For months, Booster Gold has been completely absent from the DC landscape. That's worked us fans into a bit of a furor, desperate for news about the return of our hero. We're likely to shell out our hard-earned cash to snatch up anything that DC publishes that even hints at a return of our hero. But should we?

Just because we want to read more about Booster Gold doesn't mean that we should buy his comics unconditionally. I sincerely doubt that anyone has "buy Booster Gold comics" at the top of his or her list of personal priorities. Hopefully, considerations for food, water, and shelter come first. Also up there are probably the health and happiness of family and friends, or maybe the requirements of jobs or education. I would be surprised if ethics and politics don't find their way in that list somewhere, too.

Sometimes, buying comics may run in contradiction to something else on that list. Maybe you have to curb your comics-buying to spend more time with your spouse. Maybe you would rather buy food than spend $3.99 on a 15-minute reading experience. Maybe you're expressing your personal dissatisfaction that the company has erased years of cherished character development, or maybe you won't support a company's decision to capitalize on an intellectual property despite the well-publicized dissent of its creator. Heck, maybe you're just tired of supporting an industry that chooses creating new controversies over creating new content.

Those are all pretty good reasons not to buy a comic book. But what if the comic book was written or drawn by someone whose personal ideology was in contradiction to yours? What if that person was openly crusading against your way of life or your political views? Would you still buy that Booster Gold comic if you knew that the money you spent for it was helping to fund the very forces seeking the eradication of your way of life?

So when is it okay not to buy Booster Gold comics? I can't answer that for you. Thankfully I haven't ever had to cross that line myself. However, it seems to me that with almost every decision DC has made over the past couple of years, the company makes me think about it more and more. That makes me even less happy than the lack of a Booster Gold comic book itself.

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Given the furor I'd seen over this on message boards on other sites on the web, I have to say that I really wasn't prepared for the margins on this poll. Don't you know that as comic fans, we're supposed to have a ridiculous overreaction to everything? How can you live with your rational, calm selves?

Last week's poll question: How does the news that Booster Gold is reappearing in April change your interpretation of R.B. Silva's Instagram sketch? (34 votes)

In case you somehow missed it, today is Valentine's Day. So let's get romantic.

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Believe it or not, today marks the second week in a row that DC will publish a book with a Booster Gold appearance!

Booster Gold was seen alongside members of the Justice League International in Stormwatch #12. That issue, along with the five in the series before it and Red Lanterns #10, will be collected in Stormwatch Volume 2: Enemies of Earth.

While one panel may not be enough incentive for you to pick up this trade, keep in mind that it is the only appearance of Skeets in the DCnU to date. Surely that sweetens the deal a little, yes?

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Pay attention all of you who don't love Booster Gold's original high collar. Even if it isn't high fashion, Booster Gold always makes it look good!

Australia's Jeffery "CHAMBA" Cruz knows who's bringing the sexy back. You can find more of Cruz's animation-inspired art under his pen name, theChamba, over at DeviantArt.com.

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First things first: my apologies that the Boosterrific Forum was down all weekend. It wasn't supposed to be. I took it down for testing late last week, and then my internet went out most of the weekend.

This disruption in service probably didn't bother many of you, but I'm sure that someone tried to drop by and let us know that DC has announced that Booster Gold will be making a feature appearance in May's Smallville Season 11 #13.

SMALLVILLE SEASON 13
Written by BRYAN Q. MILLER
Art by DANIEL HDR
Cover by PETE WOODS
On sale May 8 • 40 pg, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T • DIGITAL FIRST
• An all-new episode begins with "Argo" part 1 of 3! Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes try to stop war between Earth and a shocking enemy! Plus, a glitch in Booster Gold's Legion flight ring propels the "Gold Standard," his trusty robot Skeets and The Man of Steel into the 31st century.

That was some good news I'm sure that we all would have liked to seen last week, yes? (This solicitation was originally posted on IGN.com. As per DC's recent trend of teasing solicitations across the web before releasing them on their own website, you can expect to find this solicitation on DCcomics.com/blog later this week.)

Smallville is one of DC's "digital first" titles, meaning that we probably don't have to wait until May 8 to see Booster return to action in the Smallville (television) Universe. The books are released in three parts over the course of three weeks at 99¢ each before being collected in a print version. Therefore we can expect to start reading this story online on April 12, if we're impatient for more Booster Gold. I know I am.

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