Funny Book Forensics 418 Origins: A Booster Gold Story

[00:00:03] Speaker A: It's button time. It's button time. Know when it's button time. [00:00:07] Speaker B: But Dan pushes the button. [00:00:09] Speaker A: We've been doing this a long time. [00:00:11] Speaker B: Yeah, it's true. [00:00:12] Speaker A: We have been ever since I took the button responsibilities away from you. [00:00:17] Speaker B: I know. I can't push the button anymore, everybody. Because Dan doesn't trust me. [00:00:24] Speaker A: No, because we used to both push. Push the push words. We used to both push the button at the same time. [00:00:31] Speaker B: Yes. [00:00:31] Speaker A: Now we don't need to do that. We only need one button, one button. [00:00:35] Speaker B: To rule them all. [00:00:37] Speaker A: Right. One drink to cope with it. [00:00:40] Speaker B: Yes. There you go. And one blurry camera to make Greg look amazing. [00:00:47] Speaker A: No, it does not look amazing. Dude, it's soft. Are you calling it out? [00:00:50] Speaker B: Because I know. How much terrible soft would you get. [00:00:53] Speaker A: A camera that works? [00:00:54] Speaker B: No, I want that. That 90s like, warm glow feel. Yeah, it feels like we're. [00:01:01] Speaker A: I. [00:01:01] Speaker B: You're just. [00:01:02] Speaker A: You know, we have the same color sweatshirt. [00:01:05] Speaker B: But it makes you upset that I look like I'm in the movie Drive with. [00:01:09] Speaker A: No, it makes everybody upset. Baby Goose looks like crap. [00:01:11] Speaker B: No, man, I'm in the movie with Baby Goose. Just like with that warm. [00:01:15] Speaker A: No, it's not helpful. [00:01:17] Speaker B: Oh, it is so good. [00:01:19] Speaker A: No. [00:01:19] Speaker B: Yeah. No, When I dig out my better. [00:01:22] Speaker A: Camera, I have tear behind me. [00:01:24] Speaker B: Yeah, you have tears coming out of your eyes. You're crying. [00:01:29] Speaker A: No, Ty, this guy. I've sad hot dogs. I have all sorts of things. [00:01:39] Speaker B: He does. He's got it all. [00:01:42] Speaker A: Actually, I want to yell at somebody before we start the podcast. [00:01:45] Speaker B: Okay. Who are you yelling at? [00:01:47] Speaker A: Well, I pulled out my trusty, dusty American Comic Book Chronicles. [00:01:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:01:51] Speaker A: By Keith Dallas, who we've referenced many times on podcast. [00:01:55] Speaker B: Many times. [00:01:56] Speaker A: And there is no mention of Booster Gold in this entire book. [00:02:01] Speaker B: What? No Booster? No. No Booster J. Gold? Booster Thing. [00:02:08] Speaker A: Booster J. Gold. Booster Seagull. Booster Seagull. [00:02:11] Speaker B: Booster Seagull. It is Booster. [00:02:13] Speaker A: Or Booster M. Gold. Or maybe it should be Booster MC Gold. [00:02:18] Speaker B: Booster MC Gold. Oh, man, what a moniker. [00:02:24] Speaker A: What? His name. [00:02:25] Speaker B: I know it is his name. [00:02:28] Speaker A: What if you had the name. If you had a cool name like that? [00:02:32] Speaker B: I think I might reinvent my. Yeah. Myself. [00:02:42] Speaker A: Next time we film at the store. I have a special treat for everyone. [00:02:46] Speaker B: He's got a special treat. What is it? I'm like a dog. Treat. Treat. [00:02:50] Speaker A: Yeah. Treat I in the mail. I got a full Lycra bodysuit, green and purple Lex Luthor costume. [00:02:57] Speaker B: Oh, my. [00:03:01] Speaker A: At least me quite exposed, though. [00:03:03] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:03:04] Speaker A: So if we use that same table we used last Time. We're going to have to, like, move the camera up a little bit. Yeah. Because you joked about us having crotch ties in that video and then literally, you could just see our crotches below the table. Was fantastic. And you said it. So what you were really doing is encouraging people. [00:03:27] Speaker B: Watch. [00:03:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:03:29] Speaker B: Wow. [00:03:30] Speaker A: You had no idea. I think you were just being Greg. But it was just being interesting. [00:03:35] Speaker B: And then all of a sudden editing. [00:03:36] Speaker A: That also, I set the video on too high of a resolution so it's all fuzzy at the bottom. Yeah. I don't know what happened. It's fantastic. That's our high quality production value. As long as we're talking about it. [00:03:50] Speaker B: That's what you're paying for when you watch the. The funny book forensics on YouTube or. [00:03:55] Speaker A: Well, if you would just actually put up your camera, this would not be an issue. It does look terrible. [00:04:00] Speaker B: I'm not going to go delay. [00:04:02] Speaker A: You know what? It makes you look like the President. [00:04:06] Speaker B: No, no, it doesn't. You're just saying. You're saying stuff to. [00:04:09] Speaker A: Nope, it does. You're saying you look orange. Your skin is all orangey now. [00:04:14] Speaker B: Well, that's great. [00:04:16] Speaker A: If you've been watching South Park. [00:04:18] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:04:20] Speaker A: Have you? [00:04:20] Speaker B: Have not. I've been watching. [00:04:22] Speaker A: If you're watching south park, you've learned about the President and Mike Pence's special relationship. [00:04:28] Speaker B: I've been watching. [00:04:29] Speaker A: Sorry. J.D. [00:04:30] Speaker B: Vances been watching Royal Crackers, my friend. [00:04:34] Speaker A: Why? [00:04:35] Speaker B: Because it's hilarious. [00:04:37] Speaker A: Well, have you seen hilarious things? [00:04:39] Speaker B: Have you seen it? Then you shouldn't ask why. You should. The question should be, why aren't you watching Royal Crackers? [00:04:45] Speaker A: Dan, that's not true. [00:04:48] Speaker B: That. [00:04:48] Speaker A: That is. What am I watching? I don't know what I'm watching right now. Seriously. I ended something. I'm. Oh, I'm finishing up Strange New Worlds last season. [00:04:58] Speaker B: Okay. [00:04:58] Speaker A: I'm like, halfway through. I done with that. I'll get on to something else. [00:05:03] Speaker B: Give Royal Crackers a check. It's. [00:05:06] Speaker A: I am watching South Park. [00:05:08] Speaker B: It's in the same vein. It's like if you took. I want to say. [00:05:12] Speaker A: And Royal Crackers. Are the president and Vice president having sex? [00:05:16] Speaker B: No, but it's like the Office meets that kind of. [00:05:22] Speaker A: Is it a cartoon? Yeah, it's a cartoon. [00:05:25] Speaker B: Yeah, it's animated. It's got a very Dr. Katz kind of. [00:05:29] Speaker A: Oh, sorry. Is it animated? [00:05:31] Speaker B: It's animated. [00:05:33] Speaker A: We can't call things cartoons. It's animation. [00:05:35] Speaker B: Yeah, it's animation. It's cartoon. [00:05:37] Speaker A: It's all animation. [00:05:38] Speaker B: Now, the background, the backgrounds look like Straight out, like, you know, like, straight up Salzberger style. You know, like, really good. But the. The characters look like Dr. Kat's camping animation. [00:05:50] Speaker A: Great. [00:05:51] Speaker B: No, that's. I. I love it. I don't know why I'm drawn to it and. But the. The. The voice actors are fantastic, so. [00:05:59] Speaker A: Well, were you drawn to this cover? [00:06:02] Speaker B: Yeah, I was drawn to the COVID The COVID is amazing. I say that about a lot of covers, but this is a really good cover. This is. This is good. This is like. [00:06:11] Speaker A: You get the. [00:06:12] Speaker B: I really like the. [00:06:14] Speaker A: The. [00:06:15] Speaker B: The character drawing of Booster Gold. Booster Gold on here, where you got them. You know, front, side, and back. [00:06:23] Speaker A: Like a dossier. Yeah, like a dossier. It's like a dossier. It's like Senator Ballard has a layout here. [00:06:30] Speaker B: But then it's scary because you got his glove and his flight ring. It's like, oh, no. How'd they get all that? [00:06:37] Speaker A: Yeah. We've got special guest star Superman. I told you. I warned you. [00:06:42] Speaker B: You did warn me, and I was like, oh, no, the supes is coming. [00:06:48] Speaker A: Well, if you're the writer of the Walking Dead, this is going to be the most boring, lame book ever, because Superman's in it, man. [00:06:57] Speaker B: I. I'm. I'm excited because, you know, the. The two of them teaming up. I can't wait. They're going to make a great. They're going to be best friends. [00:07:04] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Well, maybe, maybe, maybe