Monday, December 17, 2012
This Day in History: Merry Christmas
While DC may not have room for a Christmas book in the New 52 (the heroes are probably all too busy infighting to exchange gifts), we'll always have ghosts of Christmases past.
Way back in the Good Old 52 days of 2008, Booster Gold helped the Justice League celebrate the holiday in DC Universe Holiday Special #1. Whenever the Justice League throws a party, you'll find Booster Gold!
Indicative of Booster's rekindled popularity at the time, our hero appears in not one but two stories in this anthology, albeit in very, very small roles. (He sings! He dances! He appears only in backgrounds!)
No, it's not a great issue. Fortunately, greatness isn't a requirement for Christmas Specials. A bunch of "lesser" heroes get some much deserved spotlight in this issue, and that should be good enough for the price of admission to this party.
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Friday, December 14, 2012
Better to Receive Than to Give
Here's something we don't see everyday: a commission of Booster Gold in his New 52 uniform!
This piece was commissioned from Superboy artist RB Silva by comics blogger Marlene of I Like Comics Too. You can find snapshots of this good looking piece of art at the Instagram sites of both the artist and the patron.
UPDATE 12/22/2012: Marlene pointed out on Twitter last week that the piece was not a commission but a premade.
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Thursday, December 13, 2012
What Is Love? (Baby Don't Reboot Me)
We might be loyal to our Carter clan, but we still have some lingering animosity about the reboot, don't we?
Last week's poll question: So far as you are concerned, are Booster Gold and Blue Beetle friends or lovers? (41 votes)
I suspect that you knew after Tuesday that this next question was coming. Note that I'm not asking whether Blue and Gold are actually a couple, just whether you think of them as a couple. (It's an audience poll, not a quiz!)
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Only 12 Shopping Days Left until Christmas
The modern tradition of hanging stockings by the fireplace for Christmas presents is attributed to a generous act by the legendary Christian Saint Nicholas in the fourth century. Is this story true? Who cares so long as it gives us an excuse for more Booster Gold this holiday season!
These Booster Gold-inspired Christmas stockings are sold for $19.95 at the Super Sox via StorEnvy.com where you can also find its mate, the very punny Kordless stocking. Bwoh-ho-ho, Merry Christmas!
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Boostle Isn't a Word We Use Around Here
Over at Yahoo! Answers, Rachel has asked a very important question:
"How close are Booster Gold and Blue Beetle really?"
Micheal Jon Carter ("Booster Gold") and Ted Kord ("Blue Beetle") have over the past 25 years been teammates, rivals, and business partners, but most significantly friends. Both share the tragic loss of significant business fortunes. Booster supported Beetle through his battle with obesity and nursed him through a coma. Beetle stood up for Booster time and again against criticism of Booster's motives and maturity. Each is everything that the other could ask for in a friend.
Yes, of course they're friends. But what Rachel is really asking is whether Booster Gold and Blue Beetle are lovers.
Comic book readers recognize the pair from years of Justice League International adventures. Internet readers, however, are probably more familiar with the duo as the two-halves of the portmanteau "Boostle," or a very particular sub-genre of romantic fan fiction (itself called "slash fiction") portraying the friends as homosexual lovers.
Here at Boosterrific.com, I try to avoid the Boostle phenomenon. While I have nothing against fan fiction, and I whole-heartedly support anything that would bring Booster Gold to a larger audience, Boosterrific.com is a chronicle of the adventures of a character owned and published by DC Comics. And in DC Comics' comics, Booster Gold and Blue Beetle are most certainly not romantically entwined.
I've wondered from time to time if I'm doing Booster Gold fandom a disservice by ignoring the Boostle community. I justify my decision by saying that even a site striving to be as all-encompassing as Boosterrific.com has to draw the line somewhere. Certainly, the Boostle-ers don't need this site to have their fun.
Therefore, Rachel, to answer your question, until such time as DC Comics officially sanctions a romantic relationship between Blue and Gold by including it in their published canon, Booster Gold and Blue Beetle are really just friends so far as Boosterrific.com is concerned. Really, really good friends.
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