Geeks of Doom tells us that DC finally announced the poorly-kept secret that Flashpoint #5 would be the official launch point for the DCnU. Time gets changed, and the new DC Universe spins out of it. Spoiler alert: Booster Gold fails at his job of protecting DC's existing continuity.

Major Spoilers reports that Booster Gold will be the official leader of the Justice League International, and that Batman will be an unofficial, secret team member. This would appear to make Batman the greatest hero that the United Nations has never heard of.

Bleeding Cool adds that Flashpoint Global Guardians' character Lady Godiva will be among the members of the Justice League International. However, blond Lady Godiva does not look like the woman on the cover of Justice League International #1. How many heroes will be on this team?

iFanboy tells us that the question of whether Booster Gold will know that he failed to save the time stream will be addressed in Booster Gold #47. If new Flashpoint characters are on his JLI team, I suspect he'll have a clue.

And according to Comic Book Resources, 'Jurgens said he enjoyed "doing Doomsday in a different way, and ending Doomsday in a different way."' I guess that means that this time Superman doesn't die.

EDIT 07/26/2011: After posting this, I realized that Lady Godiva is probably the same Godiva that was once a member of the Global Guardians. Oops. Sorry to doubt you, Booster. Maybe you do get the job done.

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Apparently, once a decade isn't often enough for Booster Gold to brag about naming Doomsday.

Booster's ability for naming disasters must be widely known if a retired detective includes it in his flashbacks to the 1990s in DC Universe: Legacies #7 in 2010.

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Ten years after the death of Superman, Booster Gold retold his side of the story to reporters. Given Booster's endless self-promotion, his story is surprisingly accurate to historical events.

The flashback dialogue in 2003's Superman: Day of Doom #1 is very familiar, but the bit about Booster's failure to reap the rewards of copyrighting the name "Doomsday" is news to us.

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It has been said that those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. However, Booster Gold hasn't only learned history, he's lived it, and it looks like he'll be repeating it anyway. To celebrate this rematch in the making, Boosterrific is taking a look back at what came before.

Booster Gold first met and named Doomsday in Justice League America #69 in 1993. As we will soon see, it was a significant event that Booster wouldn't let anyone else in the DC Universe forget.

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I know that I may have seemed especially negative as of late (sorry, it's been a bad few weeks personally), but don't blame the messenger for what I am about to show you, blame the math. At this rate, Booster Gold Volume 2, #50 is looking like a double-sized final issue.

Disclaimer: I'm not T.O. Morrow. I can't say that I looked into the future and saw the actual sales figures for issues 42-47. (Sales data for issue 42 won't be available until next month, and of course there's no telling what can happen during Flashpoint.) I can only say that the slope of that white projected sales line is pretty well defined by recent sales trends.

It might be time to start buying two copies of each issue if you want to keep Booster Gold alive.

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