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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Adding to the total number of movies including Booster Gold (total: 2), over the weekend I pleasantly discovered that Booster Gold is briefly seen in the 2010 movie Cop Out thanks to his JLI teammate Black Carnary.

Early in the movie during the investigation of a crime scene within a hobby shop, Adam Brody shows the camera a Justice League International Series 1 Black Canary figure. Prominent on the packaging is the Justice League International line-up, including Booster Gold.

Booster Gold: conquering Hollywood one movie at a time.

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DC has announced that Dan Jurgens will be joining Geoff Johns, Jim Lee, Eddie Berganza, JT Krul, Eric Wallace, Francis Manapul, Brian Buccellato, Philip Tan, and moderator Bob Wayne on the "Justice League" panel at the San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, July 22. It's just possible that some real news will come from this star-studded panel, but don't expect to discover who the mysterious disappearing woman on the cover of Justice League International #1 is. Some secrets man wasn't meant to know.

For a complete list of the DC panels at this year's Comic-Con International, visit The Source.

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[EDIT 4:09 PM EDT: Sorry, sorry. I worked a 12 hour day yesterday, started early this morning, and in between I just plain forgot to upload today's blog post. Please forgive me.]

Erin beat me to this news over in the forums, but Dan Jurgens took his turn in the DC reboot hype machine yesterday at The Source. Jurgens will be drawing Green Arrow and writing Justice League International, both titles that Jurgens has worked on in the past.

How and why are you shaking up the series' status quo?

In GREEN ARROW, we're getting back to the basics of what makes Oliver Queen work. He's accumulated a lot of baggage over the years and it's time for some of that to go.

In JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL, we're really dealing with an entirely new DC Universe. For Booster, Guy Gardner, Rocket Red and the rest this is a new adventure...

Will we see new character designs?

Green Arrow will absolutely have a new look, though he'll still be wearing green— naturally!

In JLI, several of the characters have cool, new looks!

This interview form-letter has been repeated over and over again at The Source for the new DC titles, and the questions say more about DC's approach to this mess than any of the artists have about their individual books. How do you have a "status quo" to "shake up" if you are starting from scratch in a new universe of stories? Why ask why the titles are being shaken up when the company mandated a number one relaunch for all series? Why ask about new character designs when the company has already widely promoted Jim Lee's redesigns? DC, I just don't understand you sometimes.

The full interview (and many other similar interviews) are available on DC's The Source blog here. If you have something to say about this interview or either of these two series (I won't insult you by asking which one you are most excited about -- it's the one with Booster in it, of course), consider dropping in on Erin's thread in the Boosterrific Forum here.

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