:11.359
get back there because we wanna That was in my mind.
655
00:32:11.519 --> 00:32:13.240
I knew that was kind of in my mind as
656
00:32:13.319 --> 00:32:17.240
like we're dancing around paradox territory and the times taking.
657
00:32:17.279 --> 00:32:19.279
That's not really address too much.
658
00:32:19.079 --> 00:32:21.000
Here in these first three issues, but trust me, it's
659
00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:23.119
going to come up in these next three. All right, Well,
660
00:32:23.119 --> 00:32:24.799
if you're ready, man, I'll go ahead and jump into
661
00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:26.839
the synopsis of the next three unless you got anything
662
00:32:26.839 --> 00:32:29.640
else you want to say, I am good to go,
663
00:32:29.880 --> 00:32:32.839
all right, Issue nine, let me find it here, Maxwell,
664
00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:38.319
Lord and Superman transport to the Omac satellite where maxis
665
00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:43.759
captured Kemillo Hoshi, who is known as Doctor Light and
666
00:32:43.880 --> 00:32:44.359
is now.
667
00:32:44.440 --> 00:32:45.359
Also in the League.
668
00:32:45.599 --> 00:32:47.880
Back then, in the vale I days, she wasn't in
669
00:32:47.920 --> 00:32:49.400
that picture, so I forgot about that.
670
00:32:49.440 --> 00:32:50.880
But she was part of that era.
671
00:32:51.000 --> 00:32:53.839
Okay, And his intent with her is he's just going
672
00:32:53.880 --> 00:32:56.799
to drain her power to sustain the satellite. Meanwhile, Booster
673
00:32:56.839 --> 00:33:00.359
Golden Ted Kord search for Batman, with Booster so offering
674
00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:04.880
waves of mysterious pain. For some reason, Ted's mother box
675
00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:08.960
locates formal j l a jl I teammate mister Miracle,
676
00:33:09.039 --> 00:33:12.359
whom they rescue from captivity, and the snowy Mountains of Good.
677
00:33:12.759 --> 00:33:14.839
If you don't mind me throwing in this detail, he
678
00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:17.759
was being held captive at Bell Rev Prison, one of
679
00:33:17.799 --> 00:33:21.759
the suicide Squad, which Max has turned into a prison
680
00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:23.200
just for mister.
681
00:33:23.079 --> 00:33:26.559
Miracle, who is the ultimate escape. That's an entire prison
682
00:33:27.000 --> 00:33:29.559
of constantly evolving traps to try to keep him there.
683
00:33:30.680 --> 00:33:33.799
And the snowy Mountains of Norway, Green Lantern, Guy Gardner,
684
00:33:34.039 --> 00:33:37.519
and Fire ponder their next move against Maxwell Lord. I
685
00:33:37.599 --> 00:33:40.599
have to remember this is alternate continuity. I know Green,
686
00:33:40.799 --> 00:33:43.559
I know Guy loses the ring at some point becomes warrior.
687
00:33:44.200 --> 00:33:45.559
He hasn't lost a ring.
688
00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:46.000
At this point.
689
00:33:46.079 --> 00:33:46.880
Okay, all right.
690
00:33:46.960 --> 00:33:50.160
In the present, he's wheeling the ring in infinite crisis,
691
00:33:50.160 --> 00:33:52.640
and this is around that time, a full fledged Green
692
00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:53.400
Lantern again.
693
00:33:53.519 --> 00:33:56.359
All right, point, Green Lantern, Guy, Gardner, and Fire pondering
694
00:33:56.400 --> 00:33:58.839
their next move against Maxwell Lord. When Booster and Ted
695
00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:02.920
finally joined, the Fire explains they are awaiting ICE's return
696
00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:07.400
from seeking Norse Gods. The Norse God's aid, Ice arrives
697
00:34:07.400 --> 00:34:10.599
with bad news. The gods refuse to help. Undeterred, the
698
00:34:10.639 --> 00:34:13.719
group sets off to rescue Martian Manhunter, finding him in
699
00:34:13.840 --> 00:34:17.559
prison in a massive contraption. Upon freeing him, they teleport
700
00:34:17.599 --> 00:34:20.719
to the Omax satellite to confront Max. Their team works
701
00:34:20.800 --> 00:34:24.159
to disable the omas and release people from the nanovirus.
702
00:34:24.440 --> 00:34:27.440
During the battle, they free doctor Lte a checkmate. Guard
703
00:34:27.480 --> 00:34:31.000
reveals himself as Batman, and he's quite annoyed that his
704
00:34:31.079 --> 00:34:33.960
cover admission has been exposed and.
705
00:34:33.920 --> 00:34:38.880
He's in his Batman costume under the checkmates, of.
706
00:34:38.760 --> 00:34:41.840
Course, which I think is a that's something I've heard
707
00:34:42.199 --> 00:34:43.280
Billy talk about.
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00:34:43.320 --> 00:34:45.719
I believe there was an issue of braving the Bold
709
00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:48.840
where Batman was sneaking into Gosden Police headquarters and he
710
00:34:48.920 --> 00:34:50.760
was in his full Batman costume, but he had a
711
00:34:50.760 --> 00:34:51.840
police jacket.
712
00:34:51.519 --> 00:34:52.039
And a hat on.
713
00:34:52.280 --> 00:34:56.159
Booster explains that brother, I, the system controlling the OMAS,
714
00:34:56.480 --> 00:34:59.440
is now sentient and must be destroyed. Booster heads to
715
00:34:59.480 --> 00:35:02.679
the control and hits a large red button I assume
716
00:35:02.760 --> 00:35:05.840
to shut everything down. Martian Manhunter engages in a mental
717
00:35:05.880 --> 00:35:10.239
duel with Maxwell Lord to the free. Superman nearly overwhelmed
718
00:35:10.320 --> 00:35:13.320
until Doctor Light shows up and blasts a whole through
719
00:35:13.519 --> 00:35:17.239
Lord's chest. As Superman recovers, he reveals that Lord had
720
00:35:17.320 --> 00:35:20.400
forced him to watch Lois's murder.
721
00:35:20.519 --> 00:35:21.159
It's horrible.
722
00:35:21.639 --> 00:35:24.159
As Mooster reels trying to figure out how to fix
723
00:35:24.199 --> 00:35:28.920
the chaos, a portal opens and out pop the Time Stealers, Supernova, Despero,
724
00:35:29.079 --> 00:35:33.559
Black Beetle, Ultra human Eite, and Degaton emerge. Meanwhile, at
725
00:35:33.639 --> 00:35:36.199
Vanishing Point, Rip Hunter and his team arrived to confront
726
00:35:36.199 --> 00:35:39.320
the villains, only to find them gone. Rip realizes, with
727
00:35:39.360 --> 00:35:42.519
growing concerns that the villains are now steps ahead plumbing
728
00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:45.519
an unknown and undoubtedly dangerous scheme.
