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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Back in May, in response to a post on Joshua Williamson's substack, I wrote
You'll note that this doesn't actually say that Booster Gold will be in Superman #28, but it almost does. So I think Booster boosters should be prepared to pick up Superman #28 when it comes out on July 23.
Now that it's July 23 Eve, BleedingCool.com has spoilers for Superman #28, the first issue of the "Legion of Darkseid" story that's been teased for months. The spoilers reveal a surprise character appearance... who is not Booster Gold. Shoot. There is still no actual confirmation that Booster Gold is in the issue. I guess we'll find out tomorrow. [UPDATE: As you can see in the comments below, Rob Snow has found out, and the answer is "he is not." Big thanks to Rob for saving me $5.]
But!
"Here" being the DC Go! comic Taste of Justice #3 ("A Taste of Hope" co-written by and guest starring World Central Kitchen founder José Andrés).
Thanks to Booster booster J, I can report that the first three issues of the digital-only food-themed series from Andrew Aydin and Domo Stanton first announced back in January were finally released on July 16 and are now available and free to read at DCUniverseInfinite.com.
And yes, that is the costume Booster wore while romancing Harley Quinn in "California or Death" (beginning in Harley Quinn Volume 3 #70). I gotta be honest; I don't hate it. I'm a sucker for the high collar.
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SLW (Steff) posted on Jul. 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Costume or civilian clothes? (Arguably, she was romancing him, but she still stabbed him more times in this timeline than she's kissed him. Which is fine by me, he can definitely do better. 🤣)
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jul. 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
That is *definitely* a costume. Civilian clothes, I would argue, as a general rule attempt to fit in with contemporary fashion trends. That's designed to stand out as far as possible. That boy wants to be seen!
SLW (Steff) posted on Jul. 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
See, I'd venture civilian clothes are 'clothes you're not likely (or looking) to fight in'. I mean, there's a difference between being publicity-minded and and being 'on duty'. At least every other time we've seen him wearing this, he was definitely not what I'd call officially 'on duty', though yeah, of *course* that boy wants to be seen. XD When your whole skillset is basically 'superhero' or 'ex-football player', branding is about all you got left to bring home the bacon!
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jul. 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Merriam-Webster defines "civilian" strictly as someone who is not in the armed or peacekeeping forces, and the United States Army recognizes "civilian clothes" as almost anything that isn't a defined uniform. Loosely speaking, most of DC's superheroes should be considered deputies of the law, and wear a uniform designating their special status to society-at-large. Therefore, a super hero wearing anything other than their IP trademarked outfit could be considered to be wearing "civilian clothes." I also concede all this would seem to apply to Booster here, as he is not obviously clad in his familiar 25th-century power-suit.
HOWEVER, Booster (1) isn't in the military, (2) has been known to change looks from time to time, and (3) is wearing an outfit clearly meant to evoke his traditional costume (and brand). Add that in this particular context, he is responding to Batman's summons wearing what you see, while all of his colleagues on the Justice League satellite are also dressed for "work." Booster is not shown changing outfits before going into action, so the presumption is that he is time travels to save the day in what he's already wearing. Therefore, even by your definition, I contend that he sure seems to be "looking to fight" in what you see him wearing here, so I will insist on calling it a costume (as I have before; see: "Los Angeles Casual" on the Boosterrific! list of power-suits) until such time as evidence in canon proves otherwise.
(I admit I'm probably being pointlessly argumentative on a purely semantic point, but "being pointlessly argumentative" is a key cornerstone in my personality matrix, and why else read superhero comic books if not to argue about their contents?)
Joe posted on Jul. 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Civilian. lol.
Rob snow posted on Jul. 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Short answer...nope. No booster nor in Justice league unlimited
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jul. 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Well, crud.
SLW (Steff) posted on Jul. 23, 2025 at 7:28 AM
We wouldn't be comic book fans, buddy, if we didn't argue pointlessly about semantics. XD And anyway, who's to say they didn't summon him from a karaoke session anyway? He doesn't carry his powersuit in a ring, so it's entirely possible he got called to action while out doing non-hero things. Maybe he took a minute to change into the actual uniform/costume before time-traveling to save the world (again) after we see him vanish.
I can definitely say wearing civilian clothes (I suppose calling them street clothes also works) doesn't preclude a public servant (or possibly superhero) from going into action without the uniform when there's no time to run home and change into it. I was married to a rural police officer for many years, and many times he strapped his gunbelt on over his jeans and bolted out with his badge clipped to his belt. (And it's totally fine, really, to call this outfit a costume since we see it more than once and it's themed, but I think in-universe, it's probably really just one variation of Booster's street clothes. A 'notice who I am' outfit, sure, but still not meant for battle.)
