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 4, Christmas 1986's Psi-Force #6, "...Where the Heart Is" by Danny Fingeroth, Mike Vosburg and Al Milgrom.

This was one of Marvel's New Universe titles. The funny thing about these books is that while they were launched with a few major creators, most of the titles were quickly shuffled over to other Marvel staffers (one of the few long-running creative teams was on a book that was written by a Marvel editor, Mark Gruenwald, from the start). Danny Fingeroth stepped in in a pinch to do a fill-in run on Psi-Force (which was created by Archie Goodwin and Walter Simonson, although neither of the two ever actually worked on an actual issue of the series) until another Marvel staffer, Fabian Nicieza, took over and had an actual compelling run on the series.

Anyhow, this story opens with the group of teen runaways (all with mental powers) are getting picked on at the group home they all live in by a group of 1980s cliche tough youths...

That is...some exposition, huh?

Well, Tyrone uses his ability to astral project to go back home to visit his family, where he sees that his younger brother is about to follow in his footsteps and also run away from home...

While he is gone, though, the jerk kids come up and hold a knife to his throat (as his body appears like he is passed out) and dress him as Santa Claus.

Mark Texiera, the original artist on the series, did a striking cover for the comic...

That is a bold cover! Wow!

The threat is resolved when the teens use their powers to break things up, but this causes them to be forced to leave the group home and go out on the road. However, this is not before Tyrone breaks down and connects his brother while in astral form and gets him to go back home and work on his problems with his parents. So there is still a happy-ish ending.

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

It's a New Universe book, so that right there is enough. The jerk teens are also right out of a cliched jerky 1980s street toughs catalog, so there's that.