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Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Booster Gold has been absent from comics for 147 days (21 weeks) and counting. That seems like a long time in part because DC keeps crowing about how inclusive their "All-In" initiative is, but Booster has been gone for much longer stretches before.
On this day in 2014, Booster Gold broke a 245 day absence from the DC New 52 Universe — at the time, the third longest recognized gap between published Booster Gold appearances in history — to make a brief 3-page supporting appearance as a deus ex machina plot device to get Jonah Hex returned to the past in All-Star Western #28.
If you don't recall, Booster's amnesiac misadventures alongside Jonah Hex in All-Star Western took place during the period he was unstuck in time leading to Convergence.
If the current Booster-drought streak were to extend to 245 days, that will be the first week in June 2025. Considering that we just learned Booster is unlikely to appear in any comics through May, that very well could be an optimistic assessment for his return from his current banishment from the DCU.
Keep your fingers crossed, Booster boosters.
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Tiffany posted on Feb. 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
(Sorry if this is a repeat. I made a comment before. And to me it didn't show. I'm having a bit technical issues. Or you could just find the comments I'm doing annoying so are censoring them. But either way I'm trying again.) If only there was an upcoming time travel event that had the perfect set up to, at the very least set up Booster's return from the elseworld.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Feb. 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Last month, Scott Snyder told ComicsBeat.com that any actual crossover was "a long time away" and hinted that the "inflection point" was coming in a big event this fall (the one year anniversary of ABSOLUTE POWER). I'm betting we don't actually see Booster until then.
Tiffany posted on Feb. 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Booster is in the future of the Absolute Universe. The far future. Were none of the heroes in that universe should be. A. a lot them probably died of old age. B. even if they did still live this a future were they lost. So they'd, best case, caged on Apokolips. So we can still see Booster without being a crossover. And DC as late seems obsessed with trying to step their events. So we'll probably get little teases, maybe scenes of Booster to step up "Inflection Point. Coming this fall"
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Feb. 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The last time DC teased that Booster was lost in the far future, the reveal was that he was really bouncing through pocket universes in the present. (I say that because I'm a knee-jerk contrarian, not because I have any actual insight. In fact, maybe I'm just in a bad mood. Please ignore me.)
SLW (Steff) posted on Feb. 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Do you censor stuff? I mean, it is your site and that's entirely your right, you owe no one a platform, but it's also a legitimate question for Tiffany to ask and receive an answer on, especially so people can self-moderate if they know roughly what would be or is being censored.
At the end of Superman this week is some of the Evil Legion that was bearing down on him at the end of All-In, which naturally has me screaming into a pillow like Nani in Lilo & Stitch, because ?????? I don't even know. I think we'll see him before the crossover, though. I doubt they tossed him over there just to kill him.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Feb. 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Tiffany, so far as I'm aware, I played no role in whatever happened to your original post. I certainly did not intentionally delete it.
SLW, censorship implies the systematic suppression of particular ideas. No, I do not do that. Generally speaking. Explicitly, yes, there have been cases where I have deleted comments that I thought were spamming or trolling. Yes, I have blocked people and IP addresses that continued to produce problematic content. Yes, I can think of a couple of times I have edited posts to add/remove self-serving links or profane language. Yes, sometimes errors in the my scripts unintentionally eat or duplicate comments. And yes, I have simply pressed the wrong series of buttons and accidentally deleted posts before. So post at your own risk.
SLW (Steff) posted on Feb. 27, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I mean, fair enough, guy. I do all of the same things when I have bad actors and I'm considerably less kind when giving the boot. It wasn't an indictment, for certain, I am a huge proponent of website and server owners getting to exercise control of their space, but was curious because one of mine had gotten pared down at some point and I wasn't sure if it was a glitch or intentional. If it was intentional, then obviously I would want to avoid a repeat. XD
bob posted on Feb. 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I hope that Booster makes it back in time for the Marvel DC Crossover.
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Today is the fifth Wednesday in January, which means that DC has a slate of one-shots coming, including the Valentine's Day-themed DC's Lex and the City and Black History Month-themed DC Power: Rise of the Power Company. I know I said I'm on strike from buying DC comics until Booster Gold comes back, and I sincerely doubt Booster will be in either of these, but books released during skip weeks don't count, right?
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Tiffany posted on Jan. 29, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Fellow (I've no idea your gender and don't want to assume) you suck at striking.
SLW (Steff) posted on Jan. 29, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Lex and the City made me laugh out loud at least once. (The Tim & Damian story had a few genuinely funny moments.) Also loved the Titans tale. AND! The Lex Luthor special also had Mister Terrific positing that they can communicate with the Absolute universe, which piqued my intrigue, not only for Booster's sake, but because poor Skeets also seemed to cease to exist altogether and it would be nice if we could figure out where he ended up in all of this.
Tiffany posted on Jan. 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
@SLW(Steff) I told Boosterrific awhile ago that the The Lex Luthor Special would probably has a good chance of seeing Booster. Glad to see another great mind on here.
Tiffany posted on Jan. 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Forgot today was the day it was out. Sorry ignore what I said.
Tiffany posted on Jan. 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Check legion of geeks. No booster sadly. Sorry for spamming.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jan. 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
@Tiffany Walter. He/him.
Tiffany posted on Jan. 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Thank you Mr.Boosterrific.
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
New comics released on January 22, 2020:
Superman, Vol. 5, #19
Batman Superman, Vol. 1, #6
Year of the Villain: Hell Arisen, Vol. 1, #2
Booster Gold had small parts in those, and, as you can read in the Boosterrific Blog post for that day, they were mostly unexpected. But at least he had a part.
Turns out that it's easier to make surprise cameo appearances in other characters' books when you actually exist in their shared universe.
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SLW posted on Jan. 24, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"Turns out that it's easier to make surprise cameo appearances in other characters' books when you actually exist in their shared universe."
🤣🤣🤣 Fantastic. A++ deployment of sarcasm, no flaws detected.
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
On the day after Christmas, I told the Guy Behind the Counter at my Local Comic Shop to stop pulling any DC books for me. So long as there's no Booster Gold in the DCU, I'm not buying.
This is probably a counter-productive strategy. I wasn't buying any of the Batman-centric books, and if all they sell anymore are Bat-books, they'll only make more Bat-books because something's got to pay the bills. If that's what the future holds, well, then the future will look a lot like the past.
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Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jan. 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
It's worth pointing out that ICv2 reports that DC is gaining market share, with credit going at least in part to the Absolute Universe and All In publishing initiatives (icv2.com/articles/markets/view/58581/marvel-slips-dc-gains-ground). DC is inarguably doing *better* without Booster Gold. Coincidence or causality? You be the judge.
