Episode Transcript
[00:00:06] Speaker A: All right,
[00:00:09] Speaker B: we are here.
[00:00:11] Speaker A: Reddit cast number one, starting up
[00:00:15] Speaker B: Reddit cast.
[00:00:16] Speaker A: No. Credit cast. Credit cast.
[00:00:19] Speaker B: No, we're not. We are done. We were talking about that before the podcast. That's not podcast talk.
Nobody really cares about my opinions on banks and credit unions. But if you do, it's true. And you're a member of a bank, leave immediately, because you're not a member. You are a customer of a monolithic corporation who is there to make money for their shareholders and join a credit union where you are a member, and thus the credit union makes decisions for you. You own a piece of it, you are a member.
[00:00:51] Speaker A: You're a member, but you own a piece of it.
[00:00:53] Speaker B: Well, you're a member and you own
[00:00:55] Speaker A: a piece of it.
[00:00:56] Speaker B: I don't know if that's true, but you are.
[00:00:58] Speaker A: That's what they tell me every time I walk in the door.
[00:01:01] Speaker B: Well, that's good of them.
You don't have all decisions. I have had a credit union make bad decision, in my opinion. But you are not going to get screwed over like you do if you bank with Booster Gold International.
[00:01:14] Speaker A: That's true. Oh, man.
[00:01:16] Speaker B: Or Wells Fargo.
[00:01:20] Speaker A: Any of those? Yes.
[00:01:22] Speaker B: And for the record, Wells Fargo is the evilest of all evilest banks. And there are some bad ones. There's bank of America, there's Chase.
They're really evil.
[00:01:34] Speaker A: Are they pretty evil?
[00:01:34] Speaker B: Wells Fargo is the evilest of all evil. Evil.
[00:01:38] Speaker A: Would you say that they're cursed?
[00:01:41] Speaker B: No, I would say that they're. No, they're very. They're not nice and very evil.
They are quite the opposite.
[00:01:51] Speaker A: Yeah, I know, I know.
[00:01:52] Speaker B: That's why. But if you are an Indian scammer on the Internet and you would like a bank to launder money through Wells Fargo, I believe is a great one for you, you could. You could do that.
Wells Fargo had a motto.
I believe it was called eight is Great.
[00:02:13] Speaker A: It is great.
[00:02:15] Speaker B: And I guess we are getting banking cash.
[00:02:17] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. I started as a joke, thinking we were done, and I.
[00:02:21] Speaker B: Well, it's kind of like.
Actually, it's not. It's not a black hole.
It's not a black hole because it's actually going to relate to the end of the story.
[00:02:32] Speaker A: I guess you're right. You're. You're, you're not wrong. This is.
[00:02:35] Speaker B: I mean, banking advice is very important to this story, but it is. Yeah.
Wells Fargo had a scandal called Eight Is Great, where they encouraged their employees to make sure everybody had eight accounts. With Wells Fargo, you have to have eight.
And they got bonuses and things for this. So why you need 8 accounts if you're just an average person doing banking? Who knows? But talking about shareholders, then they could keep telling shareholders they had all these accounts, and then people got bonuses if they signed people up for these accounts. So they started making phantom accounts and creating them and tricking people into. Into accounts. And then Wells Fargo got sued.
[00:03:14] Speaker A: It doesn't do your credit score any good either.
[00:03:17] Speaker B: I don't know if that impacts your credit score per se. Well, if they're credit cards, yes.
[00:03:21] Speaker A: Yeah. No, if you open.
[00:03:22] Speaker B: If they are crediting, yes. Yes, you are correct. If they're credit accounts, yeah.
[00:03:25] Speaker A: If you open multiple accounts and then do credit cards, or they. Instead of doing a loan out of your regular one, and they do a loan out of something else, and then something bad happens to you and you're not paying attention to that one account, then, yeah, it's bad.
[00:03:40] Speaker B: And then all of a sudden, you're basically letting somebody else run your accounts, and then that's. That's a terrible idea.
[00:03:47] Speaker A: Very bad.
[00:03:50] Speaker B: Yeah. This says it was from 2011 to mid 2016. This is from Forbes.
[00:03:54] Speaker A: That's a long time.
[00:03:56] Speaker B: Yeah. Where they were doing this.
To 1.5 million unauthorized deposit accounts and 500,000 unauthorized credit applications equal 2.6 million in fees for Wells Fargo.
[00:04:11] Speaker A: That's not fees that Wells Fargo had to pay. That's fees that the people have to
[00:04:15] Speaker B: pay to Wells Fargo. Yes. That's fees that Wells Fargo made collecting off of.
[00:04:20] Speaker A: Off of people utilizing or not utilizing those things, those services that they were sold on.
And, and case in point, too, if you have, let's say you have one account and you're doing all your. Your bill pay out of that one, that's good. But if you end up setting up multiple accounts and you don't know where your bill pay is coming out of, and you're not putting money into it, that's bad because you end up with, well, missed bills.
[00:04:46] Speaker B: Well, and I think the primary lesson here is, unlike somebody in this story we're reading because we got some hints. We get some hints last issue, that somebody was going through Booster Gold International's accounts.
[00:04:57] Speaker A: Yeah.
Just a skosh there.
[00:05:01] Speaker B: It looked. It looked suspect.
[00:05:02] Speaker A: Oh, super sus.
[00:05:05] Speaker B: I knew you were gonna do that.
[00:05:06] Speaker A: Why. Why would I not?
[00:05:10] Speaker B: Are you gonna say nuggies, too?
[00:05:12] Speaker A: Oh, how'd you know what I'm eating?
[00:05:14] Speaker B: Nuggies.
[00:05:14] Speaker A: How'd you know what I was eating for dinner later?
[00:05:17] Speaker B: They're gonna have. Why do we have to shorten Words.
Right. Pretty soon I'm gonna be like. Like the way I. I'm gonna be in idiocracy. And I'm gonna be speaking, and everybody's gonna be laughing because I don't, like, use their random crap.
[00:05:30] Speaker A: Speaking. Have you looked around, Dan? We are in idiocracy.
[00:05:35] Speaker B: That's true.
[00:05:36] Speaker A: I mean, and people are shortening words to the point and. And wearing Crocs.
If anybody wants a couple of. Of Crocs. Little. The. You know, the little niblet things or giblet things or whatever they're called, Hit me up.
[00:05:52] Speaker B: I have no idea what you're talking about.
[00:05:54] Speaker A: You know those things that go in your Crocs to make them look different than just regular Crocs, you know?
[00:06:00] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:06:01] Speaker A: Well, you will when you get that box from Crocs. And then I send you some. Some Crocs that fit.
[00:06:07] Speaker B: You're gonna want Crocs.
[00:06:09] Speaker A: You're gonna wear them.
[00:06:10] Speaker B: I don't want Crocs.
[00:06:12] Speaker A: You're. You might not want them, but you're gonna love them.
[00:06:15] Speaker B: I just go barefoot.
[00:06:18] Speaker A: You put them on, and all of a sudden it's like. It marries to your foot, and you're like, gosh, I don't know how I live without these. And then you got another pair just. That just shows up. And then all of a sudden, another pair, and you're three Crocs deep.
[00:06:31] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:06:32] Speaker A: Broadcast.
[00:06:35] Speaker B: Sure. Well, eight is great.
I guess that applies to Crocs.
[00:06:39] Speaker A: And three for me.
Three pairs of Crocs. I only have two. One. One pair of feet. One pair of feet. Yeah. Set of feet. I don't need three pairs of Crocs, but, hey, you know, it's life.
[00:06:50] Speaker B: I mean, I hope you have two feet.
[00:06:52] Speaker A: I have two feet. That makes me.
[00:06:53] Speaker B: That would be a pair.
[00:06:55] Speaker A: Why do they call it a pair of pants, Dan?
It's only one pant. It's only one pant, though, because I have two legs.
[00:07:04] Speaker B: So technically.
Technically, what's his name?
The wrestler? That was Zack Ryder. Okay. Now he's. But now he goes by his real name, Matt Cardona.
Remember when he had the pants where he had one pant leg and then it was just the short. The trunks on the other side?
[00:07:25] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:07:26] Speaker B: Yeah, that would be not a pair of pants or.
[00:07:29] Speaker A: Well, I mean, you call it a.
An overall, and it's not a pair of overalls. It's just an overall.
[00:07:36] Speaker B: Oh, it's because there's one.
[00:07:38] Speaker A: Yeah, exactly. Like a pair of pants.
[00:07:40] Speaker B: It's like a onesie.
