It was on this day in the year 2009 when DC Published Booster Gold Volume 2, #23 with this cover:

As it happens, Boosterrific.com has a real footnote connection to that cover, as cover model Blair Butler namedropped us in her July 19, 2009, interview with Laura Hudson at ComicsAlliance.com:

CA: So what exactly makes you Booster Gold's biggest fan?

BB: Well, first, let me just admit that there are some massive Booster fans out there who really dwarf me – the folks who run the Boosterrific site, the guys at Project Fanboy, and the folks in the DC forums. They're all so passionate that it's really awe-inspiring and humbling. But let's settle this now: The real #1 fan would be Skeets or Blue Beetle. And I think Ted wins. However, if this were the mid-80s, Trixie Collins would totally be on the cover, rockin' some awesome 80s shoulder-pads.

Comic book-focused news site Comics Alliance, established in 2007, was sold in 2013, and has been largely defunct since 2017, now existing only to repost content from other sites owned by its corporate parent. To their credit, they keep some of their old content online, including this article, "Blair Butler Sets the Record Straight on ‘Booster Gold’."

Similarly, Project Fanboy became the FanboyBuzz and fizzled out by 2014. I'm sure it was just a coincidence that DC Comics killed their own message boards about the same time they launched the the-less-said-about-it-the-better "New 52" in 2012.

...And as I'm researching all this, I rediscovered that I previously covered this ground (with a longer excerpt from the interview) on its tenth anniversary, August 12, 2019.

Which may explain why so many of those websites eventually petered out: there's only so much comics content to report before you start repeating yourself.

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Available today at your Local Comic Shop: Blair Butler Booster Gold The Complete 2007 Series Book Two!

Poor Blair! They cut off her head. Her incredulous expression is the best part of the cover of Booster Gold #23.

This softcover collection reprints Booster Gold Volume 2 issues #15 through #31 plus The Brave and the Bold #23.

As a Booster Gold fan, you probably already have those issues, right? But wouldn't it be nice to have them all collected into one easy-to-read volume that would look nice on your bookshelf? Yeah, real nice.

And you already bought Book One when it came out last year, right? This one sure would look nice sitting next to that one. Real nice.

Buy this trade paperback and make Skeets happy.

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"My life has changed in so many ways over the past decade" is something I could say every 10 years. In 2009, I was reading new Booster Gold comic books and watching Attack of the Show on G4. None of those things exist anymore.

Fortunately, I don't have to rely on my memory to recall those golden days because I still have my copy of Booster Gold Volume 2, #23, released 10 years ago today.

For those of you too young to remember, Blair Butler reviewed comic books in her "Fresh Ink" segment on Attack of the Show. She had been very positive about Booster's second series, and DC Comics thought she would make the perfect spokesperson for Booster's fan club. I couldn't agree more.

Butler described how she earned this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to Laura Hudson of ComicsAlliance.com shortly after Comic-Con International on July 29, 2009:

ComicsAlliance: So, how did the whole "Booster Gold" cover with DC come about?

Blair Butler: I actually got a call from Dan DiDio who said he had a crazy idea for an upcoming issue of "Booster Gold." Basically — and forgive me, because my memory sucks and I'm still recovering from Comic-Con — I recall that he said DC wanted to do a cover that sort of stood out for #23, and having a photo cover with a Booster fan was the main idea. It seemed oddly appropriate, since Booster is a bit of an attention hog. I think he'd not-so-secretly love the idea of having a lady-fan on the cover of his book. And, honestly, I was incredibly humbled that DC would ask me to don the Blue and Gold fan colors. I've loved comics since I had to stand on a stool to reach the quarter-bins at my local comic shop, so it's pretty awesome to get to be part of a DC comic.

CA: So what exactly makes you Booster Gold's biggest fan?

BB: Well, first, let me just admit that there are some massive Booster fans out there who really dwarf me — the folks who run the Boosterrific site, the guys at Project Fanboy, and the folks in the DC forums. They're all so passionate that it's really awe-inspiring and humbling. But let's settle this now: The real #1 fan would be Skeets or Blue Beetle. And I think Ted wins. However, if this were the mid-80s, Trixie Collins would totally be on the cover, rockin' some awesome 80s shoulder-pads.

I think the people who love Booster really respond to the fact that even though he's a shameless self-promoter, at the end of the day, he's a good, decent, heroic person at the core. Plus, when you live in LA, there's no more fitting superhero than Booster. I mean, the guy saves a crashing plane and does product placement. So Hollywood.

CA: We all know that you're going to be on the cover of "Booster Gold" now, but are you going to make an appearance inside the book as well?

BB: Straight from Dan Jurgens' mouth, I'll play a "slight role." Honestly, having anything to do with the comic is an honor.

That "slight role" was a romantic one. Butler went on a few dates with Booster, joining a list that includes movie star Monica Lake and the super hero Firehawk. An honor indeed!

Butler has since moved from writing for television to writing movies, but I'm sure she's still reading and enjoying Booster Gold comic books.

Meanwhile, Comics Alliance has been defunct since 2017. DC Comics closed their forums in 2016. G4 went off the air in 2014. Project Fanboy dissolved in 2013. Booster Gold Volume 2 was canceled in 2011. But Boosterrific.com is still here (feeling very, very old).

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