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Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:54:19 +0000

[...] did the fun in this book go? Now it’s all mucky trying to kill people jumping around in time stuff. It’s like [...]

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Tomorrow’s Comics Today + Late Books » Comics Worth Reading — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 01:51:37 +0000

[...] for DC Comics, with the launch of Bat Lash, the last issue of Captain Carrot and the Final Ark, a Booster Gold issue, and another volume of Emma. Plus, I’m giving Wonder Woman another [...]

By: Anthony

Anthony — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:57:24 +0000

>>That’s why I love comics: bumping into someone will make you swap minds! I better be more careful walking down the street.

Well, to be fair, it took some sort of anomaly in the timestream to cause Superboy and Superman to bump into each other and switch bodies. Completely scientific, I’m sure… :-)

If interested, the story (which mostly dealt with Superboy-in-Superman’s body and amazed at the then-present day world/his future life) appeared in Superman #380-382, with the Superman-in-Superboy’s-body part in New Adventures of Superboy #38. Lois puts in heavy appearances/involvement in this tale (plus a cameo midway through by Lana)…

By: Tommy Raiko

Tommy Raiko — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:17:06 +0000

I remember reading Time Masters when it was first published and really, really, disliking it at the time. I remeber being really disappointed that although the miniseries promised to explain how time travel in the then-new post-Crisis DCU worked, whatever explanations it offered were highly unsatisfying. Plus the fact that the only real “rule” established was that only any person could only use a particular time-travel method once just struck me as a bad idea, if for no other reason than it meant that you wanted to do any extended time travel story, you’d probably wind up creating a whole bunch of one-off characters to use your time travel means.

Now that I’m older, more seasoned, and less slavishly fanboy, I wonder if I’d enjoy the story more for its across-the-generations Illuminati plot (which, indeed, might fit in with a lot of today’s adventure stories. I mean, in a world where Nic Cage gets to do a sequel to National Treasure, anything’s possible.)

Then again, I also think Time Masters was the story that made me think Vandal Savage was overused as a villain, so maybe not…

By: Johanna

Johanna — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:56:08 +0000

That's why I love comics: bumping into someone will make you swap minds! I better be more careful walking down the street. And yeah, that was Time Masters. Co-written by now-Marketing VP Bob Wayne and sci-fi author Lewis Shiner. Available in TPB in February.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:07:50 +0000

>>This issue, Booster and his traveling partner Rip Hunter have run their time sphere into the Cosmic Treadmill… while Barry and Kid Flash Wally were on it. (Why haven’t I read about a timestream collision before? It’s goofy but twisted fun.)<<

An early 80′s Superman storyline featured a timestream-collision, with Superman and his younger self, Superboy, colliding while both were traveling through time (Superboy to a Legion meeting, and Superman into the past), with the result of their swapping minds with each other (16-year-old Superboy’s mind stuck in Superman’s body/time-era, and vice-versa)…

Wasn’t “Time Masters” that series that claimed one could only use the same method of time-travel *once*, or some such nonsense? (Someone apparently didn’t tell Barry… ;-) ).

By: James Schee

James Schee — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:29:54 +0000

Okay good, I thought I was crazy about how much I was enjoying this series. Given the status of most things from DC, and Johns usual negative approach.

It is a hoot to read though and I just love Booster and Skeets.