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Booster Purple?
Oct. 13th, 2004 02:51 pmI love Dejanews; you can find the most wonderful bits of trivia there. Presently I'm fascinated by the revelation that in his earliest pre-Crisis conception, Booster Gold was supposed to be a walking collection of Superman memorabilia: Superboy's Legion flight ring (he kept that one, although presumably it's been retconned out by now), Brainiac's forcefield (I have no idea if this differs in any significant way from Brainiac 5's forcefield, which is what he wound up with), and...Lex Luthor's purple-and-green battle-armor. You know, that one, or some variant thereof.
I mean, it's not a bad design for a villain, but I'm utterly at a loss to imagine vain, flashy, ultra-image-conscious Booster Gold wearing the thing. Booster is all about being pretty and shiny. You wouldn't think it would help his PR any to show up looking like a supervillain, either; I hope they at least meant to let him repaint it. And, well, there's the skirt. If Booster is grateful for nothing else in his comics existence, he should be grateful that he did not have to go through his JLI membership wearing a skirt; the mockery would have been endless...
I mean, it's not a bad design for a villain, but I'm utterly at a loss to imagine vain, flashy, ultra-image-conscious Booster Gold wearing the thing. Booster is all about being pretty and shiny. You wouldn't think it would help his PR any to show up looking like a supervillain, either; I hope they at least meant to let him repaint it. And, well, there's the skirt. If Booster is grateful for nothing else in his comics existence, he should be grateful that he did not have to go through his JLI membership wearing a skirt; the mockery would have been endless...
