Today at your Local Comic Shop:

This hardcover reprint of Generations: Shattered and Generations: Forged is being called DC Comics: Generations because DC can't bear the thought of putting out a comic without a colon in the title.

According to solicitations, this book contains only those two comics plus the related prequel story from Detective Comics #1027. If you'd bought those three books when they came out like I did, you'd have paid $29.97 (or more, if also like me, you bought multiple covers of each issue... 2020 was a very lonely year). DC Comics: Generations has a cover price of $29.99. Two cents is small price for the convenience of having the whole story in one book.

And while you're at your Local Comic Shop, you'll also find Booster Gold in the Tales from the Dark Multiverse II collection, which reprints the alternate reality horror story from Tales from the Dark Multiverse: Wonder Woman: War of the Gods #1. If that's not enough colons for you, you're going to have to find a different publisher.

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I love dogs. And Skeets. And therefore, I love this piece of commissioned fan art by Arnel Baluyot (@theninjabot):

PopDog pet portrait commissioned by @MyPopCltureDiva on Twitter.com

In this case, I'm even willing to forgive the lack of a high collar.

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Everyone who's ever read a DC comic knows Booster Gold's best friend is Ted Kord, aka the Blue Beetle.

But Booster has another best friend, someone who has been there for him since the beginning: his sidekick Skeets!

Yet somehow we almost never see the three of them, Booster, Beetle, and Sheets together.

After a stray comment made last month by Booster booster Cort, I decided to pull from the Boosterrific database a list of all the times that Ted Kord and Skeets have appeared in the same comic with Booster Gold.

Here's that list:

1. Booster Gold #22

November 1987

2. Justice League America #71

February 1993

3. Justice League America #87

April 1994

4. Extreme Justice #1

February 1995

5. Extreme Justice #2

March 1995

6. Extreme Justice #3

April 1995

7. Extreme Justice #4

May 1995

8. Extreme Justice #14

March 1996

9. Extreme Justice #15

April 1996

10. Extreme Justice #16

May 1996

11. Extreme Justice #17

June 1996

12. Extreme Justice #18

July 1996

13. Justice League America #112

July 1996

14. Justice League Task Force #37

August 1996

15. Total Justice #1

October 1996

16. Total Justice #2

Early November 1996

17. Final Night #1

November 1996

18. Final Night #3

November 1996

19. Green Lantern #81

December 1996

20. Superboy and the Ravers #8

April 1997

21. JLA #38

February 2000

22. JLA: Our Worlds At War #1

September 2001

23. Superman: Day of Doom #1

January 2003

24. 52 #52

May 2007

25. Booster Gold #6

March 2008

26. Booster Gold #0

April 2008

27. Booster Gold #10

August 2008

28. Booster Gold #26

January 2010

29. Booster Gold #27

February 2010

30. Booster Gold #34

September 2010

31. Booster Gold #35

October 2010

32. Booster Gold #36

November 2010

33. Booster Gold #37

December 2010

34. Booster Gold #38

January 2011

35. DC Universe: Legacies #9

March 2011

Only 35 issues over 35 years! And Skeets and Beetle don't always appear in the same scenes in those 35 issues! Heck, Skeets doesn't meet with either of the other 2 in the first few issues of Extreme Justice! It's almost like Skeets and Blue Beetle only cross paths at the annual Justice League Christmas party.

As for the issues where all 3 do appear together, you might remember that for a while around the turn of the millennium, Skeets was incorporated into Booster's armor, which means Skeets literally came between Blue and Gold!

I'm not exactly saying there's any animosity between Booster's two BFFs. I'm just saying that it's pretty clear that Skeets prefers the company of Rip Hunter to Ted Kord.

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I don't think I'd warned you this was coming, but today you can get your hands on Superman: The Man of Steel Volume 3, a reprint collection of twelve Superman comics from the 1980s. It just so happens that Booster appears in three of those:

Action Comics #594

Booster Gold #23

Action Comics #596

Booster Gold sure was all over the place back in late 1987, early 1988. Ah, the good old days.

That last panel is just a cameo, but there's actually quite a good bit of Booster in this collection. Buy this reprint and make Skeets happy.

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I've enjoyed the art of Aaron Lopresti ever since he first came to my attention pencilling Justice League: Generation Lost #1 in 2010. In just over a decade, Lopresti has drawn so many Booster Gold adventures that he now ranks fourth on the list of Booster Gold pencillers by output volume.

So you can imagine my pleasure seeing this recent commission that Lopresti shared on Twitter:

see larger image at Twitter.com

Aaron didn't share the terms of the commission, but I can tell you that sure looks like the pre-Crisis on Infinite Earths Brainiac facing the post-Crisis on Infinite Earths heroes of the DCU, circa 1988. Perhaps not coincidentally, 1988 is the year that the post-Crisis Brainiac made his first appearance (in Adventures of Superman #438). But what's really important here is that Booster has a high collar.

Side note: perhaps its because they both debuted in the mid 80s and wear stars on their chests, I always figured Booster and the Will Payton Starman should have spent more time adventuring together. Oh, well. I'd say that ship has sailed, but with time travelers, you never really know.

Keep up the great work, Aaron.

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