[00:07:42] Speaker A: You Call it a pair of socks, because there's two. I wear a sweatshirt that has two arms, but I don't call it a pair of sweatshirts. It's just one sweatshirt.
[00:07:49] Speaker B: Well, maybe by the same logic that
[00:07:51] Speaker A: you're using, oh, my gosh, a pair of sweatshirts. People let us know, do you wear a pair of sweatshirts or one sweatshirt?
[00:07:59] Speaker B: I don't know.
Do we wear. If I have a shirt on that says Funny Book Forensics, but you have a sweatshirt on.
Are these a pair of shirts or a pair of sweatshirts?
[00:08:09] Speaker A: It would be two distinctively different shirts being worn by two different people at the same time.
[00:08:17] Speaker B: And this is the logic that is going to keep the Strait of Hormuz open.
So we are going to continue into action comics number 594, a Booster Gold appearance I didn't own.
[00:08:33] Speaker A: And now you're, like, bewildered at why you would never own this. Because after seeing this, you're like, this is just like Booster Gold.
[00:08:44] Speaker B: Well, until, what, 10 months ago, I didn't own all the original Booster Gold run either. So that is, I owned all the later Booster Gold stuff. I owned all the Justice League stuff, but I didn't have the original run. And Millennium is coming here.
It's never arrive.
[00:09:02] Speaker A: It's coming, everyone. Millennium is coming.
[00:09:04] Speaker B: It's like that long session you can't wait to get over and just never happens.
[00:09:13] Speaker A: Talk about the podcast or you talk about.
[00:09:15] Speaker B: Yeah, the podcast.
[00:09:16] Speaker A: Geez.
[00:09:17] Speaker B: That's what. Exactly what I was talking about. Well, guess who was winning this time. It looks like Booster Gold.
I just want to say that I do harp on. On John Byrne.
[00:09:31] Speaker A: Yeah,
[00:09:34] Speaker B: I did say that I thought that the laroque art was better when we did the Legion story, but I didn't think the John Byrne art was bad.
[00:09:46] Speaker A: True.
[00:09:47] Speaker B: This cover is bad.
[00:09:49] Speaker A: Ah.
What are you talking about? Cue a Queen song. He's got dirt on his face. He's disgrace.
[00:09:56] Speaker B: Yeah, this. This. This cover is terrible.
Booster looks.
[00:10:02] Speaker A: Booster doesn't look like himself. But, you know, if you were trying
[00:10:08] Speaker B: to get a crossover book and you're using action for that, which apparently they were at the time, and you were trying to promote Booster, I think you'd want
[00:10:17] Speaker A: beefcake Booster.
[00:10:19] Speaker B: Also, is that a waterfall coming from Superman's chin?
[00:10:23] Speaker A: It looks like it. I mean, maybe Superman threw up or something. I don't know. Now he's in a puddle.
[00:10:29] Speaker B: Oh, okay.
[00:10:30] Speaker A: He's in a mud puddle.
Hence the dirt on his face.
[00:10:35] Speaker B: Yeah, it just. It's not a good cover at all.
[00:10:38] Speaker A: It's it's really not. It doesn't, it doesn't really show off Booster's good attributes. I mean, he's got a big thigh and all, but I mean, where's his eight pack? You don't see that.
[00:10:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Where's his ass? Yeah.
[00:10:50] Speaker A: I mean, it. Well, it's behind him, of course.
[00:10:54] Speaker B: And it shows some of the worst parts about the uniform, like the giant pop collar and, and the, it's just not a good. I mean, if you were walking by this as a kid on the stand, would this be something you grabbed?
[00:11:07] Speaker A: I'd be, If I was a kid, I'd be like, why is Superman losing to Booster Gold?
[00:11:12] Speaker B: Or you know who Booster Gold is?
[00:11:14] Speaker A: That's true. Who is this guy beating up Superman?
[00:11:16] Speaker B: Then I had to read it because
[00:11:18] Speaker A: I'd be very concerned and also confused.
[00:11:24] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm just saying this cover doesn't pop.
[00:11:26] Speaker A: It doesn't pop.
That's true.
[00:11:30] Speaker B: And it's an annoying white background cover which always gets dirty.
[00:11:34] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, gets.
[00:11:37] Speaker B: Well, we open the book. I guess I should stop talking about the COVID and open the book. Because we have two books to cover. Because we have two stories. Well, we have one. We have one story in two books.
[00:11:46] Speaker A: One story, two books.
[00:11:48] Speaker B: We're also covering this beautiful book here.
[00:11:50] Speaker A: Is it a pear?
[00:11:52] Speaker B: And it's a pair for. It's a two part story. I don't know if you call that
[00:11:55] Speaker A: a para story era books.
How do you wear them, Dan?
[00:12:01] Speaker B: We flip the page and Booster Gold and we flipped the page and Booster Gold and Superman were on the COVID and we opened the first page and it says all that glisters.
Is that like a glizzy.
[00:12:14] Speaker A: Oh, the hot dog. Like, yeah, like Dr. Do in his multiple hot dog eating challenge. I don't know.
[00:12:23] Speaker B: Well, after we get Booster Gold and Superman on the COVID we get the Batman symbol on the first page.
[00:12:30] Speaker A: I'm very confused now. I mean, you got, you got Booster and Superman and then Batman. Okay, let's go.
[00:12:41] Speaker B: It's. I, I mean, everybody's here.
It's, it's great. We're, we're going. Well, we get writer John Byrne, penciler John Byrne and Keith Williams.
Oh, no, hang on. Keith Williams inks.
Okay, okay, now I'm getting this figured out. Hold up. Let me try this again. John Byrne's story and all the pencils.
[00:13:06] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:13:07] Speaker B: John Byrne and Keith Williams inking Tom Zuko on colors. Okay. John Costanza, who has never lettered anything else, never letters.
[00:13:21] Speaker A: No.
[00:13:23] Speaker B: Michael Carlin is editing. He's written many Letters, individual ones that are all capitals.
[00:13:30] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:13:31] Speaker B: And Superman was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Booster Gold created by Dan Jurgens, and Batman created by just Bob Kane.
[00:13:39] Speaker A: Oh, just Bob Kane.
I have a pin on my other hat that would surely say something different.
[00:13:47] Speaker B: I have a finger that would also indicate something different. Yeah, that was to Bob Kane.
[00:13:53] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, definitely.
Because.
[00:13:56] Speaker B: So also, they mentioned Dick Sprang in here, but they don't mention Bill Finger.
[00:14:03] Speaker A: That's.
It's. That's an injustice.
Bill Finger definitely made the Batman that you like.
[00:14:12] Speaker B: Right. Which. It's funny that Dick Sprang is mentioned in the book, but they don't. Unless I missed the Bill Finger reference. But I found the Dick Sprang reference. So, anyway, we're already demonetized, so we can cost as much as we want now.
So we'll.
[00:14:29] Speaker A: We'll take whatever money we get and put it in a credit union.
[00:14:32] Speaker B: And put it in the credit union. Yeah. Yeah, it's exactly what.
[00:14:36] Speaker A: Because I'm a member and an owner.
[00:14:38] Speaker B: I'm also a member.
Well, we get the Batman and Jason Todd Robin swinging through the city. Do you know how you know it's still Jason Todd?
[00:14:52] Speaker A: Oh, Dan.
[00:14:54] Speaker B: Because he has short pants.
[00:14:55] Speaker A: Oh, short pants.
[00:14:57] Speaker B: Timber. Had the long pants
[00:15:01] Speaker A: and Jason Todd in the short pants.
[00:15:04] Speaker B: Yeah. So if it's this time period, Dick Grayson's already Nightwing. So, you know, it's not Dick Grayson, and it's Jason Todd and white eyeballs.
That's what this mask does. Oh, yeah. He's very excited because he gets to see Superman.
[00:15:22] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:15:24] Speaker B: And that's a good summary of this initial conversation.
[00:15:27] Speaker A: Yeah, that is basically the whole conversation. Oh, my gosh.
Fanboy, fanboy, fanboy.
[00:15:35] Speaker B: And then we find out that Superman has called Batman because he found a scrapbook.
And Superman. All of Superman's powers and his history of working with print newspapers as Clark Kent, he shares with Batman that he doesn't know how to trace different types of papers.
Like, literally the weight in things of paper, which seems unlikely since he literally works in the newspaper business.
[00:16:03] Speaker A: Yeah, he would. He. I think he would know, but then again, maybe he doesn't. Paper comes in all different sizes and shapes.
