Regular Boosterrific.com visitors will know the name Russ Burlingame, as he is both a frequent site visitor himself and the web's foremost Booster Gold reporter. (After all of his news stories about Booster Gold, we'd have to suspect that Burlingame might be hiding an alter ego if Booster's public identity wasn't already well-known.) However, in his latest coverage of DC's announcement that Dan Jurgens will be taking over the reigns of Superman, Burlingame's single-minded adoration of Booster Gold seems to be warping his point-of-view:

As the creator of the character Booster Gold in the 1980s, Jurgens was approached to pencil the book when it was relaunched with superstar writer Geoff Johns and film executive Jeff Katz a few years ago; four years on, he spent the better part of the comic's 49 monthly issues drawing and later writing the adventures of a Booster Gold that was both a natural extension of the one he had written twenty years previous, and radically different in his personality and the storytelling approach to anything Jurgens had written in the series' first incarnation.... The result, most fans and critics agree, was a Booster Gold who came out stronger and more interesting than he had ever been. Can he do it again with the most storied character in all of comics?

Is Burlingame really asking Dan Jurgens if he can turn Superman into a star as big as Booster Gold? That's a pretty tall order.

You can read the whole article and see video of Burlingame's New York Comic Con interview with Dan Jurgens at Comicbook.com.

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Russ Burlingame is getting fast with his "International Exchange" interviews with Dan Jurgens at theouthousers.com. The latest column was published yesterday afternoon.

IX: Booster seems much more receptive to Godiva this issue than he was last time around. Is that my imagination, or the heat of battle, or something more?

DJ: The something more is simple: When a pretty girl bats her eyes at Booster he immediately softens a bit. Besides, any question of receptiveness in #1 was due more to a lack of familiarity.

Could there be love in the air? Say, didn't Time Masters: Vanishing Point reveal that Booster's future wife is a blond? Hmm?

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As anyone who has read page 17, panel 1 of yesterday's Justice League International #2 (or Russ Burlingame's article for ComicBook.com) knows, Booster's computerized companion, Skeets, is alive and well in the DCnU. The golden guide is taking care of business in the previously unseen "Booster Cave," Booster's new secret headquarters. Move over, Superman robots, Skeets is in the house!


Booster Gold has long been an admirer of Batman, going so far as majoring in "Superheroes" in college. Now that Booster is a successful hero in his own right as leader of the Justice League, it's only fitting that Booster would have his own secluded headquarters. The possible creation of a "Boostercave" was first teased in Booster Gold, Volume 2, #21. Four years and one major universe reboot later, that dream has become a reality.

Now that we're all relieved to learn Skeets is still a player in the DCnU, let's focus on the new mystery at hand: what trophies does Booster keep in his Booster Cave? This post contains potential spoiler information. Click here to reveal.
(Don't peek unless you've read Justice League International #2.)

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With the cancellation of Booster Gold comes the cancellation of Russ Burligame's monthly "Gold Exchange" column at Comic Related interviewing the series creators. Fortunately, like the phoenix rising from the ashes of the DCU, Burlingame now presents us with the "International Exchange" column at The Outhouse. New site, new name, new series; same old Dan Jurgens. Isn't it nice to know that some things don't change?

IX: The comment about the basement-dwellers is kind of begging for a response, isn't it? I know some people on the Internet seem to have gotten their nose bent out of shape over the comment, but I read it as Briggs being the devil's advocate and Booster speaking your position for you. Did I misunderstand?

J: You didn't misunderstand at all. I wrote that line right around the time that DC's plans had become public. I'm always fascinated by a response from people who claim to despise product before they've seen it or really know anything about it.

Do I understand fans having a tremendous allegiance to a previous universe and timeline? Of course. Hell, I wrote a lot of that so I have a fondness for it as well.

However, I think it's still fair to ask them to be a bit openminded and receptive about what we're trying to do.

So Briggs' comment address a very, very small group that reacted in that way. Frankly, it's good to have a sense of humor about some of this and read it with that in mind.

So Jurgens was talking to me! There's plenty in the full interview to indicate that so far as Jurgens is concerned, little has changed for Booster Gold in the DCnU.

You can find the full article here. You might want to bookmark it, as Justice League International and therefore the "International Exchange" will be around for years to come.

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The drought finally ends this week as Booster Gold #46 finally hits the stands... at Comixology.com.

Ok, so maybe this isn't breaking news. In fact, this tidbit was reported at comicbook.com by Russ Burlingame. (I promise I am not stalking Burlingame across the internet. He just happens to be the world's only reporter whose beat is Booster Gold.) But that's not the real news: the real news is that when asked why the delay in release, the DC representative Burlingame spoke with simply said, "I blame Reverse Flash."

There you go. The Reverse Flash is the DCnU's equivalent of the Superboy Punch. But if he's behind getting Booster Gold available online, Professor Zoom can't be all bad.

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