Will Elder Weekends: Wait -- what happened to Mrs. Claus?

Just in time for the big day, here -- at long last -- is the panel that got Will Elder's adaptation of "The Night Before Christmas" in Panic #1 banned in Boston. After all the craziness, all the strangeness, and all the endless gags stuffed into the panel corners, it was one prominently displayed sign that raised the ire of the city's (Catholic) population...

As you might notice, Santa has a knife and meat cleaver hanging from the back of his sleigh, and there are fishhooks on his whip. But no, it was the words "Just Divorced" on Santa's sleigh that made the comic book verboten.

I guess it was because Santa, fictional character thought he might be, is sort of a saint, and the higher-ups didn't like the fact that he'd leave poor Mrs. Claus. It's tragic when fictional characters divorce, and it's even worse when satirical depictions of fictional characters divorces, so you really can't blame them. As is usually the case, they were just thinking of the children.