Thursday, March 8, 2012
Quenching Your Thirst
The adult drinks finish in distant second to the soda! We're all just a bunch of big kids here at Boosterrific.
Last week's poll question: Which Booster Gold endorsed beverage would you reach for to quench your thirst? (39 votes)
Okay. I got the message that you want to keep the blog around. Now tell me what you would like to read about. (This space has to be filled with something!)
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012
New Releases: Justice League International #7
After reading the preview for this issue in Monday's post, you've no doubt been waiting on pins and needles to find out how the world responds to a bombing at the United Nations building that destroyed the Justice League International in issue 6. Well, run, don't walk, to your Local Comic Shop to pick up Justice League International #7 and find out why and how "Booster Gold Stands Alone!"
Sharp-eyed Shawn Baston has also pointed out that Booster can be seen in The Art of George Perez, a 256-page coffee table book that Comic Book Resources says should ship tomorrow. However, the book but does not appear on the Diamond Comics shipping list for the week. (DC has changed their upcoming comics website to make it completely useless to see what is shipping when, so that's no help in solving this mystery.) Therefore, Booster may or may not be showing up in this book this week.
Buying either of these books will make Skeets happy.
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Fighting Mad
Pretty cool, huh? This sprite may make fans of older 2D fighting games a bit nostalgic. Some of you may remember DC's Sega Genesis/Super Nintendo fighting game, Justice League Task Force, pitting the likes of Batman, Wonder Woman, and Aquaman against one another and the forces of Darkseid. That game was released in 1995 and did not include Booster Gold. (At the time, Booster was a member of Extreme Justice.) Of course, if Booster had been in the game, it would have been too short. No one can stand up against Booster Gold.
Therefore, this is a custom sprite that must have been created since 2006, the year Booster took off his collar. (Just a guess, but it may have been created for use in M.U.G.E.N., a customizable fighting engine.) Whether you like 2D fighting games or just looking at DC heroes in action, you can find other custom-made DC sprites in afrikabambaataassf's public Photobucket profile here.
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Monday, March 5, 2012
Preview Justice League International #7
Did Booster Gold or any other member of the United Nations' latest Justice League International survive the explosion at the end of last month's issue? Or was issue 6 the final issue of the new JLI? If you can stand a little spoiler info, IGN has a 4-page preview of Justice League International #7 online here to start your week.
If you need a little extra incentive, the IGN article links to another article that lists "5 Reasons Booster Gold is Awesome". Of course we know that there are far more than 5 reasons, but you gotta start somewhere.
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Friday, March 2, 2012
Looking Smooth
Don't think that just because Animal Man took over pin-up day on Monday you are going to miss out on sweet Booster Gold art this week. The following sketch comes by way of Marcio Takara, the artist taking over Blue Beetle for issue #9. (Takara is currently the artist on Boom! Studios' Incorruptable.)
While Booster wears his classic threads -- if it ain't broke, don't fix it! -- note that Skeets gets a little jet-fighter makeover that combines his original and JLU designs. The fact that our li'l robot pal still looks so good owes no small debt to Takara's graceful line-work.
Takara has this sketch from Wizard World New Orleans and other great work on his page at Deviant Art, where you can find contact information for a commission of your own. (If you look around his gallery, you'll also find a nifty image with 100 tiny characters, including the classic Justice League International with Blue Beetle and Booster Gold, that can be used as a computer desktop image.) It's worth a look.
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