Keith Callbeck posted on Mar. 21, 2014 at 4:24 PM
Booster's Canadian status isn't a right or wrong. Editorial wanted him Canadian probably so JLI wasn't so American-heavy, Jurgens never put it on paper and JLI ended.

Didio said on twitter in Aug 2013 "given Booster is from the far future, its unclear whether there are country borders them."(sic)

Jurgens told me something similar when JLI was running but since it was never put in an issue he has recanted.

Presently all we can say about Booster is that he's awesome.

- signed, Canada's biggest Booster Gold fan

 Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Mar. 21, 2014 at 6:52 PM
Yes, Booster is awesome, but you'd never know it except for reading his adventures as published by his owner, DC Comics. If they made a character and called him Awesome-Man, you wouldn't have just taken their word for it, would you?

It is a fact that nowhere in published canon is Booster's nationality described as anything other than American.

No matter what DC planned or plans, nothing changes the established fact. Nothing will change that until DC publishes an "in-continunity" story that declares Booster to be anything other than American.

Dan DiDio says a lot of things. He often says things that are intentionally misleading if he thinks it will sell more comic books. It's his job. Even when he speaks the truth about his intentions, things often change between his first statement and eventual publication.

This is not a question of opinion or interpretation or intentions. In canon, Superman is not Jewish although his creator Jerry Siegel thought so. Batman is not gay although Grant Morrison said so a few years back. In both cases, those creators had opinions about their characters that were not printed, and should not be considered canon, especially in that they run contrary to their established adventures as published.

I am not advocating that Booster must remain American. I am not calling anyone a liar. I am not criticizing anything about Canada or the artists or editors who work for DC Comics. I am not telling anyone what to believe.

You are as welcome to think of Booster as Canadian as you are to think that Booster and Beetle were lovers. Just be clear that the facts do not support such an interpretation in the DC Universe.

Therefore, Lemire is wrong in stating that Booster is Canadian. If he has a problem being wrong about that, he is in position to correct it, either by changing his statements or changing Booster's nationality in the stories he writes.

Ed Wood posted on Aug. 26, 2013 at 11:01 PM
Just wanted to let you guys know, that a version of booster gold shows up in the Tumblr web-comic called JL8. I thought it was cute and you should know.

 Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Aug. 26, 2013 at 11:42 PM
Thank you, Ed. We did know. You'll find our coverage of that strip here: "JL8 is Great."

Dr Drepon posted on Aug. 27, 2013 at 10:19 PM
Oh, I hope Booster can be Canadian anyway. Like, maybe if Canada is larger in the future and contains Metropolis and Gotham and such

 Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Aug. 27, 2013 at 11:54 PM
There's no evidence that Micheal Jon Carter couldn't be a natural born citizen of Canada. (We've never seen his birth: he could have been born north of the border.) But his 20th century alter ego "Booster Gold" (his "public identity") was created in America by the President of the United States of America. Booster Gold very clearly has US Citizenship.

Herb posted on Aug. 29, 2013 at 4:22 PM
And there's nothing to say that he couldn't immigrate to Canada at some point

 Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Aug. 29, 2013 at 10:33 PM
Exactly, Herb. And maybe he did. But there is no proof that it did happen. So until DC publishes a story explicitly making the change clear, I'm assuming nothing has changed.