Justice League Task Force #37 (1996)

The gang looks happier every year!

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The text under the masthead above currently reads "It has been 83 Days since Booster Gold last appeared in an in-continuity DCU comic book." Judging by the contents of DC's March solicitations, which is now available at AIPTComics.com and gives no indication that any new Booster Gold adventures will be coming before the end of winter, Booster boosters can look forward to at least 99 more Booster-free days to come.

That's 182 days (6 months!), which is a long time, sure, but it's only the seventh longest we've ever gone between Booster Gold appearances. The last time our hero was trapped in an alternate universe (see: Justice League International Volume 3 Annual), he was absent from comics for 238 days. Surely this absence won't be as long as that, right? Right?

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As Armageddon 2001 meandered its way through the 1991 DC annuals, the Justice League was dealing with its own crisis as founder and team glue Max Lord lay in a coma. This gave Waverider a perfect opportunity in Justice League America Annual #5 to inspect the probable futures of several Justice Leaguers in quick succession in his search to find the future Monarch.*

The visions he saw were all of a shared future in which Martian Manhunter is a cookie guru, Guy Gardner led a cult of personality, Fire was engaged to marry Oberon, and Booster Gold had returned to the 25th century, spent time in jail for his previous crime, then resumed his old job at the Space Museum.

This page reads a little differently after Countdown.

Booster actually has a charming dual role in this issue, supporting his teammates in the present, and in the future, stealing another time machine to put his fractured team back together. For a guy often accused of being a screw-up, Booster has always been a big hero behind the scenes.

* It's no coincidence that herein Waverider disguises himself as Captain Atom, whom he will dramatically fail to investigate a few weeks later in Justice League Europe Annual #2. I'd be inclined to say "spoiler warning" here, but this is definitely not a spoiler. As DC editorial decreed, Captain Atom is not Monarch.

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This week, DC is releasing the paperback version of the hardback version of the Multiversity: Harley Screws Up the DCU mini-series, in which Booster Gold makes a cameo appearance for a couple of pages at the end.

And that fulfils my contractual obligation to find something new(ish) to post about Booster Gold this week.

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Yesterday I received this breathless email from Heidi:

Creature Commandos spoiler! Did you see Booster after the credits of episode 3 of Creature Commandos? He's in the back of one of the visions of the future Circe shows. That's his first appearance in Gunn's DCU, too!

A few hours later, I got a separate email from Rob Snow, who even shared a screenshot:

I think this is Booster in Creature Commandos. It's a vision.

If I squint at that, maybe it looks like Booster? Raising his hand to the sky, maybe?

I asked Rob what made him think it was Booster Gold. His answer:

Wild rampant unfounded speculation😝

Ok. Well. Fair enough. I can't argue with that.

Obviously, I have not been watching Creature Commandos. All of this is news to me, and I'm the sort of person who, when something is news to me, I do a little Googling. And while I did not turn up any description of whatever it is that happens at the end of Creature Commandos Season 1 Episode 3 "Cheers To The Tin Man" (probably because it was just released yesterday), I did find an official trailer for Episode 4 which includes this screenshot:

Oh, ok. Now I see what Heidi and Rob see. I guess that could be Booster Gold there impaled on the center pike. If I squint.

Thanks to Heidi and Rob for keeping hope alive.

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