Batman's Life DESTROYED By Booster Gold...This Story Is Brutal
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Booster Gold The Greatest Superhero You've Never Heard Of. That slogan may be becoming out of date for this DC Comics superhero. Booster Gold is getting more well known by the day, and in adaptation form it's not rare to see him paired up with, or bouncing off of Batman. However, Booster and The Dark Knight had a very off the rails encounter in the comics. The source the Tom King run of Batman and the storyline The Gift. In a story that yearned to be Superman's For The Man Who Has Everything Booster seeks to give Bruce Wayne a present. His gift saves Bruce's parents but destroys his life in a surprisingly cruel outing from DC. Come see the ups and downs of Booster's gift here on Casually Comics!
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0:00 Intro
1:33 Special Announcement
2:08 Get Ready
3:47 The Gift/For The Man Who Has Everything
8:24 Booster
11:11 Things Get Worse
15:12 The Climax
21:01 Analysis
24:34 Tweaks
27:05 Pros/In Conclusion
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Also tell me what would be a good gift for Batman :)
An experience. Bruce loves a good night out (barring no interruptions from the Rogue's Gallery.)
A writer other than Tom King to put Andrea Beaumont back into his life 🤔 Oh! I’m sorry that would be a gift for us 🖖🏾
For me the weirdest thing about Booster Gold is the idea that in 500 years football will still be a big sport. Seriously? I just have real trouble seeing it.
I’m 60 , I just hope it lasts through the end of my lifetime 🖖🏾
Perfect Batman gift: Mask of Zorro on Blu-Ray
Booster just proved why there is no shame in simply asking someone what kind of gift they want. I've been doing that for years and haven't destroyed a single timeline.
Book tokens are fine for everyone, I think.
Just give me the money, I'll get my own gift.
@@richmcgee434 Yeah, I’ll just buy myself a Time Machine and make my own timeline
Well, as far as you can remember anyway.
@@lughtube5596 That would have been a fun response for after Booster Gold tells them about what he did.
One of the more frustrating things about this story was that there was a story arc in Action Comics (written by Dan Jurgens, Booster Gold’s creator) which ended one month before “The Gift” began, in which Booster has to PREVENT Superman from changing the past. One month he’s sternly telling Clark not to be irresponsible with time travel, and the next month he’s… this.
This felt like a completely different character. One either damaged from the very beginning or a Booster that is just starting their career, and that doesn't work very well either. I go with an alternate universe Booster, not the one we know.
Tom King really isn't a very good writer, is he? And the editors that let him do this are just downright bad at their jobs.
it's inconsistencies with DCs storytelling.
@@richmcgee434 The problem is that he has no grasp of characterization. When he writes previously made characters, he does not write them how they act in previous comics, he writes them how he assumes they act. His Batman feels like that dumb Twitter argument where people say "He is just some emotionless asshole beating up the mentally ill and forces traumatized kids into fighting crime" combined with his own mental struggles. He feels like Supergirl should be angry and pissed off about what happened to her planet, so in Woman of Tomorrow, she is a gruff alcoholic badass. Booster Gold was known for being a cocky dumbass, so Tom King writes him as a complete idiot.
I loved that storyline, not just for Booster being the more mature character, but for showing how vulnerable Clark is.
This comic felt like it was written by someone who hates booster gold lol
I’m pretty sure the writer said that he does not have a positive view on booster gold
To be fair, it takes a lot of creative and mental gymnastics to turn a self-absorbed time bandit into a hero who isn't just pretending to be one.
...and Batman too.
@@That80sGuy1972 He's been getting better he even had a story arc one month before this comic where he scolded Superman for trying to Time Travel (From the creator of Booster Gold) but then we get this from Tom King who hated Booster Gold if I recall correctly
@@ThatRandomDude204 Kind of cool in making him sort of like a parent who says in subtext "Do as I say, not as I do".
All I got from this was what I already knew: Tom King has issues that need to be addressed, and he's turned DC comics into his personal working through trauma.
Well he tried but we all collectively boo'd him. Which is justified if you're sucking with Batman to the point mainline says fall you got it coming
It's a nicer way of saying he's an overrated hack, after Heroes in Crisis I do NOT understand what's the appeal.
