Uphues, Chris – The Christmas Dream

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The Christmas Dream

Please note: this will be the extent of any Christmas celebration for this website. To me it just gets more and more obnoxious every year, which probably has something to do with me getting further and further away from an age where I knew that I’d be getting some really great stuff. These days it means seeing some family that I rarely see, sure, but it also means that going to any stores or the post office is a miserable ordeal. So with that bit of holiday cheer in mind, how about this comic? It’s a tiny mini, but I was immediately intrigued by the image of a heart that has clearly been beaten severely on the cover. Or so I thought. This comic is actually the story of a sentient heart that is trying to figure out the inner workings of the human mind. After discovering that it doesn’t know much about the subject, it goes into space (?), where it eventually was covered in ice and snow before finding a great truth of the universe, which I’m not going to give away for free here. Sure, it doesn’t make a ton of sense, but I liked the writing anyway, and that last panel was wonderful. Chris seems to be attempting to build an empire of cute heart thingies with giant eyeballs, and more power to him if he can get it to work. His other comics might be too sweet for some of you to bear, but not this particular comic. No price listed on his website, I’d have to guess a buck or two.