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Monday, May 12, 2025

Cheesed Off

Spotted on Reddit: this custom Booster Gold action figure with flat top!

Custom Booster Gold figure by PsychologicalRub5079 via Reddit

I love the hair style. It's got a comic book precedent, too; Booster did indeed have a flat top-adjacent crew cut in the original Booster Gold #13 (perhaps not so coincidentally while the original Top Gun was in theaters).

You can see a few more pictures at r/customactionfigures

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Friday, May 9, 2025

Buried in the Substacks

I'm on record as no fan of social media, but without reddit, I never would have discovered that Superman scribe Joshua Williamson has a substack.com account, "Joshua Williamson's Super Scary Newsletter," where on "Superman Day" April 18 he posted the following:

I've been asked "is this Legion is from the future of the DCU or from the Absolute Universe?" And that will be answered in this storyline. You'll see. As Booster said in the Summer of Superman Special "The future is lost." Could Booster be talking about TWO futures? Or more? Or just one? That will be revealed soon. There is a pretty big clue as to what is going on hidden within the All In Special, if you think about it.

Dan Mora is drawing these issues and it is looks kick-ass. So beautiful. He’s been killing it on the book since #19 and now with this arc he's doing bonkers work. Dan's cover for #29 is going to break some hearts.

You're going to hear a lot about Superman #28 in the coming months. That issue picks up the All In mystery with Booster Gold's disappearance, Darkseid's Legion and its connections to the Absolute Universe. It's going to be a story that tests Superman's optimism for the future in new ways. Taking him on a hard journey with some unexpected allies.

The arc starting in #28 is a prelude to a massive story starting for Superman in the fall. You don't want to miss it as it's going to be a key piece of the DC's plans for the year. And if you think this story is wild...wait until you see what happens in #31!

I've thought about All In Special waaay too much, and I wish I had a clue about what he thinks I should think is a clue. That the logo has changed on the 30th-century Legion Flight Ring? That the Justice League forgets Booster exists? That Skeets has gone missing? That in one story Booster Gold is wearing his 1980s collar and in the other story he isn't? A little less ambiguity would be helpful, please; I can only think so much.

You'll note that this doesn't actually say that Booster Gold will be in Superman #28, but it almost does. So I think Booster boosters should be prepared to pick up Superman #28 when it comes out on July 23.

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Wednesday, May 7, 2025

New Old Release: DC Events Zero Hour

Are you too young to remember 1994? If so, DC has the book for you this week! DC Finest: Events: Zero Hour: Crisis in Time, Part Two collects the second half of that summer's giant crossover event that reset the timeline of the DC Universe. Most importantly for Booster boosters, that includes Zero Hour #2, #1, and #0. (Yes, the five-issue series counted backwards, a gimmick DC would reuse a decade later for Countdown / Countdown to Final Crisis.)

Also, Booster Gold was in an ad for All In Saga in the print edition (but not the digital release) of this past weekend's DC All In 2025 FCBD Special Edition. I did not pick up a copy for myself (oops), so I'm hoping it will show up again in this week's books. (Otherwise, if any Booster booster can get me a scan of that page, please get in touch.)

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Tuesday, May 6, 2025

My Mistake: Call Her by Her Name

I have an apology to make: Boosterrific.com has had some data about Booster Gold wrong for years. Specifically, I have failed to identify Booster's mother's first name as "Ellen."

Mrs. Carter has never been named in any story, so I had always acted as though she had never been given a name. But somehow I totally overlooked the "Known Relatives" section of the loose-leaf format Who's Who in the DC Universe #2, which clearly says "Ellen."

© DC Comics

I cannot explain why I've overlooked that all these years. I've certainly had this volume since, well, probably since it came out in 1990. (I didn't buy all every loose-leaf Who's Who at the time; some I picked up some later. Maybe this was one of the latter.) Its text is attributed to the character's creator Dan Jurgens, who I would certainly trust to give her a name.

I can only guess that once upon a time I decided that Who's Who entries weren't canon. That seems an antiquated notion in this modern era of "everything is in continuity somewhere." In any event, it's well past time I recognized it throughout Boosterrific.com.

Big thanks to Pigeon for drawing my attention to this mistake so that I could correct it.

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Monday, May 5, 2025

Sign of the Apokolips

It's been a few weeks now, but do you recall the last page of Summer of Superman Special?

Here, let me refresh your memory:

© DC Comics

Pay careful attention to that big glowing symbol on the wall over the head of our chained hero. That is omega, the final letter of the Greek alphabet. As the last letter in its alphabet, omega is often used symbolically to represent the last element in a set, as in "the ultimate," or "the end." Naturally, this has led omega to become associated with death, the end of life itself.

Omega's symbolic relationship with death is why it was adopted by the New God now widely known as Darkseid. Darkseid came to power by stealing the Omega Force and using the Omega Effect power it grants (via his Omega Beams) to take total control of Apokolips and aid his relentless quest to discover the Anti-Life Equation.

In the DCU, wherever an omega appears, Darkseid and death aren't too far behind, as teased in this panel from this weekend's Free Comic Book Day DC All In 2025 FCBD Special Edition #1:

© DC Comics

Between the contemporary Absolute Universe and the Dark Legion of the future, it sure seems that Darkseid and Omega Energy are corrupting the entire Multiverse. And the symbols of their evil influence are everywhere!

Even, it seems, on the Sunday broadcast of the CBS Nightly News:

CBS Evening News, May 4, 2025
CBS Weekend News, Season 2025, Episode 118, CBS, May 4, 2025

Darkseid over present-day America? That would explain a few things.

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