Booster Gold #19
This month the Gold Exchange goes audio for the first time as Russell Burlingame and Dan Jurgens run through a series of reader questions and cover a wide mix of topics relating to the latest issue of this hit DC Comics series. If you enjoy Booster Gold, you're going to love the next 35 minutes.
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Podcast Run time: 34 min, 35 sec
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Booster Gold #19 ... Part Two
We're stepping back into the time sphere this time around and including an old-school, Q&A-style interview to accompany the podcast-only Gold Exchange that ran last month. Why? Because frankly, there were so many follow-ups that didn't get included in the audio interview with Dan Jurgens that I kind of felt like each and every one of these questions ought to have a chance to be asked.
First off, we had some questions about the blackboard. Longtime readers will of course know that, ever since 52, Rip Hunter's blackboard has been a source of clues, riddles and red herrings as to the future of Booster Gold and the DC Universe. Even with the departure of 52 writer Geoff Johns, who wrote the first year of the Booster Gold monthly, Jurgens has kept up the trend, including a quick glimpse of a blackboard on the final pages of this month's issue. Comic Related just had to know what was going on there!
After that, we're to share with you some very general questions that I put to Dapper Dan about the series, clarifying some of the sticking points that have cropped up for me, as a reader and a fan, during the "Reality Lost" story.
Comic Related: "Batman and Robin aren't Batman and Robin" seems obvious--and may be the first in-continuity hint to Tim no longer being Robin after "Battle for the Cowl." But when you say HE is coming back, are we talking about Bruce, or somebody else?
Dan Jurgens: Again... I'm sorry! That's more of a "stay tuned" answer.
CR: "Keep Vigilante away from the Titans"--that's going to be hard, given that there's a huge crossover in the works between those books. Or is that an imperative that's going to speak to what Booster is doing in the Titans' past?
DJ: We aren't part of any crossover. The Booster/Titans story will be self contained.
CR: Your blackboards have been demonstrably more sparse than Geoff's were--but they also seem to indicate much more of what's actually going on, with fewer red herrings (I am of course speaking in generalizations here). Is that a development of Rip Hunter's skills, simple coincidence, or other?
DJ: I think it's more a reflection the differences between Geoff and me as writers. You will see a blackboard in The Brave and the Bold#23 that might be a bit more fun, however.
CR: Where are Dan & Rose these days?
DJ: Off developing-- or trying to develop-- their relationship. It's a bumpy one!
CR: Michelle has reason to be mad at Rip, as he used her to appease Booster; does she see it that way or is she shifting most of the blame onto Booster himself?
DJ: She's mad at both of them. It was Rip who made the decision to save her but they've both been misleading her to this point.
CR: "The Wars?" Are these the same ones that created major chronal interference in the original series and made the past hard to predict?
DJ: That-- and MORE. This is something that's been hinted at in both Booster and the Legion books.
CR: Who's the black-haired girl right under Mister Mind on the chronoscreen? Is that Catherine from JLI?
DJ: That is a person yet-to-be introduced. It's a past adventure of Booster's... even though he hasn't had it. The mysteries of time travel!
CR: Whatever happened to Rip's gunshot wounds?
DJ: A rather quick recovery.
Russell Burlingame is a journalist and columnist living and working in New York City. In high school, Russell interviewed Elliot S. Maggin for a review of the Kingdom Come novelization, and since then has worked consistently in and around the comics industry. He interned for Wizard magazine, and has freelanced for Wizard and Newsarama, in addition to a number of non-comics publications, Russell is currently working on a graphic novel based on Cap'n Internet, the comic strip that ran in his college newspaper; and a graphic biography of folk singer Phil Ochs with artist Marion Vitus.
Currently, in addition to his freelance work and his comics projects, Russell writes a number of columns for ComicRelated, including Conscientious Sequentials, The Gold Exchange, What's Perhappenin', Closing Statements, Reflecting 'Pool and To See or Not To See. Russell also takes point on the Hot Shot of the Week feature.
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