• Booster Gold was a solid concept for the time and DC reinvented the character with a clever twist; the world's most important man (who is also an attention hog) can't let anyone know he's important, so he has to pretend to be a jackass. It's a very good series especially with the inclusion of Supernova.

• Captain Obvious says Booster Gold is Dan Didio's pet character since 2005-6ish.

• Oh and for all you Ted Kord fans STILL bitching about Jamie, note that I'm also a huge Question fan. Hell, I painted my freaking room to match his coat from the O'Neil / Cowan series! So not only did DC get rid of Ted for me, they killed Vic too. Both in issues done by the same author too. Though I think Rucka did a better and more organic job with Vic than Ted. Plus I already liked Renee where Jamie was a brand new character. Yet I'm not sticking my fingers in my ear pretending it never happened. Plus it's not all black and white. (That's more for Ditko's Question.) Jamie's stories and the character have actually been pretty damn good.

• You keep using present tense. Booster doesn't spent any time with Ted. Ted's dead. Yeah, I agree it sucks and I wish DC didn't do it. Yet I'm not in a constant state of denial. Time to move on in those stages of grief. Booster spent plenty of time with Ted -in the past-. Now he's with Jamie, Ted's namesake and successor.

• Thank you! Ha! As much as I love Ted.. the fanboys whinning are really getting annoying. Then again if DiDio had replaced Nightwing with Jason Todd like he planned I would have been the same way. I was holding out hope they'd bring back Ted through some timey whimey deal, but they never did. You could easily have Ted and Jamie around.

• Because they have in the comics? Plus I do believe Ted is mentioned. Still, it rather sucks that Jamie is only a few years younger than Clark and appears before Superman. Then again they might be using time travel, so who knows.

• Hey, look. The one episode of Smallville I may look forward to and watch this year. Booster looks fine. I figured the lighting was making him look that way, as blue lighting is the other part of the pic. Though Jamie's armor looks kinda bulky. Still, for Smallville and a TV budget... that's fucking amazing.

• Why are you going to pair Booster Gold with a Blue Beetle that is NOT Ted Kord? You fail yet again Smallville!

• That bugged me all throughout the Time Masters mini to find Batman. Superman was an absolute dick to Booster everytime Booster tried to do or say anything. Now that Bruce-Batman is on board with the JLI, I'm hoping that he will privately validate Booster, telling him that Bats knows he's more than he appears, but understands and will keep the secret. That way, there's still a small comfort that someone out there knows he's doing good for the right reasons. Even if Superman's a dick. TL

• Looks like a gold light on Buster Gold, his right side looks golder then his left. And why does Blue Beetle look like a robot?

• "3) Booster Gold has actually been gold all these years and I just never noticed" That´s what always happened to me with Adam Warlock.

• By "Regressive storytelling" I think Geoff was referencing the 'hey let's make everyone white again' trend at DC right now.

• If Skeets isn't voiced by Billy West then no deal.

• Where the hell is my Booster Gold movie? The guy is practically made for the big screen. Narcissistic a-hole from the future that travels to the past to become famous? It's a license to print money. Not to mention his costume could look like something a Nascar driver would wear, with tons of real advertisers names on it, and it'd be true to the character. Why is this not in the works? WHY?!

• That's... uh... that's definitely lighting there, Rob. This IS Smallville, the show with a pathological refusal to use anything remotely Spandexy: you really think they're going to give Booster Gold gold skin? They didn't even make Martian Manhunter green.

• Wow, a few encouters, whoopie. Ted Kord is dead, and Booster still spends more time with him than Jaime Reyes. Booster and Jamime are in no way a team. Booster and Ted are.

• Son of Gold Member?

• Smallville that's how!.

• I was thinking the same thing.

• Jaime Reyes AKA Kamen rider blue.

• I am more of a Ted fan myself but Garret is still better than Iron man guyver beetle.

• No connection at all..except that Booster "introduced" Jaimes to the whole Super-hero business, saved him from the Reach Ship, traveled back in time with him to save Ted, fought Zombie-Ted together with him and they are currently together in the JLI fighting against Max. Besides those things you are right, they have no connection at all.

• well, considering the shitfest that smallville had become, why not toss in more shit and send it away in an explosion of shit while we're at it? seriously man, fuck smallville!

• Excuse me but the Blue Beetle will always be Dan Garret. ;-)

• I may lose my nerd card on this one, but I've found myself enjoying this season of Smallville. Sure I hated the show for a long time but my wife somehow got me back into it and it turns out the show has improved a lot.

