What is most impressive to me about this two-page spread from Justice League Europe #50 is that at the time, Booster Gold's only power was flight. The rest of his technology had been destroyed by Doomsday (including, apparently, his blue boots). Yet here he is charging into battle with just his fists to save Europe from the super-powered army of Russia's newest dictator, Sonar. What a hero!

Yeah, maybe it does look like Booster should be shooting Booster Shots there, doesn't it? Before you suggest that maybe the artist forgot that Booster was powerless and editors had to erase Booster's powers (and opponent) from that panel, know that later, on page 34, Booster gets in a fistfight with Doctor Mid-Night (whose superpower is being blind). A hero, I say!

I also enjoy the dialogue here.

Yeah, deceit and money are useful, but as Sonar will be the first to admit, it helps when you have a mind-control machine.

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When I first started Boosterrific.com, DC hadn't rebooted its continuity in about two decades. At the time, volume number was a pretty useful way to tell what era a particular run of comics belonged to.

Obviously, times have changed. Publishers now restart numbering all the time—the current Superman title is volume 6!—for a variety of reasons (mostly to goose sales), and telling the volumes apart isn't as easy or as useful as it once was. So I'm thinking about changing the way this site handles volumes, eliminating the descriptor from the lists and simply going by year of publication instead, which is how I track my personal collection (which for some reason contains more than just comics with Booster Gold in them).

Don't worry too much: I'm certainly not planning to eliminate volume numbers from individual comics pages or URLs. Most visitors will never notice a difference.

Which raises the question of why I'm telling you this. Maybe it's to spur me into action. Maybe it's to warn you that what you see in the Boosterrific! comics lists might be changing as I tinker with formats. Maybe it's a request for suggestions for other usability improvements.

Maybe I'm just looking for something to talk about other than today's DC K.O. #5.

In any event, even though I don't say it often enough, thank you for visiting Boosterrific.com.

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Back at the start of February, I showcased three of Ross Pearsall's Super-Team Family cross-company team-up covers (via braveandboldlost.blogspot.com) featuring Booster Gold, Blue Beetle, and Skeets. And here we are, a month later, and Ross has created yet another, this time teaming all three with Batman-pastiche Nighthawk, who makes Booster Gold seem like an A-plus lister.

Booster versus Magneto, huh? I suppose Booster's force field versus Unus the Untouchable's force field wouldn't be much of a fight, so divide and conquer, classic Justice League style. Yeah, I'd read that.

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