SLW (Steff) posted on Aug. 28, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Ah Walter. I'm so sorry. If there's anything I can do to lift your spirits or cheer you up, please do let me know. Even if it's just feedback on an article or someone to vent to. I definitely understand the frustration, there's a reason why I step away for sometimes years at a time before coming back.

Max Improving posted on Sep. 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I can absolutely understand your frustration...I'm slowly getting back into comics and I'm in utter awe that Boosterrific is still running.
And after I had some high hopes with stories like the Blue & Gold run it's kinda frustrating to see that DC still got the urge to...well...do stuff like this...

I really hope you could put that absolutely not fun experience from your mind.
Just know a fan who got Booster to know around 2007/2008 is just super glad you stuck to him and his shenanigans and this website. 🫶

SLW (Steff) posted on Aug. 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I am continuing to lay odds on him showing up in the last couple pages of Superman. We'll see!

Rob snow posted on Aug. 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Welp. Not in JLU 10.

Rob snow posted on Aug. 27, 2025 at 12:22 AM
He is in Superman 29 nearing the end...no spoilers

Rasalonn posted on Aug. 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I have been talking to guys on Facebook. And it seems they are reading a different event. They claim booster gold has been all over the place in comics since the all in one shot. Am I missing something. When I joked he has been seen in months out side of single pages. They said I am missing alot. Could he be disguised as some one else?

 Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Aug. 27, 2025 at 1:08 AM
@Rasalonn "Could he be disguised as someone else?" Sure. It's comics. Anything is possible. But I think they're trolling you.

SLW (Steff) posted on Aug. 27, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Trust me, if he was anywhere, Walter would know about it. LOL! But I kinda mostly called it. I continue to want to wrap him in blankets and like-- stick him in front of a buffet and therapist, poor guy.

SLW (Steff) posted on Aug. 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
It's a pretty neat bit of meta sleight-of-hand, the lost time traveler showing up (even in doll form) during a temporally screwy sequence, I gotta admit. It's more clever than I'd normally expect.

BT posted on Sep. 27, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Just a fun BTS fact: in the original script Prince posted on instagram, Booster was mentioned by name! https://imgur.com/a/aeGlB3j

Rob snow posted on Aug. 15, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Im the complete opposite. I loved this run. One of my comfort food collections. Mostly because lot of the arcs are Beetle-centric. Hes the hero in most of the conflicts. And Boosters personal trials are deep

Brandon posted on Aug. 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I found Jurgens' JLA run to be bland.

He tried to walk the line between the original humorous tone of the book and a more traditional action oriented tone. Trying to please both fan bases.

A reasonable approach, but one that often winds up pleasing nobody

SLW (Steff) posted on Aug. 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Aw, Walter, you can name me if you want to. I agree on this page! I like it too! And I don't think that every single page of Jurgens' run on JLA was bad. I just don't think the man deserves to sit pretty on any unearned pedestals, and in terms of how he handled the JLI-- he most definitely does not. But he did have moments in it I liked quite a lot.

But I think him writing Booster as a caveman is pretty awful; I absolutely think Booster's own creator should have respected his characterization more, especially since Dan himself established some of the more charming parts of it in Vol. 1. I do think Dan turning Ice into some vapid fangirl was lousy. And, as I think I mentioned, he ignored most -- if not all -- of Guy's better traits. (Bear in mind that I think Giffen and DeMatteis did a pretty bad job with Ted Kord and Guy Gardner too, though. I hardly venerate them, either.)

In fairness, I think I had also pointed out that I too appreciated Ted Kord being treated as less of a joke. If I didn't, I should have.

Dan's big problem was a lack of imagination. As Brandon says above, he tried to thread the line between the funny sitcom-style humor preceding him and the more traditional rock 'em-sock 'em comic plotting. Thing is: Dan's really only funny when he's channeling his dry wit. I think that's probably the midwesterner in him, because boy, I can recognize that tone.

He could have probably leveraged that, instead of trying -- and failing -- to find the humor in team dynamics. Mostly, everyone kind of comes across as actively disliking one another in his run, with rare exceptions. Aside when they're getting beaten half to death by Doomsday, you don't really get the feeling his version of the JLI is a family, and remain such even when they argue, which is something Giffen and DeMatteis did right.

Max Lord was also sort of ill-used. He'd reached a fairly good spot at the end of Breakdowns, as a character, only for Superman to charge in and treat him poorly. Another fan I talk with said she's surprised he didn't go full villain right around then, and honestly-- so am I. When you go from J'onn J'onzz calling you a good man to Superman in your face on the team you built -- regardless of original motivation -- that's a pretty mean kick in the crotch.

I do appreciate your point of view, Walter. You have indeed made me take second looks at things I might not have without you. I hope you don't feel my POV is a shot at you, as I'd never want to do that or to make you feel like I am.

 Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Aug. 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
@SLW No need for any apologies. I don't take your opinions on Jurgens body of work as a personal attack. A diversity of viewpoints can be enlightening. (I should also probably mention that I wasn't trying to call you out on this. If I was going to take issue with your commentary, I'd have done it directly in private. I just thought it was interesting that your recent comments were pretty aligned with this particular issue.)

SLW (Steff) posted on Aug. 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Fair enough! I'm glad; I think if I didn't find some of Dan's creativity to be genuinely brilliant, I probably wouldn't get so nettled by where I believe his failures to be. And even though I quite like Superman as a character, I'm way more apt to get starry-eyed over Captain Marvel, which probably doesn't help when the Superman hero worship feels especially thick. 🤣 I mean, even beyond their fraught history and DC's constant foundering with knowing how to handle Cap.

Rob snow posted on Jul. 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is my one favorite comic ever. No joke. I ca reread this forever. One of Teds best moments

SLW (Steff) posted on Jul. 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
@Rob - Ted is fantastic and so incredibly overlooked. I loved this one for his brilliance getting spotlighted, just like I loved the way he kind of routed the Overmaster, too. AND saved Booster on a hail mary pass. DC didn't do too bad with him in the latest JLU, but they're obviously playing up Mr. Terrific more because of the film. Hopefully they'll remember how damn smart Ted really is and start shining a light on it more.

(Booster needed slapped around a little here in this storyline, yeah, but that sometimes happens. The boy has some real boundary issues; mostly it's people violating his and him being bad at enforcing them, but occasionally he also steps way over the line, too, and deserves a swat back to his side of it. For the Watsonian take. For the Doylist take, sometimes the writers like to use him as a mouthpiece without bothering to consider the bulk of his characterization.)