Monday, February 20, 2017
This Day in History: Starlin Deposits Gold
Nine years ago today, DC released The Death of the New Gods #6. If for no other reason, this book is significant as the only time that the legendary Jim Starlin has drawn Booster Gold for DC Comics.
Starlin, perhaps most famous as the creator of Marvel Comics' Thanos and many fantastic Batman stories, has been working as a comics writer and artist for over forty years, and yet somehow, The Death of the New Gods #6 is the only issue in which he has included Booster Gold!
Unfortunately, I can't tell you exactly where it falls in Booster's continuity. Booster is seen very briefly on one video monitor among many in Darkseid's lair. The monitors all appear to be tuned to different realities across the multiverse, so I can't even tell you which Booster Gold we're seeing!
But some Booster is always better than no Booster. Thanks, Jim!
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Friday, February 17, 2017
You Got Booster Gold in My Tank Engine
Hold on to your cabooses, Booster boosters, but there's about to be a Booster Gold-themed toy train.
That's the Thomas the Tank Engine character Dash dressed as Booster Gold, and he's just one of many new character mash-ups coming soon to a retailer near you, according to Matthew Mueller at ComicBook.com
If you've got a young child, you might already be familiar with the Thomas & Friends Minis line of toys by Fisher-Price. There have been DC Comics variants of these toys for a couple of years, but Booster Gold is a new twist.
(I have only one complaint about this development. In TtTE mythology, Dash has a twin brother named Bash. So why isn't there a Blue Beetle-themed Bash to go with my Booster Gold Dash, Fisher-Price? #MissedOpportunity)
Either April Fool's Day has come early this year, or you'll be able to buy "Dash as Booster Gold" later this month.
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Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Wrapping It Up
Today's post is going to be old news for a lot of you, but after my rant yesterday, I felt compelled to run this today.
Via Twitter, Norm Rapmund has provided a critical clue about the "BG" art Dan Jurgens teased last week:
Dan Jurgens and Norm Rapmund working together again is great news, but it's not unexpected. When DC released the April solicitation for Booster Gold/The Flintstones Annual #1 back in December, the solicitation included this line:
Variant cover by DAN JURGENS and NORM RAPMUND
So although neither Jurgens nor Rapmund told us why they're collaborating on a cover featuring Booster Gold, I think we can put two and two together.
Booster Gold/The Flintstones Annual #1 will go on sale on March 29 with a $4.99 cover price. The standard cover is by Mike Allred and will also feature Booster Gold, so bring $10!
Thanks to bennibeard for linking to Rapmund's tweet in the Boosterrific Forum.
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Monday, February 13, 2017
Disappointing the Masses
Tuesday, Booster Gold creator and current Action Comics scribe Dan Jurgens posted the following tweet:
Later that day, Morgenstern posted a link to the tweet in the Boosterrific Forum. Because it is likely that Jurgens was referring to Booster Gold, I retweeted the message via @boosterrific. That was the last I expected to hear about that, at least until we had some new information. (Does "BG" stand for what we want it to? Why be coy about it? Why is he drawing it?) I was wrong.
Late Thursday night, CBR.com reposted the tweet on their site. I assumed that was because they were more starved for content than usual. The post, by Jim Johnson, adds nothing to the tweet that isn't visible from the original post. However, within hours of that post, multiple people reached out to me to say, "Have you seen this on CBR.com?" Yes, I had.
Before I rant a bit — it's my website, and I'll rant if I want to! — let me say that I don't want to discourage anyone from sending me anything that they think is Boosterrific, I really don't. I want your input, and I will always try to be polite and thankful for anything you send me.
But paying so much attention to a teasing tweet not because Dan Jurgens posted it on Twitter but because CBR reposted it? Really? CBR? A once-great website of comics journalism that lobotomized itself in a bid to become the BuzzFeed of comics/movie/television entertainment? At least when Megan Peters covered the tweet for ComicBook.com, she added some context! But CBR? "Hey, look! A thing!" Grr!
I know that I shouldn't be irritated. It's no one's fault but mine that I underestimated how excited Booster Gold fans would be that Dan Jurgens might actually be drawing the character again no matter what the medium or purpose. I should have immediately posted Jurgens' tweet here in the Boosterrific Blog on Wednesday. And I certainly can't expect anyone else to share my biases against CBR. For all of those oversights and failures, I apologize. I'll try to do better in the future.
TLDR: For some reason, Dan Jurgens told the world he is drawing something that starts with the initials "BG," and I didn't tell you. But don't worry, CBR.com has you covered.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'll crawl back into my cave.
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Friday, February 10, 2017
Fan Art Friday
Roy Westerman and Phil Cho have set about redesigning the DCU in a project they're calling Earth-27. This is Cho's version of Booster Gold and Skeets:
What a rogue! I don't care for the extraneous zipper and buttons across the chest, but I still think it's better than the New 52 design.
You can see more of Cho's designs on DeviantArt.com or his website, PhilChoArt.com.
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