[EDIT 4:09 PM EDT: Sorry, sorry. I worked a 12 hour day yesterday, started early this morning, and in between I just plain forgot to upload today's blog post. Please forgive me.]

Erin beat me to this news over in the forums, but Dan Jurgens took his turn in the DC reboot hype machine yesterday at The Source. Jurgens will be drawing Green Arrow and writing Justice League International, both titles that Jurgens has worked on in the past.

How and why are you shaking up the series' status quo?

In GREEN ARROW, we're getting back to the basics of what makes Oliver Queen work. He's accumulated a lot of baggage over the years and it's time for some of that to go.

In JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL, we're really dealing with an entirely new DC Universe. For Booster, Guy Gardner, Rocket Red and the rest this is a new adventure...

Will we see new character designs?

Green Arrow will absolutely have a new look, though he'll still be wearing green— naturally!

In JLI, several of the characters have cool, new looks!

This interview form-letter has been repeated over and over again at The Source for the new DC titles, and the questions say more about DC's approach to this mess than any of the artists have about their individual books. How do you have a "status quo" to "shake up" if you are starting from scratch in a new universe of stories? Why ask why the titles are being shaken up when the company mandated a number one relaunch for all series? Why ask about new character designs when the company has already widely promoted Jim Lee's redesigns? DC, I just don't understand you sometimes.

The full interview (and many other similar interviews) are available on DC's The Source blog here. If you have something to say about this interview or either of these two series (I won't insult you by asking which one you are most excited about -- it's the one with Booster in it, of course), consider dropping in on Erin's thread in the Boosterrific Forum here.

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Only 19 people voted in last week's poll, but that's not the surprising part. (There was a low voter turn-out late last June/July, too. It seems it's just that time of year.) What surprised me was that all poll respondents said they would be okay with Booster Gold dating their daughter. I think it is the first unanimous poll in the past two years of questions.

I'm not saying that I wouldn't let Booster date my hypothetical daughter, I'm just surprised that everyone would. Although, I guess that I have to conceded that if you were the kind of person who would encourage your child to date someone other than a superficial celebrity with a string of questionable relationships, you probably don't visit Boosterrific.com frequently.

In related news, I'll soon be tinkering with the polls page to make it more archive-friendly, and it's time to generate some more poll questions. I'm planning on recycling some questions from the past year to see how your opinions have changed. I also plan on asking more questions about the reboot once it is underway. But if there is anything Booster-related you'd like to put to a vote, just let me know.

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What a long, strange trip it's been.

Above is the sales graph for the entire Booster Gold Volume 2 series to date, including the recently sold-out first printing of Booster Gold #44. Even without figuring in the second printing or the digital sales, that's a pretty good bump from Flashpoint tie-in sales.

I'm not going to pretend that I understand how sales bumps from Flashpoint tie-ins are supposed to transfer to entirely new series, but if even a few new readers discover the golden goodness of Booster Gold during this transition, at least some good will come of it.

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It's just so magnificent.

Of course, I'm talking about that t-shirt.

Two weeks ago, Boosterrific.com was looking for some posters and received terrific support from you readers. Now we're hoping that you'll give Boosterrific.com the shirts off your backs!

The shirt above featuring Kevin Maguire's Super Buddies was brought to my attention last weekend by Russ Burlingame. Booster is hard to see for the shadow, but he is in that group shot looking over Beetle's right shoulder. A search for more information about that shirt has led to hints that there have been several DC licensed shirts released over the years featuring group images (JLI, Super Buddies) that may contain Booster Gold.

If you have any information about a t-shirt that depicts Booster Gold, please let us know either in the comments or via email to webmaster at Boosterrific.com. Thank you for your support.

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This time last year, I reported on the keywords that were bringing people to Boosterrific.com. This site gets quite a few more hits daily now versus one year ago (averaging about 3 to 1 now over then), so let's take another look at Google Analytics and see what else has changed in a year.

1. boosterrific
2. booster gold
3. boosteriffic
4. boosterific
5. booster gold jacket
6. booster gold fansite
7. jli pose
8. broderick booster gold
9. www.boosteriffic.com
10. eurocrime elongated man

There are two things to learn here. One, "Boosterrific" is hard to spell. Two, a lot of people out there are still really curious about Eurocrime. Maybe DC needs to look into rebooting an Elongated Man series.

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