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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Back in May, in response to a post on Joshua Williamson's substack, I wrote
You'll note that this doesn't actually say that Booster Gold will be in Superman #28, but it almost does. So I think Booster boosters should be prepared to pick up Superman #28 when it comes out on July 23.
Now that it's July 23 Eve, BleedingCool.com has spoilers for Superman #28, the first issue of the "Legion of Darkseid" story that's been teased for months. The spoilers reveal a surprise character appearance... who is not Booster Gold. Shoot. There is still no actual confirmation that Booster Gold is in the issue. I guess we'll find out tomorrow. [UPDATE: As you can see in the comments below, Rob Snow has found out, and the answer is "he is not." Big thanks to Rob for saving me $5.]
But!
"Here" being the DC Go! comic Taste of Justice #3 ("A Taste of Hope" co-written by and guest starring World Central Kitchen founder José Andrés).
Thanks to Booster booster J, I can report that the first three issues of the digital-only food-themed series from Andrew Aydin and Domo Stanton first announced back in January were finally released on July 16 and are now available and free to read at DCUniverseInfinite.com.
And yes, that is the costume Booster wore while romancing Harley Quinn in "California or Death" (beginning in Harley Quinn Volume 3 #70). I gotta be honest; I don't hate it. I'm a sucker for the high collar.
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SLW (Steff) posted on Jul. 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Costume or civilian clothes? (Arguably, she was romancing him, but she still stabbed him more times in this timeline than she's kissed him. Which is fine by me, he can definitely do better. 🤣)
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jul. 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
That is *definitely* a costume. Civilian clothes, I would argue, as a general rule attempt to fit in with contemporary fashion trends. That's designed to stand out as far as possible. That boy wants to be seen!
SLW (Steff) posted on Jul. 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
See, I'd venture civilian clothes are 'clothes you're not likely (or looking) to fight in'. I mean, there's a difference between being publicity-minded and and being 'on duty'. At least every other time we've seen him wearing this, he was definitely not what I'd call officially 'on duty', though yeah, of *course* that boy wants to be seen. XD When your whole skillset is basically 'superhero' or 'ex-football player', branding is about all you got left to bring home the bacon!
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jul. 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Merriam-Webster defines "civilian" strictly as someone who is not in the armed or peacekeeping forces, and the United States Army recognizes "civilian clothes" as almost anything that isn't a defined uniform. Loosely speaking, most of DC's superheroes should be considered deputies of the law, and wear a uniform designating their special status to society-at-large. Therefore, a super hero wearing anything other than their IP trademarked outfit could be considered to be wearing "civilian clothes." I also concede all this would seem to apply to Booster here, as he is not obviously clad in his familiar 25th-century power-suit.
HOWEVER, Booster (1) isn't in the military, (2) has been known to change looks from time to time, and (3) is wearing an outfit clearly meant to evoke his traditional costume (and brand). Add that in this particular context, he is responding to Batman's summons wearing what you see, while all of his colleagues on the Justice League satellite are also dressed for "work." Booster is not shown changing outfits before going into action, so the presumption is that he is time travels to save the day in what he's already wearing. Therefore, even by your definition, I contend that he sure seems to be "looking to fight" in what you see him wearing here, so I will insist on calling it a costume (as I have before; see: "Los Angeles Casual" on the Boosterrific! list of power-suits) until such time as evidence in canon proves otherwise.
(I admit I'm probably being pointlessly argumentative on a purely semantic point, but "being pointlessly argumentative" is a key cornerstone in my personality matrix, and why else read superhero comic books if not to argue about their contents?)
Joe posted on Jul. 23, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Civilian. lol.
Rob snow posted on Jul. 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Short answer...nope. No booster nor in Justice league unlimited
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jul. 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Well, crud.
SLW (Steff) posted on Jul. 23, 2025 at 7:28 AM
We wouldn't be comic book fans, buddy, if we didn't argue pointlessly about semantics. XD And anyway, who's to say they didn't summon him from a karaoke session anyway? He doesn't carry his powersuit in a ring, so it's entirely possible he got called to action while out doing non-hero things. Maybe he took a minute to change into the actual uniform/costume before time-traveling to save the world (again) after we see him vanish.
I can definitely say wearing civilian clothes (I suppose calling them street clothes also works) doesn't preclude a public servant (or possibly superhero) from going into action without the uniform when there's no time to run home and change into it. I was married to a rural police officer for many years, and many times he strapped his gunbelt on over his jeans and bolted out with his badge clipped to his belt. (And it's totally fine, really, to call this outfit a costume since we see it more than once and it's themed, but I think in-universe, it's probably really just one variation of Booster's street clothes. A 'notice who I am' outfit, sure, but still not meant for battle.)
