BOOSTERRIFIC! BLOG: New Release Summer of Superman Special 1

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

New Release: Summer of Superman Special 1

"You might want to change the counter."

So reads the email sent to me by Booster booster Bob. Bob's a longtime friend of the Boosterrific Blog, and he even gave us a shout out at the end of his recent YouTube video post about the schizophrenic nature of Geoff John's Rip Hunter. (Bob summarizes the problem with that characterization as "Good people don't kidnap children." Hear, hear, Bob!)

But the point of Bob's email yesterday had nothing to do with Rip Hunter. It was about Booster Gold's return to comic books.

Specifically, Bob was the first to tell me that Booster Gold will be making an appearance in today's one-shot anthology Summer of Superman Special #1.

I suppose I should have seen this coming. According to Matt Morrison's review of the issue at SuperHeroHype.com: "Finally, Joshua Williamson uses the last chapter to explore the cause of Validus becoming displaced in time. This final story ties into the larger story of DC All-In and the fate of the Legion following Dark Crisis." That does indeed sound Booster-adjacent.

Before you get your hopes up too high about the inevitable Booster Gold renaissance, know that Booster's role in this issue is actually pretty limited. (It's essentially little more than a reminder that DC hasn't forgotten about what they did to our time-travelling hero.) But the bright side is that, yeah, it definitely counts as an in-continuity appearance, and yeah, it does reset the missing-in-action counter (after reaching 196 days). These days we'll take what we can get!

So buy this book and make Skeets (who is *not* in this issue) happy. (UPDATE: As SLW points out in the comments, Skeets *does* put in a cameo appearance in this week's Challengers of the Unknown #5.)

Thanks for keeping an eye out for us, Bob!

Comments (9) | Add a Comment | Tags: all in bob rossetto joshua williamson matt morrison new releases skeets superherohype.com superman

Tiffany posted on Apr. 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Yeah. I bet when he returns, Whenever that's (I'm betting as a cliffhanger at the end of "We are Yesterday." but I could be wrong. Have been in past.) he'll at least get a mini-series, at the very least. Most likely written by Joshua Williamson or Mark Waid. Or maybe They both co-write. Or maybe it someone else. IDK.

Rob snow posted on Apr. 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Well i saw the SINGLE PANEL he's in. Man DC lives a skinny bearded chained up Booster

SLW (Steff) posted on Apr. 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Skeets cameos in Challengers of the Unknown, at least! But yeah, I literally gasped aloud when I saw Booster's monologue-style.

Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Apr. 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
RE: Skeets in Challengers. Has anyone been reading this series? Does Skeets' appearance herein make any sense? I know what I *think* it's telling me (which I will not reveal at this time because potential "spoilers," just like how Booster's appearance in Summer of Superman appears to toss out everything we thought we knew about the ending to All In and the Absolute Universe), but it's possible I missed something as I haven't been following Challengers (or, frankly, anything else DC has published since they gulagged Booster Gold).

SLW (Steff) posted on Apr. 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I think it does, but I hesitate to say for sure, only because it feels very meta to me? I have been reading Challengers and quite liking it, and was really touched by the scene surrounding that cameo.

But ALSO! I will note that Booster's costume was either an art error or an interesting choice, since he'd gone back to his 80s pre-Doomsday costume at the end of the All-In special and is wearing his modern one at the end of the Superman special. (Also that somehow the man manages to have amazing hair even after at *least* a month of dangling in chains. LOL!)

I dunno if any of that means anything, it was just interesting to me.

clonegeek posted on Apr. 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I still don't get how Rip Hunter isn't a villain at this point. I never got how if Rip's job is to preserve the timeline and keep people like Thawne from messing with it. Why did Rip let Thawne alter history by killing Barry's mom?

SLW (Steff) posted on Apr. 17, 2025 at 7:09 AM
@clonegeek -- I mean, from my POV, Rip's been an actual asshole significant amounts of his post-Crisis life. LOL! In Vol. 2 alone, there's only so far you can use the predestination paradox as an excuse to treat another human being the way he treated Booster, who you'd THINK he'd show a bit more care for. It probably wouldn't annoy me as much if they'd actually call his shit behavior out in the narrative properly.

DC has never known how to actually do time travel. They really really *really* want to use it like a shiny toy, but they don't like working out the metaphysics of it and then sticking to whatever rules they invent. Booster should have disappeared about a billion times by now; they need to kind of just unchain him from that and let him be a temporal refugee permanently whose existence is not predicated on a set future, and then stick with that. Any future knowledge he has hasn't been relevant-- at least since the 90s.

Steven Palchinski posted on Apr. 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Do you have a link to booster Bob's youtube?

bob posted on Apr. 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I ya guys. Going to get the book today but here is the link to my video that you asked for
https://youtu.be/jlIbmlFCoJQ?si=87uGa9u1N18mrCFZ

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