My Absolutely Favoritest Story of All Time

[uadlika]

It's a wee bit early, but I've been home sick for the last three days, and desperately need some cheer. This was posted on S_D 1.0 and prompted me to buy my very first non-collected comic book. So here it is, Christmas, Bat- and Super-Dickery style:

A kid writes to the Daily Planet about whether or not Santa was real and Perry decides that this is the Best Story That Ever Was:



Get him his coffee woman, it's called DICKery, not what you've got.

Jimmy says "I know whose job this is" and Clark goes, yes...."SUPER SANTA."



Batman convinces SuperSanta that what he's doing is quite silly because he is a Big Damn Hero who can't just take a night off to play Santa. SuperSanta goes home to change into his normal Superman outfit, but since he has so many gifts he might as well delivery them anyway....






And that there is quite possibly my favorite image ever. Because what says Christmas better than Superman punching out a Santa-dressed Batman?

Merry Holidays Scans_Daily!

Comments

[ex_frolics927]

hahaha I love this!

S_D 1.0 prompted me to buy my first (and second) comics too!

[darkblade]

Wow saw the last page on Superdickery. Can now say that Clark was mostly justified in this. Should have waited until out of the kid's sight though.

[shadowpsykie]

you have to think those kids are scarred for life :)

[perletwo]

helllloooooo lifetime of therapy!

[righthondude]

Batman's parents died. They are dead.

[warpedhand]

If there were a superdictionary page of this, a pool of blood, a hand, and some pearls, I would laugh.

[sistermagpie]

OMG, thank you so much for posting this and reminding me of it again!

[toasty_fresh]

LMAO irl at the " . . . twitching . . ." Oh Bruce, using your childhood suffering to guilt trip other superheroes xD

[crinos]

Are you kidding? That would be the most awesome thing ever.

"I saw Superman beat up Santa Claus this Christmas. What did YOU do?"

"I....I went to my Grandmas house and drank Coco."

"Lame."

[zordboy]

From Perry's dialogue to Lois, and then Batman's line to Superman about his parents "twitching" (which is almost word-for-word from "Dark Knight Returns", during Batman's climactic battle with Superman), you can tell straight away this isn't exactly canon DC. It's still friggin' hilarious though :).

[queen_marshed]

So mottoed. If I were those kids it'd be the most awesome thing EVAR.

[crinos]

Someone should post the JLA story where Santa joins the JLA after defeating Neron with the power of underwear and socks (and has heat vision).

[uadlika]

oh s_d has prompted me to buy waaaaaaaay too many comics over the years. However previous to me seeing this posted, I had only collected trades. Infinite Holiday was the first floppy I bought, but by no means the last :)

[uadlika]

They twitched as they lay dying. Their muscles had involuntary movements as they lay in a puddle of blood and pearls in the alley.

[darkblade]

Kyle: Bruce that doesn't work on someone who found another girlfriend in his fridge...twitching.

[jelly_ace]

...lying in the alley...twitching...

I like Supes's expression after that panel. He's like, "Oh God, here he goes again..."

[autumn_lily]

J'onn: Or who watched his whole species die...well...not twitching, but still, the sheer number of them made up for lack of involuntary muscle spams!

[3goodtimes]

This is beyond fabulous. It has crossed over into amazing.

[rhythmbandit]

I LOLd. I want to live in this Elseworld. The Elseworld where everyone is on crack.

[cmdr_zoom]

I'm now imagining, like, a thousand pearls in the blood. (Blame, one, ALL of those pearl necklace shots in various tellings of the origin, and two, Miller's "And I swear another forty teeth fly out of his mouth" panel from WORLD'S FUNNEST.)

[cmdr_zoom]

Motto.

[mad]

YES, yes, a thousand times yes! Love this so much.

Oh, Batsanta.

[superfangirl1]

Tis the season for dickey! :)

The ending always bring me with glee of how hilarious the kids expression are to what going on. Poor kids scarred for life indeed!

[katzedecimal]

He's like, "Oh God, here he goes again..."

"Yeah yeah we get it, your paaaaaaarents are deeeeeead."

[katzedecimal]

Wow, this... this is just so beautiful.. laughably cliche sexism, Santa abuse, My Parents Are Dead, and child-scarring Superdickery, all in one place! It truly is Christmas!

[jasper_stars]

Motto. S_D helps sell comics in a sense.

[stig]

I bring this up at every opportunity during December: the original Saint Nicholas was actually known to be a huge, muscly olive-skinned man who didn't take shit from no-one and had his nose broken during a fight and was reputed to have punched a Bishop.



Batman vs. the media-produced Santa? No contest. Batman vs. St. Nicholas...that's a more interesting fight.

[ninjapeps]

I was planning on posting that a little closer to Christmas.

[rani]

I love you, Bat-Santa!

[rhythmbandit]

PS: What book is this from?

[mcbangle]

Best. Christmas story. Ever!

[fredneil.livejournal.com]

"You're right, Bruce. And now that you've made me think of it, I'll call my parents and tell them how much I appreciate them. Oh, wait a minute. I can't because they died along with almost every other Kryptonian when the planet where I was born blew up."

[kingrockwell]

Kelley Puckett and Pete Woods are great on their own (as long as Woods isn't drawing for Pfeifer), but together they are the best. Pete Woods is my Superman artist.

it took me forever to track down my copy of Infinite Holiday, but it was so worth it

[kingrockwell]

The DCU Infinite Holiday Special from '06.

[cmdr_zoom]

Remarkable reconstruction and fascinating article. Thanks for the link.

[uadlika]

"in a sense." Nope, scans_daily is my pusher, enabler, dealer, whatever. I see a few scans here and the next thing you know I own all the trades produced in the series. I own two complete series in floppy form all because of scans_daily.

[pseudo_tsuga]

Best Christmas story ever, y/y?

[megami18]

Tee hee hee

[parusmajor]

Awesome, I was waiting for this to come up :) It's pretty much obligatory to see scans from that story around Christmas. And this was the comic that actually got me into superheroes! Someone sent me a link to s_d 1.0 entry of this comic a few years ago, I found the scans amusing, got curious, and then I started digging s_d and wikipedia for more information about superheroes. (My previous knowledge about superheroes was pretty much nonexistent; I knew about Spidey, Batman and Supes but all the rest... I was like "who the heck are Green Lantern and Martian Manhunter?".)
Anyways, thanks for the post, nice to see scans from that story again :) It has a lot of memories behind it for me.

[arkyramone]

why did bats switch belts when he put on the santa suit

[sherkahn]

helllloooooo lifetime of therapy!

As usual, Batman is prepared for every eventuality.