Booster Gold #30

[pyrotwilight]

These are the three pages that in essence are an epilogue after Booster got his sister out of Coast City when she got time lost and landed in Coast City during the Reign of the Supermen.








Old Man Booster! Awww. Makes me wonder if he was the one who trained Rip in a huge paradox.

Other key points. Hypertime is back! Granted I never really thought it left which makes my thought on who Rip's mom is more plausible. 

And I believe that they're more or less saying that it was Old Man Booster who had accessed Kord Industries before and BWA-HA-HA'ed in the 1,000,000 issue.


Tags

creator: Dan Jurgens, creator: Norm Rapmund, char: booster gold/michael jon carter, char: rip hunter, title: Booster Gold

Comments

[arbre_rieur]

When this series started, wasn't it going to be about traveling to alternate Earths as well as different points in time? Did they ever do much with that?

[pyrotwilight]

Well, they obviously do the time stuff and I remember at one point they were planning on doing an arc on the Tangent Earth but it probably got scrapped.

Not sure why they haven't focused on other Earths but they might just be trying to raise its sales first before doing something like that.

[joasakura]

...squee. *_*

[foxhack]

Now that's how you age a character.

Too bad there's no Old Man Beetle to back him up. :(

[shadowpsykie]

dont try and figure out paradoxes.... thats how migraines start.... if booster trained his son so that his son could train him, who trained booster so he could train his son? arrrrrgh... damn, see what i mean

[pyrotwilight]

Well...there could be. They just wouldn't want to spoil it. They're only really telling us probably what they know won't be changed down the line.

[pyrotwilight]

That's why I said paradox and left it at that. XD

[cf105]

Really? That sort of thing always made sense to me. Its a simple stable 4-d time loop, insofar as the events that lead up to the loop happen in order the loop stays stable. It may be a paradox but by comic book standards its a fairly simple one.

[shadowpsykie]

oh no doubt, in comics it is a fairly simple paradox. but still. if thinking too much into it it still gives the headachies

[icon_uk]

As a past master of the concept put it;

"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff."


The Doctor in "Blink"

[shadowpsykie]

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marry me.....

[thanekos]

ah, the end of time.

where your only neighbor's the time trapper, and he doesn't keep his cockroaches off your lawn

[foxhack]

And those damn kids keep speeding away on their fancy schmancy three passenger time machine.

And MU keeps tossing the garbage in Time Trapper's back yard!

[icon_uk]

Thank you, but my heart belongs to a heroically studly acrobat... or a cute and brave blond linguist... I'm amenable to offers from either... or both.

If you've never watched "Blink", do so, a glorious examination of time and the sometimes circular nature of cause and effect. As many TV critics put it "Not just the best Doctor Who episode of the year, but one of the best pieces of TV of the year". It's written by Stephen Moffatt, the new producer for the series, who also gave us a shorter, but just as fun little examination here THIS

Of course, if you ARE a studly heroic acrobat, or a cute and brave blond linguist, pm me! ;)

[darkblade]

Yes but where did the knowledge come from if they trained each other via paradox?

[darkblade]

They're still sore about that whole Summers family mess he helped start.

[joasakura]

O-O IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW.

:goes to have a lie down:

[thandrak]

Rip's got brown hair. Booster's a blond.

There might be an old ma'am Beetle.

[nevermore999]

So, uh, did anything happen to Shel? She's still alive right? Did she and Booster meet up again?

[cf105]

From each other. Its pretty simple. Young Booster learns timetravel from Old Rip, then teaches Young Rip when he's being raised. The knowledge like them goes in a loop of a sort

[nezchan]

I'm probably hopelessly dense here, but who's the linguist?

[darkblade]

But the knowledge had to originate somewhere and since both teachers learned it from the older incarnation of the other it didn't.

[sweettart1823]

So cute. Aw. Old Man Booster is still smokin' hot too.

[darkblade]

Cypher aka Doug Ramsey I'd assume.

[icon_uk]

The man, the legend, the little mutant that could... Cypher!