When DC released the solicitation for today's DC's Very Merry Multiverse holiday anthology back in September, they completely failed to tell us that it contains a story featuring the greatest restaurant manager the world has never known!

"Twas the Night" is a short story taking place in the Planet Krypton restaurant of the Kingdom Come continuity of Earth-22 which is not to be confused with the Planet Krypton restaurant of the mainstream DCU as seen in The Kingdom. (And they say comic books are too convoluted. Pshaw!)

The 8-page story was written by Brittany Holzherr, the associate editor for both "The Gift" and Heroes in Crisis. My opinions of those stories are well known, but I'm not holding them against Holzherr, who seems to have learned all the right lessons: once again she's working with some great artists in Todd Nauck, Hi-Fi, Andworld Designs!

There's a preview of the anthology's first story (Harley Quinn in "It's a Horrible Life") online at CBR.com, but do yourself a favor and just buy this very Boosterrific issue anyway. You'll make Skeets — and yourself — merry indeed.

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Cort Carpenter has returned to once again give us a look at the latest additions to his already overstuffed Booster Gold sketchbook. Feast your eyes on these:

Scott Kolins

Todd Nauck

Richard Pace

Dan Parent

Andrew Robinson

Craig Rousseau

That Craig Rousseau piece really blows me away. You can see it and all the rest of these and more at imgur.com.

Thanks for sharing, Cort. I can't wait to see what you come up with next.

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I don't have words to describe how awesome this is, so let me just show you.

That's the X-Men's Kitty Pryde (aka Shadowcat) and her sidekick Lockheed mashed-up with Booster Gold and his sidekick Skeets as imagined and drawn by artist Todd Nauck (via Twitter). He calls them "Booster Pryde & LockSkeet."

Todd has also recently imagined combos of Blue Beetle/Nightcrawler, Captain Marvel/Colossus, and Guy Gardner/Cyclops among others.

Hell, yes, I'd read that comic.

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YouTube is full of the strangest things. Check out this video of Drawings By Jhoan re-drawing this sketch by Todd Nauck.

That's a pretty good freehand duplication, even if I don't know why we're watching it.

Thanks to Morgenstern for finding this video and Todd Nauck for making art worthy of being copied.

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When your friends care enough to give the very best, they'll give you a Booster Gold sketch.

As you can tell from the inscription, that's a sketch that former Young Justice artist Todd Nauck gave former Booster Gold inker Norm Rapmund for Rapmund's birthday last week. Getting a picture of Booster Gold for your birthday? Now that's friendship!

You can find a larger version of the sketch on Nauck's Tumblr site, and the original black and white outline (plus many other cool drawings) on his Instagram page.

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