Dan Jerkins. This book would have been more successful if he just stole all his ideas from other source material and then published it. Dang. What? It could have been made with Sora, too. [00:07:25] Speaker B: Oh. [00:07:29] Speaker A: Then it would have been a video, too. [00:07:30] Speaker B: What was made with Sora? [00:07:33] Speaker A: Everything. Okay, well, I was making fun of the creator of the Walking Dead and the creator of Invincible for stealing his source material. I. E. Omni Man. And, you know, you mentioned 28 days later. [00:07:46] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:07:48] Speaker A: Which is the. [00:07:49] Speaker B: Allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly. But if you've watched. [00:07:54] Speaker A: He didn't say anybody's name on this podcast. [00:07:56] Speaker B: No, no. I mean, well, you just did. Just. [00:07:59] Speaker A: I didn't. [00:08:00] Speaker B: You. [00:08:00] Speaker A: I mean, I said the creator of. I didn't say anybody's name. There are multiple creators there. [00:08:04] Speaker B: That's true. [00:08:05] Speaker A: You'd have to infer someone we're talking about. [00:08:09] Speaker B: But yeah, I mean, yeah, yeah. You watch the. Watch the movie, read the book. You're oddly. Looks familiar. I think I've seen this before. Eight years before. [00:08:24] Speaker A: Yeah, well, you know, it's. It is. It is what it is. [00:08:28] Speaker B: It's what it is. [00:08:33] Speaker A: Yeah, it's it is what it is. And people are certainly allowed to have their opinions. I guess that's true. [00:08:40] Speaker B: That's true. And I mean, you know, that's. That everybody. Everybody has one. And that is. That's okay. [00:08:49] Speaker A: No, it's really not, actually. Like, some people's opinions should just be, like, not ever shared. [00:08:54] Speaker B: I didn't. I didn't say they should be shared. I said they can have their opinion. [00:08:59] Speaker A: I would argue some of that's not. [00:09:00] Speaker B: Okay, actually, that they shouldn't have an opinion at all. [00:09:04] Speaker A: Yeah, I'm quite actually, frankly, I'm okay with some people just never having an opinion. Yeah, that's fair. [00:09:09] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:09:12] Speaker A: Maybe me. I mean, if you, the listeners, don't want me to have an opinion anymore, write us. We'll consider your feedback and reject it promptly. Reject it. Put a big stamp on it, like a dossier. [00:09:27] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. We'll put the flight vents on and fly away. It is an old school dossier. [00:09:33] Speaker A: I love the file folder. It reminds me of extemporaneous speaking. [00:09:37] Speaker B: I mean, I use those file folders every day, so. [00:09:41] Speaker A: Of course you do. I'm not going to mention the company you work for, but it does not surprise me that they use file folders like this. [00:09:47] Speaker B: Still could explain it. [00:09:49] Speaker A: That explains a lot. [00:09:50] Speaker B: It does. It's okay. I mean, I might be the only one that uses them, but. [00:09:56] Speaker A: Well, it looks like this ruler uses inches. And I'm guessing that here's my problem with this dossier. I'm thinking that probably by the time. I mean, not that we're going to give away anything, but Booster probably used the metric system. [00:10:11] Speaker B: He might have. He might have. [00:10:15] Speaker A: I think he definitely did. [00:10:16] Speaker B: You think so? [00:10:18] Speaker A: Yeah. Did I mention that this old fashioned is fantastic here in my. [00:10:23] Speaker B: I'm sure it is. This. [00:10:25] Speaker A: Well, I should not be drinking yet. We haven't seen any explosions or anything. [00:10:28] Speaker B: Oh, well, I'm. I'm breaking the rules, too, but, you know, the day is what it is. [00:10:33] Speaker A: Well, we changed editors this book. [00:10:36] Speaker B: We did. [00:10:37] Speaker A: Yeah. I'll go. [00:10:38] Speaker B: They heard us. They. They heard us talking. [00:10:41] Speaker A: They heard us talking and they said, oh, man, like, give us a new editor. Yeah, we got to reign in. Well, they probably did have to reign in Mr. Jurgens when he gets Superman in the book. [00:10:51] Speaker B: Oh, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Bring it in, bring it in. Gotta throw some new eyes on this and make sure you're. You're in line with what we want from the. The house of Superman. [00:11:06] Speaker A: Yeah, well, we start. We start the book. We start with the origin of Booster Gold. And we flip the page, and we've got a child riding a bicycle. [00:11:14] Speaker B: I honestly thought this was a commercial for, like. I thought, like. I was like, did I. Did I miss something? Do I have to flip through a couple of pages to get to the story? Is this a commercial for Being X Bicycles? Because I thought this was, like a. This kid kind of ride his bike through something, like, across the Rubicon to cross the Rubicon. And I was like, oh, man. He's. He's gonna. They're gonna sell us a BMX bicycle. Who is? Who's making this? [00:11:42] Speaker A: Is this. [00:11:42] Speaker B: Is this an ad for Huffy? Is this a Diamondback? So, Redline. Is it a Raleigh, where they still. [00:11:50] Speaker A: Make a double size? [00:11:51] Speaker B: It's a. Oh, It's a double seven. Okay. 77. Okay, cool. [00:11:55] Speaker A: Have you heard of the double seven bike? It's. [00:11:58] Speaker B: It came out in 77. Man. [00:12:01] Speaker A: Let's see. We've got. We've got everything here. We've got a BMX bike. Yeah. We've got a Walkman. He's got a walk. [00:12:07] Speaker B: Yeah, he's got the headphones on. Walkman. He's got the Velcro shoes. Huh? [00:12:13] Speaker A: Velcro shoes. Are those Velcro pants or are those. [00:12:17] Speaker B: I'm not sure. I think he might have them banded up on the side so that he doesn't get them pinched in the. In the sprocket. [00:12:23] Speaker A: Got it. Yeah. [00:12:24] Speaker B: You know, that's a. [00:12:25] Speaker A: It could also be parachute pants, though. [00:12:27] Speaker B: Could be parachute pants. It's a very. [00:12:30] Speaker A: Forget Redford. That's his name. Jason Redford. The late April Tuesday started out differently than most. Well, remember that? The ship that was crashing last issue? [00:12:42] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:12:43] Speaker A: At the end, it's. Well, there's like, a little dude walking out of it. [00:12:47] Speaker B: Oh. [00:12:50] Speaker A: Jason Redfern finds the ship. Yeah. No, no, you can't. No. Micro. We'll get sued for talking about micronauts. [00:12:57] Speaker B: Okay, now, it wasn't. It wasn't that. [00:12:59] Speaker A: It was a. Micronauts are like an own property. Be careful. [00:13:03] Speaker B: Micro. Not micros. [00:13:06] Speaker A: Micro. Micro Machine. [00:13:09] Speaker B: Not micro. Not. No, it's a. Not micro. It's a. Not Micro. [00:13:13] Speaker A: Micro. Micro Lady. I mentioned that before. That's Legion of Superheroes villain. He shrinks. [00:13:20] Speaker B: Oh, hey, maybe that's who it could be. [00:13:23] Speaker A: It could be, like, Micro Dude. Oh, I know. Like, this is a mashup comic we've got. Yeah. It's so somebody. No, we don't like to talk about that superhero because he beats his wife. Now, it's not that. [00:13:42] Speaker B: It's not that either. We're just going to jump right into the Booster Gold story. [00:13:46] Speaker A: How did Ant man get a movie? [00:13:48] Speaker B: I don't know, but you put Paul Rudd in it. And. And it's. And it's good, you know, I mean, as new Ant Man. See, see, that's the turn, Dan. That's the turn. Well, anyway, the bad stuff, and you get the good stuff. [00:14:06] Speaker A: Mr. Jason Redfern is he finds a ship, things explode. He finds a little man, he grabs the little man. Little man talks to him. He gets very excited and he goes home. [00:14:27] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:14:27] Speaker A: And he puts him in a cupboard. [00:14:31] Speaker B: And then makes him fight another little man. [00:14:35] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:35] Speaker B: Oh, man. This is a sad book. [00:14:38] Speaker A: That story was kind of racist. [00:14:39] Speaker B: It was super racist, dude. [00:14:42] Speaker A: Like, they made a movie out of it. [00:14:45] Speaker B: I know. It's not like, time. It's one of those things. That story might have been great for a moment. Like, there was a. Not like, you know, like, great for a moment in the sense, like, okay, hey, this