Merry Christmas

Have a great holiday everybody!

-Swinebread

This one got to me

Hi everybody, last week I was perusing the Huffington Post ‘s Impact section when I came across Lucia Duran’s story and it really struck a cord with me and so I decided to donate a few dollars to help her out. This charity drive is part of the 12 families, 12 cities, and 12 days that the Huffington Post is running to raise modest sums for various families in need this holiday season.

Lucia’s story of recovery from various periods of domestic violence and her will to strive for a better life for herself and her kids just broke my heart.

After reading the article last week on Christmas Eve, just couldn’t get her son’s picture out of my mind. He’s so young and yet he has already had to deal with such awful problems. I have to say that I have been, well, haunted by his intense, yet hopeful face, but why? I guess I saw both my son and myself together in his expression. This is something heavy that I haven’t quite worked out but it has knocked me for loop. So I sent a few bucks. It would be so great if the cycle of violence ended with Lucia’s son, Juan Pablo and her daughter, Fatima.

All the families that the Huffington Post is highlighting are very deserving, but I felt I just had to bring more attention to this one story. So if you have a few dollars to spare and still feel a little more holiday spirit, take the plunge and donate to a lady that is really trying to pick herself and her children up by the bootstraps.

I read the article, and I just wasn’t the same

The 12 families, 12 cities, and 12 days event ends on the 1st of January so there is only three days left. There is still time to a little that can make a big difference.

Lucia and her kids have received a lot help from the Homeless Prenatal Program and they're worth checking out too.

Thanks

Happy New Year everyone


-Swinebread

RIP Eartha Kitt

On Christmas... of all the ironies :(


clip from Batman




-Swinebread

Non Sequitur Comic Panel: Christmas Edition

Caption from New Defenders #147

Not So Random Image Word: Santa


-Swinebread

Merry Christmas Everybody

Have a wonderful, and wacky holiday... but mostly just give a big hug to your loved ones.


-Swinebread

Supers for the Tree

There wasn't a lot of new christmas ornaments for our tree, but here's two that were hung for the first time this year.

You just gotta love Space Ghost and here he is hanging on the Swinebread family tree.


I bought this dark suit Spidey at an after Christmas sale last year so he's making his first appearance this time around.



I hope your Christmas eve is happy and safe.



-Swinebread

Marvel House Ad: Christmas 1978

If you look closely, you can see How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way in there.



-Swinebread

Movie of the Week: Star Wars Holiday Special

What better way to celibrate the Christmas Season than by paying homage to this infamous bit of the Star Wars Universe. Guess What? This year is the Star Wars Holiday Special's 30th Anniversary!

I actually watched this as a kid but I didn't really remember much of it other than that the cartoon portion had Boba Fett.

I do recall, even as a young-in, that I felt something was really off with the show. Well now with youtube you can see how bad it really was. After watching these clips, I'm now glad I couldn't remember the Star Wars Holiday Special.

Intro and outakes


Here's the Cartoon. This was pretty fun actually.


Cooking with an alien Harvey Korman


Bea Arthur sings at the cantina


Hologram acrobatics!


Leia Sings... Heard she was really high when when they shot this.



Happy Life Day everybody!



-Swinebread

We've Got a Winter Wonderland Here

Needless to say... I'm walking to work today.



-Swinebread

Merry Christmas

Have a great Holiday, from the best dam comic character ever Ambush Bug!

-Swinebread

Party Foul in the Rumpus Room

Whoa, I’ve got a big headache after Germaine Gregarious’ holiday potluck party. See, I was the only one that consumed any of Dr. Zaius’ homunculus eyeballs, but first I had to build up some liquid courage via FranIAm’s flaming cocktails and Dr. Monkey Von Monkerstein's delicious Banana Daiquiris. To make a long story short, I ended up dressed as Wonder Man from Earth 11. Ugh…

Don't Drink and Dress

It will take me awhile to live this one down.


Edit: BAC put together this great video of the party!


-Swinebread

X-Mas Tag

The holiday cheer is spreading like a virus. As Moody Minstrel has tagged me so I must comply. Here are my answers to a list of 20 questions plus one I added.

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Lite Egg nog or Soy Nog, the regular stuff is too sweet and Hot Chocolate you can get anytime
2. Does Santa wrap the presents or just sit them under the tree? What? Santa does not wrap his presents?! I’ve never heard of such a crazy thing.
3. Colored or white lights? Colored lights.
4. Do you hang mistletoe? No, nothing against it though.
5. When do you put your decorations up? The first weekend of December.
6. What is your favorite holiday dish? Turkey or Pie.
7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child? I went to my Aunt’s House in Yakima for X-mas one year. That was nice because there was lots of snow and it was fun to be in a completely differently place
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? For some weird reason I always knew about Santa. My older Siblings must have told me when I was very young, as I have no memory ever of not knowing the truth. That’s why other folks’ tragic stories about finding out have always freaked me out.
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? Sometimes, but usually I wait until X-mas day.
10. How do you decorate your Christmas Tree? I have a lot of old X-mas stuff my family collected over the years but we get a few new pieces every year. Also, because of my SO, the tree has some Japanese items as well. I have also begun to get a few pop culture items of late too (see here)
11. Snow: Love it or hate it? love it.
12. Can you ice skate? No. I never tried.
13. Do you remember your favorite gift? I sure do, it was a the millennium Falcon from an adult cousin. My parents would never buy me any Star Wars figures for X-mas, but that's all I ever really wanted. I think they must have thought they were stupid or something. So I had to scrape, save and trade to get all the figures I had. But this one year my cousin got me the Falcon and my X-mas prayers were answered.
14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Teaching my SO, who is unfamiliar with American customs, about the Holidays and her teaching me about Japanese customs.
15. What is your favorite holiday dessert? Pie.
16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? The stories, it doesn’t’ matter if they’re pop culture favorites, like Rudolf, or family tales. I love ‘em all
17. What is on top of your tree? A small red wreath ornament with a red bird. My SO and I haven’t found a tree topper we really like yet.
18. Which do you like best giving or receiving? Receiving when I was young, giving now that I'm an adult.
19. What is your favorite Christmas Song? Probably Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer, but I like a good parody or humorous X-mas song once in a while.
20. Do you like candy canes? They’re OK, more for decoration.
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21. (I’m adding a question) What do you NOT like about the holidays? The huge shopping crowds and fundies who think they know everything about Christmas but really don’t know anything about it at all.


I’m gonna’ Tag
Dean Wormer
Becca
Heidi Meeley

Edit: I found a great Christmas Parody to go along with my tag. You all like the Chipmunks right?


-Swinebread

Cthulhu Caroling

Carol of the Old Ones
the first and the best!


It's beginning to look a lot like fish-men


The Cultist Song
Their latest



-Swinebread

X-Mas Is Coming

We picked up our tree today. Here are a few of the ornaments we hung with care.

X-mas Spidey, I bought this ornament last year during after Christmas sales, so this is the first time it’s on the tree. I enjoy the Santa Spidey pose because it reminds me of 1980s X-mas comic book ads. That’s back when Marvel wrote stories about old webhead that I actually liked.

Mighty Mouse. “Here I come to spread some Christmas Cheer!”

We bought some little rabbits in kimonos while in Japan. They’re supposed to be used as cell phone decorations but I thought they would look great on an X-mas tree. This blue one is my favorite.

Of course you can’t have Christmas without Cthulhu right?


-Swinebread