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DC's latest event book, DC K.O. #1, arrives at your Local Comic Shop today. According to preview pages at BleedingCool.com, Booster Gold is in it.

He is also on it. He can be seen fighting Jaime Reyes on the back of Scott Koblish's wraparound cover.

The bad news is this cover, officially "Cover L Scott Koblish DC Showcase Wraparound Foil Variant," just one of 45 that I am aware of, has a cover price of $24.99, the highest of all the non-incentive variant covers. (Technically, the incentive variants have no price on their covers, so I guess you could say they are all "priceless.")

And lest you think that you can circumvent that price point by gambling on getting the Cover N Scott Koblish Blind Bag Foil Variant in a $9.99 polybagged "Blind Bag," beware that the Blind Bag version is the Booster Gold-free front cover only. So $25 or bust if you're collecting Booster Gold covers.

Buy this issue and make Skeets happy (if only because it gets us one step closer to finding out where Skeets is).

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Booster booster J points out that Booster Gold has a one panel cameo in the most recent issue of the free DC Universe Taste of Justice vertical scrolling webcomic that combines Justice League superheroics and cooking demonstrations.

Specifically, Booster is in panel (page?) 7:

Booster doesn't stick around until the end to taste the Atom's dish resulting from a combination of onions, carrots, water, bullion cubes, mulberries, and "chicken of the woods." I can't say I blame him.

You read the issue yourself (it's free!) at dcuniverseinfinite.com.

Thanks for calling this to our attention, J.

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Although it's been a few weeks since the last installment in my ongoing series of posts covering my favorite pages from forty years of Booster Gold comics, you may recall that in my last post, Booster Gold and the Justice League were struggling against Eclipso's summer-long "Darkness Within" storyline in the pages of L.E.G.I.O.N. '92 Annual #3.

As it happens, the next issue in that storyline was released on August 18, 1992. However, it wasn't the only issue released that day to feature Booster Gold. So I'm going to take a break from Eclipso's darkness and instead flip through the much more lighthearted pages of Justice League America #67. Especially because everyone is showing so much skin.

If you judged this book only by its cover (or even by its story's title: "Transitions, Transmissions, and Transactions"), you'd expect a story borrowing heavily from the sci-fi horror movie Alien or, given the JLI's reputation as an action/comedy, its sequel Aliens. And, yes, it does indeed lean into some body horror (for laughs!), and it does eventually overtly evoke H.R. Giger's famous biomechanical Xenomorph designs.

The comparison's don't end there. Like much of Giger's work, it also leans into the erotic. The opening page is full-on cheesecake as Fire, a former swimsuit model, poses for a lingerie calendar. As much as I like it, that's not my favorite page.

That comes when Fire finds out who she's posing for:

Hmm. We thought that Darkseid was behind Booster's recent troubles, but maybe its been Fire this whole time.

As I said, there's a lot of skin in this issue. Ice chastises Fire's life decisions without any apparent recognition that her own costume leaves very little to the realm of modesty. Booster Gold takes his top off. Beetle takes his top off. Then Wally West takes their pants off. And, of course, Power Girl has a boob window.

Yeah, it's wild. Certainly not what you would expect in an issue where both the main plot and the primary subplot are concerned with contracts and rights, specifically whether one being can own another or another's whole planet. Or even the visual representation of another person without their consent. Hypocrisy or irony? You be the judge.

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Today you can find Justice League: The Omega Act Special #1 at your Local Comic Shop. Booster Gold is on the cover. A preview, confirming Booster Gold will also be included on interior pages, was included in last week's Justice League Unlimited #11. It's written by Joshua Williamson.

And that's all I have to say about that.

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