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Monday, April 16, 2012

SyFy Reads Booster Gold

Booster Backer Morgenstern calls our attention to Michael Stevens of Sneakpeek.ca, who on Friday, April 13, 2012, reported:

Syfy confirms it now has a pilot script, written by Andrew Kreisberg ("Fringe") for a one-hour drama based on the DC Comics superhero character "Booster Gold", to be executive produced by Greg Berlanti ("Brothers & Sisters").

I haven't seen confirmation of this yet anywhere else on the web, but I sure would like for it to be true (especially if it's any good).

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Monday, February 6, 2012

Booster Gold Goes Hollywood. Kind of.

Morgenstern, who at this point is probably responsible for more content on this blog than I am, notified me over the weekend that Booster Gold appears in a new YouTube video by Hollywood screenwriter Max Landis. Landis is the son of Hollywood legend John Landis and writer of this past weekend's big-budget Chronicle. Apparently, he is still really angry about the conclusion to the Reign of the Supermen story, so he does what everyone of his generation does: complain about it on the internet.

I disagree about his assessment of the effect of the Death of Superman on the history of comic books -- returning from death was old hat before DC hyped it to the moon -- but I applaud the fact that Landis does give Booster Gold full credit for naming Doomsday. If you don't mind a little foul language and can stomach a drastic evisceration of a high-point of 1990s DC stories in the name of comedy, it's worth your time to watch it. If only to see the only live-action Bloodwynd you're ever likely to see, ever.

As a rule, I don't post NSFW content on this blog, so if you want to see Landis' take on the Death of Superman storyline, you'll have to go directly to YouTube.com.

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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Jurgens on JLI #6

Josie Campbell of Comic Book Resources interviewed Dan Jurgens last week about his plans for the future of the Justice League International. Perhaps more interesting than the future is the still-muddled past of familiar DC characters in the unfamiliar DCnU.

CBR: In terms of what's next for the team, you already dealt with one big, planet-destroying menace in Peraxxus in the very first arc. As a writer, where do you go from there? How do you top a guy who nearly destroys the Earth?

DAN JURGENS: I think since the first arc was very much, for lack of a better term, plot-oriented or adventure oriented, I think what we want to do now is something that is more character oriented. Sort of like your question about Guy and Batman -- why are they there? Obviously we saw how everybody was brought together and were really thrown into the deep end right away without having any real knowledge of how they function together. Booster kind of knew Fire, he kind of knew Guy; the idea is that they had met previously but certainly had not worked as a team previously. If you've never done that, why are you going to continue to hang out with these strangers? So the more character-driven aspect of it where they ask themselves these questions becomes much more part of where we're going from here, and we see some of those things dealt with in issue #6, which comes out [next] month, and then really kicks off with #7.

"Booster kind of knew Fire"? Prior to Flashpoint, Booster Gold and Fire had shared panels in over 140 different comic stories over the past 24 years. According to Jurgens' response, most of those co-starring appearances are no longer part of DC's history. Should readers be sad to see the relationship erased or excited to see it starting over?

You can find the full interview here. (Thanks to Morgenstern for pointing out this interview.)

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

New Releases: DCU Online Legends #22

Morgenstern spotted Booster Gold in the preview pages DC teased on The Source for today's release of DC Universe Online Legends #22. The events of this series are out of continuity (taking place in an alternate timeline) as they fill in the back-story for the DC Universe Online video game.

It was only a matter of time before Booster appeared in this series. He plays a significant role in the game as the tour guide for Metropolis and Gotham cities, leading players to landmarks across the DCU. Recording those sessions must have kept the Corporate Crusader too busy to participate in saving this alternate world until now.

The game is now free to play on your PC, and can be downloaded from dcuniverseonline.com. However, the comic will cost you $2.99, whether you buy a floppy copy in your Local Comic Shop or a digital copy online at Comixology.com/DC_Comics.

Buy this comic and make the DC Universe Online version of Skeets happy.

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Monday, December 26, 2011

Separated at Birth?

Frequent site contributor Morgenstern recently drew my attention to the solicited cover for Ray #3 appearing on DC's The Source blog. Morgenstern said, "to me it looked exactly like the JLI #2 cover."

© DC Comics

The cover on the left was drawn by Aaron Lopresti and the cover on the right was drawn by Jamal Igle. It sure looks like Morgenstern has a point.

Booster Gold appears to be a bit of a trend setter. Two covers with a very similar motif within six months of one another: coincidence or crib? Morgenstern wondered if both of these covers were based on an older, pre-existing cover. Anyone have any ideas?

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