Russ Burlingame's latest "Gold Exchange" interview with J.M. DeMatteis over Booster Gold #35 is up at Newsarama.com. If there is anything that writers don't like to talk about, it's the future. Jurgens has always been that way, and it is clear in this column that DeMatteis is the same. It's their right to tease us into buying their work, but it sure makes for some frustrating interviews.

I thought it odd that Burlingame would even question DeMatteis on his rationale for choosing Mister Miracle and Big Barda as guests in Booster Gold. After all, DeMatteis was the original scribe for the second volume of Mister Miracle as a spin-off of Justice League. Besides, Miracle and Barda still have a lot of fans and, in their current deceased state, very few comic book appearances these days. But I do appreciate Burlingame for being thorough, and I'm always glad to read his latest column.

By the way, Burlingame is soliciting YOUR opinion regarding Giffen & DeMatteis' controversial change of tone for Booster Gold. If you have something to say about either the tragedy of G/D sullying Geoff Johns' Booster Gold renaissance or the slapstick pie that G&D have thrown in the face of an otherwise stoic DC Universe, head over to this link here to find Burlingame's email address and send him a piece of your mind. (Not literally, please. That's gross.)

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For those of you who may want more information on Keith Giffen's plans after leaving Justice League: Generation Lost, Newsarama's got it here. I'm kind of surprised that he'd rather leave the JLI than Booster Gold, but he makes it very clear that he's having a lot of fun working with DeMatteis again. To those of you who are having a problem with the amount of silliness month to month in Booster Gold, beware that it won't be ending anytime soon. To those of you who are enjoying it, congratulations.

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It seems I spend half of my time on this blog trying to keep up with who's talking to Dan Jurgens now. But now Jurgens already has that covered for me on the news page of his new website: DanJurgens.com.

On a personal note, I can't tell which is more flattering: the fact that I was able to score an interview with Jurgens for this site or the fact that he has mentioned Boosterrific on his (even if it is a reference to the aforementioned interview). That's not so bad for a site dedicated to the greatest hero no one has ever heard of, huh?

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Eyz of G33K Life is running a very periodic comic strip based on everybody's favorite Booster Gold and the rest of the Justice League International. You can find Eyz's SUPPERBUDDIES! strips and links to his other very entertaining comic-centric cartoons here.

But wait, that's not all! This past weekend, G33K Life has been busy with the Booster Gold love, posting a review of the entire original run of Booster Gold in the site's Comic Book Quickies series. Of course, anyone visiting Boosterrific probably already knows everything that there is to know about Booster (right?), but there's certainly something to be said for quick reviews of books in this modern, minute rice world.

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DC just released its solicitations for November. While I don't normally read them (two things I hate: hype and spoilers), I did look through the list over at ComicList this time because I was looking for details on the upcoming Booster Gold collected trade. What I noticed was that 24 of the 96 separate comic books scheduled to ship in November has at least 1 variant incentive cover. That's exactly a quarter of all DC comics shipping during the month of November. That is a lot. In fact, it's probably too much.

What is this, the 1990s all over again? Did we learn nothing? Variant covers don't lure new fans to the already too-insulated specialty shops. And they aren't worth significantly extra cash in the long run. All they do is burden collectors and the shop owners who need to appease them to maintain their clientele. At this rate, there will soon come a Wednesday when the comic racks will look full but really only be a single issue of Batman between the two dozen variant covers.

Personally, I think that DC would be better served redirecting the money that they are paying artists for all of these extra covers into advertising these issues to the world-at-large. At least that way they could try increasing the market size instead of just creating shiny new lures for the already over-fished fans remaining in this shrinking pond.

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