Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Geoff Johns, on "Booster Gold" and that flight ring

From today's Comic Book Resources story on the upcoming Booster Gold book:
"Dan's made suggestions, one of which plays a big role into something we already had planned for the second arc," Geoff Johns said. "He has told me which Legionnaire's flight ring Booster is wearing which will play into a story later down the road."

Such explorations into Booster and DC lore will be made in "The All-New Booster Gold," serving to reward old school fans returning to the adventures of Booster Gold as well as endearing new readers to the intricacies DC Universe. "You'll note a lot of easter eggs," Katz confirmed. "The aforementioned Legion flight ring, among others will date back to the original 80's run. We should also probably tease that "52 Pick-up" has a few specifically sly guest appearances that set-up our second arc - title withheld for suspense - which we think should get people talking and please long time Booster fans."

Originally, it was the Post-Crisis Brainiac 5's ring and force field belt. Now he's got at least three Legions worth of rings to choose from.

4 comments:

  1. I'm loving the attention the classic Legion is getting at the moment. It's just a shame we'll probably have to wait until next year to find out if we're going to get an ongoing :(

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  2. I'm pretty sure this effort to raise the Legion's visibility is related to the upcoming 50th anniversary for the April 2008 cover-dated issues.

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  3. The force belt was Brainy's, obviously (it made it into the museum thanks to the protection of Reagan), but I'm pretty sure the ring was Superboy/man's, also taken from the superhero museum.

    I could, of course, be wrong, but that's what I recall.

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  4. Originally, it was Brainy's ring and belt. In the new series, who knows?

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