Dark Side of the Horse by Samson for December 25, 2021

And ya needled by it.

Maybe a bit too lifelike. Just maybe.

It makes you pine for a real tree.

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree

How bald are now thy branches!

O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree

My anger’s not artificially!

A little too realistic

sheds like one too.

Maybe too lifelike.

Never shoulda bought that tree from The Christmas Tree Shed…! … somehow we know you will still have a Merry Christmas Horace…!

Merry Surrealist Christmas.

LOL! Oh Horace…it probably needed a drink…

You can still decorate it….a-la-Charlie Brown..style

I personally use artificial trees precisely so to avoid exactly that problem, so…it’d be defeating the whole point for me.

OK Horace, time to get out the Hoover and Spruce up.

As long as it doesn’t burst into flames in the next panel. Merry Christmas!

Accelerant.

Well, that’s a real shame.

This tree is so beautiful I should kill it. Always conflicted about the custom.

Now, Horace pines for the days when the artificial trees were made better.

Now it’s so deathlike.

Good thing it wasn’t a Lovecraft tree as a zombie.

In 1906, the Tombstone Prospector (newspaper) described a new innovation for the Christmas season … “one of the novelties during the Christmas celebration this year are artificial Christmas trees … The imitation is so exact a production of the real article that it is difficult to tell the difference between the two.”

Uh, right.