729
00:35:45.719 --> 00:35:46.719
Issue ten rolls.
730
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Around and at Rip Hunter's time, lab Rip Rose and
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Daniel grapple with a dire situation. The timesphere that Booster
732
00:35:53.000 --> 00:35:55.480
Gold originally used to come to the past is shattered.
733
00:35:55.559 --> 00:35:59.519
This threatens Booster's very existence, as without it he will
734
00:35:59.559 --> 00:36:01.880
never be the hero he is destined to be. Skeets
735
00:36:02.159 --> 00:36:06.239
identifies Ultra Humanite as the culprit who apparently had busted
736
00:36:06.239 --> 00:36:09.800
this thing, and Rip reveals that they only have an
737
00:36:09.840 --> 00:36:12.760
hour to return the timesphere to the twenty fifth century
738
00:36:12.960 --> 00:36:18.119
and restore ted Coord to his original fate. Yes, they
739
00:36:18.159 --> 00:36:22.119
have to try and get ted Cord back into the
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00:36:22.199 --> 00:36:26.119
past so he will face his original fate according to this,
741
00:36:26.280 --> 00:36:29.360
in the far future of the thirty first century, at
742
00:36:29.400 --> 00:36:32.960
the headquarters of the Legion of Superheroes, the timesphere appears
743
00:36:33.320 --> 00:36:39.239
and Rip Rose and Daniel commander another timesphere. So, okay,
744
00:36:39.320 --> 00:36:41.800
let's get some timespheres and let's get back get this
745
00:36:41.840 --> 00:36:43.480
one back to the past. Somehow they got to get
746
00:36:43.480 --> 00:36:45.960
a times fear back there, so Booster will find him.
747
00:36:45.960 --> 00:36:49.360
But anyway, meanwhile, the Timestealer super and Over, Despero, Black Beetle,
748
00:36:49.440 --> 00:36:53.000
Ultra Humanite, and Degaton clash with Superman, Booster, Ted, Batman,
749
00:36:53.079 --> 00:36:57.360
fire Ice, Guy Gardner, Martian Manhunter, and Mister Miracle. Booster
750
00:36:57.480 --> 00:37:01.719
struggles to understand why his father, John Carter, disguised as Supernova,
751
00:37:02.119 --> 00:37:06.880
has allied with these villains Maximilian, the evil counterpart to Skeets.
752
00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:12.119
Maximilian attempts to capture Ted while Booster intermittently blinks out
753
00:37:12.159 --> 00:37:13.039
of existence.
754
00:37:13.559 --> 00:37:16.320
Erased from existence, That's what I was looking for.
755
00:37:16.719 --> 00:37:21.159
Skeets intervenes to save Ted, dousing Maximilian with some corrosive chemicals.
756
00:37:21.360 --> 00:37:24.760
John reveals to Booster that his time travels have caused
757
00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:28.920
numerous hero deaths, all to save Ted. So this is
758
00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:32.440
John telling Booster, look what you've done. This, what you
759
00:37:32.480 --> 00:37:37.519
have done has caused multiple heroes to die, all just
760
00:37:37.559 --> 00:37:40.880
to save your one friend. It's then uncovered that John
761
00:37:41.239 --> 00:37:46.239
is actually under the control of Mister Mind, that little worm.
762
00:37:46.519 --> 00:37:51.199
In a dramatic moment, John releases thousands of mister Mind's spawn,
763
00:37:51.320 --> 00:37:54.920
which swarm over Booster. Booster activates his force field and
764
00:37:54.920 --> 00:37:58.320
has Skeets amid a frequency disrupting mister Mind's control. As
765
00:37:58.360 --> 00:38:01.400
mister Mind tries to escape, Booster's shoots his father's ear off,
766
00:38:01.519 --> 00:38:04.559
trying to kill the worm. Ted chases it down and
767
00:38:04.599 --> 00:38:08.920
crushes the worm like villain underfoot, killing him. Despite the victory,
768
00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:12.679
Booster continues to fade. Ted rallies the team to escape,
769
00:38:12.719 --> 00:38:16.519
hoping Rip can save Booster, and a tragic turn, Black
770
00:38:16.559 --> 00:38:19.239
Beetle during the fray, kills Fire with some type of
771
00:38:19.280 --> 00:38:23.639
an energy beam, leaving Ted dismayed. He contemplates sacrificing himself
772
00:38:23.639 --> 00:38:26.119
to reset the timeline. So things are creeping into his
773
00:38:26.199 --> 00:38:27.679
head like I just need to go back and I
774
00:38:27.719 --> 00:38:30.159
need to get killed because this is getting bad heading
775
00:38:30.199 --> 00:38:34.039
for the Timestealer's time sphere. Ted aims to return to
776
00:38:34.079 --> 00:38:37.400
the past to be killed by Maxwell. Lord Black Beetle
777
00:38:37.480 --> 00:38:40.920
intervenes though, and says, no, you must live, so that
778
00:38:41.079 --> 00:38:44.960
I made does not become the Blue Beetle, and therefore
779
00:38:45.320 --> 00:38:48.920
somebody significant to the Black Beetle doesn't die, all right,
780
00:38:49.559 --> 00:38:52.599
Black Now in this chaos, as they're going into this
781
00:38:52.679 --> 00:38:56.760
time sphere, Black Beetle ends up losing the scare him
782
00:38:57.039 --> 00:38:59.199
that gives him his pouch in the middle of things,
783
00:38:59.280 --> 00:39:02.159
and as the times vanishes, Booster gets one last look
784
00:39:02.159 --> 00:39:04.920
at his friend before he fades away, and then I
785
00:39:04.960 --> 00:39:08.079
think everybody things fade the white at the end of
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00:39:08.199 --> 00:39:11.679
issue and then we get our next final issue is
787
00:39:11.679 --> 00:39:15.960
issue one million. Booster Gold and Skeets are swept into
788
00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:20.760
a time storm, rematerializing in the year one million. They
789
00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:25.800
meet Peter Platinum, a local hero annoyed by their interference
790
00:39:25.880 --> 00:39:33.079
with his recent escalades. I mean, I guess that works
791
00:39:32.920 --> 00:39:37.559
us his recent accolades. Skeets identifies Peter's suit as containing
792
00:39:37.559 --> 00:39:40.000
time travel tech that could be their ticket home. However,
793
00:39:40.239 --> 00:39:42.920
Peter starts getting into a verbal kind of a I
794
00:39:42.960 --> 00:39:45.639
want to say, confrontation, but starts talking to Booster a
795
00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:49.519
little bit. Peter, inspired inspired by Booster's financial gains as
796
00:39:49.519 --> 00:39:53.360
a superhero, worries that Booster is there to Booster showed
797
00:39:53.400 --> 00:39:55.280
up to claim a percentage of his profits.
