Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 30, 2024

This has to be deliberate. It’s Moench, not Munch.

Home Alone?

One day would have been enough for this arc.

My money’s on Ellison.

Yes, it’s Munch. As in, Munch on all the candy.

I think he’s the electorate after another tRump speech.

I don’t think I’ve ever guessed on of these “costumes” of his, and I’ve always been a bookworm. Mallet has a great talent for cryptic visual and verbal clues. I would love it if Caufield was planning to go as the Great Pumpkin, but why he’d be practicing the look Linus would have, I don’t know, and I’m sure I’m miles off.

It’s post election expressions

He has said “getting ready” each time he is asked. It has to be an actual clue. Google was no help on this one.

I suppose when (if?) we get the answer, we’ll all be smacking our foreheads.

Wonder if he’s aiming to upset Mrs. Olsen. She’s his favorite target. Mr. Spaetzle could be next, then maybe Miss Plainwell. He considered the girls in his class as ‘audience’ not targets

I suspect this week has been, is, and will be a build up to Halloween.

Ben Yagoda’s Gobsmacked?

Or maybe Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (“The horror! The horror!”)?

Heart of Darkness? The last line. The horror, the horror.

Ichabod will be doing the screaming.

He’s just exercising his jaws so he’ll be ready to do a lot of munching once he gets back from trick-or-treating.

This is tiresome. Three days of “Is it Munch’s ‘The Scream?’” “No.”

If you don’t have enough ideas to fill three days of leadup for the punchline, try a different punchline.

If he won’t be doing it then he’s not getting ready.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for Munch’s “Scream.”

He’s a Trump voter next Wednesday after he’s crushed.

I’m still going with Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Caulfield said he won’t be the one doing it, my guess is Mrs Olsen.

In “The Scream”, the figure thus presented isn’t “the one doing it”, contrary to popular belief.

Trump losing the election?

Same “joke” 3 days running. Will this get to the point soon? Like tomorrow?

The quote “Getting Ready” is part of Halloween scenario?

Could he be anticipating the day after elections :/

He thinks that is how people will go when they see him.