Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Booster Gold has been absent from comics for 147 days (21 weeks) and counting. That seems like a long time in part because DC keeps crowing about how inclusive their "All-In" initiative is, but Booster has been gone for much longer stretches before.
On this day in 2014, Booster Gold broke a 245 day absence from the DC New 52 Universe — at the time, the third longest recognized gap between published Booster Gold appearances in history — to make a brief 3-page supporting appearance as a deus ex machina plot device to get Jonah Hex returned to the past in All-Star Western #28.
If you don't recall, Booster's amnesiac misadventures alongside Jonah Hex in All-Star Western took place during the period he was unstuck in time leading to Convergence.
If the current Booster-drought streak were to extend to 245 days, that will be the first week in June 2025. Considering that we just learned Booster is unlikely to appear in any comics through May, that very well could be an optimistic assessment for his return from his current banishment from the DCU.
Keep your fingers crossed, Booster boosters.
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Tiffany posted on Feb. 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
(Sorry if this is a repeat. I made a comment before. And to me it didn't show. I'm having a bit technical issues. Or you could just find the comments I'm doing annoying so are censoring them. But either way I'm trying again.) If only there was an upcoming time travel event that had the perfect set up to, at the very least set up Booster's return from the elseworld.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Feb. 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Last month, Scott Snyder told ComicsBeat.com that any actual crossover was "a long time away" and hinted that the "inflection point" was coming in a big event this fall (the one year anniversary of ABSOLUTE POWER). I'm betting we don't actually see Booster until then.
Tiffany posted on Feb. 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Booster is in the future of the Absolute Universe. The far future. Were none of the heroes in that universe should be. A. a lot them probably died of old age. B. even if they did still live this a future were they lost. So they'd, best case, caged on Apokolips. So we can still see Booster without being a crossover. And DC as late seems obsessed with trying to step their events. So we'll probably get little teases, maybe scenes of Booster to step up "Inflection Point. Coming this fall"
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Feb. 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The last time DC teased that Booster was lost in the far future, the reveal was that he was really bouncing through pocket universes in the present. (I say that because I'm a knee-jerk contrarian, not because I have any actual insight. In fact, maybe I'm just in a bad mood. Please ignore me.)
SLW (Steff) posted on Feb. 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Do you censor stuff? I mean, it is your site and that's entirely your right, you owe no one a platform, but it's also a legitimate question for Tiffany to ask and receive an answer on, especially so people can self-moderate if they know roughly what would be or is being censored.
At the end of Superman this week is some of the Evil Legion that was bearing down on him at the end of All-In, which naturally has me screaming into a pillow like Nani in Lilo & Stitch, because ?????? I don't even know. I think we'll see him before the crossover, though. I doubt they tossed him over there just to kill him.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Feb. 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Tiffany, so far as I'm aware, I played no role in whatever happened to your original post. I certainly did not intentionally delete it.
SLW, censorship implies the systematic suppression of particular ideas. No, I do not do that. Generally speaking. Explicitly, yes, there have been cases where I have deleted comments that I thought were spamming or trolling. Yes, I have blocked people and IP addresses that continued to produce problematic content. Yes, I can think of a couple of times I have edited posts to add/remove self-serving links or profane language. Yes, sometimes errors in the my scripts unintentionally eat or duplicate comments. And yes, I have simply pressed the wrong series of buttons and accidentally deleted posts before. So post at your own risk.
SLW (Steff) posted on Feb. 27, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I mean, fair enough, guy. I do all of the same things when I have bad actors and I'm considerably less kind when giving the boot. It wasn't an indictment, for certain, I am a huge proponent of website and server owners getting to exercise control of their space, but was curious because one of mine had gotten pared down at some point and I wasn't sure if it was a glitch or intentional. If it was intentional, then obviously I would want to avoid a repeat. XD
bob posted on Feb. 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I hope that Booster makes it back in time for the Marvel DC Crossover.
Monday, February 24, 2025
The May 2025 DC Comics solicitations are here... and Booster Gold is not. If you want to find some other reason to buy a DC comic book in May, you can read the full list yourself at AIPTComics.com.
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SLW (Steff) posted on Feb. 25, 2025 at 7:50 AM
That feeling when you want to grab whomever is in charge of this at DC and shake them. LOL!
Friday, February 21, 2025
"Panic in the Sky" was a storyline running though two month's worth of Superman comics in the spring of 1992. When Brainiac arrived to threaten Metropolis, Superman put together a team of heroes (and a few villains) to stop him.
Booster Gold was one member chosen for this team, and he plays some part in Superman #65, The Adventures of Superman #488, Action Comics #675, Superman: The Man of Steel #10, Superman #66, and The Adventures of Superman #489).
However, because there were so many heroes (and villains), very few got the chance at much of a spotlight, including our hero.
Therefore, rather than pick one favorite page from each of those comics, I'm going to give you just my favorite page for the entire "Panic in the Sky" storyline: page 5 of The Adventures of Superman #488.
Brainiac's skull ship is no match for this super-power collection!
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025
[While re-reading the post I originally created for today, I decided that it was too negative. So I have decided to delete that and instead repost this picture of a Booster Gold-themed stuffed bunny I first ran in 2013. Have a nice day.]
source: etsy.com/shop/StitchyButton
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Tinuvial posted on Feb. 19, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Very cute.
Is there a Blue Beetle bunny, too?
SLW (Steff) posted on Feb. 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
You okay, Walter?
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Feb. 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?
Eskana posted on Feb. 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Do we need to send a squad up?
SLW (Steff) posted on Feb. 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Struggling a little bit, but that's the world these days. Sitting here with one of my cats on my lap being darling, which helps, because life is always better with pets. '
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Feb. 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
@Eskana Negative! Negative!
Monday, February 17, 2025
SLW is reviewing comics, including the first DC issues of both Blue Beetle and Booster Gold's 1980s standalone titles, at boldlyreading.substack.com. Since there hasn't been any new Booster Gold news to see around here lately, why not go check it out?
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SLW (Steff) posted on Feb. 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Boost got mentioned in an article! I don't know if your comment form allows links, so I'll e-mail it to you. Thanks for the shout-out! Looks like I'm also gonna be co-modding a discussion about Vol. 1 alongside Ted's Vol. 1 on Reddit starting next week. O.O Same day I start a new job, too. LOL!
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Feb. 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Yeah, I saw that on ComicBook.com. The article actually says nothing about Booster other than mentioning that he was in ALL IN, which we knew. So big deal.
SLW (Steff) posted on Feb. 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I mean, at least it mentions we wanna know what happens to him. XD Which-- like yeah, actually, I really kinda do!
