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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Who wants some good news?

A Booster Gold television show was first announced in 2011. That one didn't really go anywhere. Then, in 2016, there was some discussion that Booster Gold was being developed into a movie. That one didn't go anywhere, either. Then, in 2023, another Booster Gold television show was announced.

Now, here's the good news. That 2023 announced series isn't dead. Yet.

As The Hollywood Reporter reported Monday from a press conference by DC Studios Co-Head James Gunn:

A series on time traveling hero Booster Gold was waiting for a showrunner to make time for it but "maybe he fell out of love, maybe he got busy," he says, "but we had to pivot."

ComicBook.com adds:

Booster Gold, meanwhile, represents one of the studio’s most intriguing developments, with Gunn confirming the project is "going pretty strong."

So there you go. "Pivot" and "going pretty strong." When it comes to Booster Gold shows, that's as good as news gets.

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Yesterday I received this breathless email from Heidi:

Creature Commandos spoiler! Did you see Booster after the credits of episode 3 of Creature Commandos? He's in the back of one of the visions of the future Circe shows. That's his first appearance in Gunn's DCU, too!

A few hours later, I got a separate email from Rob Snow, who even shared a screenshot:

I think this is Booster in Creature Commandos. It's a vision.

If I squint at that, maybe it looks like Booster? Raising his hand to the sky, maybe?

I asked Rob what made him think it was Booster Gold. His answer:

Wild rampant unfounded speculation😝

Ok. Well. Fair enough. I can't argue with that.

Obviously, I have not been watching Creature Commandos. All of this is news to me, and I'm the sort of person who, when something is news to me, I do a little Googling. And while I did not turn up any description of whatever it is that happens at the end of Creature Commandos Season 1 Episode 3 "Cheers To The Tin Man" (probably because it was just released yesterday), I did find an official trailer for Episode 4 which includes this screenshot:

Oh, ok. Now I see what Heidi and Rob see. I guess that could be Booster Gold there impaled on the center pike. If I squint.

Thanks to Heidi and Rob for keeping hope alive.

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As Jade pointed out in the comments last week, Booster Gold can be seen in the recent 400th episode of Teen Titans Go!. (Did you hear it's the longest-running DC animated series ever? It beats out second place by... over 230 episodes. So maybe this is old news.)

Although it aired on November 30, I haven't yet seen the full episode myself. Fortunately, Cartoon Network has uploaded a "First Look!" teaser on YouTube:

Thanks for the update, Jade!

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The title of the most recent Happy Sad Confused podcast is "James Gunn talks SUPERMAN, CREATURE COMMANDOS, BATMAN, LANTERNS, Marvel," so it might surprise you that at the 22:08 mark, host Josh Horowitz directly questions guest James Gunn about the state of the Booster Gold television show.

Josh Horowitz: When Booster Gold came on the scene, that initial twenty-five comic book run is one my favorites ever. So, are we getting close? Because there's been… I'll just ask you point blank: there's a lot of rumors that Kumail [Nanjiani] is going to be your Booster Gold. Can you comment either way?

James Gunn: I mean, we're not quite there yet in terms of Booster Gold. … We're just not quite there. In terms of the scripts aren't quite where I want them to be. You know, from the beginning, you know, I've made it clear that the one thing that we're going to do at DC is no matter what, we're going to wait until the screenplays and the teleplays are ready before we shoot them. And I'm not going to shoot anything until I'm happy with it. … There's other things out there that we're moving. But other things aren't quite there yet. Booster Gold is not quite there.

Note how Gunn carefully doesn't confirm or deny anything while he explains that there is not currently a Booster Gold series ready for production (despite the fact that people have been working on developing Booster Gold scripts for the past 13 years). Make of that what you will.

You can see the whole interview at YouTube.com.

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