Hi Ras!
I'm glad you like the modern angle and silliness.
The comic bubbles come from a website called superlame.com where you upload a picture and add the bubbles. There is just the one font in different sizes, but a few different bubbles. The picture saves with the website's little marker in the corner, which I cropped out because advertising their site in a hundred pictures seemed a bit much. So I give superlame.com props now.
Hey there Martin!
You nailed the influence for this story! I love that movie and when I got the new Target Santa sets, I knew I had to try a bad santa. There is a bit of Christmas Story in there too. It was intended for just a picture, but when the mall set and all the characters were assembled, I knew it had to be bigger than just one photo. I had to shoot it all without the aid of a tripod, which I was suppose to get for Christmas
I also held one of the lights in alot of photos which leads to some uneven results at times. I learned alot though and look forward to making a more polished story next time.