DC can have Tom King after what he did to the Vision at Marvel.
@@thoomolong Correction: BOUNDLESS can have him.
@@thoomolong You mean make Vision good and interesting?
When I was deployed overseas, Tom King was a part of a DC Comics USO type tour and visited my base. I got to ask him who Booster Gold was to him. His answer was basically Booster is a screw up. It came across very much as he just read Booster’s wiki and nothing else.
That's disappointing. But then again, Tom King feels a lot like Bendis in that he doesn't seems to care about continuity. He has stories to tell and he goes for it. Problem is he doesn't establish his own head canon well enough so most of his writing always feels a bit off, like we missed something between the current continuity and his stories. Too bad, he is a good writer otherwise.
@@sebastienlentini2080 I absolutely love his Omega Men and Mister Miracle and Vision, in which he shows he can love and respect old stories. Vision was almost Busiek level in tying old continuity together and making sense of it while still telling a new and surprising story. I think the real problem here is the demands of an ongoing deadline and The Big Two constantly trying to both reinvent and reference their entire histories. King's run was uneven, to put it kindly, but I think editorial bears a lot of responsibility for there being three issues before a pre-designed event that are both world changing and disposable.
How does Hal have the will to kill himself? He doesn’t even know what will is.
More of a stubborness really
Seeing what happened when he found out, I guess he was better off not knowing.
@@Aki-kh2qe-StreetKidZZZHmm, six of one.
I went from wanting to kick Booster in the balls to "this man needs legitimate help." Also the what if Bruce's parents were alive was done better in BTAS.
Absolutely! The BTAS episode, Perchance to Dream handles this idea so much better.
"“I won’t live a lie, no matter how attractive you make it!” - a particularly poignant line, really, considering it was spoken by Kevin Conroy
Came to the comments looking for this.
Unfortunately that's what this story arc leads to.
Booster Gold is just the gift that keeps on giving.
As a massive Booster fan who loves the development he’s received over the years this story made me really sad. It feels Tom King only had a passing knowledge of him and used him anyway
There was a story in Detective Comics #500 in which The Phantom Stranger takes Batman to a parallel Earth to prevent the death of that Earth’s Thomas and Martha Wayne. I remember it was done much better than the Booster Gold story.
Another momentous thing about that issue - it contained Walter Gibson’s final story.
That's what I thought of when I saw the premise. It handled that ripple effect bit better despite having less time to do so imo
I love that story! It’s in one of the DC Blue Ribbon Digests I read when I was little that my dad gave to me. I think Sasha could make a great video out of it, especially if it gets compared to this.
Aye, I was thinking of it also. In it, the child Bruce Wayne sees a caped, masked figure rescue him and his parents from assault and death. Inspired, he begins training to become that world's first hero, Batman.
There's also Batman: Gotham Adventures #33, a DCAU tie-in comic where the Stranger shows a frustrated Bruce what life would have been like had his parents lived, only for the people he cares about now leading horrible lives and the city not in good shape while he becomes worse than his public persona. It's a far better story than this.
Come to think of it, Walter Gibson-- wasn't he a writer for the Shadow radio show and books? If so, cool!
I think there are two things we should seriously consider:
1) That this was the setup for why Booster was getting treatment in Heroes in Crisis
2) That this whole adventure was in Booster's Head. Or, he truly was in another dimension- which is why psycho Bruce didn't disappear right away.
Makes sense considering that Tom King also wrote Heroes in Crisis.
3) Tom King is a terrible writer.
Sasha puts a lot more thought in to this review than Tom King put in to writing the original story.
@@GenghisDon1970
Is he really that bad?
@@thereseemstobeenanerror1219 Yeah, he kinda mean towards the characters he writes
This story was so bad, it actually made me mad reading it.
@@ExeErdna And people in real life.
Your Batman “NOOO” got me good 😂
Lol my favourite line in this to do as Batman was "you winked I saw you!!!"
The butterfly effect. Does that mean Ashton Kucher should play Booster Gold on the big screen?
