Wednesday, February 10, 2010
New Release: Booster Gold #29
Booster Gold, Volume 2, #29 hits stands today. Buy it and make Skeets happy.
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Thank You, Mike
Boosterrific.com would like to offer a hearty "thank you" to Mike Harlow for his very generous gift of an original Booster Gold promotional pin offered in 1985 by DC Comics to promote Booster Gold, Volume 1, #1. Mike, this is a perfect example of my motivation for maintaining Boosterrific: phat loot.
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Monday, February 8, 2010
Brave and the Bold: Bat Divided
Booster Gold appeared briefly on the Cartoon Network's Batman: The Brave and the Bold last Friday as the unwitting contestant in "Riddle Me This?", a mock television game show masquerading for the Riddler's latest death trap for Batman. The episode, "A Bat Divided!" was amusing throughout despite the brief screen time of the Corporate Crusader. Of particular amusement was the Riddler's silencing of Skeets through the clever application of a simple cloth gag. That's good television.
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Friday, February 5, 2010
Booster Gold Versus The Doom Patrol
Today's graph compresses the timeline of yesterday's graph to compare apples to apples: issue by issue of Comicchron.com sales numbers for recently canceled DC titles. The trend becomes pretty obvious here as ballooning early enthusiasm quickly deflates to a sloping plateau before finally petering out altogether. Note the recurring late series crossover spikes as Blue Beetle #20 is a Sinestro Corps crossover and both Manhunter #13 and 26 got boosts from Infinite Crisis-related stories. I wonder how big those spikes would have been if little plastic rings had been involved?
DC's sales cancellation threshold, while dependent on editorial discretion, is approximately 15,000 units. That's the white line in the graph above. Unless "Blackest Night" or the arrival of Keith Giffen can earn Booster Gold some new regular readers, it looks like the series will be targeted for termination by issue 50. I find that unacceptable. So spread the word, Boosterphiles, and lets see if we can't get some more air under Booster's sails.
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Thursday, February 4, 2010
Booster Gold Versus The Losers
I certainly hope that Booster Gold never gets canceled (again). But curiosity got the better of me, and I compared the sales numbers for Booster Gold against some recent DC titles that got the axe for poor sales. It's pretty easy to spot a recurring trend in Comicchron.com's statistics. Here's hoping Booster Gold's recent sales spike is more than just outlier data.
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