Dan Jurgens spoke to Comic Book Resources's Jonah Weiland at Comic-Con, and naturally Booster Gold came up.

Jonah Weiland: You're one of the few creators that comes back to a character they created for a company time and time and time again. Talk about your relationship with Booster Gold. (I know that sounds a little weird, but there is a real relationship you have with that character.)

Dan Jurgens:...I always explain it this way: whereas there's a plane coming down out of the sky, Superman flies up and catches it, lands it safely in Metropolis Park. Booster calls the media, says, "I'm going to go do, film this." He tries to catch it, he can't, the thing drives him down, and at the very last minute he makes it. He saves it, but with a rocky landing and he's just... you know, he has human faults that way. He's not perfect and he's trying to atone for his past. I'm attracted to that as a character... that he is a non-perfect human being. So, yeah, I like going back to that from time to time and DC has been kind enough to let me.

Weiland: In a way, it seems like Booster Gold makes more sense today than he did even back then.

Jurgens: What we were beginning to see back in the mid-80s was much more the emergence of the celebrity culture.... We had always had like athletes on a Wheaties box before, but the concept of people signing endorsement contracts even before they were named MVP or whatever was a bit different then.... You're right, it's built up to the point where Booster should be Kim Kardashian to a certain extent in the way he handles things.

You can find the rest of the interview (a little more about Booster but lots of reminiscing about the "Death of Superman" and Jurgens' career and longevity) at ComicBookResources.com.

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I don't want to strain my ISP (after my hardware failures last week, I got caught up in Charter Communications DNS fiasco this weekend), so let's start the week with some simple Booster Gold fan art.

I've often (and loudly) complained about Booster's hideous New 52 uniform, but artist Benjaminjuan actually makes it not so bad by removing all the unnecessary ornamentation that I so despise. It still needs yellow boots, but I could learn to live with this.

You can find more of Benjaminjuan's DCAU-inspired designs on DeviantArt.com.

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I have no Internet connection, so this is all the post you're getting today. Hopefully this will be resolved by Monday.

Enjoy your weekend

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That's almost a tie! (Any chance those votes correspond to the ages of the voters or how long they've been following the adventures of Booster Gold?)

Last week's poll question: How old do you think Booster Gold is? (63 votes)

Since we seem to have entered an era where the artists get all the fun (variant covers on everything every month now, DC? Really?), it seems a good time to appreciate the role the writers play in developing the characters we love.

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When last we left our hero, Lex's guards *cough*Yellow Lanterns*cough* had decided to ignore their boss' order and kill Booster Gold, Ted Kord, and Micheal Holt. With Superman lost in another dimension and most of the Justice League busy with Eclipso, who's left to save the day?

left to right: Micheal Holt, Booster Gold, Ted Kord just hanging out together in Smallville: Chaos #11

Here's a hint: its name rhymes with "eats."

The digital chapters of Smallville: Chaos can be bought online weekly at Comixology.com. Every three digital chapters are being combined into a floppy issue, and you can find Smallville Season 11: Chaos #1 at your Local Comic Shop now!

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