For the past 5 weeks (since November 5th!), no one has left a comment on a post here at Boosterrific.com. I had decided not to panic. There hasn't been a Booster Gold comic in months, so why should anyone have anything to say around here? Turns out it wasn't you, it was me.

Longtime Booster booster Eyz sent me an email early this morning with a particular complaint:

For a while (a month? perhaps a bit longer..) I haven't been able to comment on Boosterrific. Every time I write a comment and I press the submit button, instead of being prompted to a confirmation code ("write below the characters you see above..") a second submit button pops up. And if I press it, it reloads the page losing my comment in the process...

I looked into it, and he was absolutely right. Google had migrated their reCAPTHCA processing scripts, and I was still using the old Carnegie Mellon University links (outdated since 2010). This error was eating comments. Shame on me.

I've fixed the error and you should all be able to comment again (though you may need to force a browser refresh to clear the old scripts). It was never my intention to deactivate commenting, and I apologize if I discouraged anyone from dropping a line. In the future, should you ever find anything on this site you consider to be a bug, please let me know on the Forum or via email (webmaster at Boosterrific.com). If you think it would help for me to build a contact form page, I could do that too.

My eternal thanks, Eyz, for pointing out the malfunction.

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This is the 1000th Boosterrific Blog post! Self-congratulations — and soliloquies about world domination — are in order!

splash page from Booster Gold, Volume 1, #10, "Death Grip of the 1000"

Thanks to everyone who has ever dropped by Boosterrific.com to read one of these 1000 posts.

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Sadly, Saturday will mark 100 days since Booster Gold's last DCnU comic book appearance in All-Star Western #21.

Considering that the U.S. government has shutdown and the country is facing default on our debts, considering that civil war in the Middle East continues unabated, considering that religious disputes continue fanning the flames of intolerance worldwide, Booster's absence from comic books isn't really a big deal. But couldn't the world use another hero right now?

If there is one good thing to come from the U.S. government's current dysfunction, it's that the news coverage has taught me exactly how to celebrate this ignominious milestone at DC Comics. At the top of this page, you'll find a counter indicating how many days it has been since Booster's last appearance. That counter will stay in place until Booster again returns to action in the DC Universe.

Stay strong, Booster boosters! Booster will be back. And we'll keep carrying the torch until he is!

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For the first time since September 2010, Boosterrific.com failed to achieve more than 100 visits any day last week.

September is typically a down month for visitors to the site anyway, but last month was especially bad. Is that because school is starting? Is football getting in the way? Was everyone busy watching the premier of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D or the finale of Breaking Bad?

I don't know what anyone else has been up to, but my own schedule is becoming increasingly hectic. That comes at the same time as Booster Gold news has flatlined. Combine my schedule, the lack of news, and a decline in interest, and the signs seem to indicate that I should cut down from 5 to maybe 3 posts per week.

To be clear: this isn't an announcement. I haven't made any decision about this yet. I'm just warning the few readers who still come by regularly that changes may be coming.

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I discovered yesterday that the Boosterrific.com email has been losing emails since at least early Saturday morning. If you have tried to contact me through email in the past few days, I may not have received it.

I think I've fixed the problem. Just in case I haven't, if you need to share some Boosterrific news, you can now also reach me by way of Boosterrific at Gmail.com. Some things are just too important to leave to chance.

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