Posted Friday, January 12th, 2018 by Barry

Mars Attacks the Holidays

Regular and most variant covers promote a Christmas theme, but Mars Attacks the Holidays levels its sites on Halloween, Veterans Day and Thanksgiving as well as Christmas.

Fred Hembeck handles Halloween with a 1950s teen party akin to the same era’s drive-in B movie.

Bill Morrison and Tone Rodriguiez piggyback on Orson Wells’ War of the Worlds broadcast. Veterans dating back to the War Between the States celebrate the first Armistice Day by whupping up on the landing party routing a full-scale invasion.

American culture is roasted in a battle of Michael Bay excesses when Thanksgiving is attacked.

Christmas rings down the curtain on both the book and year with post-apocalyptic survivors recreating a Christmas Eve from 1914 when No Man’s Land served as a multi-national pitch for one evening of peace before the bloodshed was renewed.

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