Man. This is like I stepped into a time machine and ended up in 2004 or something. I haven’t drawn many strips like this lately: single panel, full color, with a joke that feels like you’ve just walked in as the punchline is being told. That’s all I DID back then, guys! And then I was seduced by the power of multiple panels and multiple jokes and all of that decadent nonsense. But for today, we’re dialing it back. So here’s a Ben & Winslow strip, 2004-style.

For those of you on the other side of the world, IHOP stands for International House of Pancakes. It’s a restaurant that specializes in breakfast, but it’s only truly great because, in many locations, you can order breakfast 24 hours a day. It’s not very international, though, so I don’t want the joke to be lost on you actual internationals.

This comic is based on an actual conversation my wife and I had.

Some bands are made of people. Some are made of robots. And one, just one, was made out of bioengineered cheese monsters.

No discussion about superpowers would be complete without a visit from Psychic Rob, who was born with every psychic ability ever. The telekinetic maneuver displayed was instrumental in how he met his wife. It’s also the reason he’s had to move from five different neighborhoods in the past six years.