Monday, June 8, 2015
Special Edition Blue and Gold
You know convention season is in full swing when Booster Gold and Blue Beetle come to cosplay!
This pic was snapped at Special Edition NYC 2015 by Kronos2501. You can see the original and his other cosplay pics at DeviantArt.com.
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Friday, June 5, 2015
No Longer Accepting the Gold Standard
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president, the United States was in a shambles. The Great Depression had hit the country hard, and something drastic had to be done to restore the economy before things got worse.
As part of his "New Deal," Roosevelt rushed to restore American's faith in their currency and ease the suffering. Among other measures, the new president encouraged Congress to inject more currency into circulation. To do this, he first had to uncouple the United States dollar from the value of gold.
The key event in this process took place on this day in 1933, when Congress passed the Gold Repeal Joint Resolution, legally substituting United States currency for all debts public and private. In other words, it suddenly became impossible to make payments in gold.
An unintended side effect of this measure was that it made it very difficult for certain time-traveling superheroes to barter their services for appropriate compensation.
Thankfully, Gerald Ford corrected this problem forty years later, paving the way for Booster Gold to return and reap the benefits of Ronald Reagan's "trickle-down" system in the 1980s.
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Thursday, June 4, 2015
Planning Future Purchases
Booster Gold fans are a hard bunch to please!
Last week's poll question: Are you satisfied with the resolution to the post-Crisis Booster Gold's story told in Convergence? (59 votes)
Since we were all so evenly divided last week, it makes me wonder if the new status quo — specifically that from this point forward, the only Booster Gold is nuBooster Gold — changes your plans for future Booster Gold comics purchases.
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Wednesday, June 3, 2015
New Release: Bat-Mite
Convergence has killed the tyranny of the New 52, and humor can now return to the DC Universe!
Introducing Bat-Mite, a 6-issue limited series featuring everyone's favorite, uh, mite, I guess. Say, who's that on Corin Howell's cover?
Booster doesn't show up inside this issue, but I'll give you good odds he appears before series end. (Dan Jurgens is the writer.) You can decide for yourself what you think by reading the preview online at ComicVine.com.
Buy this book and make cartoon Skeets happy.
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Tuesday, June 2, 2015
The Blot Does It Again
While some of us have been wasting time with things like vacations, The Blot has been studiously adding to his already overflowing Booster Gold Sketchbook.
Those are The Blot's newest pieces by (clockwise from top left) Simon Bisley, Tom McLeod, Katie Cook, and Mike McKone. Click on any one of them to see a larger copy.
Keep up the good work, Blot!
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