Pyramid Review
Spirit of the Season: A Holiday Present for Spirit of the Century & Truth & Justice
Published By Evil Hat Productions & Atomic Sock Monkey
Written By Fred Hicks & Chad Underkoffler with Daniel M. Perez
Illustrated By Christian N. St. Pierre
80-page digest-sized softcover; $12.00
8.47 Mb PDF; $4.99As the holiday season approaches, those on the "naughty list" work to ruin everyone's fun and make the season ever bleaker, colder, and harsher. Jacques Frost, arrogant polar explorer searches both poles for their ancient secrets while sending unfrozen prehistoric monsters to terrorize civilization. His occasional ally, Professor Salomon Mizrahi, near peerless mathematician, uses the power of Kabbalah to his own twisted amusement and self-gratification. Commanding an army of spectral Seleucid soldiers, Antiochus the Defiler works to destroy as many holy relics as possible, including the Holy Temple in Jerusalem in the hope that it will restore the former glory of the heirs to Alexander the Great. Rival to Antiochus the Defiler, the uncaring Baroness Blackheart is driven by her quite literally steam-powered heart to acquire as many holy relics in the hope that one will lead her to the alchemical formula that will give her the fabled Elixir of Life. An incomparable miser, Doctor Scrooge embodies the worst aspects of Dickens' creation, ruled by insane greed and hiding behind what his money can make legal with his bully boys, the Cratchits, always on hand to deal out a beating . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: May 2, 2008
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