Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Skeets' second death (the little guy "died" in both Countdown to Infinite Crisis and 52) made number #3 on the list of Cultural Kalocin's personal top ten emotional moments in comics. No surprise: they're mostly deaths. While I might be able to laugh at someone who gets misty-eyed over Solomon Grundy's change of heart in Justice League Unlimited cartoons, I find his attachment to Skeets entirely emotionally healthy.
Of course, this made me wonder why Skeets' demise late in the series carried more emotional impact that Booster's own apparent death in issue #15. Was Booster's death too early in the series? Or have we as an audience become so bored by the revolving door of hero deaths that we're only affected when minor and supporting heroes die? Despite Skeets' multiple fatalities, those are the deaths that usually "stick," and are therefore more meaningful and resonant. (And, yes, I'm looking at you, Ted Kord.)
You can read Cultural Kalocin's list here.
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Erin posted on Sep. 15, 2010 at 2:43 PM
Well a lot of people (myself included) were already furious that the writing staff seemed to forget Boosters' growth. It looked like they were tearing him down just for an excuse to kill him off. The death it's self looked more like he was trying to get attention over Supernova than do anything heroic. <br />Skeets was used as a pawn but still gave Booster encouragement along with a quip. "Dying" to help save the multiverse and motivate his friend. The best deaths are heroic and in character.
Lissbirds posted on Sep. 18, 2010 at 1:50 AM
I get sad anytime Skeets is in trouble!
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
"In addition, the network has released a brief video of Erica Durance (Lois Lane) answering viewer questions about the season, which sees the return of familiar faces like Arthur Curry (Alan Ritchson), Kara (Laura Vandervoort), Pa Kent (John Schneider) and Hawkman (Michael Shanks), and the introduction of such characters as Darkseid and his minions, Hawkgirl, Deadshot, Booster Gold and Blue Beetle."
Wait, Blue & Gold will be minions of Darkseid? I sure hope that's just bad grammar.
The above sentence is from Spinoff, the television/movie arm of ComicBookResources. You can read the whole blurb and see the CS Smallville season 10 trailers -- none of them include Booster Gold, but Dr. Fate gets a shout out -- here.
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tiggerpete posted on Sep. 14, 2010 at 5:06 PM
hey if Blue and Gold are going to be in Smallville, maybe that is foreshadowing of a Justice League spin-off for when Smallville ends? I certainly hope so.
ncllcn posted on Sep. 14, 2010 at 8:51 PM
I think I remember hearing something about a blue beetle (Jaime Reyes) show in the works or at least a pilot. A booster gold show or animated series would be totally awesome but probably be too hard to do, I think they'd have to do a season or two of back story before jumping into his path to becoming a time master. It's unlikely but I can dream can't I?
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Sep. 14, 2010 at 9:10 PM
@tiggerpete: the internet is abuzz with potential replacements for Smallville. The CW is open minded, and DC really wants to expand their media properties. We'll see what we see.
@nclln: at ComicCon, DC released Blue Beetle test images. The video was a proof of concept. More details were included in a previous blog post: http://www.boosterrific.com/news.php?id=117&No-New-Comics?-Turn-on-the-TV..
Superman posted on Sep. 15, 2010 at 7:56 AM
Booster Gold, minion and possible sidekick of the Blue Beetle. Not bad for someone who used to be a third-stringer. The placement sure would hurt his ego, though.
Lissbirds posted on Sep. 18, 2010 at 1:51 AM
There was an interview with Geoff Johns on Newsarama, I think. (Or one of the comic news sites.) Anyway, it seemed to be Jaime that was going to be showing up on Smallville, but he teased that Ted Kord *might* show up.<br />I'm really bummed about the poassibility of the Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle show being picked up, because now a whole generation of fans will only know him as the Blue Beetle, and not Ted.
eyz posted on Sep. 20, 2010 at 7:43 AM
I guess they meant "(..)Darkseid and his minions AND Hawkgirl, Deadshot, Booster Gold and Blue Beetle too"<br />I hope they do them some justice..but by Smallville standards..it can be either good (Zatanna, Hawkman) or very bad (J'onn, Cyborg)
Monday, September 13, 2010
Starting this past weekend, both the college and professional football seasons are underway. Millions of Americans are gambling millions of dollars on these sports. Hopefully, this does not include any star quarterbacks who may become publicly disgraced, forcing them to steal museum exhibits and travel back in time to find a new path to public acceptance. That would be a tragedy.
