Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for October 05, 2010

RT - when does Dill get his own spin-off comic?

This is not a dialogue; this is duelling monologues!

…And Dill flies off down the hill. I have to complement Dill. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I remember a time when kids dressed up in costumes that were actually sensible. You know; Clowns, things you wanted to be when you grew up, superheroes; stuff like that. But no, now they have devils, vampires and all that jazz. I really have to admire Cul de Sac’s original Halloween costume ideas. Great job, Richard!

And the only real costume is entirely home-made. Store-bought costumes completely miss the spirit of Hallowe’en!

I always dressed up as myself. I wore my mask year round.

Our boys always went in home-made costumes. They were generally the best costumes around and always sparked a lot of wonderful comments. This year, for the first time, they feel they are too old to go trick or treating. So go the teenage years.

I always went as a homicidal maniac. They look like everybody else.

Ah, this brings back fond Monkey Island (TM) Memories, the pot was just big enough to fit over his head.

On my street, Super Heroes seem to be all the rage.

The best year was back in 1983 I dressed up as a bottle of Extra Strength Tylenol the year it was poisoned. More recently I donned a gray long hair wig, cap, vest, chains, handcuffs, etc to look like a biker, which is funny because I only weigh 140 pounds

One year I stuck fake cobwebs on my head and went as the underside of my bed.

My best costume was taking a sheet and sewing Big Leaf Maple leaves to it. When I put it on I looked like a tree and while getting ready to leave a bar, I stood up and freaked a guy out who thought that I was a potted plant. I informed him I was potted but not a plant.

My best costume as a kid was a scarecrow. As an adult, I once dressed myself all in black, put black greasepaint on my face, stuck a toy boat in my hat, and went as the Alaska Oil Spill.

For a number of years now I’ve just brought my black leather pig mask out of storage (it’s DEEPLY disturbing, on a number of levels), but this year I’m dressing as the Walrus and the Carpenter. (Gotta dig up some oyster shells, though…)

“Now they have devils, vampires…” That’s funny, considering that Halloween in a festival of the dead. Devils and vampires have been around for centuries, and Halloween is supposed to be scary. You can’t blame the media for that tradition. Vampires and devils are classic Halloween costumes, as are ghosts.

why in the world parents let their kids go out in the dead of night to go get candy from complete and total strangers boggles my mind