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Monday, July 31, 2017

(Over) Ten Years and Counting

I probably should have mentioned this weeks ago, but Boosterrific.com turned 10 years old in June. At last count, the site now has nearly 2,600 pages not including blog entries. Whew!

The adventures of Booster Gold could already fill an encyclopedia — do kids today know what those were? — and I hope our hero is still far from done.

I offer a hearty thanks to all of you, the Booster boosters who have supported this site over the years. If I could go back in time, I would do it all over again.

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Monday, April 3, 2017

Recent Boosterrific Updates

Last week was a busy one here at Boosterrific.com. In addition to the Booster Gold/The Flintstones Special, I also made these additions to the site:

1. The house advertisements section has been updated to include the two-page Hanna-Barbera ads that appeared in DC books for the last two weeks in March.

2. Patrick Stump and Allan Ross gave us a full cover scan for the 2007 Adventures with the DC Super Heroes Geppi's Entertainment Museum variant that shows Booster Gold on the back cover.

3. The Blot sent this image of the Booster Gold Thomas & Friends toy as seen for sale at his local Wal-Mart to prove that this bizarre thing is now available for purchase.

Thanks to everyone for your help keeping Boosterrific.com the best Booster Gold website in the Multiverse.

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Friday, March 24, 2017

Still Visiting the Old School

Thank you for your feedback. Now I know how to proportionally parse the data I'm getting from my content partners. You're the best, Booster boosters!

Last week's poll question: Where do you regularly get your Boosterrific.com content? (74 votes)

I had intended to use this information to plan how to develop future revisions to this site. For example, I have already closed the Boosterrific Forum due to its inactivity. Since there's just not anything for Booster Gold fans to talk about, there's no reason for me to keep updating it in the never-ending battle to keep the spam out. I thought I'd use the space for something else.

However, I'm put those redecorating plans on hold. The latest DC Universe reboot as seen in this week's Action Comics, coupled with the company's obvious indifference to selling me any Booster Gold comics, has me very down on DC Comics right now. I feel my time is better served developing video games and writing novels.

To be clear: Closing the Boosterrific Forum is the only change I'm making right now. Everything else will go on as normal — especially since we finally have a Booster Gold comic coming out next week! I'm just saying I've had about all the rebooting I can stand in my comics, so don't expect much change from my website.

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JO posted on Mar. 24, 2017 at 4:08 PM
Keep up the faith bro.
I still remember buying issue 1 the golden hero vs dark hued blackguard. The mysterious 100 had me spooked at the time. And who the heck was this intriguing character? This noble but flawed man. His beef with superman was epic. Designed as a desperate attempt to draw readership with one the big 3, it accidentally ended up being a compelling and revealing conflict revealing the characters of both heroes.
Of course he only truly came into his own in Justice League. JmD and Kevin Maguire had me sucked in in 8th grade. This League was absurdly powerful with Dr Fate Superman Shazam Martian Manhunter Jesus they were loaded. Dr Light Blue Beetle Batman Wonder Woman Green Lantern. Are you kidding!! It was so much fun. And ENTER Booster Gold with a bang trying to cash in as always but halfheartedly. At first rebuffed but then beloved and eventually at the center of the title. Skeets became a world wide name. The Blue and The Gold were defined and utterly deified in this era and no other past or future can challenge this epic saga of characterization and cannonization forevermore representing these two are their immortal best chiseled in stone Bwhahaha!!!
The big reveal of Booster as a criminal time traveller was a bit of an anticlimax. I was like what? But I liked the Flight ring and it's connection to the greater DC universe rather than some more generic item like his blasters.
Booster Gold 30 years now right? 31? 52 card pick up also a great run and maybe my favorite overall. Flashpoint was hidealous almost as bad as Millennium the absolute worst garbage crossover ever in history. Still have every issue.

CelebrenIthil posted on Mar. 27, 2017 at 5:40 PM
You've been fighting the good fight long enough, and we all aren't paying you a dime (beside maybe automatic ad revenue) for all your efforts - and DC certainly less -, so no shame in putting (most of/all) your energies elsewhere, and for ever long as you need.
We're grateful for all you do, but we aren't entitled to it! :)

Always take care of yourself, and maybe we'll all shake out of this slump as a fandom when there is more Booster content to go around than the little scraps we're trying to live on right now.

Friday, March 17, 2017

Where Are You Reading This?

Hey, you! If you aren't reading this on Boosterrific.com, please go there and tell me where you came from!

