Today's ultra-adorable image comes to us from kevtoons.

I see so many creative people do so many creative things with BFFs Blue Beetle and Booster Gold. Friendship will never go out of style.

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Today's fan art inspired a thought: why don't real corporations pay DC Comics to embed advertising inside the comics stories themselves? I mean, if it works for national news programs....

Superman: "We've got to go help those people."

Booster Gold: "I'll be there as soon as I'm done brushing my teeth with Colgate® brand toothpaste. Every hero deserves a healthy smile!"

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Last year, artist Jose Luis Molestina committed to drawing a DC Comics character a day. This was his Booster Gold:

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In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the first appearance of Booster Gold, I've spent the year asking Dan Jurgens questions about Booster Gold's earliest adventures. Today I conclude this year-long column with two final questions about Booster's powers.

In the pages of Secret Origins #35 (1989), Mark Waid pointed out that all of Booster's original powers and abilities were based on equipment found in Superman's pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths adventures, including Superboy's Legion flight-ring, Brainiac's force-field, and Lex Luthor's power suit. Most of those original powers are still part of Booster's ability set today, except for the Mass Dispersal Force, originally based on Jor-El's Phantom Zone Projector.

Being able to dematerialize and rematerialize matter at will is a pretty significant power. I asked Jurgens why it faded into the land of forgotten powers so quickly.

People seemed to have a hard time grasping what it was.

On top of that, I'd had a conversation with a couple of people at DC who thought it seems a bit too "magical". So, with that in mind, we dropped it.

On the other hand, one of the most enduring components of Booster's power set didn't have any clear antecedent: his Booster Shots ray blasts.

What could have inspired Jurgens to give Booster ranged gauntlet attacks? And perhaps more importantly, which came first, the power or the "pun"-ny name?

Good question!

The name really did come first in that case. I had been scrawling ideas in a note bad -- just sort of an idea matrix, if you will -- and wrote down "Booster Shots".

Once I did that, I simply had to find a way to use it!

There you have it. (And yes, I did save that one for last because Jurgens said it was a good question. Hooray, me.)

Thank you, Dan Jurgens. I've really enjoyed quizzing you on thirty-year-old trivia.

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When DC rebooted its entire universe, part of the point was to make everyone younger. Outside of Batman — really, the less said about the mess that is his continuity now, the better (hello, Hawkman!) — most other heroes were stripped of their sidekicks and history.

That's part of what makes the new Superman: Lois and Clark series so unusual. The Superman of the previous DCU has returned with his wife — and son! There have only been two issues so far, but it's really pretty good.

Of course, the series writer is Dan Jurgens, who has an extensive history with both Superman and family dynamics. Jurgens spent the last few years of the last DCU giving us the adventures of Booster Gold and his son, Rip Hunter.

Naturally, once Booster discovers that his frienemy Superman has a kid of his own, Booster will turn child-raising into a competition. Superman might be morally perfect, but that's a hard example for anyone to follow. Comparatively, Booster has made plenty of mistakes, and therefore has lots of experience to draw from when coaching his own son. Who do you think will do a better job?

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