Monday, March 31, 2014
Berets Are Cool
Today marks the 125th anniversary of the dedication of the Eiffel Tower. I mention this mainly because it gives me an excuse to show this panel from Booster Gold, Volume 2, #1,000,000 of Skeets wearing a beret.
If Skeets has to have a new costume to join the New 52, I vote that it should be a beret.
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Friday, March 28, 2014
In 1979, TMI Did Not Mean Too Much Information
Thirty-five years ago today, there was a malfunction in the brand new number 2 reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middleton, Pennsylvania. For several days afterwards, the world held its breath as it waited to see if the hydrogen gas within the reactor would explode and rain radioactive material on the eastern coast of America.
The official report by the Nuclear Regulatory Committee (NRC) eventually blamed the situation on operator error. However, eyewitness reports credited the quick actions of a mysterious, gold-clad hero with beating back the real cause of the meltdown: a radiation-absorbing creature from another dimension.
In the aftermath of the meltdown, the NRC made sweeping changes to prevent a recurrence of the problem. They appear to have worked. In the thirty-five years since, not once has a giant radiation-absorbing creature attacked an American nuclear power station. We'll keep our fingers crossed, just to be safe.
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Thursday, March 27, 2014
How Much Do You Miss Skeets?
I read the responses to this poll to say that most of you still care about what else goes on beyond the front door, even if there's not much cause to update it regularly. (Seriously, DC. We need Booster Gold more than three issues a year!)
Last week's poll question: How often do you visit a page at Boosterrific.com other than the blog? (54 votes)
I was re-reading "Argo," and I was reminded that we've barely seen Skeets since Flashpoint. Of course, when Geoff Johns last wrote for our hero, he reduced Skeets to a Independence Day-style plot device. Is that all DC has in mind for the best sidekick in comics history?
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
New Old Releases: Smallville Season 11: Argo
If you didn't buy them digitally, and you didn't buy them as individual floppies, DC has now collected the Smallville Season 11: Argo in a trade in both hard copy and digital formats. You really don't have any more excuses for not buying the only story to feature Skeets in the past 3 years! (Thank you, Bryan Q. Miller!)
Smallville Season 11 Volume 4: Argo was actually released last week, but I got distracted with the news that there was definitely NOT a Booster Gold series coming in June. Sorry.
If you can't find the book at your Local Comic Shop (shame on them), you can purchase a copy on either at Comixology.com or Amazon.com.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Long Time No Skeets
Today's fan art comes to us from J.A.Parker, @Achooniverse on Twitter:
I like that Legion Flight Ring, but I love me some Skeets.
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