#Santa Claus Comic Preview

[kingdomcomicscenter-blog]

[why-i-love-comics]

Batman/Santa Claus: Silent Knight Returns #1 preview

[dispatchdcu]

Batman - Santa Claus: Silent Night Returns #3 Preview

Batman - Santa Claus: Silent Night Returns #3 Preview #BatmanSantaClausSilentNightReturns #batmansantaclaus #silentnight #santaclaus #DCEU #dccomics #comics #comicbooks #news #dcu #dcuuniverse #art #info #NCBD #amazon #comicbooknews #previews #reviews #batman #darkknight #detectivecomics

Batman – Santa Claus: Silent Night Returns #3 Preview: We’re not going to sugarplum-coat it: the situation is dire. The Justice League is trapped in the Hollow Kingdom, hunted by monsters and skeletons. Innocents everywhere are falling to the Silent Knight’s sword…including a hero everyone  was counting on. Right when Klaus looks to have an edge, he goes missing! TBH,  the only way we see this…

[forever-mandarina]

Some previews of the DC comics in December 2024 (Part 1).

Action Comics #1078 Cover D David Nakayama Artist Spotlight Card Stock Variant

Batman / Superman: World's Finest #34 Cover D David Nakayama Artist Spotlight Card Stock Variant

Black Canary: Best of the Best #2 Cover B Lesley 'Leirix' Li Card Stock Variant

Absolute Batman #3 Cover E:Stevan Subic Card Stock Variant

Absolute Batman #3 Cover B Becky Cloonan Card Stock Variant

Absolute Superman #2 Cover A Regular Rafa Sandoval Cover

Absolute Wonder Woman #3 Cover A Regular Hayden Sherman Cover

Action Comics #1078 Cover B Sweeney Boo Card Stock Variant

Action Comics Vol 2 #1078 Cover A Regular Clayton Henry Cover

Action Comics Vol 2 #1079 Cover A Regular Clayton Henry Cover

Action Comics Vol 2 #1079 Cover C Variant Jason Shawn Alexander Card Stock Cover

Action Comics Vol 2 #1080 Cover A Regular Clayton Henry Cover

Action Comics Vol 2 #1080 Cover B Variant Mark Spears Card Stock Cover

Action Comics Vol 2 #1081 Cover B Variant Mark Spears Card Stock Cover

Action Comics Vol 2 #1081 Cover C Variant David Talaski Card Stock Cover

Action Comics #1081 Cover D: Fico Ossio Card Stock Variant

Batgirl Vol 6 #2 Cover A Regular David Talaski Cover

Batgirl #2 Cover B Jorge Jiménez Card Stock Variant

Batgirl #2 Cover C Skylar Patridge Card Stock Variant

Batman: Full Moon #3 Cover B Francesco Francavilla Card Stock Variant

Batman: Gargoyle of Gotham #3 Cover B Jamie Hewlett Variant

Batman / Santa Claus: Silent Knight Returns #3 Cover C:Marguerite Sauvage Card Stock Variant

Batman / Santa Claus: Silent Knight Returns #4 Cover B Riccardo Federici Card Stock Variant

Batman / Superman: World's Finest #34 Cover B Yanick Paquette Card Stock Variant

Batman Superman Worlds Finest #34 Cover A Regular Dan Mora Cover

Batman: The Brave and the Bold #20 Cover B Aaron Bartling Variant

Batman: The Brave and the Bold #20 Cover C Tula Lotay Variant

Batman #157 Cover B Tony Harris Card Stock Variant

Batman #157 Cover C Tony S. Daniel Card Stock Variant

Birds of Prey #16 Cover B Serg Acuña Card Stock Variant

[havendance]

New Comics time!

A shorter one for me this week:

Batman/Santa Claus: Silent Knight Returns #1 - Idk if I have much to say about this. I think there's a fun selection of Justice League characters here and I do have a soft spot for comics where Santa shows up, but other than that. I was more invested in the Two Face comic preview at the end of this issue 😔 (It looks soo good guys)

Action Comics #1073 - Reading this and it's like, there's such a killer team on the backups and then the main plot is just way more 'okay' to me. I am enjoying the Kon and Kenan subplot, but there's not a ton really grabbing me in the superman-phantom zone plot this issue. On the other hand, in Supergirl, we do finally start to get a better idea of what's going on! Loved the little-prince-esque planet she went to.

