Remember that time Superman killed Booster Gold?

Ask yourself: is Superman mad that he murdered Booster or that Booster called him a m-monsterrr?

Sheesh, 1991 was a rough year for Superman. First Armageddon 2001 suggests he's going to be a murdering tyrant in the future, then Adventures of Superman #479 makes him a murdering tyrant in the present.

Don't worry too much about Booster's death there. He doesn't really die. Or, more accurately, that's not really Booster Gold. It's not even really Superman. Red Kryptonite does some strange things to Kryptonians.

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The Armageddon 2001 storyline ran through the DC annuals in 1991 as Waverider took peeks into potential futures for the heroes of the DCU in search of the one who would become the evil dictator Monarch.

It was Superman's turn in Superman Annual #3, where an increasingly tyrannical Man of Tomorrow is opposed by the freedom-loving Justice League International (with predictable results).

I also really like pages 38 and 44, but neither of those pages manages to work in quite so much delicious cheesecake.

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Preview pages for this week's DC All In Special #1 are all over the web. For example, you can the first few pages of both sides of the flip book, "Alpha" and "Omega" at AIPTcomics.com.

Page 5 of the "Alpha" preview reveals the latest meeting between longtime frenemies Booster Gold and Superman.

words by Joshua Williamson and Scott Snider, art by Daniel Sampere and Alejandro Sanchez

Part of Superman's whole schtick is telling the truth, so I'm not going to call him a liar. At least not to his face. But describing his opinion of Booster as "someone with the best intentions... who sometimes got in his own way" is a very, very polite spin on it.

Remember, this was their first meeting in 1986's Booster Gold #6:

It doesn't look there like Superman thought Booster had "the best intentions," does it?

Ah, but the DC Universe has been rebooted, what, at least 6 six times since then, so I'll give Superman the benefit of the doubt and say that he is speaking his truth... at least from his current point of view.

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I had decided that I was going to buy Multiversus: Collision Detected #1 after I read the preview at AIPTComics.com over the weekend and saw Captain Carrot on the first page. Still, I was surprised when I walked into my Local Comic Shop on Wednesday and they had already pulled the issue for me.

Was it possible that they, too, had seen the Zoo Crew's fearless leader and recognized that he was high on the list of obscure DC characters I religiously follow? Actually, no. What they saw that told them I was an easy Multiversus mark was not on page 1 but page 17:

Words by Bryan Q. Miller; art by Jon Sommariva, Matt Herms, Marshall Dillon

That is not really a Booster Gold appearance, but it does merit a mention here on the Boosterrific Blog (and a worthy addition to my personal comic collection).

Big thanks to my Local Comic Shop for keeping an eye out for my peculiar tastes. That's good Capitalism!

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Although this is good enough to be one of those humorous one-page strips DC used to publish in Silver Age comic books (I'm particularly fond of Henry Boltinoff's Super-Turtle), this was actually created by Sully of sully-s.tumblr.com in 2021. Keep up the good work, Sully!

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