While I didn't vote for New 52 Booster myself, I totally respect that someone would. Sometimes it's nice to start over.

Last week's poll question: If only one Booster Gold survives Convergence, who should it be? (65 votes)

The last time DC ran 8 weeks of constant, weekly crossovers was 1988's Millennium. I distinctly remember the clerk at my Local Comic Shop at the time moaning that he'd just recovered from buying all the Crisis tie-ins when Millennium started.

Back then, most of the crossover titles cost about $1. Today, they are all $4. That's an increase twice the rate of inflation! (So much for holding that line at $2.99, eh, DC?) I hope that guy working in the comic shop back then has gotten a raise or two over the years, or Convergence is going to put him in the poor house.

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Tired of Convergence yet?

This week we get Ralph Dibny and Kelly Jones on Swamp Thing and a return of the worst Outsiders ever. But it doesn't look like we'll be getting any Booster Gold. Even Convergence: Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes won't include our hero, despite the fact that we know Booster and the Legion will be tangling in Booster's own title launching next week.

From an interview at comicbook.com this past February:

Russ Burlingame: We've seen that Booster Gold will run afoul of Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes in his second issue. Will we see any of that in your own title?

Stuart Moore: No, that takes place before our story.

Don't despair, Booster fans. There will be some Booster on the rack this week. It just won't be new.

Enter Justice League 3000 Volume 2: The Camelot War, which includes the arrival of classic Blue and Gold in the 30th century. Of course you bought those issues when they were new, but now you can buy them again without breaking your floppies out of their mylar. At $14.99, this book is collectively cheaper than the individual issues were, so there's an incentive here for those of you who were trade-waiting.

Buy it or not. Skeets doesn't care.

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I assume that those of you who voted for Jim Lee would probably love to see a Booster Gold/Gen 13 crossover. Well, me too.

Last week's poll question: Which single creator would you most like to see work on a Booster Gold story as a combination writer/artist? (45 votes)

DC has indicated that the "New 52" is over after Convergence. But if only one Booster Gold will survive, which will it be?

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I'd been reluctant to admit that the character seen tied to a fence in last week's Convergence Nightwing/Oracle #1 could possibly be the Justice Riders incarnation of Booster Gold. So I contacted the book's creators on Twitter for confirmation.

@GailSimone Is that #BoosterGold tied to the fence in #Convergence Nightwing/Oracle 1? (Say it ain't so!)
— Boosterrific April 10, 2015

@boosterrific @JanDuursema_art What? Where?
— Gail Simone April 10, 2015

If issue writer Gail Simone didn't see anything, I didn't either. (Thanks to Morgenstern for telling me the bad news.)

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On Monday, TwinGalaxiesLive posted an interview with Dan Jurgesn about Convergence that finally explains some of the shenanigans of Booster Gold: Futures End.

Starting at 1:54 into the above video, Jurgens tells us that there is no time travel in Futures End: Booster Gold, just travel through space, as everything takes place on the sentient planet introduced in Convergence.

Mind. Blown.

Does this mean that Jonah Hex, who also appeared to travel through time with Booster in his own series, is also on that planet? Is the older Booster in that issue not the Booster we saw return from Flashpoint, but the older "Supernova" Booster from Time Masters: Vanishing Point? Curiouser and curiouser.

Thanks to Jacqueline G. Lopez and Matthew Hiscox and The Comic Book Show at TwinGalaxiesLive.com for this information.

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