Booster Gold returned to his own title one month ago agreeing to take on the responsibility of fixing errors in the time continuum. Issue #2 takes our intrepid hero on his first mission into the past to take on Sinestro and fix an error in time that caused Guy Gardner, not Hal Jordan, to become Earth’s first Green Lantern.
The All New Booster Gold #2
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Booster Gold accepted his role as Rip Hunter‘s timecop in issue #1 (read that review). In issue #2 Booster gets his first taste of action as he is sent back in time to stop a meeting which will have disastrous effects for the Green Lanterns and the entire universe.
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Booster begins his work as Rip Hunter’s appointed “time monkey” to stop an anomaly in the time stream that changed history and made Guy Gardner, not Hal Jordan, Earth’s first Green Lantern and allows Sinestro to form his Sinestro Corps and conquer the known universe.
Booster travels back in the past to stop Sinestro, still the universe’s most feared Green Lantern, from meeting Guy Gardner the day before Abin Sur crash lands on Earth. Unable to over-power Sinestro, Booster plays to his vanity and saves the day. Later that night he shares a drink with Guy in a bar and gives him advice to talk with his dying father. Guy is convinced and travels across the country, which, in a fun paradoxical twist, causes Guy to be farther away from the crash site than Hal Jordan the next day.
The issue ends with the revelation of the villain who has been toying with time, in his new persona as Supernova, who travels back to the old west and hires Jonah Hex to take out Booster.
Not a bad second issue for Geoff Johns and his team. It’s fun to see Sinestro as a Green Lantern and the younger, and much calmer, Guy Gardner as well. Booster’s victory is well earned, and suggesting that, if not for Booster Gold, Hal Jordan would never have been Green Lantern is a nice addition to DC’s wacky continuity.