Drawing speed is an important skill for professional comic book artists, but this is a bit much:

You can find other "Speed Drawings" by dibujosymas barra on YouTube.com.

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Yesterday I let Superman have his fun, but now it's Booster's turn.

If you refresh your browser cache and look at the header above (or the background on the sides), you'll see that I've rolled out a new dress for Booster Gold's 30th Anniversary. Yup, that's right. Whoo-hoo! Booster Gold is now an "established" super hero.

Booster Gold #1 was released on November 21, 1985 with a February 1986 cover date. He was the first character introduced into the post-Crisis on Infinite Earths DC Universe, which DC is celebrating with Convergence. So we Booster Gold fans are going to celebrate, too. We'll start the celebration now and let it run until February of next year.

(And lest you think the 30th anniversary is an odd number to celebrate, I remind you that in 1992, Marvel Comics pulled out all the stops to promote Spider-Man's 30th. Reminders were printed wherever possible, and the web-slinger even got a bunch of his own hologram covers. If it's good enough for Spider-Man, it's good enough for Booster Gold!)

I've already declared 2015 the Year of Booster Gold, and I hope that DC will join in the celebration with some great new Booster Gold stories in coming months. Booster will be appearing regularly in Justice League 3000 and will play some role in April's Convergence, including his own two-issue tie-in series. That sounds like a pretty good start to what we hope will be a great year.

How are you going to celebrate Booster Gold's 30th Anniversary?

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On this day in 1988, Superman celebrated 600 issues of Action Comics. (New to comic books? Don't let this week's Action Comics #39 confuse you. As hard as it may be to believe, DC Comics once promoted Action Comics' status as the longest running comic book by putting really big numbers on its cover. We call those "the good old days.")

Action Comics #600 by by Linda Medley and Art Adams

Of course, Booster Gold couldn't let Superman celebrate a milestone like that without sharing some of the spotlight, so he crashed Superman's pin-up. No one seems to mind much. Even Batman is smiling.

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Want to express your love for Booster Gold, but all you've got is some construction paper and a pair of scissors? Well good luck topping this:

You can find more of paper artist Andy Sayers' work at say-andy.DeviantArt.com. (And you should. His Spider-Man is pretty amazing.)

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I saw last week's question as a way to check how many pollsters were devoted to the solo adventures of Booster Gold (with sidekick) and how many preferred the JLI/Blue Beetle version of Booster Gold. Thanks for voting, even if you didn't like your options.

Last week's poll question: How important is the presence of Skeets to your enjoyment of a Booster Gold adventure? (38 votes)

With the Super Bowl coming this weekend, it's been impossible to avoid news of the accusation that the New England Patriots broke the rules to win games by letting air out of footballs. Earlier in the week, we learned that Booster will be pulling for the Seahawks this weekend. But what does Booster, a former football player punished for rules infractions, think about this "Deflategate" fiasco?

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