They say that you can have too much of a good thing, so it's good to know that most of our voters exercise some restraint with their collecting. Hopefully you are saving your money for the big-ticket Booster Gold collectibles, such as a life-sized Skeets replica -- should they ever come out.

Last week's poll question: How many Booster Gold figures do you own? (43 votes)

Speaking of too much of a good thing, once upon a time comic book stories were told succinctly in a issue or less. Now stories typically plod slowly over a half dozen issues so that they can be collected into trades. How do you feel about this storytelling decompression?

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Last year Boosterrific.com promised you that the cutest thing on the internet was a Booster Gold doll. A year later, and nothing has changed except the doll.

Another year, another doll! This unique 11-inch tall Booster Gold plushie comes with a little Skeets, because your little stuffed Booster Gold companion needs his own little stuffed companion. The pair are available from the Etsy.com store of Showboat on the Road, where you can also find hand-wash-only Aquaman doll. Make note that Showboat on the Road is willing to take custom orders. (Rani? Godiva? Perforated Man? The mind still boggles!)

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No new release from DC for Booster Gold today, so maybe you'd like to take a look at an old, unauthorized release. Morgenstern -- who seems to be on a mission of his own, tracking down Booster Gold across the farthest corners of the internet -- recommends xanykaos' Booster and Beetle comic on Deviant Art.

Complete with a surprise guest appearance of another notable couple of time travelers, this little comic from 2009-2010 will make you laugh and cry. Hey, DC, why can't you scrap one of the 9 Batman-related comics on shelves this week to make room for more books like this?

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Morenstern has unearthed a new YouTube video of Blue Beetle and Booster Gold. This time the pair are giving a presentation on how to be American super heroes to a crowd assembled at the 2011 Aki Con anime convention.

Why the pair is presenting their panel at an anime convention is a question that doesn't need asking. Wherever there is a paycheck or a public forum, there will be Blue and Gold.

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Russ Burlingame's latest "International Exchange" column with Dan Jurgens will soon be live at The Outhouse. A preview of the column is already posted at Comic Book.com. Jurgens seems to be everywhere right now -- in addition to last week's two linked interviews, Jurgens is also interviewed at Comic Book Movie -- but Burlingame still finds a way to get some good information from the typically tight-lipped Jurgens, even if it isn't strictly Booster Gold related.

ComicBook.com: Hey, whatever happened to thought balloons? You never really see them anymore, and I always kinda look at Guy's monologue at the end [of Justice League International #3] and think, "If only he'd been quieter...!".

DJ: Thought balloons have largely disappeared from comics, in general. There are circumstances where they work, others where they don't. My general approach is that if one member of the team has thought balloons, let's say Rocket Red, then they all should. And Batman never should, in my view.

I suspect that Booster's last thought balloons appeared in Extreme Justice, 16 years ago. These days internal dialogue is almost always replaced by first person narrative boxes. This isn't necessarily a narrative improvement as much as it is an artistic convention.

That said, it is awfully hard to image Batman showing thought balloons in a team setting in 2011, isn't it?

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