Friday, June 27, 2025
As SLW alerted us, Booster Gold (and Skeets!) does indeed make a cameo appearance in this week's Flash #22, where our hero (and sidekick!) show up in windows into the timestream inside the Linear Bureau's headquarters at the end of time where Wade West is being impossibly cryptic about current events:
Of course, that's not "current events" Booster, because Superman #27 makes it pretty clear that Booster is a little hung up at the moment.
That issue expressly identifies the setting of Booster's captivity as "the future," so today's question is "Where in time is Booster Gold?"
To recap: Last year's DC All-In Special led readers to believe that Booster Gold traveled across dimensions to the Alpha World of the Absolute Universe. Summer of Superman Special corrected course to reveal that Booster is not in an alternate dimension but an alternate future. But, as you can read above, Superman #27 combines the two, explaining that Booster did go to Alpha World before returning to the future of Prime Earth. Great. So now we know which dimension he's in (and that the dimensions can be transversed).
So what epoch is our hero in now? The setting of Booster's captivity would appear to be the 25th century Space Museum he once worked in, though presumably sometime after 2462 lest changes to the timeline write him out of existence. The logical assumption, especially considering the corpses of the Fatal Five seen in the aforementioned Summer of Superman, would be that he's being held captive in the 31st century, the native time period of the Legion of Super-Heroes. If that's true, where is the (uncorrupted) Legion native to our universe?
Since it's pretty clear now that "our" familiar Legion is not the same as the "Dark" Legion seen since DC All In Special, why did Booster's Flight Ring (native to Prime Earth) become a Dark Flight Ring in All In Special? Did Dark Brainiac 5 go back in time and leave his Dark Legion Flight Ring in the 25th century Space Museum?
And what, exactly, happened to Booster's high collar? All In Special promised more high collar! Must Darkseid destroy everything good in the world(s)?!
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Tiffany posted on Jun. 27, 2025 at 8:39 AM
My guess is, that all of Legion (Beside Abosolute Legion, Darkseid Legion, Omega Legion, whatever you want to call them,) probably aren't doing so hot. And this upcoming event will lead into the sixth Legion reboot. Written by Mark Waid and Nicole Maines. But that is just my guess. And I'm probably completely wrong. And I want to hear others guess. So that is why I'm leaving this comment. Bye. Tiffany Jay Cassidy signing off for now.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jun. 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
It feels to me like DC hasn't really given the Legion a fair chance in decades. Bendis' last stab at it was doomed from the start by his inability to write character dialogue. But now that Waid is reviving classic "the adventures of Superman when he was a boy" Superboy, it seems to me that a new volume of Adventure Comics with Superboy and the LoSH can't be too far behind.
Tiffany posted on Jun. 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
@boosterific plus with the way hyper time works at DC I would suprised, post-whatever event DC has cooking up, that we get a proper Absolute Legion. And with the way some characters ended up being shifted around. Who knows. Maybe the Absolute Legion will have ties to the Absolute Lanterns, or something, instead of Superman like with the mainverse.
Brandon posted on Jun. 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I'm probably in the minority, but I'd like to see the return of the 1994 post-zero hour Legion.
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
If you have read the preview of today's New History of the DC Universe #1 (available at AIPTComics.com, among other places), you may have noticed on the very first panel of the very first page a very familiar... well, "face" is definitely the wrong word:
There, on the left, it's Skeets!
(And many, many other treasures looted from the Justice League trophy room, including Superman's cape, Green Arrow's bow, Jack O'Lantern's lantern, Wild Dog's mask, Zatara's top hat, Blue Beetle's BB Gun, Kanjar Ro's Scepter, the Key's key, the Orb of Ra, Magog's staff, Star Man's Cosmic Rod, the original Red Tornado's helmet, the Guardian's shield, the Red Jar of Calythos, the Green Bell of Utholl, the Silver Wheel of Nyorlath, two Legion Flight Rings, Captain Cold's mask, the Book of Eternity, Elongated Man's Gingold, Batman's batarangs, a couple of other things I don't recognize, and I'm sure that's not all. I mean, the whole history of the DCU has to be in there somewhere.)
Thanks to all who made sure I saw this.
Buy this issue and make Skeets happy.
UPDATE: As you can see from the comments, Booster also makes an unexpected cameo appearance in Superman #27 and Flash #22. So buy those, too.
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Rob snow posted on Jun. 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I do believe thats the Vertigo Sandmans helmet on the shelf next to Zatanas hat. I miss Jess Nevins doing annotations to this sort of thing
Coin posted on Jun. 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Should also mention that booster makes an appearance in superman #27 (briefly in the epilogue)
SLW (Steff) posted on Jun. 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
@Coin - Indeed he did, poor thing. And while I happen to agree he is the most important person in that universe (I refuse to qualify whether I'm joking or not), I just really want someone to save him about now.
SLW (Steff) posted on Jun. 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
(Also, ope, time to reset the counter, Walter. LOL!)
Coin posted on Jun. 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
@SLW. Surely he's the most important in any universe, and well help seems to be on the way.
SLW (Steff) posted on Jun. 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
@Coin - Anything I might say requires I invoke the fifth.
Jeremy posted on Jun. 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Hi guys! Booster just appeared at the end of Superman #27 that came out today!
Jeremy posted on Jun. 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Sorry! Just noticed previous post.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jun. 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
@Rob Traditionally, the Helmet of Dream looks more like the Bug-Eyed Bandit mask with a spinal column for a nose. I could see how a novice inker could make that sort of mistake, but surely Todd Nauck knows what he's trying to draw there. That looks more like a flight helmet to me. Hal Jordan paraphernalia, maybe? (Green Lantern does appear to be underrepresented.)
