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sharlynnshida's review
3.0
This was quite the book to tackle! I struggle reading old black and white comics, but I'm glad I finally finished this. Booster Gold is my favorite DC hero after Batman. He's arrogant and money hungry, but also childish and caring. Reading his origin story gives me a great appreciation as I read about him in current DC events :)
invertible_hulk's review
4.0
Occasionally, I tell myself that I need to branch out with my superheros. With an attempt to forget my blind teenaged loyalty to Image comics, I am a Marvel Comics boy through and through. I've made half-assed attempts at diving into DC titles; but every time I try, I'm confronted with decades' worth of ridiculously convoluted continuity spanning across countless parallel universes. However, unlike that found in the Marvel Universe, its continuity and backstory that I'm not really familiar with.
Yes, everyone knows the basic story behind Batman and Superman, but not many others within the DC Universe. So, when I ran across this Booster Gold collection -- which starts with Issue #1: the introduction of the character into the DC Universe -- I decided to give it a shot. I knew enough about the city of Metropolis (where Booster resides) to fake whatever I didn't know, and everything else would be filled in by artist/writer/creator Jurgens.
I'm glad I took the chance.
This was a solid title throughout -- art as well as writing. It got a bit tricky towards the end of the collection, once the title itself started taking part in company-wide crossovers and whatnot, but it was manageable. However, if the editors of this collection can include the corresponding issue of Action Comics that led into the Booster Gold clone storyarc, I don't understand why they couldn't include some of the corresponding Millenium cross-over issues to help fill in some of the gaps with that storyarc.
Oh well, I'll just dock them one star for that one.
[more forthcoming]
Yes, everyone knows the basic story behind Batman and Superman, but not many others within the DC Universe. So, when I ran across this Booster Gold collection -- which starts with Issue #1: the introduction of the character into the DC Universe -- I decided to give it a shot. I knew enough about the city of Metropolis (where Booster resides) to fake whatever I didn't know, and everything else would be filled in by artist/writer/creator Jurgens.
I'm glad I took the chance.
This was a solid title throughout -- art as well as writing. It got a bit tricky towards the end of the collection, once the title itself started taking part in company-wide crossovers and whatnot, but it was manageable. However, if the editors of this collection can include the corresponding issue of Action Comics that led into the Booster Gold clone storyarc, I don't understand why they couldn't include some of the corresponding Millenium cross-over issues to help fill in some of the gaps with that storyarc.
Oh well, I'll just dock them one star for that one.
[more forthcoming]
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