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[00:00:04] Speaker A: Oh, we're.
[00:00:05] Speaker B: We're back.
It's a whole different week.
[00:00:08] Speaker A: Yep. Hold on a second. I'm almost done with this.
[00:00:12] Speaker B: Okay. Are you doing something important or.
[00:00:17] Speaker A: Yeah, man. Okay.
[00:00:22] Speaker B: Well, anyway, space your gold. Number 20.
We're back.
It's a very exciting day.
[00:00:28] Speaker A: It is.
Number 20.
[00:00:31] Speaker B: We left off and Booster Gold had been blinded by the Rainbow Raider.
[00:00:37] Speaker A: His blood.
[00:00:38] Speaker B: We found out about all sorts of information about the Rainbow Raider. Like he was a flash villain, that his name is Roy G. Bibelo.
[00:00:46] Speaker A: He's a bad guy.
[00:00:48] Speaker B: And we get an advertisement on the back of this comic.
Before we break in for one of Greg's favorite things
[00:00:58] Speaker A: is that cookies that I cannot eat.
[00:01:01] Speaker B: Striped Chips Ahoy.
[00:01:03] Speaker A: Striped Chips Ahoy. Which I cannot eat.
[00:01:05] Speaker B: Andy, which one was one of your favorite things?
[00:01:07] Speaker A: Yes, I cannot eat them anymore.
[00:01:11] Speaker B: Soft batch or Chips Ahoy?
[00:01:15] Speaker A: Well, I mean, Chips Ahoy.
[00:01:17] Speaker B: You know, my choice in high school.
Soft batch.
Yes.
[00:01:22] Speaker A: Well, you.
[00:01:23] Speaker B: You know, I ate them in that and Cokes. Yeah.
Yes.
[00:01:29] Speaker A: I also like the Grandma's Peanut Butter cookies, but you gotta leave them on the dashboard and then let them get warm.
You. Oh, no, that's the best. It feels like they just came out of the oven.
[00:01:41] Speaker B: I like those Famous Amos cookies.
[00:01:43] Speaker A: Those were good, Samus. They're okay. But the Grandma's cookies, well, the famouses
[00:01:48] Speaker B: are like the opposite of soft batch.
[00:01:52] Speaker A: They're like.
[00:01:52] Speaker B: They don't even make soft batch anymore, do they?
[00:01:54] Speaker A: I don't think so.
[00:01:56] Speaker B: Because they made chewy Chips Ahoy instead. Right? Yeah.
They are an abomination.
[00:02:01] Speaker A: It's not quite the same.
[00:02:03] Speaker B: Well, it's not. No. The soft batch were good. Keep soft batch, Keebler.
[00:02:08] Speaker A: I just don't know how those little elves could do it all in that tree. How many ovens do you got in a tree if you're a little tiny elf? And how many elves are in the tree cooking?
[00:02:18] Speaker B: Those little elves did a lot of things. It did.
It's.
Yeah, they could do a lot.
[00:02:25] Speaker A: I mean, it's.
[00:02:26] Speaker B: It's a lot.
[00:02:26] Speaker A: It's a lot of work.
[00:02:28] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, it is a lot of work.
Those elves take things apart, you know, they're. They're good elves.
[00:02:37] Speaker A: Yeah, they do a lot of. They. They put a lot of good into the world.
[00:02:41] Speaker B: Yeah. They take care of business. They get things done.
[00:02:45] Speaker A: They take care. A little taking care of business action.
[00:02:49] Speaker B: Yeah, a lot of unhealthy shit for you.
[00:02:51] Speaker A: Are you playing the game?
[00:02:53] Speaker B: No, he's playing the thing.
No, I'm not. I'm pulling stuff up on the rainbow. Stupid Raider.
[00:03:01] Speaker A: He's playing. That's what he says.
[00:03:03] Speaker B: Don't. Don't accuse me of playing the baseball game when I'm not.
[00:03:07] Speaker A: It was.
[00:03:07] Speaker B: Golly.
[00:03:08] Speaker A: It sounded like you're playing the baseball game.
[00:03:11] Speaker B: I could see you were playing the baseball.
[00:03:13] Speaker A: I can see in your glasses.
[00:03:14] Speaker B: You cannot see it in my glasses.
[00:03:16] Speaker A: I could.
Golly closes all the tabs.
[00:03:22] Speaker B: I'm not closing all the tabs. I'm getting the information. So last issue. For God's sake. Last issue.
[00:03:29] Speaker A: Three minutes.
[00:03:30] Speaker B: We mentioned that the writer was Dan Jurgens, penciler, ink or alve, but we did not mention that Dean Jean Jean d' Angelo did the colors, that Duncan Andrews was the letterer, and that Barbara Kiesel Randall or Barbara Randall. Not Barbara Kiesel, but Barbara Randall Dash Kiesel. And I don't know what Barbara prefers to be called now because I have not asked her.
However, I should, however, did the editing. So we are off to issue 20, number 20.
And that's what I was doing.
[00:04:14] Speaker A: It took me 15 minutes in the last episode to get you that far.
[00:04:17] Speaker B: Listener. Jason, if you want to do the baseball game with me, just reach out and we'll create a giant league.
[00:04:24] Speaker A: Oh, my.
Also,
[00:04:29] Speaker B: we had a creator reach out to us or reach out to me, asking if funny Book Friends was going to start to join me.
[00:04:37] Speaker A: That's cool.
That is really cool. I'm impressed.
[00:04:41] Speaker B: Maybe we should. Maybe we should do that and actually get it started. Was it Travis and Greg can't do it? No, it was not.
Travis has been on the podcast as people. People are aware. Travis, the creator of Cyborg Parts are everywhere. It's raining Alex on Kickstarter, you can follow it. If you follow it when it eventually launches, we'll keep giving you the link. Every week, we give you that link, and then you can click on that link, and then you can hit the button in Kickstarter that alerts you when the project starts.
[00:05:15] Speaker A: And then.
[00:05:16] Speaker B: And then when Cyborg Parts, It's Raining Alex's drops, you can bid on it, and you can bid on the parts.
[00:05:25] Speaker A: Bid on. Bid on it. You could.
[00:05:27] Speaker B: Yeah. You could back it.
[00:05:29] Speaker A: Back it and then bid on the parts. Yes. Back the Kickstarter and then bid on the parts.
[00:05:35] Speaker B: Yes. So that's cool.
In fact, what I understand is there may be a part with your name on it.
[00:05:41] Speaker A: Might be a part with your name on it. Yeah, you can.
If you. If you get the part, we'll put your name on it.
[00:05:50] Speaker B: Yes.
Anyway, well, good news is what I Think is awesome. Is that on the DC fandom website, it gave me some recommendations when I pulled up these issues. Like looking up more information on the Rainbow Radar.
