Every storyline in Justice League America #58 is a fight. Despero fights Lobo, Lobo fights Guy Gardner, Blue Beetle fights the Extremists, Despero fights Martian Manhunter.. and Booster Gold (and his force field) saves the day (twice)!

Booster Gold has two truly great pages in this. Page 14 is both fun and poignant, but Booster's star moment is page 18:

Whatta hero!

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On the day after Christmas, I told the Guy Behind the Counter at my Local Comic Shop to stop pulling any DC books for me. So long as there's no Booster Gold in the DCU, I'm not buying.

This is probably a counter-productive strategy. I wasn't buying any of the Batman-centric books, and if all they sell anymore are Bat-books, they'll only make more Bat-books because something's got to pay the bills. If that's what the future holds, well, then the future will look a lot like the past.

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Fall writes:

Hey! Booster makes a quick cameo in the new DC Universe Infinite GO! comic Taste of Justice. While it's not out yet, they put out a holiday preview comic where [Booster Gold] appears in the Watchtower alongside other Justice League members, sporting what looks to be a denim jacket over his suit. I doubt the comic is set in main continuity, but it's still nice to see him.

Fall is one of several people to alert me to this, so I guess a lot of you are reading comics on DC Universe Infinite. Since that seems to be the only place to find new Booster Gold comics these days, maybe I should look into that.

This is the panel with Booster Gold (his only appearance in the entire preview story):

I'm not sure that's denim. Maybe it's his old Conglomerate jacket. (Please, please, please let it be his Conglomerate jacket.)

Will this be Booster's only appearance in this series? I doubt it. If you look real closely at the tiny series cover image, you'll see that Booster is there, too, holding up a hamburger and wearing a "#1 Golden Chef" apron.

Are we going to get a Booster Gold hamburger recipe? I sure hope so.

For the record, Taste of Justice (link: dcuniverseinfinite.com) is being advertised as launching "summer 2025." The title of the preview story is "Cookies in a Flash" credited to Andrew Aydin (writing), Domo (pencils & inks), Nick Filardi (colors), Micah Myers (letterer), Sabrina Futch (Associate Editor), and Katie Kubert (Editor).

Thanks all who let me know about this.

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con•ti•nū′i•y, n
1. The state or quality of being continuous.
2. a continuous series or succession; unbroken, coherent, whole.

"Continuity." Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged Second Edition, edited by Jean L. McKechnie, Collins World, 1977, pp. 395

It's a good topic for the start of a new year.

Booster Gold being written out of DC's current "All In" era got me thinking about this.

Ever since Justice League International volume 3 #1 in late 2011, I've been chronicling new releases of Booster Gold's adventures as taking place in what I call "New 52 Continuity." That was certainly necessary at the time, as the then-continuity of the mainstream DCU in the wake of changes to history in Flashpoint was, for most characters, very different than what had come before. Since everyone's personality is heavily influenced by their experiences, and the characters in the New 52 could no longer be assumed to have the same experiences as their pre-Flashpoint selves, these characters were, to a significant degree, entirely new people (Alan Scott), even when DC pretended that they were not (Clark Kent).

Then came 2015's Convergence, which proved the New 52 Booster Gold and the post-Crisis on Infinite Earths Booster Gold (who I called "Original Gold" or "OG Booster Gold") really were two distinctly different characters living two distinctly different lives. It was like Barry Allen meeting Jay Garrick in "Flash of Two Worlds!" in 1961's The Flash #123 (arguably the single most important story in DC's history, as it first defined the DC Multiverse).

However, in 2016, Rebirth repaired Flashpoint's broken history, and in the years since, further revisions to reality following Death Metal have made it clearer that the pre- and post-Flashpoint continuities have now been fully merged (Wallace West). So which continuity are we in now?

The longest single gap between Booster Gold in-continuity appearances coincided with the Rebirth era, between Bat-Mite #4 in 2015 and Action Comics #992 in 2018. (The Booster Gold/The Flintstones Special was between those two, but it is set in the "Hanna-Barbera Beyond" universe, and it remains unclear which, if any, continuity that Booster Gold belongs to.) It seems logical in hindsight that Action Comics #992 represents the start of a new era, the first (re)appearance of a Booster Gold with a post-Crisis on Infinite Earths history.

Therefore, I think it's past time to update Boosterrific to recognize the modern era of stories as post-Rebirth continuity. I will retroactively make that change beginning with Action Comics #992.

Hopefully, Booster Gold will return to the DC Universe before it becomes necessary to recognize another fundamental change to its ongoing continuity.

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Presenting the 5 most-read Boosterrific.com blog posts of 2024!

5. Monday, February 5: New Release: How to Lose a Guy Gardner
In which we discover that Booster Gold had his own story in the DC's How to Lose a Guy Gardner In 10 Days holiday anthology (and it was delightful).

4. Friday, August 30: My Favorite Pages: Justice League Intl Special
In which we laugh along with Booster Gold and his BFF Ted Kord preparing for the theater in Justice League International Special #1, page 8.

3. Monday, June 10: The Return and Return of Robo Force
In which we showcase two (!) "Robo Force" covers featuring a team of robots including Booster Gold's sidekick, Skeets, from Ross Pearsall's superlative Super-Team Family Presents.. imaginary team up books from braveandboldlost.blogspot.com.

2. Monday, February 26: Sooner to Be New Release: Blue Beetle
In which we learn that Blue Beetle Volume 5 scribe Josh Trujillo considers Booster Gold to be a 12 out of 10 on the fun-to-write scale. (I wish he'd share that news with whoever isn't writing Booster Gold comics these days.)

1. Monday, September 23: It's Not Easy Being Green
In which we note that Booster Gold's appearance on the cover of Justice League of America Volume 2 #7 has been turned into a poster available on Amazon.com. According to analytics, this post got an aberrantly huge number of hits, and I cannot for the life of me imagine why unless Amazon was backtracking the link many, many times. Whatever the reason, I will not deny that everyone can use more Booster Gold on their walls!

Here's to another Boosterrific year in 2025!

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