Booster Gold #30: “Things Are Booming in Coast City, OR Rip was tripping on mushrooms and no one was even there.”

This week’s Booster Gold #30 sheds a lot of light on Rip Hunter’s decision-making process and the elements at play behind the scenes in the story. An action-packed story with guest art by Jerry Ordway for about 75% of the book, Booster finds his sister in Coast City shortly before it’s destroyed by the Cyborg Superman and must take her and get her home, all the while struggling with the ethical questions around leaving millions to die while the city is destroyed. Of course, it’s inherent in Booster’s mission that he has to do let the city burn–but, as Sondra Crain reminds him, it’s pretty unheroic to just give up hope and let people die.At the same time, we start to find out what’s going on with that creepy guy who’s been walking around with a “The End is Near” poster and a ball cap for the last few months. Does he actually know something about Coast City’s future? And what does he have to do with Booster Gold’s mission? We talked to Dan Jurgens about his second-to-last issue (for the time being) on the title. Dan Jurgens: Yeah. Having the improved paper, coloring and separations is a real treat. We used to fight for advantages like that and now we get them all the time. It was great to be able to have the explosive spheres rendered as spheres.The Gold Exchange: Hi-Fi did a great job with this issue; how nice is it to be able to revisit one of the great storylines you’ve been involved with, and to do so with all the technological advances of today?

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