[00:06:05] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
Like.
[00:06:08] Speaker B: However, it also gave me information on Daniel Carter, which wasn't even conceived of when this was done.
[00:06:16] Speaker A: Why was it not?
[00:06:18] Speaker B: Well, because in the future, he doesn't know the future. Past future.
[00:06:23] Speaker A: That's make sense.
[00:06:24] Speaker B: And plus, have you read about Booster Gold? Did anybody think he was ever going to have a kid?
[00:06:28] Speaker A: Booster has a kid?
Gosh, Dan. Spoiler.
[00:06:32] Speaker B: Yeah, I know.
[00:06:33] Speaker A: Who does he have a kid with?
[00:06:36] Speaker B: Don't know.
[00:06:38] Speaker A: Is that in the future?
[00:06:41] Speaker B: It's not in my who's who, so I can't look it.
Wow.
[00:06:45] Speaker A: I'm.
I want to know. Inquiring minds want to know because.
[00:06:51] Speaker B: Good news.
Good news. I got back to the M and M page again because The M&M's are popular right now.
[00:06:57] Speaker A: They are popular.
[00:06:58] Speaker B: Yeah. And you'll notice that tan one down there. Clearly the. Yeah, we mentioned the tan ones last time. Clearly the Rainbow Raider missed one.
[00:07:06] Speaker A: The Rainbow Raider left his shit colored.
[00:07:11] Speaker B: I mean, what does Rainbow Raiders brown beam do?
[00:07:17] Speaker A: All of a sudden you chill and you're fine, and then, boom, you got the squirts. You. You are. You have got the trots. It is. It is.
[00:07:26] Speaker B: Brings a whole new meaning to what does brown do for you?
[00:07:30] Speaker A: What does Brown do? Yes, exactly. Yes.
[00:07:32] Speaker B: You are the worst campaign ever. Or the best, because I remember it.
[00:07:36] Speaker A: You are Brown Trouton.
[00:07:38] Speaker B: What does brown do for you?
[00:07:40] Speaker A: You have a new problem.
And it is.
[00:07:43] Speaker B: Who thought that was a good idea for a commercial?
[00:07:45] Speaker A: I don't know. Well, it's almost like. I mean, it's. It's. It's like the old Kmart commercial. We ship your pants.
[00:07:53] Speaker B: Yeah, I thought, well, Kmart's still in business, so a very successful campaign.
[00:08:00] Speaker A: Hey, they were. They were shipping pants for. Other people wear shipping pants.
[00:08:06] Speaker B: No, they weren't.
[00:08:07] Speaker A: Yeah, they were.
[00:08:08] Speaker B: That wasn't their business model.
[00:08:10] Speaker A: That wasn't their business model. But they also shipped pants a long time ago.
You can buy things from a catalog,
[00:08:16] Speaker B: have them shipped to you at Sears.
[00:08:18] Speaker A: Yeah, and Sears was part of Kmart.
[00:08:21] Speaker B: Not when they were shipping things.
[00:08:27] Speaker A: If. If we're. If we're in a weird, weird timeline with Booster Gold, we can be in a weird, weird timeline here.
[00:08:33] Speaker B: Wouldn't it be a better place? The colors of justice Here.
[00:08:37] Speaker A: The colors of justice. This book.
[00:08:39] Speaker B: This book. Ideas and pictures by Dan Jurgens. Visual enhancement, or inking, as we call it, by Arnie Starr. So we can expect everything to be proportional in this book.
I'll have to see if Arnie Starr got better.
[00:08:53] Speaker A: I don't.
[00:08:55] Speaker B: Coloring by Dean d'. Angelo.
[00:08:57] Speaker A: Well, he didn't have to color Booster Gold too much in this letters by
[00:09:01] Speaker B: Steve Haney and Barbara Randall, billed as Barbara Randall here, the editor.
Part of the power couple of DC comics in the early 90s.
Yeah, There we go.
Well, this is a weird book.
[00:09:27] Speaker A: Oster is the color of cauliflower.
[00:09:31] Speaker B: I mean, so before I even look at the art here.
All right.
Yes.
So you have a book where we've made a character devoid of color, and now you're going to be heavily reliant on really consistent penciling and inking throughout the. At the beginning of the story to make it look good.
[00:09:56] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:09:57] Speaker B: And apparently you have a roving band of inkers here working with Dan Jurgens.
And we saw Arnie Starr's work a couple issues ago.
And you thought, man, we just can't get Alveigh to come back and do this book, one more issue.
We need to get the guy back that can't draw things proportionally in a book where the first, like, seven pages are all about seeing the character without any color.
In other words, highly emphasizing the inking.
By the way, Bruce Patterson cover.
Cover. Pretty or pretty.
[00:10:46] Speaker A: I mean, you got to admit, like, I mean, Booster's eight is. Was it. It's an eight pack.
[00:10:54] Speaker B: Well, he's looking good here.
So this first one, not so bad.
[00:10:58] Speaker A: A lot of definition there.
[00:10:59] Speaker B: Booster number one. Booster number one, not so bad.
Apparently you can see his body through his uniform now a lot. So that's good.
[00:11:11] Speaker A: They. He drew. He drew a Booster body and then put the uniform over it.
[00:11:17] Speaker B: Yeah, that's good. Booster says he's completely and totally blind.
[00:11:23] Speaker A: Blind.
[00:11:26] Speaker B: We get a flashback to last episode.
[00:11:28] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:11:28] Speaker B: Or should I say last issue.
[00:11:30] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:11:30] Speaker B: Where the Rainbow Raider blasted him with his high intensity light beam.
Now Booster Gold can't find anything. He finds. He. He want. He does his best. Invitation of Jake Roberts and the model Rick Martel in their blindfold match.
They go down feeling around the ring, looking for Skeets listener Jason. By the way, I watched WrestleMania on a VPN because I'm not buying ESPN, and Stephanie McMahon on a podcast told me to use my VPN to get around watching things on ESPN.
[00:12:11] Speaker A: You just did what you're told.
[00:12:12] Speaker B: I did what I was told.
Also, I believe listener Jason and I agree that Obafemi beating up Block Reznor.
[00:12:23] Speaker A: Block Reznor?
[00:12:25] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:12:25] Speaker A: Oh, that.
[00:12:25] Speaker B: That actually. Block Reznor He's a new lead singer of a band. Block Reznor.
[00:12:30] Speaker A: Block Reznor.
[00:12:31] Speaker B: Or is that a guitar player?
Block Reznor.
[00:12:35] Speaker A: Block Reznor.
[00:12:36] Speaker B: Is that a. A drummer?
[00:12:39] Speaker A: I could be a drummer. It's got the arms for it.
