It’s kind of tough to find real synchronicity in Christmas comics — but since I’d never seen Ugly Christmas Sweater Parties referenced in a comic before, and then saw two in one day…
And I’m not entirely grasping the second one: ugly Christmas-related characters sweating? Though Frosty (?) isn’t particularly ugly, is he? I mean for an anthropomorphized snowman.
And I’m wondering… how common are Ugly Sweater Parties anyway in the real world?
Might help if I could read the label on the bottle, but I assume it’s the stuff they use to preserve butterflies. Still can’t figure out why Lio would want to capture Santa like a butterfly, though: the strip is often quite weird, but it does maintain an internal logic.
If you’ve ever worked in an office, or lived in a college dorm, you’ve probably encountered the Secret Santa phenomenon: you’re given the name of a random person, and told to buy a present for him or her.
And that’s what several dozen CIDU members inadvertently signed up for: they were each assigned a comic strip character (from one of their favorite strips), and told to choose the perfect holiday gift (with a $25 spending limit).
In no special order, this is what you came up with:
Because elephants are Republicans and Republicans only care about white people and are therefore inclined to think only about white Christmases but they know they’re supposed to be politically correct so they’re acknowledging other colors of Christmas???
By now, the 50-odd people who signed up know what this is all about (and if you haven’t gotten an e-mail from me, please let me know (the full 21-letter name of this site at Gmail.com). Will this be a lot of fun, or a big dud? I guess we’ll know in about a week (which is also when everybody else finds out what’s going on)