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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Booster Gold News from C2E2 2013

According to IGN.com, DC reps promised fans at this weekend's Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (aka C2E2) that they will soon see more Booster Gold in the DCnU. That's in addition to his current run in All-Star Western, and that sounds like good news indeed!

Also from C2E2 (but as Herbert Fung points out in the comments below, not the Chicago one — this was the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo which is held on the same weekend) comes this Booster Gold sketch commission from Adam Hughes:

Booster Gold by Adam Hughes commissioned by Herbert Fung

This sketch was taken home by Booster booster Herbert Fung. Thanks for sharing with us, Herbert!

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Monday, April 29, 2013

Gold Exchange Doubletalk with Justin Gray

Justin Gray must feel pretty loved right now. He was interviewed by both Russ Burlingame at ComicBook.com and Newsarama.com last week about All-Star Western #19.

Vanetta Rogers interviewed both Gray and his co-writer, Jimmy Palmiotti, for Newsarama.com. The focus of the interview is very much on Palmiotti and Gray's plans for the future of the series (which has been losing more than 500 readers each month for some time now, currently down to under 17,000 per month and fast approaching cancellation). But there was still some room for some Booster news.

Newsarama: How did All-Star Western end up being the spot where Booster Gold would return to DC Comics?

Justin Gray: We needed to shake things up. Booster is the only time traveler operating currently in the New 52, and his story is that of a man hurtling through time for reasons unknown. He's not fully aware of the reasons behind this and so it felt like a great opportunity to pair him with Jonah Hex in a way that would get people talking about All-Star Western.

Palmiotti: We constantly like to keep All-Star Western on the cutting edge story-wise and loaded with ideas that we think really challenge the characters. Getting to be the book that reintroduces Booster again was even cooler for us. Once again we get a chance to turn more people onto the book, and that is a win-win situation for us on all counts. The crew at DC and our editors have been working long and hard on making this happen for us and we think we have a story that lives up to any hype we might have out there.

Meanwhile, at the New Look ComicBook.com Russ Burlingame resurrected his "Gold Exchange" column to put some questions to Gray, who genuinely appears to be a big Booster Gold fan.

ComicBook.com: There are few characters more entwined with the DC Universe than Booster, at least as he's been depicted in the recent past. His future is totally dependent on the "history" that unfolds in our titles every month. Hex is at the other end of the spectrum; his life would be only minimally impacted if Superman never had his coming-out party. Do you think that makes an exploration through time with these two particular characters even more interesting than the average mismatched duo?

Gray: Hex takes everything as it comes with an angry scowl and hand on his gun approach. I think any time you put characters together that are dissimilar, with very pronounced view points, methods and ideologies that you're going to have a good time.

A lot of times you have such similarities in characters that they become swappable costumes. I believe Booster being around Hex actually makes him more heroic in ways that would be overlooked and sometimes overshadowed by standing in a crowd with other heroes. He is essentially the only pure hero in the book at this time.

In both interviews, Gray sidesteps questions of how Booster got to the past and where he will be going next. It looks like readers will have to pick up All-Star Western #20 next month for more answers!

Comments (0) | Add a Comment | Tags: comicbook.com gold exchange jimmy palmiotti justin gray newsarama.com russ burlingame vaneta rogers

Friday, April 26, 2013

More WonderCon 2013 Cosplay

Comic convention season is fast approaching, so get ready to grab your cameras and snap some shots of Booster Gold cosplayers!

© William Tung

This Earth-11 Blue and Gold was spotted at WonderCon 2013 last month by William Tung, who is always on the lookout for good Booster Gold cosplayers. Tung's multitude of other cosplay pics, previously spotlighted on this site here, can be found under the handle W10002 on flickr.com.

Comments (0) | Add a Comment | Tags: 2013 blue beetle conventions cosplay earth-11 flickr.com william tung wondercon

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Repeating the Past

If Speedy can get his own mini-series, why not Skeets?

Last week's poll question: How should Skeets be incorporated into the DCnU? (43 votes)

How should Skeets be incorporated into the DCnU?

Visiting Jonah Hex in the Old West is so much fun, let's keep the action going! DC has a good inventory of historical characters, so let's put them to good use!

Comments (6) | Add a Comment | Tags: history polls skeets

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

New Release: All-Star Western #19

Today Booster Gold makes his first appearance in the DCU since August 2012 in the pages of All-Star Western #19. Earlier this week, Brian Truitt of USA Today interviewed issue co-writers Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray.

"We're going to see Booster thinking on his feet," [Palmiotti] says. "He's pressed into a situation right away in the book that is a lot bigger than he can handle, and Jonah has a firm grasp of what's going on and Booster is coming into it and trying to figure out not only why he's there and what he's doing there but also solve what's been dumped on him."

This is neither Booster's first trip to the Old West nor his first meeting with Jonah Hex. Dialogue in the issue preview subtly implies that Booster's previous drunken meeting with Hex in Booster Gold, volume 2, #3 is still in continuity! Hooray!

You can read a preview of the issue yourself at ComicBook.com, where Russell Burlingame will soon be running a variation of his "Gold Exchange" column with co-writer Justin Gray.

Comments (0) | Add a Comment | Tags: brian truitt comicbook.com jimmy palmiotti jonah hex new releases previews reboot russ burlingame usatoday.com


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