Booster Gold has always been a pretty fun character to read about. Usually his fans have to be satisfied with just seeing him in a supporting role, but this time he’s the main character. The comic looked like a lot of fun and early on I could confirm my guess. The stakes may not be world shattering (Well, some may argue that the threat is very real) but the villains are decently tough.

Booster Gold is back in the modern world and he’s ready to join the Justice League. They remember some of his past exploits and are pretty happy to welcome him on board, but he learns that a time traveler is on the prowl. He plans on destroying the league by means of time travel and altering the past. Booster Gold must sacrifice his reputation and go stop the villains. Usually my plot analysis is a little longer, but that’s basically the plot.

All right, I do have some issues with time travel. It’s the ultimate cop out that a writer can pull so that he can change anything. Let’s say that someone wanted it so that Superman never died against Doomsday. Pull a Flashpoint or a Superboy Prime reality punch and you can erase it. No matter what excuses the heroes make for altering time, once you’ve done it there is no turning back. Well, actually there is. Once again, we’ve got time travel for that. (Age of Ultron pulled it off twice in a row after all) The thing is, if you’ve altered time once, then you may as well continue to alter it. Make it so that a lot of the negative things never happened. Instead the heroes tend to play favorites.

There were also some time theories in this comic that I didn’t agree with. There are parts of time that were meant to happen…Destiny if you will. I don’t believe that for a second. Booster Gold goes back in time and repeatedly tries to stop one of DC’s big turning points. He keeps on failing and Rip (The Time Hunter) tells him that he will never succeed. Why? Because it’s a solid space in time and it cannot be altered. See, I have multiple problems with this. Now, I could believe that if the time were so sturdy that time travelers simply couldn’t enter through it, (Of course you could just go further in the past and wait until you hit that day) but to actually go to the past, but you keep on losing because of destiny? I just don’t believe it. Booster Gold gets beaten by humans and he loses in ways that just don’t work. Destiny definitely can’t stop him, or at least not in the ways that it happens.

Another thing, when you change the past, you usually just create an alternate future. It won’t affect the future that you are from, which is why time travel is ultimately meaningless in solving one’s problems. (Of course Marvel also forgot that when they made the Age of Ultron event soooo…) The book doesn’t really address any of that so I thought that the overall time travel was a little sloppy. Of course, if you ignore the specifics of the time travel it can still be fun to look at. Sometimes things just don’t need to make sense. The universe is massive so there are bound to be things that just don’t work.

Booster Gold was a solid lead and he showed us that he can actually be a pretty deep character. He’s decently tough, but the comic didn’t portray him to be as powerful as he normally is. His buddy Skeets was also pretty cool. He definitely keeps Booster Gold at the ready and he’s a fun addition to the cast. Rip, The Time Hunter, helps him through the comic as well. He’s pretty good for the most part, but I didn’t care for his interrogation. Good guys should never resort to using such a violent style. A couple of Blue Beetles also appeared and they did all right. I think Jaime was a little under powered to match the other guys, but they still did good.

I’m a little skeptical that the Justice League didn’t suspect anything. I don’t know, Superman and Batman can be pretty smart. Also, Barry Allen and Wally West appeared. They didn’t really look that good though and I’m calling plot hax. Supernova also appeared in two different versions. The first guy was pretty cool and he’s definitely a good video game player. The 2nd guy had a pretty big plot twist, but it came out of left field. I still think that the 2nd Supernova makes for a pretty good villain, but his character is pretty generic.

Now, I may have had a lot of criticisms with this comic, but that’s just because I have very specific time travel laws that I think most media should follow. Especially if they’ve already picked a time travel theorem, then they should stick to it. Also the comic is a DC comic so I tend to be a little more skeptical than usual. (Since DC’s awesome!) It’s definitely a pretty solid comic and I recommend checking it out. The art is also consistently good for the comic and it’s one of DC’s better showings. The comic is actually a decent jumping on point for new DC readers. It’s fun, the stakes aren’t too high, and you’ll get to meet a lot of DC’s finest characters. Of course, if you’re already a big DC fan, it could help you to appreciate the comic even more.

Overall 7/10