Archibald is an Aardvark.

Archibald worked for Neptune Studios with his brother Andre Aardvark. He was accused of killing his brother (and some other people; every time he did a film, someone died) and spent some years in the loony bin.

Recently released, Archie is being approached by Neptune to get in front of the camera again, this time co-starring Santa Claus. Before the filming, Baron von Badger shows up, saying that he’s directed all of Archie’s previous films, why not this one?

Archie complains of a headache, Badger gives him a “homemade remedy” that knocks him out. Archie has a dream of Santa getting killed. He wakes up; thankful that it was just a dream . . . or was it?

Santa’s dead, Badger gets blamed and everything’s over, right? Not so fast, chuckles. How can Archie save Christmas if the issue ends with Santa Claus dead?

All in all, this is a fun book. See it in the LCS, pick it up and look at page one. If that doesn’t hook you, nothing will. This is a one-shot book, however — but it may not be the last time we see Archie.

It’s a one-off story, but we do have more plans for holiday books. We’re doing an Easter story, that’ll be written and illustrated by Grant Bond, and there will be a Halloween book, which we’ll both do. So we have a lot of plans for this character, and I’d like to do something with Rascal Rooster, the character from the first five pages of this story. So we do have plans for more Archibald.