Now that "Kingdom of Zod" is over, it's time to start wondering where we might next see Booster Gold.

So... does anyone have any ideas?

We know Booster will be on the main wraparound cover of Superman: The Wedding Album 30th Anniversary Special due later this month, but other than that, the solicitations haven't been much help in recent months.

Not that Booster doesn't deserve a break after becoming the DCU's punching bag for the All-In era.

From Superman #42, written by the writer responsible for Booster being "strung up" for most of 2025-2026.

It's okay if you want to take a few months off, Booster. Go hang out with Michelle, Rip, and Rani. Catch a game with Ted. Then find Skeets and ask what was going on in Challengers of the Unknown #5. Curious minds still want to know.

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Arriving tomorrow at your Local Comic Shop (but probably not mine) is, to borrow a phrase from DC Comics' official solicitation text, "THE STARTLING CONCLUSION TO KINGDOM OF ZOD!" I guess it must be pretty good to justify all those capital letters.

The preview of Superman: Kingdom of Zod Special #1 available at AIPTComics.com makes it clear that Booster Gold will make at least a cameo appearance in this one-shot final installment of the two-month storyline, so buy this issue and make Skeets happy.

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I still haven't seen any of this week's books, but word on the street is that Booster Gold can be seen in (count 'em!) two different trade collections.

The first is Batman by Grant Morrison Book Three, which reprints the entire not-great Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne mini-series that becomes the launch pad for the separate Time Masters: Vanishing Point mini-series reprinted earlier this year in Booster Gold: The Complete 2007 Series Book Three.

The second is The DC Universe By Keith Giffen, which, despite the title, does not reprint every Keith Giffen story taking place in the DC Universe. I don't think there's enough paper in the world for that. But among other selected stories, it does reprint the infamous "One Punch" fight Booster Gold witnessed in Justice League #5. And if you look closely, you'll see Booster Gold is on the cover!

(Yes, that's the same Kevin Maguire image that accompanied Giffen's in memoriam DC house ad in November 2023.)

Thanks to J for making sure both of these were added to the Boosterrific! Database.

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My Local Comic Shop is currently having difficulty getting their weekly shipments from Lunar Distribution. This means I can't currently buy or read new DC Comics until days or weeks after their release.

Therefore, I was able to confirm only yesterday that Booster Gold makes no appearance in last week's Superman Unlimited #17. It'll probably be another week before I can get a look at today's Superman #42.

Superman saved literally everyone on planet Earth except Booster Gold in Superman Unlimited #17, so Booster has to be rescued in Superman #42, right? Right?

You'll probably know before I do.

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Part 7 of the "Kingdom of Zod" story arrives at your Local Comic Shop tomorrow in the form of Superman Unlimited #17. Since there's no reason to expect Booster Gold will be in that just as he was not in parts 5 or 6 last week, I'd like to talk about something else today, specifically 2007-2008's Countdown to Final Crisis.

Since this is a Booster Gold blog, I should mention up front that Booster Gold played only the most tangential role in this weekly series follow-up to 52, making only cameo appearances in the 2-page backmatter of issues #43, 42, 41, and 20, while the "Dark" Booster Gold of an alternate Earth (presumably Earth-3) briefly appears in issues #16 and 15 just to get his butt kicked. (If you're confused by that numbering, know that Countdown numbered its issues backwards from #51. "Count Down." Get it?)

But I don't mention Countdown today because of its Booster Gold content (or lack thereof). I mention it because this past weekend I finished reading it for the first time. For financial reasons, I chose to forgo buying most issues when they were new, and after strongly disliking Final Crisis, I never had the interest in going back. A collection I recently acquired had almost all of the outstanding issues, so I finally took the plunge. I have to say, younger me made the correct decision; it's every bit as bad as everyone said it was back in 2008.

From the very start, Countdown is a jumbled, meandering, repetitive and self-contradictory mess, badly hindered by art teams who didn't communicate and editors either unwilling or unable to rein in a series of terrible creative choices and corporate mandates. In its best moments, the story is clearly just marking time; in its worst it's wallowing in torture porn. Reading this as it was coming out must have frustrated more than a few readers away from DC Comics, necessitating the line-wide New 52 Reboot just three years later. In summary: it stinks.

The good news here, and there is good news, is that Countdown has remained unpopular with readers and creatives alike. So far as I can tell, it has been largely ignored and forgotten in the years since its release. With any luck, it remains possible that more recent DC "event" stories with significantly more Booster Gold content could experience a similar fate. Therefore, in a very accidental way, the story of Countdown is a story of hope, and a little hope is never a bad thing.

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