Thursday, March 10, 2011
Newsarama Tells Us Why We Like Booster Gold
As Russ Burlingame pointed out yesterday in the forums (you are reading the forums, aren't you?), Vaneta Rogers has a new article up at Newsarama discussing Booster Gold's enduring popularity. Rogers has interviewed Dan Jurgens, Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis, and Jeffery Katz -- writers for a combined 264 comic stories featuring Booster Gold! -- on their opinions about what makes Booster Gold great.
"I think it's pretty amazing that fans like him so much today because, if you think about the character and the way Dan [Jurgens] introduced him, he's a character you really shouldn't like, because he's so self-serving," said Keith Giffen, who has written the character several times during Booster's 25 years in comics. "And even though he's learning his lessons and growing as a person, there's still a little self-serving core in there. "But for some odd reason, fans just respond to it."
You can find the whole article, "Why They Endure: BOOSTER GOLD - the Self-Serving Superhero," at Newsarama.com.
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011
New Releases: Booster Gold & Generation Lost
Booster Gold #42 and Justice League: Generation Lost #21 are scheduled to hit stands today. February may be the shortest month, but that doesn't explain why we are getting a new issue of Booster Gold only 3 weeks since the last issue -- not that I'm complaining! Buy them both and make Skeets happy.
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Before and After
Yesterday DC released a preview of Booster Gold #42 in the Source, and it's interesting to compare the solicitation cover art with the finished work.
Both images were drawn by Chris Batista and presumably inked by Rich Perotta. The solicitation image on the left was probably colored by a DC staffer; the final image on the right was colored by Hi-Fi Designs. What a difference a bit of computer color makes.
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Monday, March 7, 2011
Weekend Website Upgrade
This week's addition to Boosterrific.com is a relatively small one: a search feature. Now site visitors can quickly and easily find content in issue details, annotations, reviews, blog posts, comments, and forums. It doesn't have the most robust system for parsing search queries, and the number of responses returned per search are quite limited to speed up the search. Those limitations aside, it should still be able to get you in the ballpark of your target if you're looking for something that you didn't otherwise know how to find.
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Friday, March 4, 2011
Finally, a Booster Gold T-Shirt Screenshot!
Sometimes it's not enough to be a fan and read a hero's comic. Sometimes you have to be a video game hero just so you can meet that comic hero in virtual person. But when you do, don't forget to dress for the occasion.
This fine virtual t-shirt featuring the Booster Gold Volume 2 logo designed by Rob Leigh can be yours, too, assuming of course that you are willing to spend hours hunting randomly spawning collectibles in Midtown Metropolis in DC Universe Online. This shirt is the end goal of the Gold Quality Boostercoms collection quest. Find all 5 different cellphone collectibles, and the Question (!) will email you this nifty t-shirt at no additional cost.
It toook me 3 hours to find the right parts. Three hours of flying from rooftop to rooftop looking for little shiny yellow question marks. And if you ask me if it was worth it, I will say, "yes, yes it was."
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