The biggest DC event that you've never heard of - Booster's a dad!

Oh, the ironyEveryone's all over Wonder Woman getting a new pair of pants. So what? I buy new pants once or twice a year. But no one seems to notice that Booster Gold has become a daddy. And I don't mean Rip Hunter, either. People, this is a big deal!

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Justice League Generation Lost 6, Why hello there, filler issue.

NOOOO! My spotlight issue was pointless!Justice League: Generation Lost was conceived as a year long event comic. I can get behind that. It's a great way of seeing more of these characters than a mini, but telling a specific and defined story. The thing is, 26 issues was a number determined by the idea of a comic every other week, not the natural length of the story. And in this issue, wow, it shows.

If you're paying money for this comic and you aren't a completeist or an enormous Captain Atom fan, you can pretend there is no issue 6

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Justice League Generation Lost 1-5, A Cautionary Tale

Two things about this comic were immediately apparent.

First, although a necessary set up for the plot, it was painful to read almost the entire DCU blow off the JLI as crazy.

And second, these artists really like to do Jaime Reyes crotch shots, Nightwing-style. This was made more blatant by the fact I was reading it on an iPod one panel at a time. Fight scene, fight scene BLUE BEETLE ATTACK CROTCH!

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Reading Justice League: Generation Lost on an iPod

I'm the target audience for Justice League: Generation Lost on the iPod. I like the JLI characters, and I particularly enjoy Booster Gold and Blue Beetle. There's something about genuinely competent heroes who know at heart that they'll never fully be respected for their work, but do it anyway and have a good time doing it. I also really enjoy Jaime Reyes as the Blue Beetle - when he isn't being taken for a spin by writers who don't get him and therefore write him as a clueless Captain Ethnic, that is. (Ay caramba indeed.) I like Giffen's work and I even think Judd Winick's writing is pretty keen when his work doesn't devolve into PSAs and soap opera. So a giant epic JLI + Jaime Reyes vs. Max Lord fight to the finish? Sign me up. I also think the option of buying comics in a digital format is an inherently good idea. Convenient and you aren't buried under a mountain of paper!

I was psyched.

And yet

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