Morgenstern, who at this point is probably responsible for more content on this blog than I am, notified me over the weekend that Booster Gold appears in a new YouTube video by Hollywood screenwriter Max Landis. Landis is the son of Hollywood legend John Landis and writer of this past weekend's big-budget Chronicle. Apparently, he is still really angry about the conclusion to the Reign of the Supermen story, so he does what everyone of his generation does: complain about it on the internet.

I disagree about his assessment of the effect of the Death of Superman on the history of comic books -- returning from death was old hat before DC hyped it to the moon -- but I applaud the fact that Landis does give Booster Gold full credit for naming Doomsday. If you don't mind a little foul language and can stomach a drastic evisceration of a high-point of 1990s DC stories in the name of comedy, it's worth your time to watch it. If only to see the only live-action Bloodwynd you're ever likely to see, ever.

As a rule, I don't post NSFW content on this blog, so if you want to see Landis' take on the Death of Superman storyline, you'll have to go directly to YouTube.com.

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Regular Boosterrific.com visitors will know the name Russ Burlingame, as he is both a frequent site visitor himself and the web's foremost Booster Gold reporter. (After all of his news stories about Booster Gold, we'd have to suspect that Burlingame might be hiding an alter ego if Booster's public identity wasn't already well-known.) However, in his latest coverage of DC's announcement that Dan Jurgens will be taking over the reigns of Superman, Burlingame's single-minded adoration of Booster Gold seems to be warping his point-of-view:

As the creator of the character Booster Gold in the 1980s, Jurgens was approached to pencil the book when it was relaunched with superstar writer Geoff Johns and film executive Jeff Katz a few years ago; four years on, he spent the better part of the comic's 49 monthly issues drawing and later writing the adventures of a Booster Gold that was both a natural extension of the one he had written twenty years previous, and radically different in his personality and the storytelling approach to anything Jurgens had written in the series' first incarnation.... The result, most fans and critics agree, was a Booster Gold who came out stronger and more interesting than he had ever been. Can he do it again with the most storied character in all of comics?

Is Burlingame really asking Dan Jurgens if he can turn Superman into a star as big as Booster Gold? That's a pretty tall order.

You can read the whole article and see video of Burlingame's New York Comic Con interview with Dan Jurgens at Comicbook.com.

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We're reliving the glorious 1990s today as Booster Gold makes yet another internet list: The 16 Worst 90s Superhero Redesigns at popcrunch.com. I'm not saying that I agree with everything on that list -- I kind of enjoyed electric Superman -- but Booster's mechanical armor? Yeah, that was bad. (It was, of course, supposed to be bad. But not in the same self-referential way that Azrael/Batman was supposed to be bad.)

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We opened the week discussing Booster Gold visiting the stories of yesteryear. It now appears we should have been discussing his return to the stories of yesteryear, as it seems that he had already beaten us to it.

In 1963's World's Finest Comics #135, Batman stumbles across a mysterious blue and yellow-clad figure who has apparently traveled from the Gotham City of the future via Time Sphere. Turns out that both the Time Sphere and the mysterious fellow's future-tech was stolen, a fact discovered when Superman travels to the future and meets with the thief's twin sibling. All of this sounds pretty familiar, no?

The story, "Menace of the Future Man" was written by Bill Finger, who perhaps owes more to the creation of Booster Gold than one may have thought. A pretty complete issue review can be found at Silver Age Comics. The story was also recently reprinted in Showcase Presents World's Finest Volume 2.

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