![]() ![]() The sophomore issue follows from this exposition, as Klaus embarks on a mission to deliver enchanted figurines and models to the homes of local children, bringing delight where there had been none before. The story so far has revolved around a city, Grimsvig, where a despotic leader confiscates toys for the benefit of his brat son the arrival of the title character, looking more like an knife-wielding barbarian than the traditional jolly patriarch and a hallucinatory development in which Klaus slips into a fugue state to create a host of toys. And then there’s Klaus, in which postmodern Scottish scribe Grant Morrison charts how a certain toy-delivering man in a red suit fell into his particular line of work. Some are strange films like Rare Exports draw on the idea of a sinister past for Santa Claus, sanitized for modern audiences. Some read like folklore, others read like inception tales crafted for a pop-culture age. There are, if you look hard enough, plenty of origin stories for Santa Claus. ![]()
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