After being captured by an alien who claims to own the entire Earth (a plot device that probably sounds familiar to readers of Blue and Gold #5), Booster Gold doesn't have much to do in Justice League America #68 but serve as a background wall decoration.

Fun fact: The Matrix was released 7 years after this comic!

To be honest, the H.R. Giger-inspired page 12, above, is not really my favorite page in the issue. I prefer both the giant Guy Gardner taking up all of page 1 and the sequence of lonely, heartbroken Ice wandering an abandoned Edwards Air Force Base on page 9. But Booster isn't on those pages.

In fact, Booster isn't on most of the pages in this issue. I even considered skipping this issue entirely, and I would have if Booster hadn't played such a significant role in the first half of this story. After the big build up in the previous issue, it would have felt wrong to leave Booster's storyline just... hanging.

(Sorry. Not sorry.)

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Can you believe that DC K.O. #1 came out 6 weeks ago? And we're still a week away from issue #2. For an event that's only supposed to be five issues/six months long, it sure is taking its own sweet time to get going.

In the meantime, Booster's reported appearance in that exclusive DC Universe Infinite DC Go! Aquaman comic has now spread to episode 20, released on Tuesday.

I've got no reason to believe Booster will be in any of this week's releases, and since DC is saving Booster Gold fans so much money on new releases, we're running out of excuses not to subscribe to DC Universe Infinite Ultra. (I don't really want to read yet another Elseworlds story about pirates. But my resolve is starting to weaken.)

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Longtime DC letterer Todd Klein has recently started a series of posts on his blog (kleinletters.com/Blog/) detailing the logos he has designed over the years, including one particular logo that should be pretty darn familiar to Booster Gold fans.

As Klein writes in his post "My Logos A-Z: BIZARRO to BRAIN STORM":

Booster Gold. Client: DC Comics. Medium: pen and ink. Date: 1985. I don't recall if creator Dan Jurgens provided any ideas for this, but he probably did. The dollar sign for the S is something I might not have thought of myself. The bevels add depth when they aren't overwhelmed by heavy colors. Appeared on 25 issues.

In addition to the 1985 run, the logo also appeared in several Who's Who entries as well as on the covers of Booster's Convergence mini-series in 2015, which means it's been used for two centuries. So you know it must be pretty good!

Thanks to Todd for creating such a great logo, and thanks again for permitting me to repost his personal blog content. I encourage anyone interested in the history of comics to read much, much more about Klein's incredible body of work and the designers who inspired him at kleinletters.com (especially his Logo Studies).

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Booster boosters Rob Snow and Pigeon both wrote to tell me that Booster Gold and Skeets have been sighted in DC Go!'s Aquaman: Yo-Ho-Hold Onto Your Hook!. Rob even gave me a couple of images he found on X.

I, for various reasons, am not on X, but I believe, based on the other screenshot that Rob sent me of an X post by Josh Trujillo, that the Booster and Skeets seen above are in issue #19 released to Ultra members of dcuniverseinfinte.com on November 11.

X will not let me search its content without an account, but from what Rob and Pigeon have told me plus a little old fashioned Google sleuthing, I am under the impression that the above character turnaround was drawn by Bradley Clayton, who is one of several artists that the DC Universe Infinite credits on that issue.

However, for slightly different reasons, I also do not have a DC Universe Infinite Ultra account, which is required to actually read that issue. (I read free issue #1. Reminded me of One Piece. Is that the target audience: people who can't get enough One Piece?) So I'm just going to have to assume that reliable Rob and dependable Pigeon aren't pulling my leg with one of those elaborate AI ruses that seem to be everywhere these days.

If anyone reading this does have an Ultra account, can confirm that Booster Gold is in Aquaman: Yo-Ho-Hold Onto Your Hook! #19, and wants to send me a screenshot of the title and credits page of that issue, I'll add the issue (with credit to the treasure hunter who brings me this bounty) to the Boosterrific! Database.

Thanks to Rob and Pigeon for their eternal vigilance, especially in this age of pirates.

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I'm not seeing anything in the weekly ship list to indicate any reason for Booster Gold fans to buy comic books this week, so instead of talking about that, here's the best fan letter I received last week:

Good evening Mr. Boosterrific,

I am a fan of your catalog of Booster Gold media, the time and effort taken to make record of the content is rather admirable, with or without assistance. I adore Michael Jon Carter AKA Booster Gold. He has been my favorite DC character since I learned of his existence. Seeing another massive fan of Mr. Carter restores my faith in humanity and I would like to personally thank you for your service to the cause.

I thank you deeply for having such a wonderful archive of Booster content to look at when I am feeling down. I've shown it to my garden and my crops are growing extremely well now. Booster Gold saved my village from famine. I thank you kindly. I shall have a golden statue erected of Mr. Carter himself within my own home, and a shrine dedicated using your wonderful archive of content.

Thank you for being so amazing and terrific, this archive healed my terminal NonBoosterItis and now I am able to do back-flips and play piano at the same time. After reading about Booster Gold, I now find myself irresistible. I cannot stop looking in the mirror, I am making myself to look more like Booster in order to achieve true beauty. I am inspired!

Sincerely, Booster's Number 1 Fan

I might be inclined to argue about the title of "Booster's Number 1 Fan," but the letter was signed "Theodore Kord," so, yeah, that checks out.

Thanks for the kind words, Ted. I'm the last person to restore anyone's faith in humanity, but I am very glad to have helped your garden grow, especially if that leads to another shrine to our hero, Booster Gold.

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