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Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Old Release: Dark Knights of Steel 1
Write Eskana:
I was reading something and didn't see it in your database, although maybe you don't keep these... I found a picture of Booster on a variant cover for Dark Knights of Steel #1, with art by Alan Quah. He's not looking very knightly but I guess he is probably time traveling...
"Don't keep these"? That's exactly what the Boosterrific Database keeps! I just didn't know it existed. For reference, here's the cover, with Booster highlighted:
This was released in November 2021, which raises the question of how did it get past me? The answer appears to be because it's not a regularly solicited cover or cover variant or even a retailer incentive variant. This cover was an exclusive variant available only to shoppers at Midtown Comics. Midtown has stores in New York City, and I don't live there.
Fortunately for me, Midtown also has a website, midtowncomics.com, and they claim to still have some of these in stock. So I hope to soon correct for this oversight.
Thanks to Eskana for helping keep Boosterrific.com more complete than ever.
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Monday, January 22, 2024
An Earned Vacation
Booster Gold was all over DC's solicitations for March last month, so let's not be too panicky that he's nowhere to be found in the April solicitations released last week (which you can read yourself at GamesRadar.com). Our hero has earned a Spring break.
On an unrelated note, just weeks after Cort shared his Boosterrific John McCrea commission with us, DC is soliciting for an omnibus of the 1990s Garth Ennis/McCrae collaboration Hitman. Booster and Tommy "Hitman" Monaghan only crossed paths once (in Bloodlines #2), so don't expect to find him in there. But if you liked the style of McCrea's sketch, you'll find more to like in Hitman.
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Monday, January 15, 2024
Stylin'
When Booster booster Joe Carlo gets an email from DC that he thinks I'll like, he sends it along. Which is how I found out that the new official Logo Shop at shop.dc.com is now offering these:
I think it's a little weird that the "Booster Gold" logo is only available on black/gray backgrounds, but maybe one day they'll be available on a more appropriate blue/navy.
Besides Booster, there are some other gems in the shop, including a few Big Belly Burger designs and plenty of vintage Justice League stuff. (Side note: I might be inclined to buy a red Plastic Man shirt if the yellow bands wrapped all the way around the shirt, so that, you know, it looked like the shirt was actually Plastic Man disguised as my shirt. Alas, the shirt in the logo shop is pretty much just his logo, which I have to admit is probably a more appropriate design for a "logo" shop.)
Thanks to Joe for making sure we saw this.
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Friday, January 12, 2024
My Year Is Made
Look what showed up my mailbox!
Believe it or not, that's my first Dan Jurgens sketch. I wasn't expecting it — I was only expecting Dan to sign a copy of Russ Burlingame's The Gold Exchange: The Deluxe Edition, not sketch in it — and I was not emotionally prepared for how much I was going to love it.
I love the high collar. I love the shades of gray washes (the exact colors of Booster's personal ethics). I especially love how the sketchiness of it makes Booster look older, as though Booster has been growing old along with me.
So now I've got everything I want in life. It's all downhill from here.
Big thanks to Jurgens (and Russ Burlingame) for making all my previously unrecognized dreams come true.
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Wednesday, December 27, 2023
Christmas Present from Cort
Cort Carpenter sent me an email full of his best holiday wishes, and even better, he attached his latest addition to his Booster Gold Sketchbook:
Even if it wasn't signed, that piece is pretty obviously by John McCrea, co-creator of DC's Hitman.
Cort usually requests his commissions include Booster Gold's fabulous high collar, but this time McCrea even included the original hollow star and the bulbs on the end of Skeets' fins. Boosterrific!
Thanks, Cort!
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