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Friday, February 13, 2026
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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Eskana posted on Feb. 14, 2026 at 7:19 PM
I love these little odd slice-of-life stories, like the one where I think Fire, Ice, and Booster go with Ted to his high school reunion, which ends up to be all aliens. Just good fun.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Feb. 14, 2026 at 8:10 PM
That's JUSTICE LEAGUE QUARTERLY #7. A pretty good book.
Friday, January 30, 2026
The repercussions of Doomsday's Superman-killing rampage continue to reverberate through 1993's Justice League America #71, as Booster Gold tries to find a way to repair his damaged technology when he is interrupted by equally-powerless Fire and the resolution to a lingering subplot referenced in a previous Favorite Page.
Sure, that one strand of hair in Fire's face is annoying, and the fact that she's almost nude as she criticizes a "lingerie" calendar makes me chuckle every time, but I really dig those last two panels.
But wait, there's more! After months on the sidelines, this issue sees Skeets returned to action on the following page. So I've got two favorite pages!
Sometimes the messiest comics can be the most endearing.
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SLW (Steff) posted on Feb. 5, 2026 at 3:46 PM
I maintain this was and still is just bad characterization. Have always been disappointed in it; Booster managed to avoid sexism through 97% of Vol. 1 and the entirety of the Giffen/DeMatteis league only to end up being a total sleazeball when his own creator takes over the team.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Feb. 6, 2026 at 12:25 AM
I cannot deny that Jurgens emphasizes the "horndog" aspect of the character when he takes over the JLA, but "total sleazeball" seems a bit harsh, especially when there's a Guy Gardner on the team.
And for the record, the calendar situation has never felt especially exploitative to me. Booster clearly intends the calendar as a for-profit enterprise, and Fire wasn't bamboozled, she was completely on board until she found out that it was Booster who would be profiting. (She's just as interested in fame and fortune as Booster is. That's why she and Booster have never gotten along: they're too similar.) Booster was doing what he always did: unethically manipulating his way into increased profit. Seems pretty in character to me.
SLW (Steff) posted on Feb. 8, 2026 at 2:10 PM
I dunno, Walter. Setting a teammate up like that was absolutely dirty dealing, and take it from a woman, there's a level of betrayal there that comes when it's someone you live with and work with versus a stranger. Like-- there's a different level of consent involved. A different expectation of respect.
Okay, so to try to put it in a context that might make more sense as to why I think this is awful writing and evidence that Dan is plain bad at writing women and that this isn't something Booster would even think to do: It's the difference between, say, flirting with someone online who -- as far as you know -- is a stranger. You hit it off great. You talk for weeks or months and decide to have a date. You show up and it turns out this was your friend who knows all the right things to say to manipulate your emotions and get you interested, in the hopes that they'd get something out of it. It's sleazeball behavior. It can measurably hurt someone. And whatever else, I don't think Booster is ever out to hurt people.
And saying that Bea basically asked for it by being willing to take a modelling contract she thought was legit is also a really hot take. Ask yourself: If she wouldn't have taken it had she known who was behind it, then how is that *not* a form of sexual exploitation?
So I think that Booster, who is generally good-hearted and not at all rapey -- he gets sexually harassed way more than he does anything like harassing, outside of the Super Buddies junk, which is a whole different level of 'wtf' characterization -- just wouldn't go there. None of his prior business ventures *or* the ones following have ever involved anyone's body but his. And honestly, most of his business ventures are perfectly ethical: He has a right to sell himself and does. He has a right to run a business, accept and give endorsements and turn a profit. Even his and Ted's repo business was legit (as in, they were hired for these jobs), and the second it became *unethical* re: the vampire Booster noped out, horrified. He's not lazy. He does the work. Kooey Kooey Kooey was the worst of it, and that was Ted's idea. (Ted, who was most often the real schemer of the pair.)
And if it's the whole betting-on-his-own games thing, I could and did write several thousand words on why *that* should be looked upon with nothing but patience and sympathy.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Feb. 8, 2026 at 5:37 PM
@SLW We have clearly established that we have different personal histories, relationship scars, and genetics that have led to us interpreting the same thing very differently. Perhaps my initial response in Booster's defense could be interpreted as an indifference to exploitation or victim-blaming. I want to make it perfectly clear that was not my intention. I do not condone Booster's "sleazeball" behavior. Without any regard for the genders involved, this is a textbook example of sexual exploitation, whether Fire is able to give informed consent or not. Booster is morally wrong for breeching the trust of another human being (and practically wrong for betraying a teammate). Our chief difference of opinion here is that you consider this a scenario of incompetent writing/characterization and I do not. Perhaps I'm reading too much of my own personal history into it, but I have always seen this as an immature and ignorant Booster making a bad decision without realizing at the time just how bad it was. Booster definitely attempts to exploit his teammates in SECRET ORIGINS #35 (which I know you will point out is also written by Jurgens), and at the time of the issue, American culture practically celebrated this particular sort of exploitation (reference: Hugh Hefner). I am willing to forgive Jurgens' clumsy storytelling in an era when his contemporary writers often did much worse in a medium built on the celebration of physical masculine-centric violence to a market of teenaged boys. I recognize that it is your right to feel differently.
