Don't forget that the first issue of the Convergence: Booster Gold comes out today.

The issue has two covers (count 'em: two!) that retailers could order separately. While this theoretically means that there could be an even distribution of each, it's more likely that one will turn out to be a little rarer than the other.

Skeets demands that you drop what you are doing and go buy two copies of Convergence: Booster Gold #1 right now. (You can read one and seal the other in a time capsule to be opened in the 25th century!)

UPDATE 2015-04-30: SuperPat posted this notification in the comments below, but I've received enough emails about it that I should put this on the front page where everyone can see it: Booster Gold also appears in Convergence Blue Beetle #1.

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Tired of Convergence yet?

This week we get Ralph Dibny and Kelly Jones on Swamp Thing and a return of the worst Outsiders ever. But it doesn't look like we'll be getting any Booster Gold. Even Convergence: Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes won't include our hero, despite the fact that we know Booster and the Legion will be tangling in Booster's own title launching next week.

From an interview at comicbook.com this past February:

Russ Burlingame: We've seen that Booster Gold will run afoul of Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes in his second issue. Will we see any of that in your own title?

Stuart Moore: No, that takes place before our story.

Don't despair, Booster fans. There will be some Booster on the rack this week. It just won't be new.

Enter Justice League 3000 Volume 2: The Camelot War, which includes the arrival of classic Blue and Gold in the 30th century. Of course you bought those issues when they were new, but now you can buy them again without breaking your floppies out of their mylar. At $14.99, this book is collectively cheaper than the individual issues were, so there's an incentive here for those of you who were trade-waiting.

Buy it or not. Skeets doesn't care.

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This is the second week of Convergence, and thus you'll find the second wave of tie-in mini-series in your Local Comic Shop today.

If you're looking for Booster Gold, you'll find him in the back of Convergence: Justice League International #1, but not as part of the team itself. That may be disappointing to Booster Gold fans, but Red Tornado fans deserve to see their hero in action, too. (I assume that there are Red Tornado fans.)

You can read a preview of the issue at ComicBookResources.com.

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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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Available today:

If you visit your Local Comic Shop, ask for the Justice League Dark #40 "Movie Poster Variant" edition.

I don't expect Booster Gold to be in the book, but I'm satisfied to find him on the book. (It's becoming a trend at DC.)

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