So yeah...Booster Gold, Joker, and...(from this month's previews)

[Jason California]

Barbara Gordan.

How do you feel about DC bringing back Barbara as Batgirl this way ? Do you think they will actually do it ? Is this a bad idea that cant help but be made ?

BOOSTER GOLD #5
Written by Geoff Johns & Jeff Katz
Art and cover by Dan Jurgens & Norm Rapmund
"52 Pick-Up" continues! Booster Gold has been tasked with preventing the origins of the world's greatest heroes from unraveling. Next up is his greatest challenge yet: preventing one of the most horrific wrongs that's ever befallen a hero in the DC Universe.
Leaping into the pages of BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE, Booster attempts to stop a tragedy that he discovers never should've happened — the Joker shooting and paralyzing Barbara Gordon, Batgirl.
Plus, what dark secret is Rip Hunter keeping from Booster?

[Black Roman]

Barbara Gordan.

How do you feel about DC bringing back Barbara as Batgirl this way ? Do you think they will actually do it ? Is this a bad idea that cant help but be made ?

BOOSTER GOLD #5
Written by Geoff Johns & Jeff Katz
Art and cover by Dan Jurgens & Norm Rapmund
"52 Pick-Up" continues! Booster Gold has been tasked with preventing the origins of the world's greatest heroes from unraveling. Next up is his greatest challenge yet: preventing one of the most horrific wrongs that's ever befallen a hero in the DC Universe.
Leaping into the pages of BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE, Booster attempts to stop a tragedy that he discovers never should've happened — the Joker shooting and paralyzing Barbara Gordon, Batgirl.
Plus, what dark secret is Rip Hunter keeping from Booster?

Like I said in my discussion earlier. . . HERESY!!!!

[Ray G.]

They won't.

[Albert]

Barbara Gordan.

How do you feel about DC bringing back Barbara as Batgirl this way ? Do you think they will actually do it ? Is this a bad idea that cant help but be made ?

BOOSTER GOLD #5
Written by Geoff Johns & Jeff Katz
Art and cover by Dan Jurgens & Norm Rapmund
"52 Pick-Up" continues! Booster Gold has been tasked with preventing the origins of the world's greatest heroes from unraveling. Next up is his greatest challenge yet: preventing one of the most horrific wrongs that's ever befallen a hero in the DC Universe.
Leaping into the pages of BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE, Booster attempts to stop a tragedy that he discovers never should've happened — the Joker shooting and paralyzing Barbara Gordon, Batgirl.
Plus, what dark secret is Rip Hunter keeping from Booster?

If they do it, it won't be in Booster Gold.

[Jerome Gibbons]

If they do it, it won't be in Booster Gold.

Exactly.

[Colby]

They won't.

I agree.

But as far as attention-grabbers go, this obviously works. Hell, I'm intrigued, and I can't touch the DCU proper with a ten-foot pole right now...

[Jason California]

I am curious to see if ti will happen and cant be so sure.

I know Didio has said he wants major events to happen in their characters books though.

I am pretty sure they want to bring her back and I think it would be cool if they did here. It would be a good surprise ending. No one expects it to happen sicne it is so obvious and then it really does. It could be cool.

[GrandeMaestro Fünke]

They won't.

Exactly, it'll ruffle too many feathers. Plus it'd just screw too much up.

[Yannick_B]

If anything, this being in Booster Gold will show why this awful thing happened to Barbara Gordon, for the better.

[Boris the Blade]

Haha. Yeaaah. I think people are getting huffed up over nothing.

[ZombieSpeedball]

Nope. Not gonna happen. If they bring her back as Batgirl, they'll heal her somehow, they won't just undo all of the Oracle stuff. That would be bullshit. I am also very certain that Ted Kord will not be saved.

[Deej]

Did anyone else see the word ATTEMPT in the solicit???

[Howlett]

Did anyone else see the word ATTEMPT in the solicit???

Shuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut uuuuuuuuuuuup!!!! Some of us are having fun watching this :mad:

[Jay Wesson]

This is madness. If this happens, I'll call for Dan Didio's resignation, effective immediately.

