Booster Gold #24

[pyrotwilight.insanejournal.com]

For those following Booster and I'm ashamed of those who AREN'T, we were left with Black Beetle having changed the past by having Grant Wilson the Ravager kill the New Teen Titans instead of dying in battle having been overloaded by his powers.

Black Beetle supposedly did this so that he may get Batman out of the picture both Bruce (who'd "die" in Final Crisis regardless) and Dick.

BUT. We then find out what Black Beetle had actually changed the past and why he wanted to create this altered timeline.

We find out Trigon who became ruler of Earth after the altered Terror of Trigon story (since no Titans would've survived to help Raven defeat her father) has kept a room full of trinkets from the heroes he's killed and one of those trinkets is...



BBlack Beetle then escapes with his time travel powers and Booster, Rip and Raven bail on the timeline but before leaving help ensure Kyle gets a GL ring to help fight on Earth incase they can't change it.

 

Cue back to the story and the whole Ravager versus Teen Titans battle now free of Black Beetle's interference.

Comments

[runespoor7.insanejournal.com]

The charitable reading is that because 'Deathstroke' encouraged him to look after Damian, Dick is overcompensating right now. Because looking after Damian would be what Bruce wanted, and Dick should not let what Deathstroke told him a decade earlier bother him, so... overcompensation.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Particularly asm, since then, Deathstroke dropped sodding CHEMO on Bludhaven to get back at Dick. And in none of their future encounters did Dick ask what he'd meant that time they'd first met.

[stig.insanejournal.com]

So, probably more a case of Dick thinking "Crazy bereaved asssassins say a lot of cryptic things", forgetting about it vonciously, but letting it affect his subconcious - like just an extra little mental hand on the shoulder to reassure him.

[blake_reitz.insanejournal.com]

Plus, I think they've covered that the effects of time travel tends to gradually erase the presence of time travelers. Handy!