After a long summer of capturing the heroes of Earth one by one, Eclipso made his big move in Eclipso: The Darkness Within #2, forcing the heroes to confront the lengths they were willing to go to in order to save the world from the Prince of Darkness.

But can any of us really "kill" the darkness within ourselves, Rex?

Call me a prude, but I do love it when superhero comics are morality plays, especially when the first character to reveal a hard stance against killing is the same one most people would name as the least ethical. Booster Gold is nothing if not always full of surprises.

Spoiler alert for a 1992 story: the heroes win. And only some of them have to kill somebody. Days are longer in the summer, so Eclipso would have smarter to lead a winter event story. Maybe next time.

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Been busy behind the scenes here at Boosterrific lately.

Booster booster J writes in to note that I had missed Booster's feature appearance in DC Universe Infinite's DC GO Edition of Taste of Justice #15. J is right. I had missed that. If you also missed it, know that you can go right now and read it for free right now at dcuniverseinfinite.com.

J also pointed out that I had missed Booster's appearance in June's Superman: The Ultimate Guide New Edition from DK Books. Again, J is right. (J usually is.) I have corrected oversight by adding the book to the Boosterrific! Other Media: Books list.

What J failed to notice (or was perhaps too polite to mention) was that I had also been omitting the Secret Six by Gail Simone Omnibus Volumes 1 and 2 from the Boosterrific! list of reprints. (To be fair to myself, volume 2 was just released yesterday.) These collections reprint a single Booster Gold cameo appearance apiece. But no matter how small, a Booster Gold appearance is still a Booster Gold appearance, and these books are now appropriately in the Boosterrific! database.

Thanks, J. Keep reading and let me know when you find more.

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Last week, the aptly named Pigeon sent me a link to a TikTok video (specifically tiktok.com/@stackthedeck/video/7563358218739535134) in reference to this screencap:

That, TikToker stackthedeck claims, is a leaked page from the upcoming Justice League / AEW crossover comics coming in 2026. As you can see, the narrative box in that final panel seems to belong to Booster Gold, who explicitly mentions Skeets. ("Let the hunt begin, folks! My buddy Skeets makes a hell of a monitor...")

Could it be that Booster and Skeets will finally be reunited ringside following DC K.O.? We can only hope.

No release date for the crossover comics has yet been announced, but it looks like sooner than later. For more information, you can read the original October 1 announcement they were coming on Variety.com.

Thanks, Pidgeon.

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Just a reminder: Halloween doesn't have to be scary. It can also be adorable.

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When I went looking at the lists of new comics coming out this week, I was surprised to see so few books from DC. I didn't realize it was the 5th week of the month. DC has lately been releasing anthology books during "skip" weeks, but this year's Halloween special with a punny name, DC's Zatannic Panic, was released at the start of the month instead. I guess they were being helpful by ensuring we wouldn't get chocolate fingerprints all over our near mint comics. How thoughtful of them.

That's not to say that no Booster Gold comics were released this week. Yesterday saw the release of (count 'em!) three trades reprinting previous Booster Gold stories. In alphabetical order, they are

1. Batman: The Brave and the Bold Across the Universe
Collects the complete 2024 "Time Jerks" Booster Gold/Jurassic League story by Mark Russell told across three issues beginning in Batman: The Brave and the Bold #13.

2. Jonah Hex All-Star Western Omnibus
Reprints the entire third volume of All-Star Western, which is one of the few books unimpacted directly by the New 52 reboot in 2011. Of interest to Booster Gold fans are the issues spanning All-Star Western #19 through #21, which reintroduced Booster Gold to the DCnU eight months after he appeared to be erased from continuity in Justice League International Annual #1. (If you recall, issue #19 was part of DC's "WTF" month event and the Internet was rife with supposition that Booster Gold was the character hidden on its surprise fold-out cover. I have no idea if that cover is reprinted as a fold out in this omnibus, and I'm not paying $125 to find out.)

3. Justice League by Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV Omnibus Volume 2
Among other things, this reprints the complete 2020 Year of the Villain: Hell Arisen mini-series, which sees a mute Booster Gold temporarily turned into an evil zombie. Just in time for Halloween.

Trick or treat? You decide, Booster boosters.

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