Booster Gold is a character in the Teen Titans GO Figure! mobile video game. How do I know? (I mean, other than from the 2018 press release, obviously, because who doesn't read press releases?)

Answer: Because of Internet videos like this (cued to start at 2:48).

EpicToyChannel (YouTube)

Also: this Reddit post.

Now we're all experts in what the kids are doing were doing six years ago. You're welcome.

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Technically, this isn't a denial that Nanjiani will be playing Booster Gold. This is a denial that Nanjiani has been confirmed as playing Booster Gold. (And a cautionary tale about reposting content you didn't originate on antisocial media in the Misinformation Age.)

Make of that what you will.

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After Booster Gold quit the Justice League in Justice League America #37, released February 13, 1990, it would be a while before he played any significant role in another comic book.

He appears in one panel of Mister Miracle #14, four panels of Animal Man #22, six panels in Justice League America #38, three panels in Time Masters #4 (covering the same ground as his appearance in Animal Man #22). He is briefly at the funeral for Mister Miracle in Justice League America#40 and Mister Miracle #17. He appears in one panel of a dream sequence in Justice League America#41, has several entries in the 1990 loose-leaf edition of Who's Who in the DC Universe, and shows up in just a couple of panels of Mister Miracle #19.

It wouldn't be until November 6, 1990, before Booster Gold returned to a significant role, as leader of the Conglomerate in Justice League Quarterly #1.

Justice League Quarterly #1 is one of my favorite comics, and easily ranks among "The 12 Best Booster Gold Stories Ever." Which is why it is so hard for me to pick out just one page as my favorite of the issue.

If you were to put a Booster Shot to my head, I suppose I'd have to go with page 13.

Golly, I love this comic.

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Last week DC published its latest anthology one-shot, DC's I Know What You Did Last Crisis, which contains eight 10-page stories set during eight different crisis events. The third story is titled "At the Point of Vanishing,". Written by Matthew Levine with art by Jordi Tarragona and Luis Guerrero, this story is a... reimagining of events originally presented in 1994's Zero Hour issues #3 and #2. (Contrary to the conventional method of incrementally increasing issue numbers, Zero Hour issues counted backwards, starting with issue 5 and ending with issue 0.)

Now, I don't so much mind the revisionist history here. Zero Hour: Crisis in Time did come out three decades ago, and a lot of what happened then isn't particularly relevant now. So a little retconning is fine, maybe even useful. I have no problems with the change that it was Sandman, not Flash, who survived to tell the tale of the Justice Society's fateful encounter with Extant. Whatever. This isn't a Flash blog.

But it is a Booster Gold blog, and I am a bit of a stickler for Booster Gold continuity.

Which brings us to this panel:

DC's I Know What You Did Last Crisis #1 page 40

The costume worn by Waverider here belongs to Michael Carter, who became Waverider beginning in 2015's Convergence: Booster Gold #2. That Waverider was presumably removed from DC continuity following the Rebirth event in 2016 where the histories of the post-Crisis on Infinite Earths and post-Flashpoint Booster Golds were merged.

Matthew Ryder was the one and only Waverider at the time of publication of Zero Hour. His costume was simpler (and dare I say, without fear of offending artist Dan Jurgens who designed both characters, much better). But in the original panel being homaged, Waverider isn't even Waverider. He's Extant!

Zero Hour: Crisis in Time #2 page 2

One of the things we learn in Zero Hour is that Extant (also known as Monarch, also known as Hawk, also known as Hank Hall) will at some point in the future kill Waverider and steal his power. If this sounds familiar, maybe it's because stealing Waverider's time-warping power will be a plot point again in 52, Time Masters: Vanishing Point, and, of course, Convergence. Don't worry; Waverider usually gets better. (Time travel is a tricky business.)

Of course, since this story is itself a retcon, maybe it is also retconning Zero Hour such that the Booster Gold who became Waverider in Convergence is the one that Extant killed and stole powers from. Or maybe, as I expect, this is just a simple artist's error. I mean, you can't expect everyone to have read thirty-year-old comic books, can you?

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Do you have a 3D printer? Are you interested in printing your own Justice League International miniatures? Well, now you can!

Booster booster Steven Palchinski draws our attention to myminifactory.com, which is currently offering a limited-time opportunity to get your hands on the STL files (and PDF character cards) that Knight Models uses in their DC Multiverse Miniature Game. These appear to be the same models they use to create their unpainted retail miniatures, such as the the Blue Beetle and Booster Gold miniatures they released in 2018.

In addition to Blue and Gold, the sale at myminifactory.com also includes 3D printer-ready files for 107 other figures, including Batman, Martian Manhunter, Black Canary, Captain Marvel, and Guy Gardner. Print them at home then recreate your favorite early Justice League issues!

Thanks for the heads up, Steven.

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