Booster Gold’s Disco Collar and Pre-Flashpoint Look Make Their New 52 Debut

A lot of fans have speculated that if there’s a key to “undoing” the New 52 and bringing back the pre-Flashpoint status quo, that key is Booster Gold.After Crisis on Infinite Earths, after all, DC left a single in-universe character locked away in an asylum, remembering the era before the Crisis but unable to either cope with it or convince others that it was real. That character was Psycho-Pirate, and he played a key role in Infinite Crisis, the story that set the stage for the return of the DC Multiverse.Certainly I don’t hold much stock in the idea that DC left Booster Gold as an open door back to the old days–but it’s absolutely true that Booster might hold within him the memory of the pre-Flashpoint timeline.I’ll explain:Booster was outside of time when the universe reset during Flashpoint, having been shunted to Vanishing Point (his Time Master headquarters on the edge of the timestream) just as it was happening. This is because Booster was the only DC hero besides The Flash who actually went to the Flashpoint universe and was seen to emerge again (as noted in the comments thread below, Kid Flash also went but we never saw him return). As a guardian of the timestream, he detected that something big had happened, and went to investigate it.