AR you just confused me. HOW did Nate remember the Santa incident when it was all a dream of Becky's?

It's a Holiday Special Miracle!

Obviously, the Santa Incident wasn't just a dream, even if something out there is trying to convince them that it was.

For my part, I was wondering how Nate and Becky met up in the waking/mundane world, or even knew to think to try to contact each other, if they THOUGHT it was just a dream.

Maybe Nate's encounter with Bogmoggy made him suspect that it WASN'T a dream, and he looked Becky up in the phone book.

Either that, or Becky's having another dream right now...

Maybe it was more than a dream!

LOL
Maybe it was.

"I want to use the bat on you, but I know I'm just going to get lost if I do."
RoboRaptors rapping about how evil the things under your bed are just doesn't have the same impact as the voices on the Bubble Bunny Bedtime Ballad musical episode.

We're the roboraptors and we're here to say
monster under the bed are bad in a major way

Wait, they're dressed in more modern clothes—or at least Becky is, Nate's a square in any era—but I thought World War Santa took place in a sort of '50s America with a mix of cartoon sensibilities from multiple decades?

Honestly I love this.

That last panel, is Becky just going on and on as they walk?

I never went out and hit things with a bat. I grew up redneck and my parents were bizarre. I had army surplus gear as toys in K-5, including a handgun (firing pin removed), grenades (with some powder still in them!), and machetes (no, really.) The local kids did an impromptu attempt at a haunted trail one year, and I tripped in the dark in the woods in my stupid mask and fell on the ACTUAL SCYTHE I WAS CARRYING that I just picked up out of the garage. And my parents gave me a dissection kit because... reasons? I lopped the back of my finger off learning to respect the scalpel.

This is why I no longer wonder why Becky always has a black eye. :-P

It's supposed to be modern, but it's mostly based on my own childhood so there's a lot of old timey details -- you'll see cathode ray TVs and rotary phones and stuff.

It's like cartoons are lying to us all the time.

You can't trust those shifty cartoons!

Becky, if you did as much research for your school projects, maybe you wouldn't have to go to Sunday school as well