Breaking news! Booster Gold screenwriter/showrunner David Jenkins posted Friday to his account on Threads.com:

"My Booster Gold won't be moving forward.
Can't improve on Mahershala's lovely statement so I'll just apply it here as well."

Jenkins linked to a Mahershala Ali interview with GQ.com in which Ali appears to have specifically called out Marvel Studios for canceling his Blade movie reboot:

"For whatever reason, that project is not for me. If they wanted to do it, we would've done it. So I have to move on … Again, you had me under contract, they have billions of dollars, if they wanted to do the movie, we would’ve done the movie. So we’re not doing the movie … But I feel ready to move on from the Blade questions. Those questions are for them. They didn’t want to do it, so they should answer that question."

We can all read between the lines here: It was the studio's decision to reverse course on the project. I'm in no position to know, but I wouldn't be surprised if either or both of the dismal performance of Supergirl and the contentious (and debt-laden) Warner Bros/Paramount merger were the roadblocks here. Jenkins being a vocal opponent of the merger probably didn't endear him to studio executives, either. Movie-making is a for-profit business, and sometimes the timing is just wrong.

Of course, it's also important to realize that Jenkins is only lamenting the end of "his" Booster Gold. Until Warner Bros firmly closes it, the door remains open that James Gunn and company could yet take our hero in a different direction.

Someone or other has been trying to get Booster Gold into your television set or movie theater since 1991, and this is the closest we've gotten yet. I'd say even considering this setback, we're still making progress.

Thanks to the many of you who made sure we saw the sad news. (Judging by how many emails I got, I may have been the last to know.) Try to enjoy your weekend.

UPDATE:

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The premise of this series of "My Favorite Pages" posts is that I pick the page I like most from each comic book that features a significant appearance by Booster Gold in the chronological order they were published. I started in 2022 with Booster Gold #1, and now, a long four years later, I have reached Justice League America #87.

The very best thing I can say about Justice League America #87 is that it is a comic, and Booster Gold is in it.

And if I have to pick a "favorite" page... oh, how about page 2? It's all downhill from there.

I always say that the "Extreme Justice" era (1994-1996) is one of my favorite Booster Gold runs because of writer Dan Vados. But I always forget about Marc Campos' art. I think my brain tries to protect me with selective amnesia.

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Today is the fifth Wednesday in the month of July, so as is usual for DC Comics, the books being released today are mostly one-shots and annuals. Among them is Superman Annual Year One Thousand #1, which promises to finally spill the beans about what Superman has been up to since wining the King Omega Tournament.

We already learned in last week's Action Comics #1100 that Booster Gold will save Superman at the end of time, so the question this week is whether any of that will be seen in Superman Annual Year One Thousand. Find out by visiting your Local Comic Shop.

UPDATE: Coin comments confirmation that Booster's in there. (Thanks, Coin!) So buy this issue and make Skeets happy.

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