So, have you seen Cover A for this week's Action Comics #1096?

Yeah, yeah. Sure, there's Ghost Superman and a Superboy who wears Chucks and, for some reason, actual shorts. Great. But that's not the Important part.

This is:

When I last overhauled the design of Boosterrific back in 2018, I added a corner box because corner boxes are awesome. I'm glad that DC has finally gotten that memo. I mean, I'm not thrilled that Action Comics now cost $5 a pop, but if I have to pay that price, it's much better that they have Booster Gold on them.

And if you like that corner box drawn by Skyler Patridge as much as I do, keep your eyes out for Cover E, the "Spot Foil Variant" that is all corner box. Yes, it's $8, but it's selectively shiny!

Buy this issue for its cover and make Skeets happy.

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When I first started Boosterrific.com, DC hadn't rebooted its continuity in about two decades. At the time, volume number was a pretty useful way to tell what era a particular run of comics belonged to.

Obviously, times have changed. Publishers now restart numbering all the time—the current Superman title is volume 6!—for a variety of reasons (mostly to goose sales), and telling the volumes apart isn't as easy or as useful as it once was. So I'm thinking about changing the way this site handles volumes, eliminating the descriptor from the lists and simply going by year of publication instead, which is how I track my personal collection (which for some reason contains more than just comics with Booster Gold in them).

Don't worry too much: I'm certainly not planning to eliminate volume numbers from individual comics pages or URLs. Most visitors will never notice a difference.

Which raises the question of why I'm telling you this. Maybe it's to spur me into action. Maybe it's to warn you that what you see in the Boosterrific! comics lists might be changing as I tinker with formats. Maybe it's a request for suggestions for other usability improvements.

Maybe I'm just looking for something to talk about other than today's DC K.O. #5.

In any event, even though I don't say it often enough, thank you for visiting Boosterrific.com.

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Today you'll find All-In tie-ins Flash #30, Justice League Unlimited #16, and Superman #35. I have no idea if Booster Gold will be in any of them.

However, I do know from the preview at AIPTComics.com that Booster is in perhaps the last place I would have expected him: the Black History Month special New History of the DC Universe: The Dakota Incident #1.

It just goes to show that you never know where Booster Gold will turn up next.

UPDATE: Yep, just NHotDCU this week.

UPDATE UPDATE: I was wrong. As you see in the comments below Booster is, briefly, in Superman. Thanks, Shawn.

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I'm not seeing any reason in online solicitations for Booster Gold fans to go to our Local Comic Shops tomorrow. I'd rather watch the Olympics anyway.

In the meantime, let me once again thank J for all the hard work editing my typos in the Boosterrific Annotations. J has also been catching books that have been included in reprint collections, most especially Justice League International Book Two: Around the World, which apparently contains a lot of content not clearly indicated on the book cover. Thanks, J!

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DC K.O. #4 is out today.

And that's all I want to say about that.

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