In 1985, DC Comics decided that their continuity had become so complex and discouraging to new readers that they had a Crisis on Infinite Earths to scrap everything and start over. DC has spent the past few decades rolling that back, but I'm starting to think that they had a point. Case in point:

Per Booster booster Jade Knight:

Our guy's really on a roll right now. One of the most recent episodes of Teen Titans Go! sees him on an assembly line being forced to lay eggs alongside his pal Ted Kord and other members of the DCU (S9 E8: "Teen Titans and the Easter Factory"). Yes, you heard that right.

I'm not a regular Cartoon Network Teen Titans Go! viewer, but watching the episode to grab that screenshot made it clear that the cartoon Teen Titans had some serious backstory with the Easter Bunny. So I looked it up on teen-titans-go.fandom.com.

The Easter Bunny was introduced in season 3 ("The Teen Titans Go! Easter Holiday Classic") as a captive of a rogue Santa Claus plotting to take over all the holidays. The Titans were repulsed by the Easter Bunny's half-man, half-rabbit appearance and especially the fact that a half-man/half-rabbit lays eggs. Despite their misgivings, the team still aided him again in season 4 ("Easter Creeps") to save Easter from the Tooth Fairy. In season 5 ("Booty Eggs"), the Titans decide the Easter Bunny is too creepy to tolerate any longer and work to replace him themselves. (When you think about it, this pretty much the same plan as hatched by Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy in the earlier episodes, but Teen Titans Go! episodes are better when you don't think too much.) The Titans are forced to realize they aren't cut out to run Easter and cede oversight back to the Easter Bunny.

In season 7, the pattern repeats itself when the Titans have to help the Easter Bunny defend Easter from Marshmallow Ducky ("Feed Me"), and Beast Boy foils Santa Claus's latest attempt to take over all holidays from the Godfather-inspired Holiday Mob ("A Holiday Story").

In season 8 ("Easter Annihilation"), inspired by Aliens, the Easter Bunny finally becomes a fully fledged supervillain when he decides that every day should be Easter. His plan? "Since Easter is based on the lunar calendar, I'm going turn the moon into an Easter Egg so every day will be Easter!" (Like I said, don't think about it.)

Anyway, all that history informs the latest Easter Bunny episode in which the Easter Bunny's latest plan for world domination is to impersonate Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory and capture all the heroes and villains of the DCU to lay eggs until there are enough for everyone in the world. (Don't. Think.)

I think I'll have a crisis myself if I have to watch any more Teen Titans Go! Easter episodes.

Thanks to Jade Knight for keeping us informed.

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Look, I'm getting old. I know it. And because I'm old, I sometimes get nostalgic for giant shoulder pads, Marlboro cigarette ads in print magazines, and giant overblown hairstyles on dudes. And boy, does this page from Justice League America #63 hit that sweet spot!

Looking back on this 1992 issue from the distant future of 2025, I'm struck by just how of its era it really was. Way too much arguing about interpersonal relations (which was all the rage in the best-selling X-Men comics of its day) and the wisdom of military interventionism (a la "Operation Desert Storm" in Kuwait that brought with it heated discussions of a new draft).

Cap it all off with Fire's new very 90's — dare I say "extreme"? — costume. Chef's kiss!

Bea sewed a whole new costume in just 6 pages? Now that's a super power!

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I get a kick out of seeing Booster Gold referenced in places I don't expect. Although I know that our hero was the greatest football prospect of all time, that doesn't appear to be common knowledge even among people who claim to understand the game, which makes it extra amusing to see Booster pop-up in a football conversation.

Writes Jarrett Bailey in a March 20 article for USA Today's Touchdown Wire ("49ers need to fully embrace a rebuild and trade Brock Purdy"):

Purdy has never been the one credited for their success. He's never been the Batman or Superman of the Justice League-[esque] rosters the 49ers put on the field every Sunday over the last number of years. At best, he's been Green Lantern -- scrambling around, making things happen off-platform. and getting the ball to one of his several All-World playmakers. At worst, he's been Booster Gold -- the butt of several jokes and not looked at as a serious threat from the quarterback position. Rather, being seen as the trailer being pulled by this massive truck.

Hey, if we're picking teams, I'll take Booster Gold over Green Lantern any day. Green Lantern never played quarterback. (Although, honestly, I'd much rather have a Green Lantern on my football team than a Batman. Batman is famously not a team player.)

I have a hard time believing that the target audience of a USA Today sports column has any idea who Booster Gold is, but I certainly appreciate our oft-underestimated hero getting an outside-of-comics shout out.

