It's that time of year! The Martians have come to bring good cheer to all! Well, not really, but humanity still will find a way to celebrate the spirit of the season. Join IDW and Topps -- along with a stellar team of writers and artists -- to honor the holidays in these four bloody tales of festive cheer!
Comic book artist and writer, and co-founder of Bongo Comics (along with Matt Groening and Steve and Cindy Vance). He currently serves as creative director of Bongo Comics.
Morrison is a native of Lincoln Park, Michigan, a Downriver community situated south of Detroit, Michigan. He attended the College for Creative Studies.
Morrison is an Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America; he created the mural A Century of Values to celebrate the BSA centennial in 2010.
At the beginning of his career in the early 1980s, Morrison worked as a technical illustrator for Artech, Inc. in Livonia, Michigan, before going to work as an illustrator for Disney. Then he worked as an illustrator for The Simpsons and created his own comic Roswell. He served as director for Futurama.
This isn't necessarily the Holidays you're thinking of - the stories here range from Halloween and Veteran's Day to Thanksgiving and a Christmas Armistice story.
The art is hit-or-miss; the first story's art is super-cartoonish and doesn't work well. The Armistice and Veteran's Day stories are much more realistic in style and more enjoyable. The Halloween story, featuring a Happy Days rip-off is definitely the weakest of the stories, but none are particularly great. Thanksgiving is at least entertaining, as Martians attack the Macy's parade and get more than they bargained for. The Christmas story just seems very tonally off for Mars Attacks stories - the idea that they would behave like Allies/Germans did in World War I seems really out of character for them.
If you're a Mars Attacks fan, you might enjoy this, but it's forgettable for anyone else, even at its short length of 48 pages.