Whatever happened to the days when superheroes liked each other? When team-ups weren’t just about bruised egos and broken families? When did the Super Friends stop being, well… friends?
There was a time, decades ago, when the Justice League was just as much a relatable
workplace comedy as it was about banding together to save the world. When we’d take time to appreciate who these heroes were, and how they related to each other, before they all strapped on their spandex to defend the planet from an alien overlord. In those years, nobody captured that dynamic like the unlikely friendship of the Justice League’s two most notorious misfits, Blue Beetle and Booster Gold.
The Blue and Gold duo was a dynamic in which many of us saw ourselves—filled to the brim
with impostor syndrome, standing around people who always seemed to have their own issues way more sorted out and finding comfort and acceptance in each other’s dysfunction. “Hey, at least I’m not the ONLY loser around here!”
We all know someone, or wish we knew someone, who we could let our guard down with and just laugh out loud like idiots at the absurdity of life. And in the DC Universe, that’s exactly what Ted Kord and Michael Jon Carter represent. And while recent years have conspired to keep them apart, the Blue and Gold team finally have their own long-deserved buddy comic premiering this week with Blue & Gold #1, 34 years after they first met. As Booster might say, “It’s about darn time!”
Check out a quick primer on the long history of this dynamic duo over on DC Comics!
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