[00:16:12] Speaker B: In fact, he says, I can see right down to the molecular structures of the thing. But as far as things like fingerprints and paper stock, I just. Just don't have the knowledge to do. To decode such things.
[00:16:24] Speaker A: Huh.
[00:16:24] Speaker B: He needs a master time detective the whole time. Robin is still very excited.
Superman is not excited that Batman is bringing along another kid into his universe.
[00:16:38] Speaker A: He's like, great, I got rid of all the newsboys, and I got rid of that Jimmy and now.
[00:16:46] Speaker B: And the Legion, too. I got rid of those kids, too.
[00:16:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
And now I got this kid. Yeah, he got rid of them forever, didn't he?
[00:16:54] Speaker B: Yeah, he got rid of Legion forever. Yeah. It's so. Well, he's this Superman, this Superman, and, well, Superman is flattered. He signs his name by writing it like a comic book writer.
A letter on a piece of steel and gives it to Robin.
Now, do you think that the Joker will, in the future, use that to cut Robin up and murder him?
[00:17:25] Speaker A: I. I would hope not, but I feel like that's foreboding.
[00:17:33] Speaker B: Well, Robin is super excited. Batman is taking off with this thing to go investigate it.
[00:17:39] Speaker A: It is.
[00:17:41] Speaker B: And Superman's off to talk to the mayor and stuff.
[00:17:45] Speaker A: Yeah, he's got business.
[00:17:47] Speaker B: We just had five pages of Batman and Robin and Superman talking about a scrapbook.
[00:17:55] Speaker A: Yeah.
Exciting stuff.
[00:18:01] Speaker B: I'm sure this is setting up for something in the future.
[00:18:03] Speaker A: It's setting up for something in the future, of course.
[00:18:06] Speaker B: But definitely not, not, not nothing about this story.
[00:18:09] Speaker A: It's.
[00:18:09] Speaker B: It's. It never comes back again.
[00:18:11] Speaker A: It never comes back. It's definitely a Chekhov's gun.
[00:18:16] Speaker B: Well, we get to the next page, and we get Trixie walking through a city or through the metropolis.
I think that's Dirk the jerk in the background.
[00:18:26] Speaker A: It might be.
[00:18:27] Speaker B: Not exactly sure.
[00:18:28] Speaker A: It might be.
[00:18:30] Speaker B: Trixie is walking through the city, thinking.
And it says, there's a poster that says Booster Gold says, we don't need another hero with a big thing like Ghostbusters sign over Superman.
And then she sees Booster flying through the city and she yells out, booster. And he completely ignores her and she's yelling, booster weight. There's no introduction to this character. If you read Action Comics and not Booster Gold. So you have literally no idea, no idea who this is.
[00:19:03] Speaker A: Just like, okay, some guy and some
[00:19:06] Speaker B: woman walking through talking about a guy in a suit.
[00:19:09] Speaker A: I don't understand.
[00:19:11] Speaker B: There's no context to why Trixie is here.
There's no explanation of who she is.
This is what we call shitty editing.
Because you were introducing. I'm already. I'm a. We're already here.
So.
[00:19:27] Speaker A: Yeah. No. Well, they have that expectation that everyone is reading all the books and they're gonna.
[00:19:32] Speaker B: Yeah, that is not true.
[00:19:34] Speaker A: It's not true.
[00:19:35] Speaker B: Especially when we read the Legion crossover and it's like, over explaining everything.
[00:19:41] Speaker A: And this is to the point of absurdity. Yeah.
[00:19:44] Speaker B: And here it's just like, yeah, everybody should know Who A supporting cast member in Booster Gold is. So Booster is in his own book, which apparently no one is reading because we're crossing over Superman again, bringing them in. And.
And in the Justice League, where Trixie does not appear at all. Ever.
Ever. Yeah, that I remember. I mean, maybe like a couple panels or two or something like that, but she's a memory.
[00:20:11] Speaker A: And.
[00:20:11] Speaker B: Yeah.
So here we are. While Trixie's very upset because Booster's ignoring her, Booster runs over to a Superman statue that they're making. Unveils it, blasts it, blows it up.
And now we're back to the Daily Planet.
Lois in her very late 80s hairdo.
[00:20:32] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, it's.
It's a hair cut.
[00:20:39] Speaker B: Yeah, it is. It's kind of like it's the same haircut that all those barbers do on Facebook now.
[00:20:45] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah.
[00:20:47] Speaker B: The broccoli head.
Yeah. Is that like a blowout taper?
[00:20:52] Speaker A: I guess. Yeah, it's. It's very popular again. So Lois is. Is at her time and ahead of her time.
[00:21:00] Speaker B: Well, it's very popular for the boys now.
[00:21:06] Speaker A: They want that Lois Lane look.
[00:21:08] Speaker B: Yeah. So it's. Again, I don't mean to be sexist or disrespectful. Anybody can certainly have whatever haircut they want. It's just interesting that this is how societal norms for gender just continue to. To flip and change. You know, maybe just wear whatever hair you want. That's.
[00:21:27] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:21:28] Speaker B: Or have no hair.
[00:21:29] Speaker A: Or have no hair. Or. Or some hair.
Yeah. However you like it.
[00:21:35] Speaker B: It's a hairy situation.
[00:21:37] Speaker A: It is a hairy.
[00:21:38] Speaker B: Well, Lois is. We're gonna sum this conference. Lois is pissed off because she has to attend a press conference and she doesn't consider that investigative journalism.
Probably. For a Booster Gold press conference, I'd probably agree with her.
Then Booster Gold gets up at the press conference and talk. Starts talking about Superman and his crimes against humanity. Apparently Superman went to the country of Kurak and invaded it on his own, busting a bunch of weapons up and things like that.
This was in adventures of Superman 427, if anybody wants to look that up.
[00:22:15] Speaker A: Yeah,
[00:22:18] Speaker B: I mean, we certainly can.
[00:22:19] Speaker A: I feel like that was applied to a movie.
[00:22:24] Speaker B: Yeah, I. I think. I feel like they just did that in the recent Superman movie.
[00:22:29] Speaker A: That was. It was literally because.
[00:22:32] Speaker B: Because.
That's because Snyder.
No, sorry.
Who made the new super? What is wrong with me? James Gunn? Zack Snyder? The bad ones?
[00:22:46] Speaker A: None.
[00:22:47] Speaker B: Guardians of the Galaxy. Yeah. What?
[00:22:49] Speaker A: Yeah. Gun.
[00:22:51] Speaker B: Yeah. James Gunn. Yeah. Yeah. Read all these. Loved this time period.
[00:22:55] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:22:56] Speaker B: Of. Of comics that's why, that's why Guy Gardner's in the book, in the movie, because he loves the JLI and the time period.
[00:23:02] Speaker A: So,
[00:23:04] Speaker B: yeah, the people that read all the comics we read are now making the movies, which is good and bad.
In fact, the synopsis for that issue was Superman flies to Kurok to interrogate President Marlo as to the recent armored attacks that have taken place in Metropolis in the past weeks. He bursts directly into the presidential palace and pins Marlow to the wall. Soldiers try to stop him, but. But he melts their weapons with his heat vision.
So Booster is quick to point out, because of course, when your leaders are, are fighting a war, you have to of course, agree with the premise of the war, otherwise you're a bad American.
[00:23:51] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:23:52] Speaker B: Oh, that was too real. So you just went.
[00:23:53] Speaker A: Yeah, no, no, I wasn't, I, I, I was not.
[00:23:56] Speaker B: Not funny.
Yeah, it's, it's, it's, yeah. So Booster Gold, of course, says, well, yeah, they're a bad country, but you can't just go in there and blow stuff up.
[00:24:07] Speaker A: Well, I mean, just think if anybody just went in, willy nilly. Any superhero taking upon that, that mantle up for themselves to go and beat the justice center across, across everywhere. I mean, where would that leave us?
[00:24:22] Speaker B: It's a good question.
[00:24:24] Speaker A: I feel like that's a plot to the boys.
[00:24:27] Speaker B: Can I just say. Yeah.
That Lois Lane is very upset.
[00:24:33] Speaker A: Very.
[00:24:34] Speaker B: But she does ask good questions. Yes, but they're very biased questions because, of course, she's in love with Superman, I think.
[00:24:43] Speaker A: Of course. Yeah. No.
[00:24:43] Speaker B: Or is she? Yet. I actually don't know.
[00:24:45] Speaker A: I think she's got feelings for the Soups.
[00:24:49] Speaker B: Yeah. Because, you know, we reset the universe, so now it's hard to tell, like, when she is. But
[00:24:57] Speaker A: yeah.
