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for practically every major celebration, and Marvel Comics has a superhero-stuffed Christmas-themed anthology set to hit shelves later this year. However, DSTLRY seems to be making a play to turn the most popular holidays into opportunities to showcase top talents working outside of the superhero or corporate-owned comics ecosystem.
James Tynion IV and Jensine Eckwell’s “Crumbs” reads like a twisted holiday fairy tale. Thematically similar to “The Man in the Blood-Red Coat,” it tells the story of a town that has come to dread Christmas rather than find joy in it as each year its citizens are tormented by an elf with strange and unsettling predilections.
“Sol Saunter” by Molly Mendoza feels like something meant to be read in a winter haze. Its zodiac-themed story meanders through pages reminiscent ofstrips, each with an inventive layout that the characters within often choose to ignore as they lean into the adjacent openings, all colored with muted warmth. The dreamlike quality of the tale leaves a mark and the pages are worth poring over on return visits.“The Goat King’s Son” by Ryan Andrews is built like a winter myth.
The book closes with “Pulsar” by K. Wroten, another story with a touch of fairytale and myth but of a more ominous nature. Set in a world whose sun has seemingly become dangerously unstable, forcing most people to live entirely indoors, it plays with generational memory and the tension between faith and science.
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