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Wednesday, April 16, 2025
"You might want to change the counter."
So reads the email sent to me by Booster booster Bob. Bob's a longtime friend of the Boosterrific Blog, and he even gave us a shout out at the end of his recent YouTube video post about the schizophrenic nature of Geoff John's Rip Hunter. (Bob summarizes the problem with that characterization as "Good people don't kidnap children." Hear, hear, Bob!)
But the point of Bob's email yesterday had nothing to do with Rip Hunter. It was about Booster Gold's return to comic books.
Specifically, Bob was the first to tell me that Booster Gold will be making an appearance in today's one-shot anthology Summer of Superman Special #1.
I suppose I should have seen this coming. According to Matt Morrison's review of the issue at SuperHeroHype.com: "Finally, Joshua Williamson uses the last chapter to explore the cause of Validus becoming displaced in time. This final story ties into the larger story of DC All-In and the fate of the Legion following Dark Crisis." That does indeed sound Booster-adjacent.
Before you get your hopes up too high about the inevitable Booster Gold renaissance, know that Booster's role in this issue is actually pretty limited. (It's essentially little more than a reminder that DC hasn't forgotten about what they did to our time-travelling hero.) But the bright side is that, yeah, it definitely counts as an in-continuity appearance, and yeah, it does reset the missing-in-action counter (after reaching 196 days). These days we'll take what we can get!
So buy this book and make Skeets (who is *not* in this issue) happy. (UPDATE: As SLW points out in the comments, Skeets *does* put in a cameo appearance in this week's Challengers of the Unknown #5.)
Thanks for keeping an eye out for us, Bob!
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Tiffany posted on Apr. 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Yeah. I bet when he returns, Whenever that's (I'm betting as a cliffhanger at the end of "We are Yesterday." but I could be wrong. Have been in past.) he'll at least get a mini-series, at the very least. Most likely written by Joshua Williamson or Mark Waid. Or maybe They both co-write. Or maybe it someone else. IDK.
Rob snow posted on Apr. 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Well i saw the SINGLE PANEL he's in. Man DC lives a skinny bearded chained up Booster
SLW (Steff) posted on Apr. 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Skeets cameos in Challengers of the Unknown, at least! But yeah, I literally gasped aloud when I saw Booster's monologue-style.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Apr. 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
RE: Skeets in Challengers. Has anyone been reading this series? Does Skeets' appearance herein make any sense? I know what I *think* it's telling me (which I will not reveal at this time because potential "spoilers," just like how Booster's appearance in Summer of Superman appears to toss out everything we thought we knew about the ending to All In and the Absolute Universe), but it's possible I missed something as I haven't been following Challengers (or, frankly, anything else DC has published since they gulagged Booster Gold).
SLW (Steff) posted on Apr. 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I think it does, but I hesitate to say for sure, only because it feels very meta to me? I have been reading Challengers and quite liking it, and was really touched by the scene surrounding that cameo.
But ALSO! I will note that Booster's costume was either an art error or an interesting choice, since he'd gone back to his 80s pre-Doomsday costume at the end of the All-In special and is wearing his modern one at the end of the Superman special. (Also that somehow the man manages to have amazing hair even after at *least* a month of dangling in chains. LOL!)
I dunno if any of that means anything, it was just interesting to me.
clonegeek posted on Apr. 16, 2025 at 9:12 PM
I still don't get how Rip Hunter isn't a villain at this point. I never got how if Rip's job is to preserve the timeline and keep people like Thawne from messing with it. Why did Rip let Thawne alter history by killing Barry's mom?
SLW (Steff) posted on Apr. 17, 2025 at 7:09 AM
@clonegeek -- I mean, from my POV, Rip's been an actual asshole significant amounts of his post-Crisis life. LOL! In Vol. 2 alone, there's only so far you can use the predestination paradox as an excuse to treat another human being the way he treated Booster, who you'd THINK he'd show a bit more care for. It probably wouldn't annoy me as much if they'd actually call his shit behavior out in the narrative properly.
DC has never known how to actually do time travel. They really really *really* want to use it like a shiny toy, but they don't like working out the metaphysics of it and then sticking to whatever rules they invent. Booster should have disappeared about a billion times by now; they need to kind of just unchain him from that and let him be a temporal refugee permanently whose existence is not predicated on a set future, and then stick with that. Any future knowledge he has hasn't been relevant-- at least since the 90s.
Steven Palchinski posted on Apr. 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Do you have a link to booster Bob's youtube?
bob posted on Apr. 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I ya guys. Going to get the book today but here is the link to my video that you asked for https://youtu.be/jlIbmlFCoJQ?si=87uGa9u1N18mrCFZ
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Available today at your Local Comic Shop: Blair Butler Booster Gold The Complete 2007 Series Book Two!
Poor Blair! They cut off her head. Her incredulous expression is the best part of the cover of Booster Gold #23.
This softcover collection reprints Booster Gold Volume 2 issues #15 through #31 plus The Brave and the Bold #23.
As a Booster Gold fan, you probably already have those issues, right? But wouldn't it be nice to have them all collected into one easy-to-read volume that would look nice on your bookshelf? Yeah, real nice.
And you already bought Book One when it came out last year, right? This one sure would look nice sitting next to that one. Real nice.
Buy this trade paperback and make Skeets happy.
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SLW (Steff) posted on Apr. 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I wanna know how the hell you have ANY book based on any of the JLI, and somehow don't touch on the fact an entire PERSON is missing entirely????
Rrrrrrrrgh.
bob posted on Apr. 12, 2025 at 11:32 AM
who's missing? were they missing then or now?
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Apr. 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Booster Gold has been missing from the DCU for months. Publishers generally release reprints to coincide with hightened interest, not at a time when the featured characters aren't in (or even mentioned in) any book. Out of sight, out of mind.
Friday, April 4, 2025
While I was busy trying to have a good time on April Fool's Day, DC was trying to sneak a new Booster Gold appearance by me! Fortunately for all of us, SLW was paying attention and spotted our hero (and Blue Beetle) in this week's Jimmy Olsen's SuperCyclopedia graphic novel.
The main events of Jimmy Olsen's SuperCyclopedia are aimed squarely at young readers, but there's plenty in this Multiversal story to entertain Old School DC fans. SLW liked reading about young Rip Hunter, while I got stoked seeing Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew back in action — with an explicit Oz/Wonderland War reference, no less!
Unfortunately, it seems that nothing herein takes place in the mainstream DC Universe of Earth-0 (or whatever we're supposed to be calling it these days), meaning this counts as an out-of-continuity Booster Gold appearance and doesn't disrupt the Missing In Action count at the top of the Boosterrific! Blog.
But I maintain that any Booster Gold is better than none, so let's all enjoy what we do get (even if it's not quite what we want).
Consider buying Jimmy Olsen's SuperCyclopedia. It'll make Skeets (and maybe you) happy!
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Tiffany posted on Apr. 4, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The book looks fun. I can't wait to read it. I've been soft following it for awhile. Just put it on hold at my library. I hope it's everything it looks to be.
SLW (Steff) posted on Apr. 4, 2025 at 11:19 AM
It was cute! And baby!Rip was adorable.
Tiffany posted on Apr. 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I'm mostly interested in Jimmy and the New Gods. But baby Rip sound fun too.
Rob snow posted on Apr. 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I liked it. Just silly enough
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.
