Seattle, Washington, played host to the annual Emerald City Comicon this past weekend. Fortunately for us, Comics Beat writer Todd Allen attended the "DC Comics: The New 52" panel on Friday, and liveblogged this bit of Q&A between an audience member and the panel:

Q: What happened to Booster Gold?

A: Stay tuned.

"Stay tuned"? That's an official response from the DC representatives? As reporter Kiel Phegley explains at Comic Book Resources:

A frequent joke within the room was when the panel would respond with a purposeful "Stay tuned" to fan questions as if to indicate that, yes, their picks for more revivals were on the way. Queries that earned a "stay tuned" included the possibility of an "Earth 2" spinoff series, a return of Booster Gold and a series for the Atom.

Well, that is more encouraging! I guess if we want to find out more, we'll just have to stay tuned.

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Let's end the week the way we began it: with cool sketches of Booster Gold.

Matthew Humprheys is a professional animation storyboard artist, and it shows in his character sketches of the classic Booster Gold. The man is proliffic, and you can find much, much more artwork, including a similar sketch sheet of Blue Beetle in action, at matthewrhumphreys.DeviantArt.com.

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Sigh. I forgot to plug the vote counter back in when I revised the scripts last week, so, yeah, last week's poll... it recorded no votes for the first 5 days it was up. I think I'm going to have to run this one again later.

Last week's poll question: Which Booster Gold supporting character do you miss the most in the DCnU? (8 votes)

Yeah, I'll be running that one again soon [wipes egg from face]. Let's move on, shall we?

Justice League of America #1 has 53 covers. This has attracted the attention of various localized media outlets which seem pleased to find their respective state flags on the cover of a comic book. I'm pretty sure that was DC's goal. Does that publicity turn into sales? Out of curiosity, I ask:

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I hadn't meant to make this a week of fan art, but when preparing yesterday's pic, I found this one that I had prepared but never posted. Today, I'll correct that oversight.

My apologies to artist More979 of Uruguay. This was, I think, among the earliest fan art pieces I found of Booster in his New 52 costume. I think this drawing does a fine job of (unintentionally) demonstrating how bad an idea those extra gold bands on the upper arms and neck are. In More979's loose, cartoon style, the bands read as tiger stripes, not technology. Obviously, that's something I blame on Booster's New 52 costume design, not More979.

You can find more of More979's super-hero sketches on DeviantArt.com.

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If you were even halfway paying attention, you might have heard the "big news" regarding a particular sidekick that the New York Post broke yesterday. (If you haven't, you're the lucky one, then.) The important side effect of this news is that now the DCnU now has an opening for our favorite sidekick, Skeets!

To celebrate this great news, create your own Skeets papercraft model!

Go to CyberDrone's Deviant Art page to download a full-size template, print it out, cut it up, and fold your own Skeets paper model. Once you've done that, rest easy knowing that DC can never take it away from you.

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