is a story about growing or whatever there was. There was definitely a growth of characters and stuff like that. And maybe not so much for one, but a little bit. But not so much. But the overall. Yeah, no, I mean, it did. It did exemplify that these, These two characters were just playing out their parts of history, you know, they were what they were, and they only knew what they knew. [00:15:39] Speaker A: Yeah. It's sad. [00:15:40] Speaker B: It is sad. [00:15:41] Speaker A: Well, on a happier note, we have the little guy that the little guy makes a Superman symbol. [00:15:53] Speaker B: And now we're gonna find out that he's gonna go fight Superman. [00:15:57] Speaker A: Yeah. Young Jason, who wants to be called something else soon. Yeah. Decides he's gonna take him to Superman. And he sees Booster Gold on tv. He's a Coke. Not New Coke. [00:16:11] Speaker B: Old Coke. [00:16:13] Speaker A: Yeah. I think that that might be a new one. I'm not sure. [00:16:17] Speaker B: Yeah, maybe. [00:16:18] Speaker A: Well, if we. We knew if it was new or old Coke, we know about Mr. Jason's taste. Yeah. [00:16:24] Speaker B: I already have an idea. He's parachute pants, Velcro shoes. He's got his Walkman. [00:16:30] Speaker A: I think those are jeans. [00:16:31] Speaker B: Okay, well, some sort of. He's got. He's got a bunch of straps on his pants. [00:16:35] Speaker A: On the next page, he's changed clothes and he has a flip collar now. [00:16:42] Speaker B: In a little man. [00:16:44] Speaker A: Yeah. And a man in his pocket. Yeah. [00:16:47] Speaker B: Got a man in his pocket. [00:16:50] Speaker A: Well, anyway, young Jason goes to see Trixie at Gold Star headquarters. He says his name is Jason Redfern. Trixie greets him and he says, call me Fern. I hate the name Jason anyway. [00:17:09] Speaker B: All right, it seems like everybody in this book doesn't like the regular. They're. They're. The name that they're given. They choose a different name. Fern. [00:17:19] Speaker A: Though Trixie had a much better name. Yeah. [00:17:24] Speaker B: And then Booster wants to. He doesn't. He. He's. [00:17:28] Speaker A: I. I can't wanna be Michael. [00:17:30] Speaker B: Yeah, we. Yeah. [00:17:31] Speaker A: Yeah. Well, Michael Carter doesn't have, like, a good ring to it. [00:17:37] Speaker B: Mean. Sounds great. [00:17:40] Speaker A: Do we know his name yet? [00:17:41] Speaker B: No, we don't. We don't. [00:17:43] Speaker A: Oh, oops. My bad. [00:17:44] Speaker B: I was going to say he sounds like he's related to John Carter from Mars. [00:17:48] Speaker A: You'll know soon. He may have been. Who knows? [00:17:50] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. [00:17:53] Speaker A: Well, we flipped the page and Booster is in his penthouse hot tub. [00:17:57] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, right. [00:18:03] Speaker A: Skeets is skeeting. Correcting him. They're doing a history quiz. He's naming the presidents in order, like you should. [00:18:12] Speaker B: And you're trying to get smart on things. [00:18:15] Speaker A: Yeah. And just like all of us, Booster forgets about Gerald Ford. Lord, would Gerald Ford even be remembered as president if Chevy Chase didn't fall down. [00:18:31] Speaker B: I was just gonna say if he didn't fall down the stair, but then, I mean, was that. That was more of an exaggeration by Chevy Chase. I mean, he did fall down the stairs, but Chevy Chase did such a better job at personifying. [00:18:42] Speaker A: Chevy Chase is an. [00:18:44] Speaker B: It's true. [00:18:45] Speaker A: But that is factual. [00:18:47] Speaker B: That is factual. [00:18:48] Speaker A: That is. That is factual. Yeah, that is factual. But. And one of the things that made him a funny comedian is he was an asshole. And he always takes things too far. So he took things too far over and over and over again. [00:19:02] Speaker B: Oddly enough, I believe he was a musician before he was a comedian. [00:19:06] Speaker A: Well, there you go. [00:19:07] Speaker B: Fact check me if you wish he was. [00:19:10] Speaker A: Well, Dirk Jerkhead. [00:19:12] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:14] Speaker A: To talk to Booster about the comic book. They've got the proofs. [00:19:19] Speaker B: Oh, cool. [00:19:22] Speaker A: And he's excited about that. [00:19:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:25] Speaker A: And then Booster takes a call from Trixie. [00:19:27] Speaker B: Hey, what's up, Trixie? [00:19:30] Speaker A: Because that's what's going on. And a few minutes later, Booster, cape. [00:19:34] Speaker B: And all, cape and all. [00:19:36] Speaker A: The cape is back. [00:19:38] Speaker B: The cape is back, everybody. [00:19:39] Speaker A: The high collar cape is back. It's. [00:19:42] Speaker B: I mean, he's got a match fern in the high collar. It's a look at the time the collars are popped. [00:19:49] Speaker A: The flip could be wearing hoodies. [00:19:52] Speaker B: They're popping the collar. They're going to the Catalina wine tasting now. The Catalina mixer. Yeah, I mean, they. [00:20:04] Speaker A: Yeah, they're getting. They're Getting ready to. For the All Valley Karate Tournament. [00:20:10] Speaker B: Yeah, there is exactly what it is. [00:20:12] Speaker A: It's. [00:20:13] Speaker B: It's an interesting turn. [00:20:14] Speaker A: Totally forgot a girl's birthday. [00:20:17] Speaker B: You did? [00:20:19] Speaker A: Oh, man, it was a Sixteen Candles reference. [00:20:23] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:20:24] Speaker A: Sorry. [00:20:24] Speaker B: Oh. [00:20:27] Speaker A: I was going through all the movies. [00:20:29] Speaker B: Oh, I see. [00:20:30] Speaker A: I was. I was doing what you were doing. Oh, right. [00:20:33] Speaker B: I was gonna say I was going into the lead up that. That Booster was gonna take. Take young Fern under his wing and, and train him up in the ways of. Of Booster Gold and. And get him to, you know, like, become a superhero like him. [00:20:56] Speaker A: I feel like he'd be better off in the Last Starfighter. [00:21:00] Speaker B: Who, Fern or Booster Gold? [00:21:04] Speaker A: Yes. Yeah, sure. [00:21:05] Speaker B: Yes, both. Both of them sitting there playing. Playing video games until aliens come to pick that. Pick one of them up. [00:21:16] Speaker A: Well, he keeps saying, you want. The alien keeps showing a picture of Superman. Fern shares that his name is Z. [00:21:27] Speaker B: With the Z. [00:21:28] Speaker A: The Boosters got a super fire. Or Skeets has a Booster, has a super fire idea. Oh, and good. Once doesn't want to get people in touch with the man of Steel. [00:21:40] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. I mean, he's a tough guy to get a hold of. [00:21:44] Speaker A: Now, is this John Byrne Superman or is this still Crisis Superman? [00:21:53] Speaker B: I think it might be John Byrne Superman. I think we might have got out of Crisis. I could be wrong, though, but I'm sure you'll tell me. [00:22:02] Speaker A: Well, it's a. It's. It's kind of in that in between time, so it's kind of hard to say. I mean, I've got the. I've got the man of Steel. [00:22:11] Speaker B: Got the Big Book of Goodness right there. [00:22:14] Speaker A: I've got. Well, I've got other stuff too, but. Yeah, I mean, we can look it up in who's who, maybe. [00:22:20] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:22:22] Speaker A: If we wanted to, could. I don't really want to, but we. [00:22:25] Speaker B: Doesn'T want to, folks. He doesn't want to. He doesn't want you to know. He wants to keep you guessing. [00:22:31] Speaker A: I want, like. I think this is the perfect time to share why I don't want to know. [00:22:37] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:22:39] Speaker A: Yeah, Actually, I can't find it. [00:22:41] Speaker B: Oh, that's why he doesn't want you to know, because he can't find it. I'm imagining, though, Boosters. [00:22:46] Speaker A: What I wanted to bring up at this time is if you really wanted to know what was going on in DC Comics. [00:22:53] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, yeah. Then call Guy Gardner about Guy Gardner. [00:22:57] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:22:59] Speaker B: He could give him a call. Yeah. I mean, well, why, you know, if Booster was so hot on Hot on looking for help that he could have. I mean I know he's. He's destined to talk to Superman, but I mean he could have just could have called a guy. [00:23:13] Speaker A: Two of them was guy in