Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 30, 2021

What that ghost wrote on Rat’s garage is leaving Rat white as a sheet.

And suddenly the kid become a street-artist.

Rat’s doing his impression of a Seinfeld character. “No candy for you! One year!” :-)

What is Rat doing at Goat’s house?

Is it just me, or is the Ghost’s pumpkin or whatever it is labeled radioactive?

If a detective wanted to find out the “ghost’s” identity, my advice would be, “No sheet, Sherlock.”

Is that costume appropriation in terms of subjugating the spirits?

Do trick-or-treaters still do the ‘trick’ part these days? Because I can’t remember that I ever did when I was little.

You just bring out the creativity in people, Rat.

It’s only one day a year so the ghost can’t respond with a Yelp rating of his own. Not that I’m standing by the vandalism.

So Rat had to go over to Goat’s house to give out candy because Pig gave away all of his candy two days ago?

Seems like Rat failed to destroy the kid’s self-esteem.

Who you gonna call?

The individual spray painting on the garage door a “Ghost Writer”?!

Rat just give out the candy !

…but we do rate rats; you be a rat fink of the mouse be a louse variation. Get back to your private suite at the test lab. Gosh, it wasn’t you at Wuhan dispersing those covid germs? Holy moly, that does change this palaver to a terrorist from within our gates raving and ranting those covid germs to one and all. Call the cops on Stephan Pasts and he does have one of those foreign sounding name: dig up Senator McCarthy for a Cold War investigation but don’t dig up Nixon, please. At long last Pastis, have you no same?

It looks like the ghost has already done very well in the candy department. His pumpkin is completely full. Also, today is National Candy Corn Day.

A ghost costume? Sheet, man, you can do better!

Turning the Tables

A Halloween poem by Patrick Winstanley

The prowling youth

With fangs and cape

From trick or treat

There’s no escape

Unless you make

Your own trick treats

And hand out bags

Of Ex-lax sweets.

You missed a perfectly good chance to give him a rock, Rat.

Rat is showing his true colors….

It’s obvious that Rat wants to keep the Candy for himself.

The Russian judge is always the tough one.

What if it turns out that the ghost costume is actually hiding an even more amazing costume underneath?

Online rating is getting out of hand if it is bleeding into everything else.

I then proceeded to throttle Rat for getting to the door before I could.

Hmm now I kind of want to try this…

And I would think the kid ran screaming, “anti-maskers …anti-maskers…anti-maskers….”

The ghost retaliates.

“I got a rock…”

Reminds me of the Soup Nazi on Seinfeld – No soup for you!

he needs to dance.. maybe he can do the Boogaloo?

I did this once. One of my biggest hauls of candy ever.

The best Hallowe’en costume I ever saw referenced the 1988 winter olympics and consisted of one normally-dressed teenager carrying an ordinary one-person snow sled. When asked, he grinned and said, “I’m the Jamaican Bobsled Team.” I handed him two more Snickers bars.

This day and age of store bought princess and superhero costumes, an old fashioned simple, probably homemade ghost costume IS creative. And a lot more effort than going to the store and buying one.

Give them the critique, Rat, but also give them the candy. You could even have a good stash for better costumes. Save candy corn and raisins for ghost costumes.

Thanks, Rat, for being so helpful to Goat! True, Goat is so unreactive that you’re getting away with it….

I wear a ballcap that says, “Last minute Halloween costume”.

Maybe you don’t

hidding cheese from Pig?