I think any character appearing in print for 75 consecutive years deserves his own movie.
Last week's poll question: Are you excited to see Man of Steel? (38 votes)
Because both Batman and Superman are seen in the first telling of Booster's origin story in Booster Gold, volume 1, #6, I've often wondered whether Booster Gold considers either Batman or Superman as his primary inspiration. Superman is powerful and noble; Batman careful and driven. What do you think?
Tim Van Bruggen posted on Jun. 20, 2013 at 9:14 AM While I voted for Superman, I think Booster originally looked at Superman and saw the name-recognition, respect and charisma Supes had and desired it. As Booster has grown as a character, I believe he's begun to see Batman's method of working in secret as a necessary inspiration, while still longing for the Superman level of fame.
Freytaw posted on Jun. 22, 2013 at 4:46 AM Agreed with Tim !
Gio3432 posted on Jun. 24, 2013 at 11:05 AM Booster is awesome because he doesn't have a super power and he's not a genius like batman. He is just a man that rises to the occasion.
DC promises that today's issue of Justice League International #9 will crossover with The Fury of Firestorm: the Nuclear Men #9, planned for a May 23rd release. Lately the growing international league of Nuclear Men and Women -- Firestorm Fan records at least 10 unique Firestorms in the DCnU so far -- have been dealing with terrorist bombings in France while the JLI have had their hands full with bombing terrorists in New York. Could these similar plots be more than a coincidence?
With crossover environments already established between the Bat-titles (via Batman and Batwing), the Green Lantern titles (via Guy Gardner), and OMAC, is the JLI becoming the keystone in the continuity of DC's New 52 Universe? The only way to find out is to buy this issue and make Skeets happy.
Jesster posted on May. 2, 2012 at 10:01 PM This is why we aren't seeing Skeets, the JLI isn't the lynchpin of the DCnU, Skeets is. It all makes sense, Skeets has become the new Oracle and is helping all these teams with information from the future. I can dream can't I?
The Irredeemable Shag posted on May. 2, 2012 at 10:28 PM I picked up my copy today and really enjoyed it! I'm still loving this book and am excited by the new members joining. If the solicits are to be believed, joining the team will be: OMAC, Firehawk, and Batwing.<br /><br />The only piece I struggled with in this issue was the JLI taking OMAC with them to France. From a storytellers perspective, I totally get why they needed OMAC to travel to France with them. From the perspective of someone living in this New 52 world, I felt the rational was a bit hard to swallow.<br /><br />Regardless, still a great issue with beautiful art! Loved it! Can't wait for FIRESTORM #9!<br /><br />By the way, thanks for the shout-out for FIRESTORM FAN! Much appreciated! <br /><br />The Irredeemable Shag
No new comic books featuring Booster Gold are scheduled for released today, but if you have to spend some money to get your fix of Booster Gold, consider picking up the Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Season 2 Part 1 DVD. Frequent site contributor Morgenstern notes that the Amazon.com listing for the animated DVD lists only 2 actors: Batman and Booster Gold! Who knew that Booster Gold did his own voice-over work?
It's just like Booster to hog the limelight when he isn't even the featured star. Batman actually works with 35 heroic guests stars on the 12 episodes on the DVD, and only two of them are Booster Gold and Skeets. The pair appear as contestants on the Riddler's game show, "Riddle Me This?" in the introduction to the episode "A Bat Divided!"
Skeets probably doesn't receive billing because he doesn't have a speaking part: as you can see in the trailer above, the shiny sidekick is gagged in his appearance. Worse, the game show was rigged, so Skeets didn't even win a lifetime supply of Rice-A-Roni! Better luck next season, Skeets!
Eyz posted on Nov. 19, 2011 at 7:01 AM "Booster Gold (actor)" fitting! XD<br /><br />I've started getting this "Season X Part X" DVD compilations of the show :P<br />I luv luv loved this cartoon and will miss it a lot :(<br /><br />The show was pretty popular with kids and adults alike...can't they bring it back on air, perhaps take out Batman from the title (why not "Booster Gold: The brave and the bold"...whaddya say? :D)
I trust that if you were a loyal Booster Gold fan, you saw him on TV with your other favorite superheroes on Friday night. It was pretty awesome seeing some hero-versus-hero action with Booster Gold and the Blue Beetle. And the fact that they were both vampires? Fantastic.
