Here’s a doodle from back in the 1980’s featuring the never before revealed origin of Easter.

You see.. Ecliazekuloploppen Starbunny (E Starbunny for short) had to crash land on planet earth.

While sharing his space chocolates with the friendly neighborhood children, he hires some hippies who helpfully repair his spaceship (while adding some rather colorful painting to the exterior) and away E Starbunny goes back into space waving goodbye to his newfound friends.

All good so far. Happy Ending?

A slight miscalculation on the part of the artistic engineers fixing the ship causes the spaceship to explode and send the egg shaped parts of the ship into the timewarp. (Earthings haven’t mastered time travel at this point so how were they to know how to naviage interstellar travel?)

Now E Starbunny has to travel through time getting children of all ages to aid in the collection of the parts of his ship so he can get back home. Occassionally they collect real eggs by mistake of course and the parents… they read the whole exercise differently.

From the image I can see the reason E Starbunny crash landed was that someone was pursing him and shot him down. I had forgotten that part of the plot and how that raises the stakes by introducing someone… or something… that does not want those ‘eggs’ to be found.

I never quite resolved the pesky problem that suggests E’s home is to be found in an E star cluster. Suffice it to say, his name is ‘E Starbunny’ but he also is an E star bunny.

Well yeah. Because… Easter.