With appearances in Secret Six #36 and Titans #38, Booster Gold has shown up in a couple of series finales other than his own. In both of those issues, Booster's been on his own, his sidekick nowhere to be seen. So where has Skeets been? Having adventures of his own, apparently.

This picture was seen in the final issue of Batgirl #24 as part of a prolonged drug-induced hallucination. Unfortunately there is no evidence that Skeets -- who so rarely gets to leave Booster's shadow -- has actually been traveling through time with the three Batgirls and having grand adventures with the Blackhawks in World War II. But just because we don't have any record of it doesn't mean it didn't really happen. Skeets does have the ability to erase memories, after all.

Issue writer Bryan Q. Miller clarified the page's meaning on his director's cut of the issue posted on the Tumblr blog DC Women Kicking Ass:

PAGE 15 - Steph [Stephanie Brown] never did get to have an adventure with Cass [Cassandra Cain] during the pages of the book - this adventure/vision finds Batgirl Steph and Skeets on an adventure through time to find a wayward Booster, joined by Batgirls Babs [Barbara Gordon] and Cass.

Thanks to Morgenstern in the Boosterrific Forums for pointing out this panel.

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This blog is really just an extension of the Boosterrific.com obsession of all things Booster Gold, a way to catalog things that would otherwise fall through the cracks. Bloggers at Tumblr.com, on the other hand, have no such mandate, and are free to blog about whatever they like. And what they like seems to be Booster Gold. Take a gander at these well-named Tumblr blogs:

• booster-gold.tumblr.com
• fyeahboostergold.tumblr.com
• askboostergold.tumblr.com
• askskeets.tumblr.com

If that's not enough Booster Gold for you Tumblr fans, you can always search the site for keywords "Booster+Gold". However, if you do you can't hold me responsible for the Boostle you will inevitably encounter. (One of these days, I'm really going to have to address the "Boostle" phenomenon on Boosterrific.com.)

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Just in time to welcome Dan Jurgens back to Booster Gold and remind you about his upcoming appearance at SpringCon (more on that tomorrow), I found this on withnailrules.tumblr.com:

For the record, I should state that I have never found Dan Jurgens to be an ass. He has always been friendly and even generous in his communications with Boosterrific.com. I am also aware that no one is on his best behavior all the time, and that applies to both creators and their fans.

This reminds me of a friend who was self-publishing his comic and tried to get John Byrne to comment on it. It had been a long day at a convention, and a tired Byrne had simply replied to my friend's request for a review with a snappish, "I don't read comics." Rather than be offended, my friend had that quote printed as a pull quote on the back of his comics. It's a prized jewel in my personal comic book collection.

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