The #GuigarChristmasCountdown Rolls On
Every day until Christmas, I’m releasing a brand-new holiday single-panel gag — and this year’s batch has already included:
- Overworked elves
- Malfunctioning snowmen
- Questionable reindeer behavior
- And Santas who are absolutely phoning it in
Next week’s cartoons keep the absurdity rolling. If you’re counting down to Christmas with me… buckle up. We’re not even halfway to the weirdest ones. Catch them on Bluesky, Patreon chat, or the Evil Inc Subreddit.
TRANSCRIPT
Panel 1 (Later)
Hailey: “Come on, Rose! This is a big opportunity for me! Just tell me what Cap’s ‘usual’ is!”
Panel 2
Rose (from inside the storage closet): “Fine. He loves chicken soup — extra crackers — and a tall lemonade.”
Panel 3
Rose: “Say… do you think you could open the door now? There’s not much air in here.”
Panel 4
Hailey: “If you look in the corner, you’ll see an old battle ax.”
Panel 5
Hailey: “There’s no battle ax in— Oh.”
Panel 6
SFX: KRAKK
Panel 7
Rose (calmly): “Thank you!”
Taking stock of super-villains
Mr. Mxyzptlk: In other Trickster-related news, in
Countdown to Final Crisis #23, Mr. Mxyzptlk reveals himself as the Trickster God, raising his VQ to a god-worthy 9.
Then Superboy Prime makes him hurl and scars a “super-S” across the imp’s face. And, despite his supposed near-omnipotent, magic-based powers for evil, the best Mxy can muster is a weak retreat with the help of an other-dimensional Zatanna.
Am I the only one who remembers that one of Superman’s sole weaknesses was magic?
Anyway, Mxy’s failure to truly complete a Major League character transformation and kick S-Prime’s keister brings his VQ down to a respectible 7.
It woulda been an 8, but… puking on the job? Really? This is pretty lame for a Trickster God. He seals off the Fifth Dimension in Countdown 22, and that’s probably for the best.
(If you have a suggestion for “TWiV,” please e-mail me.)
