Released on July 17, 1986: Booster Gold #9.

In which Booster Gold and Skeets (and the Legion of Super-Heroes) foil an attempted presidential assassination.

UPDATE: Our Hero also makes an appearance in this week's Superman #16, an Absolute Power tie-in. Buy this issue and make Skeets happy!

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Released on July 15, 2009: Blackest Night #1.

Blackest Night is a story about heroes coming back from the dead, but it would take the "rebirth" of the entire DCU (in 2016's appropriately named DC Universe Rebirth #1) to actually bring Ted Kord back to life.

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Once upon a time, the Doom Patrol were just another low-rent disrespected super hero team made up of society's cast-off misfits. Then Gran Morrison got their hands on them, and things got weird.

Take, for example, the very first page of Doom Patrol #28:

I love the team introduction here where they are contrasted against the "norms" in the Justice League International and presented as outsiders... in their own book!

(Booster Good is a pretty great choice here for contrast between the haves and have-nots, as no one makes more effort to be accepted by the masses than Michael Jon "Booster" Carter.)

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Today's thing that is bothering me: I don't know who drew the art on the front of the blister card for the McFarlane Toys Super Powers Collection Booster Gold action figure.

Do you know? Can you tell me?

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If you've not been paying any attention to Absolute Power (mild spoilers ahead), we learned in May's Absolute Power FCBD Special Edition #1 that a former Justice Leaguer has pulled a Benedict Arnold and turned against his former friends. That ally (and this is the spoilery bit) is Green Arrow, and we learn in last week's Absolute Power #1 that (even more spoilery) he joined Amanda Waller's new world dictatorship willingly.

The betrayal here is pretty severe, as Green Arrow was the first non-founding Justice Leaguer to join the team, signing up "for life" in Justice League of America #4 (May 1961). It's hard to imagine that such a longstanding hero won't eventually turn out to be a double agent, working against Waller from the inside. Which is why when I read Green Lantern reading Batman the riot act in Absolute Power #1 last week, I immediately thought of Booster Gold, specifically Booster Gold in 1987's Millennium #7:

Hmm. That broody guy in the green hood casting aspersions about Booster sure looks familiar. Maybe it's the mustache.

It took a few months for the dust to settle around Booster, but eventually it did. I'm sure one day everyone will forget about Arrow's betrayal, too.

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