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Tuesday, October 6, 2026
Now that "Kingdom of Zod" is over, it's time to start wondering where we might next see Booster Gold.
So... does anyone have any ideas?
We know Booster will be on the main wraparound cover of Superman: The Wedding Album 30th Anniversary Special due later this month, but other than that, the solicitations haven't been much help in recent months.
Not that Booster doesn't deserve a break after becoming the DCU's punching bag for the All-In era.
From Superman #42, written by the writer responsible for Booster being "strung up" for most of 2025-2026.
It's okay if you want to take a few months off, Booster. Go hang out with Michelle, Rip, and Rani. Catch a game with Ted. Then find Skeets and ask what was going on in Challengers of the Unknown #5. Curious minds still want to know.
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Noah posted on Oct. 6, 2026 at 9:48 AM
I'm curious to where skeets is too, but for where he took them, is explained in flash #30, no skeets though.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Oct. 7, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Yes, you're right. Sorry if I made it sound like I care about the Challengers when all I really want to know is whatever happened to Skeets.
Tony posted on Oct. 7, 2026 at 10:14 PM
You can have Booster as your avatar on hbomax. Unreated to this. Just fyi. If you email me I can send a pic.
Tony posted on Oct. 7, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Unrelated.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Oct. 7, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Tony, is it still the same one as the JLU one seen here in 2023?
https://www.boosterrific.com/news/2023/05/31/Taking-It-to-the-Max
Tony posted on Oct. 8, 2026 at 3:46 AM
Yeah that's it. Still there though.
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
I'm looking at the weekly ship list for tomorrow, and I'm not seeing any likely Booster Gold content. After the flurry of activity of that latest event series whose name I will not repeat, it still feels weird to have several weeks pass with no new Booster Gold appearance in a DC comic book. Action Comics #1099, with Booster on the cover, is still on schedule to ship next week, so we just have to be patient.
Speaking of that unnamed series and patience, did we ever find out the real identity of the masked secret character "Legend" from last year's Justice League: Dark Tomorrow Special #1 that had Booster Gold on all the covers? Or get an answer to why Skeets has been MIA (other than the continuity-dubious ECW tie-in) since Challengers of the Unknown #5? We are going to get answers to those questions one day, right? Right?
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Shawn posted on Jun. 4, 2026 at 2:43 PM
A Booster movie Booster's Quadrillions got mentioned in last weeks Green Lantern 35 sadly the movie I Love Boosters had no Booster
Monday, March 2, 2026
Back at the start of February, I showcased three of Ross Pearsall's Super-Team Family cross-company team-up covers (via braveandboldlost.blogspot.com) featuring Booster Gold, Blue Beetle, and Skeets. And here we are, a month later, and Ross has created yet another, this time teaming all three with Batman-pastiche Nighthawk, who makes Booster Gold seem like an A-plus lister.
Booster versus Magneto, huh? I suppose Booster's force field versus Unus the Untouchable's force field wouldn't be much of a fight, so divide and conquer, classic Justice League style. Yeah, I'd read that.
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Rob snow posted on Mar. 2, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Wow he used the Charlton era suit for Beetle
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Mar. 2, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Yeah, note that Booster's costume also comes from his first 12 issues, and Skeets is in his volume 2 shell. So they're from all over the place. (Isn't time travel great?)
Monday, February 2, 2026
I'm beginning to wonder if anyone loves comics books as much as Ross Pearsall, whose Super-Team Family cross-company team-up covers continue to amaze and delight.
Sometimes, I think Ross is making covers just for my personal amusement. Take, for example, these three consecutive covers he released late in January (click on any of the images to visit the original, with Ross's notes, at braveandboldlost.blogspot.com):
I sure hope that the recently announced Superman/Spider-Man crossover is a huge success. I could really use a comic in which Booster Gold tries to straighten out the history of the Marvel Universe.
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TedKordLives posted on Sep. 18, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Blue & Gold vs. Apocalypse? Hachi Machi, that's gonna be a toughie! Maybe they'll get lucky and get to be Horsemen. I'm thinking Ted as Death (Coz DC just loves killing my all-time favorite fictional character) and Booster as Famine (Coz he takes everything for himself. Reductive and based on the original fame and money-hungry version of Booster but it's all I got).
Friday, January 30, 2026
The repercussions of Doomsday's Superman-killing rampage continue to reverberate through 1993's Justice League America #71, as Booster Gold tries to find a way to repair his damaged technology when he is interrupted by equally-powerless Fire and the resolution to a lingering subplot referenced in a previous Favorite Page.