798
00:39:56.719 --> 00:39:59.280
Basically, he's saying that Booster had the right idea, but
799
00:39:59.320 --> 00:40:01.039
he wasn't smart enough to pull off.
800
00:40:00.920 --> 00:40:03.039
The con right and that is kind of like what
801
00:40:03.199 --> 00:40:06.719
Peter Platinum is all about here. Well, Rip Potter suddenly appears,
802
00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:09.679
urging Booster to get into the timesphere. He explains that
803
00:40:09.719 --> 00:40:11.840
Ted Cord has returned to the moment back to all
804
00:40:11.920 --> 00:40:15.760
Lord kill them, thus restoring the timeline. Frustrated by Rip's
805
00:40:15.800 --> 00:40:18.920
insistence that time cannot be changed, Booster hops into the
806
00:40:18.920 --> 00:40:21.599
timesphere and then promptly quits thereafter.
807
00:40:21.840 --> 00:40:22.800
The next day, in Las.
808
00:40:22.760 --> 00:40:26.239
Vegas, Booster and Skeets address a disturbance involving the Royal
809
00:40:26.280 --> 00:40:28.559
Flush Gang, and with Green Arrow and Green Lantern's help,
810
00:40:28.599 --> 00:40:32.000
they defeat the gang. Batman then summons Boosters to the Batcave,
811
00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:35.199
expecting a reprimand Booster is instead showing photos of the
812
00:40:35.280 --> 00:40:38.599
night he tried to stop the Joker from paralyzing Barbara Gordon.
813
00:40:38.760 --> 00:40:44.000
Booster recounts his failed to tempt and laments over Ted's fate. Batman,
814
00:40:44.119 --> 00:40:49.280
offering sympathy, encourages Booster to persevere. With renewed determination, Booster
815
00:40:49.360 --> 00:40:52.079
returns to Rip, ready to rejoin the mission and Rip's
816
00:40:52.079 --> 00:40:55.880
time lab. Booster is shocked to find his sister, Michelle,
817
00:40:56.360 --> 00:41:00.239
is alive. Rip explains he rescued her just before or
818
00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:03.360
her death, knowing she could motivate Booster to stay committed
819
00:41:03.400 --> 00:41:06.960
to their mission to correct the timeline. Booster and Michelle
820
00:41:06.960 --> 00:41:09.159
take a time sphere for a brief restment in Paris,
821
00:41:09.199 --> 00:41:13.360
eighteen eighty nine. As they leave, RiPP quietly says, keep
822
00:41:13.400 --> 00:41:18.119
it up, dad, Oh, look out there. In the epilogue,
823
00:41:18.119 --> 00:41:21.199
a shadowy figure uses the lost Black Beetle scab to
824
00:41:21.280 --> 00:41:26.519
infiltrate a technology lab at Cord Industries, hinting at future challenges.
825
00:41:26.880 --> 00:41:29.239
All right, here it is, Evan, I did it. Long
826
00:41:29.360 --> 00:41:33.159
form synopsis for all three issues. What do you gotta
827
00:41:33.159 --> 00:41:33.480
say here?
828
00:41:33.519 --> 00:41:33.679
Man?
829
00:41:33.840 --> 00:41:36.559
Well, these are one of my favorite moments in the series.
830
00:41:36.679 --> 00:41:39.519
I forgot the one million issue came this soon. I
831
00:41:39.559 --> 00:41:46.960
remember Peter Platinum right, so head Cord's sacrifice was already heroic,
832
00:41:47.159 --> 00:41:49.159
and then he went back and did it again. Yep,
833
00:41:49.679 --> 00:41:52.840
knowing what was coming, it still was hard to read
834
00:41:52.920 --> 00:41:56.000
because all this stuff is happening in Booster. He doesn't
835
00:41:56.039 --> 00:41:58.320
want all these bad things to happen because he saved
836
00:41:58.320 --> 00:42:00.400
his friends. He's like, I can do it, says no,
837
00:42:00.559 --> 00:42:03.559
this is what I've got to do. And that was
838
00:42:03.679 --> 00:42:06.960
excellent bringing mister mind back. Really, it was kind of
839
00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:10.320
a call back to fifty two when Booster officially leveled up,
840
00:42:10.360 --> 00:42:12.920
so to speak. I love the idea of Rip and
841
00:42:12.920 --> 00:42:17.440
Booster's ancestors robbing Brainiac to get the ring of the
842
00:42:17.480 --> 00:42:21.800
time sphere where they needed to be yes. And then
843
00:42:22.119 --> 00:42:24.280
one of my favorite moments in the series is where
844
00:42:24.320 --> 00:42:27.199
Batman calls in Booster and says, look, I saw what
845
00:42:27.400 --> 00:42:29.400
would I don't know what you're doing, but I know
846
00:42:29.480 --> 00:42:31.719
what you tried to do, and I know you didn't
847
00:42:31.719 --> 00:42:35.400
give up. And Batman, who needs to know everything, understands
848
00:42:35.440 --> 00:42:38.199
there's reason Booster can't tell him, and so you get
849
00:42:38.199 --> 00:42:40.599
Batman's seal of approval. That's pretty good.
850
00:42:40.760 --> 00:42:43.079
That's a big and that's what a lot of what
851
00:42:43.199 --> 00:42:46.239
Booster we saw in the first volume that we've talked
852
00:42:46.239 --> 00:42:48.800
about the last show that we talked about, Booster is
853
00:42:48.800 --> 00:42:51.880
trying to find some type of acceptance.
854
00:42:51.920 --> 00:42:52.039
Now.
855
00:42:52.079 --> 00:42:54.800
So if you look at him, he's brash, he's bold,
856
00:42:54.880 --> 00:42:56.920
he's out there, and he's this guy is trying to
857
00:42:56.920 --> 00:42:59.679
get all this media attention, but he also just wants
858
00:42:59.719 --> 00:43:02.119
to be accepted. And we saw him try to join
859
00:43:02.159 --> 00:43:04.039
the He was all excited because he was going to
860
00:43:04.079 --> 00:43:07.719
join the Justice League, and it kind of fell through.
