A Skeets desk lamp? I want this on my desk NOW:

Extra credit to Dave Delisle for thinking up such a fantastic idea for Skeets merchandise! You can find another pictures of the lamp — it collapses! — and many other great ideas on DavesGeekyIdeas.com.

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Today marks the 125th anniversary of the dedication of the Eiffel Tower. I mention this mainly because it gives me an excuse to show this panel from Booster Gold, Volume 2, #1,000,000 of Skeets wearing a beret.

If Skeets has to have a new costume to join the New 52, I vote that it should be a beret.

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I read the responses to this poll to say that most of you still care about what else goes on beyond the front door, even if there's not much cause to update it regularly. (Seriously, DC. We need Booster Gold more than three issues a year!)

Last week's poll question: How often do you visit a page at Boosterrific.com other than the blog? (54 votes)

I was re-reading "Argo," and I was reminded that we've barely seen Skeets since Flashpoint. Of course, when Geoff Johns last wrote for our hero, he reduced Skeets to a Independence Day-style plot device. Is that all DC has in mind for the best sidekick in comics history?

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Do you remember January, 1991? The New York Giants won Super Bowl XXV. Operation Desert Storm began. Vanilla Ice won Favorite New Hip Hop Artist at the American Music Awards. Ah, those were good times. Unless you were Booster Gold.

On this date in 1991, Booster Gold was hunted by the Linear Man, the first of what would come to be recognized as the policemen of history in the DC Universe. Desperate to make Booster pay for his crime of stealing a time machine and returning to the past, the original Linear Man kidnapped and tortured Skeets. Bad cop!

Fortunately for Booster, this attack took place in The Adventures of Superman #476 — that's not a typo, kids: back in the day books kept consecutive numbering for years instead of resetting every few months — so of course Superman got involved and was displaced in time instead of our hero.

The story played out in the "Time and Time Again" storyline over the following month, but Booster Gold had already been rescued by Superman and was too busy leading the Conglomerate and watching Tonya Harding win the U.S. Figure Skating Championships to return the favor. Oh, Booster!

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Remember Skeets? Booster Gold's robot sidekick? (You do still remember Booster Gold, right?)

Skeets hasn't been seen much lately, but he had his time in the spotlight in the past. Our favorite 24-karat coach took up the whole cover of 52 Week 37, released on this day in 2007.

This is not the cover of 52 Week 37.

I'm not going to link to the cover here because it is spoiler-y, but rest assured, there's a lot Skeets action both on the cover and the pages within. It's hardly the highlight of Skeets' sidekicking career, but as Booster himself would say: there's no such thing as bad press.

If you've never read 52, do yourself a favor: Amazon.com

(P.S.: No post on Monday. Back on Tuesday. Enjoy your weekend!)

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