Thursday, April 1, 2010
The Narrow Miss: Rob Liefeld on Booster Gold
Believe it or not, before Millennium killed the series in 1988, Rob Liefeld was planned to take over pencils on Booster Gold Volume 1. Booster Gold was not selling well, but Dan Jurgens was refusing to bow to editorial pressure to modify Booster Gold into a more traditional hero.
Desperate to increase sales, editor Barbara Randall was seeking alternative ways to draw readers to the flagging book. Since DC was also looking for a way to retain the up-and-coming Liefeld, who was at the time penciling the best-selling 5-issue limited series Hawk & Dove, assigning him as regular artist for the ongoing Booster Gold series seemed a perfect solution: create some buzz on Booster Gold and keep Liefeld at DC Comics. 
DC went so far as to hire Liefeld to prepare some promotional character sketches of his interpretation of Booster Gold. Unfortunately, before plans advanced any further, Liefeld was stolen by Marvel Comics for New Mutants and Booster Gold end up canceled. But just think what might have been!
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Blackest Night: The End
The final issue of Blackest Night is released today. I know I'm in the minority on this, but it seems like the publication of the final issue of this mini-series, a months-long excuse for DC to wade through its recent graveyard of poor editorial decisions and join the bandwagon of the pop-culture zeitgeist for zombies, is cause for celebration. Let's get Brightest Day in here to cleans our palates after all that death.
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Change to User Comments
Well, the spammers finally found me, so I've added the reCAPTCHA form from the user ratings to the user comments fields here on the blog. I apologize for the slight inconvenience this causes.
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Monday, March 29, 2010
Farewell to Dick Girodano
Dick Giordano died this past Saturday at the age of 77. Although Giordano's direct impact on the published adventures of Booster Gold is comparatively small, his indirect influence on the character's legacy, and the comic book industry in general, is immeasurable. For whatever else he has done, and did more than any brief tribute could hope to mention during his nearly 50 years in the business, Giordano deserves credit for bringing Blue Beetle into the DC pantheon, paving the way for the enduring antics of Booster Gold and Blue Beetle. Thank you, Mr. Giordano. [You can find the reminiscences of several artists, including Dan Jurgens, on Dick Giordano at Newsarama.com.]
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Friday, March 26, 2010
The Polls Are Open!
The polls I mentioned last week go live today! Hurray! New polls will roll out on Fridays alongside the results for the previous week's poll. The poll can be found just above the statistics on the homepage, and also on its own page of archived polls here. Now you have something to do besides read comic books all weekend! You can vote your otherwise insignificant opinion in an unscientific poll! And don't pretend like I'm the only one excited. Everyone loves polls. I promise a new one every week, at least until I run out of ideas. I'm perfectly willing to take suggestions, so if you have an idea, let me know between now and... ever.
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