Metropolis or his guy in Coast City or is he Baltimore or someplace else? [00:23:22] Speaker B: That's a good question. [00:23:23] Speaker A: Well, anyway, they're off on their quest continued third page following. So we have a couple advertisements but yeah, we're off and we're off and we're off and so now Booster is challenging Superman. [00:23:41] Speaker B: Oh, it sounds like Superman's in a crisis then. [00:23:44] Speaker A: If Booster's challenging him and he's telling him the. [00:23:48] Speaker B: It's one of the jeopardy. Oh, I thought it was a milk drinking challenge. If you could drink this whole entire gallon of milk Superman, then what if. [00:23:55] Speaker A: It'S ice bucket challenge? [00:23:57] Speaker B: Oh, ice bucket challenge. I mean that's cool. Like figuratively and literally and all because it does spread a good message. But I think the milk drinking one would be kind of cool to see like who could handle all that milk? A gallon of milk. [00:24:12] Speaker A: What if this was the eat an entire sleeve of Mentos and then drink a Coke challenge? [00:24:17] Speaker B: Oh man. I think Booster might die. You think you would die? [00:24:24] Speaker A: I don't know. I don't know about his stomach does is that one of his powers is a super strong stomach. [00:24:29] Speaker B: I don't think he's got. I don't think he has powers. But then again he's. He's an interesting. [00:24:37] Speaker A: Well, we're gonna find out if we just continue the story. Yeah, that's true. We will, we will. We'll get. [00:24:41] Speaker B: We're getting, well, getting there. [00:24:43] Speaker A: We're. We're back at the Daily Planets and we're not at WGBS anymore. [00:24:47] Speaker B: Oh, that's good. [00:24:48] Speaker A: Woo. So maybe it is John Burn era. I. It just makes me sad to think about it. [00:24:58] Speaker B: Does it does. [00:25:00] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:25:00] Speaker B: He. [00:25:01] Speaker A: He messed things up real bad. Real bad. The poor legion of Superheroes or Legion again, their biggest villain. D.C. editorial. Let's pour one out for. I'm gonna, I'm gonna take a sip. [00:25:25] Speaker B: Take a sip. Okay. [00:25:26] Speaker A: To the destruction of the Legion of Superheroes by John Byrne. Thank you. Yeah. Because you can only have Superman. You cannot have Superboy. [00:25:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:25:40] Speaker A: Well, anyway, Jason Redfern gets dressed up in a fern. Sorry. Gets dressed up in a cool little green costume. [00:25:47] Speaker B: He does take him under his wing to make him like a. Like a mini. Like a mini hero. That's so cool. [00:25:53] Speaker A: Look at that. [00:25:54] Speaker B: Booster Gold spreading the wealth. [00:25:56] Speaker A: Basically what happened is Booster gold stole some 1,000 henchmen costumes. [00:26:05] Speaker B: Oh, geez. And he found a. [00:26:07] Speaker A: When he was underneath in the underground, because that's what it looks like. Like. And then he dressed up his little cohort in it. [00:26:15] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. [00:26:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:17] Speaker B: He's like. Fern's like, booster, where'd you get this? Don't ask. Where do you stands from? [00:26:26] Speaker A: And why does it smell like death eats? Is excited because he's ready. And Booster has a big thought. So he didn't want to share with anybody except us, the reader. [00:26:38] Speaker B: Big thoughts. [00:26:38] Speaker A: He said, I'm just as excited as fern 500 years from now. Oh, my. What? Superman will stand out as one of the giants of history, the greatest hero of them all. To meet him is a great honor. And once I get his stamp of approval, the Justice League will beg me to join. [00:26:59] Speaker B: Oh, Booster. [00:27:01] Speaker A: Now, I will grab something. I don't remember in here anywhere where the Justice League begged Booster. Of all the joy. Do you remember? [00:27:07] Speaker B: I. I had. I. I don't think. I don'. The Justice League begged Booster to join. [00:27:12] Speaker A: Even when he joined, I don't remember them begging. [00:27:14] Speaker B: There was no begging there. I think there was begging to make him, you know, like, hang outside. [00:27:21] Speaker A: You could. He's not on the first cover here. [00:27:23] Speaker B: You could park cars for us or whatever. [00:27:26] Speaker A: Yeah, I don't join right away. [00:27:28] Speaker B: I think it was one of those things where Blue Beetle gets. Gets in, and then he's like, you got to take my friend, or I don't stick her. [00:27:35] Speaker A: Actually, that. That's not what happened at all. I know. I know. I. I can tell you what happened. Maxwell Lord. Maxwell Lord tried to convince the Justice League to take Booster Gold, and they didn't want to. And then they got in a big fight with the Royal Flush Gang. The villains you use when you're either advancing a plot line or you're completely out of villains. You're in, like, issue 76, and you're out of villains. [00:28:06] Speaker B: So you're like, oh, Royal Flush Gang. [00:28:07] Speaker A: Yes. And Booster got his ass kicked by the Royal Flush Gang, but also beat them up. And then he became part of the Justice League. It was very exciting. I'm looking at it right here. I remember reading the story. This is good. [00:28:20] Speaker B: It's good stuff. [00:28:21] Speaker A: And after that, then he was there with Blue Beetle, and they friends. [00:28:29] Speaker B: Okay. [00:28:30] Speaker A: And right here. Well, they became friends in the story because it says right, right here, we did it. So see, there they are. [00:28:35] Speaker B: We did it. We fought them. We did it. Yeah, I see it. [00:28:38] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. So this. This Justice League International side note, because this is more fun story than. This story is brought to you by Giffen and Damatis. [00:28:52] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:28:56] Speaker A: Okay, we're going to go ahead and put that away and get back to this story. So Superman does show up. [00:29:05] Speaker B: Surprise. [00:29:06] Speaker A: And he, of course, goes to higher ground because he's an. And he looks down on Booster Gold because he's a jerk. [00:29:13] Speaker B: It's kind of true. But he's like, behold, look at me. I am Superman. [00:29:18] Speaker A: And you. I'm Superman. Now, the important thing here to think about is, you know, Dan Jurgens had drawn the legion of superheroes, so he maybe got to draw Superboy in a panel, but I don't think he did during his run because he was drawing the Tales book. He drawn Mon El. He had drawn devm. I don't know if he'd drawn Superboy. Do you think that this is just Dan Jurgen's fan service to himself? [00:29:48] Speaker B: He's like, I'm gonna draw Superman. [00:29:51] Speaker A: Yeah. And if you're not seeing it, we just probably shouldn't. I'll flip the tablet for those on video. [00:29:56] Speaker B: It's a good drawing. [00:29:59] Speaker A: Yeah, it's an awesome drawing. [00:30:00] Speaker B: It's a. It's. It's. [00:30:01] Speaker A: It's a. I. [00:30:02] Speaker B: It's a cool page. [00:30:03] Speaker A: I also feel like if you were going to a convention right now and ask somebody to draw Superman, that's. [00:30:09] Speaker B: That's what you would get right there. [00:30:10] Speaker A: Superman. [00:30:11] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:30:13] Speaker A: And then we get the obligatory dialogue. So you're a Booster Gold. According to the press, you think Earth faces some terrible menace. And Booster's like, yeah, Superman. Yeah, I do. Yeah. And stuff. And I can call you on your answering machine, and I'm awesome. Who doesn't answer Branch? I get by without one. I've seen your billboards and commercials, Gold, and I believe we. When I say I don't like your style, my X ray vision reveals that your powers are mostly mechanical in nature. Your ring is particularly complex. Obviously the product of superior technology. Where are you from, anyway? And I will also say this must be the John Byrne Superman, because Superman is not immediately calling out that that's a Legion flight ring. [00:31:05] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:31:06] Speaker A: And if Superman was Superboy, he would have known immediately. I think his immediate reaction would be to try to, like, take all the equipment away from Booster Gold because he would realize the flight ring was stolen, and he would be like, why did you steal the