Friday, March 14, 2025
Two Votes Is Better than None
The 15-part "Breakdowns" storyline that ran through late 1991 into 1992 of the Justice League titles spelled the end of the heyday of the Justice League International's very popular "Bwah-Ha-Ha" era.
The letter column of Justice League America #55 (Breakdowns Part 5) made the announcement that a new team lineup would coming in issue #61 and gave fans a ballot to vote for the heroes they most wanted to see on the team.
According to the letter column in Justice League Spectacular #1 (which I recently re-read while preparing for last week's "
To be fair, many of those votes were duplicate ballots that were not double counted, but it's not clear whether any of the votes received made any actual difference on which characters were chosen for the new team. After all, the poll was published only six months before issue #61 was to released and the production of a DC comic book generally takes about three months, meaning there was only a small window for voters to influence any decisions made by editors or writers.
The full results of the poll were not made public, but Justice League editor Kevin Dooley did reveal that the top vote-getter was J'ohn J'onzz, who pointedly was not on the new team. Dooley also explicitly named Peacemaker as the character with the fewest votes, and to no great surprise, Peacemaker wasn't on the team, either.
Of course, this being a Booster Gold blog, we'd be most interested to know how many votes Booster got. All we can know for sure was that it was more than three. Dooley listed all the characters, mostly write-ins, who got three or fewer votes, and Skeets got two votes! (Other two-vote getters were Angel and the Ape, Arisia, Beefeater, Brother Power the Geek, Catwoman, Deadman, Sue Dibny, Dove, Lady Flash, Maser, Mera, Nuklon, Peter Canon, Praxis, The Question, Red Star, Sandman, Snapper Carr, Valor, Wildcat, and the Wonder Twins. That some pretty good company, Skeets!)
However many votes Booster Gold got, the important takeaway is that he made the team. Maybe one day, Skeets will, too.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Straight from the Horse's Mouth
I quote Scott Snyder, architect of the DC Absolute Universe, from his recent interview with Comic Watchers (Episode 254 via youtube.com/live/7_KXuTodUdU):
My job, just to be clear to everybody out there what my relationship is to DC right now, is that I got a writing contract to write a certain amount of books over the next couple years. It was really just kind of one flagship book and then books that involve the meta story, the All-In number one special. We're planning, without giving too much away, but big spoiler, we're planning a second beat of that meta story, a big event, towards the end of this year. Really excited about that. So I'll be involved in that, and then I reup again. I'm reupping now for another year to sort of get to the big finale of that story in '26-'27.
So will we see the resolution of Booster Gold's disappearance story "towards the end" of 2025, or will we have to wait until 2027?
Inquiring minds want to know.
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Monday, March 10, 2025
Keith and Booster
Last April, J.M. Dematteis posted to his blog, jmdematteis.com, pictures of the late Keith Giffen's plots for Booster Gold Volume 2, #43, and for some reason, I bookmarked them but never posted about them here at Boosterrific.
I'm correcting that oversight now.
This is page one of the issue, with Giffen's signature thumbnail plotting on the left and finished art (by Chris Batista, Rich Perrotta, Hi-Fi Designs) on the right.
I enjoy Bastista's work (I even own some), but side by side, I definitely prefer the Keith Giffen-drawn comic.
By all means, visit jmdematteis.com to see some more.
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Friday, March 7, 2025
My Favorite Pages: Justice League Spectacular
Following the Panic in the Sky, the Justice League reforms (in its fourth incarnation, assuming you don't count the "Detroit" era as the last gasp of the original team) in Justice League Spectacular #1. Most of the core "International" era team is still involved, which means there's plenty of Booster Gold to be had.
Which is a bit of a problem for me, actually, at least when it comes to determining which is my favorite page in the issue.
On the one hand, I love the art and Booster's inner dialogue and interaction with Blue Beetle on page 6 (drawn by Dan Jurgens and Rich Burchett, greatly enhanced by Gene D'Angelo's selective use of colors).
On the other hand, I also really love Booster Gold in action saving his allies on page 21 (drawn by Ron Randall and Randy Elliott in a much brighter but flatter style more reminiscent of Saturday morning television cartoons).
Which one is my favorite? Fortunately, I don't actually have to decide. This is my blog, and I make the rules, so I'll choose both!
Spectacular, indeed.
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Tuesday, March 4, 2025
One Night in Bangkok
Booster booster Morgenstern calls our attention to this reddit post by ablearcher013:
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A while back I started looking for a DC comics themed chessboard so I could combine 2 of my great loves (chess and comics). After seeing what was on offer, and not being a fan of any of it, I decided to make my own. How hard could it be... About a year later it's finally done. I used Funko Pops because it was the easiest way to get the characters I needed (and i liked the styling), but they wouldn't readily fit on a standard chessboard... Ok, we'll build our own chessboard! Once I realized how big a chessboard with 3.5"x3.5" squares would be I just decided to turn it into a coffee table. So after about a year of work and around $1000 of investment into it I'm finally done and pretty happy with how it came out...
![[Other] My DC chessboard is finally finished... via reddit.com](https://www.boosterrific.com/pics/news/reddit_ablearcher0123_20250125.jpg)
More pictures here: reddit.com/r/DCcomics/comments/1ix7y3b/other_my_dc_chessboard_is_finally_finished/
I agree, M, that's pretty cool.
I find it interesting that Booster Gold was also a white pawn in the 2012 Eaglemoss chess set. Keep on keepin' on, Booster. With enough perseverance (and a little luck), maybe one of these days you can be promoted to queen.
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