Sure, that one strand of hair in Fire's face is annoying, and the fact that she's almost nude as she criticizes a "lingerie" calendar makes me chuckle every time, but I really dig those last two panels.
But wait, there's more! After months on the sidelines, this issue sees Skeets returned to action on the following page. So I've got two favorite pages!
Sometimes the messiest comics can be the most endearing.
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SLW (Steff) posted on Feb. 5, 2026 at 3:46 PM
I maintain this was and still is just bad characterization. Have always been disappointed in it; Booster managed to avoid sexism through 97% of Vol. 1 and the entirety of the Giffen/DeMatteis league only to end up being a total sleazeball when his own creator takes over the team.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Feb. 6, 2026 at 12:25 AM
I cannot deny that Jurgens emphasizes the "horndog" aspect of the character when he takes over the JLA, but "total sleazeball" seems a bit harsh, especially when there's a Guy Gardner on the team.
And for the record, the calendar situation has never felt especially exploitative to me. Booster clearly intends the calendar as a for-profit enterprise, and Fire wasn't bamboozled, she was completely on board until she found out that it was Booster who would be profiting. (She's just as interested in fame and fortune as Booster is. That's why she and Booster have never gotten along: they're too similar.) Booster was doing what he always did: unethically manipulating his way into increased profit. Seems pretty in character to me.
SLW (Steff) posted on Feb. 8, 2026 at 2:10 PM
I dunno, Walter. Setting a teammate up like that was absolutely dirty dealing, and take it from a woman, there's a level of betrayal there that comes when it's someone you live with and work with versus a stranger. Like-- there's a different level of consent involved. A different expectation of respect.
Okay, so to try to put it in a context that might make more sense as to why I think this is awful writing and evidence that Dan is plain bad at writing women and that this isn't something Booster would even think to do: It's the difference between, say, flirting with someone online who -- as far as you know -- is a stranger. You hit it off great. You talk for weeks or months and decide to have a date. You show up and it turns out this was your friend who knows all the right things to say to manipulate your emotions and get you interested, in the hopes that they'd get something out of it. It's sleazeball behavior. It can measurably hurt someone. And whatever else, I don't think Booster is ever out to hurt people.
And saying that Bea basically asked for it by being willing to take a modelling contract she thought was legit is also a really hot take. Ask yourself: If she wouldn't have taken it had she known who was behind it, then how is that *not* a form of sexual exploitation?
So I think that Booster, who is generally good-hearted and not at all rapey -- he gets sexually harassed way more than he does anything like harassing, outside of the Super Buddies junk, which is a whole different level of 'wtf' characterization -- just wouldn't go there. None of his prior business ventures *or* the ones following have ever involved anyone's body but his. And honestly, most of his business ventures are perfectly ethical: He has a right to sell himself and does. He has a right to run a business, accept and give endorsements and turn a profit. Even his and Ted's repo business was legit (as in, they were hired for these jobs), and the second it became *unethical* re: the vampire Booster noped out, horrified. He's not lazy. He does the work. Kooey Kooey Kooey was the worst of it, and that was Ted's idea. (Ted, who was most often the real schemer of the pair.)
And if it's the whole betting-on-his-own games thing, I could and did write several thousand words on why *that* should be looked upon with nothing but patience and sympathy.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Feb. 8, 2026 at 5:37 PM
@SLW We have clearly established that we have different personal histories, relationship scars, and genetics that have led to us interpreting the same thing very differently. Perhaps my initial response in Booster's defense could be interpreted as an indifference to exploitation or victim-blaming. I want to make it perfectly clear that was not my intention. I do not condone Booster's "sleazeball" behavior. Without any regard for the genders involved, this is a textbook example of sexual exploitation, whether Fire is able to give informed consent or not. Booster is morally wrong for breeching the trust of another human being (and practically wrong for betraying a teammate). Our chief difference of opinion here is that you consider this a scenario of incompetent writing/characterization and I do not. Perhaps I'm reading too much of my own personal history into it, but I have always seen this as an immature and ignorant Booster making a bad decision without realizing at the time just how bad it was. Booster definitely attempts to exploit his teammates in SECRET ORIGINS #35 (which I know you will point out is also written by Jurgens), and at the time of the issue, American culture practically celebrated this particular sort of exploitation (reference: Hugh Hefner). I am willing to forgive Jurgens' clumsy storytelling in an era when his contemporary writers often did much worse in a medium built on the celebration of physical masculine-centric violence to a market of teenaged boys. I recognize that it is your right to feel differently.
