Most disappointing Archie Christmas special: The Archie Comics Super Special, which is oversized in format and which promises “over 100 pages of Archie fun,” but which is padded with several non-Christmas stories. Sure, there’s the first Jingles the Elf story, but there’s also, at great length, Part One of the “Bollywood Love” serial and, at even greater length, the entire first 24 pages of the new chapter book Betty: Diary of a Girl Next Door. Of course I own that whole book already, but it’s also a waste of a large-format magazine to blow up those black-and-white book illustrations at the expense of, say, more pin-up pages. Archie Comics Super Special also features the silent-film tribute “Quiet on the Set,” written by Frank Doyle and drawn by Harry Lucey. This is an all-time Archie classic, which first appeared in the 1975 Archie Annual, but it’s here as part of a three-story sampler of stories anthologized in the currently available The Best of Archie Comics Book Four. Again, got it already. Shilling for its other publications is a grand Archie tradition. Rerunning dozens of pages from them in a whole other comic, without warning, is Christmas regifting of the cheapest kind.