SLW (Steff) posted on Jun. 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Oh hey, he also shows up as a cameo in Flash 2023 #2! With Skeets! And Rip gets name dropped!
SLW (Steff) posted on Jun. 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
--#22. And to think, I work with numbers all day. 😂
Tiffany posted on Jun. 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I think that hockey mask could either be Wild Dogs or Sports Masters.
Monday, June 23, 2025
Judging by how many people wrote to tell me about this, I assume most of you already know. But for posterity's sake, this was in the DC Solicitations for September 2025:
SUPERMAN #30
Written by JOSHUA WILLIAMSON
Art and cover by DAN MORA
$4.99 US | 32 pages | ON SALE 9/24/25
Superman has found the mysterious hero known as Booster Gold. Together, they must return to the present day to warn the Justice League, but Darkseid’s Legion stands in the way. The shocking events of this issue lead into next month’s massive next chapter in the all in saga!!
We already had reason to believe that Booster would be seen in Superman #28 in July, when this storyline begins. Should we also expect to see our hero in Superman #29? I guess we'll know in August.
It should be noted that DC has also solicited for The Human Target: The Deluxe Edition hardcover, which we already know includes Booster Gold, so we can keep an eye out for that this November.
You can read these and all the other solicitations at AIPTComics.com.
Thanks to all who made sure I didn't miss this.
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SLW (Steff) posted on Jun. 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Poor guy. I was telling Dara that he needs like-- a bath, a buffet, a therapist, a lot of soft blankets and probably a cuddle. Shaving optional, but a beard-trim if he wants to keep it. LOL!
SLW (Steff) posted on Jun. 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Addendum: Mind you, Booster has definitely needed a therapist long before this. And none of that Sanctuary-type bull-hockey, like an actual licensed professional. LOL!
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jun. 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Sanctuary! Come for the therapy, stay to get murdered by heroes! (Specifically a hero who will cover up the crime with the aid of others who the hero had previously framed as scapegoats. From now on, let's call that Sanctuary Syndrome.)
Steven Palchinski posted on Jun. 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Sanctuary! And if you survive, prepare to hunted as the perpetrators!
SLW (Steff) posted on Jun. 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Hell, come for the therapy, get a reality TV show setup instead, then stay to get stabbed repeatedly by an actual villain who exploded a bunch of kids.
I am never, ever gonna stop being salty about all of that.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jun. 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
@SLW You make it sound like a Scooby-Doo episode.
SLW (Steff) posted on Jun. 24, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Walter, that's implying that the crew that writes Scooby-Doo is somehow inferior to Tom King and we all know that's not true. 🤣 Don't insult them like that!
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jun. 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Oh! Sorry. I meant to imply that you were making Heroes in Crisis sound much better than it is!
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jun. 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
For the record, since we're piling on Heroes in Crisis, I should mention that an article posted earlier this week in defense of Heroes in Crisis at ComicBook.com is titled "Is Tom King the Alan Moore For Millennial Comics Readers?" Which, of course, reminded me of Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
SLW (Steff) posted on Jun. 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
@Walter Oh! In that case, I definitely didn't mean to do that. 😂 And yeah, right? I've been reading comic since I was twelve and I am sincerely hard-pressed to find a MORE incoherent, poorly written, wretchedly characterized piece of slop than HiC. How you could take a premise with such sharp fangs -- especially if we're discussing Booster and mental health, because that boy has Issues™ even IF we're not counting pre-Flashpoint, his upbringing alone has complex multi-dimensional trauma galore -- and screw it up THAT BADLY?
You have to not only be incompetent, you have to be a willful, active moron who didn't bother to research even the barest fraction of character background. Like sincerely, I could write better than that when I was a teenager.
Friday, June 20, 2025
Good news! That thing I was working on that I didn't finish before Tuesday's post? I finished it.
You can play with my shiny new toy here: Boosterrific.com/ad-libs/.
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Tiffany posted on Jun. 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Did you read the solicits? If you haven't we got a confirmed Booster appearance in Superman #30. To quote "Superman has found the mysterious hero known as Booster Gold."
Tiffany posted on Jun. 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
He's also the main cover. I missed that before.
Eskana posted on Jun. 23, 2025 at 11:39 AM
LOVE it!
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Sorry, but the blog post that I had intended to run today... doesn't work yet. And given that I have run out of time, that means I have nothing to show today. My bad.
At least there are plenty out there willing to pick up my slack in providing you a few minutes of diversion. For example, may I point you to "DC's Best Characters Aren't Their Most Popular Ones And I'm Tired of Pretending Otherwise" on ComicBook.com.
Sure, that title sounds a lot like "Anyone Who Likes The Beatles Is Dumb," but it does shine much needed spotlight on Booster Gold (and other deserving DCU characters, of which there are many). And, as I said, I've got nothing better today.
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Eskana posted on Jun. 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
As someone who loves the main heroes but prefers reading about the smaller ones, it's always nice from time to time to see articles like that... maybe it will reach a new fan who then begins looking into them!
Besides Booster and Ted, are there any other "C- or D-listers" you'd like to see, or anyone you think would be an interesting team-up with Booster?
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jun. 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I think everyone should team up with Booster! (I like most of the characters in the DCU, except Harley Quinn. I really don't much care for Harley Quinn.)
Tiche posted on Jun. 19, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Walker Gabriel, Chronos II. Because he's appeared in about two dozen comic issues total, and about half of those are single-panel crowd shots. I will preach the praises of the twelve-issue Chronos run til the ends of time. And the start, because, y'know, time travel.
SLW (Steff) posted on Jun. 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
A wild statistic for anyone keeping count: Booster was stabbed more times by Harley Quinn than he's kissed the same single character on panel in 39 years and counting. (I can't stand her either. Mostly because, like Batman, she's shoved into everything everywhere.)