Poison Ivy/Swamp Thing: Feral Trees #1 - Best comic, hands down. Strong art and writing. Loved the note it ended on. I haven't read much Swamp Thing (I think I read some of Vaughn's run with Tefe and that's about it), but the ending really felt like it fit. It Left me wanting to go read more Swamp Thing comics.

[cafecitowriter]

Bring Me You (Steggy Fic)

Summary: Steve decides to return to the past to live a life with Peggy, but nothing about his arrival goes according to plan.

It’s arguably the weirdest day of Peggy’s life.

A/N: Merry Steggymas, @roboticonography! I'm your Secret Santa!

You said you enjoyed canon and canon-divergent fics, snappy banter, swoon-worthy romantic gestures, comic misunderstandings, and of course, a good ole happy ending. So I hope you enjoy some post-Endgame hijinks where Steve tries to go back to Peggy, but ends up running into basically everyone else first.

Due to a combination of personal stuff and the fact that I've been travelling with spotty internet connections, unfortunately your gift is not done as I had hoped, and while I was so happy to hear the deadline has been extended, my current schedule means that it still won't be finished by then. BUT in the meantime, I do have this preview to share with you below, as well as this funky lil graphic. The full (multi-chaptered) fic will be finished and uploaded hopefully later in the early-ish new year.

Title taken from the song I Told Santa Claus to Bring Me You by Bernie Cummins and His Orchestra (which is about as holiday-y as this fic gets).

As always, thanks to @steggyfanevents for hosting!!

Fic Preview:

He’s hardly been sat in the squeaky booth for thirty seconds before one of the serves - a woman with bouncy curls and bright blue eyes - swoops in on him, half full coffee pot in hand.

“A coffee for your troubles?” she offers, not bothering to wait for an answer before pouring it into the mug that she must have brought over with her, because it certainly hadn’t been there when he arrived.

“You think I look troubled?”

“I think you look like trouble,” she teases with a breezy wink, clearly proud of herself for landing her own set up. “But that’s just my intuition. It’s what happens when you’ve been around here long enough.”

Despite her strong come on, she has a genuine warmness to her demeanour that makes Steve smile.

“You’ve been working here long?”

“Not anymore, actually - and good riddance let me tell you. I was never cut out for this line of work. But it’s my day off from rehearsals and Ruth called in a panic because two people called in sick and Marlene’s still out with her ‘sprained ankle’, and believe me, if it had been anyone else I would’ve said no but Ruth stuck her neck out for me during the peach cobbler incident of ’47 and now I basically owe her my first born.” 

The woman stalls to give an obvious side eye to the counter where there’s another woman wearing an identical uniform - a redhead who’s been wiping the same spot on the counter since Steve arrived - before turning back to him with a lower voice. “Although if she had told me Babs was going to be here I would’ve pretended to be on the other side of the country. Which come to think of it was probably why she didn’t tell me- oh shoot, your sugar shaker’s empty, let me get-”

“I’m alright, thanks,” he interrupts quickly, both because he hasn’t taken a drop of sugar in his coffee since the one time Tony made him try one of those fancy lattes shortly after the Chitauri attack, and because if she left now, he wasn’t sure when she would be back to take his order.

“You’re plenty sweet yourself, is that it?”

Steve shrugged, but gave her a smile all the same.

“Honestly, I’m just hungry.”

[graphicpolicy]

Preview: Batman/Santa Claus: Silent Knight #4 (of 4)

Batman/Santa Claus: Silent Knight #4 preview. The search for a stolen child leads to Santa versus Krampus in the final, climactic battle for the soul of Christmas! #comics #comicbooks #batman

[justforbooks]

Nothing can sum up Keith Giffen’s character better than the Facebook post he wrote to announce his own death at the age of 70: “I told them I was sick … Anything not to go to New York Comic Con. Thanx. Keith Giffen 1952-2023. Bwah ha ha ha ha.”

That eruption of maniacal merriment was recognised by comic fans as a last defiant laugh from the sardonic comic writer and artist, who has died of complications following a stroke, after a 50-year career during which he created many memorable characters including Jaime Reyes (Blue Beetle), Rocket Raccoon, Ambush Bug and Lobo.

