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 This year's holiday special contains 7 holiday themed stories featuring major (and minor) characters in the DCU! In the first story Hector Hammond forces Hal Jordan to relive Christmas memories with his father. With the second story, Santa asks the Shadowpact to help him against the Anti-Christmas League. The third story shows Supergirl helping Clark Kent answer letters to Superman. Next, King Solomon and Achilles meet to discuss Freddie Freeman. They also save a homeless man from a ritual sacrifice. Then, the Flash spends Christmas with the Garricks. Batwoman saves a family's stolen heirloom in the sixth story. Finally, Superman and Batman help answer a child's question: "Is there really a Santa Claus?"
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Superman's really strugglin'. You can see the man's ribline.
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It looks like Superman needs to eat more. You can count his super - ribs!
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That is one horrible piece of artwork. Who 'painted' it?
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Looks like Howard Porter. Is the book any good?
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I thought of Porter, but usually his stuff is much, much, better than that.
I can only surmise that Winnicks ability to turn everything he works on to sheer crap is now starting to manifest itself in even his collaberators' abilities.
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Tom Raney is much slower now...
and yeah that looks like Porter's new painted style which I for one think is ugggly.
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That is one horrible piece of artwork. Who 'painted' it?
"I offer you a Vulcan prayer, Mr Suder. May your death bring you the peace you never found in life." - Tuvok.
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This year's holiday special contains 7 holiday themed stories featuring major (and minor) characters in the DCU!
In the first story Hector Hammond forces Hal Jordan to relive Christmas memories with his father.
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With the second story, Santa asks the Shadowpact to help him against the Anti-Christmas League.
Is Bill O'reily writing comic books now?
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Next, King Solomon and Achilles meet to discuss Freddie Freeman. They also save a homeless man from a ritual sacrifice.
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With the second story, Santa asks the Shadowpact to help him against the Anti-Christmas League.
Is Bill O'reily writing comic books now?
I'm guessing its a group of evil wizards, not ACLU attorneys.
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Next, King Solomon and Achilles meet to discuss Freddie Freeman. They also save a homeless man from a ritual sacrifice.
Ah, yes, Christmas magic from the "mind" of Winnick, I bet. The homeless guy probably also has AIDS.
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With the second story, Santa asks the Shadowpact to help him against the Anti-Christmas League.
Is Bill O'reily writing comic books now?
I'm guessing its a group of evil wizards, not ACLU attorneys.
Some people don't think there's a difference.
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There's a difference. The ACLU attorneys only represent the evil wizards.
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Superman's really strugglin'. You can see the man's ribline.
He doesn't have anything on Brian Ortiz!
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I think Porter's painted Shazam work is his best and most aesthetic to date.
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I have a question: are any of the stories in the book about holidays OTHER than Christmas? If not, why call it the "infinite HOLIDAY special," as opposed to the "Infinite CHRISTMAS special"?
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Does the sacrificing of the homeless guy count?
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I have a question: are any of the stories in the book about holidays OTHER than Christmas? If not, why call it the "infinite HOLIDAY special," as opposed to the "Infinite CHRISTMAS special"?
Why do people insist on calling it a holiday tree these days? Same deal...trying to find a wider market. Buncha sell-outs.
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There's probably something in the Shadowpact story about how Ragman doesn't believe in Santa because he's Jewish, but OH, NO! HERE HE COMES!
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I'm not sure how it would make a "Christmas" story a "holiday" story to have a Jew be hit with the fact that (in the DCU) Santa is a real person.
By the way, when "Ragman" was originally published, in the mid-70s, I remember a letter writer submitting a long list of reaons why he assumed the character's secret ID, Rory Reagan, was Jewish and the editors responding specifically that the character, Rory Reagan, was not Jewish, but Irish (They also said his girlfriend was Jewish).*
So imagine my surprise years later when they retconned the character into a Member of the Tribe.
I've often wondered if some DC writer or editor half remembered that letter to the editor and forgot the editors' response.
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*Ragman's writer-editor Robert Kanigher was Jewish and I'm pretty sure that co-creator Joe Kubert is too. So to have two Jewish creators say their character isn't Jewish and then have DC retcon him into Jewry is pretty ironic, if you ask me
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There's probably something in the Shadowpact story about how Ragman doesn't believe in Santa because he's Jewish, but OH, NO! HERE HE COMES!
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