861
00:43:07.840 --> 00:43:10.320
Some crazy stuff had happened. At the end of it,
862
00:43:10.400 --> 00:43:12.920
he was offered the opportunity to go there. So here
863
00:43:13.199 --> 00:43:16.800
same thing, he's he just cannot find a place to
864
00:43:17.039 --> 00:43:19.760
fit in and it seems like he gets down on
865
00:43:19.880 --> 00:43:23.039
himself and he's he's just like, oh geez, I just
866
00:43:23.159 --> 00:43:27.079
I can't do this anymore. But it takes somebody that
867
00:43:27.159 --> 00:43:31.079
he respects. This is there's a lot of father issues
868
00:43:31.119 --> 00:43:34.400
being worked out through this. But really, when you look
869
00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:37.719
at it, he's he's got a dad who was not
870
00:43:38.079 --> 00:43:39.960
a good father figure at all.
871
00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:42.599
He was the one that talked him in to throwing
872
00:43:42.639 --> 00:43:43.199
this game.
873
00:43:43.639 --> 00:43:46.239
So he's a real good dude, even before the megal
874
00:43:46.239 --> 00:43:49.760
of Moniacle catapillar started controlling his mind.
875
00:43:49.679 --> 00:43:52.840
Right, right, So Booster hasn't had a good father figure,
876
00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:56.039
and you can see that he's just like continually looking
877
00:43:56.079 --> 00:43:58.280
for some type of somebody to kind of step in
878
00:43:58.320 --> 00:44:00.679
and say, okay, man, it's all right, you're doing good.
879
00:44:01.079 --> 00:44:03.239
Just keep doing what you're doing, and what you're doing
880
00:44:03.400 --> 00:44:06.039
is important. He never had that with his dad. And
881
00:44:06.079 --> 00:44:08.519
then Batman definitely comes in here and does that, and
882
00:44:08.559 --> 00:44:13.119
he's just like, immediately with renewed vigor, he's like, okay,
883
00:44:13.320 --> 00:44:16.599
I'm ready. I mean, he quits, he tells Rippy quits,
884
00:44:16.599 --> 00:44:19.239
and I don't know how long time passes, obviously long
885
00:44:19.320 --> 00:44:20.800
enough for him to go to Vegas and fight the
886
00:44:20.880 --> 00:44:25.920
Royal Flush Gang. But shortly thereafter, as soon as Batman says, dude,
887
00:44:25.960 --> 00:44:30.280
this is what you're doing. Is it matters, He's like, Okay,
888
00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:33.159
it does matter, and he's back at it again. But yeah,
889
00:44:33.400 --> 00:44:35.559
I feel like the character of Booster is just somebody
890
00:44:35.639 --> 00:44:37.320
that's gone through He's got a lot of stuff on
891
00:44:37.360 --> 00:44:39.480
the outside of him that makes him look like he's
892
00:44:39.519 --> 00:44:42.320
bold and brash, but he on the inside he's just
893
00:44:42.360 --> 00:44:44.519
wanting to be accepted and he needs that. He needs
894
00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:46.960
that fatherly guidance every once in a while to get
895
00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:48.079
him back on the right track.
896
00:44:48.280 --> 00:44:50.920
He feels like he was a joke for a long time.
897
00:44:51.039 --> 00:44:53.559
Now he's trying to be more and he's messing up.
898
00:44:54.079 --> 00:44:56.880
He feels like he is what people think of him as.
899
00:44:56.920 --> 00:44:59.880
And Batman says, hey, let the world think you're crazy.
900
00:45:00.079 --> 00:45:02.079
That's what it takes to be the best you can be, Michael.
901
00:45:02.159 --> 00:45:04.400
You prove me wrong and you proved yourself wrong. And
902
00:45:04.400 --> 00:45:06.079
then he says, if you ever need somebody to talk to,
903
00:45:06.199 --> 00:45:09.440
talk to me. And so that Booster's like, Okay, somebody
904
00:45:09.440 --> 00:45:11.960
believes in me. I'm I'm not a loser. That man says,
905
00:45:11.960 --> 00:45:13.760
you're not a loser. Pretty good endorsement.
906
00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:17.159
I agree, Man, we get our Issue nine might get
907
00:45:17.159 --> 00:45:17.880
our big battle.
908
00:45:18.079 --> 00:45:19.280
I think one of the big moments that.
909
00:45:19.199 --> 00:45:20.880
Stood out for me in issue nine is when they
910
00:45:20.880 --> 00:45:24.679
go to rescue Martian Manhunter and he's like, he's whatever
911
00:45:24.719 --> 00:45:26.480
that thing is. I have no idea what it is,
912
00:45:26.480 --> 00:45:28.239
but there's like a bunch of people that's connected to
913
00:45:28.280 --> 00:45:29.599
this massive thing.
914
00:45:29.599 --> 00:45:32.519
Something that showed up an infinite crisis.
915
00:45:33.079 --> 00:45:35.400
I think, well, I assume it's using his powers or
916
00:45:35.400 --> 00:45:37.639
at least keeping the superhero subdued in some way.
917
00:45:37.800 --> 00:45:39.199
Yeah, but they take.
918
00:45:39.079 --> 00:45:41.639
Him off of there or wake him up, and he
919
00:45:41.679 --> 00:45:44.119
immediately like I can't remember who woke him up.
920
00:45:44.239 --> 00:45:46.920
He like grabs their throat. He's like, miracle, that was
921
00:45:46.920 --> 00:45:51.440
a mister Miracle. He's like, where's Max. He wants blood.
922
00:45:51.760 --> 00:45:54.079
He is in raised with what's going on there.
923
00:45:54.119 --> 00:45:57.199
And I assume that this probably ties into some crazy
924
00:45:57.239 --> 00:46:01.039
horrible stuff that he did. He's clearly enraged and upset
925
00:46:01.079 --> 00:46:04.880
with something that Max has done. Obviously, let's try this again,
926
00:46:04.960 --> 00:46:07.719
because the fact that he's killed so many superheroes probably
927
00:46:07.719 --> 00:46:09.599
puts him up there as like okay, I'm gonna kill
928
00:46:09.639 --> 00:46:10.159
Max Lord.
929
00:46:10.679 --> 00:46:13.039
So yeah, but anyway, he wants blood.
930
00:46:13.159 --> 00:46:15.320
That kind of stood out to me watching him with
931
00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:17.719
so much fire and so much rage grab a hold
932
00:46:17.719 --> 00:46:20.639
of mister Miracle's throat and be like, I'm where's Max at?
933
00:46:20.760 --> 00:46:21.719
That was pretty crazy.