[00:24:58] Speaker B: Well, anyway, she mentions that the admin, she feels like she's not asking questions. She's, like, debating Booster Gold and she's sticking up for the administration and Superman's actions and Booster's just like. Yeah, but it was bad thinking and they shouldn't just do that.
Can I also just say that I'm taking this watch off right now?
[00:25:20] Speaker A: Okay. He's taking his watch off, people.
[00:25:23] Speaker B: It's making me mad.
[00:25:24] Speaker A: His watch is making him mad. Is it?
[00:25:27] Speaker B: Because I have walked twice today.
[00:25:29] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:25:30] Speaker B: I rode on the exercise bike while working because I set up my exercise bike and my walk desk for about an hour and a half, two hours today.
[00:25:39] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:25:39] Speaker B: And this thing literally just told me to get up and take a walk.
[00:25:43] Speaker A: Want. It's looking out for You, Dan.
It wants you to, to be healthy and well, it wants to.
[00:25:52] Speaker B: We get back to the mayor's office, and it looks like some more plot that we don't know because we weren't reading. Action is happening. We get Juliana. The daughter of the mayor comes in.
[00:26:12] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:26:13] Speaker B: She's got words and she's all excited and, and everything's great. And this is just a whole thing to set up Booster Gold kidnapping her from the mayor's office so he can get super Superman's attention.
[00:26:31] Speaker A: Yeah, he just, he's like, I got a plan. And it need, I need you.
[00:26:37] Speaker B: Yeah. This is like a Gail Simone special right here. Bring the female character in to have her get kidnapped so they can be used as a plot twist to have the male characters interact.
[00:26:47] Speaker A: Oh, sure.
[00:26:51] Speaker B: It's, it's perfect.
[00:26:53] Speaker A: Strong disagree.
[00:26:55] Speaker B: Oh, really?
You don't think Gail would critique this?
[00:27:00] Speaker A: Oh, I, I, yes, she would critique this.
[00:27:03] Speaker B: I didn't mean it was a plot for Gail. I meant.
[00:27:05] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, no, that's her.
[00:27:07] Speaker B: That Women in Refrigerators article.
[00:27:09] Speaker A: I, I, I thought you were saying it was something that I was like, strong disagree. I don't think she would.
[00:27:14] Speaker B: It is not something Gail Simone would write. Is something Gail Simone has criticized.
[00:27:18] Speaker A: 100. 100 would, would criticize this. This issue.
[00:27:24] Speaker B: I mean, I think honestly, anybody could criticize this issue because it's just not good.
[00:27:28] Speaker A: Oh, I know. Well, that's you. You, you were, you're non plus when I said I didn't read it yet. And then you're like, it's only take you 10 minutes. You weren't wrong.
[00:27:36] Speaker B: Yeah, no, it took you 10 minutes to read. Well, anyway, Superman is at some sort of proclamation because it's almost Superman day. That's what they were talking about with Batman at the beginning.
I guess I forgot to mention that. And then the Booster Gold beats up a woman off panel to get Superman's attention. Awesome. Yeah. Loving that.
[00:28:02] Speaker A: Not good. Not a good look.
[00:28:04] Speaker B: And then.
Yeah, just absolutely. That's my, that's gonna get clipped someday. Me saying Booster Gold beats a woman off panel. Loving that.
[00:28:13] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[00:28:14] Speaker B: Yeah, go ahead. Somebody clip that so I can be immortalized for, for saying that.
[00:28:19] Speaker A: All right, I'll take that note.
[00:28:21] Speaker B: And then now we get this is.
Okay, anyway, Superman comes in, saves the girl fight, starts fighting with Booster Gold, and Booster Gold starts shooting at Superman. And then Superman's actually hurt. Booster Gold beats up Superman.
They talk and banter about nothing for three pages.
[00:28:50] Speaker A: Three pages of nothing.
[00:28:53] Speaker B: And then Lois Lane is back at the Daily Planet. And she is talking about Booster, Claude, and here's your story. And she writes a really biased story. And her editor's like.
Perry White is like, yeah, this is a super biased story. You can't just do write this. And she's like, of course I can.
And then somebody comes up to her and says, booster Gold's beating the crap out of Superman. And she goes and grabs a cameraman because Jimmy's not there. And they go out to shoot it. And then on page 21, Doomsday is standing over. I mean, Booster Gold is standing over Superman.
[00:29:32] Speaker A: Yeah, I know.
[00:29:33] Speaker B: In the street.
[00:29:34] Speaker A: I was like, I've seen this before.
[00:29:35] Speaker B: Just like the scene from Dan Jurgens. Take note. You're going to draw this later or write it. Did Dan Jurgens draw that, too? I don't write it.
[00:29:45] Speaker A: I don't remember.
[00:29:45] Speaker B: I think he drew it, too. I think he did both.
[00:29:48] Speaker A: He just. He basically just took the same image and swapped the character with.
[00:29:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
With different hair and.
Yeah. And then. But at the end. Ah, intrigue. Booster Gold plies in.
[00:30:03] Speaker A: What, another Booster.
[00:30:06] Speaker B: Well, it would have been really cool if he flew in with the cape, because then you could tell he really was thinking about going there.
[00:30:13] Speaker A: It's two Boosters kneel before us.
[00:30:17] Speaker B: Well, next issue, the ghost of Superman in Action Comics595. But we are instructed to finish this story by going to Boucher Gold, number 23, which we are going to do right now.
[00:30:30] Speaker A: Right now.
[00:30:31] Speaker B: Without hesitation,
[00:30:34] Speaker A: none whatsoever.
[00:30:35] Speaker B: Pulling it out of the plastic.
Look at that. Out of plastic and everything.
Got a light shine on it. Millennium is still coming. Right here.
[00:30:50] Speaker A: Still coming.
[00:30:53] Speaker B: Did you know a Gamma Rotters game? Tsr.
[00:30:58] Speaker A: Ah, it. Didn't know.
[00:31:00] Speaker B: Yeah, I missed that one.
[00:31:02] Speaker A: I did.
[00:31:05] Speaker B: That's unfortunate.
[00:31:06] Speaker A: I know.
[00:31:06] Speaker B: I'm sure it was a great game.
[00:31:07] Speaker A: I'm sure it was.
[00:31:08] Speaker B: How did you miss it?
[00:31:09] Speaker A: I. Well, I was probably too young for it at the time.
[00:31:14] Speaker B: That is probably true. That is probably technically true.
[00:31:16] Speaker A: I wasn't. I. I wasn't. As much as people believe or want to believe I was, I was. That wasn't part of my life at the moment.
It wasn't until several years later.
[00:31:30] Speaker B: Well, we get this cover.
[00:31:35] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:31:36] Speaker B: If you're trying to get somebody to read a book.
Much better.
[00:31:41] Speaker A: Much better.
[00:31:43] Speaker B: I walk by that and he's fighting two Booster Golds, and I'm like, wait, what? What? Why is Superman here? What's going on?
Yeah, background's better.
We get another inker, by the way.
[00:31:55] Speaker A: Another.
[00:31:57] Speaker B: Yeah, we. We've now Moved on to Roy Richardson. Oh, I don't know who Roy Richardson is. Do you?
[00:32:05] Speaker A: I don't.
[00:32:08] Speaker B: Maybe we. Maybe I should have found out before the podcast. Perhaps smarter.
[00:32:12] Speaker A: Show notes.
[00:32:13] Speaker B: It looks like the COVID artist on this one were Dan Jurgens and John Byrne.
[00:32:19] Speaker A: Okay,
[00:32:22] Speaker B: so cool.
And this is a much better cover.
[00:32:26] Speaker A: It is. It is very intriguing.
[00:32:28] Speaker B: I wonder if John Byrne had to draw Superman's face.
Perhaps. Like, they used to have Kurt Swan draw the faces for Superman and Kirby stuff.
Or was it Kurt Swan? Wasn't curse one, was it? Was it curse one?
[00:32:43] Speaker A: I don't remember.
[00:32:43] Speaker B: We read it. Go back and listen to one of our Jimmy Olsen episodes and we'll tell you all about it. Yeah, we'll tell you then, but not now.
Well, we are here, and in the last issue that we just read from Action Comics, it mentions Trixie was in the story, but they never say her name, so we don't really know that for sure.
[00:33:07] Speaker A: We don't know.
[00:33:09] Speaker B: But we are here and we have a story, and it says the Twin Terrors here.
[00:33:17] Speaker A: Twin Terrors.
