The Smallville episode "Booster" -- featuring guess who -- has been scheduled for 8:00 PM EDT on Friday, April 22 on the CW network. Be sure to mark your calendars for Booster Gold's first live-action television role.

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In addition to voicing the hilariously selfish exploration mission recordings in DC Universe Online, Booster Gold is a mini-boss in the "HIVE Base" Duos mission. Booster has been enslaved by the Queen Bee and is forced to battle heroes and endorse her mind-controlling hypno-pollen. It is up to a pair of level 30 players to defeat and free him from her control. Fortunately, Skeets is immune to the Queen Bee's charms, and gives the players the advice that they need to free Booster Gold.

So get to it, players. Booster Gold needs your help!

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In his latest "Pow! to the People" column endorsing digital comics at playbackstl.com, famed Booster Gold fan Eddie Argos has admitted that he is out of touch with Booster Gold.

For the first time in about 20 years I have no idea what is going on with Booster Gold. I'm about 5 months behind. It feels like there is an empty hole in my life.

Ouch. Can it be any coincidence that about 5 months ago Argos, best known as the lead singer of Art Brut, released a digital album featuring a song about Booster Gold? Hmmm? If there's a lesson here, it's that DC needs to start releasing digital copies of Booster Gold. That, or rock stars are going to be forced to go without comic books. And no one wants that.

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Booster Gold #41 is scheduled to hit stands today. The book is shipping one week later than expected, but Russ Burlingame told us in the forums that there was a reason. Maybe now we'll find out what that reason was. Buy it and make Skeets happy.

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As Kevin pointed out in yesterday's comments, Newsarama.com has posted an article, "Comic Book Crossover Couplings: Hook-Ups on Infinite Earths," romantically pairing Booster Gold and Squirrel Girl. I agree with them that this pairing makes more sense than it may at first appear.

Both of these characters are treated like walking jokes by almost all of their superhero peers, despite consistently proving themselves as more than capable. Booster Gold's regular gig is fixing the timestream and you may have heard that one time Squirrel Girl defeated Dr. Doom.

Both characters are a product of his/her time that has grown into something more, largely thanks to underground fan support. Booster Gold was spawned as satire of corporate culture in sports in the early 1980s, and has gone on to almost single-handedly save the DC Multiverse. Meanwhile Squirrel Girl was created as a pointedly absurd Spider-Man parody (by one of Spider-Man's co-creaters, no less) to highlight the darkness of the 1990s comic books. Like Booster, she is incredibly powerful, but her cheerful, naive demeanor keeps her from receiving the deserved respect of her peers.

I was introduced to Squirrel Girl about a decade ago by a co-worker. He had purchased her first appearance in 1992, and had kept the book for years as a symbol of silly comics. The antics of Squirrel Girl, in his opinion, was an insult to Spider-Man and Marvel fans everywhere. I remain certain that there must be comic book fans who think the same thing about Booster Gold -- wrongly, of course -- and that is what makes Booster Gold and Squirrel Girl such a compelling crossover idea.

You can read more about Booster and Squirrel Girl, as well as more about other unlikely pairings by Newsarama's Albert Ching and Vaneta Rogers, here.

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