934
00:46:22.280 --> 00:46:25.119
I love the possibility of a paradox and erasing Booster
935
00:46:25.159 --> 00:46:25.840
from existence.
936
00:46:25.880 --> 00:46:27.679
I kind of puts things in a rush.
937
00:46:27.840 --> 00:46:30.239
I didn't know what was going on at first, because
938
00:46:30.239 --> 00:46:32.679
the way that they play it is Booster goes to
939
00:46:32.760 --> 00:46:36.239
like tackle his dad, and his dad blinks out of existence,
940
00:46:36.519 --> 00:46:41.000
which makes sense, and then Booster starts doing a little
941
00:46:41.039 --> 00:46:41.400
bit more.
942
00:46:41.519 --> 00:46:43.760
I don't know if his dad blinked out of existence,
943
00:46:44.079 --> 00:46:47.239
he might have just I think the supernova suit can
944
00:46:47.320 --> 00:46:48.119
go intangible.
945
00:46:48.280 --> 00:46:50.280
Okay, well, if that's the case, I thought the same.
946
00:46:50.119 --> 00:46:50.760
Thing you did.
947
00:46:50.760 --> 00:46:52.199
I was looking at him, like, wait, why is his
948
00:46:52.320 --> 00:46:54.800
dad blinking out? Because that's one thing his dad said
949
00:46:54.920 --> 00:46:57.679
was like, yeah, we can stop him from becoming a hero,
950
00:46:57.800 --> 00:47:01.880
but don't stop me from living. So yeah, that was
951
00:47:01.960 --> 00:47:04.400
that was confusing. But I believe that's one of the
952
00:47:04.440 --> 00:47:06.199
things the supernova armor can do.
953
00:47:06.519 --> 00:47:06.920
All right.
954
00:47:07.280 --> 00:47:10.000
I thought that that was causing a paradox and was
955
00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:10.719
going to effect him.
956
00:47:10.719 --> 00:47:12.400
Of course, it'd probably cause a paradox.
957
00:47:12.039 --> 00:47:14.760
For everybody thereby should have been blinking out of existence.
958
00:47:14.840 --> 00:47:17.000
It was good to see Superman back on track and
959
00:47:17.039 --> 00:47:19.400
we have a big battle with the Jli finally back
960
00:47:19.440 --> 00:47:23.559
together again and fighting the Time Steelers. We get to
961
00:47:23.599 --> 00:47:28.800
see Maximilian, who gets drowned by some corrosive acid or whatever.
962
00:47:28.880 --> 00:47:31.719
That Skeets had was like, yeah, I might not be able.
963
00:47:31.519 --> 00:47:34.320
To beat you, but robots rust and then he drops
964
00:47:34.320 --> 00:47:36.280
a bunch of stuff on him. Mister mind coming back.
965
00:47:36.400 --> 00:47:40.920
That was pretty cool. Definitely pretty Yeah, Fire getting killed
966
00:47:40.960 --> 00:47:43.519
by Black Beetle, that was definitely a big deal.
967
00:47:43.800 --> 00:47:46.599
Peter Platinum, So are we going to see more of
968
00:47:46.639 --> 00:47:47.400
Peter Platinum?
969
00:47:47.480 --> 00:47:49.880
I was just wondering about that. That's the only place
970
00:47:49.920 --> 00:47:53.000
I ever saw him. So okay, all right, what spoiler alert?
971
00:47:53.239 --> 00:47:55.639
He doesn't show I don't think he shows up again.
972
00:47:56.000 --> 00:47:58.199
Now I don't believe he shows up again.
973
00:47:58.639 --> 00:48:01.639
Come on, this was like, I don't know how you
974
00:48:01.840 --> 00:48:04.320
throw this guy in there. I love how Rip is
975
00:48:04.360 --> 00:48:10.960
like Peter Platinum, disgusting. He leaves, so Rip is obviously
976
00:48:11.079 --> 00:48:12.039
not impressed.
977
00:48:12.320 --> 00:48:15.280
Yeah, it looks like this is the only place he appeared.
978
00:48:15.599 --> 00:48:20.239
What that blows my mind because so I think I've
979
00:48:20.320 --> 00:48:24.079
read a couple of the million issues from back in
980
00:48:24.119 --> 00:48:28.039
the nineties. Really, this is as far as like calling
981
00:48:28.079 --> 00:48:31.159
it a one million issue. Booster shows up in the
982
00:48:31.199 --> 00:48:33.920
year one million, and then Rip Hunter promptly grabs him, says, no,
983
00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:36.360
come on, let's leave within like, I don't know, five
984
00:48:36.400 --> 00:48:39.840
pages the million issue. It doesn't take place fully in
985
00:48:40.039 --> 00:48:40.920
the year one million.
986
00:48:41.280 --> 00:48:44.000
They let him use the time travel and number convention.
987
00:48:44.519 --> 00:48:46.199
Oh I'm not I'm not gonna go Yeah, I am
988
00:48:46.199 --> 00:48:47.000
not going to complain.
989
00:48:47.280 --> 00:48:51.519
I'm just saying that if I think if Peter Platinum doesn't.
990
00:48:51.599 --> 00:48:54.199
Sounds like when you were saying there wasn't enough Christmas
991
00:48:54.239 --> 00:48:56.440
in the Sleep for her Christmas special.
992
00:48:58.719 --> 00:49:00.199
Enough one million boost.
993
00:49:01.960 --> 00:49:04.880
Yeah, dude, but you throw Peter Platinum in there, and
994
00:49:04.920 --> 00:49:06.840
you're like, oh, this guy's got to show back up
995
00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:09.280
at some point, right, guess not? All right, Well, let's
996
00:49:09.280 --> 00:49:11.559
talk about the big elephant in the room. And that's
997
00:49:11.599 --> 00:49:13.360
the final words of Rip Hunter at the end of
998
00:49:13.519 --> 00:49:19.119
issue one million. So we am I right here. Booster
999
00:49:19.519 --> 00:49:23.760
is Rip's dad. Yes, Wow, what a revelation. Did we
1000
00:49:23.840 --> 00:49:24.480
know this before?
1001
00:49:24.519 --> 00:49:24.880
We didn't?
1002
00:49:24.920 --> 00:49:25.519
Did we?
1003
00:49:25.360 --> 00:49:25.440
Did?
1004
00:49:25.519 --> 00:49:25.920
We did not?
1005
00:49:26.199 --> 00:49:28.360
Okay, thank goodness, they did make.
