Over the weekend, pigeon writes

Hi! just wanted to let you know this thing about the booster gold show. david jenkins just deleted his post about writing the show, and unfollowed james gunn, so he might not be writing it. which sucks, because his writing is perfect for a booster show.

Quick refresher for those who haven't been paying attention to the slow-moving fiasco that is Booster Gold's journey to television stardom: Jenkins had been attached to the project since last July (personally confirming the news on Instagram in a post that has now been deleted), making him the latest in a string of many, many writers and producers gained and then lost since a Booster Gold television show was first teased in 2011. (It's almost old enough to drive!)

Like everyone else online, I can only speculate what this might mean for Booster boosters. Is Jenkins really off the project? Was it his decision? Gunn's? Is the pending Paramount acquisition of Warner Bros. already churning the waters? Does social media make everyone act like we're all still in middle school?

Although this sounds like bad news, it also sounds like merely the latest speed bump in Booster's very winding road to live-action adventures. Let's hope this isn't a dead end street.

Thanks, pigeon.

UPDATE: For those who want a reminder of how we got here, here's a link to the Boosterrific! Movie Development page: boosterrific.com/booster/movie.php.

FURTHER UPDATE: Someone on x.com had the good sense to directly ask "Any truth to the rumors that you have left the Booster Gold pilot for the DCU?" and Jenkins answered "As far as I know it's still in the pipeline". Which looks on the surface as a refutation of the rumor. But Jenkins is a writer of some renown, which means he chooses his words carefully, and the words he chose here are not an explicit confirmation of his involvement. So make of this whatever you want, Booster boosters.

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A Booster boosters know, alongside former AEW wrestler Excalibur, Booster Gold (and Skeets!) was a ring-side commentator for all the action in DC X AEW #1.

Given that DC X AEW is a two part mini-series, you might think Booster would play the same role in the second issue. And the good new is that he does, as you can read in the very first narrative box in DC X AEW #2:

Only... he must do it behind the scenes. That narrative box is the only mention of Booster Gold in the entire issue. Booster himself (and Skeets!) is neither seen nor heard.

So if you like wrasslin', go ahead and pick up a copy of DC x AEW #2. But if you're only in it for Booster Gold (or Skeets!), you'll have to get your fix elsewhere.

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So, have you seen Cover A for this week's Action Comics #1096?

Yeah, yeah. Sure, there's Ghost Superman and a Superboy who wears Chucks and, for some reason, actual shorts. Great. But that's not the Important part.

This is:

When I last overhauled the design of Boosterrific back in 2018, I added a corner box because corner boxes are awesome. I'm glad that DC has finally gotten that memo. I mean, I'm not thrilled that Action Comics now cost $5 a pop, but if I have to pay that price, it's much better that they have Booster Gold on them.

And if you like that corner box drawn by Skyler Patridge as much as I do, keep your eyes out for Cover E, the "Spot Foil Variant" that is all corner box. Yes, it's $8, but it's selectively shiny!

Buy this issue for its cover and make Skeets happy.

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What is most impressive to me about this two-page spread from Justice League Europe #50 is that at the time, Booster Gold's only power was flight. The rest of his technology had been destroyed by Doomsday (including, apparently, his blue boots). Yet here he is charging into battle with just his fists to save Europe from the super-powered army of Russia's newest dictator, Sonar. What a hero!

Yeah, maybe it does look like Booster should be shooting Booster Shots there, doesn't it? Before you suggest that maybe the artist forgot that Booster was powerless and editors had to erase Booster's powers (and opponent) from that panel, know that later, on page 34, Booster gets in a fistfight with Doctor Mid-Night (whose superpower is being blind). A hero, I say!

I also enjoy the dialogue here.

Yeah, deceit and money are useful, but as Sonar will be the first to admit, it helps when you have a mind-control machine.

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When I first started Boosterrific.com, DC hadn't rebooted its continuity in about two decades. At the time, volume number was a pretty useful way to tell what era a particular run of comics belonged to.

Obviously, times have changed. Publishers now restart numbering all the time—the current Superman title is volume 6!—for a variety of reasons (mostly to goose sales), and telling the volumes apart isn't as easy or as useful as it once was. So I'm thinking about changing the way this site handles volumes, eliminating the descriptor from the lists and simply going by year of publication instead, which is how I track my personal collection (which for some reason contains more than just comics with Booster Gold in them).

Don't worry too much: I'm certainly not planning to eliminate volume numbers from individual comics pages or URLs. Most visitors will never notice a difference.

Which raises the question of why I'm telling you this. Maybe it's to spur me into action. Maybe it's to warn you that what you see in the Boosterrific! comics lists might be changing as I tinker with formats. Maybe it's a request for suggestions for other usability improvements.

Maybe I'm just looking for something to talk about other than today's DC K.O. #5.

In any event, even though I don't say it often enough, thank you for visiting Boosterrific.com.

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