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.
| | Tags: beefcake formerly known as the justice league justice league new releases
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.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
It's Wednesday, but sadly there are no new comics (at least in America). It's not the end of the industry just yet, it's just a side effect of our 3-day weekend. Be patient: there are two Booster Gold comics on the horizon.
To kill the time until they get here, perhaps you can peruse Gavok's review of the Geoff Johns teaser panels from the beginning and end of his run on Booster Gold over at 4thletter.net.
Or maybe you'd just like to keep the beefcake theme going:
"Completely healed" but without toes? (Ah, the 1990s.) Panel from Extreme Justice #12, 1996. Art by Tom Morgan and Ken Branch.
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harry posted on Sep. 8, 2010 at 10:59 AM
Good grief, that art is horrible. I am glad I wasn't purchasing comics in the 90's. How on earth could DC publish something like that with and honestly expect it to sell?
Superman posted on Sep. 8, 2010 at 11:53 AM
I believe that style (extremely long legs, pin heads atop gargantuan shoulders, distorted anatomy, etc.) was de rigeur in comics at the time, and apparently it helped sales then.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Sep. 8, 2010 at 2:15 PM
That's true, Superman. Extreme Justice fell on the tail end of the trend (DC is not traditionally quick to embrace art trends). I don't know how much it helped sales, as the title was canceled after a year and a half to launch Morrison's Big Seven JLA. Though, to be fair, I think just about anything would be canceled to launch a Morrison title, especially JLA.
tiggerpete posted on Sep. 8, 2010 at 5:15 PM
I've read all of Extreme Justice, and although the art is terrible, it did get better, this is actually a panel from later on that didn't make your eyes bleed (btw, I love Morrison's JLA, its one of the first things I collected when I got back into comics)
Harry posted on Sep. 8, 2010 at 11:17 PM
I blame Liefeld. I actually got his Hawk & Dove when it first came out... and at the time I thought it was pretty cool. Ahh, youth. BTW, the 4th letter's review of the Extreme Justice run is hilarious. I laughed out loud several times. It is truly scant praise to say a series ceased to "make my eyes bleed" as it progressed.
TGB posted on Sep. 8, 2010 at 11:55 PM
Yes, Liefeld... exactly what I was gonna remark.
Superman posted on Sep. 9, 2010 at 12:34 PM
@Harry: I came across a mid-90s Wonder Woman comic book the other day. It has a similar sort of style, with Diana having legs that looked four feet long, and though the massacre of anatomy got to me, I sort of found the style beautiful in its own twisted way. (Pun intended.)
Sallyp posted on Sep. 9, 2010 at 4:50 PM
Egad. Extreme Justice League was of course ridiculous, but still...a shirtless and pantless Booster is always nice.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Nine (count 'em: 9!) new Booster Gold appearances were added to the database this past holiday weekend. I trust that everyone else was just as productive as I was, yes?
I even had time to surf some web. And that's where I encountered a great idea at Green Lantern's Butt Forever: superhero beefcake shots! So while we're all recovering from Dragon*Con hangovers, enjoy:
Advertisement for Dusk Fragrance for Men campaign from Booster Gold, Vol. 1, #9, 1986. Art by Dan Jurgens and Mike DeCarlo.
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Sallyp posted on Sep. 7, 2010 at 10:52 AM
Why...why that's fabulous!
Lissbirds posted on Sep. 7, 2010 at 4:46 PM
Great to see Boosterific joining the fun!<br />I had a feeling the Dusk ad might be the one.
Cnd posted on Sep. 8, 2010 at 12:35 AM
Screw a secret identity, what good do they do when you want attention, money and fame?
Friday, September 3, 2010
While we're on the subject of how Keith Giffen destroys series, I decided to go looking for another letter column that I remembered once being especially critical of Keith Giffen's art. From 1986's Hex #18 (the final issue):
While most editors wouldn't print so much negative press in their letter columns, maybe because Hex was being canceled, or maybe because he had received a 3-to-1 ration of anti-Giffen letters, writer/editor Michael Fleisher filled the series final letter column with responses to Giffen's art. Nearly a quarter of a century later, and it doesn't seem that the reading public's opinion has much changed.
Have a happy Labor Day/Dragon*Con Weekend, everybody!
| | Tags: hex james w. barnes keith giffen letters page michael fleisher
tiggerpete posted on Sep. 3, 2010 at 5:55 PM
wow, my favorite part is that nobody would pay 75 cents for a comic with perceived inferior art. I wonder if they would pay 2.99 for it now? (wouldn't it be awesome if comics were still 75 cents each?) I know my wallet would be happier
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Sep. 3, 2010 at 6:28 PM
I think that it's great that he opens his letter by vowing never to buy another issue following issue #15, then later admits that he "will buy HEX until issue #20." Now _that_ sounds like the fanboys that I know.
Eyz posted on Sep. 7, 2010 at 6:27 AM
Wow! That's pretty harsh there! :(<br />I, for one, really like Keith Giffen's art!...<br />I remember some "saucy" letters in the pages of Booster as well.. but darn! that is pretty harsh!
Eyz posted on Sep. 7, 2010 at 7:50 AM
Oopsies, I meant "Ambush Bug" not Booster!
TGB posted on Sep. 7, 2010 at 9:42 PM
I couldn't take KG's art in Booster Good the other month. Terrible. Inconsistent, blobish, unrecognizable.