Friday, May 9, 2025
I'm on record as no fan of social media, but without reddit, I never would have discovered that Superman scribe Joshua Williamson has a substack.com account, "Joshua Williamson's Super Scary Newsletter," where on "Superman Day" April 18 he posted the following:
I've thought about All In Special waaay too much, and I wish I had a clue about what he thinks I should think is a clue. That the logo has changed on the 30th-century Legion Flight Ring? That the Justice League forgets Booster exists? That Skeets has gone missing? That in one story Booster Gold is wearing his 1980s collar and in the other story he isn't? A little less ambiguity would be helpful, please; I can only think so much.
You'll note that this doesn't actually say that Booster Gold will be in Superman #28, but it almost does. So I think Booster boosters should be prepared to pick up Superman #28 when it comes out on July 23.
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Tiffany posted on May. 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I thought you weren't a fan Joshua Williamson.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on May. 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
You are correct, Tiffany, I'm not a fan of Williamson's work. I wouldn't have naturally gone wandering around his substack. I saw a screenshot on Reddit and went there to copy/paste text for this post. (I prefer to steal content directly from the source when possible.)
Tiffany posted on May. 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
My question was more why buy what you don't like? I get that you're a Booster fan and all. But you don't like Joshua Williamson writing of Booster. Are you scared DC will never publish Booster again if this random Superman issues doesn't sell well? First off all that kinda logic just doesn't track. Corporations can make decision they want. They don't always follow logic. And even if did, they can't reach into your mind and go "he like Booster but Williamson" they're just going to assume you like Williamson's Booster. And second, the current Superman book has sold well and is generally loved. Plus (this isn't meant to disrespect your opinion,) you seem to minority of Booster fans. Most I've seen actually like what Williamson is doing. So it's probably safe to say it won't have problem selling. And before you say that you need for your website, no you don't, any big revelations about Booster will posted online. For Booster is really popular character. So all that said I don't get why you want to buy and encouraging others to.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on May. 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
It is the policy of Boosterrific.com to promote any Booster Gold appearance, whether I'm personally excited about it or not. Yes, I want to encourage DC Comics to publish more Booster Gold stories, but my primary goal in these sorts of blog posts is to keep people informed of where they should expect to see Booster next. (Personally, I've been collecting Booster Gold comics for a long time; I'm not going to skip one now just because I don't care for its writer.)
SLW (Steff) posted on May. 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Onto the cruel and overly long wait. LOL! Then again, waiting since LAST YEAR was worse, so I suppose I'll survive.
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
"You might want to change the counter."
So reads the email sent to me by Booster booster Bob. Bob's a longtime friend of the Boosterrific Blog, and he even gave us a shout out at the end of his recent YouTube video post about the schizophrenic nature of Geoff John's Rip Hunter. (Bob summarizes the problem with that characterization as "Good people don't kidnap children." Hear, hear, Bob!)
But the point of Bob's email yesterday had nothing to do with Rip Hunter. It was about Booster Gold's return to comic books.
Specifically, Bob was the first to tell me that Booster Gold will be making an appearance in today's one-shot anthology Summer of Superman Special #1.
I suppose I should have seen this coming. According to Matt Morrison's review of the issue at SuperHeroHype.com: "Finally, Joshua Williamson uses the last chapter to explore the cause of Validus becoming displaced in time. This final story ties into the larger story of DC All-In and the fate of the Legion following Dark Crisis." That does indeed sound Booster-adjacent.
Before you get your hopes up too high about the inevitable Booster Gold renaissance, know that Booster's role in this issue is actually pretty limited. (It's essentially little more than a reminder that DC hasn't forgotten about what they did to our time-travelling hero.) But the bright side is that, yeah, it definitely counts as an in-continuity appearance, and yeah, it does reset the missing-in-action counter (after reaching 196 days). These days we'll take what we can get!
So buy this book and make Skeets (who is *not* in this issue) happy. (UPDATE: As SLW points out in the comments, Skeets *does* put in a cameo appearance in this week's Challengers of the Unknown #5.)
Thanks for keeping an eye out for us, Bob!
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Tiffany posted on Apr. 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Yeah. I bet when he returns, Whenever that's (I'm betting as a cliffhanger at the end of "We are Yesterday." but I could be wrong. Have been in past.) he'll at least get a mini-series, at the very least. Most likely written by Joshua Williamson or Mark Waid. Or maybe They both co-write. Or maybe it someone else. IDK.
