Hello & welcome back to A Look at Disney as we continue our look at Disney's Christmas Classics and I know that I haven't reviewed a whole as we've only made it to 1965 but we are ending it with the weirdest one yet.
The Plot
We open on Santa having a big breakfast going around his workshop as he's getting ready for the holiday season. But really, this part of the comic is pointless. We then cut to Bambi and his friends playing in the snow and we get a back and forth between these two events. We then cut to Mr. Stork from Dumbo helping deliver letters to Santa.
Yes, thank you. Apparently, one of Mr. Stork's sons is struggling to carry the bag of letters and drops it in the forest beneath where Bambi, Thumper, & Flower are. And Bambi decides that they need to get the letter to Santa.
What is this? Bambi and his friends chase after the letter and Old Friend Owl has it. And okay, this bugging the heck outta me. Mr. Stork and Santa have a cartoonish look and so does Bambi... in some panels whereas sometimes, he looks realistic. And tonally, that clashes with the other characters.
Yeah, that just doesn't work. The letter drifts into the cave of a wolf, where Bambi and friends are nearly attacked. They are only saved by Bambi creating an SOS in the snow. How would a deer know how to do that? Mr. Stork spots the SOS and comes to the aid of Bambi and they give the letter to Mr. Stork, so that he can take it to Santa.
We're ending with this comic because this so far encapsulates the absolute insanity of some of these strips. I did not think anything would top Ludwig Von Drake saving Santa and that is still pretty weird but while this might be seem like a tamer story to some, I lost it with this one and that is why I had to stop. I could only take so much crazy. This more than any other felt like a clash of styles. And this is a shame after the beautiful and relatively simple Cinderella comic, we looked at.
My Final Thoughts
Yeah, that about sums it up. I had thought about tripling up and review as many as I could to get to the first comic from the 70's but I had to stop here. It's not bad but I couldn't take anymore of these comics' lunacy. I understand, how this may seem to be one of the more normal comics as it doesn't feature things like Smee being shot out of a cannon but this goes back to something, that we have looked at before with older Disney Comics, i.e The Seven Dwarfs and Dumbo. As this is crossing over characters from two different types of movies. Bambi is a more serious Disney film than people realize and this ties back into the issue I brought up with the realistic look whereas Dumbo and by extension, Mr. Stork is a movie that does have an iconic tearjerker moment, it's more of a bright and happy feelgood movie. Yes, you could argue that of Bambi, but Bambi is more somber than Dumbo ever gets. And I think that is what brought about the inherent weirdness I felt reading this comic. Well, that ends our look at Disney's Christmas Classics for this year. Having said that, A Look at Disney is not with Christmas as we look at has become one of the most infamous things from Disney in 2017.
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