SLW (Steff) posted on Jun. 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Poor guy. I was telling Dara that he needs like-- a bath, a buffet, a therapist, a lot of soft blankets and probably a cuddle. Shaving optional, but a beard-trim if he wants to keep it. LOL!

SLW (Steff) posted on Jun. 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Addendum: Mind you, Booster has definitely needed a therapist long before this. And none of that Sanctuary-type bull-hockey, like an actual licensed professional. LOL!

 Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jun. 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Sanctuary! Come for the therapy, stay to get murdered by heroes! (Specifically a hero who will cover up the crime with the aid of others who the hero had previously framed as scapegoats. From now on, let's call that Sanctuary Syndrome.)

Steven Palchinski posted on Jun. 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Sanctuary! And if you survive, prepare to hunted as the perpetrators!

SLW (Steff) posted on Jun. 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Hell, come for the therapy, get a reality TV show setup instead, then stay to get stabbed repeatedly by an actual villain who exploded a bunch of kids.

I am never, ever gonna stop being salty about all of that.

 Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jun. 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
@SLW You make it sound like a Scooby-Doo episode.

SLW (Steff) posted on Jun. 24, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Walter, that's implying that the crew that writes Scooby-Doo is somehow inferior to Tom King and we all know that's not true. 🤣 Don't insult them like that!

 Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jun. 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Oh! Sorry. I meant to imply that you were making Heroes in Crisis sound much better than it is!

 Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jun. 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
For the record, since we're piling on Heroes in Crisis, I should mention that an article posted earlier this week in defense of Heroes in Crisis at ComicBook.com is titled "Is Tom King the Alan Moore For Millennial Comics Readers?" Which, of course, reminded me of Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

SLW (Steff) posted on Jun. 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
@Walter Oh! In that case, I definitely didn't mean to do that. 😂 And yeah, right? I've been reading comic since I was twelve and I am sincerely hard-pressed to find a MORE incoherent, poorly written, wretchedly characterized piece of slop than HiC. How you could take a premise with such sharp fangs -- especially if we're discussing Booster and mental health, because that boy has Issues™ even IF we're not counting pre-Flashpoint, his upbringing alone has complex multi-dimensional trauma galore -- and screw it up THAT BADLY?

You have to not only be incompetent, you have to be a willful, active moron who didn't bother to research even the barest fraction of character background. Like sincerely, I could write better than that when I was a teenager.

Tiffany posted on Jun. 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Did you read the solicits? If you haven't we got a confirmed Booster appearance in Superman #30. To quote "Superman has found the mysterious hero known as Booster Gold."

Tiffany posted on Jun. 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
He's also the main cover. I missed that before.

Eskana posted on Jun. 23, 2025 at 11:39 AM
LOVE it!

Eskana posted on Jun. 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
As someone who loves the main heroes but prefers reading about the smaller ones, it's always nice from time to time to see articles like that... maybe it will reach a new fan who then begins looking into them!
Besides Booster and Ted, are there any other "C- or D-listers" you'd like to see, or anyone you think would be an interesting team-up with Booster?

 Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jun. 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
I think everyone should team up with Booster! (I like most of the characters in the DCU, except Harley Quinn. I really don't much care for Harley Quinn.)

Tiche posted on Jun. 19, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Walker Gabriel, Chronos II. Because he's appeared in about two dozen comic issues total, and about half of those are single-panel crowd shots. I will preach the praises of the twelve-issue Chronos run til the ends of time. And the start, because, y'know, time travel.

SLW (Steff) posted on Jun. 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
A wild statistic for anyone keeping count: Booster was stabbed more times by Harley Quinn than he's kissed the same single character on panel in 39 years and counting. (I can't stand her either. Mostly because, like Batman, she's shoved into everything everywhere.)

SLW (Steff) posted on Jun. 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I'm surprised you didn't hear me rolling my eyes when I read the preview, I rolled them so hard. Making one of the most ridiculously OOC tales of the JLI suddenly!canon is just more of a really mediocre series being-- mediocre, honestly.

Eskana posted on Jun. 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I'd still rather believe that this could just be referencing the fact that Tora died and came back with "Brightest Day"... after all, in "I Can't Believe it's Not the Justice League," didn't she actually stay there (because Bea turned around and they were doing an "Orpheus and Eurydice" thing)?
I can hope (lol not a fan of that miniseries.)

 Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jun. 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Your headcanon can be whatever you want, but Tora dies in JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL #66 and her funeral is in JUSTICE LEAGUE AMERICA #91. Those both came out in June 1994. If FIRE & ICE was just trying to remind you that Ice was once (and for many years) dead, there was no need to specifically call out the 2005 comic book in which her teammates tried to rescue her from Hell.

Brandon posted on Jun. 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I'm going to play the nerd card here and point out that Ice actually died in Justice League Task Force #14

 Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jun. 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Oooh. You're right, Brandon. On the last page. (On the last day of May 1994!) Shoot. Does that mean that I lose *my* nerd card? Bah. I should have asked AI.

SLW (Steff) posted on Jun. 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
@Eskana: Tora came back during Birds of Prey first, IIRC. She had been found in a Rocket Red suit because some dude wanted to resurrect a goddess. She was possessed by a Black Lantern ring, but I don't think she was officially killed before it? I'm honestly not sure, it didn't make a ton of sense to me. Kinda like Winick's racially dubious retcon of her backstory.