[00:33:19] Speaker B: Thank goodness two buildings aren't in the background there. That would be awkward.
[00:33:23] Speaker A: Very.
[00:33:27] Speaker B: We've got Eminem's advertisement again.
[00:33:30] Speaker A: Oh, all right. Is it a baseball one again?
[00:33:34] Speaker B: No, it's gymnastics this time.
[00:33:36] Speaker A: Oh, gymnastics this time.
[00:33:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Sorry I didn't go through all the advertisements in the other book. I hated it so much. I was forgetting to do all the fun.
[00:33:43] Speaker A: It was like, I'm done with these. I'm done with this.
[00:33:46] Speaker B: I really was done with that book. It was not a good book.
[00:33:48] Speaker A: You were not.
[00:33:49] Speaker B: Maybe if I was reading Action at the time and knew why all the other subplot things were going on, maybe it might have been a better book. Maybe I should go back and read it all.
I'm sure reading all the John Byrne Superman stuff would be number one. Top of my list.
[00:34:02] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:34:03] Speaker B: James Gunn likes it, so.
[00:34:04] Speaker A: Yeah, be good.
[00:34:07] Speaker B: Well, this is. We start out with Booster Gold beating up Superman on the street with a completely different scene.
[00:34:17] Speaker A: Yeah. And now. Now it's very different.
It's from a different camera perspective.
[00:34:23] Speaker B: Yes, it definitely is. In fact, it's not just a different camera perspective. It's like a whole new city. I think so. And it's good to know with a Booster Gold flying in. It says, confused.
You won't be if you dig up a copy of Action Comics 594.
[00:34:43] Speaker A: Oh, okay.
[00:34:43] Speaker B: Thank you, Barbara. Oh, and by the way, we've got Dan Jurgens on story and pencils, Roy Richardson on Ink Steve Haney on letters, Gene d' Angelo on colors, and Barbara Randall. Or Barbara Kiesel. Or Barbara Randall. Kiesel, the editor.
[00:34:58] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:35:00] Speaker B: Who is nice enough to point out where we should look for the rest of the story. So already better than the editing we got last in the other issue we read.
[00:35:07] Speaker A: True, true.
[00:35:10] Speaker B: So Booster Gold starts taunting the other Booster Gold.
And Lois Lane is confused. She doesn't know why there are all these Booster Golds.
And Booster Gold starts firing at Booster Gold. And then Booster Gold hits Booster Gold, and then Superman falls away. And then Booster Gold hits Booster Gold into some sandbags. And then Superman is like, oh, hey, that's Booster. But he wasn't able to beat me up like that before.
Now he can.
And then Lois Lane tries to comfort him and he says he needs a few minutes. And then Booster Gold hits Booster Gold and Booster Gold blast Booster Gold, and then Booster Gold goes over to Superman, and then Booster Gold flies after Booster Gold, and then Booster Gold hits Booster Gold, and then Booster Gold zaps Superman and Booster Gold.
Oh, man. And then Booster Gold thinks about his past.
[00:36:04] Speaker A: Yes. As one does in a point of reflection after you get blasted by yourself.
[00:36:09] Speaker B: Yeah. Did you get all that?
[00:36:10] Speaker A: Yeah, I did.
[00:36:11] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:36:11] Speaker A: A lot of smack and blasting and, And. And grappling.
[00:36:16] Speaker B: Yeah. There's. There's a. There's a lot of. Of Booster happening. It's so much.
[00:36:21] Speaker A: It's almost like there's two of them.
[00:36:23] Speaker B: Well, Booster Gold thinks, well, when I pull Soupy's cape out of the fire, this city will know who the rear hero is.
[00:36:31] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:36:31] Speaker B: He's made the real sacrifices.
And we get a flashback. Sort of, because it's a present back. Because we didn't really see this. We just saw the funeral. So. Right.
We saw his sister die and we get a flashback. I guess. But it. It's weird because it's called a flashback, but it. This scene has never been told before.
True.
[00:36:53] Speaker A: It. I mean, it's a.
[00:36:54] Speaker B: So it's a flashback from this moment
[00:36:56] Speaker A: for Booster, but new to us.
[00:36:59] Speaker B: Yeah. And so Booster's coming back from the funeral. There's Skeets flying really low.
Everything looks sad.
It's terrible.
Trixie wants to help Booster and then she goes to him and she's like, I'm sorry, Michael, but we can't leave you alone. Your behavior has been very strange lately, and I think you asked an explanation. At the very time you were supposedly in another dimension trying to save Michelle, you were here in Metropolis. I saw you and you completely ignored me. And she just Figured she'd bring that up.
[00:37:33] Speaker A: Yeah, now it's important.
[00:37:36] Speaker B: It's part of the script. And then he sees the other Booster on TV and he's like, oh, I gotta go take care of that. Because they then tell. They spend a page and a half telling what happened in the other book.
They just told you to go read. And Booster is outraged and he goes to try to beat up Booster. And so on page eight, Booster is fighting Booster again.
But then Booster pulls Booster's arms off.
[00:38:04] Speaker A: What?
That. That seems impossible and improbable.
[00:38:11] Speaker B: Well, good news. It was a robot. So one of the Boosters was a robot. So the Booster that was beating up Superman all last issue in Action Comics was actually a robot.
Booster, this.
And then Superman, our Booster blasts the robot blasts all of its things off his uniform, everything.
And then it's just a robot. And then he beats up the robot some more.
And literally we just read a 1964 Silver Age Superman story.
[00:38:47] Speaker A: Totally.
[00:38:49] Speaker B: It's not done yet, but we've beaten up a robot because like Superman robots. Robots from other people.
Remember when John Byrne wanted to refresh Superman and reset everything and get it out of the Silver Age and take away all the campiness and get rid of all that?
[00:39:03] Speaker A: Yeah, we're going to leave that in the past.
[00:39:05] Speaker B: Move forward. No Superboy, no Superman robots, none of that.
[00:39:08] Speaker A: Well, Dan, you know what the big difference is? I know that you said it's a robot multiple times. It's not a robot, it's an Android.
[00:39:16] Speaker B: That's the difference.
[00:39:23] Speaker A: Yes, that's the difference, Dan. It's an Android.
[00:39:26] Speaker B: Data would be very upset.
[00:39:28] Speaker A: Call him a robot. Yeah, he's not a robot. He's an Android.
[00:39:32] Speaker B: Now we get an advertisement for a book in here. I was making fun of some of the other books that are advertised. Here's another 12 issue maxi series as we are moving toward Vertigo, but we're not quite there yet. This one's by Mike Barron and Barry Crane. I remember seeing these ads when I was a kid and never have never ever picked up one of these books.
Yeah, probably because I don't get reminded of them until I see these ads. It was called Sonic Disruptors. I have no idea what it was about.
It says, the United States army versus the United States of Rock.
[00:40:06] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:40:07] Speaker B: Like music.
Like music rock. You can see it. It's.
[00:40:12] Speaker A: It's right there. Oh, wow. We should read these.
[00:40:15] Speaker B: I believe that Jack Black read this comic, like over and over again and
[00:40:21] Speaker A: then was like, I'm gonna make School of Rock. I'm gonna make Pick a Destiny. I'm gonna have nothing but rock stuff. And then when it comes time for me to cameo in movies or be another role in a movie, do a voice, I'm gonna rock.
Become my own band.
[00:40:36] Speaker B: I want to rock.
[00:40:37] Speaker A: I want to rock. Yeah.
[00:40:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:40:41] Speaker A: What if it's a rock band consisting of rocks?
[00:40:45] Speaker B: What if it was a rock band consisting of all rocks? That would rock and. Yeah, it would also roll.
[00:40:53] Speaker A: It would. Well, they'd have to be round Dan. Unless they were on a hill. Then they would probably definitely roll. But if they're like flat on the bottom, they might just stay.
[00:41:02] Speaker B: It could happen.
[00:41:04] Speaker A: I'd like to see that movie.
[00:41:07] Speaker B: We. Well, this was a 12 issue maxi series and since people have talked about it for decades, I'm sure it was a good one.
[00:41:14] Speaker A: It probably was.
[00:41:17] Speaker B: I mean all stories are good stories.
[00:41:20] Speaker A: Even the last book. Yeah, see the qualifier? I mean the last book was a story.
[00:41:29] Speaker B: It was definitely a story. I am not sure.
Somebody continue the story. Well, we, we blow up the robot and we get a, we get totally Bronze Age or Silver Age robot down here. It's good. You said it was an Android.
[00:41:45] Speaker A: It was an Android. That's what you said.
