The name Jim Pesl has come up frequently in issues of Booster Gold. At this point, the name is still a complete mystery. Does Pesl draw/ink backgrounds for DC Comics? Is Pesl a friend of Dan Jurgens or Norm Rapmund? Is Pesl a pseudonym or acronym? Does Pesl know John Galt?

Internet searches and politely worded emails have failed to uncover the truth about the identity of this enigmatic figure in the background tapestry of Booster Gold. If anyone turns up anything, please let Boosterrific know; the mysterious is killing us.

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Boosterrific.com is not represented via RSS or Twitter feed. You cannot follow Boosterrific.com on Facebook or MySpace. The question here is should it? I just can't see any reason for it. These things don't strike me as necessary or useful. (I'm sure the same argument could be made about a website devoted to Booster Gold.) However, that being said, if anyone can think of a good reason to do any of these things, I'll entertain your ideas.

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FactorX-Cuatro.com recently posted a list of robots in the DC (and Marvel) Universe. The list seems to confuse some cyborgs (i.e. Metallo) for robots, but does contain many very minor characters, some of whom have ever appeared in only 1 panel! Skeets made the list with no differentiation between the first (destroyed by Maxwell Lord) and second (Infinite Crisis) models which Boosterrific.com considers to be two separate beings. Notably missing is Skeets' mechanical nemesis Maximillion, proving that the list, though large, is not quite complete. Still, it's pretty interesting to see the artificial company that Skeets keeps in the DCU.

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This article at CBR was written last week, and therefore probably qualifies as "old news." However, at the end, Dan Jurgens teases about Vanishing Point's hinted connection to Flashpoint, a potential event series coming from DC in 2011. While Jurgens tends to keep his teases very, very mysterious, what's the chance that Booster Gold will be playing a major role in a major DC event book in the near future? It's about time those pesky Green Lanterns took a back seat to a real hero!

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Alert visitors may have noticed that the database of comic books including Booster Gold appearances has now passed 500 issues. This is due to the addition of various Who's Who series of the late 80s to early 90s in which Booster Gold appeared in the background art. If you aren't thrilled to hear that you can now find Booster's appearances in biographical entries for obscure DC characters like Shockwave and Starbreaker, you can just go about your regular business. Otherwise, you'll find the list of non-continuity appearances here.

If you're still reading this far, please note that Boosterrific is still looking to confirm books containing DC house advertisements with Booster Gold. Booster is known to appear in ads in DC published issues with the following cover dates:

• February 1986 (for Booster Gold, V.1, #1),
• May 1991 (for Armageddon 2001),
• August 1992 (for Eclipso, the Darkness Within),
• February 1993 (in an AIDS awareness PSA),
• February 1994 (in another AIDS awareness PSA),
• December 1996 (for DC subscription orders),
• September 2007 (for Booster Gold, V.2, #1)

Rumor also has it that Booster appears in various Who's Who and Millennium house ads from 1988, though this has yet to be verified. Keep an eye out between the panels for Booster Gold and email your discovery to webmaster at Boosterrific.com. If you find an ad in an issue that no one else has reported, you'll certainly get credit for it here at Boosterrific. Thanks, readers.

P.S.: There have been a few problems with the database today that have affected both the blog and the polls. (And hopefully nothing else.) Everything should now be under control.

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