That movie messed me up when I was younger lol
@@CasuallyComics the original ending is beautifully tragic and would have justified the rest of the movies badness, but then chickened out.
I actually am okay with this casting.
Speaking of DCAU riffs on Bruce's parents being alive BTAS had an episode where someone fabricated a world where his parents were alive that actually worked "Perchance to Dream". It really packed an emotional punch. From Bruce initially being completely unable to believe the reality was true to finally accepting the joy of seeing his parents alive and then having it all torn away from him in the end. It was such a gut punch and a great exploration of the scars losing his parents left on Bruce.
the tragedy wasn't that Bruce had to be Batman because without him Gotham would be in shambles. The tragedy was that life if his parents were alive would have been great but that reality cannot exist.
That was precisely what I thought when they were trying do Batman seeing his origin undone and how it would effect it.
The Mad Hatter, but he forgot that reading in dreams is not the the same as reality, and this is where Bruce started to realize something was wrong. Batman was a separate person and doing all the Batman stuff so Bruce could just live a happy life without worries. He ended up confronting his alter ego when he realized "Batman" was the only other connection to the illusion. It really is a great episode and a better Bat-take on "For The Man Who Has Everything" than this thing.
I love the Booster Gold coloured eye shadow! 👍🏻
Someone noticed! Lol
Haha I thought that was a lens flare!
Even when she is gutting a bad story, she always sounds so cheerful. Also, that Green Lantern sequence earlier in the video was absolutely terrifying.
Replace Booster with Bat-Mite, and have Booster trying to stop him? Idk if that would work seeing that saving Bruce's parents would mean no Batman,and Bat-Mite is Batman's biggest fan. But a little thinking could have gone a long way with this one.
I wonder if Future Man and Booster Gold ever crossed paths
Lol has anyone seen Futureman and Booster in a room together?
Only Lois knows for sure!
Maybe, they did have the same tailor.
I bet they go out for drinks with Tommy Tomorrow
@@Ichiyama22 Y'know, I was reading some Golden Age Action Comics from the late 40s the other day, which had Tommy Tomorrow stories as one of the regular features alongside Superman, Congo Bill and Vigilante. Tommy's not really a time traveller at all in that era, just a retro-scifi space patrolman in a solar system where we've got all the planets colonized ala Victorian scifi, science be damned. The most surreal part of it was that way they start every story by informing readers that Tommy lives in the far distant future...of 1989.
Points for being optimistic, at least.
It’s fascinating when Justice League Action cartoon made for kids had much more mature booster than comic book by King made for older fans.
The cartoon probably had a real editorial team.
I think you're onto something with booster's mental state. This would be a much better story if they intentionally made Booster unwell from the beginning, and have it matter. I don't think King could write that story, but someone should
Love the wig this week!
Except he’s not crazy, but in this story he’s completely deranged, the story is so bad.
@InfamyOrDeath -__- yeah, and it's not even consistent with how deranged
True story, a friend of mine had given me both this and later HiC as actual "Gifts" for my Birthday and Yule respectively. While I *know* their heart was in the right place..I never so desperately wanted to have my own time machine to go back and recommend they just get me socks instead.
Honestly, I've always seen this story as Booster trying to fix what he'd done to the timeline loads of times, and failing. So the opening scene in my head is a Booster who's seen the world fall apart a bunch of times already and is now just... running with it. Like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day after he'd done it awhile. I don't know if anyone shares this opinion, but I think it explains why Booster acts so unhinged throughout the story.
If this was out of continuity that would be fine, but it's not so it doesn't work
I agree with Sasha: If they established something like this up front, it could work. I mean, time travel has to be a bit of a mind screw after a while.
What a thoughtful gift.
Eobard would be proud
the Tom King run on Batman has equal parts like and dislike in my heart. some really good moments, some moments that genuinely made me take a break
So, some parts of "The Gift" make a bit more sense if you'd been reading Batman's solo title for a while. A few years earlier, there had been a storyline called Endgame where the Joker created a virus that turned people into Joker zombies. He even developed special strains that could effect specific superheroes and infected the other members of the Justice League like Wonder Woman, Superman and The Flash so Batman couldn't call them for help. The presence of "Jokerized" citizens in this new timeline seems to indicate that something similar happened and Batman wasn't around to stop it, hence why so many heroes are dead. Being familiar with the Endgame storyline also makes Duke Thomas' fate a little more clear, as both of his parents became brain damaged by the Joker during that storyline and presumably, so did he in this timeline.