[00:41:47] Speaker B: We find a piece, we find out that in the Android there was a tiny piece of kryptonite and that's what was messing Superman up. And then Booster Gold holds it toward him and he's like, ah, I'm going to keep this because I might need it someday to beat you up again.
[00:42:01] Speaker A: Amulet of power.
[00:42:03] Speaker B: And then, then he's like, ah, I'm suspicious. I, I think I know who did made this Android. And then on page 12, yeah. Lex Luthor suddenly appears and he's like, yeah, I made the Android and I'm recording everything and I'm going to go after that for the first time in any of these interactions, which does sort of make sense. I want, I'm going to go after Booster Gold. I'm taking out Booster Gold International. I'm going to outbid them on everything.
[00:42:34] Speaker A: Oh man, he's, he's signed it up.
[00:42:37] Speaker B: We're done with the 1000 now.
[00:42:39] Speaker A: Done with.
[00:42:40] Speaker B: And we're now fighting Lex Luthor, which, yeah, does make some sense in Metropolis.
[00:42:46] Speaker A: It makes sense 100%.
[00:42:49] Speaker B: And now we get a page which I should have scanned by now and already sent to the owner of the Retro emporium in Ken Washington, one Ann Smith.
[00:43:00] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:43:01] Speaker B: Yes.
We have the Saturday morning cartoon advertisements.
[00:43:07] Speaker A: See, she would love that.
[00:43:08] Speaker B: Yes. And this is a two page spread. We've got Smurfs.
We've got these weird bear things like the Care Bears.
We've got Fraggles.
[00:43:20] Speaker A: Oh,
[00:43:22] Speaker B: you got alf.
[00:43:25] Speaker A: What? Saturday morning without Alf.
[00:43:27] Speaker B: We've got Chipmunks.
Yeah, we've got Small Archies.
[00:43:32] Speaker A: Oh, yes. Like.
[00:43:34] Speaker B: Like. Oh, those are the gummy bears.
[00:43:35] Speaker A: Oh, the gummy bears. Okay.
[00:43:37] Speaker B: Yes, those play at the shop, don't they?
Sometimes.
[00:43:42] Speaker A: Because they're bouncing here and there everywhere.
[00:43:44] Speaker B: Yeah, there's a. There's a lot of stuff going on here. It's.
It's good.
[00:43:50] Speaker A: It is.
[00:43:51] Speaker B: And. Oh, and one to grow on too. So I don't know what a foofer is. Is this. This blue dog down here?
[00:43:57] Speaker A: I don't know. That one escapes me.
[00:44:00] Speaker B: Yeah, so.
Well, we also have. All of a sudden, we interrupted that store. Fine story for Lex Luthor to send out another minion after Booster Gold and Superman since they're standing there and we get a guy in a.
Is this a Green Lantern?
[00:44:23] Speaker A: And it looks like one, but it's not.
[00:44:26] Speaker B: Are we sure? Do we know who this is?
[00:44:28] Speaker A: I don't know. I.
I'm sure we'll find out. But he's in a green suit. He's all green. He's got a scepter that's glowing green like a glantering.
[00:44:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
So there you go.
So it's.
Let me see if I can.
[00:44:46] Speaker A: Working for the highest bidder, Lex Luthor
[00:44:49] Speaker B: hires a Green Lantern. We've got antagonist. Attack Dog 1 is his name and is. This is his single appearance.
[00:44:57] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:44:57] Speaker B: Attack Dog One, Attack Dog One.
William Will Roberts.
[00:45:06] Speaker A: Bill Will.
[00:45:07] Speaker B: Attack Dog, Attack Dog, Attack Dog One.
Do you think that he's a precursor to Wild Dog?
[00:45:15] Speaker A: No.
[00:45:18] Speaker B: Okay, well, he hits Superman and turns him red.
So is this Roy G. Bivolo again?
[00:45:24] Speaker A: It could be. I mean, he's got a. He. He's. He's using different colors.
[00:45:30] Speaker B: Yeah, well, he.
He sends a missile with a net on it to steal the kryptonite from Booster Gold while Lex Luthor is watching in the background laughing and.
Ah, finally, here on page.
Well, it's Advertisement. And it's tiny. It's only like at the bottom of the page, but we get a list of the entire millennium crossover.
[00:45:55] Speaker A: Oh, my God. You get all the books.
[00:45:57] Speaker B: Millennium number one. These came out weekly, by the way. That's. That's eight straight weeks. That sounds bold.
[00:46:04] Speaker A: Yeah, very bold.
[00:46:07] Speaker B: We have millennium crossovers in Firestorm, Flash, Justice League International, Outsiders, Wonder Woman, Batman Blue, Beetle Legion, Secret Origins, Superman, Young All Stars, Adventures of Superman, Booster Gold, which we'll read Next time, Green Lantern, Infinity Inc. Wow. Teen Titan, spotlight. Every action.
Captain Adam was everywhere. It's on all books. Millennium just went all over the place. It was. It was fantastic.
So it was good.
Well, we are here. And then Attack Dog one is fighting. He hits Superman. Nothing happens. Superman grabs him, carries him up to the sky and he says, gulp. Oh no.
And he's like, ah, camera lens. I wonder who's watching. He's like, you enjoying this, Mr. Luthor?
[00:47:06] Speaker A: Haha.
[00:47:07] Speaker B: I don't know why the kryptonite's not affecting him, but did it cover that on one of the pages that I'm saying?
[00:47:12] Speaker A: Maybe it's not kryptonite.
[00:47:15] Speaker B: No, like, he sold the kryptonite from Booster Gold, but it.
[00:47:18] Speaker A: It like went off panel, so we don't know if he's got it or not.
[00:47:21] Speaker B: Okay, well, being a little.
Anyway, Superman takes him out. He takes everything away from him. We find out his name is Will Roberts Electronics Group at Booster Gold International.
And all the stuff is made by Booster Gold International.
[00:47:38] Speaker A: Oh my.
[00:47:38] Speaker B: And then Superman's like, ah, this is an obvious frame up because Booster Gold, you and I are best friends and you would never do this to me.
[00:47:45] Speaker A: Yeah, their best friends are super tight.
[00:47:47] Speaker B: They are super tight.
The guy that just was saying you wanted to keep the kryptonite so he could fight him later. Now they're best buddies, of course. And Mr. Goal is like, I've saved Metropolis lots of times, Superman. See? And Superman's like, yeah, maybe it's they can't trust you because they don't like you and stuff. Do you want me to leave town? And Superman grins, yes, of course I do.
And then we get all sorts of things happening here and yeah, it's fantastic.
[00:48:26] Speaker A: You just skimmed over the end of the book.
[00:48:31] Speaker B: You're like, we're not. We're not. At the end, I'm here. Okay.
[00:48:35] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:48:36] Speaker B: I thought you.
[00:48:37] Speaker A: I thought you were just like.
[00:48:37] Speaker B: Yeah, no, I'm not skipping this, buddy.
So Booster gets on. Booster gets on tv. No, I'm distracted right now because all of a sudden, you know, people around me decide to do things when the middle of my stuff. So.
Yeah, and we get this going on and the Booster Gold comes in and he breaks. He crashes Lex Luthor's yacht party as Booster didn't.
Well, I mean, you know, it's a good look to be about 5 foot 6, bald, and get a giant yacht and wander around with your new wife.
[00:49:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
Never seen that before in my life.
[00:49:19] Speaker B: No.
And so Lauren Sanchez leaves the Party with Lex Luthor. I mean, with Booster Gold.
[00:49:30] Speaker A: I mean, they're the same person at this point, right?
[00:49:32] Speaker B: No, I mean, and we get to, we get to an advertisement for some comic called Wasteland, which.
That looks kind of cool.
[00:49:41] Speaker A: Interesting.
[00:49:42] Speaker B: As you can see, we're, we're inching toward Vertigo. We're starting to get all these creator owned series and things like that.
And then we get moving through here and we get to the last page 22 here, and somebody's hovering over Booster Gold's bank accounts on a crappy Macintosh.
[00:50:05] Speaker A: It's a good Macintosh. It was a nice.
[00:50:08] Speaker B: They're all crappy forever.
[00:50:09] Speaker A: It was a great computer at the time.
[00:50:12] Speaker B: And they were always terrible, they're always awful. And they wouldn't let you have the floppy disk back.
[00:50:17] Speaker A: They would, you just gotta talk to it.
[00:50:19] Speaker B: All the other computers used, hit a button. The floppy disk would come back on here. It took the floppy disk and you couldn't get it back out.
