The latest "DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales" column by Marc-Oliver Frisch at comicsbeat.com is not nearly as pessimistic about recent Booster Gold sales as I was last week.

Comics Beat notes the accelerating month-to-month decrease in sales of 1.5% for July, 2.5% for August, and 3.1% for August, but attributes it to "standard attrition." Their numbers also provide a good comparison against other sinking titles like Power Girl and Red Robin, other middling books showing similar sales trends. So maybe Booster shouldn't be taking the slumping sales personally.

It's also worth remembering that no matter what we fear, Booster Gold is still selling many, many more issues than Batman Confidential, Jonah Hex, and R.E.B.E.L.S., none of which DC seems prepared to axe just yet.

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Regular Boosterrific.com commenter Peter Duling (aka tiggerpete) has notified me that the latest Fanboy Buzz podcast at ProjectFanboy.com (episode 29) makes the case for a Booster Gold comic book-based television show. Of course that will never happen because it's too good an idea for television -- too good and too complicated -- but we can dream. In "Pete's Pick of the Week," Duling also explains his reasons why Booster Gold #38 was a pretty good comic book. Check it out here.

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Finally, there's a Booster Gold figure in scale with the G.I. Joe toys of the 1980s. Check out this cool 3-3/4" Booster Gold figure at Cool Toy Review.com (photo by Dan Curto):

This figure is part of the DC Universe Infinite Heroes line, and was included in the Omac Attack 6-pack box exclusive to Wal-Mart. Mattel has already released a Ted Kord Blue Beetle as a stand-alone figure, but if you want Booster, you'll have to buy a box set including Maxwell Lord to get him. Oh, will the evil machinations of Max Lord never end?

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Two weeks ago, I found the cutest stuffed doll of Booster and Skeets at Etsy.com. This week, thanks in part to a post at the Firestorm Fan blog, I've found another Booster Gold-related Etsy product:

That's a one-of-a-kind, handmade wallet from the pages of Booster Gold, Vol. 1, #22, featuring the death of Booster's original sidekick, Goldstar. If you'd like to carry around your favorite hero in your pocket at the moment of his most devastating failure, this item is for you! (As a side note, this issue contains some of my favorite art from the first volume, so I have to say that I think it was a great choice for an issue to transform into an everyday object.)

This item is for sale at Etsy.com from micahmyer's comic book creations. micahmyers appears to be trying to corner the market on comic book-related wallets, with a wallets made from a selection of books, including characters such as Batman, Fire and Ice,and Guy Gardner. Hopefully some of those wallets include happier panels than the violent deaths of their sisters.

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Booster Gold would be thrilled to know that he got a mention in yesterday's edition of the Houston Chronicle, the largest newspaper in Texas, and one of the 10 largest in the United States by circulation.

BEYOND THE BIG THREE
Everybody knows Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. Here's a handful of more obscure (and definitely odd) DC heroes:
• Booster Gold: A 25th-century opportunist who travels back in time to play the hero and cash in on the glory.

Booster is included in an aside detailing several "obscure" DC heroes, including Metamorpho, Plastic Man, Swamp Thing, and Zatanna. That seems an odd selection given the fact that Swamp Thing has starred in movies and television shows, and Plastic Man has been around since 1941. But I'm sure that I'm not the one who gets to judge what the public considers obscure about DC Comics.

The article, "DC Comics celebrates a superhero milestone" [sic] credited to René A. Guzman of the San Antonio Express-News, is mostly dedicated to DC's 75th anniversary celebration DVD, Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics released earlier this month. Still, it's great to see Booster exposed to a much, much larger audience than the 17,000 people who are currently buying his book nationwide. The entire article can be found on the Chronicle's website, chron.com.

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