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    Rip Hunter, Booster Gold, Superman, and Green Lantern have one objective, find the missing Bruce Wayne in the Time Stream before its too late.

    Review: Time Masters: Vanishing Point #3

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    Edited By Zack Freeman
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    The search for Batman gets positively labyrinthine as Rip Hunter, Booster Gold and their skeleton crew of "time masters" have adventures across a wider variety of epochs.
     

    The Good

    This book is just good, clean fun. Even when I wasn't quite familiar with all the characters and their place in continuity (more on that below) I was still enjoying this romp through DC's chronological cosmology. Jurgens is a great nuts and bolts artist whose every line is always in service of telling the story without any flashy distractions.  Maybe what I enjoyed the most about this was the strange relationships and interactions that time travel creates - - how Rip Hunter is Booster Gold's son (I guess?), how the Hyperborean-era wizard covets the heroes' present and even how Despero keeps the likes of the Ultra Humanite and Per Degaton on task.

    The Bad

    As I said with the previous issue -- this title could really use a recap page or some of those mini "Who's Who" captions DC's been using lately to quickly bring readers up to speed on the characters. I'm a seasoned veteran of DC's continuity and even I was having a hard time remembering who Claw, Starfire and then the Wave Riders are. The reveal on the last page would have had a lot more "oomph" if I had a little more set-up.

    The Verdict - 4/5

    I enjoyed this book for the same reasons I enjoyed this week's issue of Detective Comics. Jurgens isn't trying to reinvent the wheel, here, but he's crafted a comic here that delivers that kind of simple escapism that brings me back to what I enjoyed about reading comics in the first place as a boy. This book really ought to be titled Booster Gold, because it's directly continuing everything you enjoyed about Jurgens' run on that book.
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    #1  Edited By TrueBizarro

    i agree with having those box images of the character with what thieve been up to,....helps alot 

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    #2  Edited By doordoor123

    I feel its more of a Rip Hunter book than a Booster Gold book

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    #3  Edited By Pizawle

    It is just plain fun, I agree.

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    #4  Edited By Joey Ravn
    @doordoor123 said:
    "

    I feel its more of a Rip Hunter book than a Booster Gold book

    "
    It is a Rip Hunter book, if you ask me. And that's awesome.
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    #5  Edited By NightFang3
    @doordoor123 said:
    "I feel its more of a Rip Hunter book than a Booster Gold book"
                  I think it was kind of both there books.
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    #6  Edited By Eyz

    Looks like the right successor's to the original 80s Booster Gold books!
    Which is great!

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    #7  Edited By longbowhunter

    I miss Jurgens on Booster Gold.
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    #8  Edited By The Mighty Monarch
    @NightFang said:
    " @doordoor123 said:
    "I feel its more of a Rip Hunter book than a Booster Gold book"
                  I think it was kind of both there books. "
    Thus it's a 'Time Masters' book.
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    #9  Edited By NightFang3
    @The Mighty Monarch said:
    " @NightFang said:
    " @doordoor123 said:
    "I feel its more of a Rip Hunter book than a Booster Gold book"
                  I think it was kind of both there books. "
    Thus it's a 'Time Masters' book. "
                 Indeed.
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