Pal Shag! of FirestormFan.com called our attention to this Booster Gold cosplayer on Twitter earlier this week.

This is a cosplayer we've seen before. He's attended conventions dressed as Booster Gold for the past three years! He wore this costume to last year's HeroesCon and he wore the collared variant to DragonCon 2013. I love the persistence.

For the record, this pic was posted by @TrekkerTalk. Big thanks to both Trekker Talk and Shag! And unknown cosplayer, whoever you are, keep up the good work!

UPDATE 2015-06-23: The cosplayer has been identified Jay Tallsquall. Thanks to Pyynk for the identification.

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Booster Gold has never endorsed a tea. Kiri B-G is out to correct that oversight:

Naturally caffeine free tea that packs a blast of refreshing fruit flavors. Drink it hot or cold, this tea is good anytime.

You can find this and several other Justice League International-inspired tea blends by Kiri B-G at adagio.com. (Thanks to Morgenstern for spotting this.)

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Look what Morgenstern spotted in DC's September solicitations:

BAT-MITE #4
Written by DAN JURGENS
Art and cover by CORIN HOWELL
On sale SEPTEMBER 2 • $2.99 US

There's a new bad guy in town: Gridlock, the villain who's stuck in the past! And now, he's out to stop the future from coming! Booster Gold, the hero from the future, obviously can't allow that, but when he seeks Bat-Mite's help in finding this purloiner of progress, it doesn't take much of a prognosticator to predict that he's going to regret it.

Booster's first headlining role in the post-Convergence DCU comes courtesy of who else but Booster's proud papa, Dan Jurgens. And look: New Skeets!

You can see all the announced books (including the many, many Convergence collections, some of which contain reprints of Convergence Booster Gold) online at Newsarama.com.

UPDATE 2015-06-19: This is the second time in recent weeks I have accidentally let a post go early. I promise to try and be more careful from here on. So if you saw this post yesterday, please forgive this repost.

JLA Classified #6

To make amends, I offer this bonus link to a Dan Jurgens and Corin Howell interview at Comicosity.com about Bat-Mite. The interview is light on Booster Gold references, but not everything can be solid gold, right?

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There are no small roles. Just small heroes.

Last week's poll question: Would you want Booster Gold to have a small role in a DC movie even if it meant he couldn't have his own show? (56 votes)

If you were one of the majority who thinks that Booster should hold out for starring roles, you can't be happy to see that our hero will be relegated to guest and cameo comic book appearances in the foreseeable future.

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While Booster Gold has certainly gone through a dry spell in recent years, it's not the first time in his career he's been kept out of the limelight. The late 90s were also a dark time. So dark, in fact, that the Justice League made him into a museum exhibit.

On this day in 1998, Zauriel treated readers of JLA Secret Files #2 to a guided tour of the Justice League's trophy room. Among the relics of defeated villains and fallen heroes rests Booster Gold's original, 25th-century costume. Its strength-enhancing microweave and force-field generator were destroyed by Doomsday six years earlier, forcing Booster into a series of increasingly ugly and unwieldy twentieth-century battle suits.

That's what happens when a member is no longer fit for service in the League. They box up all the old gear and put it in their private museum. It's kind of a morbid way to look at heroics, but no one fights crime forever.

Speaking of which, has anyone seen Zauriel lately?

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