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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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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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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DC released February 2026 solicitations on Friday, and there are three things of note.

1) First and foremost, and this is technically an "April Coming Attraction," they finally solicited direct market retailers for the third and final volume of Booster's 2007 series announced earlier this year prior to Comic-Con International 2025:

BOOSTER GOLD: THE COMPLETE 2007 SERIES BOOK THREE
Written by DAN JURGENS, KEITH GIFFEN, and J.M. DeMATTEIS
Art by DAN JURGENS and CHRIS BATISTA, Cover by KEVIN MAGUIRE
$39.99 US, 520 pages, ON SALE 4/14/26

Booster is back in the past! Mistaken for his (past) self, he is roped into an adventure with the Justice League International! Enjoying the good old days with his bestie Blue Beetle, he must contend with the needs of his past self and the horrors of the present. And when the entire world is undone, will Booster be the only one to remember what the DCU used to be like before the Flash messed it all up?! Collects Booster Gold #32-47 and Time Masters: Vanishing Point #1-6.

2) For a "short" event, DC K.O. will be moving into its fifth month dominating DC's publishing schedule in February, and to no one's great surprise, Booster Gold will be playing some role in DC K.O. #4 (presumably in the "interlude"?):

DC K.O. #4
Written by SCOTT SNYDER, Art and cover by JAVI FERNÁNDEZ
Interlude written by JOSHUA WILLIAMSON, Interlude art by XERMANICO
$5.99 US, Variant $5.99 US, ON SALE 2/11/26

Three mysterious new Omega-charged fighters have entered the tournament… and this trinity of the Absolute will change the face of the DCU forever! It’s all down to how far the final four are willing to go to win in the penultimate chapter of DC K.O.! Plus: Booster’s true allegiance revealed, Darkseid's return foretold, and a bonkers last page that will bring the battle to the next level!

3) This third one is a bit of speculation, but based on the solicited cover, it looks like we might be one step closer to reuniting with Skeets in Flash #30.

THE FLASH #30
Written by MARK WAID and CHRISTOPHER CANTWELL
Art by VASCO GEORGIEV, Cover by DAN MORA
$3.99 US, ON SALE 2/25/26

The Speedsters’ race through time has led them to an encounter with a Darkseid from the past, and their escape leads them to a shocking reunion!

You can't trust DC's covers to give any indication of the interior content anymore, but as you can see in that solicitation image, that's ugly-costume Flash and Impulse reaching for Rocky Davis and Ulitvac there on the Dan Mora cover. When we last saw Rocky back in April in the abrupt cliffhanger ending to the Challengers of the Unknown mini-series (written Christopher Cantwell, wink, wink), he was saved from death and trapped in the past with a vision of Skeets. My fingers are crossed that we'll finally find out what the future's best sidekick has been up to since disappearing way back in 2024's DC All In Special.

You can find the full list of solicitations at aiptcomics.com.

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Booster boosters Rob Snow and Pigeon both wrote to tell me that Booster Gold and Skeets have been sighted in DC Go!'s Aquaman: Yo-Ho-Hold Onto Your Hook!. Rob even gave me a couple of images he found on X.

I, for various reasons, am not on X, but I believe, based on the other screenshot that Rob sent me of an X post by Josh Trujillo, that the Booster and Skeets seen above are in issue #19 released to Ultra members of dcuniverseinfinte.com on November 11.

X will not let me search its content without an account, but from what Rob and Pigeon have told me plus a little old fashioned Google sleuthing, I am under the impression that the above character turnaround was drawn by Bradley Clayton, who is one of several artists that the DC Universe Infinite credits on that issue.

However, for slightly different reasons, I also do not have a DC Universe Infinite Ultra account, which is required to actually read that issue. (I read free issue #1. Reminded me of One Piece. Is that the target audience: people who can't get enough One Piece?) So I'm just going to have to assume that reliable Rob and dependable Pigeon aren't pulling my leg with one of those elaborate AI ruses that seem to be everywhere these days.

If anyone reading this does have an Ultra account, can confirm that Booster Gold is in Aquaman: Yo-Ho-Hold Onto Your Hook! #19, and wants to send me a screenshot of the title and credits page of that issue, I'll add the issue (with credit to the treasure hunter who brings me this bounty) to the Boosterrific! Database.

Thanks to Rob and Pigeon for their eternal vigilance, especially in this age of pirates.

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