I know it's a huge personal preference thing because it seems Jim Lee has many, many, many fans. But I've never been one of them.
As for Aaron Lopresti over here at JLI, I'm enjoying just about everything except for Booster Gold's overly muscled body and skin tight suit. If it is a suit. It might just be paint. But then Booster Gold is a sexless Eunuch from the future. I guess that's plausible!
I like the Legion flight ring on his finger. It's just that kind of touch that is nice about 52. Seeing that on his finger as the comic is just taking off turns the reader's attention back to the old Booster Gold series since they'll know the history of it and Booster while new readers may be left to wonder why and where he got it.
So back to the storyline! Here's Booster Gold's plan: break up into four teams of two and do some recon on the chambers underground where the Sentinels, I mean, mysterious robots came from. Forget about those rock creatures that might still be under ground in Peru (and are most likely underground in all the other places that haven't been repelled even once)! It's just recon! If there's trouble, they can probably get out, right?
In Peru, Booster goes in with Batman. I guess this makes sense. Booster has a lot of firepower and Batman is stealthy. Booster distracts the robot and Batman sneaks in. Seems like a good plan.
In Russia, Rocket Red teams up with Ice who apparently wasn't as close to death as everyone thought:
One band-aid later and she's ready to go!
This team I'm not so sure about. Rocket Red appears to have all the scanning technology he needs to do the recon. And he can put up a pretty good fight as well. But Ice just doesn't have the offensive power they may need. Maybe the whole point is to avoid fighting, so that shouldn't matter. Although, again, that's ignoring those little rock guys they fought!
Meanwhile, Guy Gardner heads out into space to fight that purple and pink guy we saw at the end of last issue. That part seems about right! That's just what a Green Lantern is for!
South African Team is Vixen and Fire. Fire is probably the current powerhouse of the group since Gardner hasn't actually opted in just yet. And Vixen can be just as stealthy as Batman with a whole host of supernatural animal talents that Batman can do naturally!
Of course, in the confined space of the underground chamber and the fact that there are just as many of the little rock critters as they saw in Peru, Fire and Vixen are quickly overwhelmed and taken prisoner. It's a good thing these little rock guys have a better ethical compass than Superman!
The last team, in Canada, is Godiva and August General in Iron. Is it about time I just start referring to him as AGI? Okay, agreed! I'm not sure what being able to control your hair brings to the recon mission. Perhaps Booster thought AGI was the most capable so he sent him in with the horny hair hero.
And AGI does indeed save Godiva in the fight while defeating the little rock guys. They continue further down and then this:
Now I've already read Issue #4 and they don't reveal what they're reacting too. They just end up captured just like all of the others. Perhaps they were reacting to a room full of the little rock guys? Or perhaps they were reacting to the great alien technology furnace thingy that Booster and Batman end up finding this issue. In that case, I don't know why AGI declares failure at that point. If it's just more of the little rock guys, it's a stupid reaction and a lame ploy to make the reader wonder what the fuck they've just uncovered!
Let's just accept it as a stupid scene cut.
Booster and Bats have a little more luck than the rest which is to be expected. It is Batman! But they're still overrun as well.
Finally, Green Lantern boards the new alien ship and is immediately downed by Peraxxus. Yes, that's his name, revealed on the last page. PERAXXUS!
It looks like Guy Gardner retained his glass jaw from the last universe!
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