I think the implication was supposed be that Hal was in the early stages of turning into a Joker zombie and that is why he killed himself. This would somewhat explain why Dick Grayson is trying to kill any superheroes that come into Gotham, since he has likely seen the damage Jokerized superhumans can do and wants to keep anyone else from becoming infected. (Your point still stands that it makes no sense for Dick to call himself Batman in this timeline.)
The stuff about Catwoman becoming a serial killer in this timeline makes a little more sense (but also not) in the context of King's Batman run. During King's run, there was this ongoing storyline about Catwoman have supposedly gone over the edge and become a mass murderer at some point in the recent past so Selina's behavior in this story was likely a reference to that.
It was eventually explained that several dozen terrorists destroyed the orphanage where Selina grew up, killing all the children inside, and so Catwoman tracked each of them down and subjected them to a vigilante execution. Which, I can see why a lot people in universe would be disturbed by that and not want Batman to associate with her anymore, but characters in the main Batman timeline talk about her like she is an unhinged killer like she is the Booster Gold timeline.
And then it was reveled that Selina didn't kill anyone. Her childhood friend, Holly, who had gone to the same orphanage, killed those terrorists and Catwoman chose to take the fall. (Which just raises so many further questions 😑).
This is pure speculation on my part, but I got the sense that King started out his Batman run not knowing where he was going to take the "Selina Kyle is a killer now" subplot and was making it up as he went along.
Fun fact about the DCAU version of For the Man Who Has Everything that is the only adaptation of Alan Moore's work that he said he liked.
I love how Booster starts as a fake hero posing as a real hero, and then develops into a real hero that people think is a fake hero. Batman figures this out in the post-52 Booster series, and it's portrayed at the end of the Justice League Unlimited episode The Greatest Story Never Told (ssn1 ep7), czcams.com/video/bwWpiFDxJ2E/video.html
Man. This is the time Tom King was staring to worry me. Had he pulled off the wedding I would have forgiven him. But he proved he became a Jeoh Loeb... he's either awesome or horrible... and rarely anything in between.
Ra's controls Eurasia? When was that his plan? They always make him a cartoon villain for some reason
Also not my boy Duke... hasn't editorial hurt him enough
I think his original plan was to save the world by killing off most of humanity. Eco-terrorist! With mystical chemical baths! And a sexy daughter!
This whole story feels like a fever dream.
As for an actual good gift for Batman, something one of a kind with a sentimental attachment. Maybe a screen used Grey Ghost costume....though something more connected to his relationship with Catwoman would be better. Being a time traveler...maybe a piece of her costume from when they first met. Still have to watch out for the butterfly effect on that one. Knowing my luck, that'd end up killing Catwoman.
10:25 Booster Gold babbling song lyrics while Catwoman ignores him is very on brand for Tom King, in the worst way.
This thing really heralded what was coming by Tom King with Heroes In Crisis.
I was glad they gave Dan Jurgens Blue and Gold a little bit after this.
Sasha’s Batman voice is always hilarious
I have an idea on how to rewrite this story. What if instead of trying to save the parents, Booster trys to snag them out of the timeline to come to the wedding. He fails to do so, but he spooks them enough not to go down the alley. When he returns we could have a similar story, but it makes more sense
King actually wrote a really good Hal story in his "Darkseid War" GL one-shot where Hal achieves, then rejects godhood. There's also a time-travel bit where he talks to himself as a boy - good stuff and not as trauma-focused as King tends to be. It was downright hopeful.
He must have been taking his meds when he wrote that
That was steaming 💩💩💩💩💩
Booster here is so out of character in the story makes me wonder if the writer actually knows who the character actually is or just write a brief Google description of him.
