Say what you will about DC Universe Online, but someone in the Sony Online Entertainment art department is a real comic book fan.

Blaze was the comic book publisher of the Booster Gold comic-within-a-comic in the first volume of Booster Gold. I'm surprised that they stayed in business after their most acclaimed creators, Benny and Marty, were killed to get the secrets that they knew about their star subject, Booster Gold.

Come to think of it, if super-villains will kill to get the secrets possessed by comic book creators of a single hero, what would they do to game programmers who developed an entire world?

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Sometimes it's not enough to be a fan and read a hero's comic. Sometimes you have to be a video game hero just so you can meet that comic hero in virtual person. But when you do, don't forget to dress for the occasion.

This fine virtual t-shirt featuring the Booster Gold Volume 2 logo designed by Rob Leigh can be yours, too, assuming of course that you are willing to spend hours hunting randomly spawning collectibles in Midtown Metropolis in DC Universe Online. This shirt is the end goal of the Gold Quality Boostercoms collection quest. Find all 5 different cellphone collectibles, and the Question (!) will email you this nifty t-shirt at no additional cost.

It toook me 3 hours to find the right parts. Three hours of flying from rooftop to rooftop looking for little shiny yellow question marks. And if you ask me if it was worth it, I will say, "yes, yes it was."

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No sooner do I finally get to level 30 -- just so that I can take on the level-restricted Booster Gold/HIVE mission -- than Booster shows up in the Justice League Watchtower courtesy the latest game update. Now even a level 1 character can walk up and get his autograph!

It seems Booster has been talking to Circe about love potions, or so I've heard from Oracle. When I try to talk to Booster, all he'll do is endorse Flakies. I guess a hero's got to earn a living, right?

Seriously, Booster Gold was already a huge part of DC Universe Online even before this latest content update. Between the exploration missions, the Duo mission, the animated Booster Flakies advertisements, Booster's collectible audio endorsements of Big Belly Burger and Soder-Cola, and several other assorted references (including a mention of "Booster Bits" cereal by the Riddler!), Booster is omnipresent in Metropolis and Gotham cities! There's more Booster Gold content in the game than all but perhaps a handful of other Justice Leaguers.

I've got to hand it to Sony Online Entertainment, they know a (gold) star when they see one.

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In addition to voicing the hilariously selfish exploration mission recordings in DC Universe Online, Booster Gold is a mini-boss in the "HIVE Base" Duos mission. Booster has been enslaved by the Queen Bee and is forced to battle heroes and endorse her mind-controlling hypno-pollen. It is up to a pair of level 30 players to defeat and free him from her control. Fortunately, Skeets is immune to the Queen Bee's charms, and gives the players the advice that they need to free Booster Gold.

So get to it, players. Booster Gold needs your help!

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Maybe not quite "several hundred" in Metropolis, Skeets, but a lot, anyway:

But now that you mention it, they do all look pretty much exactly the same. It begins to make me wonder how you ever managed to find the same one twice, Booster.

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