Three rows of panels, two panels of equal size per row.
1 – Santa stands in the doorway of one of his toy workshops. He is sweating profusely, only wearing an undershirt with his jacket draped over his arm. There's lots of melting snow and icicles.
CAPTION: The impacts of Global Warming were being felt all over.
SANTA: My, it's hot.
2 – This is the continuation of the image from panel 1, simply separated by the gutter. More workshops are visible in the background, but the focus of this panel is on Frosty the Snowman. Wearing his signature top hat, he is crawling towards Santa and is in the process of melting. The look on his face is not dissimilar to terror.
CAPTION: But no place was affected more so than the North Pole.
FROSTY: You gotta do something, Santa!
3 – A meeting room. Santa (still sweating) stands pointing towards a blackboard with “TOO HOT!!!” hastily scrawled upon it in chalk. Sitting at a table in front of him are Rudolf, the Abominable Snowman, an elf or two, and a polar bear. Santa doesn't look hopeful.
CAPTION: Seeing the severity of the situation, Santa called together the best minds available to him.
SANTA: ...
4 – The same room. Everyone is tired. It's clear that some time has past (perhaps a night of hard thinking). However, the polar bear leaps upwards in jubilation: he has figured out a solution.
CAPTION: And just when it appeared as if all was lost.
POLAR BEAR: I've got it!
5 – The panel focuses on a sign above the entrance to Santa's area of the North Pole. “Santa's Village” is crossed out and beneath it “Welcome to the North Pool Resort!” has been painted in below by hand.
CAPTION: A solution was found.
6 – Santa stands in a Hawaiian shirt and shorts. There's various people, elves, and reindeer lounging about, taking in some rays or jumping into the many pools. That sort of thing. There is, of course, no snow to be found. Santa holds a glass of water that contains the remains of Frosty: there's some coal eyes, a carrot nose, and a small top hat on top.
CAPTION: ...sort of.
FROSTY (quietly): This isn't exactly what I had in mind...
SANTA: I'm just amazed they found so much sand on such short notice...
I quite liked this one.
ReplyDeleteOn the surface it seems to be a quaint little Christmas story but underneath there's a bit of a dark undercurrent (Santa drinking the remains of Frosty?! Pretty awesome).
Oh, c'mon, who gave this one 2 stars. Seriously, can we not have a little nastiness over Xmas to get us through? Ha.
ReplyDeleteI liked this because it was so incredibly stupid. It aimed low with humour and nailed it. I smiled the whole time.
Poor Frosty.
That was mighty fun - with, as Dan points out, just the right edge of darkness / subversion. I can see this drawn in a proper cartoony style - Dan DeClaro or Sergio Aragones.
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