When we last left our hero in Smallville Season 11 #13, his powers had been remotely deactivated by "Legion Protocol 6." Making matters worse, he and Superman were soon teleported through time to the 31st century to find Earth and New Krypton at war.

In today's Smallville Season 11 #14, Booster will continue his quest to have the Legion of Super-Heroes restore his powers. If you've been reading this story as it has been released in weekly digital installments on comiXology.com, don't tell your floppy-only buying friends how things go from bad to terrible for our hero this month.

Buy this issue and make Skeets happy.

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Booster Gold was easily defeated when he and Superman fought it out in Booster Gold, volume 1, #7, but only because of the interference of Skeets. (Sadly, it won't prove to be the last time that Skeets betrays Booster. That little turncoat!) With Skeets nowhere to be seen, things went far better for Booster in the rematch in Action Comics #594.

Maybe it was the unexpected death of Goldstar or trouble fitting in with the Justice League. Why else was Booster Gold suddenly acting cruelly to the citizens of Metropolis? As Superman had tried to teach Booster when last they met, not all that glisters is gold. In this case, quite literally.

Even Superman proved no match for this new, vicious Booster Gold. Once Booster Gold had finally beaten the Man of Steel, there was only one hero would could rescue him. That one hero, naturally, was Booster Gold.

It turns out in Booster Gold, volume 1, #23, that Lex Luthor had arranged for a Booster Gold impostor to defeat Superman with Kryptonite. Thanks to the timely intervention of the one true Corporate Crusader, Superman lived to fight another day. That put Superman in Booster's debt, a shared adventure that the Man of Tomorrow would probably prefer to forget.

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With Man of Steel set to open this Friday, there's no better way to countdown the days than by looking back at his shared adventures with DC's greatest hero, Booster Gold!

Even Micheal Jon Carter would admit that without Superman, there would be no Booster Gold. The legacy of Superman was the primary inspiration that drove Micheal Jon Carter to rob the Space Museum of the equipment he would use as a 20th-century superhero. But it wouldn't be until Booster Gold, volume 1, #6 that the pair would finally meet face-to-face.

Against their will, Booster Gold and Superman (and Skeets!) were transported to an alien world in Booster Gold, volume 1, #7. While incarcerated, Superman taught Booster one of the most valuable lessons in super heroics, that sometimes some things are not what they seem to be. Booster has always been a little too trusting for his own good, and who better to impart that essential bit of wisdom than someone who can see through walls? Of course, Booster wouldn't just take Superman's word for it, so Superman had to beat the lesson into Booster's thick skull. That's tough love.

(Superman's appearance in this story isn't just significant to Booster Gold's development. This also happens to be Superman's first in-continuity appearance following the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths as well as the first time that Superman was drawn and written by Dan Jurgens! Groundbreaking stuff!)

The shared adventure didn't exactly turn the two men into fast friends. Both found something lacking in the other — Superman thought Booster was careless and vain, Booster thought Superman was old-fashioned and cold — but a connection had been made between the two greatest heroes in the DC Universe that would establish a foundation for adventures to come.

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Finishing up this week of long-overdue professional fan art posts is this gem coming out of Phoenix Comicon last month. This one I intentionally held it until the end of this week in order to coincide with the annual Superman Celebration now underway in Metropolis, Illinois.

Jonah Hex is nice, but who could be a better team-up for Booster Gold and Skeets than Superman? Makes you look forward to what might be coming from DC for Booster Gold volume 3.

According to Norm Rapmund, who posted this image to his Twitter media gallery, this bit of art was something that he and Dan Jurgens did "for fun." Jurgens did pencil art that Rapmund finished with inks and Brian Miller (aka Hi-Fi Designs) provided color. What a super team!

You can find a larger, better version of this image (and a pre-colored b&w copy of the inks) at Twitter.com/NormRapmund.

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I'm sure that everyone who voted wants both a comic book series and a television show. Let's keep our fingers crossed that we get at least one of the two before the end of the year.

Last week's poll question: Which rumored upcoming Booster Gold project are you more excited about? (45 votes)

This week I've been catching up on my backlog of fan art posts. The hard part isn't finding Booster Gold art, the hard part is deciding which piece to post next. So I ask you, what do you prefer seeing?

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