1006
00:49:28.199 --> 00:49:31.320
A big emphasis and it didn't seem that out of
1007
00:49:31.320 --> 00:49:34.280
place because you're learning about being a time master training
1008
00:49:34.320 --> 00:49:36.880
Booster to do it. So they kept making a big
1009
00:49:36.920 --> 00:49:38.960
deal about how Rip Hunter was in his real name
1010
00:49:39.000 --> 00:49:41.880
and nobody knew where he came from or whatever, and
1011
00:49:42.079 --> 00:49:44.719
I don't think I was suspecting that he was part
1012
00:49:44.719 --> 00:49:45.280
of the family.
1013
00:49:45.559 --> 00:49:47.280
All right, Well, it makes sense now as to why
1014
00:49:47.360 --> 00:49:51.679
he's He's obviously involved in what Booster's doing and trying
1015
00:49:51.719 --> 00:49:53.960
to make sure that everything goes off without a hitch
1016
00:49:54.239 --> 00:49:57.719
for his ancestors as well, Rose and Daniel.
1017
00:49:58.039 --> 00:50:00.480
So that's pretty cool. And then of course we got Michelle.
1018
00:50:00.559 --> 00:50:03.760
Michelle's back kind of strange because that didn't happen in
1019
00:50:03.800 --> 00:50:04.639
these reissues.
1020
00:50:04.760 --> 00:50:08.199
Well it did. Booster asked them, how could you do that?
1021
00:50:08.559 --> 00:50:11.840
And Rip says, well, I figured, even though she died
1022
00:50:11.880 --> 00:50:14.440
in the past, she's from the future. So maybe there
1023
00:50:14.480 --> 00:50:17.480
was a loophole. Even more simple than that is just
1024
00:50:17.599 --> 00:50:21.519
that Michelle's death didn't not that it wasn't important, but
1025
00:50:21.559 --> 00:50:24.599
it didn't set in motion all these events. Her death
1026
00:50:24.719 --> 00:50:27.280
wasn't a pivotal moment in history or whatever, like with
1027
00:50:27.519 --> 00:50:30.199
when Ted didn't die. It stopped a lot of things
1028
00:50:30.199 --> 00:50:33.800
from happening. And allowed Max to gain a foothold and
1029
00:50:33.840 --> 00:50:38.519
all this whereas Michelle's death didn't alter history so to speak,
1030
00:50:38.920 --> 00:50:42.039
or her living didn't alter history.
1031
00:50:42.239 --> 00:50:45.639
Bringing her from the moment of her death into the present.
1032
00:50:45.960 --> 00:50:48.280
All right, well, what are you any other thoughts here
1033
00:50:48.320 --> 00:50:49.039
on the last three?
1034
00:50:49.599 --> 00:50:52.840
Just this was again another great volume. This This to
1035
00:50:52.880 --> 00:50:55.199
me was really kind of the peak. But like I said,
1036
00:50:55.360 --> 00:50:58.159
I kept with the series for four years, and I
1037
00:50:58.480 --> 00:51:01.360
think this was kind of John Swan song on it.
1038
00:51:01.519 --> 00:51:03.320
Forget I'm blanking on the name. There was a guy
1039
00:51:03.360 --> 00:51:05.239
that came in and did a couple issues.
1040
00:51:05.639 --> 00:51:08.239
I think he wrote issue thirteen and fourteen, just kind
1041
00:51:08.239 --> 00:51:10.760
of like a fill in, Recrimender. I don't know why
1042
00:51:10.760 --> 00:51:13.679
I couldn't think of his name, but yeah, Recommender did
1043
00:51:13.800 --> 00:51:16.000
a little bit. Yeah, here we go forty nine issues.
1044
00:51:16.360 --> 00:51:20.159
They never did quite get back onto the Guardian of
1045
00:51:20.159 --> 00:51:21.880
the Time stream thing, or at least not the way
1046
00:51:21.880 --> 00:51:25.119
they set it up. I still thoroughly enjoyed the series,
1047
00:51:25.159 --> 00:51:27.920
it just never quite got back to what I thought
1048
00:51:27.960 --> 00:51:30.960
it would be. And then Dan Jurgens eventually started writing
1049
00:51:31.000 --> 00:51:33.440
and drawing it, so he did see him team up
1050
00:51:33.480 --> 00:51:36.239
with Elongated Man, who was dead at the time. That's
1051
00:51:36.280 --> 00:51:38.920
one of the things handed at on these last few pages,
1052
00:51:39.119 --> 00:51:41.320
some of which at least two of those came to pass.
1053
00:51:41.360 --> 00:51:43.880
He did team up with Elongated Man. There was a
1054
00:51:43.880 --> 00:51:46.800
part where Michelle posed as Batgirl. I'm not sure about
1055
00:51:46.800 --> 00:51:49.400
the others. So you had Dan Jurgen's writ in it
1056
00:51:49.440 --> 00:51:53.480
for a while, and then eventually Keith Giffen came on,
1057
00:51:53.559 --> 00:51:56.239
who wrote a lot of Booster and Blue Beetle in
1058
00:51:56.920 --> 00:52:00.480
Justice League International. Okay, so you always had guys who
1059
00:52:00.519 --> 00:52:02.960
really knew and understood the character. I loved what Jeff
1060
00:52:03.039 --> 00:52:05.039
Johns did with these first twelve issues. Like I said,
1061
00:52:05.039 --> 00:52:07.400
that might be the high point of the series to me,
1062
00:52:07.920 --> 00:52:11.320
But it was after that you had Dan Jurgens that
1063
00:52:11.400 --> 00:52:14.559
created him, and then Keith Giffen that helped really define
1064
00:52:14.920 --> 00:52:17.880
who he was, and J. M. Demattius or did They
1065
00:52:17.960 --> 00:52:20.920
both covered it for a while, so the whole time
1066
00:52:21.000 --> 00:52:24.360
it was just people who really knew and appreciated the character.
1067
00:52:24.480 --> 00:52:25.519
I absolutely loved it.
1068
00:52:25.559 --> 00:52:28.840
I was totally bummed when it ended after Flashpoint and
1069
00:52:28.920 --> 00:52:31.360
the New fifty two, even though they had a Justice
1070
00:52:31.440 --> 00:52:33.760
League International book where Booster was kind of like the
1071
00:52:33.760 --> 00:52:36.599
central character, but it just wasn't the same and then
1072
00:52:36.760 --> 00:52:40.519
at some point it the booster, the previous booster showed
1073
00:52:40.639 --> 00:52:42.679
up like kind of lost in the time stream, but
1074
00:52:43.119 --> 00:52:46.159
forget if he forget what happened, but that never really
1075
00:52:46.199 --> 00:52:48.280
paid off, and he just kind of went back to
1076
00:52:48.360 --> 00:52:50.320
being goofy time travel booster.
