We haven't seen Booster Gold anywhere since Bat-Mite #4. Don't expect that to change with today's Justice League 3001 #5.

However, we do know from the issue preview available at GraphicPolicy.com that Booster Gold and Blue Beetle will at least get a name drop (from Fire and Ice!).

Given the latest Booster drought — 84 days and counting — that's a good enough reason for me to pick up the issue.

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Look familiar? Today's Booster Gold fan art was created at least 3 years ago.

This piece was commissioned from lavenderpie by drtoof, who posted it on tumblr (in 2012). I'm pretty sure those aren't their real names.

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Our favorite reporter, Russ Burlingame, reports that Alan Tudyk, familiar to Firefly fans as "Wash", says he'd be willing to play Blue Beetle if his pal Nathan Fillion was cast in a movie as Booster Gold.

"If it's working with Nathan, I'm in."

Of course, Burlingame's article at ComicBook.com goes on to clarify that Tudyk doesn't seem to know who Blue Beetle is. Does that matter so long as we get to see friends Fillion and Tudyk yuk it up on screen again as comicdom's best comedic duo?

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It's a time-honored tradition: To get some respect, the new kid on the block has to prove his chops to an established hero. The two DC characters to debut in their own title in the decade before Booster Gold, Black Lightning and Firestorm, had their first DCU team-up with Superman. Booster Gold would encounter Superman, too. But Superman wasn't Booster's first team-up. That honor went to Thorn.

You remember Thorn, right? Whenever Rose Forrest fell asleep, her alternate personality came alive and fought crime. (The first rule of Rose and Thorn is don't talk about Rose and Thorn.)

Thorn specifically focused her wrath on the 100, a criminal organization responsible for her father's death. Moderately successful, she eventually teamed up with (who else?) Superman before fading into the background of DC's shared universe.

So why did every other DC character get a career booster from Superman, but Booster Gold had to settle for Thorn? I asked Dan Jurgens that question.

First of all, I found her to be an amazingly interesting character.

Plus, since [Rose and Thorn] hadn't appeared in such a long time, it was fairly easy to adjust the character a bit. Tweak the costume, etc. Tailor it to Booster a bit more, that kind of thing.

I also asked Jurgens why he didn't include a cameo for the 100's other major nemesis, Black Lightning.

We actually talked about it a bit but realized that we had Thorn already and were going to have Superman showing up quite soon, with the [Legion of Super-Heroes] soon after. We didn't want it to become a full time guest star series.

And there you have it.

Thanks to Dan Jurgens for answering "just one more follow-up question" over and over again.

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Maybe Booster Gold should have a wife. That alone would differentiate him from every other hero of this current generation.

Last week's poll question: Should Booster Gold have a love interest? (46 votes)

Earlier this week, Morgenstern posted a link in the Boosterrific Forum to a Youtube video in which Skeets was redesigned with a star-shaped viewscreen. Most of us thought that was pretty cool. Maybe it should make its way into canon.

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