I don't know if this is the right forum to put this in.
But I wanted the opinions of others in this subject.
Check out my site where its posted and tell me.

https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/The_Dragon_Fists_of_Smorty_Smythe/5618436/

To be fair I always assumed it's a wonderful life was a riff on a Christmas carol.

That's how the movie was first sold in Hollywood. "A contemporary American take on A Christmas Carol."
As only Frank Capra can do it.
And we'll get Jimmy Stewart ,fresh from his war service, to be Mr. Everyman.

bravo1102: Yes, with the switch that it was the sympathetic character rather than the cruel miser who's shown his life story.