A Mexican-American teenager, Reyes first appeared in Infinite Crisis #3 (2006) and became Blue Beetle two issues later, when he gained superhuman powers via a scarab that morphs into an alien battle suit, eventually going on to appear in the 2023 Blue Beetle movie.

One of the stars of the Guardians of the Galaxy movies was created by Giffen early in his artistic career. Rocket Raccoon was a smart-mouthed anthropomorphic weapons expert who first appeared in Marvel Preview #7 (1976), written by Bill Mantlo, who resurrected the character in his own four-part miniseries in 1985.

Among Giffen’s other early creations, Ambush Bug’s debut in DC Comics Presents #52 (1982) and its sequel, which involved the Legion of Substitute Heroes, were so successful that they led to several miniseries and one-shots drawn by Giffen featuring the absurd, fancifully dressed alien wannabe hero, and a one-shot Legion of Substitute Heroes Special (1985).

In 1982 Giffen joined the writer Paul Levitz on The Legion of Super-Heroes #287 and began transforming the series into a saga of considerable depth. One of the most popular storylines in comic book history, The Great Darkness Saga (#290-294, 1982), featured Darkseid as its cosmic villain and Legionnaires and other heroes from across time teaming up to confront him. As a result, Legion of Super-Heroes became one of DC’s bestsellers of the early 1980s.

Lobo, who first appeared in Omega Men #3 (1983), was intended as a parody of violent characters such as Wolverine, but became a poster boy for violence when Giffen teamed up with the writer Alan Grant and artist Simon Bisley for Lobo: The Last Czarnian (1990), which spawned numerous miniseries and specials in which Giffen continually pushed the envelope of acceptability as Lobo battled everyone from Santa Claus to his own children. Combat Christ and the Howlin’ Apostles proved to be DC’s limit.

Giffen was heavily involved in numerous crossover event series, designed, he said, to “significantly alter the status quo or introduce new characters into the status quo”, including Invasion! (1988), the weekly 52 (2006-07) and Countdown to Final Crisis (2007-08) for DC, and Annihilation (2006-07) from Marvel. His creativity and tongue-in-cheek humour earned him a loyal fanbase and he won an Inkpot award in 1991.

The son of Rosa Ann (nee Duncan) and James, a salesman for a textile company, Giffen was born in Queens, New York, but grew up in Little Falls, New Jersey. He was a fan of comics from the age of eight, when his mother handed him a copy of World’s Finest, and especially loved Marvel’s monster books and Gene Colan’s Giant-Man. He began creating his own characters at high school and went on to spend “one abysmal year” at the School of Visual Arts in New York (“the less said about that, the better”).

Apart from a year of night classes at duCret School of Art, New Jersey, Giffen was self-taught, studying books on anatomy and perspective during his four years working as a hazardous materials handler at Hoffmann-La Roche pharmaceuticals. During a week’s holiday he decided to submit samples to comic companies. At Marvel, an artist had dropped out of illustrating a back-up story (The Sword and the Star) for Marvel Preview, and Mantlo, who had spotted Giffen’s portfolio, suggested they give him a try.

Giffen briefly produced layouts for Wally Wood on Justice Society of America for DC’s All Star Comics (1976), but was let go. After a period of selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door and other odd jobs, he tried again, drawing horror stories and Doctor Fate as a back-up strip in The Flash (1982), and working his way up to the Legion of Super-Heroes.

An accusation of “swiping” the work of José Muñoz in Ambush Bug (1985) – Giffen said he “parroted” it, rather than doing an outright copy – derailed his career for a time, until he was offered the chance to plot, and do breakdowns for, Justice League (1987-92) and its spinoff, Justice League Europe (1989-92), working with JM DeMatteis and Kevin Maguire. He also plotted and did breakdowns for Aquaman (1989) and plots for L.E.G.I.O.N. ’89/’90 (1989-90), a superhero group spun off from Invasion.

