Now that Booster’s got his best bud the Blue Beetle back the pair take off towards home, but things won’t go easy for them as they get caught-up in a Zero Hour flashback and end up in the 25th Century. And that’s only the beginning…
Booster Gold #0
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As the issue opens Booster and Ted, along with the other Blue Beetles, are traveling back through time only to find themselves involved in a short run-in with Parallax and Extant (and a joke by the Beetle about Booster’s run-in with Barry Allen).
Booster and the Beetles are able to escape but the battle damages the time sphere and lands them in the 25th Century on the very day where Booster Gold makes the greatest mistake of his life. Unable to change events because of the repercussions it would have on his life Booster comes up with a plan to get them home.
The team manage to steal the time sphere from the museum (the very one Booster stole way back before he ever met Ted Kord or became Booster Gold). After saying goodbye to the other Beetles our heroes finally make their way home, but the home they return to is vastly different than the one they remember. The pair arrive only to find themselves surrounded by an army of OMACs there to greet them.
There’s much to enjoy in this issue from the serious (Booster’s conversation which reveals how much Extant’s reasoning to save his friend mirror’s Booster’s own – is this foreshadowing what is to come?) to the hilarious (Beetle’s Barry Allen remark) to the climactic.
The arrival of the OMAC’s and the short conversation with Extant show that the repurcussion of Booster’s actions may have immediate consequences for both our intrepid heroes and the entire DCU as the series seems to be moving closer and closer to Countdown to Final Crisis.