#9 sees writer Dan Jurgens and artist Aaron Lopresti forced to be pretty flexible; there are a lot of fight scenes interspersed with a few pages of dead-stops to the characters’ movement, as well as a lot of new faces, both in terms of potential new teammates OMAC and Firestorm and a group of villains, some of whom we’ve seen before and one of whom we haven’t.As usual, Jurgens joined us to discuss the issue both on its own merits and in the context of the greater series and the greater DC Universe.I’m a little worried here that by exposing Booster to data from the Rocket Red armor, both Booster and Skeets might be at risk of infection from that weird uplink hiccup that we saw Red get before he died. Am I being paranoid?Well, we really don’t know if Rocket Red was getting infected with anything there. Who knows? Maybe the alien ship took something from RR and was, in turn infected. Or it could be that there was no infection whatsoever, that was just a nice, soothing, pink light.It’s interesting–the dialog between Batman and Batwing suggests that even the superhero community isn’t really clear on Booster’s “deal.” Did you want to roll back the number of people in the hero community who knew his “secret?”No. It’s just that we tend to be a skeptical society now.If an individual suddenly shows up and claims to be from the future, some people are bound to be skeptical. On top of that, I think Batman, more than any other hero, would be the type to check into it on his own and make sure.Now, if you wrap that into the idea of a hero who advertises projects and tends to hype himself, well, you can see why Batwing would have assumed it was an act.
That said, if the world’s greatest detective were to do “a lot of digging” on Booster Gold, what might he find?
A summer home in the timestream, perhaps?
Do you get royalties if DC decides to sell “Bat berets?” I’d buy one.
You know, I feel like this is the first time that you’ve really traded on the Guy Gardner/Booster Gold football metaphor (although Geoff played with it a bit in BG vol. 2). How long til you bring Steel in for the hat trick?
Did Guy transform into the Iron Lantern from Amalgam Comics?! And if so, was that scripted?
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We know that Infinite Crisis didn’t happen–and that according to Dan DiDio Ted Kord was “never around.” So to what extent is Batman’s connection with Brother Eye still canon?
Speaking of Ted, it’s hard not to imagine that tying OMAc and Brother Eye in with the JLI will eventually bring the team face-to-face with Chekmate and Max Lord.
“All the way to France?” says the guy who routinely jaunts out to space for a beer with Kilowog?
“Society is at a tipping point.” what are the challenges of writing a book like this that inherently has political undertones without alienating the audience by making the bad guys sound too much like their “side”?
These villains don’t seem to have a rapport–is there something important there? I can see a parallel being formed between these guys and the JLI.
Again with Guy’s creative constructs–is that a ship from Sun Devils?
Is Godiva’s line about “we’ve been going at such a fast pace, we’ve forgotten about Gavril” a little author commentary? It seems like it’s as true for the reader as for the characters.
What was the logic of actually tying directly into a Firestorm issue when introducing the character, as opposed to just telling the story in your own book?
