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Podcast: The Source Material Comics Podcast
Episode: Source Material #408 - Santa Claus: Private Eye (Darby Pop, 2014)
Description: This year, The Source Material Comics Podcast unwraps a holiday comic that trades sleigh bells for shell casings and tinsel for trench coats. Jesse Starcher and Mark Radulich dive into Santa Claus: Private Eye by Jeremy Bernstein—a clever, genre-bending tale that asks what happens to Santa during the 364 days he's not climbing down chimneys.This hard-boiled one-shot delivers classic noir tropes with a frosty twist: a jaded Santa (going by “Nick Santana”) works as a private eye in the off-season, complete with a fedora, a flask, and a morally gray past. Tasked with solving a supposed suicide that d...