flight ring from one of my. [00:31:21] Speaker B: You. Who did you kill? [00:31:25] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:31:25] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:31:26] Speaker A: That's. So then Booster Gold gets all hurt, and he. Him and his cape hunker down. He's like, it was fine, Superman. He's not fine. And then little Fern is like, no, come back. [00:31:40] Speaker B: Booster back. Wait. [00:31:43] Speaker A: Superman is. Continues to be a dick and looks at Skeets and like, you're a sidekick, Skeets, I believe, And Skeets, like, correct. Skeets is not a sidekick. [00:31:54] Speaker B: No, Skeets is like. Skeets is like the, the main course. [00:32:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:32:03] Speaker B: Skeets is a hero himself. [00:32:05] Speaker A: Yeah. Skeets. I mean, honestly, if you're looking at the two, Booster is the sidekick, Skeets is the hero. Let's be honest. [00:32:13] Speaker B: Yeah, it's, it's, I mean. Yeah. [00:32:17] Speaker A: And so Superman and Skeets agree to cooperate. And Skeets starts to tell the story of the future technology to Superman. [00:32:28] Speaker B: The whole entire Booster Gold story. [00:32:31] Speaker A: The whole entire Booster Gold story, which has changed over time because. [00:32:35] Speaker B: A little bit. Yeah. [00:32:36] Speaker A: Yeah. This, the story is not as altruistic as the Booster Gold origins I remember. [00:32:41] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:32:43] Speaker A: Well, anyway, Booster says, indeed, we're from the future. The year is 2462, to be precise. Booster's real name is Michael John Carter. He earned the nickname Booster as an All American quarterback for Gotham U when he was a sophomore. He rewrote the record books. He did all these cool things. Ah. But then Booster fell in with some bad people. [00:33:07] Speaker B: No. [00:33:09] Speaker A: And he was gambling. Now, in the rewrite of Booster Gold's origin, there's a reason for his gambling, but it's not here. [00:33:15] Speaker B: It's not here. It's in at all. No, it's, it's not. It's, it's in the, the Next Series. [00:33:24] Speaker A: Yeah, well, next. Next Series. Yeah. [00:33:26] Speaker B: Next. [00:33:27] Speaker A: Next Gold Series. Yeah. Which is not the Not In Justice League. I find this really interesting, though. That's quite a retro boot because. Yeah, it's much more sympathetic for, for, for Michael John Carter here. We just. He's just a gambler. He's up like his dad did, and he's ashamed of his family and he gets thrown out of football. [00:33:51] Speaker B: Loses scholarship. Can't. Can't live the, the life he was. He was hoping to. [00:33:57] Speaker A: And then he has still worked. He does what everybody who fails out of college does. He goes to work as a security guard. Yeah. I just feel like I implicated one of my oldest friends. [00:34:10] Speaker B: I feel like you did, too. [00:34:13] Speaker A: It's cold. It was, but I didn't mean it. I didn't think about it until I said it. [00:34:20] Speaker B: I, I, I. As soon as you said it, I, I, I was like, oh, wow. [00:34:25] Speaker A: Well, in the very unlikely instance that that person is listening. That was not directed at you. [00:34:31] Speaker B: It wasn't. [00:34:33] Speaker A: Now, the very likelihood of that person ever listening to a comic book podcast, number one, is. It's infinitesimally small. [00:34:40] Speaker B: I'm gonna message him and let him know. [00:34:44] Speaker A: Don't. Don't do that. [00:34:45] Speaker B: I'm just joking. I'm just joking. First he'd be like, why are you messaging me? I haven't talked to you forever. And then, like, 15 years. [00:34:56] Speaker A: Yeah, well, not that long, I guess, more like, what, 10 years. Yeah, 10 years. [00:35:00] Speaker B: I mean. [00:35:01] Speaker A: Yeah, 10 years. [00:35:02] Speaker B: I Mean. [00:35:02] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. Been a minute. Well, anyway, Booster is now working in a museum. He's really bored. [00:35:13] Speaker B: He's really bored, but he's taking it all in. [00:35:18] Speaker A: And the museum happens to have Rip Hunter's time machine. [00:35:22] Speaker B: Wow, that's cool. [00:35:26] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. Now, is that a son of a time machine? [00:35:31] Speaker B: The time machine could be. [00:35:36] Speaker A: Do you see what I did there? I see. [00:35:38] Speaker B: I see what you did there. [00:35:39] Speaker A: Is it a son of a time machine? [00:35:43] Speaker B: Maybe the son of a time machine. [00:35:46] Speaker A: You're a son of a time machine. [00:35:47] Speaker B: You're a son of a time machine. [00:35:49] Speaker A: Now you are. [00:35:50] Speaker B: Now you are. [00:35:51] Speaker A: You're a towel. [00:35:52] Speaker B: No, you're. We're not doing this, Dan. We're not doing this. Not today. Not again. [00:35:59] Speaker A: Booster hatches a plan to work with Skeets. It's crazy. [00:36:08] Speaker B: He sits on this plan for, like, days. He's got a heat lamp and everything, and he's gonna hatch it. [00:36:14] Speaker A: Well, he still. Skeets, too. [00:36:15] Speaker B: Yeah, he steals Skeets. He's going to steal the time machine. [00:36:19] Speaker A: But not before it's a Legion flight ring. [00:36:22] Speaker B: He steals a bunch of other cool stuff from the museum. [00:36:25] Speaker A: He gets a legion flight ring 500. 500 years before they exist. He gets a four shield brainiac five force shield belt. 500 years before it theoretically exists. Then he steals some stuff from Amazo. [00:36:43] Speaker B: Then he commits some real felony stealing a credit card. [00:36:47] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. I mean, that's what he'd really get. [00:36:49] Speaker B: Identity theft. [00:36:50] Speaker A: I mean, it's a Visa. [00:36:52] Speaker B: It's a Visa. [00:36:53] Speaker A: Yeah. It's everywhere you want to be. That. Is that MasterCard? No, it's Visa. It's everywhere you want to be. I got that. Right? [00:37:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:37:03] Speaker A: Look at me. [00:37:04] Speaker B: Yeah. See, it makes sense because he's. He's. He's traveling in time. It's where. [00:37:08] Speaker A: Well, yeah. Well, he. He goes. He goes back in time with the Sports Almanac. Yeah. And he's ready to go. [00:37:20] Speaker B: That. I mean, that would have made more sense if he's like, I'm gonna gamble. I'm gonna bet on all these things that I'm gonna have all this future knowledge and bet on all this and make a ton of money. No, I'm gonna steal all this superhero stuff and I'm gonna go back and be this awesome superhero. Oh. Because I know all the superhero stuff. [00:37:38] Speaker A: Well, if Super Museum, Justice League International, I believe, volume two or three over here, we can see what happens when Booster Gold and Blue Beetle try to run a casino on Kui Kui Kui. [00:37:52] Speaker B: It goes smashingly well. [00:37:53] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. It goes about as well as this whole plan does, man. [00:37:56] Speaker B: It's so good. [00:37:58] Speaker A: And so we. So Superman. Indignant. Incredible. Booster Gold is nothing more than a 25th century crook. And then Booster's like, sad way to go. He just made a big mistake. Soups here doesn't like us. He'll probably try to make us go back. He's like, the thought has crossed my mind. Let's say I don't like the idea of a man becoming a superhero through theft. Theft. And now they're fighting. [00:38:32] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. [00:38:35] Speaker A: And then. [00:38:37] Speaker B: Our. [00:38:38] Speaker A: And Jason Redford. Is that. Oh, no. Yeah. Booster says you aren't lord of this, of the heroes. You sanctimonious jerk. Who are you to tell me what's right and wrong anyway? And clearly they haven't read Kingdom Come from seven years after this or they would know. He indeed is. [00:38:59] Speaker B: Indeed is. Well, anyway, telling the future in the. [00:39:04] Speaker A: Past, the little tiny man pops up. [00:39:07] Speaker B: Everybody forget about me. [00:39:08] Speaker A: I'm little guy. [00:39:09] Speaker B: They call me Z. [00:39:11] Speaker A: Then we flip the page and we get the Meanwhile column. [00:39:14] Speaker B: Ah, yes. [00:39:16] Speaker A: We find out what's happening in Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corpse and Wonder Woman and Angel Love, whatever that is. And who's who. [00:39:23] Speaker B: And Angel. You don't know about angel love. Oh, my