Desperate Times #4

Chris Eliopoulos brings his signature cartoony charm to this holiday-themed issue of Desperate Times, where a small anthropomorphic duck in a brown coat cheerfully announces his "Christmas spirit" while a startled woman in a fur-trimmed outfit goes airborne amid a shower of colorful gift-wrapped presents. Two bemused onlookers lean against a wall in the snowy background, reacting with the kind of deadpan exasperation that makes this series such fun. A playful slice of 1998 Image Comics humor dressed up in seasonal wrapping.