All the cover images on this website up to now have been static jpgs. However, next month we'll be getting our first ever Booster Gold lenticular image and DC has been kind enough to assemble animated gifs showing us what to expect.

I have a well-deserved reputation as a sourpuss, but I have to admit that I'm excited about this. I was never a huge fan of the cover gimmicks of the 90s, but then, Booster Gold never got one of those.

I think it's so cool to have a moving Booster Gold cover, I've had to rewrite the code base here at Boosterrific.com just so when the time comes, I'll be able to display it.

September 24 can't get here soon enough.

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Back in April, BleedingCool.com told the world that Booster Gold comic would be part of the Futures End tie-ins in September. Now Rich Johnston teases us with another forthcoming Booster Gold appearance:

Well, Bleeding Cool understands that [Justice League 3000] issue # 12 will feature two folks from an earlier incarnation of the Justice League. A much earlier incarnation. My favourite incarnation, from before the New 52 relaunch.

Blue Beetle and Booster Gold, from the bwah-ha-ha-ha era of the Justice League, uncovered after being trapped in a cryonic chamber for a thousand years...

Personally, I find it really hard to believe that DC would let Giffen use pre-New 52 characters in Justice League 3000, especially the Blue Beetle. But I think I'd like it if they did.

You can find the original post BleedingCool.com.

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Leave it to Russ Burlingame of ComicBook.com to turn everything back to Booster Gold. That's why we like him so much.

Last week, Burlingame interviewed Marco Lopez and Bryan Ginn, creators of the independent comic Massively Effectively. Even though Burlingame was trying to help promote their book, he couldn't help turning the conversation back to the Greatest Superhero Everâ„¢:

ComicBook.com: Now, there's a Mass Effect poster in this series. What's the deal with the relationship you have with that video game in-story?

Ginn: The thing with that poster is that the comic was originally called Mass and Effect, because their names are Mass and Effect. I think on the poster... I don't know if it has the "and" part. And then I started remembering the whole thing that Jason Rubin went through who did the comic book for Aspen that was called Iron and the Maiden, and then Iron Maiden was suing them, saying they were too close to their trademark. It went back and forth and eventually he ended up changing the name to Iron Saint. So the comic shop was called Massively Effective Comics, so I was like, "Let's just change the title to Massively Effective." We didn't call it Massively Effective, and it wasn't originally called Mass and Effect, to get Mass Effect fans to read the comic book so we're hoping with Massively Effective that nobody has any problems with. Our backup title is just called Massively Effective Comics, just like the comic shop [laughs].

Lopez: Yeah, our original title was going to be "If Villainy You Detect, Just Call Mass and Effect," and then the whole Mass Effect video game became big and I was like, "Let's change the title. Just number one so there's no confusion and number two so we don't get sued." But the poster in the comic shop is because the two characters back in they day at some point licensed their rights away and made a bunch of movie selling comics and merchandise. That's how they actually—they used that money to open up their own comic book shop, so we threw that in there as a couple of different references.

ComicBook.com: I can appreciate that. I'm a big Booster Gold guy, and he's done that before.

Ginn: Yeah, we're huge Booster Gold and Blue Beetle fans.

Well, if Ginn and Lopez are big Booster Gold fans, I can be a big Massively Effective fan. Good luck, guys!

For the whole interview, check out ComicBook.com. To get your hands on the Massively Effective comic itself, visit DriveThruStuff.com.

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Earlier this week, I warned visitors to the Forum that the server host for Boosterrific.com was planning on upgrading some defenses that would hopefully stop a plague of invalid server requests that were growing to the level of a denial-of-service attack.

As a side effect of this server maintenance, it is highly likely that Boosterrific.com will experience some significant downtime today. It seems like I say this a lot, but I apologize in advance for the disruption in service.

Hopefully we'll be back tomorrow, stronger than ever.

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Two weeks later, and I'm still discovering neat tidbits from New York Comic Con 2012. Today, we'll watch as Franco Aureliani of AW Yeah Comics creates Booster Gold from scratch for some lucky fan (who happens to be Russ Burlingame, Senior Staff Writer at ComicBook.com).

Thanks to Russ Burlingame for posting this on the web for us to see, and thanks to Franco for taking Russ' commission.

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