Christmas 365 #3

The third issue of Dark Horse's Christmas 365 delivers a wonderfully unhinged holiday horror tableau: a pumpkin-headed Santa figure in green robes brandishes a scythe before a glowing jack-o'-lantern archway, flanked by looming ghosts and a skeletal specter, while a determined young protagonist pushes through a crowd of zombies and monsters below, many of them disturbingly snapping photos on their phones. It's a gleefully chaotic collision of Christmas cheer and Halloween dread that makes the series' premise feel both genuinely strange and oddly irresistible. Mikey Way, Jonathan Rivera, Piotr Kowalski, Brad Simpson, and Joshua Reed have crafted something that earns every penny of its $3.99 price tag.