Booster is an interesting character, and I LOVE Tom King's "Batman" run...but he did Booster dirty in this story lol
Congrats to 600 episodes!
Thanks! I saw the number the other day and it blew my mind. It certainly doesn't feel like 600+ videos.
@@CasuallyComics You're welcome! And yeah: time flies when you're having fun!
Wow, you love Kings Batman? He nearly destroyed the character, they took him off early before he did any more damage & because everyone hated it, it was a horrendous run.
@@InfamyOrDeath-__- I liked it, but I can easily see why a lot of people hate it, especially coming off of Snyder’s run.
@@xthelegend89 It’s my most hated run, and it’s the run that got me to search for King online, before that I had never searched for any creator before, at the time I barely looked at who was writing the stories. I bought for the characters, not the writers, I would only remember a writer if I really liked the comic, like Geoff Johns.
But about halfway through his run I started to hate this run so much that I had to search to see who this Tom King guy was, funnily enough I think it was this story “The Gift” that was the final straw that made me search, or “Knightmares”, whichever came first. It was after “Jokes & Riddles” anyway, I remember that, that was when I started to really dislike the run, that arc was terrible.
But “The Gift” was just horrendous, I absolutely hated this story, it was completely nonsensical and I’ve no idea how the editors signed off on this drivel.
I've only read the Booster stories in "Future Lost," and of course, I've watched your videos on him. I'm far from being an expert on Booster. But, to me, character flaws are obviously part of the character design. And in the older stories at least, he also has some goodness in his heart that makes the flaws forgivable and even endearing. I don't think Tom King struck the right balance here. Just my two cents. Nice analytical wrap-up at the end; I'm always amazed at how well you digest a story and explain your take. Thanks for 600!
The worst thing is that this story only really exists to traumatize booster and get him into heroes in crisis
@@megamonmon Wow. Some writers just were not meant for some characters.
Tom King dealing with his demons through writing stories, sometimes bad stories are the result, other times they're just stories that exist.
Feels like Batman writers trying to write a Booster Gold story.
It's bizarre that Booster Gold spends so much of the comic in the dark alternate reality where all his friends are dead or crazy smiling and remarking about how cool the new timeline is.
I really like the idea of this story and wish it was able to be more fleshed out. I am glad it means we get more Booster on this channel!
Yea that’s not Booster, I don’t know what character it is, but it’s not Booster.
I tried Tom King's run of Batman...couldn't get past the first volume. It just didn't feel like Batman. Now, after learning how he wholely disregards the love for certain characters and writes in character assassinations (Wally West front and center here), I'm glad I dropped it.
You’re lucky you didn’t read it, it’s terrible.
I realized Tom King sucks at writing Batman relatively early on, when Batman had Alfred threaten an helpless Psycho Pirate at gunpoint to use his power to try to heal Gotham Girl. Batman would never have a plan involving threatening someone at gunpoint, he would never ask someone to threaten anyone at gunpoint, and he would never have Alfred, of all people, threaten anyone at gunpoint.
His run is full of boring references no one cares about, and cheap gimmicks (I'm Bane, I'm Batman; Oh Cat, oh Bat; it was the ship, no it was the alley; Kiteman Hell Yeah; there was the war of jokes and riddles and it was so cool and I guess you had to be there but it was really something; let's reference the whole rogue gallery for the heck of it...). He's especially boring when he's self referencing.
There was a Teen Titans Annual where Dick tells his story to Jericho. He says that by helping him bring his parents' killers to justice, Bruce saved Dick from becoming like Bruce. I believe Bruce has said this somewhere as well. He took Dick in to stop him from becoming like Bruce.
It was in Young Justice
Yeah, "The Gift" was the first sign that Tom King wasn't the infallible wunderkind that fans and DC Editorial was building him up to be... and yet it still didn't prepare us for how awful Heroes In Crisis would be...
This story feels like flashpoint with all the random shit that changed, except for starting another reboot
19:45 Tom King, ladies and gentlemen! Man, comparing this with the Superman annual was even more brutal than the story itself...
I see "Batman" and "Booster Gold," I click.
