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Christmas Comic Cover 2009 - December 25  Santa Claus Funnies As has become tradition, I capped off this year's Christmas Comic Cover Calendar with a cover from Santa Claus Funnies. I wish you the happiest of Christmases. Hope you enjoyed this year's countdown.  Merry ChristmasLabels: Christmas, Comic Advent Calendar 2009 posted by Brendan | 9:00 AM | permanent link
Christmas Comic Cover 2009 - December 24  The Life of Christ Every year when I start my search to find 25 covers to include in my Christmas Comic Cover calendar, I expect to find a bunch of religious covers. But I never do. This year was the exception. Considering the theme of this cover, I thought it would work best as the cover to feature on Christmas Eve. 1 Day until Christmas! Merry ChristmasLabels: Christmas, Comic Advent Calendar 2009 posted by Brendan | 9:00 AM | permanent link
Christmas Comic Cover 2009 - December 23  Christmas With The Superheroes I've never actually read one of these Christmas with the Superheroes issues that DC seemed so found of in the late 1970's, but they seem like so much more fun than the holiday specials DC will put today. 2 Days until Christmas! Merry ChristmasLabels: Christmas, Comic Advent Calendar 2009 posted by Brendan | 9:00 AM | permanent link
Christmas Comic Cover 2009 - December 22  Image Holiday Special 2005 I have read equal amounts of Frank Cho's Liberty Meadows (shown above) versus his superhero comic book work. I prefer his work as a cartoonist over comic books. I think his style and personal sense of humor is a better fit comic strips. Too bad he gave that up. 3 Days until Christmas! Merry ChristmasLabels: Christmas, Comic Advent Calendar 2009 posted by Brendan | 9:00 AM | permanent link
Christmas Comic Cover 2009 - December 21  Action Comics #762 I noticed this morning that Superman's pose in today's Christmas Comic Cover is similar to Green Lantern's pose in the cover featured on December 2nd. Not to worry though, a two days I'll have a cover Christmas Comic Cover where our favorite DC heroes are happy and enjoying the season again. 4 Days until Christmas! Merry ChristmasLabels: Christmas, Comic Advent Calendar 2009 posted by Brendan | 9:00 AM | permanent link
Christmas Comic Cover 2009 - December 20  Donald Duck #203 It took me a while to figure out this cover. Donald holding a pair of sunglasses didn't make sense until I considered that the tree was so bright he was contemplating wear them to look at the tree. However, why the nephews don't seem bothered by the brightness while Donald needs to turn his back on the tree's brilliance still doesn't make sense. But then again, I don't think we should be breaking down Disney comic book covers from the 1940s. 5 Days until Christmas! Merry ChristmasLabels: Christmas, Comic Advent Calendar 2009 posted by Brendan | 9:00 AM | permanent link
Christmas Comic Cover 2009 - December 19  Impulse #57 Back to the DC Comic covers. Maybe my love of the DC characters makes me biased, but I think the heroes and characters of DC Comics make for the best looking Christmas themed covers. Even minor characters like Impulse, Plastic Man and Mxyzptlk look great racing around a Christmas tree. 6 Days until Christmas! Merry ChristmasLabels: Christmas, Comic Advent Calendar 2009 posted by Brendan | 9:00 AM | permanent link
Christmas Comic Cover 2009 - December 18  Ghostbusters Holiday Special: Past, Present, and Future Only natural that the Ghostbusters would take on the famed Dickensian Christmas Spirits. IDW is publishing this comic this December. It's probably in the comics shops right now. However, I already saw the Ghostbusters go up against the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future in the Ghostbusters cartoon from the late 1980's. Not sure if I need to see it again. 7 Days until Christmas! Merry ChristmasLabels: Christmas, Comic Advent Calendar 2009 posted by Brendan | 9:00 AM | permanent link
Christmas Comic Cover 2009 - December 17  Archie's Holiday Fun Digest #12 It feels like there are a countless number of Christmas-themed covers from Archie comics, so it's always easy to find one to include each year. I also enjoy including an Archie comic because the covers are always so much fun to look at. 8 Days until Christmas! Merry ChristmasLabels: Christmas, Comic Advent Calendar 2009 posted by Brendan | 9:00 AM | permanent link
Christmas Comic Cover 2009 - December 16  Chip & Dale I realized this morning while preparing this post that this year's Comic Advent Calendar doesn't feature any Looney Tunes comic covers (sorry if I ruined the rest of the calendar for you) but does feature 2 covers with Disney characters. Today's being the first of the two covers. I think this might be the first year I haven't featured any Looney Tune character covers. Regardless, do you think Chip and Dale were at all surprised by what they got each other for Christmas? What else besides an acorn would you get a chipmunk as a present? 9 Days until Christmas! Merry ChristmasLabels: Christmas, Comic Advent Calendar 2009 posted by Brendan | 9:00 AM | permanent link
Christmas Comic Cover 2009 - December 15  L. Frank Baum's The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is a book I've always wanted to read, but have never made the time. Maybe next November I'll make sure to find a copy (either the original or this wonderful comic adaptation by Michael Ploog) so I can read during the Christmas season. 10 Days until Christmas! Merry ChristmasLabels: Christmas, Comic Advent Calendar 2009 posted by Brendan | 9:00 AM | permanent link
