It was on this day in the year 2009 when DC Published Booster Gold Volume 2, #23 with this cover:

As it happens, Boosterrific.com has a real footnote connection to that cover, as cover model Blair Butler namedropped us in her July 19, 2009, interview with Laura Hudson at ComicsAlliance.com:

CA: So what exactly makes you Booster Gold's biggest fan?

BB: Well, first, let me just admit that there are some massive Booster fans out there who really dwarf me – the folks who run the Boosterrific site, the guys at Project Fanboy, and the folks in the DC forums. They're all so passionate that it's really awe-inspiring and humbling. But let's settle this now: The real #1 fan would be Skeets or Blue Beetle. And I think Ted wins. However, if this were the mid-80s, Trixie Collins would totally be on the cover, rockin' some awesome 80s shoulder-pads.

Comic book-focused news site Comics Alliance, established in 2007, was sold in 2013, and has been largely defunct since 2017, now existing only to repost content from other sites owned by its corporate parent. To their credit, they keep some of their old content online, including this article, "Blair Butler Sets the Record Straight on ‘Booster Gold’."

Similarly, Project Fanboy became the FanboyBuzz and fizzled out by 2014. I'm sure it was just a coincidence that DC Comics killed their own message boards about the same time they launched the the-less-said-about-it-the-better "New 52" in 2012.

...And as I'm researching all this, I rediscovered that I previously covered this ground (with a longer excerpt from the interview) on its tenth anniversary, August 12, 2019.

Which may explain why so many of those websites eventually petered out: there's only so much comics content to report before you start repeating yourself.

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