Written by Various | Art by Various | Published by DC Comics
Ah, the seasonal DC 80 page giant, the source of must love and dislike down the years. As I’m sure everyone does, I love the fact DC puts out these Christmas/ Holidays/ Winter Specials, but I can’t escape the feeling that they used to put far more effort and talent into them. In more recent years, they seem to have ‘seasonal obligation’ written all over them. Rather than just inviting big names to contribute a fun seasonal story, it now seems to be characters they want spotlighted assigned to writers to deliver a story. There’s a degree of irony in Christmas stories being dictated by commercial reasons after all. Still, here we are, and in the same way a team can only play what’s in front of them, I can only read what’s in front of me,...
Ah, the seasonal DC 80 page giant, the source of must love and dislike down the years. As I’m sure everyone does, I love the fact DC puts out these Christmas/ Holidays/ Winter Specials, but I can’t escape the feeling that they used to put far more effort and talent into them. In more recent years, they seem to have ‘seasonal obligation’ written all over them. Rather than just inviting big names to contribute a fun seasonal story, it now seems to be characters they want spotlighted assigned to writers to deliver a story. There’s a degree of irony in Christmas stories being dictated by commercial reasons after all. Still, here we are, and in the same way a team can only play what’s in front of them, I can only read what’s in front of me,...
- 12/16/2021
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
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