Things have been changing in America lately, and not necessarily for the better. Not so many years ago, many DC Comics super hero bloggers and I participated in semi-regular crossover events. Now very few of us are still posting.

Both FirestormFan.com and AquamanShrine.net have stopped blogging to focus their efforts on podcasting (fireandwaterpodcast.com). The Martian Manhunter blog, The Idol-Head of Diabolu, has likewise gone silent as its creator also seems to be concentrating on podcasts for his other blogs (DC Bloodlines and Wonder Woman: Diana Prince). So too, Splitting Atoms is now more podcast than blog. Others that have fallen completely silent (like Tower of Fate and Being Carter Hall). Some stalwarts soldier on, including SpeedForce.org and Kord Industres. We seem to be the exception rather than the rule.

Once again, this has made me return to a question I've asked myself from time to time since Booster Gold disappeared from the pages of DC Comics: Has the time for websites dedicated to super hero blogging passed us by? Would comics fans rather listen to a podcast than read a website? Is the problem the characters or the bloggers or just shifting demographics?

Like so many of those now-defunct sites, Boosterrific.com is first and foremost a hobby. I started working on it nine years ago, and I keep it running because I want to. Personally, I have no interest in phone apps, wikis, or podcasting. If that's the future of Booster Gold fandom, I'll leave it to someone else. (The Silver and Gold podcast — now a whole network — seems to be doing just fine without me.)

Don't worry, this post isn't a lead up to the retirement of Boosterrific.com. I'm only committing my rambling grumpy old man thoughts to electronic paper. I'm not going anywhere anytime soon. It's just that I'm starting to feel kind of lonely out here all by myself. I sure would like some new Booster Gold comics to keep me company.

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The Silver and Gold podcast is still going strong. Last week, for 10/10, they covered Booster Gold issues #9 and #10.

As an added bonus this time around, the Silver and Gold hosts are joined by longtime Booster booster Herbert Fung, who has shared many of his own sketch commissions with Booster Gold fans here at Boosterrific. Hi, Herbert!

You can find a link to the podcast at sngpod.wordpress.com.

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The latest installment of The Justice League International: Bwah-Ha-Ha Podcast covers Booster Gold's first adventure as a member of the JLI as seen in Justice League Annual #1. This issue notably includes Booster Gold getting to know his new teammate, Black Canary.

You can find the podcast at FireAndWaterPodcast.com.

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The Silver and Gold Podcast has a new home: sngpodcast.wordpress.com. It's there you will find the latest episode discussing Booster Gold Volume 1, #8.

It's important that you don't confuse this new location with sngpodcast.tumblr.com, home of the Sawdust and Gin Podcast, or twitter.com/sngpodcast, which is devoted to the Silver and Gold podcast for discussing NFL football franchises of Oakland and San Francisco. Those would be the sorts of embarrassing mistakes that only a novice time traveler would make.

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The Silver and Gold Podcast has moved on to Booster Gold #7, the first fight between Booster Gold and Superman. Booster . . . doesn't win.

You can find links to the podcast at splittingatomsblog.wordpress.com.

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