Okay, so there won't be any Booster Gold comics for awhile. This isn't the first time Booster has gone through a bit of a drought. Our hero was rarely seen around the turn of the millennium, too. That made him perfect fodder for reinvention in DC's Tanget Comics alternate universe titles.

Tangent Comics: Tales of the Green Lantern #1, "Brightest Light," by Dan Abnett/Andy Lanning and Mike Mayhew/Wade Von Grawbadger

On this day in 1998, Booster Gold was reimagined in Tangent Comics: Tales of the Green Lantern #1. The comic features three possible origins for the Tangent Universe's Green Lantern. In the "Brightest Light," Booster plays "the crooked billionaire playboy" who had his minion Kilowog murder Lois Lane aboard his yacht, the Black Condor. Booster also kills Kilowog before getting his own comeuppance.

This was hardly the first time that Booster was given the villain treatment. He was also bad guy in Justice League America Annual #10 in 1996. Given DC's mistreatment of JLI characters over the years, we should probably be glad that it was Maxwell Lord and not Booster Gold, who became the heavy in "Infinite Crisis."

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The Mammoth (@redmammoth on Twitter.com) tweeted a pic of the rare and elusive Booster Gold cosplayer from Comic-Con International.

I looked through a lot of cosplay pictures from the convention, and this is the only Booster Gold costume I've seen so far. Some conventions have lots of Booster Golds, but Comic-Con 2013 seems to have suffered from a drought. That may or may not anything to do with the fact that Booster has essentially been written out of the DCnU these days.

[UPDATE 2013-08-08: For the record, that's John Alsbrooks in the Booster costume?]

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I was all excited about the possibility of Booster Gold news coming out of Comic-Con. Instead we are left with no announced Booster Gold appearances for the foreseeable future. I'm not going to beat around the bush: this sucks.

Last week's poll question: Do you expect to hear big Booster Gold news out of Comic Con 2013? (41 votes)

Since there doesn't seem to be anything else to talk about at the moment....

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Just a little Blue and Gold gender-bent fan art today.

Maybe you've seen more of artist Maya Nord's Earth-11 Justice League International on Comics Alliance, or her Roaring '20s interpretation of the JLI at Project Rooftop. But you haven't seen anything unless you check out her excellent work on Deviant Art. Enjoy!

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Yesterday, we saw that Geoff Johns told us to ask Dan DiDio when we'd be getting a new Booster Gold comic. So Booster booster Gio3432 did just that on Twitter.

And he got the following answer:

I like that answer. Really, it's just as ambiguous as Johns' answer was, but "working on it" is much more comforting to hear than "Buster who?"

Thanks for the update, Gio! (Gio3432 posted the news in the Boosterrific Forum yesterday).

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