Friday, July 11, 2025
Considering that Maxima is the planetary-invading bad girl in this week's Superman Treasury 2025: Hope for All #1, I find it interesting to look back to June 1992 when it was her planet being conquered by outside enemy forces in Justice League America #65 (also written by Dan Jurgens).
Who saved the day then? Hint: it wasn't Superman....
Fzzzam. Speowww.
Ah, Booster Gold and Blue Beetle! Is there anything they can't do?
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SLW (Steff) posted on Jul. 11, 2025 at 11:53 AM
True facts: Is there anything they can't do? No, I think they're actually a really solid pair of heroes who have indeed helped save the world repeatedly (and led the charge to in a case or two), and I really wish DC would remember that. One's a literal genius with a more diverse skillset than Bruce Wayne and the other is certainly clever as hell and quick on his feet literally and mentally, never mind willing to take a heartbreaking amount of punishment in the line of self-appointed duty.
Hell, they're both really good heroes even solo, but they do make a pretty awesome combo when business gets serious. (And know how to have fun before it does.)
Rob snow posted on Jul. 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Ive always maintained they are serious about what they do, just not serious in HOW they do it
Brandon posted on Jul. 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I always found it amusing that on the cover of this issue all the leaguers are firing energy beams except poor Ice who's made a couple little snowballs to throw
Eskana posted on Jul. 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Great analyses, guys! Well said
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
SLW writes
You probably already know, but our boy got on panel three times in the Superman Treasury edition. Which hey, at least in some timeline he's not erased from existence!
Which, in fact, I did not know. Although, since Dan Jurgens is the writer, I probably should have expected.
Officially, the treasury sized book is titled Superman Treasury 2025: Hero For All #1. There are multiple covers (including one by Dan Jurgens), none of which feature Booster Gold, that are priced at $14.99. Personally, I chose the Scott Koblish (CVR C) because it includes Captain Carrot, but you do you when you go to your Local Comic Shop and buy this issue to make Skeets happy.
Thanks, SLW!
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SLW (Steff) posted on Jul. 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
In fairness, you have an armada of people who are excited to tell you about any Booster-in-the-Wild sightings.
--which might make a pretty damn fun nature show ala Steve Irwin, actually.
Friday, June 27, 2025
As SLW alerted us, Booster Gold (and Skeets!) does indeed make a cameo appearance in this week's Flash #22, where our hero (and sidekick!) show up in windows into the timestream inside the Linear Bureau's headquarters at the end of time where Wade West is being impossibly cryptic about current events:
Of course, that's not "current events" Booster, because Superman #27 makes it pretty clear that Booster is a little hung up at the moment.
That issue expressly identifies the setting of Booster's captivity as "the future," so today's question is "Where in time is Booster Gold?"
To recap: Last year's DC All-In Special led readers to believe that Booster Gold traveled across dimensions to the Alpha World of the Absolute Universe. Summer of Superman Special corrected course to reveal that Booster is not in an alternate dimension but an alternate future. But, as you can read above, Superman #27 combines the two, explaining that Booster did go to Alpha World before returning to the future of Prime Earth. Great. So now we know which dimension he's in (and that the dimensions can be transversed).
So what epoch is our hero in now? The setting of Booster's captivity would appear to be the 25th century Space Museum he once worked in, though presumably sometime after 2462 lest changes to the timeline write him out of existence. The logical assumption, especially considering the corpses of the Fatal Five seen in the aforementioned Summer of Superman, would be that he's being held captive in the 31st century, the native time period of the Legion of Super-Heroes. If that's true, where is the (uncorrupted) Legion native to our universe?
Since it's pretty clear now that "our" familiar Legion is not the same as the "Dark" Legion seen since DC All In Special, why did Booster's Flight Ring (native to Prime Earth) become a Dark Flight Ring in All In Special? Did Dark Brainiac 5 go back in time and leave his Dark Legion Flight Ring in the 25th century Space Museum?
And what, exactly, happened to Booster's high collar? All In Special promised more high collar! Must Darkseid destroy everything good in the world(s)?!
