Back on June 25, I wrote, "Booster Gold fans might not want to expect too much participation from Booster Gold in the upcoming Justice League 'Trinity War' event." I am not happy to report that I told you so.

Last week's poll question: What was your reaction to the news that Booster Gold will play no part in Trinity War? (49 votes)

Obviously, most of you were still holding out hope for an appearance by our hero. To continue on that theme, I point out that four months remain in the year (where does the time go?), and there is currently no reason to expect to see Booster Gold return to the DCnU anytime soon. How optimistic are you about seeing Booster before the calendar rolls over?

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Here we go again. Trinity of Sin: Pandora #2 is released today. Will Booster Gold make an appearance? I have no idea.

Last month I told you to expect a glimpse of Booster Gold flashback in Trinity of Sin: Pandora #1. That information was based on a teaser released at dccomics.com. I was misled, and Booster was nowhere to be seen in that issue.

Will the teased pages with Booster be printed in today's book instead? I don't know. It's not in the issue preview at mtv.com. We now know that Booster won't be involved in Trinity War, and I begin to suspect that he won't be in Trinity of Sin: Pandora, either.

If anyone notices Booster in the issue, please let me know. Until I hear from you, I'm going to assume otherwise.

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On July 30, 1976, Bruce Jenner won gold in the Olympic Decathlon, setting a world record in the process. The win catapulted Jenner into super-stardom. He leveraged the win into appearances in movies and on cereal boxes. Practically overnight, amateur athlete Jenner became America's biggest hero.

Flash forward to the present and Jenner is now best know as the stepfather of Kim Kardashian, who has eclipsed his fame by simply allowing cameras to follow her around 24 hours a day. To make matters worse, rumors persist that his wife Kris is more interested in her new talk show than their 22-year marriage. How could the World's Greatest Athlete fall so far? It's up to time-traveler Booster Gold to set history right!

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Okay, so there won't be any Booster Gold comics for awhile. This isn't the first time Booster has gone through a bit of a drought. Our hero was rarely seen around the turn of the millennium, too. That made him perfect fodder for reinvention in DC's Tanget Comics alternate universe titles.

Tangent Comics: Tales of the Green Lantern #1, "Brightest Light," by Dan Abnett/Andy Lanning and Mike Mayhew/Wade Von Grawbadger

On this day in 1998, Booster Gold was reimagined in Tangent Comics: Tales of the Green Lantern #1. The comic features three possible origins for the Tangent Universe's Green Lantern. In the "Brightest Light," Booster plays "the crooked billionaire playboy" who had his minion Kilowog murder Lois Lane aboard his yacht, the Black Condor. Booster also kills Kilowog before getting his own comeuppance.

This was hardly the first time that Booster was given the villain treatment. He was also bad guy in Justice League America Annual #10 in 1996. Given DC's mistreatment of JLI characters over the years, we should probably be glad that it was Maxwell Lord and not Booster Gold, who became the heavy in "Infinite Crisis."

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The Mammoth (@redmammoth on Twitter.com) tweeted a pic of the rare and elusive Booster Gold cosplayer from Comic-Con International.

I looked through a lot of cosplay pictures from the convention, and this is the only Booster Gold costume I've seen so far. Some conventions have lots of Booster Golds, but Comic-Con 2013 seems to have suffered from a drought. That may or may not anything to do with the fact that Booster has essentially been written out of the DCnU these days.

[UPDATE 2013-08-08: For the record, that's John Alsbrooks in the Booster costume?]

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