Over the weekend, ObservationDeck.io9 asked its readers "What's Your Secret Comic Collection Shame?" I mention that post here mainly because the author, Wenchette, credited a Booster Gold fan for the idea. We all know Booster Gold fans have no shame!

Although the mid-90s weren't a good time for anybody.

(Some may feel it's shameful, but I've always been up front about my inexplicable affinity for Extreme Justice. If I have any regrets, it's the comics I traded away long ago. I think I'd like to have all my early 80s Marvel G.I. Joes back now, please.)

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Hashtag "SavingPeeps":

It seems to me that if I had a flying robot sidekick, I wouldn't need to take any selfies. Skeets would already be filming me all the time.

Today's fan art comes from Anthony Wallace. Wallace has drawn a number of these animated style DC characters, and you can find them online at anthonywall.deviantart.com.

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In the future, Booster Gold might one day marry a blonde, but he's had his share of other love interests in the past. Before Godiva and Gladys, before Firehawk and Blair Butler and Trixie Collins, there was Monica Lake. And she was a real piece of work befitting the Corporate Crusader.

Monica was a career-driven actress who only loved men who could, ahem, boost her career. She tolerated Booster's bad fashion sense, lame jokes, and camera-hogging tendencies only for the reflected glory it brought her. This did not endear her to anyone, including Booster.

Their relationship lasted for the first year-and-a-half of Booster Gold's superheroic career before Booster finally showed her the door. (Literally.)

Of course, the cliche of the "difficult" actress doing whatever was required to get to the top is nothing new. One actress in particular during Hollywood's Golden Age had a similar name and a terrible reputation. I had to know if Booster's Monica might have been based on a real person, so I naturally asked creator Dan Jurgens just that.

Not really, no. I always liked the way the name "Veronica Lake" rolled off the tongue. It had a great sound, so I went with "Monica". But that's where the similarity ended.

It has been said that The Blue Dahlia screenwriter Raymond Chandler disliked Veronica Lake so much, he nicknamed her "Moronica Lake." But if Jurgens says he didn't copy that on purpose, I believe him.

As always, thanks to Dan Jurgens.

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Thanks to the highly unscientific Boosterrific.com poll, I think we can be reasonably sure that the Chip Kidd "Variant" is going to be the rarer (read: more expensive) cover in years to come.

Last week's poll question: Which cover for Convergence: Booster Gold #1 did you buy? (51 votes)

Over in the Boosterrific.com Forum, Morgenstern has brought it to our attention that Dan DiDio has said that one Convergence mini-series will "definitely continue on, but in a new setting." Matt SantoriGriffith (@FotoClub) wondered whether it might be Booster Gold.

"@FotoCub Booster is a little too obvious, don't you think?"
— Dan DiDio (@dandidio1), May 3, 2015, Twitter.com

So what Booster Gold fans to make of that?

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Yesterday at ComicBook.com, Russ Burlingame noted a striking similarity between The Flash's mysterious villain Eddie Thawne and Booster Gold:

When [Harrison] Wells tells [Eddie] Thawne that he's "the only Thawne to be all but forgotten by history," it reminded me of the following quote about time-traveling superhero Booster Gold:

"No one is sure of the exact moment the Carter Family began the amazing Time Masters, but it's thought to have dated back to at least the early 21st Century. From that moment on, the members of the Carter Family took on the responsibility of policing and protecting all of history against those that would exploit it. There was only one 'black sheep' of the Carter Family in the last two thousand years. A young man from the 25th Century who went by the name 'Booster Gold.' He is the only documented Carter to have ever been a fraud, a failure and a fool. That's why historians like myself find it remarkable that in all recorded images, Booster Gold had a smile on his face. Perhaps he was stupid as well."

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Don't get me wrong: I'm not saying that Rick Cosnett's character is secretly Booster Gold (although that would be awesome). What I am saying is that such a similar sentiment, expressed in a project with which [Executive Producer Geoff] Johns is involved and relating to a character who is thus far competent, likable and good at his job, seems like it could be a hint.

That quote comes from Booster Gold #1,000,000, which was written by Geoff Johns. Is Johns plagiarizing his own work?

You may remember that we once thought that Wells might be Booster, but we've since learned conclusively that he's Professor Zoom Reverse-Flash so I stopped watching. But if they secretly added Booster Gold to the cast as another character, I guess I'd tune back in!

I recommend that you visit ComicBook.com to read Burlingame's full argument and decide for yourself it you think that Eddie Thrawne is secretly Booster Gold.

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