To me, I was stunned to find out about it today, but his death will be felt upon the characters in the DC Universe. SERIOUS REPLYS ONLY TO THIS QUESTION. I will not take answers that are going to be half-*** or stupid among those who just wants to play dumb with me.
2006-08-19 09:34:24 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
I feel bad about it. It takes so much work to come up with a good character concept, they should not throw away a character like that. I am afraid that they will be unable to come up with something innovative and later try to bring him back in some distorted way, shape or form.
I felt bad for the character, the way Booster and also Blue Beetle were used as comic relief in Justice League. Now, I KNOW that team titles like JLE, JLI and JLAntarctica were the place for characters without their own titles to star in, so there had to be a place for them to keep them in the public eye. But it also encouraged a certain amount of careless, even sloppy writing and editing. Brave and Bold used to be that way, with fifteen different inconsistent versions of Batman and his sons.
Ironically, what Dc tried to eliminate-- sloppy, careless, inconsistent writing, by deciding to have one and only one future, toward which all the current continuity had to work-- is exactly what Marvel seems to have given up on, with the adoption of a 'mainstream' earth (Can you say, Earth-1...? I know you can.) and a bunch of parallel earths. this way, no matter how poorly something is written, they don't have to refuse to publish it, just say it happened on one of the other earths. Let Uatu keep track of them all. But at least DC is trying to do the right thing.
Getting back to what was done with Booster and Beetle over the last few years, culminating in Booster's untimely death (literally! when you remember that he was from the future!), it's a shameless, shabby way for a comic book company to treat the characters, and, more to the point-- a shameless, shabby way for a comic book company to treat the artists and writers who do their best work only to see it mocked by the readers.
Good-bye, Booster Gold. We'll miss you. We'll ALL miss you!
2006-08-19 11:45:50 · answer #1 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Responding to CDF-ROM, I think you make some excellent points. I'm also sad to see Booster Gold dead, and I'm not a huge fan of comics (DC especially) killing people off as a publicity stunt (see Sue Dibney, Jason Todd's dad, Captain Boomerang, Superman vs. Doomsday, etc.) But maybe we should also keep in mind that this does add some realism. If you think about it, how many times would Batman REALLY survive team battles with super powerful foes like Brainiac or even Clayface? What these people do is dangerous stuff, and eventually the odds would come out against them and somebody would die. If the writers can deal with that in an interesting and tasteful way, then have at it.
2006-08-19 22:24:26 · answer #2 · answered by Otis T 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That hurt, that hurt a lot.
First it was blue beetle now Booster gold but I think maybe maybe this Super Nova guy is in fact Booster gold from a further in the time stream.
If not please oh please bring back Booster gold he was just to cool for school.
2006-08-19 17:45:59 · answer #3 · answered by Tophat 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