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Reminder: today's the day that you can get your hands on Trinity: Daughter of Wonder Woman #1 with the previously mentioned Booster Gold corgi on the cover.
While you're at your Local Comic Shop, you might want to consider checking out Action Comics #1087, which features a guest appearance by Booster Gold's 25th-century employer, the Space Museum (as can be seen in the preview available at AIPTcomics.com).
And as if that's not enough excitement for one day, be aware that also out today is Fire and Ice: When Hell Freezes Over #3, which makes it explicitly clear that "I Can't Believe It's Not the Justice League" (long treated as an out-of-continuity tale) in JL Classified in 2005 is canon in the modern Rebirth-era DCU.
words by Joanne Starer, pictures by Stephen Byrne, editorial note by (presumably) Andrea Shea
Now if only we could get Booster Gold himself to actually appear in a comic book again...
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SLW (Steff) posted on Jun. 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I'm surprised you didn't hear me rolling my eyes when I read the preview, I rolled them so hard. Making one of the most ridiculously OOC tales of the JLI suddenly!canon is just more of a really mediocre series being-- mediocre, honestly.
Eskana posted on Jun. 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I'd still rather believe that this could just be referencing the fact that Tora died and came back with "Brightest Day"... after all, in "I Can't Believe it's Not the Justice League," didn't she actually stay there (because Bea turned around and they were doing an "Orpheus and Eurydice" thing)?
I can hope (lol not a fan of that miniseries.)
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jun. 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Your headcanon can be whatever you want, but Tora dies in JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL #66 and her funeral is in JUSTICE LEAGUE AMERICA #91. Those both came out in June 1994. If FIRE & ICE was just trying to remind you that Ice was once (and for many years) dead, there was no need to specifically call out the 2005 comic book in which her teammates tried to rescue her from Hell.
Brandon posted on Jun. 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I'm going to play the nerd card here and point out that Ice actually died in Justice League Task Force #14
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jun. 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Oooh. You're right, Brandon. On the last page. (On the last day of May 1994!) Shoot. Does that mean that I lose *my* nerd card? Bah. I should have asked AI.
SLW (Steff) posted on Jun. 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
@Eskana: Tora came back during Birds of Prey first, IIRC. She had been found in a Rocket Red suit because some dude wanted to resurrect a goddess. She was possessed by a Black Lantern ring, but I don't think she was officially killed before it? I'm honestly not sure, it didn't make a ton of sense to me. Kinda like Winick's racially dubious retcon of her backstory.
Thursday, May 15, 2025
I hadn't expected to see Booster Gold in my Local Comic Shop this week, so imagine my surprise when SLW dropped into the comments of Monday's post to alert us that Booster can be seen in Fire and Ice: When Hell Freezes Over #2. Kinda.
I wonder if that Booster Gold doll is made by the same manufacturer as the one we saw in Booster Gold Volume 2 #17:
And like SLW, I also wonder how anyone could be making Booster Gold plushies in a continuity that doesn't remember Booster Gold ever existed? Oh, well. Probably best not to think too much about it.
Thanks, SLW.
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SLW (Steff) posted on May. 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I still want five of them. I would have one at work, one at home, one in the car-- plus probably two I would just have as backups.
Brandon posted on May. 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
No to Ice with long hair. Just no.
Tiffany posted on May. 16, 2025 at 9:11 AM
@Brandon, it's a body swap story. That's Fire in there.
Brandon posted on May. 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
@Tiffany, oh ok.
I thought the butt comment seemed out of character lol
Friday, April 25, 2025
Look, I'm getting old. I know it. And because I'm old, I sometimes get nostalgic for giant shoulder pads, Marlboro cigarette ads in print magazines, and giant overblown hairstyles on dudes. And boy, does this page from Justice League America #63 hit that sweet spot!
Looking back on this 1992 issue from the distant future of 2025, I'm struck by just how of its era it really was. Way too much arguing about interpersonal relations (which was all the rage in the best-selling X-Men comics of its day) and the wisdom of military interventionism (a la "Operation Desert Storm" in Kuwait that brought with it heated discussions of a new draft).
Cap it all off with Fire's new very 90's — dare I say "extreme"? — costume. Chef's kiss!
Bea sewed a whole new costume in just 6 pages? Now that's a super power!
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Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Apr. 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Also in this issue: Wedgie!!!
(Yes, I'm very old going on 6.)
SLW (Steff) posted on Apr. 25, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Booster's long-hair phase coincided with my father's long-hair phase. I'd say Booster pulled it off better, but wow, that man had a helluva mane. (Also actually loved that outfit of Fire's, because that black makes a fantastic contrast. Purely on aesthetics, though, I would have actually just gone full green and black and not delineated the gloves, either.)
channel manager posted on Apr. 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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