[00:50:26] Speaker A: You gotta put the pin in the hole, Dan.
Gotta poke its hole.
[00:50:31] Speaker B: Like, I don't want to know what you're doing with pins and holes. I just want to hit the button, get the floppy disk back.
The Macintosh would take the floppy disk and not give it back.
[00:50:38] Speaker A: Didn't hit the eject. The, the eject configuration on the computer.
[00:50:41] Speaker B: Just like it's just like an iPhone or anything else. It takes over your universe. You put an Apple product on your thing, it takes over your computer.
[00:50:48] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:50:49] Speaker B: I was told by Jiu Jitsu lawyer Paul that I need to end my battle with Adobe and I refuse. They suck. I hate their products. And the fact that I have to use them anytime is a terrible thing. Adobe, you're welcome to sponsor us.
[00:51:03] Speaker A: Yeah, totally.
[00:51:05] Speaker B: Apple, you're also welcome to sponsor us.
Greg likes your products.
[00:51:09] Speaker A: I mean, I have older Apple products. They're fine.
[00:51:14] Speaker B: Well, they could help get you a brand new laptop. And then we could compare my giant desktop where I record all these things on that I built to your nice Apple laptop. And we could see what's better.
[00:51:25] Speaker A: There we go. Apple send me a laptop.
[00:51:28] Speaker B: We could give an honest comparison. Well, anyway, we get next issue. Betrayal, Betrayal. And then we get into the gold exchange and we do get another advertisement for Millennium and it says one of these people has waited a thousand years to betray us.
I wonder if it's going to be long time character, Perry White.
Longtime character. Lois Lane or Superboy's best, I mean Clark Kent's best friend, a best girlfriend, Lana Lang.
[00:52:00] Speaker A: Oh my gosh.
[00:52:04] Speaker B: Because there is no Superboy.
[00:52:06] Speaker A: So one of them is about to do it.
[00:52:10] Speaker B: It's a D.C. event of the year. There's 30 official crossovers.
[00:52:16] Speaker A: That's so many crossovers. How do you keep that?
[00:52:18] Speaker B: Crisis, Legends, and then the one you remember. Millennium.
[00:52:25] Speaker A: Hey, it's stuck. It's burned into my.
[00:52:29] Speaker B: Maybe I should go on Amazon right now and go order the Millennium Omnibus, because I do not have any of this Millennium books.
[00:52:35] Speaker A: Yeah, no.
[00:52:36] Speaker B: The only Millennium books I have are the ones that I just have because they were the series I was collecting. So I have Legion ones and I have the Booster Gold ones.
[00:52:44] Speaker A: Maybe I'll go to a bookstore and buy the book at a real bookstore.
[00:52:50] Speaker B: Good luck finding it.
I'm sure.
[00:52:52] Speaker A: I'm sure it can happen.
[00:52:54] Speaker B: In fact, I. There's a bookstore right down from the Retro Emporium you could go to. Oh, I find it.
[00:52:59] Speaker A: I'm sure it's not going to be there.
[00:53:03] Speaker B: Yeah. Why, I appreciate the sentiment. Sometimes the challenge is real. Well, anyway, I could buy it. Hey, look, you don't have to get it from Amazon. I could go buy it from, you know, in stock trades or something.
[00:53:15] Speaker A: Get it anywhere.
[00:53:18] Speaker B: Go down to my local shop and have them order it for me.
[00:53:21] Speaker A: I'm gonna try to go to a bookstore and get it.
[00:53:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Like, are you walking around smelling your farts as you drive your Prius around, too?
[00:53:32] Speaker A: Like, yeah, of course. That's how you drive the car, Dan.
That's how the battery gets recharged.
That's why I eat so many beans.
[00:53:43] Speaker B: All right, well, we should.
Should we read this letter from the Silver Unicorn?
[00:53:49] Speaker A: You should read that letter from the Silver Unicorn because it's a fantastic letter, Dan.
[00:53:53] Speaker B: I don't see a te pouncey letter or a.
[00:53:56] Speaker A: No, there are none.
[00:53:57] Speaker B: TM Maple letter.
Surprised?
I've just read Booster Gold number 19, and I feel I must strongly object to the first and hopefully last meeting of Boost. Booster Gold in the Rainbow Raider. Having seen Booster in action for a little over a year and a half, I think that it is safe to say that he could easily shrug off the effects of the Raiders Class C emotion beams. And assuming that Dan Dan approves. A Booster's attending Booster's handling in the Justice League. Even without his costume, he should have been fast enough to clobber the Raider before he got off a shot. Yeah, we kind of questioned that, too, right?
[00:54:32] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:54:32] Speaker B: Why is he fighting?
[00:54:33] Speaker A: Of course.
[00:54:35] Speaker B: Let alone three? Just look at Booster's triumph over the Royal Flush Gang in Justice League Number four.
We read Justice League Number four I wouldn't say it was a triumph.
Not to mention that he was wearing his flight ring when he fought the raider. On to other things, if you're still interested.
If I could go back in time, I'd first go to ancient Egypt and learn how they built the great pyramids. Oh, then I'd go to the 19th century London and discover Jack the Ripper's true identity. Or I might go back to Russia around 1917 to see if the Tsarina really escaped execution. Or perhaps I'd go to late 16th or early 17th century London and ask Richard Burbage if he wrote Shakespeare's plays or if I was truly adventurous, an adventurous mood. I would go back to the year 0 or the year 33.
I'm not sure which would be more interesting, his birth or his death. The Silver Unicorn at 7382 Bridge Street, Pulaski, New York, 131 42.
It is very clear to me that if the Silver Unicorn had been alive and been a kid in the 2000s, they would support QAnon.
[00:55:51] Speaker A: Oh, you're probably not wrong.
[00:55:55] Speaker B: No, they just list a bunch of conspiracies and want to solve them.
All right. And so that is me being done with those two books, quite frankly. And I will let you chime in. They were awful.
[00:56:08] Speaker A: They were books and we had to read them to get to the next portion of the story.
You know, I mean, I like to see the other characters and stuff pop up in the books. So that was nice. But at the same point, both of these books could have been one book, just like this podcast was one podcast. And we didn't need two books.
[00:56:31] Speaker B: No. And we're at 56 minutes. It wasn't even a long podcast. It was.
Yeah. This was not us going on for an hour and a half on two books. This is.
They were just. And we bantered at the beginning, too. I mean, it was.
There was not much substance to these stories. And it worries me because obviously I know the end of the book is coming and we mentioned that kind of villains are fight and different things. But now we're on to Millennium, and I actually haven't read the next issue, so I don't know what happens to Booster's characters in Millennium. I assume one of his group is going to be one of the Manhunters.
[00:57:08] Speaker A: Oh, don't say that. Who.
[00:57:11] Speaker B: Why would.
[00:57:11] Speaker A: Why would that be.
It's going to be Tracy, damn it.
[00:57:15] Speaker B: Because it's going to be that. Because the whole Millennium thing was all these characters revealing themselves to be Manhunters oh my gosh.
[00:57:23] Speaker A: The whole time Dirk's actually a Manhunter.
[00:57:27] Speaker B: It's possible. I. I don't know. It's Jack.
It. It could be Jack. Jack very. I. I mean, I don't remember Jack in the future story. Do you remember Jack in future stories? I don't. Well, you. You read the book, so you know who it is. So I don't know.
[00:57:48] Speaker A: We find out who was that little boy on a bicycle that. That rooster helped so long ago?
[00:57:53] Speaker B: Red Fern.
[00:57:54] Speaker A: It was Fern. Yeah, it's Fern. Comes back and find out Fern's a Manhunter. Now he's on a 10 speed bike instead of a BMX bike.
[00:58:04] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, the whole thing about. The whole thing about this story, you know, was when you're telling the story, it has your Manhunters. You're not going to get one of rid of one of your major ips by making them a Manhunter. Right.
You might.
This whole story was kind of lame in the sense that it's like.
I mean, for the Legion. The Manhunter turned out to be a character named Laurel Kent, who was a descendant of Superman.
[00:58:34] Speaker A: What?
[00:58:35] Speaker B: But wait. Yes, and her. But she only. She had. The bloodline had washed out enough that she only had. And she was only invulnerable. She didn't have any other powers. But she was the perfect Manhunter. Because we just had a whole story where Superboy doesn't exist. How can Laurel Kent be.
[00:58:54] Speaker A: Oh, no.
