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Major comics publishers were pretty light on holiday stories and holiday specials this year, but there's no need to be blue this holiday season - CA's still got plenty of Great Holiday Comics That Never Happened to enjoy from artists like Steven Sanders, Nate Bellegarde,Dean Trippe and Kevin Mellon. You can counteract this year's lack of holiday offerings with some classic (if non-canonical) covers below.

We make a regular practice at ComicsAlliance of spotlighting particular artists or specific bodies of work, but because cartoonists, illustrators and their fans share countless numbers of great images on sites like Flickr, Tumblr, DeviantArt and seemingly infinite art blogs that we've created Best Art Ever (This Week), a weekly depository for just some of the pieces of especially compelling artwork that we come across in our regular travels across the Web. Some of it's new, some of it's old, some of it's created by working professionals, some of it's created by future stars, some of it's created by talented fans, and some of it's endearingly silly. All of it's awesome. In honor of this year's 75th anniversary of the first appearance of Superman and this weekend's release of Man of Steel, we present for the second time a compilation of some of the coolest portraits of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's brilliant creation that we've highlighted in this feature over the last few years. We know it's cheating but we didn't count on going away for a month and then coming back in the middle of a big media event. All-new next week evermore.

Valentine's Day is here at last, and that means that it's time to celebrate the people we love. Admittedly, most of the people we love are fictional vigilantes, but still: Romance is in the air. And for those of us looking for the perfect way to express it, a few of our (real) favorite people have cooked up some amazing Valentines...

Animation: The cast and crew of Disney XD's Ultimate Spider-Man discuss the upcoming show alongside a dash of new footage. Movies: It seems the live action Flash movie is still making a run at it, according to screenwriter Dan Mazeau. Tech: The Tricorder from Star Trek is a little bit closer to becoming a reality...

Novelty: Sometime CA contributor Dean Trippe is currently selling "Our Super Family" vinyl stickers at his Etsy shop. Nature: Mysterious radioactive webs, potentially created by a mutant spider, were discovered in a U.S nuclear waste facility last month...

As the CA staff hangs their stockings by the chimney with care, we've reached into the archives for one of our favorite comics that Did Not, Will Not, and occasionally Can Not Happen as Dean Trippe joins us for a trip back to the Silver Age of Christmas Comics...

While readers are preparing for this summer's Flashpoint, DC has announced yet another world-shattering crossover today: DCU: DISARMED, a major turning point for the DC universe that sees the severed limbs of Lex Luthor, Arsenal, Aquaman, The KGBeast and others rising up with a sinister plan to destroy the DC Universe...

This week's Brightest Day #19 saw a violent turn of the tide in the life of DC Comics' Sea King, so cartoonists Dean Trippe and Jordan Gibson took it upon themselves to lend Aquaman a hand.The original Aquaman's return during the events of Blackest Night was bittersweet for longtime DC Comics fans...

In our recurring feature, ComicsAlliance writer Chris Sims and a rotating cast of talented artists imagine a finer world to bring you a look at the Best Comics Ever that Did Not, Will Not, and occasionally Can Not Happen! For December, we're switching it up a little to bring you a GCTNH Holiday Special every week 'til Christmas...

Whether you recognize Dean Trippe from his web-published comic "Butterfly" or his role as a founder of Project Rooftop, you know that he's got a crisp style to his artwork that goes down like Kool-Aid over Silver Age Superman comics (while reading them, not spilled on them)...