Thursday, October 21, 2010
Booster Gold Versus Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Sales numbers are in for September, and the decline on Booster Gold isn't as bad as word of mouth might have you believe. The graph below is only for the Giffen/DeMatteis issues to date, and the slope of decline is pretty similar to what was seen with Jurgens at the helm. It will be interesting to see what the future holds following the nearly universal distaste for Booster Gold #37.
As much as I'd rather not encourage anyone to stop buying Booster Gold, those of you who hate the antics of Giffen and DeMatteis need to stop buying until they are replaced. That is the kind of message that DC cannot ignore (and the sort of free-market advice that Booster Gold would appreciate).
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Dressed for Failure
We're reliving the glorious 1990s today as Booster Gold makes yet another internet list: The 16 Worst 90s Superhero Redesigns at popcrunch.com. I'm not saying that I agree with everything on that list -- I kind of enjoyed electric Superman -- but Booster's mechanical armor? Yeah, that was bad. (It was, of course, supposed to be bad. But not in the same self-referential way that Azrael/Batman was supposed to be bad.)
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
L'eggo my Lego!
Despite the explosion of Lego out of the toybox and into the collectible market, the Danish toy giant hasn't gotten around to giving us DC minifigs outside of the Batman mythos just yet. Thankfully, customlegominifigs.com has your Booster Gold needs covered with their custom decal sheet for DC heroes. You can buy the sheets through their eBay store and assemble your own blocky Justice League. Sorry, but you'll have to build your own Skeets.
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Monday, October 18, 2010
Batman: the Blue and the Gold
Ah, Cartoon Network, you mess with my head again. Friday night's episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold was advance teased as an episode featuring the Birds of Prey. But what actually aired was "The Menace of the Madniks," a Booster Gold episode in which Booster and Batman argue over which hero is really Ted Kord's best friend. This Boosterrific episode was scheduled to air next week, giving me some time to warn Booster Gold fans about it. Curse you, Cartoon Network, and your unreliable scheduling!
"The Menace of the Madniks" is a bit of a continuity nightmare, really. The episode re-writes Ted's death as a heroic self-sacrifice to stop a missile, merges aspects of Blue Beetle I and II, and renames Steve Ditko's chaotic Madmen the "Madniks," probably to avoid any confusion with the more familiar Madman comic character by Mike Allred. The biggest flaw in the episode is that it whitewashes the legacy of the Blue Beetle by portraying Ted Kord as a saint, ignoring the hijinks that made the character so popular in the 80s & 90s.
Despite these changes, it's a very fun episode. (Are there any Brave and the Bold episodes that aren't?) I highly recommend it.
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Friday, October 15, 2010
FallCon!
If last week's New York Comic Con didn't wear you out, consider checking out FallCon 2010 from 10AM to 4PM tomorrow at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds. Fallcon is already superior to New York Comic Con simply because Minnesota native, Booster Gold-creator, and all-around-great-guy Dan Jurgens is on the guest list. I'll take quality over quantity any day.
More details can be found at the Midwest Comic Book Association website.
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