Did you pick up the Bat-Mite trade on Wednesday? If not, what are you saving your money for? It certainly isn't for Booster Gold comics, because DC isn't making those.

May solicitations were revealed earlier this week. If you read the previous paragraph, you can guess what that means: no new Gold in sight.

While Booster doesn't look to be having any new adventures in May, he will be returning in reprints of some of our old favorites. DC will be re-releasing trades of 52 Book One and Superman: Panic in the Sky, both collecting comics published about 10 or 24 years ago, respectively.

Maybe DC has a point. Why should they work on making new Booster Gold comics when they already have a back catalog of great stories to sell to today's kids too young to remember the good old days? Kids still read comics, right?

You can find the whole list of DC's solicitations at Newsarama.com.

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If for some reason you passed on Dan Jurgens' Bat-Mite mini-series, you missed some very entertaining Booster Gold misadventures. Fortunately for you, the collected trade hits store shelves today, so there's still time for you to enjoy the exploits of "Black Gold."

The $14.99 trade collects all six issues of the mini-series as well as the post-Convergence "Sneak Peek." Lucky you.

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We were talking about him just last week, and Ross Pearsall has already done it again! For a recent Super-Team Family Presents cover, Booster Gold crosses paths with Mike Baron's and Steve Rude's hero of the future, Nexus:

(This is Booster's second Super-Team Family Presents cover in 2016. He previously appeared in the background of Captain America's declaration of war against the Marvel Universe.)

I always love the covers Pearsall creates each day for his site, Super-Team Family ...The Lost Issues, as evidenced by the many times I've showcased his previous Booster Gold team-ups. Thanks, Ross.

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I don't usually post two pieces of Booster Gold fan art in the same week, but when Booster booster Logan pointed my attention to this commission, I knew it couldn't wait.

This piece, appropriately titled "Time Lords," was created by artist Jeremy Roberts. Roberts has worked for DC Comics, including recent issues of New Suicide Squad. You can find more of his truly exceptional work (as JPRart) at DeviantArt.com.

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A few days ago, Booster Gold creator Dan Jurgens made a pretty strong statement on Twitter.

The inspiration for Jurgens' comment was Booster booster Keith Callbeck's post of Ross Pearsall's Super-Team Family mash-up cover of Booster Gold and Blue Beetle running from the Hulk. Pearsall's inspiration was the opening splash page of Booster Gold, Volume 2, #34, drawn by Chris Batista in 2010. Specifically, it is this panel by Batista that Jurgens takes issue with:

It's easy to understand Jurgens' dissatisfaction with Batista's choice of poses and expressions. That panel has gained some traction on the Internet in recent years. You may have seen it copied by Blue and Gold cosplayers. Howard Porter's 2015 cover for Justice League 3000 #12 saw a similar scene of the panicked pair.

That wasn't always their reaction to trouble. In their Justice League International heyday, Beetle and Booster were chased by mobs of angry citizens, vampires, middle-eastern dictators, runaway islands, demons, and countless super villains. Yet Kevin Maguire, the artist most associated with the Blue and Gold pairing, never showed Blue and Gold turning tail in fear.

So what's the right way to depict Blue Beetle and Booster Gold running for their lives? Here's Dan Jurgens' take on the scenario in Booster Gold, Volume 2, #7 (2008):

Ok, so maybe Beetle is still scared. But look at Booster. What a hero!

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