The 2011 San Diego Comic-Con International kicks off this Thursday night. To get everyone in the mood as we count down the days to Friday's "Justice League" panel (which will hopefully contain some real news about the upcoming Justice League International series), let's take a look at some Booster Gold costumes that have appeared in just the last year.

What better way to start the week than with one of the latest fantastic fashions by Gina of Uncanny Adventures in Comic Costume Creations. This costume was worn to Wizard World Philadelphia 2011. It's hard to see in the above picture, but the star on that costume glows! (Follow the previous link to Gina's site for more details.)

We've met Gina before: she's responsible for that great costume featured here in the Boosterrific Blog back on January 20. Booster Gold is lucky to have such a fan.

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DC has now released covers for October solicitations, among them Justice League International #2. This gives us a newer look at at Booster Gold's new costume. Triangular golden breastplate? Arrow gauntlets? Pants-less unitard? Why do I feel like I've seen this somewhere before?

Ah, Triumph. Unloved bastard child of 1990s angst and design awkwardly coupled with DC's Silver Age mythology. Triumph was an energy-wielding, time-displaced hero-turned-crybaby who left the Justice League after too many bad decisions. That doesn't sound familiar.

Surely it's just a coincidence that Jim Lee's new unitard design for Booster Gold is strongly evocative of Triumph's costume. Isn't it?

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At my local comic shop yesterday, I saw that DC had teamed with DK Publishing to release a new encyclopedia, DC Comics: The Ultimate Character Guide. Like previous printings of DK's DC Comics Encyclopedia, this book contains an entry for Booster Gold.

As you can see, the character designs on the cover (as well as the interior pages you can't see) are the up-to-date pre-reboot designs, including Wonder Woman's pants-suit. You have to feel a little sorry for DK: preparing a book like this takes a lot of lead time, and DC announced their sweeping design changes just weeks before publication. If DC is serious about keeping the new costumes, this $16.99 tome is already archaic.

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Believe it or not, it's been five weeks since the last time there has been a "New Releases" post here at Boosterrific.com. The drought finally ends this week as Booster Gold #46 finally hits the stands. Not only does this week see the release of the penultimate issue of the series, it will also mark the release of the second printing of Booster Gold #45. That's two Booster Gold comics in one day! Buy at least one of them and make Skeets happy.

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Matt Brownell has posted a list of "8 Career Mistakes of Superheroes" at Mainstreet.com. Booster Gold makes the list for selecting Dirk Davis as his manager. Sure, Davis turned out to be a sympathetic agent of a race of evil alien robots, but Booster should have known he was no good when his earlier clients were professional wrestlers. Wrestling managers specialize in betraying their clients, usually with folding chairs.

Booster is in good company on the list. Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Superman are among the others making mistakes. Isn't it just like Micheal Jon Carter to emulate his heroes, the A-list super heroes?

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