Boosterrific.com is taking the opportunity of end-of-the year downtime to upgrade a few things around the site. You may have already noticed the addition of an expanding menu at the page header above to make site navigation a little easier. Most of the rest of the changes are between the panels, so to speak, so you shouldn't notice much else changing.

However, if you do discover something broken that doesn't magically fix itself by next week, please leave a comment so we know where to send our crack debug team next. Or if you'd like to see something that isn't broken work a little better, let us know and we'll look into it. (No promises.)

Thank you for your patience.

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Frequent site contributor Morgenstern recently drew my attention to the solicited cover for Ray #3 appearing on DC's The Source blog. Morgenstern said, "to me it looked exactly like the JLI #2 cover."

The cover on the left was drawn by Aaron Lopresti and the cover on the right was drawn by Jamal Igle. It sure looks like Morgenstern has a point.

Booster Gold appears to be a bit of a trend setter. Two covers with a very similar motif within six months of one another: coincidence or crib? Morgenstern wondered if both of these covers were based on an older, pre-existing cover. Anyone have any ideas?

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Wow. It's a Christmas Miracle: this poll had 4 times as many votes as any other poll has ever received. (That's a response too good to be true. It looks like I'll be spending Christmas weekend working on better poll scripts!) Given the apparent demand, maybe original Dan Jurgens artwork needs to be sold by the panel.

Last week's poll question: Which present would you most prefer receive for Christmas? (168 votes)

Coming to the end of the calendar means that it's time to look back at the year that was. For Booster Gold, 2011 was a pretty eventful year. Booster was prominently featured as a major character in 4 different titles, participated in a unique tie-in to the crossover event of the year, and survived the reboot to lead the reimagined Justice League International. He even appeared in both animated and live action television shows. Quite an impressive list for a character still widely considered a b-list hero. Here's hoping Booster doesn't rest on his laurels in 2012.

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While we're under "Mc" in the Boosterrific file cabinet, let's celebrate the season with some style.

James McKelvie, a professional comic artist, posted his black and white image of Bronze Age Batman and Classic Booster celebrating Christmas with a high-five -- art intended for Booster fan Eddie Argos -- on his tumblr site last January. I added the color for 2011, but I assure you, it doesn't improve on the original.

You can see more of McKelvie's work on his at mckelvie.tumblr.com.

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Someone needs to tell DC Direct to get on the phone and hire sculptor Tony McDevitt to create us a licensed Blue and Gold statue.

The above 1/6.5 scale (about 12-inches tall) sculpture based on the cover to Booster Gold, Vol. 2, #7 was custom made for Jesse321 who proudly shows it off at statueforum.com. In the tread, Jesse321 hints that a Skeets will be added to the finished work, making it absolutely perfect.

More samples of McDevitt's amazing but sadly non-Booster Gold related work can be found at statueforum.com (where he posts as Troyboy) and on his own website, The McDevitt Studio.

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