AIPTcomics.com has all of DC's solicitations for September, and oh, boy, they look great.

I've had my eye out for Blue Beetle #1 ever since DC.com revealed back in April that Ted Kord (and the Bug!) would be on the Adrian Gutierrez cover.

I've also been anticipating Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville #1 for months, and although I don't like incentive variants, I just might be convinced to pony up for this 1:25 Kevin Maguire variant cover.

I hadn't been planning on buying any of the four monthly books written by Tom King, but Julian Totino Tedesco makes riding a kanga look like so much fun on the variant cover for Wonder Woman #1, I just might change my mind. (It wouldn't be the first time I'd've bought a comic just because of a Tedesco cover.)

Ooh! And how about the Chris Samnee variant for Shazam #3? Or the two part Mikel Janin acetate cover for Superman #6? And don't even get me started on the Old Man Red Bee (and Old Man Blackhawk!) appearing on the 1:25 Rahazzah variant for Peacemaker Tries Hard! #5.

Now, if you've read down this far, you might have noticed that I haven't mentioned Booster Gold yet. Well, that's because the solicitation doesn't either. I was trying to soften the blow with all those great covers.

Did it work?

If it helps, DC also announced that the first six issues of The Human Target will be collected (for the second time) in October. Booster will be in that. Come to think if it, it's also got some great covers.

Booster may be hard to find these days, but at least it isn't hurting my eyes to keep looking.

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Mexican artist Edil Villa has recently uploaded this commissioned piece to DeviantArt.com:

That purple fellow on the left is Kang the Conqueror. For those of you who don't read Marvel Comics, Kang is a time travelling would-be world conqueror who has long bedeviled the Fantastic Four and the Avengers. (Actually, there are a bunch of Kangs from alternate timelines. But that's beside the point.)

I'm pretty sure Booster could take him.

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Today's fan art inspired a thought: why don't real corporations pay DC Comics to embed advertising inside the comics stories themselves? I mean, if it works for national news programs....

Superman: "We've got to go help those people."

Booster Gold: "I'll be there as soon as I'm done brushing my teeth with Colgate® brand toothpaste. Every hero deserves a healthy smile!"

Find more art by Fernando Vega (aka jikanganai) on DeviantArt.com.

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Talk about your inter-company crossovers!

I've posted on the "lost" adventures found by Super-Team Family before (here and here), but each day, Ross Pearsall continues to reach into the multiverse to bring us a new, unseen cover to a story that fans here on Earth Prime would pay through the nose to read. You can find a larger pic of the cover for this team up between Booster Gold and Marvel Comic's time traveling villain, Krang, at Super-Team Family ...The Lost Issues.

Thanks, Ross. Keep up the good work!

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