gosh. Like, if you took. If you took. Oh, man. Kathy and Betty Boop and put them together in the big city, it's like. [00:39:36] Speaker A: Sounds fantastic. It sounds exactly what I would pick up. [00:39:39] Speaker B: Yeah, it's definitely not your book, but it's. It's. It's sweet, man. It's sweet. [00:39:45] Speaker A: It's number. Well, we do get our. Our list of the comics that come out the same week. And it's the same comics every week that come out as Booster Gold. So we don't get a everything but swamp thing number 50, double side conclusion to the American Gothic storyline. [00:39:58] Speaker B: Nice. [00:39:59] Speaker A: Adventures of the Outsiders. That's the newsstand book. Because now we have the Outsiders, which is the prestige Book that comes out not on newsstands. And we get the Outsiders versus Hitler, apparently. Hopefully they win. [00:40:14] Speaker B: I hope so. [00:40:14] Speaker A: Green lantern corpse 202. The green lantern title's name has changed from Green Lantern to Green Lantern Corpse. The corpse set up shop in Marina Del Rey. That's probably where. That's probably where guy's hanging out. Probably. [00:40:28] Speaker B: He's probably hanging out there. [00:40:30] Speaker A: Warlord 107. Presumably still drawn by one Ron Randall. Shakira. Now, is that the singer or. [00:40:41] Speaker B: I think that's where she got her name. [00:40:44] Speaker A: Made an offer she can't refuse. That's blue devil number 26. A murderous creature preys on baseball players. [00:40:51] Speaker B: Oh, no. [00:40:52] Speaker A: Yeah. I believe that would be the Seattle Mariners management. [00:40:55] Speaker B: Oh, dang. Wow. [00:41:01] Speaker A: Who's who? Number 17. Nightwing, Nightshade, Peacemaker, Penguin, Onyx, Outsiders, Omega Men and more. It is interesting that they would list Peacemaker there. That's sort of surprising to me. [00:41:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:41:17] Speaker A: Coming out of the Charlton line of heroes. But it's not surprising if, you know, Watchmen is coming out soon. Because, you know, the original idea for Watchmen was to actually use the Charlton action heroes, not analogs of them. [00:41:34] Speaker B: I see. [00:41:35] Speaker A: So it's. [00:41:37] Speaker B: They were. [00:41:38] Speaker A: Blue Pair. They're getting the series. They're preparing you for that. But they didn't, obviously. Yeah. And presumably there's got to be a Legion of Superhero in there somewhere because it's a book. Yeah, yeah. Can you think of which Legion of Superhero member would show up in the ends, or the O's or the P's? [00:42:03] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:42:06] Speaker A: Well, what about Phantom Girl? [00:42:08] Speaker B: Oh, Phantom Girl. [00:42:09] Speaker A: Yeah. Okay, I got one. Yeah, I'm not gonna spend all day guessing all of them. [00:42:14] Speaker B: Okay. [00:42:15] Speaker A: Booster gold number six. We know that one. Infinity Inc. Number 28. Mr. Bones is back. [00:42:20] Speaker B: Oh, watch out, everybody. Mr. Bones. He's back. [00:42:24] Speaker A: The new Teen Titans 22. The old Titans versus Cheshire. Didn't we do Dark Knight? Dark Knight number two. The Dark Knight is triumphant and meets the new Robin. [00:42:39] Speaker B: Hey. [00:42:42] Speaker A: We flipped the page. We got the big Superman symbol. The little guy is trying to talk to Superman. He's going, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Understand him still? Yeah, but Superman says he can understand bits and pieces of language. Because Superman is so smart. [00:43:00] Speaker B: He is. I mean, he. Spoiler. He's an alien, too. [00:43:06] Speaker A: Yeah. When he says there's a warship chasing this guy. Oh, man, that's scary for everybody. [00:43:12] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:43:13] Speaker A: And then everybody gets a pizzap. Oh, man. Take a drink. Take a drink. And everybody's down except Skeets. Oh, man, he's like Booster, Superman. Wake up, guys. Wake up. [00:43:35] Speaker B: Get up. [00:43:36] Speaker A: And another little guy that just fazapped them gets everybody fazapped. [00:43:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:43:43] Speaker A: A batang. A fazap and a falap and a batang. [00:43:47] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:43:55] Speaker A: And wow. Yeah, there we go. I'm not going to drink every time we do these books because be very dangerous. [00:44:07] Speaker B: It'd be dangerous, Dan. Dangerous. [00:44:10] Speaker A: Dan as Booster, Superman, Skeets and Jason find themselves imprisoned on a strange planet in a story we could only call the hardest lesson of all. [00:44:18] Speaker B: Oh, no. [00:44:22] Speaker A: And we get to the gold exchange. [00:44:24] Speaker B: Ooh, the gold exchange. [00:44:29] Speaker A: Are you ready for this? From Michael Hawkins. [00:44:31] Speaker B: Michael Hawkins. [00:44:33] Speaker A: Now, he's from Glen Ellen, Illinois. Do you want to look up Glen Ellyn, Illinois, to see how big that city is? See if it's bigger than the last place that had 13 people in it that all love Booster gold. [00:44:46] Speaker B: Okay. [00:44:48] Speaker A: Approximately 13 people. I don't remember the name of that place, do you? [00:44:52] Speaker B: Little town. [00:44:54] Speaker A: Yeah. Dear Dan, man. Ah, I can't stand it. Sure, Booster Gold is fabulous. The concept is wild and fun and I can handle that. But another D.C. mystery. Who the cheese is Booster Gold? Come on, Dan, have a heart. I couldn't solve Encyclopedia Brown mysteries when I was 8. [00:45:16] Speaker B: I could. [00:45:17] Speaker A: Couldn't you? I read all of them, let alone 20. I read all the Encyclopedia Brown. [00:45:25] Speaker B: All of them. [00:45:27] Speaker A: All of them. [00:45:27] Speaker B: All of them. [00:45:28] Speaker A: Like literally all of them. Come on, quit teasing us poor readers and and admit it. Booster is really Sensor Girl who fled to the 20. No, no, no, no. Michael Hawkins. No. Who fled to the 20th century in disgrace after contracting the sex changing disease that earlier affected Color Kid. That was in the Legion of Substitute Heroes Special, as you'll recall. [00:45:55] Speaker B: Oh, my goodness. [00:45:58] Speaker A: As you'll recall? [00:45:59] Speaker B: As I recall. Yes. [00:46:00] Speaker A: Yeah. And Quizlet's grandfather was brought along for the ride. That would be Skeets. I see you rats, you've hooked me again. This magazine the tops. So I'll hang on tight for the ride. Yours, frustratedly, Michael Hawkins. No. [00:46:21] Speaker B: He comes from a town of a village of 28,000 people. Well, that's where it is now. That's what it is now. I'm imagining in 86. [00:46:32] Speaker A: Well, the editorial says by now you've read this issue's origin. Unless you've read the letters page first, like I always do. If so, go read the story now. Anyway, Booster is not Supergirl, Sensor Girl, or the Son of Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl. Another favorite explanation of a lot of readers came up with. I really enjoyed some of the possible Origins some of you came up with. Heck, I wish I would have thought of them myself. I can see it now. Booster Gold, son of Validus. So you'll remember Valadus from the Fatal Five. Yeah. So later on, I think I told you that in the story, you find out that Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl had twins. Because everybody on Lightning Lad's planet is a twin, except his brother, Mecht, who becomes evil because he's not a twin. It's a really sad story. He's, like, ostracized. It's awful. I mean, not being a twin makes you a mega. A. Just a thoughtless killer. Anyway, Validus was stolen by their son, was stolen by Darkseid, and transformed into the hideous Validus. That was the retro boot for that. And sent back in time and. Anyway, so I guess some fans thought that maybe this is where Validus ended up in time after he was transformed back to a little baby and then became this. That is more plausible. Yeah. Than all of what was written here. [00:48:01] Speaker B: Could make sense. [00:48:04] Speaker A: Well, there's another letter I wanted to cover. [00:48:06] Speaker B: Okay. [00:48:08] Speaker A: David Adler from Okaluca, Florida. B is for Blackguard. Whoever he is, he looks mean. Double O is for Oops. I wasn't going to buy this book till I had nothing else to read. Just goes to show how wrong a person can be. S is for Skeets. Nice guy, but needs a sense of humor. T is for Terrific concept. I long wondered why only super villains use their