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Booster Gold: The Complete 2007 Series Book Three
- GenresDc Comics
520 pages, Paperback
Published April 14, 2026
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Dan Jurgens
2,239 books288 followersDan Jurgens is an American comic book writer and artist. He is known for his work on the DC comic book storyline "The Death of Superman" and for creating characters such as Doomsday, Hank Henshaw, and Booster Gold. Jurgens had a lengthy run on the Superman comic books including The Adventures of Superman, Superman vol. 2 and Action Comics. At Marvel, Jurgens worked on series such as Captain America, The Sensational Spider-Man and was the writer on Thor for six years. He also had a brief run as writer and artist on Solar for Valiant Comics in 1995.
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April 15, 2026
Not as good as the previous two volumes. The Giffen-DeMatteis run was not tonally the same as the previous two volumes and Jurges JUST had Booster bury a zombie Ted Kord at the end of Blackest Night so there was no need for ANOTHER Booster misses Ted multi-parter. It was funny but derailed the book. Once Jurgens did the Time Masters miniseries and the final four issues, it was New 52 time and the book was over.
May 9, 2026
The end of Booster's 2007 run is a very bizarre thing because it ends right as the New 52 begins - an entire reset for the DC universe. Everything it sets up - Rani, Alex, The Linear Woman and more - never get to go anywhere, much to Dan Jurgen's annoyance, I'm sure.
Still, in what is a very ambitious run, despite random intermittent comic events, does a good job at portraying stories Booster lends himself to best - nostalgic and chaotic but ultimately with humour and heart. Unfortunately, the abrupt end does leave it a bit unsatisfied, like DC was telling them to wrap it up as it felt a climax was coming that it never quite got to.
The intermediary run by Giffen and DeMatteis has all the levity of their JLI run and thus harkens back to it often, and has a nice overarching story to it. Although, I think my favourite part was the 6 issues of Time Masters where it really allows Jurgens to show the character of Rip and Booster that he wants, and hopefully one day more of that will be able to come back as it was barely touched upon in his latter Blue & Gold series.
Overall, I think the 2007 run was solid from all writers involved, even if they all had different ideas for the series, it wove together to make something interesting and mostly caring about the character. You can tell who everyone cared most about (Johns the wider DC characters and the end of 52, Jurgens his baby and other created characters like Doomsday, Giffen and DeMatteis the JLI characters, especially Ted,) but it gives several fascets to the story even if the time travel is whack, messy, and very handwavy. I like Booster, I was going to like this. No masterpiece but fun and ambitious in scope sometimes.
Still, in what is a very ambitious run, despite random intermittent comic events, does a good job at portraying stories Booster lends himself to best - nostalgic and chaotic but ultimately with humour and heart. Unfortunately, the abrupt end does leave it a bit unsatisfied, like DC was telling them to wrap it up as it felt a climax was coming that it never quite got to.
The intermediary run by Giffen and DeMatteis has all the levity of their JLI run and thus harkens back to it often, and has a nice overarching story to it. Although, I think my favourite part was the 6 issues of Time Masters where it really allows Jurgens to show the character of Rip and Booster that he wants, and hopefully one day more of that will be able to come back as it was barely touched upon in his latter Blue & Gold series.
Overall, I think the 2007 run was solid from all writers involved, even if they all had different ideas for the series, it wove together to make something interesting and mostly caring about the character. You can tell who everyone cared most about (Johns the wider DC characters and the end of 52, Jurgens his baby and other created characters like Doomsday, Giffen and DeMatteis the JLI characters, especially Ted,) but it gives several fascets to the story even if the time travel is whack, messy, and very handwavy. I like Booster, I was going to like this. No masterpiece but fun and ambitious in scope sometimes.
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