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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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Friday, August 22, 2025
Summer Reruns
Over 3000 different keywords/phrases have been used over the years here on the Boosterrific! Blog, some obviously more often than others. Some of them are recurring categories, perhaps first and foremost among them being "solicitations" and "new releases," which alert Booster boosters to upcoming and new Booster Gold appearances in comic books.
Select few recurring items over the years have earned their own banner images. Click on any of the following banners to see their associated posts.
And one more for a series that should have a banner but doesn't...
Thanks for reading!
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Monday, August 4, 2025
Big Changes for Little Pins
Now that I have my very own copy of the #SDCC25 exclusive Booster Gold lapel pin in hand, I've been inspired to finally add a long overdue "pins" category to the Boosterrific! Media page. Thanks all who have contributed to the category over the years.
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Friday, June 20, 2025
Rad Libs
Good news! That thing I was working on that I didn't finish before Tuesday's post? I finished it.
You can play with my shiny new toy here: Boosterrific.com/ad-libs/.
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