[00:12:44] Speaker B: Unsurprisingly, the Lar Obafemi destroys Brock Lesnar. And Brock. Brock Lesnar retires like a tongue twister.
[00:12:54] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:12:54] Speaker B: In the middle of the ring.
I'm sure him retiring from public life has nothing to do with Janelle Grant.
[00:13:02] Speaker A: Nothing at all.
[00:13:05] Speaker B: And then you ask me once again, why do you still continue to watch wrestling?
[00:13:08] Speaker A: Why do you continue to watch wrestling, Dan?
[00:13:11] Speaker B: Well, I mean, I don't know, or I probably shouldn't. I. I probably should morally object to everything that wrestling does. And is that.
[00:13:19] Speaker A: I would say, that brand, that product
[00:13:25] Speaker B: while CM Punk was on there. And even though he's like 47 or 48 at this point, he is still awesome.
[00:13:33] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:35] Speaker B: And he is the redeeming factor, I think, to that brand.
[00:13:42] Speaker A: Him and him and Danhausen. I mean, that.
[00:13:44] Speaker B: Well, Danhausen. I mean, Danhausen sits out. Danhausen is Danhausen's brand.
[00:13:49] Speaker A: Yeah.
Yeah, that's true.
[00:13:51] Speaker B: I mean, Stanhausen will be on there for, like, four more months, and then he'll disappear forever and.
And then get the show replacing Svengoolie, and it'll be fine.
[00:14:02] Speaker A: He'll do. He'll do a bunch of other stuff. Yeah, he'll.
Yeah.
[00:14:07] Speaker B: I mean, I. It's good that they're giving him. And probably. I mean, he's friends with CM Punk. Yeah.
And I don't know if he's friends with Cody Rhodes, too, but he's definitely friends with CM Punk. I mean, they've been in videos together.
Specifically one famous one at Chicago Comic Con, which is called the C2E2.
[00:14:30] Speaker A: C2E2. Yes.
[00:14:32] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:32] Speaker A: You made me draw a blank. I was like, I've been to this one a couple times now. I can't remember his name.
[00:14:37] Speaker B: Where he's making CM Punk buy him a bunch of vintage comic books.
[00:14:41] Speaker A: Oh, that's.
[00:14:42] Speaker B: That's.
It's actually a funny video.
[00:14:45] Speaker A: Pretty good stuff.
[00:14:46] Speaker B: He keeps going around grabbing all the most expensive books off all the vendors and handing them to CM Punk and CM Punk's. Like, this is back when they both worked for aew.
The other reason, I think, is that Danhausen is friends with CM Punk because when CM Punk got fired by aew, all of a sudden Danhausen disappeared as well, and they just kept him under contract and then didn't Let him go on tv.
Classy.
[00:15:15] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:15:16] Speaker B: I mean, yes. The. The big wrestling brand, like all corporations, because it is a corporation now, because it's just a giant conglomerate corporation, has problems.
The little wrestling pro product that gave us free tickets. Thank you. Well, let me rephrase. That gave you free tickets. Upgraded our tickets because I had already purchased tickets.
Upgrade our tickets.
That visited the retro emporium. Aew, very nice of you.
But their management has some issues as well, like just putting talent on ice for two years when they're under contract, not giving them any TV time, giving them no ability to make money after they leave the promotion. Right. So, yeah, I mean, you know, I don't know what's worse. And I mean, there are a lot of bad things out there. But yes. I mean, I'm willing, you know, just like I'm willing to call out politics. I will call out that Brock Lesnar is probably retiring and not going to be a prominent member on television one because he doesn't need to because he has a ton of money and wants to go live on a farm somewhere. And you know.
Yeah.
But also, you know, that Janelle Grant thing is probably the other reason he's just not going to do this anymore.
[00:16:27] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:16:29] Speaker B: Also good on Paul Heymon. He looks like he's dropped 60 pounds and he's not svelte by any means yet, but he is. He. He's looking like it's not uncomfortable to walk to the ring now.
[00:16:44] Speaker A: Well, that's good.
[00:16:46] Speaker B: Good. I don't want to see Paul Heymon disappear.
I'd like to see him living so well.
On that note. Yes, that. And then I, I did say the main event, I, CM Punk made a Roman Reigns match not be boring, which, I mean, is a really difficult thing to do. I don't remember. I'm sure he did it, but. Because it was like a 33 minute match. But I don't remember Roman Reigns doing a Superman punch. I remember CM Punk doing one to mock Roman Reigns.
And you know, usually a Roman Reigns match is 9,000 spears and 9,000 Superman punches and just boring as hell.
And it was not. It was well planned, it was laid out well. They told a story of kind of CM Punk being old and they both fought, fought, fought, fought really hard. And then CM Punk tried to lift him up at the very end and his body just gave out on him. And then he got spared and lost.
I mean, it was, it was, it was really good storytelling through a wrestling match, which is what it's supposed to be, which you Want why I liked it as a little kid and why I kept watching it as a communication scholar.
[00:17:57] Speaker A: Because you like the storytelling.
[00:17:59] Speaker B: Because I like the storytelling. And I will say that most of WrestleMania was boring because there wasn't good story for the matches. So like there was a Seth Rollins Gunther match, Gunther is fan, a fantastic in ring wrestler. But there was no story build for this match.
[00:18:20] Speaker A: What about the jelly roll match?
[00:18:23] Speaker B: I don't remember there being a jelly roll match.
[00:18:25] Speaker A: And if there was, I don't think there was.
[00:18:28] Speaker B: Now I will say I know that he's been. He's been. I will say that the story behind the ishowspeed thing, when I saw the recap of the story, because every time ishowspeed comes on, I fast forward or just completely turn off the show.
[00:18:42] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:18:43] Speaker B: And go do something else. So I literally was watching wrestling on Netflix a couple weeks before WrestleMania just to see what they were doing and they did the intro segment with CM Punk and then this ishowspeed guy comes on and after about two minutes of talking I just turned the TV off and I'm like, this is stupid. And I went and did something else because I didn't even fast forward to more things. I was just like, this is dumb. Why would I want to watch this? But I will say the story they put behind it was actually good. But nobody, I mean, I'm sure people care, but I don't care.
The women's matches both got like eight or nine minutes, maybe ten minutes. So what?
It sort of makes sense. You had Rhea Ripley and Jade Cargill, which Jade CARGILL Going about 10 minutes is about adequate for her athletic level.
And I thought they had a good match, but I don't know that the story on that one was super great.
And then I don't like Liv Morgan, so I thought the other match was stupid. I leave Liv Morgan to be, you know, leave Travis to slobber over Liv Morgan and I just, you know, I don't think she's particularly great wrestler and so. And she was very likely going to win.