No one will listen, though. I have no clout. Still...

[MAK15]

COOL!

I dont see the problem with it.
S'long as Geoff doesn't make the stroy blow donkey bits I'm okay with it.

[MAK15]

This is madness. If this happens, I'll call for Dan Didio's resignation, effective immediately.

No one will listen, though. I have no clout. Still...

no.
THIS.
IS.
COMICS!

[Jay Wesson]

no.
THIS.
IS.
COMICS!

Seriously.
You guys.
Seriously.

Uncertainty and unpredictability are awesome. It's the stuff of magic. But fucking quit it already.

Seriously.

Stop re-tooling and just write some good fucking stories. Stop with the cataclysmic rifts in the fabric of reality. Stop with the rise and fall of new, yet familiar dimensions. Put some dudes in spandex up against some bad guys, let the bad guys almost win, then have the spandex-ed good guys mop the fucking floor with the bad guys, and have them make some corny jokes. This is all I'm asking.

[ZombieSpeedball]

Seriously.
You guys.
Seriously.

Uncertainty and unpredictability are awesome. It's the stuff of magic. But fucking quit it already.

Seriously.

Stop re-tooling and just write some good fucking stories. Stop with the cataclysmic rifts in the fabric of reality. Stop with the rise and fall of new, yet familiar dimensions. Put some dudes in spandex up against some bad guys, let the bad guys almost win, then have the spandex-ed good guys mop the fucking floor with the bad guys, and have them make some corny jokes. This is all I'm asking.

Are you asking DC to do stories that do not involve going back to previously told stories? That is just absurd.

[Jay Wesson]

Are you asking DC to do stories that do not involve going back to previously told stories? That is just absurd.

Apparently. If they're not killing someone off or bringing them back from the dead, they're making them gay.

Edit:

Then the whole thing gets spoiled in the editor's column two weeks ahead of time!

[Kefky]

Eh, this book is starting to sound a lot like Exiles in nature.... Meaning that whatever hijinx Booster gets himself into, it really won't make a difference, continuity-wise.

[Yannick_B]

Are you asking DC to do stories that do not involve going back to previously told stories? That is just absurd.

I dont know why they insist their time travel series visit eras and stories their readers will recognize.

[Jay Wesson]

I dont know why they insist their time travel series visit eras and stories their readers will recognize.

:roll:


Fixed that for you.







Post count.... rising.

[Yannick_B]

Wow. What added zing.

[Jay Wesson]

Wow. What added zing.

:razz:

[ZombieSpeedball]

I dont know why they insist their time travel series visit eras and stories their readers will recognize.

It's kinda like my complaint a couple weeks ago about the DC characters all being based off of pre-existing characters. DC goes back to the well many times.

[Jay Wesson]

It's kinda like my complaint a couple weeks ago about the DC characters all being based off of pre-existing characters. DC goes back to the well many times.

In the most self-indulgent, aren't we clever, shouldn't we be given an honorary doctorate, kind of way.

[ZombieSpeedball]

In the most self-indulgent, aren't we clever, shouldn't we be given an honorary doctorate, kind of way.

:mistrust:

[MAK15]

Eh, this book is starting to sound a lot like Exiles in nature.... Meaning that whatever hijinx Booster gets himself into, it really won't make a difference, continuity-wise.

so?
Booster makes it fun.
this week's ish alone made me laugh out loud.
'what corps do you belong to?'

[Yannick_B]

It's kinda like my complaint a couple weeks ago about the DC characters all being based off of pre-existing characters. DC goes back to the well many times.

Yeah, but its what superhero history's there for.
I'm not saying there should be constant wallowing in it, but in all the stuff I'm reading from DC I dont really have a problem with it.

[Jason California]

If Booster has to fix time it makes sense that from time to time BIG events will happen is book. It wont alwasy be Boost go back in time to make sure it is the way it was before.

[Boris the Blade]

They're not retooling. Booster Gold is about Booster's wacky adventures through time and such, and the very purpose of the book is to send him to different stories throughout the history of DC and have him go on wacky adventures there. It's fun, pure four-color style stuff.

This issue sounds like it's going to be a heartbreaker though.