It's our yearly Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar! Every day until Christmas Eve, you can click on the current day's Advent Calendar post and it will show the Advent Calendar with the door for that given day opened and you can see what the "treat" for that day will be! You can click here to see the previous Advent Calendar entries. This year, the theme is a Totally Tubular 80s Christmas! Each day will be a Christmas comic book story from the 1980s, possibly ones that have a specific 1980s bent to it (depends on whether I can come up with 24 of them).

The drawing for this year's Advent Calendar, of Miami Vice Santa Claus giving out 80s presents, like a Rubik's Cube and a Sony Walkman, to four superheroes with the most-80s costumes around, is by Nick Perks.

Each day, a door on the calendar will be opened (once opened, the door will feature a panel from the featured story)...

Here's the story for Day 3, Christmas 1989's "Home for the Holidays" from "Adventures of Superman" #462, by Roger Stern, Dan Jurgens and Art Thibert.

The issue opened with Superman helping make sure that a building is built on time and so a group of construction workers get their holiday bonuses. He leaves them as they're singing Christmas carols on the top of the building.

He goes to the Daily Planet. At this point in Clark Kent's history, he is just about to leave the Daily Planet for an editor job at Newstime (the "Superman" writers of this time wanted to address how all of these people were supposedly so good at their jobs and yet never advanced beyond them. It was a nice touch to see Clark Kent get a promotion). Everyone blows him off on his last day, but it turned out to be a ruse and they threw him a going away party.

Clark went to find the Planet's Chief Intern, Alice, to thank her for putting the party together and shockingly finds her in a storeroom...that she has been LIVING in!

Perry White has Alice move in with him and then Perry writes the greatest editorial about the perils of homeless ever and cures the homeless problem all by himself (or something like that).

Superman flies home, where he sees that Lana Lang is spending Christmas with the Kents. They all celebrate that they have someone to share the holiday with...

It's a very well told story by a dynamite creative team.

DOES ANYTHING IN THIS COMIC SCREAM 'TOTALLY TUBULAR 80s'?

1989 was the same time that Phil Collins cured homelessness with his hit song, "Another Day in Paradise," so I think this was definitely of the 1980s. The fashion was definitely quite 1980s and the whole "Greedy developer making luxury condos and pushing people into homelessness" was an 1980s plot.