Wednesday, October 8, 2025
DC's latest event book, DC K.O. #1, arrives at your Local Comic Shop today. According to preview pages at BleedingCool.com, Booster Gold is in it.
He is also on it. He can be seen fighting Jaime Reyes on the back of Scott Koblish's wraparound cover.
The bad news is this cover, officially "Cover L Scott Koblish DC Showcase Wraparound Foil Variant," just one of 45 that I am aware of, has a cover price of $24.99, the highest of all the non-incentive variant covers. (Technically, the incentive variants have no price on their covers, so I guess you could say they are all "priceless.")
And lest you think that you can circumvent that price point by gambling on getting the Cover N Scott Koblish Blind Bag Foil Variant in a $9.99 polybagged "Blind Bag," beware that the Blind Bag version is the Booster Gold-free front cover only. So $25 or bust if you're collecting Booster Gold covers.
Buy this issue and make Skeets happy (if only because it gets us one step closer to finding out where Skeets is).
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pigeon posted on Oct. 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I'm trying to figure out when *the thing* that's revealed at the end about booster happened, because he seemed himself in omega act. guess i'll have to reread that. i don't think i've read a main universe booster comic this year without hoping he doesn't die by the end of this event. knock on wood
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Oct. 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Don't reread any of that, you'll only be punishing yourself. I'm not particularly familiar with Scott Snyder's style, but OMEGA ACT And SUPERMAN were written by someone who has never much cared for internal logic or consistency in his storytelling, so don't expect to find any answers there.
Rasalonn posted on Oct. 9, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I just read it. Are they saying darkseid is booster and he had already rigged the contest. Would be so bummed out if booster is already dead off panel and replaced 😕
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Oct. 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
For what it's worth, Gorilla Grodd was the living embodiment of Darkseid in the recently-concluded "We Are Yesterday" storyline that ran though JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED and WORLD'S FINEST, and as you can see in this issue, Grodd seems all better now. (Of course, that could be a fake out. Everyone could be evil in the DCU these days. I won't know, and I'm perilously close to not caring anymore.)
SLW (Steff) posted on Oct. 9, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I think he was still himself in the special and that he's still somewhere in there during this one because of where his voice broke. But I also thought it was an incredibly tedious issue to read, ngl, and I don't really expect him to make it out as anything less than 1.) The winner via self-sacrifice or 2.) A corpse for possibly the same reason.
bob posted on Oct. 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I have a question- Where is Rip Hunter?
pigeon posted on Oct. 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Rip is probably dealing with whatever is killing time masters, given the events of justice league dark tomorrow special.
pigeon posted on Oct. 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
*travellers, not masters
Monday, October 6, 2025
Booster booster J points out that Booster Gold has a one panel cameo in the most recent issue of the free DC Universe Taste of Justice vertical scrolling webcomic that combines Justice League superheroics and cooking demonstrations.
Specifically, Booster is in panel (page?) 7:
Booster doesn't stick around until the end to taste the Atom's dish resulting from a combination of onions, carrots, water, bullion cubes, mulberries, and "chicken of the woods." I can't say I blame him.
You read the issue yourself (it's free!) at dcuniverseinfinite.com.
Thanks for calling this to our attention, J.
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Eskana posted on Oct. 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Yum, chicken-of-the-woods! Someone was out foraging. Not sure how the mulberries fit in...
Friday, October 3, 2025
Although it's been a few weeks since the last installment in my ongoing series of posts covering my favorite pages from forty years of Booster Gold comics, you may recall that in my last post, Booster Gold and the Justice League were struggling against Eclipso's summer-long "Darkness Within" storyline in the pages of L.E.G.I.O.N. '92 Annual #3.
As it happens, the next issue in that storyline was released on August 18, 1992. However, it wasn't the only issue released that day to feature Booster Gold. So I'm going to take a break from Eclipso's darkness and instead flip through the much more lighthearted pages of Justice League America #67. Especially because everyone is showing so much skin.