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Tiffany posted on Jun. 27, 2025 at 8:39 AM
My guess is, that all of Legion (Beside Abosolute Legion, Darkseid Legion, Omega Legion, whatever you want to call them,) probably aren't doing so hot. And this upcoming event will lead into the sixth Legion reboot. Written by Mark Waid and Nicole Maines. But that is just my guess. And I'm probably completely wrong. And I want to hear others guess. So that is why I'm leaving this comment. Bye. Tiffany Jay Cassidy signing off for now.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jun. 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
It feels to me like DC hasn't really given the Legion a fair chance in decades. Bendis' last stab at it was doomed from the start by his inability to write character dialogue. But now that Waid is reviving classic "the adventures of Superman when he was a boy" Superboy, it seems to me that a new volume of Adventure Comics with Superboy and the LoSH can't be too far behind.
Tiffany posted on Jun. 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
@boosterific plus with the way hyper time works at DC I would suprised, post-whatever event DC has cooking up, that we get a proper Absolute Legion. And with the way some characters ended up being shifted around. Who knows. Maybe the Absolute Legion will have ties to the Absolute Lanterns, or something, instead of Superman like with the mainverse.
Brandon posted on Jun. 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I'm probably in the minority, but I'd like to see the return of the 1994 post-zero hour Legion.
Monday, June 23, 2025
Judging by how many people wrote to tell me about this, I assume most of you already know. But for posterity's sake, this was in the DC Solicitations for September 2025:
SUPERMAN #30
Written by JOSHUA WILLIAMSON
Art and cover by DAN MORA
$4.99 US | 32 pages | ON SALE 9/24/25
Superman has found the mysterious hero known as Booster Gold. Together, they must return to the present day to warn the Justice League, but Darkseid’s Legion stands in the way. The shocking events of this issue lead into next month’s massive next chapter in the all in saga!!
We already had reason to believe that Booster would be seen in Superman #28 in July, when this storyline begins. Should we also expect to see our hero in Superman #29? I guess we'll know in August.
It should be noted that DC has also solicited for The Human Target: The Deluxe Edition hardcover, which we already know includes Booster Gold, so we can keep an eye out for that this November.
You can read these and all the other solicitations at AIPTComics.com.
Thanks to all who made sure I didn't miss this.
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SLW (Steff) posted on Jun. 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Poor guy. I was telling Dara that he needs like-- a bath, a buffet, a therapist, a lot of soft blankets and probably a cuddle. Shaving optional, but a beard-trim if he wants to keep it. LOL!
SLW (Steff) posted on Jun. 23, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Addendum: Mind you, Booster has definitely needed a therapist long before this. And none of that Sanctuary-type bull-hockey, like an actual licensed professional. LOL!
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jun. 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Sanctuary! Come for the therapy, stay to get murdered by heroes! (Specifically a hero who will cover up the crime with the aid of others who the hero had previously framed as scapegoats. From now on, let's call that Sanctuary Syndrome.)
Steven Palchinski posted on Jun. 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Sanctuary! And if you survive, prepare to hunted as the perpetrators!
SLW (Steff) posted on Jun. 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Hell, come for the therapy, get a reality TV show setup instead, then stay to get stabbed repeatedly by an actual villain who exploded a bunch of kids.
I am never, ever gonna stop being salty about all of that.
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jun. 23, 2025 at 8:51 PM
@SLW You make it sound like a Scooby-Doo episode.
SLW (Steff) posted on Jun. 24, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Walter, that's implying that the crew that writes Scooby-Doo is somehow inferior to Tom King and we all know that's not true. 🤣 Don't insult them like that!
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jun. 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Oh! Sorry. I meant to imply that you were making Heroes in Crisis sound much better than it is!
Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Jun. 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
For the record, since we're piling on Heroes in Crisis, I should mention that an article posted earlier this week in defense of Heroes in Crisis at ComicBook.com is titled "Is Tom King the Alan Moore For Millennial Comics Readers?" Which, of course, reminded me of Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
SLW (Steff) posted on Jun. 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
@Walter Oh! In that case, I definitely didn't mean to do that. 😂 And yeah, right? I've been reading comic since I was twelve and I am sincerely hard-pressed to find a MORE incoherent, poorly written, wretchedly characterized piece of slop than HiC. How you could take a premise with such sharp fangs -- especially if we're discussing Booster and mental health, because that boy has Issues™ even IF we're not counting pre-Flashpoint, his upbringing alone has complex multi-dimensional trauma galore -- and screw it up THAT BADLY?
You have to not only be incompetent, you have to be a willful, active moron who didn't bother to research even the barest fraction of character background. Like sincerely, I could write better than that when I was a teenager.