Of course I'm talking about Batman: the Brave and the Bold episode "Shadow of the Bat!" The episode was written by J.M. DeMatteis, who better to have scribe the adventures of the entire JLI, including Fire and Ice. And unlike some other shows on Friday night, this Blue Beetle didn't look like an oversized Go-Bot.
Speaking of that other show, Tv By The Numbers (tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com) reports that an estimated 2,230,000 people watched Booster Gold on Smallville this past week. I have to wonder how many million people in the world even knew who Booster was before that episode. Consider in comparison that even the top-selling comic books so rarely sell more than 100,000 copies of their best issue anymore! (And far, far fewer ever visit Boosterrific.com!)
Morgenstern posted on Apr. 26, 2011 at 4:04 AM There was an update on the site, and the adjusted ratings are a bit better than the first ones with 2.352 million viewers
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Apr. 26, 2011 at 4:46 AM Whoo hoo! That's 122,000 more people who may have been introduced to Booster Gold for the first time. That's nearly the total sales volume for the last 12 issues of BOOSTER GOLD alone.
Eyz posted on Apr. 27, 2011 at 4:34 AM DeMatteis' episode was pretty fun! Loved it! And Jaime and Booster interraction was pretty funny.<br /><br />I dunno.. You're kinda underestimating Booster's popularity with the sales number of issues, which isn't an accurate factor anymore nowadays.<br />1) Most people tend to buy trades now. Even I, a huge Booster fan only follow him through TPBs. (issues would be a pain to keep following on a regular basis for me for example)<br />Like buying a DVD/Bluray set at the end of TV shows' seasons<br />2) Let's not ignore the internet's impact and role. Deadpool wouldn't have become the superstar he is without it, not with his on-going only. So did Blue & Gold (you know who and what I'm talking about!)<br />3) And finally, internationally people don't follow superheroes with those same issues but with translated TPBs like these:<br />http://livre.fnac.com/a2897658/Batman-Batman-silence-Jim-Lee<br />http://livre.fnac.com/a2571480/Daredevil-100-Marvel-T16-Daredevil-Ed-Brubaker<br />And they even end up being amongst the best selling comics of the month in France (country of many other local comics)<br /><br />Personally I only watched this Smallville episode for Booster, I haven't watched any since season ~2 (okay, that's not true, I've seen the Absolute Justice one too)<br /><br />We could be looking at 2,000,000+ Booster fans here!
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Apr. 27, 2011 at 2:30 PM True, my information is limited exclusively to the audience in America. I do not know of a way to judge Booster's popularity elsewhere. He could be a huge star, and I not know it. He does seem to have a lot of fans in Western Europe.
Deadpool is a poor example for comparison. The character has been exceedingly popular since his introduction in the early 90s. His current popularity may or may not be based on a wave of internet talk, but he was appearing regularly in books selling nearly 1 million copies back in the 90s, when X-Men and and Liefeld's X-Force were real market forces. He has since had several mini-series and multiple ongoing series. He is a star of a different magnitude, and has been since before the internet was a household word.
I am sure that far more than 2 million people have encountered Booster Gold through comic books in the past 26 years. However, I believe that the audience for SMALLVILLE is not exactly the same as the comic buying audience. It is proven that television and movie appearances do not significantly affect comic sales, so it would appear that television/movie watchers are not comic buyers (other than those who are already buying). Therefore, I expect that many of those who watched the episode were seeing Booster -- who has spent most of his career as a background player in comic books -- for the first time. That's a good thing.
Eyz posted on Apr. 28, 2011 at 4:43 AM But a lot of us probably turned on in this episode, like we did for the Absolute Justice episode, just to check how our favorite character was treated there.<br /><br />Anyway, yeah, we're probably both right to some extend!<br /><br />(as for Deadpool, I don't remember a lot of people following his Gail Simone era nor the Cable & Deadpool on-going, but in the meantime, his popularity re-raised in recent years thanks to tons of silly memes, internet talk and such! which I'm sure had an impact on both Marvel bringing his book back, and surfing on that movement, made him appear all over, be it in comics, games and cartoons!)