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It's been so long since Booster Gold appeared in a monthly DC Comics solicitation that I've forgotten how I used to format these posts, but since Booster is actually on the cover of a comic book for the first time since October.... No, wait. Scratch that. He's on three covers for the same book:

CVR A CIAN TORMEY

CVR B JORGE FORNES CARD STOCK VAR

CVR D FERNANDO BLANCO CARD STOCK VAR

And, for good measure, there's also a Gold Beetle cover:

CVR C NATHAN SZERDY CARD STOCK VAR

JUSTICE LEAGUE: DARK TOMORROW SPECIAL #1
Written by MARK WAID and MARC GUGGENHEIM
Art and cover by CIAN TORMEY
Variant cover by JORGE FORNES, NATHAN SZERDY, FERNANDO BLANCO
$5.99 US, 48 pages, Variant $5.99 US (card stock), on sale 7/30/25

In the wake of the We Are Yesterday crossover epic, a mysterious Quantum Quorum has emerged… stalked by a lethal enemy that takes no prisoners. The League deputizes a rag tag group of time displaced heroes like Batman Beyond, Gold Beetle, and Helena Wayne to fill the void left behind by the Time Masters and save the quorum from the mysterious threat that’s picking off time-travelers one by one. These Legends of Tomorrow are the only ones standing in the way of this cascading chronal Armageddon with the past, present, and future teetering on the brink in this oversized special leading to the next big DC All In event!

Believe it or not, it has never happened that Booster has appeared on three standard-order variants for the same issue, so I have some re-coding to do before the Boosterrific Database can handle displaying this once-in-four-decades scenario. Whether you decide to buy all the covers or just one, it's still nice for Booster boosters to have something to look forward to for a change.

You can read the complete list of coming attractions for DC Comics' July 2025 at AIPTComics.com. Thanks to all who made sure I saw these.

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It's been a wild week for Booster Gold fans with Booster making an appearance in one book and Skeets in another.

I'll save my thoughts on Summer of Superman Special #1 for a later post, in part because I want to put some space between now and then because what I have to say about it would definitely count as "spoilers." (Hint: I'm even more frustrated than I was before.)

Skeets' appearance in Challengers of the Unknown Volume 5, #5, on the other hand, well, it can't count as a spoiler because there's nothing to spoil. See for yourself: here it is, panel 1 of page 20 (of 22 in the issue):

That's it. That's Skeets' only appearance in the issue. It's Skeets' only appearance in the whole mini-series.

Story wise, original Challenger Rocky Davis has just been attacked (killed?) by longtime Challengers foe Ultivac just as the new Justice League Unlimited Watchtower explodes. And then... Skeets?

It has to mean something, right? The artists (Sean Izaakse, Amancay Nahuelpan) didn't just decide to place a random, obscure sidekick there that the writer (Christopher Cantwell) didn't ask for and the editors (Chris Rosa, Paul Kaminski) didn't catch. But the story gives no clue what this means other than to suggest that time travel might be involved. Or is it a metaphysical representation of life after death? Or maybe, since we're talking about the past, is it all a dream state? It's all punishingly vague.

Can we grasp at straws? It doesn't make any sense for Rocky to be thinking about Skeets because so far as we know, the pair have never even met. (Skeets was deactivated at the only time Rocky Davis and Booster Gold joined forces on panel in 1992's Eclipso: The Darkness Within #2). Skeets is 25th century (or better) technology with no connection to Ultivac (who was the robot villain of the second published Challengers of the Unknown adventure in Showcase #7 in 1957!). Skeets does not have telepathy and cannot independently time travel without the aid of Rip Hunter's technology. So far as readers are aware, Skeets has been lost somewhere in the Multiverse with (or without) Booster Gold since last year's DC All In Special. (And, although I said I wasn't going to talk about Summer of Superman Special, if the events there are what they appear to be, how could Skeets exist in the 20th century at all?) So what in creation is Booster Gold's robot sidekick doing here?

Maybe it's not Skeets? Maybe it's one of Skeet's outdated exterior casings, such as used to be kept in the previous Justice League watchtower's trophy room (in JLA Secreat Files #2 and Justice League of America Volume 2, #7). In the New 52 era, Skeets was one of a kind, but that was not so before or since; maybe what appears to be Skeets here is just another 25th-century BX9 Security Robot? For all I know, this could be the return of Mr. Mind doing the same Skeets cosplay he wore in the pages of 52.

Or Proty. Yeah, sure, why not. It could be Proty. That would make as much sense as it being Skeets.

According to multiple new sources and despite being solicited as a 6-issue mini-series, Challengers of the Unknown has been canceled after 5 issues, so we're not likely to learn anytime soon why Skeets was here. If anyone does ever turn up a clue, let us know.

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