I love Christmas.
Or Yule. Or the Holidays. Or whatever you celebrate. This time of year is just plan awesome. I love the music. I love the weather. I love the feeling I get when my wife and I watch Christmas movies in our den with the lights off except for the Christmas tree.
It really is the most wonderful time of the year.
Last year I chose to celebrate Christmas here at the Fortress by posting a different Christmas related comic book cover everyday from the first through Christmas Eve. This year I am going to try and do something both different and more involved. Above you’ll see the cover to Christmas With The Super-Heroes #1. Christmas With The Super-Heroes #1 is a reprint book that collects Christmas themed stories from the sixties, seventies and eighties and as I type this sentence I realize I suddenly sound like one of those radio stations that plays soft rock from all eras. I bought this comic when it came out in 1988 mainly because of the fantastic John Byrne but it quickly became a favorite of mine because of the stories inside. I love this book and literally take it out of the collection/archives every Christmas and read through it again.
Traditions are important after all.
This year I thought it might be fun to not only re-read this book but all of my DC holiday themed anthologies. As I pulled them out of the short box (which sounds vaguely dirty) inspiration struck. “What if…” I began to think, “…I read through Christmas With The Super-Heroes and these other books and briefly wrote something about each story on the Fortress? One story per day until Christmas Day.”
“Sounds like a plan to me.”
“Yes it does.”
“Wait…am I still thinking to myself?”
“It seems like you are.”
“Well…stop it. It probably looks weird.”
“How can it look any weirder than you standing in front of a closet surrounded by short boxes wearing super-hero themed sleep pants and a white T-shirt?”
“Good point.”
Anyway, it sounded like a plan mainly because it was, in fact, a plan. A really fun plan, too. I won’t be writing a full synopsis followed by in depth commentary because I am realistic about the amount of time I will have to write these posts. I know me and I know how easy it is to let time slip away. So short but fun posts about some great (and in some cases not so great) Christmas and/or holiday themed super-hero stories every day until the 25th.
The fun really starts tomorrow, folks so y’all come back now, you hear?
More to follow…
Mike has become Deadpool! He’s talking to his own thought captions!