Tired of Convergence yet?

This week we get Ralph Dibny and Kelly Jones on Swamp Thing and a return of the worst Outsiders ever. But it doesn't look like we'll be getting any Booster Gold. Even Convergence: Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes won't include our hero, despite the fact that we know Booster and the Legion will be tangling in Booster's own title launching next week.

From an interview at comicbook.com this past February:

Russ Burlingame: We've seen that Booster Gold will run afoul of Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes in his second issue. Will we see any of that in your own title?

Stuart Moore: No, that takes place before our story.

Don't despair, Booster fans. There will be some Booster on the rack this week. It just won't be new.

Enter Justice League 3000 Volume 2: The Camelot War, which includes the arrival of classic Blue and Gold in the 30th century. Of course you bought those issues when they were new, but now you can buy them again without breaking your floppies out of their mylar. At $14.99, this book is collectively cheaper than the individual issues were, so there's an incentive here for those of you who were trade-waiting.

Buy it or not. Skeets doesn't care.

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Late last week, Vaneta Rogers interviewed Keith Giffen about the coming changes to Justice League 3000. Giffen was upfront about why everyone's favorite superheroic comedy duo was added to the title:

Rogers: [L]ooking back at what's made the comic successful, you have to admit that your Justice League International characters brought a lot of eyes onto the book. You started with Booster and Beetle, then added Fire and Ice. Do you like how those additions are turning out?

Giffen: Yeah, I'll be honest. We brought Beetle and Booster in to get people to pay attention to the book, or to at least be aware that we existed. Our original idea was to bring back Fire and Ice, but then that evolved into bringing back Beetle and Booster too.

Of course, if we were going to use Beetle and Booster in the book, of course we'd want to use the Beetle and Booster that we're familiar with. It's Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis, so it just makes sense.

If our book existed in the New 52, though, it wouldn't make sense. We would have to be using different iterations of those characters.

So we took the leap, and DC had no problem with it.

We're exploring a universe that hasn't been explored yet — the "Bwa-Ha-Ha" universe or whatever. And DC was amenable. So we said, let's do it!

It sounds like we might never have ever seen the return of Blue and Gold if it hadn't been for the launch of the New 52. Maybe it wasn't so bad after all?

You can read the rest of the article at Newsarama.com.

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I'm willing to forgive one slip-up, Justice League 3000, but now I'm expecting even more Blue and Gold in every issue to make up for the omission!

Last week's poll question: What is your response to Booster and Beetle being solicited for Justice League 3000 15 but not appearing in it? (41 votes)

I've been thinking about my own biases in what I present here at Boosterrific. I really enjoy showing pictures of Booster Gold fan art and cosplayers, but I almost never mention Booster Gold fan fiction.

Part of that exclusion is because I don't personally read fan fiction and am reluctant to promote anything I haven't vetted fist. But maybe I'm doing a disservice to my visitors. So what do you say about it?

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Funny how DC promising to publish books with long-missing characters has so many people looking to buy a bunch of comics again. It's just like 1994's Zero Hour crossover all over again!

Last week's poll question: How many of the 40 Convergence tie-in mini-series are you planning to buy? (49 votes)

First Booster shows up on the covers of Smallville and Futures End without appearing inside, and now he's wrongly solicited as appearing in Justice League 3000 #15. It's getting where I probably shouldn't give my Local Comic Shop any money until after I've read the books!

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This is your monthly reminder that Justice League 3000 is in stores today. The solicitation text begs us to buy it.

Beetle and Booster! Fire and Ice! The Injustice League (no, not that one — this is a different one)! Plus, the stuff that's on the cover! C'mon, people! We're bending over backward here! Pick up this comic before it's too late!

Breaking out the hard sell, I see. I will take this opportunity to point out that sales for the title got a boost in the issue that was mostly devoted to Booster Gold and Blue Beetle, (#12) and have slid some in the time since. I'm no one to tell Keith Giffen or J.M. Dematteis how to write a comic book, but I do humbly suggest that more Booster Gold and Blue Beetle might be a good thing.

You can find a preview for the issue at ComicBook.com.

(Footnote: I find it amusing that DCComics.com appears to be sabotaging their own title: the web page for this book promotes the wrong Blue Beetle in this issue. Their "starring" links ignore Fire and Ice and link visitors to the bio for Jaime Reyes, who is very unlikely to be along for this ride.)

Buy this issue and make Skeets (who is also very unlikely to appear in this issue) happy.

UPDATE 2015-03-05: THEY LIED TO US. Booster Gold and Blue Beetle DO NOT appear in this issue. Sorry.

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