The push has started for DC's 2022 summer event, Dark Crisis, with promotional articles appearing in all the usual places. (Writer Joshua Williamson is even talking his creation up on Youtube).

The good news about all this is that we can definitely say that Booster Gold will be participating, at least in issue one, as we can see from the cover:

and interior pages:

I assume we'll find out more when Dark Crisis #1 arrives in your Local Comic Shop this May.

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Booster Gold/The Flintstones Special #1 celebrates its five-year anniversary today with a return to your Local Comic Shop as part of The Flintstones: The Deluxe Edition hardcover collection.

Five years isn't really a long time, but I do like to see DC recollecting older series in new formats for new fans. It gives me hope that one of these days, maybe I will finally get that long-awaited Extreme Justice hardcover for my bookshelf!

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In 2009, Booster Gold endorsed Booster Paste. In 2012, he endorsed Booster Cream Toothpaste. Ten years later, he's back in your mouth, as seen in Nightwing #88!

words by Tom Taylor, art by Bruno Redondo, Adriano Lucas, Andworld Design

What is that? "-esh-dent"? Oooh, the tease! I need to know so that I can buy some to put in *my* face!

Thanks to Booster booster Shaw Baston for spotting this panel.

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You all know I'm not much for the rumor mill, but when the CW announced to Entertainment Weekly on Wednesday that actor Donald Fiason (most famous as a lead in the long-running Scrubs) will be joining the cast of DC's Legends of Tomorrow, they described his character thusly:

"The Legends first encounter this character at a different phase of his career whose golden years are in the rearview mirror. He is good guy deep down; his ego is looking for a boost that only fame, fortune, and glory can provide. While he claims to have been recruited to work for a mysterious time organization, he wasn't offered much of a choice in the matter. As an unauthorized time traveler with high-profile aspirations, he developed a mischievous streak and cuts a few corners along the way to achieving his dreams. He knows all about the Legends of Tomorrow and finds them inspiring because they are the kind of heroes who started at the ground floor, as opposed to inheriting their powers from an alien planet, a spider bite, or wealthy parents. But the big question is whether his respect for the team is going to be able to help the Legends out of hot water or get them into hotter water!"

If that sounds a lot like a description of one Michael Jon "Booster" Carter to you, know that you're not alone. I've seen several entertainment websites draw the same conclusion, and even the Internet's foremost Booster Gold reporter, Russ Burlingame, reports on the speculation at ComicBook.com.

So, will Faison be playing Booster Gold? Or are the producers of DC's Legends of Tomorrow teasing us? I guess we'll all find out when the finale airs on March 2.

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It was announced yesterday that former DC Comics editor Brian Augustyn has died at the age of 67.

Only 5 people have edited more of Booster Gold's comic book adventures than Augustyn, who among other things oversaw the Justice League during the mid-1990s period that Booster wore — and was later trapped inside — an ungainly suit of metal armor. Those were interesting times for Booster.

Augustyn began editing Justice League comics with 1992's Justice League Spectacular #1, in which the international league re-formed under the supervision of Superman (America) and Green Lantern (Europe), and lasted until after that incarnation had fractured further into something more... Extreme!

While key moments of the Justice League America-slash-International-slash-Task Force crossover "Judgment Day" event have recently been relevant to issues of The Human Target, most of those 90s adventures remain largely forgotten in the decades since. However, if anything Augustyn oversaw will last forever, it may well be this:

Justice League America #69

As far as legacies go, that's not so bad.

Thanks, Brian.

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