48 Scares of Casper #48

Well, it's about time. What goes around comes around, I guess.

Happy Halloween, everyone!

Happy Halloween, everyone!

Don't let the monsters get you!

[Photo via Tassels]

Read My Stuff: Panels for Primates

For those who aren't familiar with it, Panels for Primates is a charity anthology webcomic on the act-i-vate site that's meant to raise money for the Primate Rescue Center in Kentucky. It's entirely free to read, but if the ape and monkey stories move or entertain you at all, you're invited - but not obligated - to contribute.

I'm a huge fan of these animals, so I was thrilled when editor Troy Wilson invited me to contribute a short, two-page story. And even more thrilled when he told me I'd be working with the awesome Simon Roy. Between the two of us, we packed a ton of action into two pages including giant cephalopods, tiki-men, a sinister elephant, a mad tortoise, slime-monsters, werewolves, mummies, and I'm self-indulgent enough to have thrown in giant monsters, giant robots, and yes, gorillas riding dinosaurs. It also features that most famous of Kentucky primates, Daniel Baboon. Please go check it out.

31 Things I Love About Halloween: Skeletons

This is kind of cheating, because it's really a sub-set of "Decorations," but I like this particular decoration enough that it deserves its own item.

We've got a cool, life-size skeleton that we bring out this time of year. Last year we started playing a game with it, putting it in different parts of the house and posing it like it's taking a bath, sleeping in someone's bed, sitting at their desk, etc. The rule is that whoever discovers it gets to move it for the next person to find.

Art Show: Frankenstein's a Big, Fat Cheater-Pants

Conan vs. Werewolves



By Alex Horley. [Illustrateurs]

Monster of the Mountains



By Ken Kelly. [Illustrateurs]

Xombi vs. Kinderessen



By JJ Birch. [John Rozum. Man, I miss Xombi.]

After the break: More monster madness.

Quotes of the Week: Buried Again

In 897, Pope Stephen VI dug up the decomposing body of his predecessor and put it on trial for violating church law. Formosus, who had been dead for nine months, was found guilty and buried again.
--Brother Calvin, pointing out that there's no crazy like Old School Crazy.

...for some reason, strong aliens don't creep me out. Strong aliens are just monsters, and it's regular aliens I find creepy -- E.T., the critters from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, etc. A strong alien will punch you until you die, which sucks, but is quick and normal. A regular alien is assumably smart, and will capture [you] for god-knows-what for god-knows-how-long -- that's what kept me up at night worrying about alien abduction as a kid.
--Rob Bricken, nailing it.