The Dire Consequences of Superman+Wonder Woman (Justice League International Annual #1 spoilers)

[stillanerd]

Like pretty much everybody in the comic book geekdom today, you're no doubt aware of the very controversial new romance between Superman and Wonder Woman that is beginning over in Justice League #12. And I'm sure some of you--mainly those of you who, for whatever reason, don't wish see Superman with his real one-true love, Lois Lane (no offense)--you're probably going, "We'll, it's about time! Everybody knows that Superman and Wonder Woman should have hooked-up a long time ago! This is the best thing that could ever have happened!"

Oh really? If you think everything is all going to be all sunshine and rainbows and pixie dust now, just ask Booster Gold (or would've asked him, that is), as seen in today's Justice League International Annual #1.







Yeah, nice going there Supes and Diana. Not only is your little dalliance apparently going to threaten the future of all mankind, but worst of all...you erased Booster Gold from existence!!!!


Then again, maybe it was just Rip Hunter being a dick by taking Booster out of the time-stream before Booster could ruin their "magic moment," and saying "screw the fate of the world, you're not going to make me miss watching this!" After all, rumor has it Booster is going to get his own series as part of the "fifth wave" of the New 52, so he's got to be able to get out of this jam somehow. Geez, Doctor Who wasn't kidding about all this "wibbly-whimey, timey-whimey" stuff, was he?

But in all seriousness, this certainly puts an interesting wrinkle in DC's supposed new "power couple", doesn't it?

Comments

[wake_the_dragon]

No, not Booster Gold!

[darkknightjrk]

Kinda throws that "no time travel" rule right out the window, don't it?

But yeah, very curious to see what happens next.

"Not only is your little dalliance apparently going to threaten the future of all mankind"

Of course, considering what just happened, that is the easy assumption--that their relationship causes problems, but that seems a little too easy. I'm thinking they inadvertently do something on the road to Trinity War to make things worse.

[stillanerd]

Oh, no doubt. After all, based on the preview images for next year, it looks like most of the fight will be over Pandora's Box, with Superman on one side and Batman on the other.

[theflames]

Not exactly their fault but this is so comic book stupid. I'm interested in the Global Guardians coming back.

"REAL one-true love, Lois Lane"

Meh, they've been together for how many real world years? This is comics, I'll celebrate a bit of experimentation.

Booster's costume looks terrible, so does his goggles.

[darkknightjrk]

"Meh, they've been together for how many real world years? This is comics, I'll celebrate a bit of experimentation."

Exactly. I would frankly be disappointed if when they split the two up, they just had Clark have a blond Lois Lane to chose from instead. At least having a relationship with Wonder Woman is a unique story that hasn't really been told in a long-form way.

[q99]

I haven't been impressed by the short-form versions of it.

[mrstatham]

Except most takes on Clark/Diana have been in Elseworlds stories where one character or the other is a complete asshole in some way; Red Son in particular comes to mind.

[q99]

There's also been some where they're both heroic, and even then I don't find it clicks.

[karunya]

I love Booster's "ewwwww" face in the third-to-last panel. Like seeing your mom and dad...

[icon_uk]

God, I HATE that tired storytelling "suspense builder" thing;

"We have to....URK! Oh no.... I don't have time to convey the original message which was only probably a couple of words long but for no apparent reason I'm going to stop talking about that and, whilst taking longer to die/fade out than a soprano's death scene in an Italian opera, I'm going to witter on with cryptic mumblings, but not actually conveying the point I originally came to make... And another thing...." etc etc etc

[q99]

Reminds me of the My Little Pony episode It's About Time.

When a character realizes how massively stupid they were for doing that (in part, to be fair, to numerous interruptions).

[espanolbot]

Batman: Don't make out, Diana and Clark! It'll destroy the future!

Clark: Eh, that's Future!Clark's problem, not mine!

[janegray]

One of the Naked Gun movies parodied that trope 20 years ago. And yet authors still use it today in serious stories >_>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJWLdQ9vylA

[auggie18]

I'd find it a little funny if Booster turned out to be the great great great grandkid of Diana and Steve Trevor/Nemesis/whoever. Or Superman and Lois Lane. (They both have blonde relatives, plus there's a few generations to work that gene in there.)