1077
00:52:50.719 --> 00:52:54.119
Okay, all right, well, yeah, I hate I'm digging this.
1078
00:52:54.480 --> 00:52:58.239
I'm having a good time. So Michelle's gold Stars back.
1079
00:52:58.559 --> 00:53:02.960
We have this shataway figure who is showed up at
1080
00:53:03.000 --> 00:53:06.920
ted Cord Industries or Chord Industries. Don't know exactly what
1081
00:53:07.280 --> 00:53:09.559
I have. I have my theories. I haven't read forward,
1082
00:53:09.760 --> 00:53:11.679
but I have a feeling I think I know who
1083
00:53:11.800 --> 00:53:14.480
has this scare of that black beetle dropped, and I
1084
00:53:14.480 --> 00:53:16.320
think I know kind of what's going on.
1085
00:53:16.599 --> 00:53:20.320
But I'm trying to clearly I have forgotten some of this.
1086
00:53:20.480 --> 00:53:22.840
I'm trying to remember. There was one of my I
1087
00:53:22.880 --> 00:53:26.000
was thinking, remember wrote it, but it's not popping up
1088
00:53:26.039 --> 00:53:30.360
in here that there's a story at some point where
1089
00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:32.880
they were traveling in time. The one where I think
1090
00:53:32.920 --> 00:53:36.559
Michelle ends up impersonating Batgirl is they go back in
1091
00:53:36.599 --> 00:53:40.239
time and somehow Killer Moth has become the Batman of Gothain.
1092
00:53:40.320 --> 00:53:42.880
Villains are in Trouble, they send up the Moth signal.
1093
00:53:43.599 --> 00:53:45.000
I remember you talking about that.
1094
00:53:45.360 --> 00:53:48.800
So yeah, a lot of weird time travel stuff, sure,
1095
00:53:48.840 --> 00:53:51.559
But yeah, I really enjoyed the series because, like I said,
1096
00:53:51.559 --> 00:53:54.360
even though the premise veered a little, I didn't even
1097
00:53:54.360 --> 00:53:57.280
talk about Dan Jurgen's art. Dan Jurgen's art is comic
1098
00:53:57.320 --> 00:53:57.880
book art.
1099
00:53:57.920 --> 00:53:58.320
To me.
1100
00:53:59.679 --> 00:54:02.280
Maybe he's not quite in George Perez's class, as if
1101
00:54:02.320 --> 00:54:05.360
anybody is, but I'm nothing wrong with the image guys.
1102
00:54:05.519 --> 00:54:06.519
I love their style.
1103
00:54:06.559 --> 00:54:09.480
But when I think about what comic books like, when
1104
00:54:09.480 --> 00:54:12.119
I just imagine comic book, I see George Perez.
1105
00:54:12.239 --> 00:54:13.960
Dan Jurgen's like that, right, just.
1106
00:54:13.960 --> 00:54:17.800
That perfect balance of it's realistic but not hyper realistic.
1107
00:54:18.039 --> 00:54:22.639
It's exaggerated but not just completely crazy, just the right balance.
1108
00:54:22.719 --> 00:54:27.119
And that's so you got Dan Jurggens writing it, drawing it,
1109
00:54:27.400 --> 00:54:31.360
and then Demitis and giff Is just they kept Booster
1110
00:54:31.679 --> 00:54:36.559
funny but relatable and heroic, and we're really changing around.
1111
00:54:36.639 --> 00:54:39.039
I was just not that good stuff didn't follow, But
1112
00:54:39.239 --> 00:54:40.960
it just kind of bummed that we.
1113
00:54:40.920 --> 00:54:42.079
Lost that version of Booster.
1114
00:54:42.239 --> 00:54:45.199
We got ted cordback at some point when they were
1115
00:54:45.239 --> 00:54:48.079
just like, yeah, continuity Schmontinuity. We talked a couple of
1116
00:54:48.159 --> 00:54:50.960
years ago about heroes in crisis where they kind of
1117
00:54:51.000 --> 00:54:54.360
got back together. But man, it just undoing both of
1118
00:54:54.440 --> 00:54:57.440
Ted's sacrifices. I don't know that that just kind of
1119
00:54:57.480 --> 00:54:59.519
takes takes something away from him too.
1120
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:01.360
I just feel like I hear you.
1121
00:55:01.840 --> 00:55:04.440
I was glad to see Booster and Blue Beetle back.
1122
00:55:04.480 --> 00:55:06.599
They did do a series a couple of years ago
1123
00:55:06.639 --> 00:55:08.960
called Blue and Gold. I think Dan Jurgens wrote that
1124
00:55:09.039 --> 00:55:11.719
one too, and that was fun, but it just wasn't
1125
00:55:11.800 --> 00:55:14.360
quite the same as the Booster we got in this series.
1126
00:55:14.679 --> 00:55:17.079
Are we going to do volume three? Are you? Are you?
1127
00:55:17.199 --> 00:55:19.320
I'm up for it? Absolutely all right.
1128
00:55:19.400 --> 00:55:20.960
So at some point in the future you can hear
1129
00:55:21.039 --> 00:55:25.239
us move forward with the next volume as we continue
1130
00:55:25.280 --> 00:55:28.480
with the adventures of at least Booster, Gold, Blue Beetle
1131
00:55:28.559 --> 00:55:30.519
come back. I don't know, We'll have to find out.
1132
00:55:30.760 --> 00:55:32.159
We will see some more Michelle.
1133
00:55:32.239 --> 00:55:35.559
She sticks around and rip Hunter is a part of it, Okay, Yeah,
1134
00:55:35.760 --> 00:55:38.320
well there was There was a spinoff series too, called
1135
00:55:38.400 --> 00:55:42.440
Time Masters that was about when Batman was dead. It
1136
00:55:42.639 --> 00:55:46.320
was Rip Hunter, Booster, Superman, and Green Lantern looking for
1137
00:55:46.360 --> 00:55:47.519
Batman in the time stream.
1138
00:55:47.719 --> 00:55:51.639
Oh really okay, yeah, neat neat all right, all.
1139
00:55:51.599 --> 00:55:52.519
Right man, well we did it.
1140
00:55:52.639 --> 00:55:54.559
Let's go ahead and we'll get into plugs here. So
1141
00:55:54.599 --> 00:55:57.199
what do you got going on over at Astrisk fifty one.
1142
00:55:57.440 --> 00:55:59.840
Well, I'm getting close to the end of the first
1143
00:56:00.039 --> 00:56:03.599
run of amalgam comics of actually scanning and sizing pictures.
