Earlier this week, I warned visitors to the Forum that the server host for Boosterrific.com was planning on upgrading some defenses that would hopefully stop a plague of invalid server requests that were growing to the level of a denial-of-service attack.

As a side effect of this server maintenance, it is highly likely that Boosterrific.com will experience some significant downtime today. It seems like I say this a lot, but I apologize in advance for the disruption in service.

Hopefully we'll be back tomorrow, stronger than ever.

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Booster Gold may be missing in action in the DCnU, but he's still attending comic book conventions!

The photo of the unknown cosplayer above was taken by Tony "G-Man" Guerrero at Emerald City Comicon 2013 this past weekend. It is but one of his many great pics of great cosplayers you can find online at comicvine.com.

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Seattle, Washington, played host to the annual Emerald City Comicon this past weekend. Fortunately for us, Comics Beat writer Todd Allen attended the "DC Comics: The New 52" panel on Friday, and liveblogged this bit of Q&A between an audience member and the panel:

Q: What happened to Booster Gold?

A: Stay tuned.

"Stay tuned"? That's an official response from the DC representatives? As reporter Kiel Phegley explains at Comic Book Resources:

A frequent joke within the room was when the panel would respond with a purposeful "Stay tuned" to fan questions as if to indicate that, yes, their picks for more revivals were on the way. Queries that earned a "stay tuned" included the possibility of an "Earth 2" spinoff series, a return of Booster Gold and a series for the Atom.

Well, that is more encouraging! I guess if we want to find out more, we'll just have to stay tuned.

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Let's end the week the way we began it: with cool sketches of Booster Gold.

Matthew Humprheys is a professional animation storyboard artist, and it shows in his character sketches of the classic Booster Gold. The man is proliffic, and you can find much, much more artwork, including a similar sketch sheet of Blue Beetle in action, at matthewrhumphreys.DeviantArt.com.

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Sigh. I forgot to plug the vote counter back in when I revised the scripts last week, so, yeah, last week's poll... it recorded no votes for the first 5 days it was up. I think I'm going to have to run this one again later.

Last week's poll question: Which Booster Gold supporting character do you miss the most in the DCnU? (8 votes)

Yeah, I'll be running that one again soon [wipes egg from face]. Let's move on, shall we?

Justice League of America #1 has 53 covers. This has attracted the attention of various localized media outlets which seem pleased to find their respective state flags on the cover of a comic book. I'm pretty sure that was DC's goal. Does that publicity turn into sales? Out of curiosity, I ask:

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