There’s a reason TV has been showing the same Christmas specials for over 40 years. All the best ones are classics that pretty much define Christmas for many people. While many of my picks aren’t on TV every year, I always make an effort to watch them each christmas season.

Endings tend to be difficult. Sometimes you don’t want your favorite things to end, but they invariably must. Hopefully when they do end, it’s in a satisfying fashion. But a lot of times ending tend to be abrupt and leave you feeling more upset than sated.

What do you get the comic geek who has everything for Christmas? One thing you know they won’t have is an original production Animation Cel from one of Marvel’s Animated series from the 90’s. Profiles in History is having a big internet auction this Saturday, December 1, with over 500 of them to choose from.

No where else but America do we give thanks but beating the ever loving crap out of others in order to save on things we don’t really even need. But assuming you can deal with some cuts and scrapes, you can make out with some sweet deals.

Finally, an early dismissal for the holiday means I actually have time to write one of these. Unfortunately, the holiday also means it’s a pretty light week. I only picked up three books (Star Trek Ongoing #15, Indestructible Hulk #1, and Captain America #1). I however have been enjoying the new Marvel NOW! far more than I ever expected to, even on characters whose books I’ve never read before.

If you’re anything at all like me, you were practically raised by TV. I mean, it never showed up to school plays or my graduation, or ever gave me an allowance, but TV sure taught me a lot about how a family is supposed to be.

Colorado and Washington just legalized recreational marijuana, so I decided to run down my favorite stoner movies and characters, even though marijuana has never really done anything for me personally.

I know I’m a little late with this, but I still don’t have power after the FrankenStorm and am still coming up to speed, but had to share this anyway. As predicted, Community with be taking over the time slot vacated by 30 Rock when it returns on February 7th. So now we’ll get to watch Halloween and Christmas themed episodes in March. I can gladly deal with that if it means more awesome stuff like the video below.