Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for December 25, 2020

I like ’em al, but really love the surreal riff on the “great clown Pagliacci” joke… and the false equivalence panel.

Renner’s going to star in “Hawkeye” next year, but it’s a streaming series on Disney+, not a movie.

This is good but l miss the Trumper adventure of the week…

Merry Christmas!

364 days out of the year, “A Christmas Miracle” just seems like pointless buildup and filler, but reading the payoff makes it all worth it!

Merry Christmas, Mister Fisher!

Don’t you just hate when politicians cuss?

In commemoration (a bit late) of the first song sung on Christmas Eve in the trenches in 1914, bringing one night of peace without permission:

Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht. Silent night, holy night.

Alles schläft. Einsam wacht Everything sleeps. Alone is watchful

Nur das traute, hochheilige Paar Only the all-holiest couple.

Schläft der Knabe mit lockigem Haar Slumbers the Boy with the curly hair.

Christus natus est, Christus natus est! Christ is born, Christ is born!

My favorite Jeremy Renner film is my second favorite Gemma Arterton film, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters.

He’s never impressed me more that he did in “The Hurt Locker.”

(That’s meant as a compliment; I can’t say I’ve ever been displeased to see Renner in anything, but I thought “The Hurt Locker” was excellent. Along those lines, my favorite Jennifer Lawrence performance was in “Winter’s Bone,” and Amy Adams has never done anything to surpass “Junebug.”)

I rather liked Jeremy Renner in The Unusuals