Halloween is almost here, and what better way to get into the appropriate mood than with a creepy marionette that has mysteriously taken Winslow’s place!

One of the benefits of publishing comics every Friday is that I always get to post something whenever a Friday the 13th rolls around. In what has become a Ben & Winslow tradition, these comics tend to be the most violent and destructive, because it just wouldn’t feel like a Friday the 13th without someone getting mutilated.

Uh-oh. It’s October, and you know what that means, right? RIGHT?!

This one will probably make a lot of people angry, because dog people are passionate about dogs. But I want you all to know that despite Winslow’s personal feelings, I–his creator–don’t actually have a problem with dog people and I certainly don’t have a problem with dogs.

From Ben & Winslow Studios comes a movie that is not even remotely similar to the beloved 1987 film The Princess Bride, because the words “princess” and “bride” appear nowhere in the title and because this one has a lot more robots. This is a wholly original script that has neither equal nor analog: a romantic fantasy comedy presented as a story told by a grandfather to his sick grandson, which also features robots! You’ll love it.

This was just another excuse to draw panel after panel of weird facial expressions. Because sometimes that just how I roll. Also, I’m contractually obligated to engage in toilet humor at least once a year, so I figured I’d finally check that off my to-do list.

Winslow strikes me as the kind of person who would mansplain everything, all the time, even if he really had no idea what he was talking about–no, especially if he had no idea what he was talking about. He would mansplain childbirth to a mother of four, he would mansplain economics to an entrepreneur with worldwide business interests, he would mansplain space travel to a NASA scientist with 15 years of experience.

Some people are not meant to be in romantic relationships. At the top of that list is Winslow.

When Winslow gets on a human airplane he has to use a booster seat or, on one memorable occasion, stowaway in the overhead compartment.

I don’t know what to say about this one except everything about it is true, true, true.