Christmas Comic Cover 2009 - December 14  Batman #309 As Christmas covers go, it's pretty weak; though the holly and bells border does give it a bit of a festive air. No, there is one reason this cover makes it into the countdown: Batman. 11 Days until Christmas! Merry ChristmasLabels: Christmas, Comic Advent Calendar 2009 posted by Brendan | 9:00 AM | permanent link
Christmas Comic Cover 2009 - December 13  Marvel Giant Superhero Holiday Grab-Bag My two favorite parts of this cover: 1) the Hulk in a Santa costume and 2) the white shag rug the Hulk is sitting on. 12 Days until Christmas! Merry ChristmasLabels: Christmas, Comic Advent Calendar 2009 posted by Brendan | 9:00 AM | permanent link
Christmas Comic Cover 2009 - December 12  Top Ten #6 I absolutely loved Alan Moore's and Gene Ha's Top Ten series. Finding this cover makes we want to go back and re-read it. 13 Days until Christmas! Merry ChristmasLabels: Christmas, Comic Advent Calendar 2009 posted by Brendan | 9:00 AM | permanent link
Christmas Comic Cover 2009 - December 11  The Outsiders #5 With Mike Barr and Jim Aparo as the creative team, I have to expect that this Christmas Carol inspired Outsiders tale was probably pretty interesting. Would like to see that comic some time. 14 Days until Christmas! Merry ChristmasLabels: Christmas, Comic Advent Calendar 2009 posted by Brendan | 9:00 AM | permanent link
Christmas Comic Cover 2009 - December 10  Troll Lords This is one of the strangest covers I have ever encountered. Trolls dressed as Santa? There is a part of me that would be interested in seeing the story that was contained in the comic with this cover, but there is another part of me (the rational side) that says "Just stay away!" 15 Days until Christmas! Merry ChristmasLabels: Christmas, Comic Advent Calendar 2009 posted by Brendan | 9:00 AM | permanent link
Christmas Comic Cover 2009 - December 9  Super Jrs. Holiday Special I'm a dyed in the wool fan of DC Comics and their stable of heroes, but this just looks bad. 16 Days until Christmas! Merry ChristmasLabels: Christmas, Comic Advent Calendar 2009 posted by Brendan | 9:00 AM | permanent link
Christmas Comic Cover 2009 - December 8  Moonstone's Holiday Super Spectacular I've never been impressed with Moonstone Comic' contemporary takes on older characters, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to showcase a comic book cover that features Kolchak the Night Stalker, Sherlock Holmes, The Phantom, Buckaroo Banzai, and The Spider all in a holiday theme. 17 Days until Christmas! Merry ChristmasLabels: Christmas, Comic Advent Calendar 2009 posted by Brendan | 9:00 AM | permanent link
Christmas Comic Cover 2009 - December 7  The Flintstones' Christmas Party If the Flintstones live in the prehistoric age, how can they party with the Jetsons? 18 Days until Christmas! Merry ChristmasLabels: Christmas, Comic Advent Calendar 2009 posted by Brendan | 9:00 AM | permanent link
Christmas Comic Cover 2009 - December 6  The Spirit #13 J. Bone drawing pretty girls with a Christmas theme. 'nuff said. 19 Days until Christmas! Merry ChristmasLabels: Christmas, Comic Advent Calendar 2009 posted by Brendan | 9:00 AM | permanent link
Christmas Comic Cover 2009 - December 5  Magnus: Robot Fighter #34 Even at their height of popularity (creatively and commercially) in the early 1990's, I was never a Valiant Comics reader. None the less, I chose this cover because I got a kick out of the fact that the guys writing a series about a man fighting rogue robots in the year 4000 still found a way to work in a Christmas story 20 Days until Christmas! Merry ChristmasLabels: Christmas, Comic Advent Calendar 2009 posted by Brendan | 9:00 AM | permanent link
Christmas Comic Cover 2009 - December 4  Marvel Holiday Special 1994 I actually think this cover would work better if the artist had left the big Spidey face out of the inside of the wreath. You take that out and I think it helps draw out everything else that's happening in the picture - including using the Thing's head to top the bow in the wreath. 21 Days until Christmas! Merry ChristmasLabels: Christmas, Comic Advent Calendar 2009 posted by Brendan | 9:00 AM | permanent link
Christmas Comic Cover 2009 - December 3  Scary Godmother Holiday Spooktacular Everyone in our house love Jill Thompson's Scary Godmother series, especially the animated specials that shown on Cartoon Network every Halloween. That Jill put out a Christmas themed comic for Scary Godmother was new to me, but not suprising. 22 Days until Christmas! Merry ChristmasLabels: Christmas, Comic Advent Calendar 2009 posted by Brendan | 9:00 AM | permanent link
Christmas Comic Cover 2009 - December 2  Green Lantern #36 Another day, another cover. After Batman, Green Lantern has always been one of my favorite heroes. This particular cover was drawn by Gene Ha. 23 Days until Christmas! Merry ChristmasLabels: Christmas, Comic Advent Calendar 2009 posted by Brendan | 9:00 AM | permanent link
Christmas Comic Cover 2009 - December 1  Frosty the Snowman This is the fourth year for my Comic Advent Calendar, where each day I spotlight a Christmas-themed cover from a comic book as countdown to Christmas Day, and it was also the most difficult year to find 25 covers that I liked. But I did find 25 fun covers and I'm glad I can continue this holiday tradition. 24 Days until Christmas! Merry ChristmasLabels: Christmas, Comic Advent Calendar 2009 posted by Brendan | 9:00 AM | permanent link |
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