Spectacular special.

I couldn't help but think "Special Guest Narrator: CroTeam!"

Weaponized christmas cheer...

Also, the Santa face when he's saying "and explode"... *shiver*.
Is he related to Burke? :)

Santa actually reminds me a bit more of Po, Fei's chubby side-kick in HIKYM... If Po had a beard that is.

Ah, Burke, we hardly knew ye.

I reckon you definitely could have a strong slew of side stories like these sprinkled throughout the series, Kit is downright enjoyable and a strong central character when she's not worried about Jeanne and Poe. (Not to say there's anything wrong with her in the series, just she seems so much more human when the weight of the world isn't on her shoulders.) Hell, makes me wonder what Liz would be like when she's not having to connive or lie to everybody about everything... But who am I kidding, she still probably would just for the hell of it.

Looking back on things, I think it would have been better for me to have started The Dreadful with a series of one-shot stories, rather than the way it is now. I think that would have been a good idea, not only because it would have been fun, but also because it would have let me develop a bit as a writer before I jumped into these kinds of long drawn out narratives with characters all over the place.

I've often wondered if it would be possible to get the comic to a point where I could do that. Like just have Kit get too busy with other things and "forget" about Jeanne and Poe for awhile, but I don't know if that would work.

Well, I'm just some guy who reads lots and lots of comics, but I reckon you could do that IF you have some sort of confrontation between the three first. Just have it come up inconclusive-like and you can work from there. BUT, you gotta have some sort of confrontation between who you've set up as the protagonist and the primary antagonist before you can walk off into other stories.

At least, that's how it works in the serials I read.

Christmas special = Christmas smiles :- ) I especially like her hat. I would hate to imagine being hunted down and killed by someone wearing that.

Once Poe is actually introduced in the "real storyline" I'd love to see some back-to-back-badasses flashbacks with Kit and Poe.

As for the story. I've been re-reading it and it actually makes sense that Poe shot Kit.
Fake silver so that it looks worse than it is?
I can easily see Poe being pressured into backstabbing Kit for Jeanne, but deliberately choosing shitty bullets because she cares about her sister.
I can't imagine Jeanne being sloppy with her backstabbing bullets.

Interesting theories!

^ Yeah, was it my imagination or was Liz actually insinuating that Poe and Jeanne had become lovers, or was she just speaking figureatively?