Booster Gold's role in the DC Universe is unique, but not because of his powers or abilities. After all, other heroes are invulnerable and have energy rays. Booster's contribution to the tapestry of the DCU is his unusual personality: part well-intentioned hero, part greedy cad. It is these characteristics more than anything else, that mark his value in a role-playing environment. And the game developers at Mayfair Games recognized this.
Well before Booster Gold was included as a character card in the second edition of the game, developers recognized the potential of this newcomer to the DC scene. Booster was made the star of his own game module in 1987, scant months after his comic book debut. The module, titled All That Glitters after the common misquoting of Shakespeare, featured Booster Gold struggling "with the dilemma of battling villains at the cost of losing valuable merchandising contracts." The module designer, Greg Gorden -- also one of the chief architects of the Mayfair Exponential Gaming System, went so far as to create rules, board, and pieces for the fictional Mayfly Games' Booster Gold Board Game featured in the game module. It's a clever bit of verisimilitude that further draws RPG gamers into the DC Universe. (The Booster Gold Board Game has been adapted into a single-player Flash-based game here at Boosterrific.com. You can find it here.)
The 1987 game module When a Stranger Calls by Ray Winninger also features Booster prominently. The module's scripted subplot is a crossover with All That Glitters and hinges on Booster's decision whether or not to temporarily abandon the Justice League International to continue on the promotional junket for the Booster Gold Board Game as detailed in All That Glitters. Whether the always-capricious Booster stays or goes is up to the player. Neither choice is out of character, and therein lies the role-playing enjoyment that Booster Gold represents.
BONUS BOOSTER GOLD!: Booster Gold is scheduled to make an appearance on tonight's episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold, "Darkseid Descending!", on Cartoon Network at 7:00 PM EST. The episode features Booster and the rest of the Justice League International.
Morgenstern posted on Dec. 3, 2010 at 11:57 AM Was Aquaman ever in the JLI or JLE? And too bad they had to use the "wrong" Blue Beetle (hey I like Jaime, in fact his Solo-Series is so far the only complete Solo-Series I own, but when there is a Blue & Gold Team up, he is just the wrong Blue).<br />btw: I hope that Boosterrific anounces their appearances on Smallville in advance..it'll probally be the only time I'll watch a complete Episode of the show.
Diabolu Frank posted on Dec. 3, 2010 at 5:38 PM I bought the earliest appearances of Booster Gold off the newsstand, including #1, but I never took to him. For many years, I disliked the character enough to plot his death. However, in recent years I've come around to realizing I'd fallen into the same trap as those who loathed great characters like Guy Gardner and Triumph... I'm not <i>supposed</i> to like him. I'm <i>supposed</i> to like the interesting situations that come out of his being an atypical, less than wholesome super-hero. I'm still not a fan, but I finally respect him and what he brings to the table.<br />I really need to find a copy of <i>When a Stranger Calls</i>. I wasn't aware of it until a few years ago, and teases like this leave me wanting more. That trio on the cover is so intriguing, because I like all those characters, they're all extraordinarily powerful, and they never actually served together.<br />I haven't been following B:TB&TB (I'm a DVD boxed set kind of guy,) so I hadn't realized they'd slowly constructed a modernized facsimile JLI. Interesting...
BoosterPowershot posted on Dec. 3, 2010 at 9:14 PM Damn, I never knew about this BG game, and now thanks to Boosterrific I get to play it? Man, talk about a great way to kick off the evening! Thanks a bunch!~
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Dec. 4, 2010 at 12:39 AM Yes, Morgenstern, Aquaman joined the JL Europe about mid-way through its run (following the "Breakdowns" crossover with JLA), though he didn't stick around long. Prior to that, Aquaman had made several guest appearances, including visiting KooeyKooeyKooey during the Club JLI fiasco.
Siskoid posted on Dec. 8, 2010 at 9:14 AM I've run both those adventures, though with Original Characters(TM). That was especially challenging for All That Glitters, where I had to replace Booster and friends from the boardgame into my players' heroes, and find a reason for those future guys to come and bother them. Worked out well, I think.