[karunya]

Or maybe Booster uses Clairol. Only his hairdresser knows for sure.

[superfangirl1]

I know it not in the scans. But is it possibly for batman to invent Brother eye if identity/infinite crisis never happen in the DCnU?

[mrstatham]

The Crisis' did happen, supposedly, just 'not in the way we saw them happening'.

[silverhammerman]

Well that was interesting/frustrating. I hope Booster isn't gone for long, he's fun when written right. Hopefully he actually gets that fifth-wave book.

And I'm not sure if it's been said before, but Booster's new goggles look goofy as hell.

[silverhammerman]

Ooh, just noticed, second page, third panel, what the hell happened to Booster's body? Did his torso become a sphere?

[fleur_de_liz]

[generator_rex]

What I want to happen: Godiva is sad mourning the loss of Booster, believing him killed by OMAC. Then a Western Union man approaches her and tells her that he has a letter that has been in their possesion for almost a 100 year and it will read:

Dear Dora, If my calculations are correct you shall receive this letter immediately after you and I fought OMAC. Please let me assure you that I am alive and well. I have been living happily these past eight months in they year 1885. After defeating OMAC..." 1885! September 1885!

Western Union Man: Whoa! Wait, Ma'am! What's this all about!

Dora: He's alive! Booster's alive! He's in the Old West, but he's alive!

Western Union Man: Wait a minute, Ma'am. You need help?

Dora: There's only one man who can help me.
[Cue Back to the Future Theme]
Also Booster + Jonah Hex

[sir_mikael]

I totally thought that what with Booster fading like that cus the wrong people hooked up, he'd have to go back in time and get Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor to stay a couple so that he could be born in the future. Booster Gold could be a decendant of Wonder Woman! :D

[kenn_el]

So if Booster uses time travel to stop the Clark/Diana hook-up, would that be clockblocking?

[donnblake]

Technically under the Genital Time Travel Act of Fourteen Eighty-B, it would be considered cockclocking, I believe.

[eyz]

I'm loving it!
It simply means the whole NEW 52 needs to be erased/things brought back to normal!!
AW YEAH!!

...but AW NO, no more Booster in the meantime :/


Sidenote:
That's the worst drawn Booster I've ever seen! (..ahem, Extreme Justice aside)...or is that how awful is costume now looks in the New 52??

[kirke_novak]

Just when I thought I couldnt hate this relationship more!!

Positive thoughts, Kirke, positive thoughts... maybe he's now in the out-of-existence place with Ted? Yeah, yeah, that's it. Prove me wrong!

[aeka]

"Superman and Wonder Woman? What the hell?"

Pretty much sums it up.

[lieut_kettch]

I think I know what Rip and Booster are trying to prevent: a cataclysmic metahuman battle that will shake the world to its foundations:

[green_hellfish_of_doom]

looks legit! XD

[reynard531]

Okay, this is probably too late to make any difference, but I just had to say something. This is just...ridiculous. Okay, so I heard about Superman and Wonder Woman getting together. And when it happened, I wasn't really that upset. I figured it was only temporary, since you would think DC would know that most people like Clark with Lois, so on and so forth. But the idea wasn't bad per say. I mean, they've TRIED it before, key word tried.

It would make sense why Clark might initially have some romantic interest in Diana if he isn't together with Lois at the time. Diana isn't human, so maybe she can relate better to him. And I could imagine the two realizing this just isn't working and still being on relatively good terms, right?

But...they're getting romantically involved ends up erasing Booster Gold of all people from existence and causing some disaster? Really? I know comics are over the top and all but that's so utterly insane I refuse to believe it. It's stupid. "Oh, we can't be together because if we do it will cause a MASSIVE DISASTER IN TIME."

Really, what's wrong with DC? I already didn't hear good things initially about the Superman series to collect the trades, and I suppose that I can scratch off Justice League now too. It's sad really, I just got volume 2.