Comments on: The Gold Exchange: J.M. DeMatteis on Booster Gold #39

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:56:26 +0000

This made me feel lower-lip-wobbly all over again about that issue. Loved the interview.

As for the graves: Ted’s also memorialized in a statue that the Birds of Prey put up, and Oracle named her new base of operations after him. I like to think that, somewhere in the comics afterlife, he is feeling smug about having a towering great phallic symbol looming over Gotham in his honour.

By: Russ Burlingame

Russ Burlingame — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:15:18 +0000

Honestly, TCJohnson, with Geoff Johns and Dan Jurgens off the title for now, Ted’s story is going to be Ted’s story. Whatever grand plans were in place during that last age are not going to happen now, and I think this issue made it clear that JMD and Keith have no plans to bring Ted back. Ultimately, though, I think “His story is over…for now” is a quote we’ve already read more times than we need to.

By: TCJohnson

TCJohnson — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 06:19:40 +0000

Good interview. I do wish you spent a little more time asking him about Ted Kord since this seems like wrapping him his story for a very long while (forever?)

By: Russ Burlingame

Russ Burlingame — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 07:37:25 +0000

Thanks, Kevin! I appreciate it. I always feel like the faults are very much laid bare because I use the Q&A format, but ultimately I think that in entertainment writing, there’s a real value to that setup becuase it’s providing a fairly unfiltered look at how the interviewee responds, turning in this case the writer into a character unto himself, someone you can relate to a little more. So I really appreciate the compliments.

As far as Rip Carter, I noticed that, too. I debated either fixing the reference or adding a [sic] after it, but decided to let it stay to see what, if anything, readers said about it and whether that’s something that may come up again as the hacker in question comes into play in the book.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 04:31:30 +0000

Rip Carter?

Ok, now I am just being picky.

VERY good interview, Russ. You nailed alot of things I wanted hit (especially the grave thing with Ted), and I felt you got great answers. Maybe its the fact that I was a news reporter in another life and time, but I tend to be picky about interviews and this one was one of your very best.

By: JRC

JRC — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:39:57 +0000

“there’s the sheer fun of a guy who can travel through time and be involved in an adventure at any point in history, from the dawn of time to the end of time. It really doesn’t get much cooler than that!”

Sounds like Good Comic Reading to me!