It's no secret that the recent DC ring promotion was a marketing ploy to increase sales. (It apparently worked so well that Marvel took action to encourage shops to rip the covers off of remaining stock.) Booster Gold #26 was tied into the ring promotion, and as a result, it was in the top 300 selling books of 2009. In fact, it was the highest selling Booster Gold issue of the series! Not bad for a book barely making the top 100 in any given month, a rate that shouldn't have any issue ranking in much higher than 1000. Sure the numbers fell afterwords, but here's hoping that fighting zombies can inject some new life into a book with some sales numbers that have been slipping pretty consistently, since even before the price hike.

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DC just released rings for every color under the sun to promote "Blackest Night." And word on the street is that they will be following up with "Brightest Day" Flash and Green Lantern rings this Spring. So how much longer until they produce giveaway Legion Flight Rings? (Hint, hint, DC.)

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Again, I apologize for any issues that you may encounter in your visit to Boosterrific today. I'm still working on some design changes, and occasionally modifications will bleed from the test pages into the live pages, causing display issues. (I'm being both very particular about what I want and very sloppy about how I make those changes.) I'm working on tracking these problems down, and I hope to have everything sorted out in short order. Thank you for your patience.

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Last night, CBS aired a rerun of The Big Bang Theory episode in which Sheldon loses his copy of Flash, Volume 1, #123, ("The Flash of Two Worlds") in a bet. What does this have to do with Booster Gold, you ask? Other than the obvious gambling angle and Booster's involvement in ensuring the creation of the Silver Age Flash (in both Booster Gold, Vol. 2, #4 and #17), Geoff Johns has hinted that Booster will be playing a further role in policing the Flash's history. With Johns' proclivity for re-investigating Silver Age stories, don't be surprised if Booster, guardian of the modern 52-verse, eventually finds his way into the mix of this issue, the grandfather of all DC Multiverse stories.

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There are more changes on the horizon for Boosterrific. I'd hoped to have everything ready to go at the start of the week, but I'm not quite there yet. I'm trying to create a design that will integrate ads as innocuously as possible, without significantly modifying the site layout or function. That has proven to be something of a challenge. The up-side of this is that it is forcing me to update some of the older code on the site, not that you should notice anything. If anyone does come across any unexpected scripting errors, please bring them to my attention via a quick email addressed to webmaster at boosterrific dot com. Thank you.

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