Gah Booster has been done dirty so much in recent years and I hate that happening to one of my favorite characters
There's a lot to be said about King's Batman, and I can't say much good about it. Personally I consider #36 and #37 one of the best Superman/Batman stories I've read, but that's the best thing I can say about the whole run. I think at the time I was more forgiving of the low points of the run because I was hyped for the wedding. Or maybe now that the wedding has passed I'm more critical of it. Hard to say.
I'm convinced every Tom King batman story is just one of those ever worsening alternate lives he experienced while in the omega sanction..
Also, based off of his writing, you could make the argument that he doesn't like/ feels some kind of way about every superhero except for superman
Booster being dead inside because during one of the runs he's the guy that deals with all the time travel problems meaning he has seen everyone die a hundred times in a hundred ways only for it all to undone by him meaning he has an untold amout of trauma is an interesting point to take for time travelers stories. This story doesn't do it its focuses to much on the gross spectacle of "oh no batman gone" and gives of flashpoint paradox vibes in the worst way and doesnt focus on the self introspection or using Skeets as a means of bringing it up.
Yes. Tom picked up on a great idea, and then just completely botched the execution.
I feel like if Batman’s parents were saved, there would still be a Batman.
And Booster wonders why he's no longer invited to the Justice League birthdays party anymore.
So glad to see you doing good on your own. You were my one of my favorites during the top 10 era
That Joker's art on the wall is everything
Tom King: the most hit and miss comic book writer in the history of the medium. The same writer that gave us the Vision 12 issue mini series gave us Heroes in Crisis. He gave us Superman: Up in the Sky, and he gave us The Gift. Like a Targaryen, you don't know which way his coin has landed until you read the book.
This issue was in some collection I bought lol, I felt so bad for Booster. He just wanted to get Batman something nice and personal
He should've had a bat engraved on that cheese tray lol
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His decision to taunt him with his dead parents as a gift be questionable though
I hate what King did with Booster in this story.
Honestly, I'm not very fond of how Booster has been handled in the past decade or so in general. I love his original run and the resurgence the character had with 52 and his second book in the 2000s, but the 2010s saw the character change to something almost irrecognizable at times. I really don't like it. At this point I feel not only fans but a lot of writers in DC only see him as a wacky lunatic verging on complete psychopath like in The Gift, and keeping making stories featuring this bizarro version of Booster, only further perpetuating this mischaracterization.
It's similar to how I feel about Cassandra Cain, though in that case DC has been trying to make amends recently, it still doesn't make up for all the shit. As someone who started reading comics in the late 90s and had a lot of contact with 80s comics as well due to resellers and reprints, it feels like the more modern era of DC consists mainly of fucking up the characters I grew up loving (Wally West, Booster, Cass, the Titans as a group, etc) becaus they were legacy characters or "late" additions the dinosaurs running the company see as expendable.
Wasn't Skeets revealed to be evil at one point? Did he become good again after that?
During 52. Mr. Mind was mutated by radiation and was using Skeets as a cocoon. Skeets got better.
@@karldettlinger467 Ah!
This is an actual time where the quote "Why would Hal Jordan do this?" makes too much sense.
Great video, and your rendition of the Bat-Man's voice tickles me to no end
All of this could've been prevented if someone had just sent him the wedding registry...
Eye shadow colors are well done. Nice job
I saw Linkara's take on this story a while back. Glad to see you cover it too! It is ALL kinds of messed up! And we love seeing it.
omg a booster gold video on my birthday!! what a rush!!! great video!!!
Happy birthday!!
That cutaway to Spock….are you trying to make me cry?
This was the third worst Tom King story at DC for me. #1 be Heroes in Crisis (but then again it seems Editorial aka Dan DiDio is more to blame for that than King). But Batman #81? Yeah, that one just takes the cake as being worse than this. From the start of Bruce/Selina coming back from a mini vacation with the former thinking Alfred is safe (he's not) and then Damian getting freed by the entire Bat-Family (minus Ric and Stephanie) and then all of them jobbing to Thomas Wayne off-panel. Cause...