If you judged this book only by its cover (or even by its story's title: "Transitions, Transmissions, and Transactions"), you'd expect a story borrowing heavily from the sci-fi horror movie Alien or, given the JLI's reputation as an action/comedy, its sequel Aliens. And, yes, it does indeed lean into some body horror (for laughs!), and it does eventually overtly evoke H.R. Giger's famous biomechanical Xenomorph designs.
The comparison's don't end there. Like much of Giger's work, it also leans into the erotic. The opening page is full-on cheesecake as Fire, a former swimsuit model, poses for a lingerie calendar. As much as I like it, that's not my favorite page.
That comes when Fire finds out who she's posing for:
Hmm. We thought that Darkseid was behind Booster's recent troubles, but maybe its been Fire this whole time.
As I said, there's a lot of skin in this issue. Ice chastises Fire's life decisions without any apparent recognition that her own costume leaves very little to the realm of modesty. Booster Gold takes his top off. Beetle takes his top off. Then Wally West takes their pants off. And, of course, Power Girl has a boob window.
Yeah, it's wild. Certainly not what you would expect in an issue where both the main plot and the primary subplot are concerned with contracts and rights, specifically whether one being can own another or another's whole planet. Or even the visual representation of another person without their consent. Hypocrisy or irony? You be the judge.
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SLW (Steff) posted on Oct. 3, 2025 at 9:47 AM
I'm still salty as hell that Dan wrote Booster as so grossly sexist during this period.
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Today you can find Justice League: The Omega Act Special #1 at your Local Comic Shop. Booster Gold is on the cover. A preview, confirming Booster Gold will also be included on interior pages, was included in last week's Justice League Unlimited #11. It's written by Joshua Williamson.
And that's all I have to say about that.
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Rob snow posted on Oct. 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Well hes in it and plays a big role but its a $5 commercial for the KO event. Its mostly him arguing w ...checks notes..Doomsday?! about the future.
Fiona posted on Oct. 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I've been loosely following Booster's involvement in this event the past year or so, but has there been any word on what happened to Skeets since the All In Special? It's starting to feel to me that DC has forgotten about him
SLW (Steff) posted on Oct. 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Bless Wally for giving a damn. Booster was, unsurprisingly, brave as hell because he is brave as hell. Also self-sacrificial, because he's also that to a sometimes unhealthy degree for a dude who is supposed to somehow be selfish. So, he was largely in character, but like-- the story was kind of boring? I did like confirmation he was involved in the Doomsday fight, or at least remembers being, because that was critical to him and the JLI.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Oct. 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
@Fiona Skeets was last seen in one panel of the final issue of the abbreviated CHALLENGERS miniseries. This has not yet been explained.
https://www.boosterrific.com/comics/issues/chl505/Challengers-of-the-Unknown-Volume-5-Issue-5
Friday, September 26, 2025
If you're not a nut about professional American football, you might not know who sportswriter and Pro Football Talk founder Mike Florio is. That's okay. I mention him only because, according to sports website AwfulAnnouncing.com, he has written a new novel, Big Shield, with a premise that might sound somewhat familiar to those of us who know Booster Gold's origin story:
Carson is a former college star just trying to hang on in a league where the bodies are disposable. It's easy to see how the lure of easy money from [gangster] Johnny would be too much to turn down. While Carson has limited value to teams, he is immensely valuable to Johnny. Inside information in America's most popular sport is hard-to-obtain currency. The person who would know a lot about the details before the game, such as injuries, and during the game, such as play-calling, would be someone like a third-string QB.
In the real world, some of the circumstances might seem hard to believe. However, according to Florio, this book is set in the not-too-distant future. What is very easy to believe is that someday someone will successfully offer an NFL player a bag of cash for inside information, to fake an injury, or worse.
Given that the dam has now burst, professional sports leagues and media companies are in business with the gamblers, and there is no such thing as amateur football anymore, I'm starting to think that the most far-fetched aspect of Booster Gold's origin story as a disgraced point-shaving quarterback is that future American society would feel he's done anything disgraceful.
Booster Gold Volume 1 #18
If you make people enough money, you're already a hero to them.
