Merry Christmas everyone, even to those of you like me who
might not observe the holiday.
Christmas has always been a weird time for me as a result of that little
wrinkle. It’s become sort of a
known joke at this point that most Jews like me spend Christmas at the movies
and enjoying all the Chinese food we can put our hands to but that’s just a
small part of a broader phenomena.
Because this time of year is so centralized around traditions a lot of
us who don’t celebrate Christmas work to craft our own traditions, so as to
still be included in the overall emphasis on traditional celebration while
making it our own and preserving a certain sense of identity.
Me, being a nerd with an aesthetic preference for the
trappings of Christmas, I usually spend the holidays hunting down holiday
superhero adventures and boy do I have one to share here. It may not be specifically Christmas
oriented but given it’s the same basic plot as It’s A Wonderful Life I think we’ll all count it, this is “World
Without Batman.”