In an attempt to take Booster Gold to the masses, I push content to the Boosterrific.com, Facebook, and Twitter. Each of these content platforms provide user analytics data about how many people I'm reaching. Those numbers are all fine and good in helping me determine where my audience is, but the various metrics used by the platforms aren't exactly comparable. Therefore, today, I'm asking you for an old-fashioned head count. Thanks for your support.

This week's poll question: Where do you regularly get your Boosterrific.com content? Please visit the Boosterrific Polls page to view results for this week's poll.

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Friday, November 18, 2016

Must The Show Go On?

Things have been changing in America lately, and not necessarily for the better. Not so many years ago, many DC Comics super hero bloggers and I participated in semi-regular crossover events. Now very few of us are still posting.

Both FirestormFan.com and AquamanShrine.net have stopped blogging to focus their efforts on podcasting (fireandwaterpodcast.com). The Martian Manhunter blog, The Idol-Head of Diabolu, has likewise gone silent as its creator also seems to be concentrating on podcasts for his other blogs (DC Bloodlines and Wonder Woman: Diana Prince). So too, Splitting Atoms is now more podcast than blog. Others that have fallen completely silent (like Tower of Fate and Being Carter Hall). Some stalwarts soldier on, including SpeedForce.org and Kord Industres. We seem to be the exception rather than the rule.

Once again, this has made me return to a question I've asked myself from time to time since Booster Gold disappeared from the pages of DC Comics: Has the time for websites dedicated to super hero blogging passed us by? Would comics fans rather listen to a podcast than read a website? Is the problem the characters or the bloggers or just shifting demographics?

Like so many of those now-defunct sites, Boosterrific.com is first and foremost a hobby. I started working on it nine years ago, and I keep it running because I want to. Personally, I have no interest in phone apps, wikis, or podcasting. If that's the future of Booster Gold fandom, I'll leave it to someone else. (The Silver and Gold podcast — now a whole network — seems to be doing just fine without me.)

Don't worry, this post isn't a lead up to the retirement of Boosterrific.com. I'm only committing my rambling grumpy old man thoughts to electronic paper. I'm not going anywhere anytime soon. It's just that I'm starting to feel kind of lonely out here all by myself. I sure would like some new Booster Gold comics to keep me company.

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Wrinn posted on Nov. 18, 2016 at 10:32 AM
Glad you are not going anywhere. I have no interest in Podcasts either. No idea on DCs thinking with their continued lack of Booster comics.

J posted on Nov. 18, 2016 at 5:31 PM
Bring Back Booster Gold!
Reader since issue #1 wondering about his origin, his fight against the 1000, his beef vs superman.
And the WORST Was the stupid Millennium crossover, that made Dirk the bad guys? WTF? That was a HORRIBLE Choice.
Not Dan Jurgen's finest moment.

The Blot posted on Nov. 18, 2016 at 5:58 PM
nooooo!!!! Don't go anywhere. I love reading the website. Podcasts are a nice addition, but not a replacement for great websites documenting the world's greatest hero.

Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Nov. 18, 2016 at 6:13 PM
@J: In his defense, even Dan Jurgens wasn't happy with being forced by editors to shoehorn Davis into MILLENNIUM: http://www.boosterrific.com/news.php?date=2015-05-29&30-Years-of-Character-Development

(That said, I remember being so furious at MILLENNIUM for cancelling my BOOSTER GOLD comic. Really, really mad. I have never forgiven it.)

Tinuvial posted on Nov. 19, 2016 at 12:53 PM
I might be a millennial, but I started using computers in the early days of the Internet (at least, I think they were the early days, circa 1990 or so). I don't think I've listened to a single podcast in all that time (unless Youtube vids count). I am, first and foremost, a reader...I like to read and reading's a lot faster than listening.

So, all of that to say: Thank you for NOT following the trend and for keeping this site nice and simple...just the way we love it.

The Irredeemable Shag posted on Dec. 3, 2016 at 11:36 PM
Sorry Walter! We didn't mean to abandon you!

For me, it's a combination of things. The blog became a bit of a grind for me. It began to feel like work. And like you, I was struggling with the way DC mis-handled (or didn't bother to handle) the character of Firestorm. And I have a rule about hobbies, if I'm not enjoying it, then don't due it. I've been meaning to do a final "wrapping-up" post over on the blog.

The other reason is that I'm having a blast doing podcasts. So much more fun to talk about a comic with my friends than write about one. Just my two cents.

Hope you are doing well! You are still doing an amazing job over here, and I regularly plug your site on my JLI Podcast!

Shag

Boosterrific [Official Comment] posted on Dec. 4, 2016 at 12:45 AM
Shag, I'm 100% behind only doing things you enjoy. And thanks for the plugs!

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