Monday, March 1, 2010
So now that the comic book featuring the wealthiest hero in comics is the most valuable comic book in history, how much longer before the greediest hero in comics, Booster Gold, makes an appearance in 'Tec 27? Booster's already appeared in Killing Joke, Countdown to Infinite Crisis, and Teen Titans #2, and he will soon pop into the events of Superman #80 (not to mention appearances behinds the scenes at Zero Hour and Crisis on Infinite Earths), so it can't be too long before he pops into another issue pivotal to DC history. With the upcoming return of Bruce Wayne, it seems like a pretty good time for Booster to visit the classics.
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tiggerpete posted on Mar. 2, 2010 at 1:14 AM
I would love to see Booster pop up in the first battle with Starro and be considered for original membership in the JLA in the events of Brave and the Bold #28 (due to some time based deus ex machina nobody remembers but our loveable hero)
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Mar. 2, 2010 at 1:43 AM
Hmm, that sounds a lot like the entire premise behind the deceased Justice Leaguer Triumph. You know, having Booster interact with Triumph in BatB 28 would probably make a pretty enjoyable story for those of us who are addicted to continuity. Good suggestion.
tiggerpete posted on Mar. 2, 2010 at 7:31 AM
yeah, I would love to see a Booster Triumph team-up, maybe get Grant Morrison to guest write it? (or not, but co-written by Morrison would be pretty interesting)
Harry posted on Mar. 3, 2010 at 2:54 PM
I like both these ideas. What I would like to see is someone remember Booster from one of his visits to the past. I don't need much, just one mainstream reminder that Booster is working hard. Maybe Barry Allen saying, "Hey, I recognize that costume", or something like that.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Ms. Berger has been an editor at DC for awhile (a long while), and her birthday is significant to this site mainly because news of it accidentally led me to discovering a bug in the artists output page. Since pointing out flaws is a major component of every editor's job, it just goes to show how good she is at her job. So everyone wish Ms. Berger a very happy birthday.
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Today, a treat for those of you who may be interested in money, statistics, or the inner working of a fan website. Ads were added to Boosterrific one month ago yesterday, and the totals are in. In a month of whoring ourselves out Booster Gold style, we've earned... $1.08. Ads on Boosterrific are brought to you by Google, and Google won't even consider this an actual revenue-generating website until it has acquired $10 in credit. At the present rate, that's November 2010. However, Google won't actually cut a check until we've acquired $100 in credit. At the present rate, that's not until May 2018. So mark your calendars: come 2018, we'll be partying like it's 1999.
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Phil posted on Feb. 27, 2010 at 1:49 AM
I just stumbled upon this site today, it's awesome. Definitely bookmark worthy for any booster gold fan. Keep up the good work
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Feb. 27, 2010 at 2:51 PM
Thanks, Phil.
Harry posted on Feb. 27, 2010 at 5:57 PM
Welcome to the site Phil. I used (still use) it to fill in my period of Booster knowledge gap (1991 - 2005). Very helpful.
What determines if you get ad revenue Boosterrific?
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Feb. 27, 2010 at 8:35 PM
With Google Adsense the ad space here at Boosterrific is available for auction to the highest bidder via Google's Adwords program. So someone who thought that visitors to Boosterrific would make viable advertising targets would pay Google their bid price each time a visitor to Boosterrific clicked on an ad to travel to the advertiser's website. In theory Google would then kickback a percentage of that bid price to Boosterrific. So we make money when a lot of people come to Boosterrific and then click ads to travel to other people's websites.
The Amazon ads around the site are different. A visitor has to actually click the ad and then buy a product from Amazon for Amazon to offer any kickback. We've hosted Amazon ads for over a year with zero activity: some clicks, but nothing that has apparently lead directly to a purchase.
Ideally, the site should be partnered with comic book store advertisers, so that visitors could turn around and buy comic books that they see on the site. But Boosterrific doesn't yet generate the kind of traffic necessary to attract that kind of advertising. (Hence the implementation of the blog and comments in the hopes of luring more steady return visitors. Boosterrific.com: the slow path to world domination paying our bills one click at a time.)
