I suppose it figures that the Booster Gold with the fewest votes is also the Booster Gold who has appeared in the fewest number of panels (exactly one, which is also the number of votes he got).

Last week's poll question: Which alternate-continuity version of himself should Booster Gold meet during Convergence? (44 votes)

Now that Convergence is upon us, let's talk about the elseworlds where a single creator — combination of writer and artist — other than Dan Jurgens was responsible for telling the stories of most of Booster Gold's adventures. Who would you want to read?

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Remember this?

That was a small part of the teaser poster for Futures End. Tim drake went on to play a huge part in the series. Booster Gold? Not so much. Let's recap:

(Warning: mild Futures End spoilers ahead.)

We learned in the first issue of the series that thirty-five years in the future of the New 52 Universe, Brother Eye has taken over the world. Many heroes and villains have been corrupted into becoming Brother Eye's agents, including Booster Gold.

Forty-eight issues later, uh, not much changed. Despite the tease, the only Booster Gold we really got during Futures End was a confusing sidebar that had nothing to do with the Futures End plot, but rather set the stage for the next mega-crossover event.

That's definitely not what anyone would have guessed when we saw Booster Gold in that teaser last year. Here's hoping that Convergence treats Booster Gold a little better.

Convergence #1 and the first wave of mini-series are in stores today.

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As I mentioned earlier this week, DC Comics is giving readers a recap of important events in the life of the stars of its Convergence mini-series. ComicsAlliance.com has the recap that will be appearing in Convergence: Booster Gold:

find a larger version at ComicsAlliance.com

I'm guessing the reason that all of Booster's pre-52 adventures are ignored is because this mini-series book will focus on time-shenanigans, not straightforward super-adventure, so readers will need to be brought up to speed on DC's time cop. But the pages offer an alternate suggestion for the omissions: Booster Gold doesn't remember them.

As we learned in Booster Gold: Futures End, the Booster Gold whose adventures we've followed since he was introduced to the post-Crisis on Infinite Earths DC Universe still exists outside of time. According to these pages, Booster Gold returned from Flashpoint to Vanishing Point, where the changes in time caused him to forget his past. This explains the Booster we saw in All-Star Western. (That he was wearing the wrong costume can be attributed to artist error [though the truth probably lies closer to editorial retcon].)

These pages also reinforce that "our" Booster never merged with the New 52 Universe. The Booster Gold of the New 52 Universe was "created" on the Earth-Prime of the post-Flashpoint multiverse. His first appearance is in Justice League International #1, and his history deviates significantly from that of "our" Booster Gold. He never befriended Ted Kord or joined the JLI or had his own sidekick named Goldstar, and he's certainly never met anyone named Max Lord or Gladys.

Of course, two pages are hardly enough to answer all the outstanding questions about the multiple Booster Golds and their transition to the New 52 — are there two versions of Rip Hunter? What is NuBooster Gold's history? Will we ever meet the New 52 version of Skeets? — but maybe we'll get a few more answers when Convergence: Booster Gold #1 is released in three weeks.

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DC will be including short primers in the various Convergence mini-series to catch newer readers up on the events that inspired these new comics. Obviously a lot happened during the JLI's decade-long run, and it's amusing to see what DC thinks readers will need help remembering, including these two panels:

Justice League America #35 (1990)

Justice League America #80 (1993)

The first panel is clearly the inspiration for the events of Countdown to Infinite Crisis, and the second is the single ugliest Booster Gold costume ever. Personally, I think they're both events in JLI history that I would rather forget!

You can see the whole piece at ComicBookResources.com.

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Funny how DC promising to publish books with long-missing characters has so many people looking to buy a bunch of comics again. It's just like 1994's Zero Hour crossover all over again!

Last week's poll question: How many of the 40 Convergence tie-in mini-series are you planning to buy? (49 votes)

First Booster shows up on the covers of Smallville and Futures End without appearing inside, and now he's wrongly solicited as appearing in Justice League 3000 #15. It's getting where I probably shouldn't give my Local Comic Shop any money until after I've read the books!

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