Christmas 365 #1

This issue came out in time for Christmas. However, issues #2-4 did not. Since I am not a fan of cliffhangers and the month long waits in between, I sat on this miniseries until the 2025 holiday season. But upon finishing the first issue and looking back on things, I can understand why the follow up issues came out after Christmas 2024!

The premise is simple really: a man who is overworked at his job thanks to a clueless owner and a manipulative supervisor has had enough. After having missed his daughter's high school holiday concert and gotten into a fistfight with another dad at Santa's village in the mall on Christmas Eve, the father decides to make up for not being there for his family by vowing to celebrate Christmas once a month on the 25th for the whole year. That means Valentine's, Easter, even Independence Day are all going to have a Christmas feel to them!

Working late into the night for Christmas #1, the house looks like a Winter Wonderland at first. I say at first, because the sparklers used to decorate the living room with have just set the Christmas tree on fire, taking all of the presents underneath with it. So, the plan isn't off to that well of a start...

Written by Mikey Way of My Chemical Romance, this wasn't quite what I had been expecting as I waited until now to read this series. That's not to say that I didn't like it. Its just from the cover as well as the opening 3-page preview I saw last year, I thought that there was going to be a magical element to the story. I thought that some forgotten arcane spirit was going to make it Christmas every day for a year. Maybe a child wished that their Christmas would never end. Or maybe the evil spirit was mad at being forgotten and was punishing the world for their collective amnesia. The opening where a young boy is chased by evil looking snowmen really perpetuated this wrong assumption. 

Instead, Christmas 365 is more like a cross between National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and the unsettling down-trodden man takes revenge pic, Falling Down. Not a bad premise for a story. Just nowhere close to my original idea for the story.

I really hope the main character's supervisor gets what's coming to him. He's such a slime ball opportunist. He reminds me of somebody that one of my loved ones is having to deal with at their job. I hope that I get to live vicariously through this story because I don't want to risk my family member getting fire because I get my revenge on their foe for making whomever's life hellish at the moment.

Although, if Mikey writes anything like his brother Gerard does, I'm not expecting a happy holiday ending to this tale. We'll see...

Worth Consuming!

Rating: 8 out of 10 stars.