Yosemite Sam would like to think that he's a tough and scary guy!
Both in his own "Looney Tunes Universe", and even in his 2017 crossover into the DC Comics universe!
And below he gets to prove it to himself, on the cover of YOSEMITE SAM # 55 (Gold Key Comics, Cover Date: September, 1978)!
Happy Hall-o-weenie, all ya dadburn idjit galoots!
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Happy Halloween, Doc!
Happy Halloween, Joe!
Summoning up my best "Vic Lockman"... And a great big boo to all of you... too! ...Eek!
For the record, we got only FIVE trick-or-treaters ALL DAY!
I feel I'm witnessing the passing of yet another tradition...
A lot of parents probably have Halloween parties for their kids instead. At least you didn’t have any ornery witches coming to your door with derby-wearing ogres to get candy for three identical ducklings.
And thank goodness (or badness?) for that, Deb!
Since most Halloweens tend to fall on school days (as did this one), I’d tend to think it’s something even more basic than fitting a party between school, homework, dinner, and bedtime…
For better or for worse… actually WORSE, per the times… I believe that parents rightfully don’t take their younger children to the houses of persons that they don’t know. We’ve only begun our third year in this – our hopefully final location, save the cemetery – and because we largely keep to ourselves, many folks simply don’t know us yet.
Older kids really have vanished. They would travel on their own in packs, and not care whose doorbell they rang. But I tend to think that now video games, social media, and the like tend to keep them indoors.
On the plus side, there is a seemingly total lack of Halloween vandalism – at least in my area. No eggs. No toilet paper, No shaving cream on houses and cars. No garbage can tipping… etc.
Twenty years ago, and only blocks from where we live now, I can recall sitting outside my house (as did “the guy next door” and the “guy across the street”) until near midnight, watching that our properties weren’t vandalized. It was real then, and it appears to be gone now!
THAT “tradition”, I’m happy to have seen pass!
Here was my Hallowe'en:
No trick-or-treaters
Spaghetti for dinner
"The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone"
plus "The Flintstones' New Neighbors"
plus Flintstones: "A Haunted House is Not a Home"
plus Flintstones: "The Flintstones Meet the Gruesomes"
The night before was "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"
and the night before that was "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad."
Throw in Phyllis Diller's visit to the "Mouse Factory" and you have my Hallowe'en in a nutshell.
I decided on "Hallowe'en Light" this year or "Hallowe'en Bedrock Style, Peanuts Style, and Disney Style".
And you know what? I had a "great" old time!
Not a bad way to go / My friend Scarecrow...
Though instead... Of that "later" Flintstones jabber...
I'd choose J. Evil Scientist with...
Snagglepuss or Snooper and Blabber!
But great "earlier" Flintstones... without that Gazoo...
But, shouldn't you also... have watched Scooby-Doo?
...Yeah, I need some sleep! So what? :-)
I had 30 trick-or-treaters, which is pretty good. Used to get more, but that was when the across-the-street neighbors did a haunted-house deal which drew a lot of people from elsewhere in town, the younger of whom then trick-or-treated the street.
The thirty who came all got to choose two mini-comics from the variety I bought from the Halloween Comicfest list this year: Rocky & Bullwinkle, Archie, Vamplets, Johnny Boo for the little ones, etc. Very satisfying for them and for me. Most of the kids are very happy to get comics rather than candy from one of the houses they visit! I highly recommend the Halloween Comicfest comics for anyone who does get trick-or-treaters. They come 25 to a $5 pack, you order them through your comics store in summer and they come in early October.
...and while I did enjoy how Wilma was depicted in "The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone" (watched last year at Scarecrow's suggestion!), my Halloween standard re-watches are all Disney cartoons including Donald: Lonesome Ghosts, Trick or Treat, and Donald's Halloween Scare. Plus, if I have time, either The Ghost Goes West, Ghost Town, or Bubba Ho-Tep.
Elaine:
A friend of mine, who lives less than 30 minutes away by car and in a neighborhood with a slightly different demographic makeup, reported Halloween activity far in excess of my own. Perhaps our living in a post-war suburb – where all the original homeowners came in at more-or-less the same time, have all pretty much passed on, and the succeeding generation (like Esther and myself) are not of an age to still have small children – has something to do with it. (No, Averi did not come here to trick-or-treat. She remained in her own neighborhood.)
But, there are still groups of parents and children walking the streets, and very few of them came to our door despite our having lights on and some hanging Halloween decorations. Through the front window I saw more than one of these groups bypass – or purposefully turn away from – our house! And there nothing at all uninviting about the house!
So, I still feel that it’s a matter of parents (rightly, in these terrible times) not going to the houses of people they don’t know! …And older kids Facebooking and taking pictures of their food! (I’ll still never get that last one – but even Averi’s parents do it, so what do I know! Though, also rightly, they now take far more pictures of HER!)
Mini comics! That is a WONDERFUL way to approach Halloween! The temptation is too great to say “Rot their MIND, not their TEETH!” (…There! I said it! I’m not proud, but I said it!) But, if even one young child grows up to read and collect comics, rather than “taking pictures of their food”), you will have made the world a better place! BRAVO!
Finally, things around here become even more (…all together now) “Horrifically Busy” than normal – hence the delays in processing these Blog comments – so I did no “Halloween watching” this year!
…Though, I later managed to squeeze-in a “wonderfully-bizarre-in-a-good-way”, and “uncharacteristically modern” film for my usual tastes – “Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter” (2012) – on the weekend following Halloween! Yes, it’s exactly what you might think… and (perhaps, not so oddly) is tangentially related to our current state of politics!
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