Last week Russ Burlingame notified us via the Boosterrific forum that his his latest "Gold Exchange" column with J.M. DeMatteis at Comic Related would be posted today. Unfortunately, I don't have the link to the column yet. I'll keep you posted.

This is DeMatteis' last "Gold Exchange" interview for the foreseeable future, and we have been promised that DeMatteis will be "spilling what his 'perfect' ending for the run" was, and how DC denied an attempt by DeMatteis to insert Dan Jurgens into Booster Gold's continuity. Sounds like DeMatteis is going out with a bang!

[UPDATE 04/20/11: It's 5:25 EDT Wednesday, and it seems that Comic Related still hasn't posted the article. To paraphrase the immortal Billy Dee Williams, they told me they'd post it. I trusted them to post it. It's not my fault!]

[UPDATE 04/21/11: Posted at last: http://comicrelated.com/news/11631/the-gold-exchange !]

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Late yesterday afternoon Russel Burlingame's third Panel Discussions podcast was posted on ComicRelated.com. Burlingame and Dan Jurgens had so much to talk about, some of their conversation was left on the cutting room floor, including such questions and answers as:

Panel Discussions: Will we ever see the Black Beetle arc finished? Will we learn the identity of Rip's mom? Will you keep Rani?

Dan Jurgens: Yes to the first and third questions, while the second is more likely to stay a mystery!

And that's just the tip of the iceberg. In the podcast, Dan Jurgens discusses his plans for Booster Gold in coming months, as well as his plans for Black Beetle, Magog and his suggestions of how Booster Gold should have been handled in Justice League: Generation Lost. So follow the link above and get an earful of Dan Jurgens courtesy of Russ Burlingame.

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Russ Burlingame's posted his latest "Gold Exchange" column with J.M. DeMatteis at Comic Related late last week. If you haven't read it, you can find that article here. Spoiler warning: don't read it if you haven't yet read Booster Gold #42.

GX: Is there any reason to think that Rip intentionally misled Michael about Nishtikeit's bio-agent?

JMD: In my version of events, yes, Rip intentionally misled Booster, knowing what was coming.

Something about this issue still feels out of place, as though this story didn't really belong in this series at this time. The characters seem like warped versions of their recent selves: motivations, reactions, attitudes... no one is quite right. It's enlightening to read what DeMatteis hoped to accomplish in this story. Whether he achieved it or not is a different question altogether.

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Russ Burlingame assures me that his latest "Gold Exchange" column with J.M. DeMatteis should be up at Comic Related today. However, I don't yet have that link. And you can find that article here, where you can read tidbits like this:

CR: And how does that kind of thing affect the really ambitious way that you guys had looked at The Perforated Man?

JMD: We'll see what happens. A lot depends on what we do in our last issue. As I said, our plan was to make him a major player who could be the Doctor Doom to Booster's Fantastic Four.

[UPDATED 1:17PM]: Just a quick reminder from Russ Burlingame: This is basically J.M. DeMatteis' exit interview. Although he'll keep doing "Gold Exchange" interviews between now and May, but he talks about the run and his regrets about leaving early with me in the first-ever "Panel Discussions" podcast (found here).

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I know that I usually run "Gold Exchange" links on Tuesdays, but Russ Burlingame broke the news that Dan Jurgens will be returning to Booster Gold on issue #44 last night at Comic Related. I can't sit on news like that! As Burlingame himself posted in the Boosterrific.com Forum yesterday:

The Gold Exchange: So—as we've done once or twice before, last thing first: Back when it was announced you'd be leaving Booster Gold for a while to take on Time Masters: Vanishing Point, it became public knowledge after an issue of Booster Gold had "To Be Continued In..." tagged at the end. Now that story is finished and the last issue of Time Masters says "To be continued in Booster Gold #44." Will you be the one continuing your storyline in a new title here, as you did after The Tomorrow Memory?

Dan Jurgens: Yes. I'll be jumping back to Booster Gold as of issue #44, which I've just started drawing. It's good to be home!

It'll be good to have you back, Dan. You can read the whole article here.

UPDATE 02/05: FYI: Russ has posted a slightly longer version of the Comic Related "Gold Exchange" column at Newsarama that answers some questions specifically addressed here in the Boosterrific Forum. You can find that column here.

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