I interrupt my regularly scheduled Booster Gold blog to make the following announcement:

I wrote a book.

Actually, I've written a trilogy of books. They are an adaptation of a high-fantasy role-playing game I created and ran about 15 years ago. The first book has finally cleared editing and is available to the public. Book 2 will follow soon, and I hope to have book 3 out by December.

If fantasy novels (or supporting Booster Gold website webmasters) is your thing, consider dropping by www.CentralKingdomsChronicles.com, where you'll find a free preview of the first chapter of each of the three books. You'll also find links to buy the Kindle release on Amazon.com and a paperback from CreateSpace.com.

Thank you for your consideration.

We will now return you to your regularly scheduled Booster Gold blog already in progress.

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Start your Labor Day weekend celebration with this golden Booster Gold fan art by Jim Towe (by way of Cootie Kid):

If any of you are going to be at DragonCon in Atlanta this weekend, keep an eye out for the Cellbloc Studios booth. Studio owner James Simpson will be showing off our latest video game, SnarfQuest Tales!

(I'm sorry to admit that I won't be there. Labor Day also marks the start of the college football season, so I've got a date with my television. A man's got to have priorities.)

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Today is a "skip week" for DC Comics, so instead of your regular titles, you'll be seeing a lot of annuals and trades at your Local Comic Shop. One of this week's trades is Superman and the Justice League of America Volume 2.

The book is reported to collect Justice League America #69 through #77, which is kind of a weird run to include in a collection with "Superman" in the title. The Man of Tomorrow makes only a cameo appearance, dies in another title after the first issue, and doesn't come back. Perhaps they should have titled it Justice League of America Minus Superman.

These issues were originally published in 1992. My, how different comics looked 20 years ago. Clean line work! No gradients! Boots and red briefs! (Sigh. I really hate you, New 52.)

Obviously, I'm not complaining to see these issues back in print. Everyone needs to know that Booster gives Doomsday his name. It's important to remember that DC's resident time cop has some history himself.

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CosmicBookNews has done their best to consolidate the latest DC Comics movie and television rumors. Number one on their list of hearsay:

1. Booster Gold is still in the works, treated more as a Deadpool February release film. No production date set.

Is this true? Who knows. The source is apparently reddit by way of 4chan, so I'll let you judge how much faith you want to put in that report.

What we can still be reasonably certain about is that Zack Stentz is working on a script. If I hear anything else through the grapevine, I'll keep you posted.

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Earlier this week, J.M. DeMatteis posted this picture of his Justice League International co-collaborator, Keith Giffen, and two other guys on Twitter.com:

I always liked seeing artists draw themselves into their comic book adventures. But I like it even more to see the heroes come alive to stand beside their creators.

On a related note, DeMatteis participated in a roast of Giffen at Terrificon last weekend, and he posted a video on his website, Creation Point (by way of The Angry Geeks Show). There's definitely some salty language (okay, "some" might be an understatement: think Beverly Hills Cop), but it's still an entertaining series of anecdotes — including a brief argument about who came up with "Bwah-Ha-Ha" — presenting an oral history of Giffen's long association with DC Comics. I enjoyed it.

Here's to many more years for both Giffen and Dematteis (both separately and together)!

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