Rob snow posted on Apr. 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Well i saw the SINGLE PANEL he's in. Man DC lives a skinny bearded chained up Booster
SLW (Steff) posted on Apr. 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Skeets cameos in Challengers of the Unknown, at least! But yeah, I literally gasped aloud when I saw Booster's monologue-style.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Apr. 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
RE: Skeets in Challengers. Has anyone been reading this series? Does Skeets' appearance herein make any sense? I know what I *think* it's telling me (which I will not reveal at this time because potential "spoilers," just like how Booster's appearance in Summer of Superman appears to toss out everything we thought we knew about the ending to All In and the Absolute Universe), but it's possible I missed something as I haven't been following Challengers (or, frankly, anything else DC has published since they gulagged Booster Gold).
SLW (Steff) posted on Apr. 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I think it does, but I hesitate to say for sure, only because it feels very meta to me? I have been reading Challengers and quite liking it, and was really touched by the scene surrounding that cameo.
But ALSO! I will note that Booster's costume was either an art error or an interesting choice, since he'd gone back to his 80s pre-Doomsday costume at the end of the All-In special and is wearing his modern one at the end of the Superman special. (Also that somehow the man manages to have amazing hair even after at *least* a month of dangling in chains. LOL!)
I dunno if any of that means anything, it was just interesting to me.
clonegeek posted on Apr. 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I still don't get how Rip Hunter isn't a villain at this point. I never got how if Rip's job is to preserve the timeline and keep people like Thawne from messing with it. Why did Rip let Thawne alter history by killing Barry's mom?
SLW (Steff) posted on Apr. 17, 2025 at 7:09 AM
@clonegeek -- I mean, from my POV, Rip's been an actual asshole significant amounts of his post-Crisis life. LOL! In Vol. 2 alone, there's only so far you can use the predestination paradox as an excuse to treat another human being the way he treated Booster, who you'd THINK he'd show a bit more care for. It probably wouldn't annoy me as much if they'd actually call his shit behavior out in the narrative properly.
DC has never known how to actually do time travel. They really really *really* want to use it like a shiny toy, but they don't like working out the metaphysics of it and then sticking to whatever rules they invent. Booster should have disappeared about a billion times by now; they need to kind of just unchain him from that and let him be a temporal refugee permanently whose existence is not predicated on a set future, and then stick with that. Any future knowledge he has hasn't been relevant-- at least since the 90s.
Steven Palchinski posted on Apr. 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Do you have a link to booster Bob's youtube?
bob posted on Apr. 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I ya guys. Going to get the book today but here is the link to my video that you asked for https://youtu.be/jlIbmlFCoJQ?si=87uGa9u1N18mrCFZ
Friday, May 20, 2022
On Monday, I linked to a CBR interview with Dark Crisis writer Joshua Williamson. When I wrote that post, I didn't realize that Williamson had already tweeted Ethan Young's alternate cover for Dark Crisis #3 which features Blue and Gold:
No front-facing camera, Harley? Is that an iPhone 3?
That group is what CBR called the "Not Really" Justice League that Jon Kent will form in the wake of the Justice League's apparent death in Justice League #75. Williamson's tweet emphasizes "THERE IS NO JUSTICE LEAGUE." Given the League's history, that sounds especially ominous.
Longtime Booster boosters may recall that in the absence of a Justice League following the events of Infinite Crisis, Firehawk organized a new, self-proclaimed Justice League during the year-long 52. It lasted 18 pages before being defeated and disgraced... by Skeets.
See, a wormhole had opened in present-day Metropolis and a swarm of pirates had just descended on the city streets....
In hindsight, that probably should have been a job for Superman.
(Technically, that new League was thwarted by Skeets' corporeal body but not its consciousness, although that opens a whole 'nother can of unresolved worms about whether or not Skeets is truly sentient. But I digress.)
Of course, Firehawk's team didn't have a Booster Gold, much less two Blue Beetles. (And they presumably won't have to fight Skeets.) So maybe Superman Jr's team will have better luck against the all-consuming evil that effortlessly disintegrated Superman, Wonder Woman, and Martian Manhunter among others.
I wish the Not Really Justice League all the luck when Dark Crisis #3 drops this August. They're going to need it.
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Rob snow posted on May. 20, 2022 at 12:34 PM
As I said. I just hope neither due...again
Friday, February 11, 2022
The push has started for DC's 2022 summer event, Dark Crisis, with promotional articles appearing in all the usual places. (Writer Joshua Williamson is even talking his creation up on Youtube).
The good news about all this is that we can definitely say that Booster Gold will be participating, at least in issue one, as we can see from the cover:
and interior pages:
I assume we'll find out more when Dark Crisis #1 arrives in your Local Comic Shop this May.
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