But good on her for getting in there with the black eye and the beat up face. So that's, you know, I, I don't, I don't want to challenge that. I'm trying to think of the other matches. The Sami Zayn match was a travesty. It was boring.
[00:20:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:16] Speaker B: I don't know, I mean. Oh, Cody Rhods and, and Randy Orton was awful. And then Cody Rhodes got hit in the face for real and they broke, broke his orbital bone. So that's fantastic.
Anyway, enough wrestling. Back to comics back.
Plus, we're doing the wrestling recap like two and a half weeks too late or two weeks afterwards, so.
[00:20:39] Speaker A: Well, you needed time to get there. You needed time. You needed time to. To marinate, to feel it, to live it again and again.
[00:20:49] Speaker B: Inside baseball. I needed extra content for this one because I thought we were doing two comics in one. And Greg told me you were doing a comic for each episode, so. Yeah, we.
You know, this is called time filling.
[00:21:03] Speaker A: I apologize, Dan. You told me that the only reason I stopped you in the last episode is because you told me last week that we are doing two separate episodes.
[00:21:16] Speaker B: No, because we don't need two episodes for these books because they're so complex and the storytelling is so in depth. And yes. Just interwoven because we need a lot of time to break down that rainbow.
[00:21:27] Speaker A: I thought the last. I thought the last book you're going to read every page and.
[00:21:31] Speaker B: And that's.
[00:21:31] Speaker A: It was such a text with all the text, and I thought you're going to do the same with this one as well.
[00:21:35] Speaker B: I will say issue 20 has less text in it. That's.
[00:21:38] Speaker A: Yeah, but I thought you were going to talk about all the amazing art in this one.
Our new star and his beautiful. His beautiful stylings.
[00:21:50] Speaker B: Oh, God. Okay, well, let's do that.
So first couple pages.
[00:21:56] Speaker A: See, I can be kind of not. Not positive sometimes.
[00:22:00] Speaker B: Consistent. Booster Gold flying away.
And Skee is taking care of him. SK Is leading him around. He's going to fly back to headquarters.
[00:22:09] Speaker A: Rooster Cauliflower. He looks like a.
[00:22:11] Speaker B: Another. What is like oxy 10. How did they not survive? I mean, they had advertisements everywhere. I know, but Clearasil won the war, clearly.
[00:22:23] Speaker A: I. I guess.
[00:22:25] Speaker B: I mean, nobody wanted the salicylic acid pads. I think that's what it was.
[00:22:31] Speaker A: I mean, witch hazel. You just put witch hazel on your face.
[00:22:35] Speaker B: Yeah, I think that was. That was basically. Witch hazel won out, I think.
[00:22:39] Speaker A: I mean, that's all you need. Or if you really want to get crazy, go get yourself some of that.
What's the man? What can I think of what it is? Like, they're riola tea bags and just like soak that and then put that on it. You could do that and then.
[00:23:00] Speaker B: Or you get a stealth bomber.
[00:23:01] Speaker A: Oh, get a stealth bomber. But it also, like, leaves your face stained.
[00:23:06] Speaker B: I understand that the stealth bomber is very popular right now.
So. Popular in 1987, popular in 2026.
This is why I'm not allowed to do stand up Folks, so we get to page five, and you were talking about the art.
[00:23:32] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:23:35] Speaker B: Trixie has four faces.
[00:23:37] Speaker A: She has four faces. Her eyes are different in each one.
[00:23:42] Speaker B: She looks like four faces of Trixie.
[00:23:45] Speaker A: The four faces of Trixie. Surprise.
[00:23:47] Speaker B: Trixie.
Booster Gold's love interest has gone from his love interest to a school marm. Secretary.
[00:23:56] Speaker A: It's. It's interesting because. Yes, like, she. And it's. It's crazy because, like, when she was the secretary in the other office, she had a Panash, if you will. She had a style.
[00:24:13] Speaker B: She was Janine from Ghostbusters. Yeah.
[00:24:16] Speaker A: And now she looks like the librarian that they're the Ghostbusters are getting scared by.
[00:24:23] Speaker B: And she's sitting in a back office now. She's not out front managing. You know, this is the big change, too, of Booster. Going from like, his ip, his personal ip, to this conglomeration thing.
Oh, wait, The Conglomerate. That's a comic book from way later. That's. That's a collaborator. Yeah. So that. That's another attempt at elevating Booster Gold. As you'll recall, we pulled him from the Justice League and put him in the Conglomerate.
[00:24:49] Speaker A: Conglomerate.
[00:24:51] Speaker B: Yeah. If you. If you wanted the Conglomerate, we should read that.
No, first appearance was in Justice League Quarterly Number one.
The Conglomerate. This. This page says its status is defunct.
[00:25:09] Speaker A: The Conglomerate.
[00:25:10] Speaker B: Yes. Keith Giffen and Damatis created it, but it spun off.
I believe Sprouse may have done the art for a lot of it.
[00:25:21] Speaker A: Maybe it needs to be Revised.
[00:25:23] Speaker B: They had 19 appearances.
And then.
Well, that was the thing where he left. Remember? He had the big falling out with Booster, Leaves and then just comes back.
He leaves. In combat, all is forgiven.
[00:25:38] Speaker A: Well, I mean, he's Booster Gold. How could you not forgive that guy?
[00:25:42] Speaker B: What was the name? Was the comic book name the Conglomerate? Was that it?
[00:25:47] Speaker A: Or was it just a group now? They.
[00:25:50] Speaker B: They, they. They had their own book, I thought.
I'm pretty sure I actually don't own it. Which is surprising, maybe because it's unownable.
[00:26:02] Speaker A: It's unattainable. All issues were pulled back and destroyed. Thrown into the thrasher to be shredded, maybe.
[00:26:10] Speaker B: No, I know it was a comic because it had. Didn't. Wasn't.
Gypsy was in. In the. In. In the book, I believe.
[00:26:21] Speaker A: And, And. Silver Sword.
[00:26:25] Speaker B: Silver Blade. Silver Blade.
Sword Blade. Whatever. That one. Whatever. The thing they keep advertising is that we've never heard of.
[00:26:33] Speaker A: Silver. Silver. Silver Blade.
[00:26:35] Speaker B: We can't even remember.
[00:26:37] Speaker A: So rememberable. It's forgettable.
The.
[00:26:43] Speaker B: I. I don't know.
[00:26:44] Speaker A: You have.
[00:26:45] Speaker B: I Can't find it. Oh, I can't. Well, you know what? Enough on that. So I'm pretty sure it had issues.
[00:26:52] Speaker A: Well, you have issues finding it, so there's issues for sure.
