Monday, April 5, 2010
Following one of the holiest days of the Christian calendar, perhaps its fitting to give some thought to the spiritual leanings of Booster Gold. In the canon of DC Comics, Booster has openly claimed to be an atheist (in Justice League International Annual #2), though offhand comments made in the years since imply that he may truly be more agnostic. (Never mind for the time being that atheism appears to be a logical fallacy in the DCU, where the personification of the Wrath of God is a member of the Justice Society and an angel is a member of the Justice League.) According to adherents.com, many people have guessed that Booster is a Scientologist. Do the actions of Booster Gold give any clue to his belief system? Or is Booster Gold as spiritually shallow as he would like you to believe?
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tiggerpete posted on Apr. 5, 2010 at 6:15 PM
I think if Booster has a real religion, it is something from the future that we don't have now, either that or he is agnostic as superheroics take up the time and energy that one would usually reserve for following a spiritual path. (I think that we may never know for sure)
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Apr. 5, 2010 at 10:47 PM
Future religion? No doubt after the global apocalypse that preceded Booster's birth, there could be the birth of any number of new religious movements. Granted, it's possible. It seems this sort of debate makes Booster perfect for a spiritual Christmas story of the sort that DC runs from time to time, doesn't it?
Harry posted on Apr. 6, 2010 at 1:02 PM
Somewhere I got the impression that in Booster's time that society had "evolved" past religion. The take was a hyper-science rationalist community where religion would be considered ritualistic and primative. Not sure where I got this impression, but could explain some of Booster's ambivalence toward religion in general. Given the unstable and constantly changing nature of the fabric of the DCU; it might be prudent to keep one's beliefs open and/or vague.
tiggerpete posted on Apr. 6, 2010 at 5:44 PM
my thoughts exactly
Friday, April 2, 2010
Attentive readers may have noticed that in the most recent issue of Booster Gold, Cyborg Superman blows a huge hole in the Eradicator. My first thought was that that sort of thing wouldn't have been allowed if the new Booster Gold series had been submitted for Comic Code Authority approval as the original series was. But when I double-checked Superman #80, the scene is shown very graphically on the cover of the issue which also bears the Comics Code Stamp of Approval!
DC Comics still promotes the fact that their Johnny DC line is approved by the Comics Code Authority. But if the modern Code allows for the sort of graphic violence as one man shooting another in half, I can't imagine that the Code is really providing much assurance for parents looking for kid-friendly books. If that's the case, we might as well get the Code back on Booster Gold if it would encourage anybody to buy the book. Then maybe DC could start promoting the time-traveling adventures of Booster Gold as edutainment: a history lesson with staples!
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Thursday, April 1, 2010
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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tiggerpete posted on Apr. 1, 2010 at 1:10 PM
reminds me of Extreme Justice
Harry posted on Apr. 1, 2010 at 2:50 PM
I never like Liefeld's art. But he certainly was the hot thing in the late 80's early 90's. The Hawk and Dove series was marginal, but it sold. I guess the contrast of his art with the standard of the day made the difference.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Apr. 2, 2010 at 4:27 AM
In a way, we do have Liefeld among others to thank for the eventual DC Brazilian explosion that led to teh eye-bleedingly bad Extreme Justice. (Ugh.) But at least not as directly as I indicated above. The truth of this story is that Liefeld was dismissed (to put it politely) by DC editor Mike Carlin due to some artistic differences and tardiness and was never considered as an artist for Booster Gold. (Full story can be found at the superb Comic Legends Revealed.) April Fool's, people.
Rob Liefeld posted on Mar. 23, 2017 at 11:17 AM
This is an obvious FAKE!!! Not my drawing in any way.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Mar. 23, 2017 at 9:46 PM
I'll second that. To the best of my knowledge, Rob, you have never, ever drawn any picture of Booster Gold.
Billy Roy Hodstetter posted on Sep. 28, 2018 at 4:17 PM
There has been Rob commissions/sketches done of Booster Gold within last decade.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Sep. 28, 2018 at 4:49 PM
I stand corrected.
Billy Roy Hodstetter posted on Jan. 4, 2019 at 3:02 PM
I've just got the joke and saw the "April's Fool" and noticed it in the date.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
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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Harry posted on Apr. 1, 2010 at 2:53 PM
I'm not sure how I feel about BN. I have bought the main title but not the tie-ins (expect BG of course). It is popular but widely panned. It seems epic and relevant in a way Final Crisis did not, but it is also light bright silly. My take on it is how it affects death in the DCU from this point forward. A satisfiying answer will increase my favorability. Otherwise, I may feel like I wasted $24.
KMD posted on Apr. 5, 2010 at 2:34 PM
Look, BN sold well but....man it took forever. It went on too long and was all over the place.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Apr. 5, 2010 at 10:34 PM
Doesn't that sort of sum up all of DC's recent event-driven "specials"? It sells well because we're all slavishly devoted to the juvenile equivalent to violent soap operas, not because of any great story-telling ability or brilliant sales strategy. But then, I'm jaded, and, as I said, I hate zombie stories.
tiggerpete posted on Apr. 6, 2010 at 5:49 PM
as zombie stories go, I thought it was fun and (as long as you read the main title and the GL books) it was well written, do I wish all of my favorite people came back? yeah, but I guess to quote Pet Semetary "sometimes, Dead is better" I am excited for Brightest Day, because I enjoyed Blackest Night, and Geoff Johns is infallable to me, he is DC's pope.........kinda
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
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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tiggerpete posted on Mar. 30, 2010 at 1:10 PM
well, anything to keep out the spammers
Harry posted on Apr. 1, 2010 at 2:54 PM
I am having trouble posting from my laptop. Any suggestions as to what could be wrong? The desk top post's just fine. I also posted my BD #30 review from the laptop. Thanks!
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Apr. 1, 2010 at 6:17 PM
Harry, I'll need a little more information: how are your laptop and PC different? Operating system, browser, javascript enabled, plug-ins? You can email me at webmaster at boosterrific if you'd prefer not to post that information in the comments, and I'll try to troubleshoot the problem.
Harry posted on Apr. 5, 2010 at 9:15 AM
The only major differences between them is that I run Firefox on the laptop with the FTP plugin and Explorer on the desktop without an FTP. Does that help?
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Apr. 5, 2010 at 10:30 PM
Harry, I just ran a bunch of tests in Firefox 2.5, IE 7 & IE 8, and while I did find many oddities and inconsistencies with the site (ie8 is better than 1e7, but it's still a nightmare for CSS), I did not find any browser issues that should prevent comment submission. I do note, however, that I am unable to comment to blogs on Google's blogger.com in Firefox, so there may very well be a security setting in the browser that is preventing the commenting. The script does check IP addresses of the referring server to prevent known spam and troll IPs, so it's possible that is the problem if you are masking your IP address with a plug-in. That's the only thing that comes to mind.
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