Here comes the squee!

Booster Gold and Skeets are brought to you today by the aptly named CuddlyCapes. If you want to see more cuteness, check out the CuddlyCapes gallery on DeviantArt.com.

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If you came in through the front door, you noticed that Boosterrific.com has a new look. If you haven't seen it yet, follow this link to take a look.

I'm retooling the site to appeal to a younger crowd of fans too young to have seen a Booster Gold comic book but love watching the tween-friendly, prime-time superheroic soap operas on the CW.

Booster Gold: he's not your father's super hero!

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Today marks the 125th anniversary of the dedication of the Eiffel Tower. I mention this mainly because it gives me an excuse to show this panel from Booster Gold, Volume 2, #1,000,000 of Skeets wearing a beret.

If Skeets has to have a new costume to join the New 52, I vote that it should be a beret.

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Thirty-five years ago today, there was a malfunction in the brand new number 2 reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middleton, Pennsylvania. For several days afterwards, the world held its breath as it waited to see if the hydrogen gas within the reactor would explode and rain radioactive material on the eastern coast of America.

The official report by the Nuclear Regulatory Committee (NRC) eventually blamed the situation on operator error. However, eyewitness reports credited the quick actions of a mysterious, gold-clad hero with beating back the real cause of the meltdown: a radiation-absorbing creature from another dimension.

In the aftermath of the meltdown, the NRC made sweeping changes to prevent a recurrence of the problem. They appear to have worked. In the thirty-five years since, not once has a giant radiation-absorbing creature attacked an American nuclear power station. We'll keep our fingers crossed, just to be safe.

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I read the responses to this poll to say that most of you still care about what else goes on beyond the front door, even if there's not much cause to update it regularly. (Seriously, DC. We need Booster Gold more than three issues a year!)

Last week's poll question: How often do you visit a page at Boosterrific.com other than the blog? (54 votes)

I was re-reading "Argo," and I was reminded that we've barely seen Skeets since Flashpoint. Of course, when Geoff Johns last wrote for our hero, he reduced Skeets to a Independence Day-style plot device. Is that all DC has in mind for the best sidekick in comics history?

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