OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes featured five crossovers over its three seasons, and each of them was done differently. A Hero’s Fate concluded the story of showrunner Ian Jones-Quartey’s old webcomic, The Power is Yours brought is Captain Planet, Crossover Nexus unified four current Cartoon Network shows, Monster Party wrote Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School into Enid’s backstory, and Let’s Meet Sonic… Well, we met Sonic.

It took three things for OK KO to make these crossovers well: a wild world where anyone can exist, no place on the power scale for guest characters, and a whole heaping nostalgia for the old shows being crossed over with. With those ingredients, OK KO made four excellent nostalgia trips and a great crossover for Cartoon Network’s current franchises.

Sublime art theory informs Rebecca Sugar’s shows in obvious and subtle ways. Their careful decisions in the art direction, narrative, and expressions of their characters come together to form a sublime artwork. Looking into how Rebecca Sugar specifically employs sublime framing in Steven Universe, one comes to understand why their stories feel so personal and so engrossing.