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 8, Christmas 1983 (really more like early 1984, oddly enough)'s Daredevil #206 by Denny O'Neil, David Mazzuccheli and Danny Bulanadi

This story is set during the Micah Synn Saga, which I wrote about a couple of months ago about how sketchy the whole thing was handled by Denny O'Neil (not one of his better story ideas, to be sure).

It opens with Matt Murdock's secretary, Becky Blake, calling to say how she had just been mugged, with the fur coat that she had purchased for her ailing mother stolen. Matt quickly changes into Daredevil and tracks the guy and grants him a Christmas wish...by not breaking all of the bones in his body...

Foggy Nelson's wife, Debbie, continues to obsess over Micah Synn, bringing him a Christmas present and the jerk responds by trying to "take her" (it is broken up by Wilson Fisk, who finds the display outrageous).

So Murdock and Nelson are holding a Christmas party when Micah Synn and his people break in and begin to torment them, especially Matt for being a weak "blind man," but Matt tricks them into letting him knock the lights off so that he could change into Daredevil. Mazzucchelli nails the scene with the Christmas tree being knocked over so well...

Daredevil is having trouble taking down Micah Synn, when Wilson Fisk steps in and the Kingpin decides to help his enemy as the Kingpin hates Micah Synn even more than he hates Daredevil...

Note that Debbie Nelson is mostly just concerned with Micah Synn's injuries (she is messed in the head).

What a dark little Christmas tale.

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

I think the whole Micah Synn Saga could only really exist during the 1980s, so I guess that.