![]() ![]() I love shopping, I love decorating, I love the music and the God awful Christmas specials, and because I love doing stuff for people on Christmas, I’m going to be doing a bunch of extra recaps for Point Horror, all for yous.įirst off, we’re starting with a little something written and drawn by Jill Thompson, my all time favorite professional comic person. OH IT’S CHRISTMAS TIME AND IT’S CHRISTMAS TIME, CHRISTMAS, CHRISTMAS, CHRISTMAS TIIIIIIIIIME!įinally, December, my favorite month of the year because it’s both Christmas AND my birthday. It’s time for dark secrets, food fights, and spies as the Dead Boy Detectives learn a lot about life from the precocious daughters of rich ambassadors and rebellious rock stars. Naturally, the inquisitive duo is forced to go undercover – in drag – if they’re to have a hope in hell of solving the case. ![]() Rowland and Paine, the dead British detectives who first appeared in Neil Gaiman’s THE SANDMAN: SEASON OF MISTS, travel stateside to investigate a strange missing-persons case at a posh International Academy for Girls. Summary: They’ll do anything to solve the case. ![]()
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