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Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Fan Mail
I'm not seeing anything in the weekly ship list to indicate any reason for Booster Gold fans to buy comic books this week, so instead of talking about that, here's the best fan letter I received last week:
Good evening Mr. Boosterrific,
I am a fan of your catalog of Booster Gold media, the time and effort taken to make record of the content is rather admirable, with or without assistance. I adore Michael Jon Carter AKA Booster Gold. He has been my favorite DC character since I learned of his existence. Seeing another massive fan of Mr. Carter restores my faith in humanity and I would like to personally thank you for your service to the cause.
I thank you deeply for having such a wonderful archive of Booster content to look at when I am feeling down. I've shown it to my garden and my crops are growing extremely well now. Booster Gold saved my village from famine. I thank you kindly. I shall have a golden statue erected of Mr. Carter himself within my own home, and a shrine dedicated using your wonderful archive of content.
Thank you for being so amazing and terrific, this archive healed my terminal NonBoosterItis and now I am able to do back-flips and play piano at the same time. After reading about Booster Gold, I now find myself irresistible. I cannot stop looking in the mirror, I am making myself to look more like Booster in order to achieve true beauty. I am inspired!
Sincerely, Booster's Number 1 Fan
I might be inclined to argue about the title of "Booster's Number 1 Fan," but the letter was signed "Theodore Kord," so, yeah, that checks out.
Thanks for the kind words, Ted. I'm the last person to restore anyone's faith in humanity, but I am very glad to have helped your garden grow, especially if that leads to another shrine to our hero, Booster Gold.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2025
May I Direct Your Attention To
Been busy behind the scenes here at Boosterrific lately.
Booster booster J writes in to note that I had missed Booster's feature appearance in DC Universe Infinite's DC GO Edition of Taste of Justice #15. J is right. I had missed that. If you also missed it, know that you can go right now and read it for free right now at dcuniverseinfinite.com.
J also pointed out that I had missed Booster's appearance in June's Superman: The Ultimate Guide New Edition from DK Books. Again, J is right. (J usually is.) I have corrected oversight by adding the book to the Boosterrific! Other Media: Books list.
What J failed to notice (or was perhaps too polite to mention) was that I had also been omitting the Secret Six by Gail Simone Omnibus Volumes 1 and 2 from the Boosterrific! list of reprints. (To be fair to myself, volume 2 was just released yesterday.) These collections reprint a single Booster Gold cameo appearance apiece. But no matter how small, a Booster Gold appearance is still a Booster Gold appearance, and these books are now appropriately in the Boosterrific! database.
Thanks, J. Keep reading and let me know when you find more.
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Friday, September 19, 2025
All the Movie News That's Fit to Print
Believe it or not, one of my least favorite parts of running a website devoted to a comic book superhero is wading through all the Internet rumors and arguments about potential appearances in other media. I love movies as much as the next guy, but not superhero movies. My imagination brings superhero comic books to life better than Hollywood screenwriters and CGI.
Despite my personal misgivings, I recognize that Booster Gold fans are really, really interested the subject, and I admit that tracking a history of such things falls squarely inside the mandate that I have set for myself here at Boosterrific.com. In the past, I've put that content into the Boosterrific! Blog, but I recognize that information there can be a little hard to dig out.
Therefore, I have finally come to the decision to build a single landing page for credible reporting (with supporting source links where available) on all of the DC-sanctioned live-action projects that have ever been considered. You'll find it in the menu above under Booster Gold > Movie Development. Or, if you're in a hurry, here's a direct link: boosterrific.com/booster/movie.php
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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
All Out
"What comic informs us that Booster Gold's birthday is December 29?"
That's a paraphrase of a question that I was asked in an email I received over the weekend. It's a good question. I've got a lot of good questions recently.
Last week, my Local Comic Shop Guy, who knows what I like to read and what I don't, saw I was buying Superman #29 and said, "Booster Gold must be in that." I nodded, and said I wasn't really looking forward to reading it. And he said, "Then why are you buying it?" That's another good question, and I didn't like my answer.
I'm reasonably proud of what I've built here since Boosterrific.com went live, but lots of things have changed since 2007. I've long since come to terms with the fact that I'll never make a dime off this hobby, so I should only keep maintaining it as long as I enjoy it. It's that enjoyment that has recently been called into question.
I do still enjoy reading and talking about comic books. I enjoy contributing to the world's aggregation of trivial knowledge. And I am still fond of Booster Gold. But for some time now, at least since the start of the "All In" era, I have not particularly enjoyed most of what DC Comics is publishing. The upcoming "DC K.O." looks to me like very much continuing in the wrong direction.
I've been here before. I hated almost everything about the New 52. I considered giving up this site then, but I held on, and things eventually (after about 5 years) got better. There's no reason not to believe that cycle won't repeat itself, and the current editors and creatives at DC who are making comics I don't want to read will eventually move on to other projects. So I think in the meantime, I'll try just ignoring them.
I'm not sure what that will mean for this site. I'll keep the Boosterrific! Database of releases up-to-date, but maybe fewer annotations as I spend less time with books I don't enjoy. (I've already disconnected the code on the home page that reports days since Booster's last DCU appearance.) There will likely be fewer Boosterrific! Blog posts, maybe just one a week, as I try to avoid the things that don't entertain me. If that's the price to maintain my own quality of life, I'm sorry to disappoint any potential site visitors, but so be it.
And for the record, the answer is Booster Gold Volume 2, #1, page 4, panel 1, written by Geoff Johns and Jeff Katz.
That sort of granular minutia? That's the fun part for me. No question.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2025
New Release: Superman 29
Ok, I've just read Superman #29. For the purpose of updating this site, I read it twice. And my initial gut reaction is that I hate it. I hated reading twice so much that I want to stop reading comics set in the DCU forever, or at least until they can tell a story that doesn't assume I want to read multi-part crossover, years-long, seemingly-unending torture-porn stories about heroes failing. I'm just sick of it.
I've read and even enjoyed some dark stories before, but this one has really been the last straw. Is it event fatigue? Dissatisfaction with Joshua Williamson's fanboy-pandering, tell-but-don't-show writing style or Dan Mora's inability to deliver functional sequential art? World news? American politics? Summer heat? Too many years of Booster Gold being put through the meat grinder? I really don't know. I thought I was in a good mood before I started reading.
I'm going to take some time and consider why I feel this way and if anything can be done about it.
It may be a few days before I post again; my enthusiasm for following Booster Gold comics has been completely exhausted.
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