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Monday, December 29, 2025
Happy Birthday, Booster Gold
Today marks the negative 417th birthday of Jon Michael "Booster" Carter, born this day in the year 2442.
Congratulations, Booster!
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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
All Out
"What comic informs us that Booster Gold's birthday is December 29?"
That's a paraphrase of a question that I was asked in an email I received over the weekend. It's a good question. I've got a lot of good questions recently.
Last week, my Local Comic Shop Guy, who knows what I like to read and what I don't, saw I was buying Superman #29 and said, "Booster Gold must be in that." I nodded, and said I wasn't really looking forward to reading it. And he said, "Then why are you buying it?" That's another good question, and I didn't like my answer.
I'm reasonably proud of what I've built here since Boosterrific.com went live, but lots of things have changed since 2007. I've long since come to terms with the fact that I'll never make a dime off this hobby, so I should only keep maintaining it as long as I enjoy it. It's that enjoyment that has recently been called into question.
I do still enjoy reading and talking about comic books. I enjoy contributing to the world's aggregation of trivial knowledge. And I am still fond of Booster Gold. But for some time now, at least since the start of the "All In" era, I have not particularly enjoyed most of what DC Comics is publishing. The upcoming "DC K.O." looks to me like very much continuing in the wrong direction.
I've been here before. I hated almost everything about the New 52. I considered giving up this site then, but I held on, and things eventually (after about 5 years) got better. There's no reason not to believe that cycle won't repeat itself, and the current editors and creatives at DC who are making comics I don't want to read will eventually move on to other projects. So I think in the meantime, I'll try just ignoring them.
I'm not sure what that will mean for this site. I'll keep the Boosterrific! Database of releases up-to-date, but maybe fewer annotations as I spend less time with books I don't enjoy. (I've already disconnected the code on the home page that reports days since Booster's last DCU appearance.) There will likely be fewer Boosterrific! Blog posts, maybe just one a week, as I try to avoid the things that don't entertain me. If that's the price to maintain my own quality of life, I'm sorry to disappoint any potential site visitors, but so be it.
And for the record, the answer is Booster Gold Volume 2, #1, page 4, panel 1, written by Geoff Johns and Jeff Katz.
That sort of granular minutia? That's the fun part for me. No question.
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Sunday, December 29, 2024
Happy Birthday, Booster Gold!
Today marks the negative 418th birthday of Jon Michael "Booster" Carter, born this day in the year 2442.
Congratulations, Booster!
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Friday, December 29, 2023
Happy Birthday, Booster Gold!
Today marks the negative 419th birthday of Jon Michael "Booster" Carter, born this day in the year 2442.
For most of the past decade, I've been accompanying my annual Booster Gold birthday wishes with the same pic of a Booster Gold cake based on the opening splash page from Booster Gold volume 1, #3.
That image first appeared on the the Internet sometime about 2008 and, according to The Oklahoman, is the work of Annette Price, co-owner (then and now) of Speeding Bullet Comics in Norman, OK.
As you might expect, the Internet has come a long way since 2008. Back in the day, photos had to be small to fit easily through all the tubes. One terabyte hard drives were only just becoming commercially available in 2008. But tubes and storage space are much, much bigger now — The Cloud! — so we can use bigger pictures on our giant monitors. Isn't living in the future great?
All of which means that it is finally time to retire my tiny cake picture and replace it with...
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... a large cake picture!
Yes, that's the same photo, now embiggened through the use of modern "artificial intelligence" algorithms and ready for re-use for many more birthdays to come.
Congratulations, Booster!
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Monday, August 14, 2023
Turn, Turn, Turn
This was the Boosterrific blog entry exactly one decade ago today:
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2013
Happy Birthday, Jimmy Palmiotti!
All Booster Gold fans should take the time to wish Jimmy Palmiotti a happy birthday!
Palmiotti and his writing partner, Justin Gray, are the only writers at DC who have given Booster Gold anything to do in the DCnU in 2013. Maybe if we're really nice to him on his birthday, he will arrange for Booster to return to All-Star Western where we can all find out whether Booster and Jonah Hex can work out their differences. (If we're really, really nice, maybe we can get Skeets back in the Old West, too!)
So thank you, Mr. Palmiotti. May you have many more.
A few things of note about that:
First of all, happy birthday (again), Jimmy.
Secondly, although Palmiotti and his frequent collaborator Amanda Conner are now long-associated with Harley Quinn, their first Harley book hadn't even come out yet when I originally posted that! How many
And third, I find it very interesting that exactly 10 years later, Booster has hit another extended dry spell between published adventures (with only the briefest of respites in last week's issue of, of all things, a Harley Quinn book). What's that they say about history repeating itself?
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