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tiggerpete posted on Sep. 13, 2010 at 6:43 PM
I love football season, living less than an hour away from one of the most storied college teams, it is almost required to love football (plus, if you ever go to a game, you get hooked immediately)
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Sep. 14, 2010 at 4:33 AM
Oh, come on now, 'pete. After you brag about "one of the most storied college teams," you have to tell us who they are. Army? Yale? Notre Dame? Gotham University? Do tell.
ncllcn posted on Sep. 14, 2010 at 9:37 AM
I for one think it would be cool if a college player was disgraced and had to travel back in time. It's how we got one of my favorite comics heros of all. Also I have to shout out for my home state team that was in fact the team Michael 'Booster' Carter was caught throwing a game against. OHIO STATE. GO BUCKEYES!!!
tiggerpete posted on Sep. 14, 2010 at 5:08 PM
University of Nebraska Cornhuskers GO BIG RED! (now that I think of it, probably should have said more storied instead of most)
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Sep. 14, 2010 at 7:14 PM
That's alright, 'pete. You gotta be true to your school. FYI, Boosterrific.com is officially Georgia Bulldog country, but we like having you Midwest visitors.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Since SallyP scooped me by including Booster Gold's topless exercise routine from Booster Gold, Vol. 1, #18 in her beefcake roll call yesterday, for Boosterrific's final installment in her Green Lantern's Butt Forever's Beefcake Week, I give you not Booster Gold but Supernova:
Booster Gold's ancestor Daniel Carter shows his future wife, Rose, the goods. Panel from Booster Gold, Vol. 2, #3, 2007. Art by Dan Jurgens and Norm Rapmund.
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tiggerpete posted on Sep. 12, 2010 at 11:33 AM
huh, maybe its because I don't make a habit of looking at guys in their underwear, but I just noticed his boxers have footballs on them. now I want a pair of boxers like that.
Sallyp posted on Sep. 12, 2010 at 11:33 AM
It may not be Booster, but heck, Daniel is a completely acceptable choice!
Thursday, September 9, 2010
After a one day delay thanks to the extended Labor Day weekend, Booster Gold, Volume 2, #36 (found here, here, and here in their chronological order of Booster appearances within the issue) and Justice League: Generation Lost #9 are scheduled to hit stands today. Buy them both and make Skeets happy.
UPDATE: People, read JL:GL first, Booster Gold second. Trust me, it will make more sense. (I swear that they are trying to make the chronology of Booster's adventures as complicated as possible for the only person on the planet who is trying to keep them in order: me.)
Meanwhile, in the continuing adventures of Beefcake Gold:
Booster Gold, American gigolo. Panel from Formerly Known as the Justice League #1, 2003. Art by Kevin Maguire and Joe Rubenstein.
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Superman posted on Sep. 9, 2010 at 12:37 PM
Max's mind-power must be really strong to keep his eyes from wandering over to that star.
Sallyp posted on Sep. 9, 2010 at 4:51 PM
Oh god...the star.
Erin posted on Sep. 9, 2010 at 6:51 PM
Hate these minis love that swim suit.
TGB posted on Sep. 9, 2010 at 11:28 PM
My friendly local comic shop sold their copies of BG36 before I could get there - curses. I'll need to see about getting a bin at that store. The same thing happened for the last Time Masters comic, which I have yet to read.<br /><br />(BTW, your captcha gave me something ridiculously unreadable; the first word appeared to be something from Asia Minor...)
Harry posted on Sep. 10, 2010 at 12:02 AM
BG has started selling out at my LCS as well. I think they are ordering fewer copies. I have a box, but didn't put Time Masters on my pull list... it also sold out (issues 1 & 2). What's up with that? Also, captcha is going WAY above and beyond. Often, I have no idea what words I am supposed to type. Is there a setting for that or something? Lastly, I would buy that suit in a heartbeat!
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Sep. 10, 2010 at 12:33 AM
Sorry about that reCAPTCHA problem, guys. I had noticed that it was requiring more esoteric characters. I don't know if that's because the scanned books that it is parsing it's wordlist from are moving beyond the English language (which I'd expect, now that Google owns them), or just because it has to stay an extra step ahead of savvy hackers. Unfortunately, I know from past tests that I have to have it to screen spam. If it gets too bad, let me know, and I'll take a look to see if I can't find another Captcha provider that I can use.
On the other subject, Just maybe all this press recently over the controversial change in tone has sent readers back to the title, increasing demand. Orders certainly haven't been climbing by leaps and bounds. Of course, I suspect that your retailers have just been cutting orders drastically. But I can certainly hope.
tiggerpete posted on Sep. 10, 2010 at 4:49 AM
my lcs always has a good stock of everything (at least as far as what I'm interested in) but the one I used to go to (it closed) never had much of anything aside from what I got (probably why it closed) <br />as for the captcha, I think it just puts random letters together somtimes
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Sep. 10, 2010 at 5:20 AM
Random letters shouldn't be too bad. Let me know when it's asking for letters that don't appear on your keyboard.