powers for material gain. E is for excitement, adventure, and really wild things all in one story. R is for Risky. A hero like this on unsteady ground with unyielding media watching his every move. G is for good guys. This world can always use another. O is for ordinary. Booster Gold is anything but. L is for the Legion flight ring. Where did he get it? And D is for delightful storytelling, as only Dan Jurgens can do. [00:49:04] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh, I love it. [00:49:08] Speaker A: So, Dan Adler, a big fan of the comic here. I wonder. I always wonder. He's got his full address in here, too. Do you think if we sent him something. [00:49:20] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I'm sure he's still there. [00:49:23] Speaker A: And then the last letter we're not going to acknowledge because it comes from a student at Western Kentucky University, the bane of the forensics world's existence forever and ever. I hate them. And I still hate them. [00:49:34] Speaker B: Forever and ever. But it's such a good letter, Dan. [00:49:38] Speaker A: It's really long. It's actually not. It's really long. [00:49:40] Speaker B: I know. [00:49:41] Speaker A: It is annoying. And we get an advertisement For Star Trek. On sale now. [00:49:47] Speaker B: On sale now. [00:49:50] Speaker A: This looks like Captain Kirk. So. All right, so what did you think of this issue? I liked it. [00:49:55] Speaker B: I mean, it has its ups, it has its downs, like every other book. But I, I like that we get that origin of Booster. It puts him into perspective. We, we see a lot of interesting things kind of unfold before us. I like the, the introduction to Fern and you know, whatever, whatever we're gonna get from, from this character and their involvement in the story and stuff like that. I mean, I joked that they were going to be the sidekick, but they get taken away by this, this little, this other, other little alien at the end of the story. So it's like they're kind of long for the ride. So gonna see what kind of what, what, what they do as they said they could be helpful, so, yeah, I'm wondering what kind of help they can do. [00:50:44] Speaker A: Well, good news is next issue we're gonna find out. [00:50:48] Speaker B: Oh, man. [00:50:49] Speaker A: When we get the man of Gold versus the man of Steel. [00:50:52] Speaker B: Oh, no. [00:50:57] Speaker A: Yeah, it's going to be amazing. [00:51:00] Speaker B: Man of Gold versus the man of Steel. [00:51:02] Speaker A: And on that note, a couple of quick things. Number one. [00:51:07] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:51:08] Speaker A: If you want to find Greg, if you want to find your childhood. [00:51:12] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:51:13] Speaker A: You want to smell Fruit Loops, you can go to the Retro Emporium on Meeker street in Kent, Washington, downtown. [00:51:21] Speaker B: You can. [00:51:23] Speaker A: There are no comic books there now, though. [00:51:25] Speaker B: There are comic books there. There's just not as many comic books. Because some guy named Dan came and took them all. [00:51:31] Speaker A: No, I was forced to take them. [00:51:33] Speaker B: You're forced to take them. [00:51:34] Speaker A: I was basically told, you cannot do a podcast in my store if you don't take all these comic books with you. [00:51:39] Speaker B: And then we still have some. There's mystery bags. There's things that fit the, the overall generality of the store. Your, there's tv, your tie. You get your tie ins to TV shows and movies and other stuff like that. [00:51:57] Speaker A: But what you should do is immediately go to the Retro Emporium and demand to buy every single pack of Pokemon in the store. [00:52:05] Speaker B: You should not. Because we don't. [00:52:08] Speaker A: And see how far that gets you. [00:52:09] Speaker B: Gets you nowhere. Get you nowhere. One, because when we do have it, we have limits. And then two, when we don't have it, we just don't have it. So lots of upset. [00:52:21] Speaker A: But what you really should do is go back to the record room and play Duck Hunt. [00:52:26] Speaker B: Sad for everyone right now during the holiday season as Duck Hunt has been moved to the front of the store. What so now you have to move. [00:52:33] Speaker A: To the front of the store because. [00:52:35] Speaker B: Now you have to pass the store. Yeah, it just got moved to the front of the store yesterday. So now you had to play in front of the big window while everyone can watch you play Duck Hunt and either get laughed at by the dog or get laughed at by all the people on the sidewalk. [00:52:50] Speaker A: Well, as you're getting laughed at, let's say you were an employee at the Retro Emporium. Say you were the Squacho Man. [00:52:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:52:57] Speaker A: And you have been unjustly dismissed of your duties and cast off into the woods, as we learned from Greg a couple weeks ago. [00:53:05] Speaker B: Although he's making a mighty return. I hear he might be there when Krampus is. [00:53:10] Speaker A: Well, I hope so. But right now I heard the Squatch, a man was contacting one Jiu Jitsu lawyer, Paul. [00:53:16] Speaker B: Oh, that's true. [00:53:17] Speaker A: Yeah, because he's clearly been discriminated against in the workplace. Not discriminated by the owners of the Retro Emporium. [00:53:25] Speaker B: No, no, no. [00:53:25] Speaker A: He. [00:53:26] Speaker B: That's. That's hearsay. I think. I think right now it's just. [00:53:29] Speaker A: Well, you don't get to determine if that's hearsay. Only a court of law can determine if that's hearsay. And I'll tell you, if you want to get to the root of things and you have an employment law issue, you can contact. That's right. Knight Legal Jujitsu lawyer Paul. Or if you just wanted to show up, you could go to certified martial arts on 27th and Jackson, Bridgeport, show up, show up for an open Mac class, and then also tell Paul afterwards all about your issue that you want to talk about. It's a two for one. You could become stronger, learn to choke out your enemies and get legal representation. [00:54:11] Speaker B: Or you can just do what the Squacho man did and just send him an email. [00:54:16] Speaker A: Oh, you could just send him an email as well. That is probably a more efficient way to do it than what I just described. But it could happen. It could happen either way. [00:54:27] Speaker B: It could happen. [00:54:28] Speaker A: I mean, what if somebody wanted to do some very important training? [00:54:30] Speaker B: That's true. They could get it all in one place. Training and legal. [00:54:34] Speaker A: Do you know what that Jiu Jitsu lawyer, Paul is licensed in California. [00:54:39] Speaker B: California, you say? For all those. All those legal needs that crossed cross a whole entire other state and land in another one. [00:54:48] Speaker A: Well, let's say you worked for an employer in California, but you were uncomfortable contacting a lawyer there because they might be close to all the companies around you. You should work With. With Jiu Jitsu lawyer Paul. [00:55:01] Speaker B: So all our listeners in California, if you're looking for legal representation that doesn't reside in California, Jiu Jitsu lawyer Paul, who resides here in the state of Washington but can operate in California, can help you with those legal needs. [00:55:15] Speaker A: He's licensed in California? Yeah, yeah, he passed the bar in multiple states. That must mean he's really smart. [00:55:24] Speaker B: Gosh darn, he is a smart guy. [00:55:27] Speaker A: I got smart friends. This is crazy. And he can, like, grab front headlocks at the ADCC tournament and choke people out. [00:55:35] Speaker B: You're Dr. Dan. He's. He's Jiu Jitsu Lawyer Paul. I mean, makes me feel like. I mean, wow, am I dealing with myself? [00:55:45] Speaker A: Well, you're the. You're the Doctor of Destruction. [00:55:48] Speaker B: The doctor who destroyed. No, I'm not the Doctor of Destruction. I just write things. That's all I do. [00:55:54] Speaker A: Well, you definitely have published things with many more readers than I've ever published. [00:56:02] Speaker B: Again, hearsay. [00:56:04] Speaker A: That is. That is not hearsay. That is a fact. Again, once again, you. You are mixing up that. That's why you need Jiu Jitsu wear, Paul, to straighten you out on what are facts. And that's true. [00:56:15] Speaker B: That's true. [00:56:15] Speaker A: What? Hearsay? And. And. And he'll help you