Christmas 365 #4

Mikey Way's 2024 holiday satire comes to a close. I wish I could say that I was a big fan of the ending. However, things got a bit too surreal at the end. 

After a war between Peter and his supervisor for the best year-round Christmas pop-up theme park, a Mr. Beast type influencer gets involved and promises to fund a mega-sized theme park for Christmas if the two men will bury the hatchet. The social media star buys up Peter's entire neighborhood and does put on quite the extravaganza. But he pretty much chokes out Peter and his boss from any real say in the project. That might actually be a good thing because to this media guru, it's safety be damned. Especially when he insists on having a real life Yeti at the park: a very ornery gorilla that has been painted white and itching for an escape.

I think I get what Mikey Way is trying to say here. It's easy to try and make a huge display for your community and lose yourself in the details. Plus with how obsessed with clicks and likes, our society will basically do anything for that endorphin rush of digital popularity. Its just once the Christmas Yeti escapes from his cage that things go seriously off the rails. 

Issues 1-3 were entertaining social commentaries on modern Christmas celebration excesses. It ends with a surrealist farce that has holiday magic wrapping everything up like a Frank Capra movie. I just don't think we had to trounce through a Marx Brothers movie to get there. 

Rating: 6 out of 10 stars.