Eyz of G33K Life is running a very periodic comic strip based on everybody's favorite Booster Gold and the rest of the Justice League International. You can find Eyz's SUPPERBUDDIES! strips and links to his other very entertaining comic-centric cartoons here.

But wait, that's not all! This past weekend, G33K Life has been busy with the Booster Gold love, posting a review of the entire original run of Booster Gold in the site's Comic Book Quickies series. Of course, anyone visiting Boosterrific probably already knows everything that there is to know about Booster (right?), but there's certainly something to be said for quick reviews of books in this modern, minute rice world.

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DC just released its solicitations for November. While I don't normally read them (two things I hate: hype and spoilers), I did look through the list over at ComicList this time because I was looking for details on the upcoming Booster Gold collected trade. What I noticed was that 24 of the 96 separate comic books scheduled to ship in November has at least 1 variant incentive cover. That's exactly a quarter of all DC comics shipping during the month of November. That is a lot. In fact, it's probably too much.

What is this, the 1990s all over again? Did we learn nothing? Variant covers don't lure new fans to the already too-insulated specialty shops. And they aren't worth significantly extra cash in the long run. All they do is burden collectors and the shop owners who need to appease them to maintain their clientele. At this rate, there will soon come a Wednesday when the comic racks will look full but really only be a single issue of Batman between the two dozen variant covers.

Personally, I think that DC would be better served redirecting the money that they are paying artists for all of these extra covers into advertising these issues to the world-at-large. At least that way they could try increasing the market size instead of just creating shiny new lures for the already over-fished fans remaining in this shrinking pond.

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Last week, in the Newsarama.com article appropriately titled "Judd Winick Goes Solo on Justice League: Generation Lost," Vaneta Rogers confirmed that Keith Giffen is leaving Generation Lost beginning in issue #8. I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I've been a big fan of Giffen's breakdowns. They provide an experienced and even-handed tempo for the sequential art that proves invaluable, especially for ensemble artist series such as JL:GL. I expect that from this point forward, the series art is likely to become even more erratic from issue to issue. Hopefully, this will not unduly affect the story-telling in a title that is already looking a little too rushed.

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Dan Jurgens has been busy recently. In addition to taking time out of his schedule to answer some of my questions, he's been interviewed at length by Comics Nexus' John Babos for a three-part interview last past week. Part 1 focused on Booster Gold and part 2 featured Vanishing Point. (Part 3 concerned Jurgens' Superman legacy.) It's worth a look for any Jurgens fan.

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Musician Eddie Argos and his pals have created a song about Booster Gold:

"Booster Gold" is just one of the 3 tracks on Spoiler Alert!. (The other two tracks are "Batman" and "Blue Beetle.") More details about the album are available on Argos' Blog, The Eddie Argos Resource. But if you like what you hear, just head directly to Corporate Records UK to purchase the track -- or the entire album.

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