Booster booster Pat Nestor shares with us his Booster Gold commission by Georges Jeanty, the artist who will be drawing Joker's Daughter in Batman: The Dark Knight #23.4 next month.

Pat commissioned the piece from Jeanty at Wizard World Chicago in 1999. At the time, Pat was promoting a comic that he had written called The Gecko. This just proves that for years now, whenver comic book creators get together, they talk about Booster Gold!

Thanks for sharing, Pat.

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Friday the Canadian newspaper The Star broke the news that Jeff Lemire would be taking over Justice League of America when the team moves to Canada.

That news inspired Booster Gold fans everywhere to ask, "if Booster Gold is really Canadian in the DCnU, will he be joining the team?" The answer is no. (And not just because Booster isn't Canadian.)

Jeffrey Renaud of ComicBookResources.com put the question directly to Jeff Lemire:

CBR: I think the only other Canadian character that's been introduced into the New 52 is Booster Gold. Again, I know you are sworn to secrecy on the roster but does Booster play a role in your book?

Lemire: No plans for Booster. I wish I could talk about my roster because it's my dream team -- a couple of other cosmic characters and some current, fairly major characters will be part of the team.

Geez. Booster can't catch a break, can he?

For the record, still no evidence has ever been introduced in canon to contradict Booster Gold's American citizenship as established in Booster Gold Volume 1. Even ComicBookResources.com admitted as much in their countdown of the Top 10 Canadian Heroes. Given that Booster has made exactly 3 comic appearances in the past year and has nothing on the horizon, it doesn't look like there will be any change to that status in the foreseeable future.

Read the rest of the interview with Lemire here. Thanks to Herbert Fung for being the first to email me on vacation and tell me about this breaking story.

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Leave it to Russ Burlingame of ComicBook.com to turn everything back to Booster Gold. That's why we like him so much.

Last week, Burlingame interviewed Marco Lopez and Bryan Ginn, creators of the independent comic Massively Effectively. Even though Burlingame was trying to help promote their book, he couldn't help turning the conversation back to the Greatest Superhero Everâ„¢:

ComicBook.com: Now, there's a Mass Effect poster in this series. What's the deal with the relationship you have with that video game in-story?

Ginn: The thing with that poster is that the comic was originally called Mass and Effect, because their names are Mass and Effect. I think on the poster... I don't know if it has the "and" part. And then I started remembering the whole thing that Jason Rubin went through who did the comic book for Aspen that was called Iron and the Maiden, and then Iron Maiden was suing them, saying they were too close to their trademark. It went back and forth and eventually he ended up changing the name to Iron Saint. So the comic shop was called Massively Effective Comics, so I was like, "Let's just change the title to Massively Effective." We didn't call it Massively Effective, and it wasn't originally called Mass and Effect, to get Mass Effect fans to read the comic book so we're hoping with Massively Effective that nobody has any problems with. Our backup title is just called Massively Effective Comics, just like the comic shop [laughs].

Lopez: Yeah, our original title was going to be "If Villainy You Detect, Just Call Mass and Effect," and then the whole Mass Effect video game became big and I was like, "Let's change the title. Just number one so there's no confusion and number two so we don't get sued." But the poster in the comic shop is because the two characters back in they day at some point licensed their rights away and made a bunch of movie selling comics and merchandise. That's how they actually—they used that money to open up their own comic book shop, so we threw that in there as a couple of different references.

ComicBook.com: I can appreciate that. I'm a big Booster Gold guy, and he's done that before.

Ginn: Yeah, we're huge Booster Gold and Blue Beetle fans.

Well, if Ginn and Lopez are big Booster Gold fans, I can be a big Massively Effective fan. Good luck, guys!

For the whole interview, check out ComicBook.com. To get your hands on the Massively Effective comic itself, visit DriveThruStuff.com.

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What, no love for international superheroes? Was it that the New 52 Justice League International was so bad or that it just wasn't the Justice League: Generation Lost follow-up that we were promised?

Last week's poll question: When Booster Gold does get another series, what would you like to see him doing? (61 votes)

Now that football season is returning, I see advertisements from former athletes promoting all sorts of unmanly products they would have avoided like the plague in their prime. Could Booster Gold one day be relegated to selling flimflam and quackery?

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Seventeen years ago today, DC released what remains my least favorite comic to include an appearance by Booster Gold. That comic was Total Justice #1.

Why is this my least favorite book? It was inked by Dick Giordiano and lettered by Gaspar Saldino, two longtime DC legends. Too bad inking and letters can't make up for the abysmal script by Christopher Priest and eye-gouging pencils by Ramon Bernado. No doubt the artists are fully aware that they are working on a glorified toy advertisement — the issue cover proudly procliams "based on the Kenner acton figures" — and they can't be bothered to make themselves care about it.

See what I mean? Those 4 wordy panels include Booster's only dialogue in the series, and are pretty indicative of the rest of the issue. Why is so much dialogue necessary? This miniseries is supposed to promote action figures, not talking dolls!

(While we're on those panels, who is Gypsy even talking to? Captain Atom? "Jar head" is slang for a marine, not an Air Force Captain! Is she saying that Booster's head looks like a jar? If so, shouldn't the artist draw Booster's head to actually look like a jar? Grrr. It's just all so bad!)

That's just a taste of what is bad here. Nothing about this series makes much sense. Heroes lose their powers. But only some of their powers. Sometimes. Marian Manhunter is excluded from action because his powers might cut out, but Aquaman keeps his powers because they are "native." The Beetle's Bug works just fine, but Booster Gold is kept on the sidelines because his technology won't work. Suffice it to say, this is not Christopher Priest's best work.

I've heard a lot of people over the years say that they liked the figures this series promoted. Part of the draw was the novelty. It might be hard to imagine, but the Total Justice toys were the first DC heroes action figures released since the Super Powers Collection of the 1980s. Too bad they all had "extreme" 1990s poses. Maybe I would have enjoyed the comic more if they had led to a Booster Gold figure. But no.

Even though there was some appreciation for the figures, I've never heard anyone say a kind word about the comics. There's a reason for that: they were terrible. Without a doubt, the worst Booster Gold comics to date.

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