[00:26:56] Speaker B: Oh, first was first led by Booster Gold and included Echo, Gypsy, Maximan, Praxis, Reverb, and Vapor.
Yeah, you remember all those characters.
[00:27:09] Speaker A: They all sound like stuff that you pick up from the pharmacy.
[00:27:13] Speaker B: Yeah.
But, yeah, I mean, they honestly sound like. Well, Reverb was the brother of Vibe.
[00:27:24] Speaker A: Okay. I thought it was Stridex.
[00:27:27] Speaker B: No, an Oxy.
That was. That was a different. That was a different thing.
[00:27:33] Speaker A: Okay,
[00:27:36] Speaker B: so, yeah, I. I mean, look, it's.
It's a thing.
[00:27:44] Speaker A: Yeah.
So we're gonna read it. I can't wait, people. If you want to. You want us to check it out so Dan can go down that rabbit hole reading it, and then we will do that.
[00:27:55] Speaker B: We are not reading it.
[00:27:56] Speaker A: We'll put it. We'll put it to a vote. It's either that or Wild Dog.
[00:28:00] Speaker B: No, no, no. Veto. Like, no, we are not doing that. I just went on that whole talk about the Punisher and.
Yeah, well, anyway, I got distracted by the incredible artwork.
[00:28:16] Speaker A: The floor face is a Trixie.
[00:28:19] Speaker B: They find Booster on.
[00:28:20] Speaker A: He's only got six pack in this picture.
[00:28:23] Speaker B: They find Booster on the roof. We have the best inking by Arnie Star ever done on this page.
[00:28:31] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. It is fantastic.
[00:28:33] Speaker B: It's very consistent.
[00:28:35] Speaker A: Yeah, it's very consistent, very structured.
The detail is impeccable. You can't.
Honestly, every panel is. Is literally consistent.
I. I can't say I can't sing it any more praises.
[00:28:55] Speaker B: Well, we're back dealing with Team Booster as Team Booster comes to the rescue of Booster Gold. Just like Team Arrow and Wild Dog.
See, I watched it. I knew what you were talking about.
[00:29:10] Speaker A: Yes, Team Arrow, Wild Dog, who did. Did make an appearance.
[00:29:16] Speaker B: Yes, it's.
Yes. Near the end, Booster here is being healed by Jack. Jack is back.
[00:29:25] Speaker A: Jack is back.
[00:29:26] Speaker B: Resident scientist. He's got one hell of a few.
[00:29:28] Speaker A: Jumbo Jack.
[00:29:32] Speaker B: I could go for a Jumbo Jack. I was. Since. I mean, since the owners of all the Jack in the boxes in Tacoma, Washington, basically ran them out of business. Except for the one in University Place. Not a joke. In fact, the one around the corner from my house is now a California burrito.
[00:29:47] Speaker A: Are you serious? They all close.
[00:29:49] Speaker B: The one on 6th and 6th in Mildred is now a California. California burrito.
[00:29:55] Speaker A: Because that's funny, because the one in Tukwila that, like, I drive past when I'M like coming home is also turning into California burrito.
[00:30:02] Speaker B: So yes, the owners of the Jack in the Boxes around here have run them into the ground so badly that they are going out of business.
[00:30:13] Speaker A: Or do you think it's just the franchise ones that are staying open?
[00:30:18] Speaker B: I think it's franchise ones that are closing.
[00:30:20] Speaker A: Franchise ones that are closing and then the.
[00:30:23] Speaker B: Maybe there's corporate ones that are staying open. I'm not sure.
I mean the one in University Place probably is fine. Anyway, this lesson on local Jack in the Box is brought to you by Funny Book Forensics. But if you're Jack in the Boxes or closing, because look, there's nothing like getting high, which Greg doesn't do because he's a children's comic book author and going to Jack in a Box for a munchie meal.
[00:30:48] Speaker A: You want that? You want that? That what? Late night box or whatever it's called.
[00:30:52] Speaker B: It's called, I mean the Munchy Meal.
[00:30:55] Speaker A: Is that the Munchy Meal?
[00:30:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:30:56] Speaker A: With all your, all your sides and all your stuff.
[00:30:58] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:30:59] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:30:59] Speaker B: You get to God in it, Dan. You get. Well, and in the one I got, it was a cheeseburger.
[00:31:05] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:31:06] Speaker B: And then on top the cheeseburger was a grilled cheese sandwich. It was all sandwiched down together.
[00:31:10] Speaker A: Huh.
[00:31:11] Speaker B: As in one. So it's like bread, burger bread, cheese bread. And then you got like a taco and you got a mixed up array of curly fries and regular fries all just thrown in the box together.
[00:31:23] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:31:24] Speaker B: And you, I think you got something else too.
Maybe you got some. No, I mean that's a lot of food there though, right? Yeah, it was, it was a lot.
And then so if you were partaking of a certain thing and then at said certain thing you got really hungry. And then, and then it was right around the corner here, like three minutes from walk up there or have somebody bring it to me.
[00:31:53] Speaker A: There you go.
Smart.
I remember when my, when my grandma was alive, she would see the commercials and she'd always like, that all looks really good. I don't know why they only serve like not only, but, but I mean, because you can buy it anytime. Check in the box is like 24 7. But like why they.
[00:32:11] Speaker B: No, they only serve those late.
[00:32:12] Speaker A: They only serve them late.
[00:32:14] Speaker B: Yeah, they. I don't know if they do still do, but that was the original thing.
[00:32:17] Speaker A: Yeah. Like it was, it was a way
[00:32:19] Speaker B: to drum up late night business. The late night business is they become, they become the munchie place instead of Taco Bell Bill. And they're Because Taco Bell is disgusting.
[00:32:29] Speaker A: I don't know though. I mean some, some of their stuff.
[00:32:32] Speaker B: Taco Bell seems good. Taco Bell is gross, disgusting and nasty.
[00:32:37] Speaker A: I mean I worked there for many years during high school, Dan. Too many.
[00:32:42] Speaker B: Yes. And in high school when it was $0.59 or whatever for a thing.
[00:32:46] Speaker A: It was expensive then.
[00:32:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, anyway, Jack heals Booster Gold. He shoots him with some colors.
[00:32:54] Speaker A: So he puts ice. He basically takes all the Crayola crayons and puts them into Booster.
[00:32:59] Speaker B: Basically what I learned about this page is if you are a hot man.
[00:33:05] Speaker A: Huh.
[00:33:06] Speaker B: And you get injected by a rainbow. Oh, your life is going to be better.
[00:33:11] Speaker A: Oh my gosh.
That's. It's very enlightening and very progressive.
[00:33:17] Speaker B: It is, it is, it is very. Especially for 1987.
[00:33:20] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:33:22] Speaker B: So.