out. [00:56:18] Speaker B: Also. [00:56:21] Speaker A: You know, we haven't called out a group in a while. [00:56:24] Speaker B: Oh. [00:56:25] Speaker A: And I'm kind of sad that we haven't. [00:56:28] Speaker B: I don't know what you're gonna say, so I don't know if I should. [00:56:32] Speaker A: Well, I mean, besides. Well, there's a certain group who helped us after we broke up with a different group, remember? And then they were, like, reposting our stuff, and then we never talk about them anymore. [00:56:46] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. Yeah. [00:56:50] Speaker A: You used to write copy for them. [00:56:51] Speaker B: You should talk about them. [00:56:53] Speaker A: Well, you should talk about them. [00:56:54] Speaker B: Well, are you talking. Are you talking about the amazing people over at Project Nerd, who I am also redistribute the podcast along their own lines and. And like. And share our. Our things when. When we make them available. I am Iggy and Company. All those fantastic people over there that go out and. And. And make our days better by posting memes, doing amazing fun interviews and other stuff like that, and also have amazing podcast and run events throughout the month for people to be part of. Yes, those people over at Project Nerd, you should go check them out, if you haven't already, because they do fun stuff. And right now I know that they're launching and getting ready for some stuff that is most Likely we don't talk about it enough, but there's a lot of things that happen during the holidays. People need sometimes some reassurement for their mental health and mental health awareness and other stuff like that through these. Through these months of happiness. But sometimes there is sometimes sadness involved as well. So they are doing some outreach and other stuff like that to keep people mentally healthy, mentally safe, and preparing for those things. So check out Project Nerd. Check out what kind of things that they have to offer. And let them help you help yourself, but let them help you find a smile, help you well. [00:58:27] Speaker A: And then there's one more thing I wanted to plug today. [00:58:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:58:30] Speaker A: Our good friend, Travis Webb. Kickstarter. That will come out soon. [00:58:35] Speaker B: Oh, my. [00:58:36] Speaker A: You may have heard of it. [00:58:37] Speaker B: You might have here. [00:58:38] Speaker A: You might have heard of it. Hang on. It's. It's a. It's a sequel to a movie by Alberta Pune. It's the Return of Alexis Rain Fembot. [00:58:55] Speaker B: Honestly, if Travis was. If. If Travis really wanted to write something, I'm pretty sure he would have written a story called Alexis Rain the Fembot, A tribute to Albert Pune. But. And it would have been the whole entire story of. [00:59:13] Speaker A: Wait, didn't I get it right this time? [00:59:14] Speaker B: No, you did not. But. [00:59:16] Speaker A: What do you mean? [00:59:17] Speaker B: I got Return of Alex Reigns. [00:59:19] Speaker A: I got all the parts right. [00:59:21] Speaker B: No, no. [00:59:22] Speaker A: Yeah, you got parts the creator right. I got the title right. [00:59:27] Speaker B: No, none of it. None of it, Dan. [00:59:30] Speaker A: I don't know what you're talking about. [00:59:32] Speaker B: You got none of it correct. [00:59:34] Speaker A: How did I get none of it correct? It sounded all correct to me. [00:59:38] Speaker B: No. Albert Boone, the creator of Nemesis Travis, is doing a fresh take on the story, but making a direct sequel. I say fresh take in the sense of revitalizing it as a comic interpretation. So that's the fresh take aspect, with amazing art by Brett Waddell. And it's gonna be. [01:00:04] Speaker A: It's. I. I've read it. [01:00:06] Speaker B: I've seen the art. I am. I'm super excited. [01:00:12] Speaker A: Super excited. I thought I got it all right this time. [01:00:16] Speaker B: Oh, Dan, I am so sorry. But next time. I believe in you. You'll get it right the next time. Okay. [01:00:24] Speaker A: I just. I'm really disappointed in myself. Like, I. I thought I had it nailed down. [01:00:31] Speaker B: Although there are. [01:00:32] Speaker A: There are. [01:00:37] Speaker B: Bodish characters in this book, so you're close. You're close. You're close. [01:00:45] Speaker A: Alex. [01:00:45] Speaker B: Rainbow. [01:00:46] Speaker A: What earth is this again? I thought we were on Earth 11. [01:00:49] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. No, we are. Oh, no, we're on Earth. We're on Earth. [01:00:53] Speaker A: Nine On Earth nine. Are you sure you want to be on Earth nine? No. [01:01:01] Speaker B: Maybe Earth seven. [01:01:02] Speaker A: I don't know. [01:01:03] Speaker B: Six. [01:01:03] Speaker A: Earth nine is the terrible tangent universe. You don't want that. [01:01:07] Speaker B: Okay. I feel like I'm on that Earth with you most days. [01:01:11] Speaker A: Oh, that's fair. [01:01:15] Speaker B: The Zinga. [01:01:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Bazinga. Yes. Yeah. Earth 11 is the matriarchal role of reverse gendered superheroes such as Superwoman, Batwoman, and Wonder Man. [01:01:27] Speaker B: Oh, I see. Okay, I see. [01:01:31] Speaker A: You did know that. [01:01:32] Speaker B: You did not know that. [01:01:34] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [01:01:36] Speaker B: Then if we were on Earth 11, then Travis would have written that book. And you are totally correct on that world. [01:01:42] Speaker A: Maxine Lord killed Earth's version of Booster Gold instead of Blue Beetle. [01:01:46] Speaker B: What was. What was Booster Gold's name? [01:01:51] Speaker A: I don't know. [01:01:52] Speaker B: Was it just Booster Gold? [01:01:53] Speaker A: But probably Michelle. Okay. Still. [01:01:57] Speaker B: Still the same. Still the same. Same story, just different gender swap. [01:02:06] Speaker A: There we go. [01:02:06] Speaker B: Well, on that note, that would be an interesting. I would. I. I'm now intrigued to see the Booster Gold swap story to find out what that Booster Gold story would be. [01:02:21] Speaker A: Well, you could probably pick up Superwoman, Batwoman number one, from February 2008 and find out. [01:02:26] Speaker B: But would they give me the whole entire. Like, who. Like, how did. Who is this Booster? And how. How we get them? [01:02:38] Speaker A: I don't. I. Now, I don't think I own that book. [01:02:42] Speaker B: Don't tease me with these things. [01:02:44] Speaker A: I bet I could buy it for 50 cents. So we'll find. You know what? We're gonna look for it, and we will find it. And if we find it, we will review it, because one of our very, very first podcasts reviewed Maxwell Lord Murdering Blue Beetles. We did? Yeah. [01:02:58] Speaker B: Oh, wow. [01:03:00] Speaker A: I think that might have been our very first podcast. [01:03:02] Speaker B: In fact, that was very early. [01:03:03] Speaker A: And so, anyway. Okay, well, we're gonna wrap this one up. We've done all the plugs today. You've heard great things. [01:03:11] Speaker B: You have. [01:03:11] Speaker A: You know, great things are happening. [01:03:13] Speaker B: You did and you do. [01:03:15] Speaker A: Yep. And I also stole Legion flight ring. And so until next time, when we go to the future, to 2462, and we're not here, but you'll be with us anyway. In spirit. [01:03:33] Speaker B: Spirit. [01:03:34] Speaker A: And we're going to cover the next issue of Booster Gold. I believe that would be number seven. And we're going to find out what happens when you get kidnapped by little men in little tiny spaceships. [01:03:45] Speaker B: Oh, man. How do they put Superman and Booster Gold and. And Fern inside of a tiny spaceship? [01:03:52] Speaker A: I don't know. Shrinking next time. And you'll find out. Or you could just read the book before we read it and then talk to us while we read it. And talk to us and scream at us for not knowing what we're talking about. [01:04:01] Speaker B: Oh, he's, he's, he's, he's putting it out there, people. He wants you to engage us. Engage us. [01:04:08] Speaker A: But you can engage us on Facebook, Instagram, X, Blue Sky. Yeah, all of those places. [01:04:17] Speaker B: All those place. [01:04:19] Speaker A: YouTube. [01:04:20] Speaker B: Yeah, you can see the video version. You could see the video version. If the audio version isn't enough for you, come watch us. [01:04:27] Speaker A: In fact, on YouTube, you should like and subscribe. [01:04:31] Speaker B: Oh, my God.