Earlier this week in the Boosterrific Forum, Booster booster Morgenstern pointed out that Comixology.com was telling us what DCComics.com would only tease. Specifically that Booster Gold will be the guest star in All-Star Western #20.

The official solicitation for All-Star Western #20 from DC (as found on their website here) reads:

"The future collides with the past in this issue as [REDACTED] causes problems for Jonah Hex. And in the backup story, a never before seen Stormwatch team takes the spotlight!"

Comixology's version of the solicitation for the issue (as found on their website here) has one small but specific difference:

"The future collides with the past in this issue as time traveler Booster Gold causes problems for Jonah Hex. And in the backup story, a never before seen Stormwatch team takes the spotlight!"

Did you catch that? It sure looks like Booster will be the cover surprise for All-Star Western #19!

Russ Burlingame gives his take on the story over at comicbook.com, spreading the word of Booster's return far and wide. Now's the time for those of you who called that to say "I told you so!"

Thanks, Morgenstern.

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Given the furor I'd seen over this on message boards on other sites on the web, I have to say that I really wasn't prepared for the margins on this poll. Don't you know that as comic fans, we're supposed to have a ridiculous overreaction to everything? How can you live with your rational, calm selves?

Last week's poll question: How does the news that Booster Gold is reappearing in April change your interpretation of R.B. Silva's Instagram sketch? (34 votes)

In case you somehow missed it, today is Valentine's Day. So let's get romantic.

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First things first: my apologies that the Boosterrific Forum was down all weekend. It wasn't supposed to be. I took it down for testing late last week, and then my internet went out most of the weekend.

This disruption in service probably didn't bother many of you, but I'm sure that someone tried to drop by and let us know that DC has announced that Booster Gold will be making a feature appearance in May's Smallville Season 11 #13.

SMALLVILLE SEASON 13
Written by BRYAN Q. MILLER
Art by DANIEL HDR
Cover by PETE WOODS
On sale May 8 • 40 pg, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T • DIGITAL FIRST
• An all-new episode begins with "Argo" part 1 of 3! Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes try to stop war between Earth and a shocking enemy! Plus, a glitch in Booster Gold's Legion flight ring propels the "Gold Standard," his trusty robot Skeets and The Man of Steel into the 31st century.

That was some good news I'm sure that we all would have liked to seen last week, yes? (This solicitation was originally posted on IGN.com. As per DC's recent trend of teasing solicitations across the web before releasing them on their own website, you can expect to find this solicitation on DCcomics.com/blog later this week.)

Smallville is one of DC's "digital first" titles, meaning that we probably don't have to wait until May 8 to see Booster return to action in the Smallville (television) Universe. The books are released in three parts over the course of three weeks at 99¢ each before being collected in a print version. Therefore we can expect to start reading this story online on April 12, if we're impatient for more Booster Gold. I know I am.

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Fifty-two titles to chose from, and one stands out significantly above the rest as our expected source for Booster Gold's return. Is it any surprise it's the title written by Geoff Johns? (For the record, 37 books received one or fewer votes. Only the top ten are shown in the graph below.)

Last week's poll question: Which April DC title will see the return of Booster Gold? (Choose up to 3 titles.) (117 votes)

Remember R.B. Silva's Instagram.com sketch that has been widely interpreted as a sign of an upcoming Justice League International comic? Now that we know that Booster will be reappearing in April, has that changed your thinking about what Silva's sketches represent?

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Last week, there was some debate about whether the character teased in DC Comics Presents #19 was going to be Booster Gold. The case against it looked pretty clear, as the results of the poll suggest.

Last week's poll question: Will the time-displaced hero in DC PRESENTS #19 be Booster Gold? (43 votes)

But yesterday, Buzzfeed.com released a list of teases about DC's April solicitations. First and foremost was news about our hero.

• Booster Gold reappears while an entire team disappears

Whoo-hoo! Now we need to know where. Could we have been wrong about DC Comics Presents? Over at ComicBook.com, Russ Burlingame suggests Justice League Dark or Stormwatch. Months back, we were told that we'd see Booster in Justice League of America, although we could certainly see him first in Justice League. Is that Booster's force field on the cover of Vibe? Might the disappearing team referenced in the tease be Suicide Squad, who all look dead on their cover?

So many options! We need more clues! Where's Rip Hunter's chalkboard when you need it?

Where do you think we should start looking? How about I give you the option of voting for up to 3 titles that DC solicited for April, and we'll narrow down the search from those that get votes.

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