Thursday, February 10, 2011
Booster Gold Versus Calculator
Just in time for the announcement that they would be leaving the book, it appears that Giffen and DeMatteis may have finally found their audience on Booster Gold, as the decline in month-to-month sales seems to be decreasing.
There has been a lot of talk on sites like comichron.com and icv2.com about the fact that far fewer comic books were released by Diamond Comics Distributors in January 2011, giving comic book buyers a chance to actually pick up books they might otherwise have to pass on. Maybe this perceived weakness in offerings is a strength for books like Booster Gold. If fewer number one issues mean that more people are instead picking up copies of Booster Gold, I'm all for it.
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011
New Release: Generation Lost #19
Though the issue of Booster Gold originally scheduled for release today has been pushed back at least a week, Justice League: Generation Lost #19 will still ship on time. Also scheduled to ship today is the hardcover collection of the first 12 issues (1/2 of the total series), though of course you've already been buying these issues each week and making Skeets happy, haven't you?
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011
DC Officially Announces What Russ Told Us
DC announced on its Source Blog yesterday that Dan Jurgens would be returning to Booster Gold with issue #44. This breaking news was accompanied with the Jurgens/Rapmund cover for the issue.
This advance art features flat blocks of color, not the sort of work we're used to seeing from Brian Miller's Hi-Fi Designs studio, the colorist for Booster Gold Volume 2. Is Hi-Fi leaving Booster Gold? Is this the color scheme for Flashpoint? Or is this just hastily colored solicitation art? We'll know more in May when Dan Jurgens makes his return to Booster Gold.
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Monday, February 7, 2011
Super Bowl Hangover
Micheal "Booster" Carter never played in a Super Bowl, but if he had, he would no doubt have played like Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
Rodgers passed for 304 yards and 3 touchdowns en route to a win. As a result of his success, Rodgers was recognized by the assembled media as the game's Most Valuable Player. Moments after being named MVP, Rodgers looked squarely into a television camera and announced to the world that he was "going to Disney World!"
A gifted star athlete turned corporate shill? That sounds a lot like Booster Gold to me.
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Friday, February 4, 2011
Dan Jurgens Returns for Booster Gold #44
I know that I usually run "Gold Exchange" links on Tuesdays, but Russ Burlingame broke the news that Dan Jurgens will be returning to Booster Gold on issue #44 last night at Comic Related. I can't sit on news like that! As Burlingame himself posted in the Boosterrific.com Forum yesterday:
The Gold Exchange: So—as we've done once or twice before, last thing first: Back when it was announced you'd be leaving Booster Gold for a while to take on Time Masters: Vanishing Point, it became public knowledge after an issue of Booster Gold had "To Be Continued In..." tagged at the end. Now that story is finished and the last issue of Time Masters says "To be continued in Booster Gold #44." Will you be the one continuing your storyline in a new title here, as you did after The Tomorrow Memory?
Dan Jurgens: Yes. I'll be jumping back to Booster Gold as of issue #44, which I've just started drawing. It's good to be home!
It'll be good to have you back, Dan. You can read the whole article here.
UPDATE 02/05: FYI: Russ has posted a slightly longer version of the Comic Related "Gold Exchange" column at Newsarama that answers some questions specifically addressed here in the Boosterrific Forum. You can find that column here.
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