THE GIFT finale
Written by Tom King
Penciled by Tony S Daniels
Cover by Tony S Daniels
Published May 16, 2018
It's another year later, and Bruce Wayne plots his destruction of Batman and Catwoman from this blzzarre alternate timeline. He frees the imprisoned and much skinnier Booster Gold and orders him to use Skeets to bring them back to one year earlier, right before Dick Grayson and an insane Selina Kyle murdered the Waynes.
Penciled by Tony S Daniels
Cover by Tony S Daniels
Published May 16, 2018
It's another year later, and Bruce Wayne plots his destruction of Batman and Catwoman from this blzzarre alternate timeline. He frees the imprisoned and much skinnier Booster Gold and orders him to use Skeets to bring them back to one year earlier, right before Dick Grayson and an insane Selina Kyle murdered the Waynes.
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| So RIGHT BEFORE the Waynes were killed... Got it. |
He tells Skeets to deliver them to 10 minutes before Thomas and Martha were killed, but with a wink (and one that Bruce obviously notices), the point Booster means is back when the original Waynes were killed.
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| "Don't worry, son. It was probably just an adult version of you from the future killing a time traveling robot..." |
Unfortunately for all of them, Bruce kills Skeets again. Enraged, he interrogates Booster who explains it again was just a wedding gift. Suddenly the past Booster arrives from the future with Skeets but is shot while Bruce and Booster-Prime fight over a rifle. It allows the original plan to play out, with the Waynes being shot in the alley.
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| The pearls fall... again. |
Having to relive the torture of seeing his parents murdered... again, Bruce shoots himself, and luckily the timeline is back to normal. Booster later meets Batman and Catwoman and explains what the gift was supposed to be but since he's obviously a deranged idiot, it comes off as the ramblings of a tortured wanna-be. With that, this issue is completed and the wedding arc officially begins.
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| Well you know, it's just stupid old Booster. |
So Booster Gold has made many appearances between the superfriends of late, but Tom King clearly pens him as a goofball who can't seem to do anything right. Honestly I think this is a more true portrayal of what the character is supposed to be. He's well loved by creator Dan Jurgens, who used his last few issues of Action Comics to feature Booster one more time. Either way, this arc went on a bit of a tangent but I think it was well worth the wormhole. I give this one a 9/10.
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