Thing 1: For the last two months, Google Analytics has been telling me that the Boosterrific! Timeline, which is essentially an objective chronological timeline of significant events in the history of Booster Gold's time-traveling adventures, has become one of the site's most popular pages. That page has been part of this site for nearly two decades, and it surprises me that it's just now getting so much traffic (if Google Analytics can be trusted, which isn't always the case). I'm happy that someone is finding value in it, but seeing so many people (or web-crawling spiders) using it makes me wonder if I could improve it. If you have any ideas, let me know.

Thing 2: Over the weekend I noticed that over on Reddit, a user named Saboscrivner has posted a pair of postcard-sized sketches they recently acquired from Steve Lieber featuring the two inarguably best Justice League members:

via Reddit.com

This is actually the third Booster Gold headshot sketch I've featured by Steve Lieber since 2018 but the first not in Cort Carpenter's Booster Gold sketchbook. Thanks for sharing, Saboscrivner.

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Last week, I picked my favorite page from Justice League America #83, so you might expect that this week I'd show a page from Justice League America #84. But I couldn't find one. I just don't think any of the pages in that issue are particularly great.

So let's skip ahead to the much better page 14 of Justice League America #85.

Hmm. "The Booster Gold Way." Someone should trademark that.

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Since my annual April Fools' Day post went over like a lead balloon (for reminding everyone of that nonsensical story in which the DC Multiverse's anthropomorphic embodiment of entropy pretended to be Booster Gold), let's see if I can refresh your palette with a post about that time the heart and soul of the Justice League pretended to be something called a "Bloodwynd."

Obviously, I'm talking about Justice League America #76.

In case you're too young (or too old) to remember, Bloodwynd was a mysterious character with magical powers who appeared from thin air to save the Justice League in Justice League America #61. Blue Beetle never liked the guy and vowed to discover his true identity, setting up a subplot that would have to wait for Superman to die before it could be resolved. (Trivia fact: Bloodwynd and Ice are the first heroes on the scene after Doomsday kills Superman.)

Bloodwynd's secret identity was revealed in, well, either Justice League America #74 or #75 depending on how much credence you give to dreams. But Justice League America #76 is the first issue to begin untangling the Bloodwynd mystery.

Hammer pants, Booster? Really?

Do I love this page just because of that cool last panel of Beetle emerging from the shadows? Yes, yes I do.

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Back at the start of February, I showcased three of Ross Pearsall's Super-Team Family cross-company team-up covers (via braveandboldlost.blogspot.com) featuring Booster Gold, Blue Beetle, and Skeets. And here we are, a month later, and Ross has created yet another, this time teaming all three with Batman-pastiche Nighthawk, who makes Booster Gold seem like an A-plus lister.

Booster versus Magneto, huh? I suppose Booster's force field versus Unus the Untouchable's force field wouldn't be much of a fight, so divide and conquer, classic Justice League style. Yeah, I'd read that.

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Just in time for Valentine's Day, we come in our chronological order of releases to Justice League Quarterly #10.

If you're a regular Boosterrific.com visitor, you probably already know what my favorite story in this anthology issue is. I posted about it at length back in 2021. "When Titans Date," is the story of Ted Kord's "friends" spying on his disastrous blind date, and it's is so much fun, I encourage frequent re-readings.

So rinse the horrors of DC K.O. out of your eyes with this page of Ty Templeton's pencils, Karl Kesel's inks, and Steve Mattsson's colors working a script by Mark Waid:

Smoking in a comic? This *must* be the 90s.

Enjoy your Valentines, Booster boosters.

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