Booster Gold #4

We at Illusion are huge fans of the character Booster Gold, which may be one of the reasons I enjoyed “52″ so much.  That said, run out and buy a copy of this book right now!  If you haven’t been reading the series so far, Booster was approached by Rip Hunter following the events of “52″ and told that he would be responsible for saving the future from someone who was going back in time and erasing future heroes.  For this reason, Booster, though a fairly competent hero, must keep up the public impression that he is a failure. 

This series mixes a perfect cocktail of humor with great story telling, not to mention that writers Geoff Johns and Jeff Katz have even made Rip Hunter a pretty compelling hero.  The art by Dan Jurgens and Norm Rapmund is superb.  There’s a fantastic subplotinvolving Dan Carter, Booster’s ancestor who filled in for him while he was “dead,” and in this issue we find out the identity of the new Supernova and the identity of the person using time-travel to keep the Justice League from being formed.  All this and the ending promises a story that may or may not have a far-reaching effect throughout the DCU, if not a direct impact upon the approaching “Final Crisis.”  If nothing else, “Booster Gold” manages to tie in to all of the other things going on in the DCU without requiring you to read twenty other books along with it just to keep up.  This is one book definitely worth the cover price.