Boosterrific.com tracks a lot of things about Booster Gold. Most of the things it tracks (if not all the things it tracks) are trivial. Some of them aren't even directly about Booster Gold but how his fans interact with him.

Among the many things Boosterrific.com keeps its eye on is the list of characters in the DCU who have crossed paths with our hero. The site tracks how many "clicks" those character links get in a 30-day span. You can see the most popular in the "SITE INFORMATION & STATISTICS" box on the home page. Since I started tracking this in 2012, one unusual name in particular has almost always been at or near the top of this list. Kilg%re.

For those of you who don't know, Kilg%re is a minor Flash villain (debuting in 1987's Flash #3), an alien artificial intelligence determined to make the Earth safe for machine kind by exterminating humanity. Kilg%re was retroactively integrated into the biography of Maxwell Lord in Justice League International #12 in 1988.

Kilg%re has only a tangential relationship with Booster Gold. So why does he keep topping my click-through list? Is it because people see the name "Kilg%re" and wonder who that could be? Is there a huge Kilg%re fan group following Kilg%re's adventures online? Is it because Kilg%re has infiltrated the Internet and keeps Googling itself? I have no idea.

Every once in a while, I clear my history table, yet Kilg%re always finds his way back. Forget Lex Luthor, Joker, and Darkseid. For my money, Kilg%re is the one villain that just won't stay down.

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Booster booster Logan wrote me last week to ask if I'd seen the latest (and final) issue of Justice League 3001. He wanted to know if I'd seen this:

That sure looks like Booster Gold's body in the rubble beside Ice. However, it doesn't make any sense for Booster to be there.

Booster and his pal, Blue Beetle, disappeared from the series after the evil Lady Styx took over the universe in issue #7. The climactic battle, which Booster didn't participate in, took place on Paradise Island, a secret location Booster couldn't have reached. So how could that be him on the ground?

My theory is that's not Booster, but the body of the evil clone of Wildfire of the Legion of Super-Heroes. Wildfire also has a star on his chest, and appears throughout the issue. (You can see him at the bottom center of the cover above.) I suspect that the issue inker or colorist saw Wildfire's body on the ground surrounded by the reincarnated JLI and mistakenly detailed it as Booster Gold.

I reached out on Twitter to issue writer J.M. DeMatteis to ask if he'd intended to show a dead Booster Gold. This was his response:

So there we have it. It may look like Booster Gold's costume, but it's not Booster Gold.

Whew.

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Have you seen this comic?

According to the DC Comics Database wiki, Booster Gold appears in this British reprint of Adventures of Superman #463. Despite that fact, this book does not appear in the Boosterrific database.

While I do make every effort to be complete, there are some things I don't track. Although I do generally include reprints, I limit those to American reprints published by DC Comics.

There are many countries where someone has released licensed reprints of DC Comics' publications. Many of those reprints have been translated into the readers native languages, such as the Italian release of Booster Gold. It's great that DC is expanding their audience across the globe, and I love to know about them. However, those comics are outside the scope of this website.

So if you happen to come across a Booster Gold reprint in a "foreign" language — including The Queens' English — and you're wondering why you don't see it listed here, now you know.

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Now that the holidays are past us, I finally had time to update the Boosterrific database to include those pesky Convergence collections. More importantly, I also included a Booster Gold appearance I had missed in 2007:

That panel is from Action Comics #848 (and was reprinted in Superman: Redemption).

Booster booster Logan spotted it over the holidays and let me know that it wasn't indexed here. So everyone thank Logan for making Boosterrific.com better than ever heading into 2016!

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When I first added the daily blog to this site in January, 2010, I half-jokingly worried whether there would be "enough Booster Gold related news to blog about on a nearly daily basis." It's taken five years, but at last it appears my fears have come true.

Despite continually being rumored to have a television show or movie in the works, there's no hint our hero has or will appear in Arrow, Flash, Supergirl, or Legends of Tomorrow. He also has gone missing-in-action in DC Comics comic books (152 days and counting). By my reckoning, there has been an average of only one "newsworthy" piece of Booster Gold news per month since June.

It's becoming hard to justify a daily blog devoted to Booster Gold news when there isn't any. Therefore, effective today, I'll be cutting blog posts back to three times a week: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I believe that this reduced schedule will allow me to maintain a higher quality of post content.

Even though I am cutting back, I remain confident that this latest drought won't last much longer. Booster Gold isn't the sort of hero content to ride the bench for too long.

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