Finally, I have a reason to go to Twitter as Dan Jurgens started an account last week. How do I know it's the real Dan Jurgens? Simple: he's really, really vague about his upcoming work. I kid, I kid. But seriously: Dan Jurgens on Twitter. Welcome to the digital age, Dan.

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Now that we have the final issue of Booster Gold in our hands, Boosterrific.com would like to offer a heartfelt "thank you" to everyone who took part in crafting Booster Gold Volume 2. Thanks to Dan Jurgens, Norm Rapmund, Brian Miller and Hi-Fi Designs, Geoff Johns, Jeff Katz, Rex Ogle, Michael Siglain, Harvey Richards, and everyone else whose work made Booster Gold look so good in his own title. We're already eagerly awaiting Volume 3.

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With the final issue of Booster Gold due tomorrow, perhaps it's time to refresh your memory about the last issue with Russ Burlingame's most recent "Gold Exchange" column at ComicRelated.com. (My apologies for not linking sooner. First Comic-Con got in the way, and well, now here we are. Sorry, Russ.)

GX: The other side of that, of course, is that she's different from The Parasite (and, for that matter, Rogue) in that she doesn't seem to harm the people from whom she takes the power, right?

DJ: You're right-- she's different from the Parasite. But I think it's important to note that there's a great deal we don't know about her-- and she may not know about herself.

GX: Also: Booster's powers are not natural; she can apparently "borrow" power from inanimate objects, too?

DJ: Yes. It doesn't have to be a biologically based super power.

GX: If Alex is copying Booster's powers, why are her blasts green? Much has been made of the green-ness of it among fans who are speculating who or what she might represent in the Flashpoint Universe.

DJ: Once again, there is a lot about her that has not been revealed, as well as the notion that she, herself, doesn't have a complete understanding of what she is, what she can do and what actually happens as part of the process.

Jurgens does a find job of not explaining that, doesn't he? This probably means that he plans on addressing this in the future. With only one issue of Booster Gold remaining, here's hoping he acts fast. (Or will we be seeing Alexandria in the future?)

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DC has announced that Dan Jurgens will be joining Geoff Johns, Jim Lee, Eddie Berganza, JT Krul, Eric Wallace, Francis Manapul, Brian Buccellato, Philip Tan, and moderator Bob Wayne on the "Justice League" panel at the San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, July 22. It's just possible that some real news will come from this star-studded panel, but don't expect to discover who the mysterious disappearing woman on the cover of Justice League International #1 is. Some secrets man wasn't meant to know.

For a complete list of the DC panels at this year's Comic-Con International, visit The Source.

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[EDIT 4:09 PM EDT: Sorry, sorry. I worked a 12 hour day yesterday, started early this morning, and in between I just plain forgot to upload today's blog post. Please forgive me.]

Erin beat me to this news over in the forums, but Dan Jurgens took his turn in the DC reboot hype machine yesterday at The Source. Jurgens will be drawing Green Arrow and writing Justice League International, both titles that Jurgens has worked on in the past.

How and why are you shaking up the series' status quo?

In GREEN ARROW, we're getting back to the basics of what makes Oliver Queen work. He's accumulated a lot of baggage over the years and it's time for some of that to go.

In JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL, we're really dealing with an entirely new DC Universe. For Booster, Guy Gardner, Rocket Red and the rest this is a new adventure...

Will we see new character designs?

Green Arrow will absolutely have a new look, though he'll still be wearing green— naturally!

In JLI, several of the characters have cool, new looks!

This interview form-letter has been repeated over and over again at The Source for the new DC titles, and the questions say more about DC's approach to this mess than any of the artists have about their individual books. How do you have a "status quo" to "shake up" if you are starting from scratch in a new universe of stories? Why ask why the titles are being shaken up when the company mandated a number one relaunch for all series? Why ask about new character designs when the company has already widely promoted Jim Lee's redesigns? DC, I just don't understand you sometimes.

The full interview (and many other similar interviews) are available on DC's The Source blog here. If you have something to say about this interview or either of these two series (I won't insult you by asking which one you are most excited about -- it's the one with Booster in it, of course), consider dropping in on Erin's thread in the Boosterrific Forum here.

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