1144
00:56:03.599 --> 00:56:05.199
We're finishing up there.
1145
00:56:05.800 --> 00:56:09.679
Got a Doctor Strain, Fate and X Patrol to finish
1146
00:56:09.679 --> 00:56:12.760
off the first round. Then hopefully they'll be posted by
1147
00:56:12.800 --> 00:56:15.760
the time this comes out. In some of my shopping excursions,
1148
00:56:15.800 --> 00:56:17.840
the Dollar Tree found some movies that tie right in
1149
00:56:17.880 --> 00:56:20.400
with the twenty twenty four Olympics as you might expect.
1150
00:56:20.760 --> 00:56:21.719
Wow, got that.
1151
00:56:21.960 --> 00:56:24.599
And for people who don't like politics and their bargain
1152
00:56:24.800 --> 00:56:28.599
movie bins, I'm sorry, I do have a special Republican
1153
00:56:28.679 --> 00:56:33.079
National Convention installment of hashtag Dollar Tree Cinema featuring Smoking
1154
00:56:33.159 --> 00:56:36.559
the Band A two not a stretch at all. Yes,
1155
00:56:36.719 --> 00:56:39.199
it's going to be looking through with some I've had
1156
00:56:39.199 --> 00:56:41.239
a few posts about things from this year's Free Comic
1157
00:56:41.239 --> 00:56:43.199
Book Day, going to get back into some of the
1158
00:56:43.239 --> 00:56:45.480
older ones, but I try to do every other Friday
1159
00:56:45.559 --> 00:56:49.920
hashtag Free Comic Friday, seeing which ones work and which
1160
00:56:49.920 --> 00:56:50.920
ones maybe don't work?
1161
00:56:50.920 --> 00:56:55.480
So up, all right, all right, guys, for myself, listen, folks,
1162
00:56:55.519 --> 00:57:00.280
you're listening most likely listening to this podcast almost source
1163
00:57:00.280 --> 00:57:01.559
Material Comics Feed.
1164
00:57:01.320 --> 00:57:03.119
Where we have some great shows.
1165
00:57:03.440 --> 00:57:06.480
You're listening to Source Material where we talk about comics
1166
00:57:06.519 --> 00:57:08.800
of any era. We're at over three hundred and some
1167
00:57:09.000 --> 00:57:12.639
episodes here on Source Material, and so there's plenty out
1168
00:57:12.679 --> 00:57:15.679
there in the archive to go check out. I tell you, absolutely,
1169
00:57:15.800 --> 00:57:19.000
check out Volume one of Booster Gold.
1170
00:57:19.199 --> 00:57:20.719
It's in the archive. You can check that out.
1171
00:57:21.000 --> 00:57:23.840
Nineties comics we do them right here on the Unspoken
1172
00:57:23.880 --> 00:57:26.880
Issues podcast, right here on the Source Material Comics Feed.
1173
00:57:27.079 --> 00:57:29.519
Nineties comics. We talked nineties comics. We have a good
1174
00:57:29.519 --> 00:57:32.519
time doing it. It's me, it's Dean Compton, it's Darry,
1175
00:57:32.800 --> 00:57:35.960
it's Evan, it's Chris. Matthew Price comes on there every
1176
00:57:35.960 --> 00:57:38.559
once in a while. We have a great time. Recently,
1177
00:57:39.239 --> 00:57:41.760
I don't think it's aired yet, but it's either going
1178
00:57:41.800 --> 00:57:43.119
to air or aired.
1179
00:57:43.159 --> 00:57:45.800
Recently, we had a discussion.
1180
00:57:45.519 --> 00:57:50.000
On a book called Enemy Ace War Idol and you
1181
00:57:50.039 --> 00:57:53.119
talk about a powerful book. So its me Dean and
1182
00:57:53.199 --> 00:57:56.719
Darry who discussed that. We mentioned it already earlier in
1183
00:57:56.760 --> 00:58:00.159
this episode. You can check us out talking about as
1184
00:58:00.239 --> 00:58:06.320
Tech number one and some super hero crossovers Marvel DC
1185
00:58:06.880 --> 00:58:12.199
throwing some superheroes together from each of their respective companies
1186
00:58:12.559 --> 00:58:14.280
to either do battle or team up.
1187
00:58:14.599 --> 00:58:16.440
Check that out. That's that's out there as well.
1188
00:58:16.440 --> 00:58:18.440
And we can't forget Snap material where me and Evan
1189
00:58:18.519 --> 00:58:24.039
talk about Marvel Snap that mobile game that is insane.
1190
00:58:24.519 --> 00:58:27.039
All right, folks, we're out of here. That's Evan. I'm Jesse,
1191
00:58:27.119 --> 00:58:29.039
thanks for joining us. Have a good one bye.
1192
00:58:28.840 --> 00:58:42.159
Bye on the City Shadows on the Nyest Save the.
1193
00:58:43.800 --> 00:58:46.360
Un with the chrismon Knights the Gold.
1194
00:58:46.119 --> 00:58:53.760
Beside me on the Sun Sky showIn day.
1195
00:58:56.400 --> 00:59:03.039
Foster Chali one day, Sabottom dollars, all this chaos and
1196
00:59:03.159 --> 00:59:07.440
Knights no end, going out here to set it rise.
1197
00:59:12.280 --> 00:59:14.360
That's laws control nine.
1198
00:59:14.239 --> 00:59:16.840
Games in the unf here was going left to Knights
1199
00:59:16.840 --> 00:59:17.880
office everywhere.
1200
00:59:18.280 --> 00:59:21.360
I've got the gadgets, fighting to the bank, booster my
1201
00:59:21.480 --> 00:59:23.199
back will never break, the chain.
1202
00:59:25.719 --> 00:59:28.760
Being the boat being oh sorry, ease day.
1203
00:59:31.079 --> 00:59:35.079
Being boosters fowl and all that crazy. So do that,
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Shabottom dollars.
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All this chaos and knives no end, go out here
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to set it right. Vernishing one whispers sign seeing the
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scheme booster and not standing strong, flying through the tree, hot.
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And green and row joined him.
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The fight resistance growing stronger. Who s.
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Being flopano sorrain easy?
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Being booster fell in.
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All that freeze, swim that to bottom.
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Dollar while they carry us nice blue and gold our
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ear to set it arise.
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History is in the sight fairns pleans on fold Booster Randa.
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Story shall so.
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CRUs through the age of deepstiny in half a step
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called the boot beel, making myself be in the boot
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being a sorryday, being booster down and all that brings
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me you can get your bottom dollars on its chaos
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A night boin all over here to set it right