The range of Giffen’s output over the next 30 years was astonishing. He drew the superhero parodies The Heckler (1992-93) and Punx (1995-96), the return of Justice League International in Justice League: Generation Lost (2010), and episodes of Outsiders (2011), O.M.A.C. (2011-12) and Infinity Man and the Forever People (2014-15). He plotted or wrote full scripts for Eclipso (1992-93), Vext (1999), Suicide Squad (2001-02), a biography of HP Lovecraft (2004), Blue Beetle (2006-07), Midnighter (2007-08), Wetworks (2007-08), Reign in Hell (2008-09), Doom Patrol (2009-11), Booster Gold (2009-11), Magog (2009-10), Justice League 3000 (2014-15) and The New 52: Futures End (2014-15), all for DC; and for Marvel he wrote stories featuring Marvel Monsters: Where Monsters Dwell (2005), Drax the Destroyer (2005-06), Defenders (2005-06), Nick Fury’s Howling Commandos (2005-06) and Annihilation spin-offs Annihilation: Silver Surfer (2006) and Annihilation: Conquest – Starlord (2007).

During the same period he also penned or plotted various comics for Image (1993-94) and Valiant (1994-96), adaptations of Japanese manga, Battle Royale (2003-06) and Battle Vixens (2004-10), for Tokyopop and 10 (2005), Hero Squared (2005-07), Planetary Brigade (2006-07) and others for BOOM! Studios. He was also a storyboard artist for the animated shows Batman Beyond and Static Shock, as well as writing episodes of Ed, Edd n Eddy and Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi for Cartoon Network.

In early 2023 he produced a podcast titled I’m Not Dead Yet, and had recently moved to Tampa in Florida.

He is survived by his children, Kyle and Melinda. His wife, Anna, predeceased him.

🔔 Keith Ian Giffen, artist and writer, born 30 November 1952; died 9 October 2023

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at Just for Books…?

[paulgadzikowski]

[Image description: Preview panel for the comic strip at the link below. The Doctor, eyebrows incarnation, of Doctor Who and Guinan of Star Trek: The Next Generation stand talking. The Doctor is saying, "You believe in Santa Claus?" Guinan is saying, "Of course I do." Unfortunately there are not image descriptions at the main Hero Of Three Faces site. End description.] 

The Hero of Three Faces is fanfiction crossovers, but it’s comic strips with stick figures, but they’re triangles. Preview panel only. Click here for full cartoon. Or see the on-site navigation tutorial. Or see this blog’s FAQ, or my archive tumblog’s FAQ. Cartoons may contain unmarked spoilers. Cartoons linked from Tumblr 10:00 (Central US time) daily are the previous day’s new update and the posts are pinned to the top of this blog. Cartoons linked from Tumblr 22:00 daily are from the archive and the posts are pinned only during annual summer hiatus of new updates.

Thanks for reading.

[comicbookclub]

DC Comics Preview: Batman / Santa Claus: Silent Knight Returns #1

Santa Claus is BACK in DC's Silent Knight Returns #1 from DC Comics, written by Jeff Parker with art by Lukas Ketner. Read a preview here.

[kingdomcomicscenter-blog]

[why-i-love-comics]

Batman/Santa Claus: Silent Knight Returns #2-5 previews

[dispatchdcu]

Batman/ Santa Claus: Silent Night #4 Preview

Batman/ Santa Claus: Silent Night #4 Preview #batmansantaclaus #silentnight #santaclaus #DCEU #dccomics #comics #comicbooks #news #dcu #dcuuniverse #art #info #NCBD #amazon #comicbooknews #previews #reviews #batman #darkknight #detectivecomics

Batman/ Santa Claus: Silent Night #4 Preview: It’s a Christmas Night Fight: The search for a stolen child leads to Santa versus Krampus in the final, climactic battle for the soul of Christmas! The Justice League are stretched thin battling the mightiest monsters of the ages when the true menace is revealed! Written by JEFF PARKER Art by MICHELE BANDINI Cover by DAN MORA Variant cover by…

[comicbookclublive]

DC Comics Preview: Batman / Santa Claus: Silent Knight Returns #1

Santa Claus is BACK in DC's Silent Knight Returns #1 from DC Comics, written by Jeff Parker with art by Lukas Ketner. Read a preview here.

[thecomicon]

Preview: Klaus Returns With 'The Life And Times Of Santa Claus'

Preview: Klaus Returns With ‘The Life And Times Of Santa Claus’

Klaus, the smash-hit from Grant Morrison and Dan Mora returns this week with The Life and Times of Santa Claus HC.  ‘Klaus must help an absentee dad-turned-snowman make amends before melting away for good. And probably before he’s defeated by a pantheon of Norse Gods and their minions. All in a day’s work for Santa Claus. And then see Klaus in the role of father himself, as he takes in Joe…