On Friday, I mentioned that we'd discuss the Lego news from Comic-Con today. Even if you're already heard the big reveal, it bears repeating: Lego Skeets.

That's right, Booster Gold and Skeets will be among the 150 DC characters in this fall's LEGO Batman 3 video game from Traveler's Tales! The news was "leaked" on Twitter by @LEGOBatmanGame and reconfirmed during the "LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham" panel on Sunday (as reported by dcinfinite.com). LEGO Booster's biography has already been uploaded to Brickipedia!

The game is due this fall on every major gaming platform. You can find more details at Lego.com.

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Once upon a time, producing a weekly title was thought to be nearly impossible. Action Comics Weekly was considered a failure in 1988, not because of low sales, but because of the difficulty of production demands. Nearly two decades and one information super-highway later, DC would return to the concept with 52 with far more success. Some credit the talent assembled to work on the book, but we all know the real reason: Booster Gold.

Recognizing the cash cow of 52, DC has followed with Countdown, Trinity, DC Universe: Legends, and Brightest Day. After a break for the implementation of the "New 52" — which maybe needs to consider dropping the "new" considering its advancing age — and it's taken a few years for DC to return to this concept. But DC is back with a bang! In addition to Batman: Eternal — out today — DC is launching Futures End and a third weekly title to be named later.

If that sounds like a lot of work, that's because it is. And it's also probably bad news for Booster Gold fans. Back in February, Dan DiDio implied to Vaneta Rogers of Newsarama.com that these weekly books will count as 4 books each in DC's total line-up. DC may have abandoned its limit of 52 series, but that still means that these 3 weekly series will count as 12 titles. Therefore, so long as Batman is eternal, there will be less room for other characters of the DC pantheon to take their place in the limelight.

Certainly the spoilers for Futures End #0 released at BleedingCool.com yesterday seem to confirm that Booster won't be a star in that title. If Booster Gold is ever going to return to action in the New DC Universe, it's looking more and more like he's going to have to accept playing a supporting role to Batman.

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Earlier this week, DC released solicitations for books shipping in May. One of those books is a mini-series in which a hero will travel backwards through time in order to prevent an impending apocalypse. That series is Armageddon 2001 The Kingdom Infinite Crisis Futures End. Naturally, this time-traveling hero will be Booster Gold Batman. Because you can never have enough Batman.

With that premise, with Keith Giffen and Dan Jurgens writing, and with Jurgens occasionally drawing, it seems impossible that Booster Gold won't at least appear somewhere in this series. Where that somewhere will be is anyone's guess. (The "entire DC Universe" is in issue #2. Booster wouldn't miss that, would he?)

We'll keep our eyes open for signs of our hero this May.

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No, Booster Gold does not appear in Batman: Arkham Origins. What does appear in Batman: Arkham Origins, according to ComicBookCast on YouTube.com, is a reference to Blaze Comics, the fictional publishing house of Booster's DCU comic book.

Screencap of Batman Arkham Origins via Barry Allentheslowestmanalive

Batman: Arkham Origins was released two weeks ago. If you haven't picked it up yet, maybe this will be the incentive you need to do so.

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Elvis or the Beatles? Coke or Pepsi? Batman or Superman? There can be only one!

Last week's poll question: Which Justice Leaguer would make the better mentor/role model for Booster Gold? (44 votes)

Earlier this week, I was thinking that Booster Gold would be playing a trivial part at best in the upcoming "Trinity War" event. But events in this week's Justice League of America have me thinking twice. What's your opinion?

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