DC released their January 2022 solicitations late last week (you can read them at AIPTComics.com), and I don't want to alarm anyone, but for the third consecutive month, Booster Gold was nowhere to be seen.

It's already been 20 days since we last saw Booster in a comic book, and if solicitations are any guide (and they usually are), we won't be seeing new adventures of our hero until at least February 1, another 101 days yet. That's a long time.

Why is it that just when DC launches the "all in" Justice League Unlimited era, they take Booster Gold off the table?

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I'm not expecting to find Booster Gold in any new releases today. And now seems as good a time as any to mention that I'm not expecting to find Booster Gold in any new releases during the entire month of December, either.

AIPTComics.com has the "Full December 2024 DC Comics solicitations," and as you can see, there's not a hint of Booster Gold anywhere. Sure, he *could* be in Justice League Unlimited #2. Or maybe Challengers of the Unknown or The Question: All Along the Watchtower, which are also JL Unlimited-adjacent. Or maybe somewhere else. I don't know.

Anyway, let's look on the bright side: with no Booster Gold comics to buy, we'll have more money to spend on Christmas presents. (Or, if you're not a Christmas person, on coffee. Everyone loves coffee.) Thanks, DC!

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I was reading the DC Comics solicitations for November 2024 on AIPTComics.com with an eye out for Booster Gold, and the only publications that will definitely include our hero are Blue Beetle Volume 2, reprinting the second half of the just-canceled Blue Beetle series, and 52 Volume Two (2024 Edition), which is yet another reprint of the back half of the (very excellent) 2006 series. And neither of those books is actually being released in November.

So the question becomes "Will we see Booster Gold in any DC Comics in November?"

I think the likeliest place to find our hero might be Justice League Unlimited #1 coming from Mark Waid and Dan Mora on November 27, especially given that it's promoted as a new League comprised of "every hero championing the forces of good." Booster Gold certainly qualifies for that. (And I hope that promise means we'll be seeing more of the many, many other heroes so often squeezed off comic book racks to make room for more Batman titles.)

If not there, I can't begin to guess where else. Absent from the DCU since 2022's Dark Crisis, the Justice League is mentioned seemingly everywhere in November, playing some role in Action Comics #1077 (written by Mark Waid), Batman/Superman: World's Finest #33 (written by Mark Waid), and also in books not written by Mark Waid, including Black Lightning #1, The Question: All Along the Watchtower #1, Batman/Santa Claus: Silent Knight Returns #1, and Jenny Sparks #4.

Will any of those League appearances include a little Gold? I guess we'll find out in November.

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October solicitations are out, and look who's on the cover of the DC's new publishing initiative:

DC ALL IN SPECIAL #1
Written by SCOTT SNYDER and JOSHUA WILLIAMSON
Art by DANIEL SAMPERE and WES CRAIG
Cover by DANIEL SAMPERE
$4.99 US | 64 pages | ON SALE 10/2/24

Following the events of DC’s blockbuster storyline Absolute Power, the heroes of the core DC Universe have fought against the deep divisions in the world around them to usher in a new era of unity. And it’s just in time, too—because Darkseid has returned. Superman must gather every hero on Earth to hold the line against a very different version of the Lord of Apokolips, as they raise our cosmic defenses and prepare for war…and when the first blows land, the shock waves will ripple into every series in the DCU and shake the nature of their reality to its core!

But little do they know…the greater threat is still to come. For there is another Earth: the Absolute Universe. Here, DC’s biggest icons are coming of age with fewer advantages and facing greater opposition than ever before…while miraculously retaining the immutable heroism that has inspired fans for decades. But can they really protect the light that shines inside them when the world in which they live is hurtling toward a terrible destiny?

Booster Gold and Skeets are in pretty good company on that cover. How will they be involved in the Absolute fall-out? We'll find out in October.

You can read the full solicitations at AIPTComics.com, and BleedingCool.com has more info about DC All-In, though I suspect we'll be hearing lots more from Comic-Con later this week.

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You know how there's that one thing you can't stand, but you have to suck it up and get through that thing to continue the pursuit of your personal holy grail (or, as the case may be, the Ark of the Covenant)?

Well, Booster Gold appears on the cover of one comic in DC's September solicitations as seen at AIPTComics.com):

WONDER WOMAN #13
Written by TOM KING
Art by TONY S. DANIEL
Cover by TONY S. DANIEL
$4.99 US | 40 pages | Variant $5.99 US (card stock)
ON SALE 9/18/24

ABSOLUTE POWER TIE-IN!
Gamorra found! Wonder Woman and Robin have finally located Amanda Waller’s super jail holding the powerless heroes they once fought alongside. Can the new dynamic duo break them out before they become trapped themselves? An undercover ally may hold the key to everything!

Note that the solicitation text doesn't explicitly say that Booster Gold will be in the book. He might be only on Tony Daniel's cover. I guess we'll find out in September.

Thank to Rob Snow for the bittersweet news that I'm order to keep my complete collection of Booster Gold comics going, I'll be buying yet another Tom King-written comic book.

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