All right, well, we're moving on here.
[00:33:25] Speaker A: That makes me wonder how Booster has a child adoption.
[00:33:28] Speaker B: You can join that. You can join the Sales Leadership club, Greg.
[00:33:32] Speaker A: Hey, Sales Leadership Club.
[00:33:35] Speaker B: And you can get these prizes just by selling. Do you know what you sold in the Sales Leadership Club?
Like what you sold door to door? Greeting guys. Correct. Greeting cards. Yeah.
[00:33:51] Speaker A: Nobody wants.
[00:33:52] Speaker B: You can also get this outrageous.
Which is funny, this outrageous 18 speed bike because like every bike is, you know, now.
[00:34:01] Speaker A: Yeah. 18 speeds.
[00:34:02] Speaker B: But like, but an 18 speed bike was like, that's crazy.
[00:34:05] Speaker A: Like a 10 speed back in the
[00:34:07] Speaker B: day was like, that was, that was a big deal. That was a big deal. My mom had a three, three speed bike.
[00:34:13] Speaker A: Three speed bike, man.
[00:34:16] Speaker B: I, I had a ten speed bike. I rolled, rode all the way from South Hill all the way to Spanaway.
[00:34:22] Speaker A: Oh my gosh.
[00:34:25] Speaker B: That's on that bike.
[00:34:26] Speaker A: I remember getting in trouble for hitting Meridian. A crossing Meridian because I wanted to go to the Salvation Army.
[00:34:33] Speaker B: Yeah. I rode all the way to that card store.
[00:34:36] Speaker A: Oh my gosh.
[00:34:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
Back in the day. Well anyway, it's one day, you know.
You know, the story is good by the way, when Greg and I start talking about a bunch of other stuff.
So I was doing some filler because we needed more to talk about. But now when you ride to the
[00:34:57] Speaker A: cider press, when you go to the cider press, Dan, and you're getting all the painted.
[00:35:01] Speaker B: Go to the cider press.
[00:35:02] Speaker A: Yeah, see I would get in trouble for that because like I wasn't supposed
[00:35:06] Speaker B: to cross Meridian, went to the cider press. I went to 7 11. I went all the way to the.
[00:35:10] Speaker A: I could go to 7 11. I just couldn't go across the street.
[00:35:14] Speaker B: I mean, do you seriously think My parents cared where I was riding my bike.
[00:35:19] Speaker A: I would think that my parents wouldn't care. But when the Cider plus lady said, oh, it's nice to see you again. And my mom's like, when did she see you last? And I was like,
[00:35:29] Speaker B: I remember going to. My parents were out of town and I rode my bike down to the cider press and I got a six pack of Coke and I punctured one of the Cokes riding back on my
[00:35:39] Speaker A: bike up the hill.
[00:35:42] Speaker B: Really annoying. Yeah.
On 144.
[00:35:46] Speaker A: Hate that hill.
[00:35:47] Speaker B: It's quite a hill. Well, all right. We are back here.
Booster Gold is back.
[00:35:53] Speaker A: He's back.
[00:35:54] Speaker B: Rainbow back with Dirk the Jerk.
And they're fighting with the insurance company. They're basically telling them to go off.
It's always good is what you should do to insurance companies. We're going to pretend like in this. On page nine, we have the 45 faces of Dirk the Jerk.
[00:36:14] Speaker A: Yeah.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
[00:36:21] Speaker B: On face number one, he looks like a thinking old man.
[00:36:24] Speaker A: He does. He's like, let me help you with your homework.
[00:36:28] Speaker B: And face number two, he looks like Paul Blart Mallart. Mall Cop.
[00:36:32] Speaker A: Yeah. Because he's riding a Segway
[00:36:36] Speaker B: in face number three, that's in the middle.
He looks maybe like Ron Swanson.
[00:36:44] Speaker A: He looks like Ron Swanson. And Booster just looks messed up because his face is all funky too.
[00:36:51] Speaker B: In panel, in the face number four.
[00:36:55] Speaker A: So he's taking a crap.
[00:36:58] Speaker B: And in face number five, it's the.
[00:37:01] Speaker A: Don't look at me.
[00:37:03] Speaker B: I don't. Yeah, I don't know what's going on here.
[00:37:04] Speaker A: I don't know.
[00:37:05] Speaker B: Well, we get back and we see Michelle Carter on the next page. We see Michelle Carter in the next page and we get the first appearance of Michelle Carter as Gold star.
[00:37:18] Speaker A: Hey.
[00:37:19] Speaker B: And I'm sure. Gold star. Michelle Carter is off to a long, long, successful career as Gold star.
[00:37:29] Speaker A: Yeah, she's loving it. She's like flying around doing nothing bad
[00:37:34] Speaker B: can possibly happen until the next page when she's shot by a ray gun.
The worst drawn little kids in the world become aliens.
[00:37:44] Speaker A: Oh, crap.
Hey, wait a minute. This seems kind of familiar.
[00:37:51] Speaker B: And they.
They're wondering if she knew what they were doing. And then we also just like, I guess this is probably on Jergens.
Travis would be going insane with this book. Because we get two pages of a story, a subplot. Right.
And then you flip the page.
[00:38:12] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:38:14] Speaker B: And we get one more panel of that subplot and then we flip back to the regular plot. Why not just get all of that onto the two pages where you're having your subplot?
Oh, yeah, that would make a lot of sense, right?
[00:38:31] Speaker A: Yeah. You could.
You could have had that, like.
But no.
[00:38:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, we get back to the Rainbow Raider.
The Rainbow Raider is off to. He created one of his solid light rainbows, and he's standing on it.
[00:38:53] Speaker A: His hand looks funny, but it's not. I'm. I'm trying to make the same.
[00:38:57] Speaker B: Hands are unnatural.
[00:38:58] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm trying to make the same hand gestures that he's making. And I'm like, God, he's got to have carpal tunnel from all that painting because that. That hurts.
[00:39:05] Speaker B: That.
[00:39:05] Speaker A: That is a painful.
[00:39:07] Speaker B: Maybe he has it from how he's holding.
[00:39:10] Speaker A: You know, I. I know why he's got that because he's been with the Rogue Gallery so long, he's throwing up gang signs.
[00:39:19] Speaker B: Ah.
What is the Rogues Gang signal?
[00:39:23] Speaker A: The.
[00:39:23] Speaker B: The Rogues Gallery? I don't know.
[00:39:26] Speaker A: He's. Is it like r.
I. I think so. He's trying to throw it up, but it's not quite working.
[00:39:34] Speaker B: It's like a claw. It's a converted claws.
[00:39:37] Speaker A: Yeah, because that's what it looks like.
And how.
[00:39:41] Speaker B: I don't know what's going on here.