Harry posted on Feb. 27, 2010 at 9:58 PM
I will make an effort to use the ad links then.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Feb. 28, 2010 at 1:20 AM
Be careful, Harry, or you'll ruin the timetable for our party!
tiggerpete posted on Feb. 28, 2010 at 1:29 AM
there are definitely some comics on here I don't have and would like to get, so links to comic sellers would be perfect, I would definitely be interested in that if it were available (plus I like this site, and would like to keep it going)
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Feb. 28, 2010 at 2:57 AM
Back when I was young, supporting the things that you liked was the American (i.e. Capitalist) way to keep a business alive. These days, maybe I should mismanage this site into the ground and wait for a bailout. Don't worry, tiggerpete, I'm not planning on going anywhere. I didn't work my way up to become one of the world's foremost authorities on Booster Gold for nothing! (Apparently, I did it for $1.08!)
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Good thing: the cover to Booster Gold #30 is being used to promote DC Comics' March 2010 releases on previews.diamondcomics.com. Bad thing: the title of the image according to the page source code is "bomb.jpg." Hopefully that is a description of the cover and not a description of the issue's sales numbers.
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Geoff Johns' new job made us wonder how Booster Gold earns a living. For years, he had a stipend with the Justice League. Then he worked with Ted Kord in a number of ventures. Following Ted's death, he sold celebrity sponsorships to pay the bills. But now he lives with his ancestor and works with a man more interested in experimental time travel than bringing home the bacon. So where is Booster earning his daily bread? Inquiring minds want to know.
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Harry posted on Feb. 23, 2010 at 11:56 PM
I get the sense that Rip is providing for Booster's needs. His job is essentially time cop... you got to figure that has to be worth good compensation. Could Ted Kord have left Booster a fortune?
tiggerpete posted on Feb. 24, 2010 at 12:14 AM
isn't he still married to the rich old lady, Gladys?
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Feb. 24, 2010 at 2:28 PM
Ted did have Kord Omniversal back before he died with no living descendants, so Booster may have inherited something, but it's never been established, despite all the Ted Kord references, reminiscences, reappearances, etc. in the years since. Gladys is currently out-of-continuity per Dan Didio, but even if she wasn't it seems unlikely that Booster would still be married to her and dating someone named Blair. If Booster divorced Gladys, it seems certain that he wouldn't have taken much of a paycheck with him.
Harry posted on Feb. 24, 2010 at 9:40 PM
How about this... wealth is determined by having increased access to limited resources. The dollar is based on gold reserves. The universe (and certainly the multiverse and all of time-space) are flush in all kinds of resources that are limited on Earth. Anyone with the kind of universal access such as Booster could acquire these resources and turn them into cash on Earth. Assuming a real-world similar economy on the DCU.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Feb. 25, 2010 at 12:04 AM
Harry, it seems that you have a pretty low opinion of time cops. (But I certainly wouldn't put it past Booster.)
tiggerpete posted on Feb. 25, 2010 at 4:09 AM
well Booster has been known to "borrow" things from other time periods, maybe he "borrowed" something worthless from one time period and sold it to another era where it is worth a lot.
that or maybe he visits a time period like Star Trek where money is no longer necessary and gets things for free.
I think that Vanishing Point has a replicator for food, and he relies on ad revenue for living expenses (he does still sponsor things and has several noticeable ads seen in other comics, such as billboards and toothpaste)
Harry posted on Feb. 25, 2010 at 11:37 AM
I'm just saying.... if nobody is using it in one particular time-space.... :-)
Harry posted on Feb. 25, 2010 at 11:41 AM
For the record, I think the easiest way to explain Booster's income from a DCU editorial point of view is that he still is receiving money from sponsors a la 52. It fits his corporate crusader roots, readers will buy it, and it doesn't require much explanation.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Feb. 25, 2010 at 2:57 PM
So long as his sponsorships keep on appearing throughout the DCU, building the fame of Booster Gold, I'm perfectly okay with that theory.
