Today’s comic is worth reading with a little musical accompaniment. I suggest pulling up “Edge of Seventeen” by Stevie Nicks, which is a great song even without a Ben & Winslow comic to reference it.

May 27, 2020.  In Littleton, CO, the garbage truck had just gurgled down the alley behind our house and a gorgeous 70 degree breeze swayed the trees while the morning sun shone on our purple mountains.  This would be the perfect day for our first ever camping trip as a family.  I knew exactly where to go: out of cell phone range in this sweet little valley below Mt.  Quandary, one of Colorado’s 58 14ers.

Looks can be deceiving. Or they might not be deceiving at all and we’re all willfully ignoring how scary and weird everything is because we’re getting frozen yogurt.

When boiled to the bone, traditional folk songs skew toward the dark side. Below are loglines that summarize the plots of a representative selection of actual folk songs whose lyrics would harsh anyone’s mellow.

Pepperidge Farm remembers. Pepperidge Farm never forgets and never forgives.