I enjoy these longer videos, especially when they are about comics I've heard about but hadn't yet decided if I wanted to read them. I am a fan of Booster Gold, but mostly the fun JLI period with Ted Kord/Blue Beetle, so these deeper (?), darker Booster stories are hit and miss for me. Thank you for an interesting, well-written episode!
I think the most tragic part is that the whole 'what happens if bruces parents never die' idea is very well explored in the Batman/Superman comics.
Also i have to admit. My love for booster comes entirely from JLU. They did him so damn well in the one episode they let him shine in, and i'll never forget it. He should be explored more often, because his entire existence explores what it means to be a super hero at its very foundation, because he doesnt really understand it.
Kinda reminds me of Marvels Speedball.
It sounds like this is a mix of For the Man Who Has Everything with a Flash Point triggering event, but with Bruce's parents instead of Wally's mother.
The moral of the story is to always have a wedding registry.
I'm glad I clicked on this video! I should of known I was gonna love your take on it! thank you Sasha keep it up
Great vid Sasha. You rule. Love the big comic breakdowns
If Catwoman were a Batman style character, instead of the Batcave would she have the litter box?
I never expected Booster Gold to *actually* reach that level of stupidity!
I can't, I just can't!
Your Superman voice is fantastic. We need it in at least one official DC adaptation at some point.
"Booster Gold - The Greatest Hero
Tom King Never Knew"
Another wonderful appearance of Editor Sasha!
Thank you, Sasha, for this episode. I didn't read "The Gift", but I did read "Heroes in Crisis" which I thought was interesting but had reservations about. My recollections might be off, but I think this was released during Didio's tenure; I felt at the time that Didio was encouraging stories which had a "Mature Readers"/Vertigo-like take on them. Considering that Vertigo was phased out at around that time, it didn't surprise me that a story like this would be published.
However, at a time when fans seemed to be looking for something familiar/comforting/positive/stable/heroic/etc. after the upsets of Flashpoint and New52, stories continued to be published where the most dangerous threat DC heroes faced was each other. Which, I mean, really, isn't a new thing, but at a time when we had BATMAN V SUPERMAN and the Injustice games and CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR (just to show that Marvel was in on this too!), it sure seemed like the Bat-family had more shards of Kryptonite than Lex Luthor did.
...and so we get "The Gift", which might've been ok if it'd been published under the Black Label imprint, but Black Label was still a few years away.
So thank you, Sasha, for reminding us of how much care had been spent on the character of Booster Gold over the years. Ending on such a positive note, going over a brief history of the character and all of the recommended storylines tht show how out of place "The Gift" was was really very welcome. Thank you for that gift! Hopefully "The Gift" will be relegated to that bookshelf of ideas that fans ignore except for when CBR brings it up as angry clickbait.
I'm really enjoying your show. Thank you so much for the work you do!
Your Batman voice is the best!! Thank you!
Why didn’t booster just go back in time tell Thomas and Martha Wayne they will sadly not live to see their son’s wedding, so he’s here to take them to their son’s wedding, boom a good gift, a week with his dead parents from the past
Batman not responding the same way to guns makes a little sense, Trauma in adulthood is a different beast from trauma in childhood
The panel that you've chosen as the thumbnail is very *riveting*
I’ll never forget when I read this story I was at a Mexican place and I couldn’t focus on my burrito cause I was so confused lol
"Nothing against fart jokes". Fart jokes are classics. They're in Shakespeare and the Canterbury Tales.
Good video, also you rocking that hair style
Dang, Congratulations on 600 &still growing 🎉🎊🥳
Great Video!
I remember seeing this, him constantly cleaning his glasses got me in the heart
The Recommending Holiness comment you to engage with this video.
It’s a “what my life could’ve been and still can be”
I've never wanted to tell someone shut up while they were ready until today
Congratz on 600+ videos
is that project super powers in the background?!?!? love that comic
Congrats on breaking over 600 🎉🎉
This is my first time seeing your channel and I just gotta say damn you nailed the hair and makeup lol😅 it looks great and eye catching!
“The Gift” arc is indicative to the event comic HEROES IN CRISIS: trying to tackle mental health yet is grossly mishandle, mischaracterization, a lot of characters dying in grandiose way, and character assassination.