Earlier this month, when DC announced they would begin reprinting DC K.O. piecemeal in four distinct trades, we knew it would be only be a matter of time before all of those stories would be collected into a single omnibus edition. That announcement came sooner than expected during this past weekend's WonderCon:

DC K.O.: KING OMEGA MEGA EDITION
Writer: SCOTT SNYDER, JOSHUA WILLIAMSON, MARK WAID, JEREMY ADAMS and others
Artist: JAVI FERNANDEZ, XERMANICO, DAN MORA and others
$200.00 US | 936 pages | 8 1/8 x 12 1/4 | Hardcover | ISBN: 978-1035049394
On Sale: 12/30/26

Critics have hailed DC K.O. as the perfect story for our modern times, where morality is a mug's game and the only winning move is not to play. And now the entire DC K.O. reading experience has been collected into a single o-MEGA sized hardbound volume for your bathroom-reading enjoyment!

Will Batman kill? Will Superman run away? Did we add a few panels of Absolute Batman just to goose sales? Yes, yes, and hell yes! If the whole world is burning, you might as well have a ringside seat for the fireworks! Nihilism for everybody!

Collects DC K.O. #1-5, Justice League: The Omega Act Special #1, DC K.O. Knightfight #1-4, DC K.O.: Superman vs. Captain Atom #1, DC K.O.: Wonder Woman vs. Lobo #1, DC K.O.: Harley Quinn vs. Zatanna #1, DC K.O.: Red Hood vs. Joker #1, DC K.O.: The Kids Are All Fight Special #1, DC K.O.: Green Lantern Galactic Slam #1, DC K.O.: Boss Battle #1, DC K.O.: Starro vs. Slade #1, DC K.O.: The Satanic vs. #1, DC K.O.: Ok, Koko #1, DC K.O.: We'll Stop When You Make Us #1, DC K.O.: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy #1, and DC K.O.: Dollars vs. Sense: Death Spiral #1.

That's... a heavy book.

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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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The TwoMorrows website says that the Spring 2024 issue of Comic Book Creator will be released on April 10, but my issue arrived in my mailbox late last week. That may be because I ordered it as soon as it was announced that the issue's feature interview would be with Booster Gold creator Dan Jurgens!

And what a great long-form interview it is! Over the course of 33 pages, interviewer Greg Biga asks Dan about his entire career, from his early days breaking into the business working on Mike Grell's Warlord through his experiences working on characters like Flash Gordon, Spider-Man, Thor, and, of course, lots of Superman.

The interview reveals some great information that will delight Jurgens fans, including some trivia nuggets even I had never heard before. From page 57:

CBC: I'm going to skip past asking the questions you've heard a thousand times, and circle back to do follow-up questions on "Death of Superman." With that story having happened, with "Funeral for a Friend," was one of the main reasons behind that to show how relevant this character of light and hope was?

Dan: That's going to be something of a long answer and, for part of it, we do have to come back to the overall discussion of "Death of Superman" a little bit. For some time, I'd had in the back of my mind that I could make a big adventure story out of killing off a title character and investigating how his absence affects his friends, family, and the people who rely on him.

By the way, I first thought of the idea when I was working on Booster Gold. Booster wasn't like any of the other characters in the DC Universe at the time, and the book was struggling to find an audience. Readers seemed to think Booster was a jerk. That's why I introduced his twin sister, Michelle. That way I could kill off Booster but we could keep the book going as Michelle stepped into her brother's role playing a somewhat more conventional hero while we explored what Booster had gotten right and wrong. Kind of an evil twin, good twin scenario. I was going to retitle it Busty Gold.

I wish I'd know that during Women's History Month! Can you imagine "good twin" Michelle taking Booster's place in the Justice League International?

For more gold nuggets like these, be sure to pick up your own copy of Comic Book Creator #34 at twomorrows.com.

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DC Bonus Book (published in Justice League International #18)

I'm doing a little housecleaning over the weekend behind the scenes here at Boosterrific.com, so please be patient if anything goes awry.

UPDATE April 2: Everything is fixed now, so hopefully you'll never see those ancient cached pages with their early-Internet ASCII images ever again.

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Today is a slow news day, so I'll take this opportunity to clean out my "images to post" folder and share this Special Director's Cut panel that didn't make the final edit in my annual April Fools Day post.

Booster Gold #2 (1986)

Yeah, that probably deserved to stay on the cutting room floor. Oh well. They can't all be winners, can they, CW?

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