[00:39:42] Speaker A: That makes so much sense after your explanation, because I was like, how does he stand on this? Like, how did he make a giant rainbow thing to stand on?
[00:39:49] Speaker B: He creates hard light. I. I didn't know that until I read the who too, because I. I didn't know why he was standing on lights either.
[00:39:55] Speaker A: I. I thought he just. I thought he just had melted a bunch of crayons and made one of those things that you could, like, draw with.
[00:40:01] Speaker B: Might have been a better story.
[00:40:03] Speaker A: Do you ever do that before? Like where you melt a bunch of crayons together and get the cool rainbow crayon and then like, I have not. Oh, man.
[00:40:09] Speaker B: It's cool. Wouldn't that just make one big brown crayon?
[00:40:11] Speaker A: No, no, no. You melt them together in.
In, like, in sections. Right. And then, like, they.
They form together so that they're not.
[00:40:25] Speaker B: When their powers combine, they become Captain Planet Crayon.
[00:40:28] Speaker A: No, they make, like a giant, you know, big rainbow crayon.
But when you color with it, it's like, it draws like a giant rainbow.
[00:40:36] Speaker B: Okay.
So it's the gayest crayon ever.
[00:40:39] Speaker A: It is.
[00:40:40] Speaker B: We should make some.
[00:40:41] Speaker A: We should make some.
[00:40:43] Speaker B: Everybody would be happy. And we can just take that crayon and draw it through all the sidewalks we see.
[00:40:48] Speaker A: Yes, exactly.
[00:40:49] Speaker B: Could do that with chalk too.
[00:40:51] Speaker A: Yeah. Crosswalks, Trans crosswalks. Crosswalks. Do it with like chalk. Get a bunch of rainbow color.
[00:40:58] Speaker B: You do with the Rainbow Raiders uniform. It'd be really easy to draw. Okay, uniform, definitely. If we had that, you could dress
[00:41:05] Speaker A: up as a Rainbow Raider.
[00:41:09] Speaker B: Which face of the Rainbow Raider should I use though?
[00:41:12] Speaker A: I.
Because, oh man, the, the, the top panel is the angry face. The bottom panel is the.
I just made a.
[00:41:29] Speaker B: And, and color.
Okay, well, anyway, yes.
Booster's trying to fight the Rainbow Raider while Blinded Skeets is leading him along.
He aims his beams at the Rainbow Raider and misses him completely.
[00:41:45] Speaker A: Oh man.
[00:41:46] Speaker B: And the radio Rainbow Raider's like, ah, you're still blind. You can't get me. Haha.
Now how come nobody thought the Rainbow Raider was blind when he missed every single time?
[00:41:55] Speaker A: Right?
[00:41:57] Speaker B: Man, that's suspect, isn't it?
[00:42:00] Speaker A: It is suspect.
[00:42:02] Speaker B: He's very suspect.
Yeah, yeah. See?
[00:42:06] Speaker A: Well, because he's colorblind.
[00:42:10] Speaker B: But that doesn't make you blind. Blind.
[00:42:12] Speaker A: It doesn't make you blind. Blind. But if you're, what if he was like, hey, I'm going to give you, I'm going to shoot you with this color. But he doesn't know what the color that he's choosing is because he's colorblind. So he's like gets his greens and his reds mixed up.
[00:42:28] Speaker B: Or maybe he just has mismatching argyle socks.
[00:42:31] Speaker A: Yeah, could be, could be.
I can always tell when one of my co workers comes when his wife dresses him because he's very matched. And when he dresses himself he's not.
[00:42:46] Speaker B: See?
[00:42:46] Speaker A: And it's, and it's, it's, it's, it's, it's good.
I like it when he doesn't. When he dresses himself because that means that he's doing his own thing and
[00:43:00] Speaker B: see, and we should all be allowed to do our own thing and we don't need people to tell us what to do.
[00:43:04] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:43:04] Speaker B: Well, they go to fight in a museum and I guess Booster gets shot by a. Here, let me. A high intensity blast of infrared light strong enough to melt steel.
[00:43:19] Speaker A: Did, did the Rainbow Raider give him back shots? Did he get hit in the back?
[00:43:24] Speaker B: Yeah, and he did.
And then he sees.
[00:43:32] Speaker A: And then the sound.
Is that a squizzer?
[00:43:36] Speaker B: I don't know. What?
Well, I was just getting through the story.
[00:43:41] Speaker A: Okay, sorry.
[00:43:42] Speaker B: Very important. So Booster Gold sees the original prince and then the colored prints before the
[00:43:48] Speaker A: new power generation or before the colors. Before the, before he turned into symbol.
[00:43:53] Speaker B: Skeet is not prints negative. I have discovered why the Raider wants Paul Morris. Though Biblo's colorblindness prevented him from becoming major artist, yet his designs were quite solid. And it appears that Morris has plagiarized Biblo's work.
Yeah. Well.
[00:44:15] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:44:18] Speaker B: Why we get an ad for.
If only the book looked this cool.
Well, it probably looks ev. Art.
[00:44:26] Speaker A: It looks so cool. That's what I like. When I saw this ad, I was like, oh, man, this looks awesome. And I mean, the book itself is cool, but it's.
[00:44:37] Speaker B: No, it's. It's really not. I've. I've tried to re. I've tried. It's like.
But they're harder. That reading. The start of that Doom Patrol series is. Is rough.
There's a reason they brought Grant Morrison in to replace Paul Kupperberg.
It's rough. This looks very cool.
[00:45:00] Speaker A: It does look super cool.
[00:45:01] Speaker B: If they had done something like this. But it just didn't live up. It just didn't. Well, we talked about this a couple episodes ago. It just didn't live up to the original Doom Patrol kind of mantra.
[00:45:10] Speaker A: It didn't do it.
[00:45:13] Speaker B: Yeah. So we get some Booster Gold.
It's amazing. So Booster Gold can't see, but the Rainbow Raider can't hit Booster Gold at all.
Giving him all the instructions.
[00:45:28] Speaker A: They're a great pair.
It comes down to it, you know,
[00:45:33] Speaker B: if you put them in a room with some stormtroopers, it'd be fantastic.
[00:45:36] Speaker A: If you just put them in a ring together and they have to crawl around trying to get each other.
[00:45:42] Speaker B: Well. And then Booster Gold puts his force field on to shield against the.
The beams.
It apparently is working except for the one panel where he becomes yellow for some reason
[00:45:57] Speaker A: now.
[00:45:58] Speaker B: And the best part, I think, about the second half of this book is both characters are wearing goggles.
[00:46:06] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:46:07] Speaker B: So you don't really have to draw their whole face.
[00:46:09] Speaker A: That's true.
You only mess up part of it.
