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Post by DubipR on Dec 18, 2022 8:11:00 GMT -5
I really don't have any Christmas comic reading that I always pull out but I do like the Transmetropolitan short story.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2022 9:03:43 GMT -5
While I may have skipped a year or two on occasion, each Christmas I read the best Batman story ever told, which is this one:
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Post by tonebone on Dec 18, 2022 10:03:03 GMT -5
I don't really have any comic related Christmas traditions. I do not, either, but I can say that when I was young and saw the tabloid / treasury books below--
---the mere sight of it just felt right.
Don't forget this one...
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Post by tonebone on Dec 18, 2022 10:08:20 GMT -5
Years ago, my wife and I ordered a longbox of misc. comics, from which to harvest some kid-friendly stuff for her classroom (2nd grade). In the mix was a copy of this little gem... It's a weird little story, but really engaging. I try to drag it out and read it each year. We scanned it so she could present it to her class without ruining it. Later, we found a copy of the children's book it was based on. It's interesting that the comic is really an expanded version of the story.
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Post by MDG on Dec 18, 2022 11:28:48 GMT -5
I usually try to watch this, arguably the best Xmas movie ever...
If you want to just try a bit...
Also this, which, admittedly, is only tangentially an Xmas movie...
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Post by Cei-U! on Dec 18, 2022 11:45:01 GMT -5
While I may have skipped a year or two on occasion, each Christmas I read the best Batman story ever told, which is this one: Dunno about "the best" but definitely one of my favorites.
Cei-U! I summon the tugged heartstrings!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2022 16:45:31 GMT -5
And it was reprinted in the UK with a slightly different colour scheme:
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Post by majestic on Dec 18, 2022 19:28:56 GMT -5
Loved the DC & Marvel Christmas Treasury specials. I also usually pick up a Christmas themed Archie collection every year.
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Post by berkley on Dec 18, 2022 20:20:51 GMT -5
... Also this, which, admittedly, is only tangentially an Xmas movie... I didn't realise there was a Christmas angle to this one. I've been planning to see it soon anyway so this is a good excuse to move it forward a bit.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2022 21:35:03 GMT -5
Just remembered another old favorite from December '79: It included a fun Legion story: Love the whole "holiday cheer" here...still a fun era when superheroes smiled a lot more!
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Post by tonebone on Dec 19, 2022 13:36:51 GMT -5
This was a revelation to me at the time... I had no idea DC had so many funny animal characters in their past... Some of them were really funny... of course, this book was all new stories, not reprints. I would love to see some collected editions of the originals.
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Post by shaxper on Dec 20, 2022 11:48:40 GMT -5
Very similar to the OP, I have a stack of Walt Disney's Christmas Parades, as well as other reprints of Disney and Archie Christmas stories, that I store with the holiday decorations and bring out after Thanksgiving. These are also the only two weeks until summer that I actually have some time to read and review, so my time and attention is definitely divided, but if I don't at least see Huey, Dewey, and Louie get that steam shovel from Santa while Donald explodes out of the chimney every Christmas season, I feel very cheated. And boy do I love this scene:
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Post by itsamammal on Dec 20, 2022 12:09:35 GMT -5
Just started my holiday break, and it's an absolute favorite annual tradition for me to read the two Carl Barks Christmas themed collections in the second image below (in their most snazzy slipcase in the first). I'm interested if others have annual reading traditions around the holidays (whether the material is actually holiday themed or not). I have a Captain America collection from the early 80's (Ideals published one with the yellow cover) that I also have to read just because I associate it with a particularly happy Christmas memory as a kid. Or even any holiday themed favorites whether you plan to read or not...'tis the season, would love to see what folks enjoy!!
Super fun! I'm normally not a big holliday season person, but this yeah I have been. I got the new Archie Horror Days (with a gorgeous retro Robert Hack cover), an Archie Christmas digest, read Hellboy Holliday Special from 1997, and of course Christmas in Duckburg by Carl Barks.
Those editions you have are gorgeous, when it comes to the Carl Barks stuff I go to my library, but I'd really love to own them for myself someday.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2022 15:26:08 GMT -5
Very similar to the OP, I have a stack of Walt Disney's Christmas Parades, as well as other reprints of Disney and Archie Christmas stories, that I store with the holiday decorations and bring out after Thanksgiving. These are also the only two weeks until summer that I actually have some time to read and review, so my time and attention is definitely divided, but if I don't at least see Huey, Dewey, and Louie get that steam shovel from Santa while Donald explodes out of the chimney every Christmas season, I feel very cheated. And boy do I love this scene: Love that story and scene!! Super fun! I'm normally not a big holliday season person, but this yeah I have been. I got the new Archie Horror Days (with a gorgeous retro Robert Hack cover), an Archie Christmas digest, read Hellboy Holliday Special from 1997, and of course Christmas in Duckburg by Carl Barks. Those editions you have are gorgeous, when it comes to the Carl Barks stuff I go to my library, but I'd really love to own them for myself someday.
Those sound like great reading, nice! And thanks, I've been steadily building my Carl Barks library over the years (I could and do reread them endlessly), there's also a Halloween themed volume I have that sort of kicks off the whole extended holiday season for me.
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Post by commond on Dec 20, 2022 17:46:11 GMT -5
I'm on the lookout for this:
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