It’s October, so let’s get some Halloween-themed Ben & Winslow comics going. Winslow has replaced his head with a pumpkin a couple times, so I thought it would be a good idea to switch things up a bit.

What’s depressing about this comic is that I’m preeeeeetty sure my kids actually do this.

Breasts should not move as if they were partially filled water balloons. As much as I would like to blame the wild breasticulations in a certain caliber of video games and cartoons on a very limited grasp of anatomy, I get the distinct impression that all this bouncing and jiggling is done on purpose. And so I ask, why do you want breasts to move as if they were partially filled water balloons? They could quite literally kill someone. Or at least blacken a few eyes.

Winslow wishes he had this kind of power over me, but let me just say: “Never again!”

I’m an old man, so I remember the Golden Age of newspaper comic strips, back in the mid-80s to mid-90s when you could look forward to Gary Larson’s Far Side and Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes every morning. Those days are long-since past, and while many artists have tried to replicate Larson’s and Watterson’s success (sometimes by outright copying their shtick or their style–unsuccessfully, I’m happy to say) few cartoonists have replicated their success. And with newspaper strips being eclipsed with independent webcomics–like Ben & Winslow and about a bazillion others–few cartoonists will really have the same opportunity.