[00:46:15] Speaker B: Well, then we find that. Sources tell us that Bistro Gold is apprehending.
Apprehending. Yes.
One Rainbow Raider.
And Booster's like, you made the right choice, Raider. Considering my blindness, I couldn't have done it alone.
And he's like, the whole. And the Raider says, the whole mess started on account of my love for art Gold.
I wasn't going to be the guy to destroy it.
And they saw. They rescue all the art from the burning art museum.
Rainbow Raider gets captured.
[00:46:56] Speaker A: Oh, man.
[00:46:56] Speaker B: My light goes out and it's fantastic.
[00:47:04] Speaker A: It's because The Rainbow Raider got captured. You have.
[00:47:07] Speaker B: You're.
[00:47:07] Speaker A: Now, now, there's no. There's no light there.
[00:47:12] Speaker B: It's not very dark in here.
[00:47:13] Speaker A: So just like the Rainbow Raider.
[00:47:18] Speaker B: Well, anyway, the Rainbow Raider shows. Everyone shows Paul Morris, more importantly, that he stole his artwork. And Morris is like, it's a trick fake news I posted on Truth Social.
It wasn't right. And everybody's like, yeah, you're a jackass. And then there's an apple. There's two epilogues.
One, Booster goes back to the United Mutual people and tells them, like you should with all insurance companies, that you're jerks. And then he buys the insurance company.
[00:47:45] Speaker A: Yeah. Just like a real capitalist would.
[00:47:48] Speaker B: I mean, and then we get go back to Michelle Carter. I like that.
[00:47:55] Speaker A: He tells him he's fired. You're fired.
[00:47:57] Speaker B: Get out of here. You're fired. Michelle Carter is taken by the aliens and transported somewhere. And the aliens say they're going to take over the Earth.
Which must be our next storyline.
[00:48:08] Speaker A: Oh, it must be.
[00:48:11] Speaker B: And I've chosen. I already have chosen a letter from the Gold Exchange this time.
[00:48:17] Speaker A: Oh, which letter have we chosen, Dan?
[00:48:20] Speaker B: Well, I did not choose the letter by TE Pouncey.
[00:48:22] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:48:24] Speaker B: Because maybe somebody should collect all the TE Pouncy letters and put them in the back of the book by the TM Maple letters.
[00:48:30] Speaker A: That would be great.
[00:48:31] Speaker B: But I did pick a letter from Bobby Warren of 5751 West Monte Cristo in Glendale, Arizona, 85306. If you want to write one Bobby Warren. I'm sure Bobby is still there.
[00:48:45] Speaker A: Dear Dan, Pick sandwiches, Monte Cristos.
[00:48:49] Speaker B: Since everyone seems to be asking for Booster to team up with one hero or another, I won't add this letter to that list of requests. What I will do.
It suggests someone to Jack sue at the new BG Research Company. The man for the job is someone who has shown his superior abilities with electronics and inability to cope. Well, Jack's still here. Well, anyway, with friends of Booster meets.
Just ask Shockwave. That's right. I'm talking about Dan Cassidy, AKA Blue Devil. He would make a fantastic supporting character for bg.
While this might have worked if Booster wasn't asked to join the Justice League. Oh well, we can't have everything.
At least Booster will have nine new heroes in his supporting cast.
See, now is the time for the obligatory raves for the artwork, stories, writing, coloring and editing. So far, they have all been great. But the best reason to read Booster Gold is the strong characterization that Dan has been able to give Us. Every member of Booster's group has shown a depth of character that is left out of a lot of comics. This characterization is why BG is my favorite solo hero comic, second only to the Legion of Superheroes.
[00:50:08] Speaker A: That's not a solo.
[00:50:10] Speaker B: No, this. It's his favorite solo comic, but his favorite comic.
[00:50:14] Speaker A: Oh, I see.
[00:50:16] Speaker B: The Legion of Superheroes.
[00:50:17] Speaker A: I see.
I see.
That makes sense. Okay, okay.
[00:50:21] Speaker B: The much superior book. Yeah.
[00:50:23] Speaker A: Well, it is really.
[00:50:25] Speaker B: It is.
[00:50:25] Speaker A: It is very, very good, Dan. Very good. Very good.
[00:50:29] Speaker B: Well, on that note, my lights are out. Your lights are not all of them, but.
[00:50:34] Speaker A: And nobody's home.
And because some.
[00:50:38] Speaker B: We forgot. We probably should wrap this one up. But there are a couple things we'll leave with. We'll come back with Booster Gold number 21. And maybe 21 and 22, depending on what we discuss.
[00:50:50] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:50:50] Speaker B: Next time.
Also, you should be aware that Greg is an author.
[00:50:58] Speaker A: It's true.
[00:50:58] Speaker B: But he also owns the Retro Emporium on Meeker street in Kent, Washington, where you can go to relive your childhood.
[00:51:04] Speaker A: You can. You can come check it out and relive your childhood.
[00:51:10] Speaker B: And on the right day, you might find the Squacho Man.
[00:51:14] Speaker A: You're. You're not wrong. He might be there. Could be there.
[00:51:18] Speaker B: You could find a rock concert. There's all sorts of things.
[00:51:20] Speaker A: You could find all sorts of things. Because we do music events, special events, all sorts of things. So check out the social medias, find out what's going on and pay us a visit.
[00:51:35] Speaker B: Yep.
So do that. And Greg and I have lots of future plans, but we can't tell you them now because we don't know when they plan.
[00:51:44] Speaker A: That's true.
[00:51:45] Speaker B: Because if we went forward to see our plans, then our job wouldn't be very exciting because we'd have to memorize what we said. And then if we forwarded in time to see what we said, then we'd have to come back here and say what we said to see what we said and then say what we said. And if we didn't say what we said perfectly, time might be messed up.
And so I said that. I said, then I saw what I said. Then I listened to what I said. Then I see what I said, then I have to say what I said.
That seems like a disaster.
[00:52:15] Speaker A: Or we could just take the paychecks from the week before and bring them to the future to cash them, to leave the money, and then go back to the past to get the paychecks.
[00:52:25] Speaker B: I think that's a check your ass can't cash.
Probably right.
[00:52:29] Speaker A: That's why we got to cash them in the past. Take the money and bring it to the future and then go back. Cash the check.
[00:52:35] Speaker B: Oh, the past. Strong ass. Yes.
[00:52:38] Speaker A: Yes.
Strong ass. Check. Cash. Cash. Cash.
[00:52:43] Speaker B: Cash for cash. And that's it. So on that note, we're done. Next. Next up, Booster Gold 21.
We'll see you in a week or so.
[00:52:53] Speaker A: Yes, I know.
[00:52:57] Speaker B: We love.
