What better way to irritate your favourite pedants on Christmas day than by watching their faces contort in pain at t-shirts and sweatshirts of their favourite Christmas films and mottos ruined by a slightly wrong quote? That satisfaction is worth a million PS4s.
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When we started the comic we were really keen on celebrating Billy’s Jewish roots—a Hanukkah comic was a MUST.
At first we thought about telling the story of Teddy’s first celebration with the Kaplans but the idea of Tommy as the outsider struck like lightning and we couldn’t let him go.
For context: this takes place in the pocket of time after Children’s Crusade when Billy [spoilers] gives up superhero life for awhile.
New movie on the Lifetime Channel this holiday season: “John and Holly were once the ideal couple, deeply in love and with two beautiful children. Then, Holly started moving up the corporate ladder, and moved with the kids to L.A. to pursue her career dreams. John, an NYC police officer, was jealous of his wife’s business success and refused to move. Their relationship was so strained, that Holly returned to using her maiden name, although they are still married. Holly, hoping to repair their damaged relationship, invites John to her corporate Christmas party, being held on Christmas Eve in a high-rise office building. John embarks on a cross-country flight, also hoping he and his wife can rekindle their love during the holiday season. But, a bad European man named Hans who cares only about money creates havoc for John and Holly and tries to keep them apart. John and Holly must, each in their own way, oppose Hans and stop his plans to ruin their Christmas. In the background, an arrogant TV reporter makes life difficult for the couple’s children! In the end, their struggles to save Christmas for their family brings John and Holly back together. And along the way, they make a new friend named Al, who, in the true spirit of Christmas, comes through for them at the end.”
Have you finished your Leverage rewatch in anticipation of Redemption? ;) If so (and if not?), information of interest:
Aldis Hodge played “Raymond” (never actually named in dialogue, I think?), Samuel L. Jackson’s Zeus Carter’s li’l baby nephew in 1995’s Die Hard With a Vengeance in which uhhhh there is a conversation about 9 minutes in about things that are important to one Alec Hardison’s solo and team careers such as: you have to earn respect; return a MESSAGE when people try to use you/get you to take the fall; guys who sell drugs or have guns are bad; nobody’s gonna help us so we’re gonna help ourselves.
Most importantly: “We’re the good guys.”
Then, as we know, Leverage ran 2008-2012.
In 2013, Aldis played “Foxy” in A Good Day to Die Hard. Sure, he was in it for two minutes, but that’s more than enough for my little fannish heart. Sure, he’s randomly in a military uniform deeply embedded in some CIA black op, but, you know. He’s just gotten better since the Agent Hagen and Agent Thomas days.
Like, I have feelings about Zeus being Nana’s brother. Or maybe pre-foster-care-Alec’s uncle. But preferably Nana’s brother. Nana could totally be from Harlem, right? Uncle Zeus is good with math and electronics and stuff, and super invested in his nephews’ education. I can draw a line from that to hacking, right?
I have feelings about Nana Family Gatherings where Zeus reminisces with begrudging fondness about his Crazy White Dude McClane and Raymond Alec is finally able to compete (less begrudgingly, much more fondly) with his Crazy White Dude Eliot stories. Yeah, my Crazy White Dude does all that WITHOUT guns, who’s got the Crazier White Dude?
I have feelings about “Foxy” being a Leverage International Job Cover and Alec having to accommodate that John-McClane-ness on the fly, because yeah John McClane isn’t considered even in, like, Plan M. Nobody plans for John McClane. Even people who do plan for John McClane.
I have feelings. And no attention span to turn them into fic, woe.
