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thanekos (thanekos) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-10-01 18:59:00

Current music:	Laisse tomber les filles- Mareva Galanter
Entry tags:	char: booster gold/michael jon carter, char: enemy ace/hans von hammer, creator: dan jurgens, creator: norm rapmund, publisher: dc comics, title: booster gold

When Hans von Hammer met Booster Gold
so Booster Gold's been being rubberbanded around time by a knife that can open holes in time.

All part of a day's work when you're a protector of time, right?

and running into people who are ironically related in some way to your life.

like infantryman Cyrus Lord, direct ancestor of Maxwell Lord.

Booster only finds that out at the end, though, and when he does, it's a real " .. time, you are a BITCH " moment.

for now, he's trying to find his time knife and get out without Cyrus asking too many question about this gaudy stranger who's shown up on a death-strewn WWI battlefield.

objectives not made easier by sudden gunfire overhead:

" Hans von Hammer! Best pilot who ever lived! A killing machine with wings! Run! "

why, yes, this WAS one of those Faces of Evil things, as the cover will show you:

so either Hans is up there with Parasite and Prometheus on the bad guys level (well, he ain't called the ENEMY Ace for nothing, and some of his actions would bear it out) or the real Face of Evil is... war, I guess.

whatevs.

anyhow, Booster decides to save these pilots from von Hammer's guns, because he's a hero, and he can't stand by and watch someone die.

but how to it without showing off any of his strange fancy tech?

except that's not the sun, those're chronal portals triggered by the time knife being in the immediate area.

meaning that Booster is stunned, but recovers:

... not in time enough, alas.

Hans takes them back to the castle him and his squadron are currently holed up at, trading " You'll be a legend someday " type of conversation 'long the way:

Booster's just found the plot device, a relic of the castle's owners. Oh, time knives. You turn up in the strangest places.

The interrogators set to work on Cyrus and Booster; when one of them sticks a bayonet in Cyrus's injured arm, however, Booster is driven to attack them, even without a powered suit.

He does well for a bit, but then one of them draws a bead on Booster with his mauser.

However, enter Hans again:

' experimental flight suit '... after the people he's fought against, Hans isn't fazed by any costuming choice anymore.

... too bad we didn't get von Hammer dogfighting Booster in the air.

ah well, would've been like some cracked up Secret Weapons over Normandy shit, anyway.

anyhow, we've got a few more pages to wrap shit up, so:

why did he pick the magic time knife?

because fate works that way, I guess.

anyhow, Booster hies Cyrus to a hospital, picks up on " oooh, Cyrus LORD ", and then is rubberbanded further through time.

... man, time travellers meet the weirdest people, don't they?

bonus: Deadman Wonderland, showing us how a dream can go from normal to HOLY JESUS GOD AIEEEEEE in 0.02 seconds...

Pretty good read, this is.

If nothing else, it proves that fictional privately owned prisons can easily become gateways to WHAT THE FUCK

or atleast WHAT THE

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	madripoor_rose 2009-10-01 11:51 pm UTC (link)
	Great scans. I spent a couple of hours once, trying to work out the generational math on Cyrus Lord in WWI being Maxwell Lord IV's ancestor. (Reply to this)

