You're a Dour One, Mr. Quack

To get into the Christmas spirit, here's the first of a few holiday-inspired strips.

Quacklad's quite the Scrooge without his smokes.

• I didn't think it could be done, but it's actually possible to combine the titles of three of your favorite Christmas specials/movies ("Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!", "The Year Without a Santa Claus", and "The Santa Clause") and three of the ones you don't like ("Santa Claus Conquers the Martians", "Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey", and "Santa Claus: The Movie") into one big spoof title.
• The initial concept for this strip stemmed from a doodle I made in my sketchbook as a joke with the Duck in a chimney, posed like the Grinch as seen on the video cover, with the caption, "How Quacklad Conquered the Martians on the Night Before Christmas". The only differences between the two are obviously the other joke title was used and that this one was colored/altered with GIMP.
• I nearly wore the bejeebus out of an old VHS of the original Grinch cartoon watching it over and over to get the appropriate colors. 
• To make this strip even "Seuss-ier", I used a font called, "Grinched", for the mock title.
• As I did with the Halloween strip that had the "Peanuts" reference, I added a "- With apologies to..." credit in respect to Dr. Seuss and Chuck Jones. I'm starting to feel like the more pop culture tributes that are made in this webcomic, particularly the ones that hit closer to home with the original source material/creators, the more I should tip my hat to it/them in a "no hard feelings" kind of way.
• Quacklad's probably the first one ever to use an Elmo & Patsy song as a legitimate threat. 
• The word, "dour", suits the Duck just as well as the word, "hyper", suits the Husky. Dour Duck. Hyper Husky. Alliteration at its oddest, folks. 

'Tis the season! Tune next time to see Walpurgis' own unique holiday icon for the season!.