• As no Blue Beetle has ever shown up in Smallville, how is it regressive story telling? Jaime Reyes doesn't have any connection to Booster Gold, why are they paired up? How about just going with the better, more iconic character? Using Reyes is like having a Batman guest appearance, but going with the Jean-Paul Valley version.

• The main questions for me are these... Who is still watching this show and who really cares who is on it? As far as I can see, the answer to both questions is "nobody". I can't locate this program on cable, much less network TV.

• Seconded. It's a great time travel romp through DC history, full of clever little paradoxes and "want of a nail" type stories. Consistently solid art too. Easily worth your time and money. Its also sustained Booster's growth from the 52 event into a compelling solo book, while at the same time allowing other writers to portray him as the fame whore we know and love. His burden of being a guardian of the timestream while everyone else knows him as a fraud has given the guy real pathos and depth.

• Considering Bart Allen is the Flash in Smallville, that doesn't make much sense.

• nice to see blue beetle show up again both ted no doubt in flash back and Jamie sort of maybe as a way to hope fuly lead to the blue beetle tv show in the future. booster gold looks like some one threw gold paint on justin hartley stepping out from playing green arrow

• Ted Kord has been cast for this episode! No idea how he fits in, but I'm glad to see both Ted and Jaime.

• Goddamn do I love me some Booster Gold. As long as this guy is a master Dueche I dont care how bad of an actor he is.

• How could it be regressive storytelling if Ted Kord didn't appear in this universe? It's certainly not regressive considering Smallville is a prequel to the Superman mythos.

• No, he looks like a Beetleborg.

• Let's do it!(synchronized nodding, followed by stock jumping)

• I thought the Booster Gold character was pretty cool. High tech weapons, all knowing robot sidekick, and time travel, how can you go wrong?

• Watchmen? Hey...may they could cameo too.

• Hey now, Booster Gold may have been a joke "back in the day", but his current series is consistently one of the best things coming out of DC. Seriously.

• Quickly Blue Beetle rip his fucking head off and rid us of his stupidity!

• Booster isn't wearing a gold leather jacket. I'm legitimately stunned.

• Blue Beetle looks like something out of The Guyver.

• You act like Smallville's actually going to get to that point. The final episode will feature a wedding between Clark and Lois (well, that's all but guaranteed), followed by Clark moping off into the background and Green Arrow saving the planet from Darkseid. Smallville: the show so shitty, we couldn't make Superman fly.

• YAY REGRESSIVE STORYTELLING!

• Its STILL going?!

• The TV Guide article--the original source of the photo/story--notes that Jamie's suit is in an armor/battle mode at first and that his relationship with Booster is antagonistic at first. Over the course of the episode, it should resemble current continuity and the previously-shown test footage.

• Yeah, I'm kind of afraid Jaime's going to murder Booster, just from the way it's shot.

• Come on man! Don't spoil it for us!

• Perhaps he's the source of the gold light?

• I'm so glad I never watched smallville. I am however glad that I found the "reviews" of it they do on comicsalliance. Thats more than enough smallville for me. Also, hilarious.

• You are awesome.

• Beat me too it. Yes, it looks like he's gonna break out into some badly dubbed karate fighting.

• I was going to say a beetleborg But yes he looks a bit off

• Does Jaime look like a Power Ranger villain to anyone else?

• is this the episode where superman becomes superman and flys?

• I haven't watched Smallville in a while, but I do remember them using lighting/color to set tone. For instance, Lionel would often have a shade of green in his beard to signify evil & blue or red props/set design were often safe for Clark. I wouldn't be surprised if this is his introduction shot so that Booster Gold was made to look "more than human" to establish character and then they change to softer or normal lighting soon afterward once Clark gets to know him. Just my thoughts/prediction.

• For the record, they've said that Ted Kord's involved in the story, but they're purposely not saying exactly how. One of the themes of the episode is supposed to be that of "legacy", however...so I've got a guess. What I really want to know, however, is where is Skeets?

• Thumbs down on Jaime Reyes. Should have been Ted Kord.

• is that another cast member from Passions on Smallville?

• I hope the Mystery Men can save Booster after he's captured by Cassanova Frankenstein.

• I'm pretty sure that's the lighting. You can see it on the wall behind him too. Overall I think he looks pretty good. Even got the corporate logos and everything. Thumbs up.

• That pretty clearly looks like the lighting, as the shadowed part of his face doesn't look gold. I love the advertisements on his costume, though. Sometimes, I wish I still watched Smallville...

• smallville...is...so...horrible. Someone, please just push the button that closes the Watchtower's iris, and let me go in peace. Ted Kord gets no love? Boo.

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