If Boosterrific.com isn't comprehensive enough for your Booster Gold needs, may I suggest a trip over to Cpedia.com, an "automated encyclopedia" billing itself as "The World's Biggest Search Engine." Cpedia surfs the web for you, building a composite article culled from sources around the web, including various wikis, blogs, and message boards. It's a great idea, but it's still a little rough around the edges. For example, the following paragraphs were taken exactly as they appear at Cpedia.com/wiki?q=Booster+Gold.

Created by Dan Jurgens, a writer/artist with a clean line who's probably best-known for killing off Superman, Booster was a frustrated ex-football player from the 25th century who came back to our time to become the hero he always imagined himself. [25.8] The witty dialogue came fast and furious in this one, spotlighting exactly how humour is such an essential ingredient in a good Booster Gold comic. [25.9] Next up is his greatest challenge yet: preventing one of the most horrific wrongs that's ever befallen a hero in the DC Universe. [25.10]

As much as I like Booster Gold, I would not want to see him and Barbara Gordon get married, maybe date for awhile, but not married. [25.11]

Not surprisingly, much of the information on Cpedia about Booster's history was culled from Boosterrific.com. Not that I'm anything other than flattered. In fact, I've been parsing the Cpedia article to try and catch typos on this site! Thanks, internet!

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So, did you see the DC Universe Online trailer unveiled last week at Comic Con? Sadly no Booster Gold, but there's plenty of Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, and alternate future time traveling! How can a game whose storyline features Lex Luthor traveling back-in-time from the future to warn the present about Brainiac not feature DC's current Time Masters? I had wondered how much Booster Gold might be in the game considering his public persona as super hero shill. But now I begin to suspect that there may be an opportunity to take a ride with Rip Hunter in a Time Sphere. Don't let me down here, Sony. (You can see the trailer yourself here.)

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One of the many, many things Comic Book Resources posted about Comic Con was the Grant Morrison panel ("DC Focus," Friday, Jul. 23). During the panel, Morrison responded to an apparently straightforward question about the age of Batman and Robin thusly:

"It's not real! There is no science. The science is the science of 'Anything can happen in fiction and paper' and we can do anything.

"We've already got the real world. Why would you want fiction to be like the real world? Fiction can do anything, so why do people always want to say, 'Let's ground this' or 'Let's make this realistic.' You can't make it realistic because it's not."

While I do completely understand where Morrison is coming from, and I hate to read too much into an off-the-cuff convention response, I can't help but wonder if he's not missing the point a little bit by dodging the accusation that is most often leveled at him: his work is too often -- I don't want to say "intellectual," so let's say "theoretical" instead. To some of us, the quasi-reality is the escapist fantasy. To so easily dismiss that point, even to dodge an uncomfortable question at a convention, may be the same as simply dismissing his harshest critics.

No one who reads this blog thinks that Booster Gold is a real person. (I hope.) But the quantification of the trivial elements of a fictional character is a large part of the enjoyment of reading DC Comics for at least myself, and I suspect many others. No offense intended to Mr. Morrison, who has indeed written some very enjoyable stories over the years, but to flippantly write-off our devotion to an artificial reality as a misguided fantasy, I think, indicates the flaws in Morrison's approach to mainstream American super-hero comic books.

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Russ Burlingame has published his latest "Gold Exchange" column with Dan Jurgens discussing Vanishing Point #1 on Newsarama.com. As always, Burlingame's questions draw some illuminating answers from Jurgens about the events and characters in his latest story (How does Michelle feel about being Goldstar? Whatever happened to the Linear Men? Will we see more Tyrannosauruses?) But the biggest news in this article is the announcement of the new Dan Jurgens website, DanJurgens.com. Congratulations to Jurgens for finally establishing a solid web presence disseminating news of his many, many activities.

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Think about it this way: with today's release of Justice League: Generation Lost #6, we're almost at the quarter point of the series! Maybe it's just me, but it still seems like this story is just getting started. That's probably a good thing, as I clearly want more. Buy it and make Skeets happy.

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