This time next week, barring an unexpected, unannounced appearance in some random comic on Wednesday, Booster Gold will have been missing from new comics for one full year. That's unprecedented in the history of the character.
What do you think accounts for this remarkable absence of a character who has, on average, appeared in at least one comic every other week for the past 30 years?
This week's poll question: Why do you think we haven't seen Booster Gold in a comic in the past year? Please visit the Boosterrific Polls page to view results for this week's poll.
Mina posted on Jul. 29, 2016 at 11:22 AM
I feel like they've done /too much/ to Booster when he was last seen. They've over complicated him, especially after the Convergence/Wave Rider mumbo-jumbo. It was wonderful seeing him become such an 'important' figure, but at the same time they've lost a lot of what made Booster Booster. He was always at his best when he came across as an ordinary guy trying to do the right thing (often badly, but that was the best part about him. We the readers knew it wasn't so). When he was like that, he was easier to slot into average scenarios. Now he's a demi god who exists outside of Space-Time. How do you write that into the every day? He's a deus ex machina of the worst kind. I still hold out hope that "New52" Booster will appear somewhere within the pages of Blue Beetle Rebirth, but I suspect that DC knows full well the reputation Blue and Gold have and are trying their darndest to prove that you /can/ absolutely have one without the other.
AJU posted on Jul. 29, 2016 at 1:09 PM
I don't feel New52 Booster as "my" Booster. It's like a whole new character.
And I think the last time I felt that Booster was "my" Booster was in the last issue of his Vol 2 series.
I would love that Dan could finish issues 48, 49 and 50 and give a close to that run (answering all the open threads).
Elyse posted on Jul. 29, 2016 at 5:53 PM
Like the others here, the last time I saw MY Booster-- the Booster who is my favorite character-- was in Vol. 2. I miss the guy who's just soaring through time, fixing up all the rips and goofs and putting those who wish to change things in their place. That series has haw haws as well as heart! Ever since then, they just keep adding and taking away and ugh it's all so messed up. I desperately want to see my beloved Booster again, but not as they last left him.
In reality, I think Dan is just busy and that DC doesn't see him as profitable. It's clear that they, on a personal level, loooove Booster. They try to make him a major player in every "crisis" and summer event. Clearly they see his worth. But I think they're worried about the bottom line.
Bobdogrjr posted on Jul. 29, 2016 at 8:53 PM
I agree with AJU. That would be nice. Have always wondered how 48,49,50 went.
I think that they are saving Booster for the big fight with the cloaked figure in Action comics. Maybe in Action comics 1000, we can always hope.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jul. 29, 2016 at 9:46 PM
ACTION 1000 is still 2 years away! I hope it doesn't take that long to either bring Booster back or resolve that storyline. (Although after 4 issues of the new ACTION, the story doesn't seem to be going anywhere fast.)
ariel_justel posted on Jul. 31, 2016 at 9:18 AM
I just don't know what to believe of DC anymore. With Rebirth, Geoff Johns promised a more light and brighter DCU but I'm seeing a lot of the new Post-Rebirth series as dark and very gore.
I really think DC is too lost and does not find the way to a clear continuity.
I think it's all a mess. And now that Michael is Waverider... well, I can't see Booster fitting in this universe... sadly.
Bobdogrjr posted on Aug. 1, 2016 at 3:19 PM
I suggest that because Waverider stopped Doomsday the first time, Booster has always had a thing against Doomsday.
