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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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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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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I have an apology to make: Boosterrific.com has had some data about Booster Gold wrong for years. Specifically, I have failed to identify Booster's mother's first name as "Ellen."

Mrs. Carter has never been named in any story, so I had always acted as though she had never been given a name. But somehow I totally overlooked the "Known Relatives" section of the loose-leaf format Who's Who in the DC Universe #2, which clearly says "Ellen."

I cannot explain why I've overlooked that all these years. I've certainly had this volume since, well, probably since it came out in 1990. (I didn't buy all every loose-leaf Who's Who at the time; some I picked up some later. Maybe this was one of the latter.) Its text is attributed to the character's creator Dan Jurgens, who I would certainly trust to give her a name.

I can only guess that once upon a time I decided that Who's Who entries weren't canon. That seems an antiquated notion in this modern era of "everything is in continuity somewhere." In any event, it's well past time I recognized it throughout Boosterrific.com.

Big thanks to Pigeon for drawing my attention to this mistake so that I could correct it.

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I have a Google Alert set up to notify me when Google finds new news about Booster Gold. If I think what Google tells me is noteworthy, I pass it along here in the Boosterrific Blog. However, among the most common alerts are social media posts along the lines of "I want to read more about Booster Gold, where should I start?" And that bothers me a little.

My first impulse when seeing these is to go tell that person about Boosterrific Dot Com. The Boosterrific Database contains all Booster Gold comic book adventures with a rating system that I think makes better books easy to identify, and I have many posts justifying my criteria for "The 12 Best Booster Gold Comics." Sure, my lists are subjective, but aren't everyone's? If nothing else, they make a pretty good introductory guide for interested readers.

Yet by nature I'm a recluse, not a salesman. I don't really want to be active on most social media, so I'm easily discouraged by sites like Reddit actively discouraging such egregious self-promotion. And I justify my anti-social behavior by telling myself that if someone was really interested in Booster Gold, there are plenty of websites with helpful information, including Wikipedia and Fandom, which are at the top of any Google Search for "Booster Gold." Boosterrific.com might not appear until the second page of links, but it really isn't so hard to find. I mean, if you're reading this, you found it.

So maybe what really bothers me is that Boosterrific.com isn't easier to find. Why should anyone seeking advice about Booster Gold comic books have to struggle to arrive here? Is it hubris on my part to think that Boosterrific.com is the best place for could-be Booster Gold fans to begin their journey? Could I be doing something more to tell people about Booster Gold? If so, what?

I can only do what I can do, but maybe I can do more than I thought I could. I just want the whole world to know...

This panel is from Blue and Gold #7. It's just one of many pretty darn good Booster Gold comics you should be reading.

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