	mullon 2009-10-01 11:58 pm UTC (link)
	Magical knives that send it's user places? How subtle. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ravenous_raven 2009-10-02 12:04 am UTC (link)
	yep, as subtle as a golden compass...that's what you were driving at, right? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	stratosfyr 2009-10-02 03:42 am UTC (link)
	Are you trying to suggest there is some sort of hidden meaning in a comic about a guy in amber glasses being mistaken for a spy? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ravenous_raven 2009-10-02 04:04 am UTC (link)
	why I guess I am ;) your daemon must be an owl, you are so wise! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ashtoreth 2009-10-02 12:08 am UTC (link)
	THE ULTIMATE FACE OF EVILLLLLLL!!! Oh, for the days when defeat was considered the worst that could happen. Also GARRGLEDROOL Von Hammer is delectably cute.<3! I'd doubleagent for that... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	artnouveauho.livejournal.com 2009-10-02 08:59 am UTC (link)
	Yeah! I love the way he's drawn here. They've really got the war-worn facial expressions down. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	bariman1987 2009-10-02 05:15 pm UTC (link)
	I'd doubleagent for that Is that what they're calling it these days? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	flipbeter 2009-10-02 12:15 am UTC (link)
	Sometimes I wonder how much worse Booster's life can be. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ashez2ashes 2009-10-02 12:52 am UTC (link)
	points to Booster Gold Blackest Night tie in (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	icon_uk 2009-10-02 11:58 am UTC (link)
	Oh please... tied up by Ted and about to indulge in some kinky erotic asphyxiation? Booster's been DREAMING about that for years. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	dr_hermes 2009-10-02 02:17 am UTC (link)
	Hans Von Hammer, one of the top characters DC produced in its long history. Great to see him handled with respect. Thanks for posting this, I'd never have seen it otherwise. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	volksjager 2009-10-02 11:01 pm UTC (link)
	Going through so much of my brothers Collection I see that at one point in the 70's DC alone put out at least half a dozen War themed comics from Enemy Ace,Sgt.Rock, to the dollar comic "All out war" . It was really strong tangent for mainstream comics that is just gone now. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	cygna_hime 2009-10-02 03:20 am UTC (link)
	They did this issue really well. I mean, as someone with a thing for WWI literature, I thought it hit the right note. Because for that war in particular, the face of evil was never the face of another soldier. It was the face of the trenches, of the bombardment, of barbed wire, of mud, of gas, of distant commanders and foolish orders. And that they put across pretty well. (Reply to this)

	darklorelei 2009-10-02 04:45 am UTC (link)
	That's still one of my favorite Booster Gold issues. (Reply to this)

	icon_uk 2009-10-02 11:03 am UTC (link)
	What? Booster didn't save a puppy as it unexpectedly fell from the sky towards him and thus change time forever? Or was Booster, reacting on instinct alone, the one to zap the poor puppy as it fell towards him, and which would otherwise have fallen into a haystack and lived, warming the heart of Von Hammer and inspiring him to seek a new life as an animal handler? (Reply to this)

psychop_rex
2009-10-02 11:24 am UTC (link)

Yeah, 'Faces of Evil' is seriously pushing it. Von Hammer was NEVER presented as being evil - had he been on the other side in the war, he would've been hailed as a hero for our side. He was all about the ambiguity of war, not evil. Still, I guess it had more to do with 'EVERY comic this month is doing it - you will ALSO do it, or be replaced. I don't CARE if he's not evil - he's close enough.'

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	thandrak 2009-10-02 11:55 am UTC (link)
	But if you have to put a face on war, that's a pretty good drawing of Hammer to use. That is a face of war: the determination to kill your foe, even if you do not survive it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

psychop_rex
2009-10-02 09:39 pm UTC (link)

On WAR, yes, but I don't think that's what's going on here. From what little I remember of the 'Faces of Evil' thing, all the other covers had characters like Darkseid or the Joker or Dr. Polaris on them. It wasn't meant to represent all the various facets of evil, such as war, cruelty, genocide, etc., which would have been fairly interesting; it was meant literally - 'THESE people are EVIL, and here are their faces on the covers.'

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	(Anonymous) 2009-10-04 01:46 am UTC (link)
	To my understanding it was editorial mandated, originally Booster was going to meet up with Sgt. Rock in World War II, but they wanted a tie in with Faces of evil. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	janegray 2009-10-02 01:55 pm UTC (link)
	I still want Max to be innocent, damnit ;_; (Reply to this)

	joysweeper 2009-10-02 02:59 pm UTC (link)
	So did he know that was a time knife, or was von Hammer handing over a quiet suicide implement? (Reply to this)

	earthelemental 2009-10-03 01:47 pm UTC (link)
	Time Knife? Why not just give him the Claw of Aelkhünd? (Reply to this)