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I'm just saying - the fans were putting Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy together long before the DC writers were. And though I don't have the specifics to back this up, it at least wouldn't surprise me if the people responsible for hooking them up in-canon were fans who shipped them before that. They were probably fans-turned-canon-makers like Ngozi Ukazu, who has been an ardent supporter of an eternally fan-shipped DC couple for a very long time:

That is, Blue Beetle and Booster Gold.

Popverse got to sit down with the Barda and Orion author at BookCon 2026, where Ukazu shared her deep love for (and understanding of) some of DC's most interesting characters. At one point in the discussion, we turned to what a hypothetical Blue & Gold pitch from the Check, Please! author would look like, and if you've read Check, Please!, you probably wouldn't be surprised to hear that Ukazu thought, "they would have to be gay."

Don't get us wrong - we're not saying that Ukazu is actively working on a Blue Beetle x Booster Gold romance at the moment; even if she was, there are a few things she'd have to get through first. She's extremely busy working on the next installment of Check, Please!, for example, and then there's her fear of not doing as well with the characters as legendary Justice League International artist Kevin Maguire, with whom she's had a few interactions over the years.

"You're that girl who keeps talking to me for ten minutes once a year!" she laughs, imagining his response.

I don't know Ngozi, we're pretty sure Kevin would approve of any spin you put on the characters, and even if not, there are a whole lot of Booster & Beetle shippers out there who certainly would! Just google it if you don't believe us.

Safe search on, of course. 

Ngozi Ukazu's Orion comes to bookstores everywhere July 7. You can pre-order it now.

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