Hey! Look at who's coming to your Local Comic Shop tomorrow!

Officially the "Cover D Clayton Crain Card Stock Variant"

Wait, that's Flash? Then why is he dressed like Booster Gold? Come on, he even has a collar!

And come to think of it, why was Wally West wearing gold sneakers with stars in the first issue? Did Booster somehow influence the fashions of the Absolute Universe?

Anyway, sorry. False alarm. (UPDATE: Actually, you might want to read tomorrow's post.)

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Justice League America #62 is another one of those cases where it's hard for me to pick a single favorite page, in part because I don't think Jackson Guice's finishes are a good match to Dan Jurgens' pencils or Gene D'Angelo's colors.

That said, the finished art is a reason I'm picking page 16. Pay careful attention to the duplication of the inks for panel 2 reproduced inside panel 3:

"Space babe"?

There comes a time in the life of every fan of comic book super-heroes that you realize that the "costumed" characters are really mostly nudes disguised under garish colors. On this page, that's made extra explicit. In addition to the usual suspects, there's Bloodwynd's white costume and "KiKi" as seen on Guy Gardner's television with her purple coloring removed!

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Available today at your Local Comic Shop: Blair Butler Booster Gold The Complete 2007 Series Book Two!

Poor Blair! They cut off her head. Her incredulous expression is the best part of the cover of Booster Gold #23.

This softcover collection reprints Booster Gold Volume 2 issues #15 through #31 plus The Brave and the Bold #23.

As a Booster Gold fan, you probably already have those issues, right? But wouldn't it be nice to have them all collected into one easy-to-read volume that would look nice on your bookshelf? Yeah, real nice.

And you already bought Book One when it came out last year, right? This one sure would look nice sitting next to that one. Real nice.

Buy this trade paperback and make Skeets happy.

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While I was busy trying to have a good time on April Fool's Day, DC was trying to sneak a new Booster Gold appearance by me! Fortunately for all of us, SLW was paying attention and spotted our hero (and Blue Beetle) in this week's Jimmy Olsen's SuperCyclopedia graphic novel.

The main events of Jimmy Olsen's SuperCyclopedia are aimed squarely at young readers, but there's plenty in this Multiversal story to entertain Old School DC fans. SLW liked reading about young Rip Hunter, while I got stoked seeing Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew back in action — with an explicit Oz/Wonderland War reference, no less!

Unfortunately, it seems that nothing herein takes place in the mainstream DC Universe of Earth-0 (or whatever we're supposed to be calling it these days), meaning this counts as an out-of-continuity Booster Gold appearance and doesn't disrupt the Missing In Action count at the top of the Boosterrific! Blog.

But I maintain that any Booster Gold is better than none, so let's all enjoy what we do get (even if it's not quite what we want).

Consider buying Jimmy Olsen's SuperCyclopedia. It'll make Skeets (and maybe you) happy!

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Once upon a time, there was a movie in which a young fellow named Marty unintentionally traveled through time and accidentally set in motion a series of events that would unravel his own existence. Marty could only watch helplessly as he was gradually erased from a family photo.

Do you suppose that's happening to Booster Gold?

As we approach the six-month anniversary of DC All-in Special, released last October, Booster remains absent and forgotten by the DC Universe at-large. Given that Booster has played a role in almost every major event in the DCU for the past 40 years, that disappearance from history has to be causing a cascading rewriting of history as we knew it.

What does a DCU look like without a Booster Gold to save the Multiverse from Mister Mind or restore the timeline after Brainiac's Convergence? Do the Manhunters win the Millennium without Booster Gold's interference? Is Ronald Reagan felled by an assassin's bullet?

It's one thing for Booster Gold to be the hero that the world has never heard of. It's another thing altogether for Booster Gold to be a hero who never existed.

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