[00:58:55] Speaker B: I mean, I guess she could be a descendant of that Superman. Not from the pocket. So anyway, they had to get. So they had a character that again, that they had to write out because editorial was telling them to write the character out. So. Yeah, conveniently, magically gets written out in that story. The stupid thing was they had just done a story.
I mean, it was like a year before, but they had just done a story. Their whole annual was based on her getting shot with a Kryptonite bullet.
[00:59:25] Speaker A: Oh.
[00:59:26] Speaker B: And investigating it. And then like a year later, they're saying the character was a Manhunter. So what is the explanation that the Manhunter is such a in depth acting character that's lived all this time that knew to react to the Kryptonite bullet hitting it? Yeah.
[00:59:48] Speaker A: Yeah, that makes a lot of sense, Dan. And if you don't see it as that, then I. I really think that you're missing the point. I. I feel like. I mean, well, that was the way
[00:59:57] Speaker B: they figured it out in the Legion.
[00:59:59] Speaker A: I'm thinking the managers would know how the pyramids were built. They would know who Shakespeare is. They would also be able to tell you about, you know, all the different things.
Yeah, so they would know.
[01:00:13] Speaker B: Well, so now we're anxious to figure out how it happens here in.
In.
[01:00:22] Speaker A: We're gonna find out.
You are gonna find out.
Yeah, because we want answers.
[01:00:29] Speaker B: Or is it a mart for pets?
It.
[01:00:32] Speaker A: It might be both.
Listeners, you tell us, what is petsmart
[01:00:40] Speaker B: Pet Smart or Pet Mart or Pet Smart?
[01:00:49] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:00:49] Speaker B: Well, yeah, on that note, I would have to say the best thing about this comic is these two comics were a complete tribute to a book that Travis Webb has coming out.
[01:01:07] Speaker A: Oh, are they?
[01:01:08] Speaker B: Or maybe soon, I don't know.
[01:01:10] Speaker A: Oh, tell me more.
[01:01:11] Speaker B: But you can follow it on Kickstarter. Yeah. The book is called Alex's Tribute to Silver Age Androids.
[01:01:20] Speaker A: What?
[01:01:22] Speaker B: I guess you're not Silver Age if you love Silver Age androids and you love cyborg stories.
[01:01:30] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:01:30] Speaker B: Alex's Tribute to Silver Age Androids is the perfect Kickstarter for you to back.
[01:01:34] Speaker A: You're going to love it.
[01:01:35] Speaker B: Written by one Travis Webb. You'll love it.
[01:01:37] Speaker A: It's going to be the perfect thing for your shelf. It's the thing that you need in your bag. It's what you want to be reading on the plane when people see you.
It's an important piece of comic history.
[01:01:53] Speaker B: So we'll go ahead and make a link to the Kickstarter for Alex Rains Silver Age Tribute to Androids.
And if you click on it, then you can follow it. And then when the Kickstarter starts, you could back it.
[01:02:10] Speaker A: Yes, do it.
[01:02:14] Speaker B: And Travis would be so happy.
[01:02:16] Speaker A: He will be so happy. He'll be overjoyed. And then you need to ask him. What?
[01:02:21] Speaker B: He won't even call us. He won't even call us during the podcast. That was the real title. I don't know what you're talking about.
I finally got it right after all these.
[01:02:31] Speaker A: Got it right after all these weeks. Oh, my goodness.
Listeners are so confused. You're going to just have to do a super edit of all these things that you put together.
[01:02:39] Speaker B: I'm not doing anything. Okay, so additionally, big shout out. Shout out to Jiu Jitsu lawyer Paul, who is a lawyer.
[01:02:50] Speaker A: He is a lawyer. That is true.
[01:02:53] Speaker B: And he does Jiu Jitsu.
[01:02:55] Speaker A: He's a Jiu Jitsu lawyer who will Jiu Jitsu your case.
If that's a thing that you can do.
Is that a thing you can do?
[01:03:02] Speaker B: I mean, well, you could choke out the competition.
[01:03:04] Speaker A: He chokes the competition. He shoots.
[01:03:07] Speaker B: I don't know if that would be good in court, maybe not.
But you. If you have a legal problem like Greg does. Constantly, constantly, all the time.
Legal problems with Sasquatches.
[01:03:23] Speaker A: I know that's. I mean, that's. Apparently it wasn't a problem until you made it a problem, Dan. And then you got jujitsu lawyer Paul
[01:03:30] Speaker B: involved, and legal problems with comic contracts.
[01:03:34] Speaker A: No, Just. Just Sasquatches.
[01:03:38] Speaker B: Oh, no. Common contract.
[01:03:39] Speaker A: Not.
[01:03:39] Speaker B: Not.
[01:03:39] Speaker A: Not problems. I just have Paul review the contracts. And.
[01:03:43] Speaker B: And that's because when you bring something to Paul, it's not a problem, it's a solution.
[01:03:48] Speaker A: He.
[01:03:48] Speaker B: He.
[01:03:48] Speaker A: He makes it not a problem because he gives you his answers.
[01:03:55] Speaker B: Well, he knows every possible maneuver. Yes. To solve the problem.
[01:03:58] Speaker A: He does.
[01:03:59] Speaker B: Both legally and in jiu jitsu.
[01:04:01] Speaker A: True.
[01:04:02] Speaker B: That is true.
So with that said, you could reach out to Paul if you have an issue at 253-656-4475. Just like Greg does when he has.
[01:04:12] Speaker A: Just like me. Yeah. Hit him up.
[01:04:15] Speaker B: And we're not joking. Greg literally does call Paul when he has.
[01:04:18] Speaker A: Whenever I have an issue, whatever it may be, call Paul.
[01:04:23] Speaker B: In fact, one time, Greg is foolish enough to ask me a question, and I just told him to call Paul.
[01:04:28] Speaker A: Just call Paul. And I did. And then Paul got me answers, and I got things sorted out. So.
[01:04:34] Speaker B: Yeah, except you still haven't made your store stat. You and Anne still have not made the Retro emporium on Meeker street in Kent, Washington, where you can relive your childhood. You have not made that store Sasquatch friendly.
[01:04:46] Speaker A: What are you talking about? We want Sasquatch for president. We even got those stickers in just because of your.
[01:04:53] Speaker B: You have Sasquatch hunting stickers?
[01:04:55] Speaker A: No. No. Now we have Sasquatch for president stickers. Come on down to the Retro Emporium. Find yourself a stick. Put it on your car. We know what you want in the future. It's a Sasquatch sitting as the president. And who would be the best Sasquatch president? It might just be our very own squach. O man.
[01:05:14] Speaker B: Wait. Did you have to say this because you were kidnapped?
[01:05:18] Speaker A: Eaton doesn't kidnap me.
I'm supposed to say that. That's on. That's on the paper in front of me.
[01:05:26] Speaker B: Oh, I see. I mean, it's just like a scary thing.
[01:05:30] Speaker A: I didn't have to say it.
[01:05:31] Speaker B: People.
[01:05:32] Speaker A: We do want him as.
We want him as our. As our president. That's why we have the stickers. We want Sasquatches in the White House.
[01:05:42] Speaker B: Okay, well, on that note, it's probably a good time to wrap up the podcast then, now that we know that you're not being influenced by anything.
[01:05:50] Speaker A: No.
[01:05:50] Speaker B: And we'll go ahead and wrap this one up. But next week we are on to Millennium and so not the Millennium Falcon, though.
[01:05:59] Speaker A: No.
[01:05:59] Speaker B: And not the Millennium TV show, but onto the.
And we're not the Millennium mini series, just the millennium issues of Booster Gold, the crossover issues.
So maybe we'll figure out what happened in Millennium and give you a summary.
[01:06:13] Speaker A: There you go.
[01:06:15] Speaker B: Probably not, because I don't think I have time to read all that.
[01:06:17] Speaker A: I think dan can read 30 comic books in a week.
[01:06:21] Speaker B: I know.
[01:06:21] Speaker A: I know you can.
[01:06:23] Speaker B: I can't read. I can't read 30 of my current comics.
[01:06:25] Speaker A: The gauntlet has been thrown, people. You tell Dan what you want. Do you want Dan to read all these comics so he can give us a full synopsis and description of. Of where we're going and how we're getting in there?
[01:06:36] Speaker B: Good luck. I. Good. Good luck.
[01:06:40] Speaker A: I. I want it.
So let Dan know our pet's smart.
Or is it.
[01:06:48] Speaker B: Or is it a mart?
And on that note, we're out of here. We'll talk to you. Bye, everyone.
[01:06:54] Speaker A: Bye.
[01:06:55] Speaker B: Wonderful.