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Shawn posted on Sep. 26, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Both Florio and Dan Jurgens are big Minnesota Vikings fans
SLW (Steff) posted on Sep. 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Most college athletes are exploited terribly. There are whole papers and studies done on it. And how we view agency and culpability in this society is disgusting, especially when it does come to those being exploited, as if the spotlight and mere shot at something like fame is payment for the punishment they put their bodies and brains through.
Booster was a desperately kid with no resources in a dire situation with no way out. The only disgrace in all of that belong to the people using him.
Jeff posted on Sep. 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Given the recent times of college sports and nil money where some student athletes are making millions in college, it makes you think. Given the fact Michael only starts betting on his own games to pay for his mothers surgery, would they need to tweak boosters origin as he was the best college football player and was probably making millions in college why would they be a need to bet on his own games? Or am I overthinking this lol.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Sep. 26, 2025 at 9:48 PM
It's worth noting that American football is just starting to make a comeback in Booster's 25th century as society continues it's recovery following the Great Disaster. So maybe they have stronger rules against what we used to call "cheating."
Jeff posted on Sep. 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
On another note, If the great disaster you're talking is the same one that relates to the character komandi. I thought that timeline was a else worlds story?
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Sep. 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Yes, the original Great Disaster was on Earth-AD. In the Post-Crisis on Infinite Earths era, with the Multiverse reduced to a single timeline, the Great Disaster was re-imagined as a nuclear war in the 21st century that was explored in the series HEX and referenced directly in BOOSTER GOLD volume 1.
SLW (Steff) posted on Sep. 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Also referenced in Time Masters.
Jeff, the thing you're getting into there is where the Watsonian (in-universe) read collides with the Doylist reality. It wasn't until 2021 that college athletes were allowed to make any money on themselves and even then, they were allowed to control their images, names and likenesses (NIL), not to get paid to play. (Though there are some really ugly things going on in college football that circumvent that kind of thing, involving private donors and 'gifts' and shit, which is not dissimilar from what happened with Michael.)
It's only now -- this year! -- where House v. NCAA was signed off on, allowing colleges and universities to pay players from the athletic budget, and I believe the cap is 20 million. Which is admittedly an astronomical sum of money, but that's a social problem. I'm not blaming the teenagers and early-twenty-somethings for it.
But this wouldn't have been the case when Dan wrote Vol. 1, ergo you can't assume that it would be the case for Booster regardless of whether it is now. Booster would have been playing under the rules as Dan understood them to be. Further, unlike Pete Rose or the Black Sox, his motivations for getting into it were -- as I've said when writing about this myself -- the most forgivable and understandable. Whereas the people exploiting this kid were a whole different kind of ballgame.
Personally -- and this is a very unpopular opinion -- I think football really oughta die off and not be resurrected, because the damage it does to the bodies and brains of the players is horrific. I worked in a stadium -- and not as a low-level grunt -- and watched them carry kids off the field, so I bet I've got more experience with this than most. But we're a frankly selfish nation that likes our entertainment more than we actually care about the people giving it to us, so that's not gonna happen; at least if college athletes are being paid, it's something in return for the fact they're risking CTE and various other horrors.
And yes, don't get me started on high school football, either. Even as a former band kid.
Anyway, the upshot is that Michael's backstory doesn't really need revised. It's an incredibly good backstory and frankly one of Dan's most brilliant pieces of writing; the way he doled that out over time and built it in each iteration, starting with what looked like selfishness and foolishness, but then adding little-by-little to it, until you realize just how screwed up and awful it was and just how little agency Michael actually had, possibly was some of the best character work I've seen in a comic. Maybe some of the best I've seen in any fiction.
It's tangled and twisted and painful and human and very, very understandable. Changing that would be taking away from its genius.
Eskana posted on Sep. 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
In a football-related note, Glen Powell, a popular pick to play Booster Gold, is going to be starring in a show on Hulu in which he plays a washed-up college football player who just wants one more shot. He goes a decidedly different route than Booster.... but not TOO far off, really.
Audition tape? YOU decide.
SLW (Steff) posted on Sep. 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Glenn Powell's not pretty enough, in my opinion. LOL!
