Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for October 31, 2018

how come trick-or-treaters never take the “trick” half of trick-or-treating seriously?

If that were for real, there’d be more than one parent calling the police, even if it is Halloween.

Good one, Baldo. Don’t think I’ve seen it before.

That was a pretty good trick, Baldo. Kudos!

That wasn’t mean. That was Halloween excellence!

Yeah, not nice at all

Halloween is not a success until I have at least one kid who doesn’t want to walk up to the house. …. but when that happens I will go out to the sidewalk to give them two pieces of candy.

The kids will be excitedly bragging about this for weeks. (“You should have seen Jose! He _____ his pants!”)

That was awesome.

I used to do this sort of thing all the time: dress up as the scarecrow/mummy/werewolf prop on the porch that moves/greets the kids; an undertaker that walks up behind them, as my wife hands out treats, and measures them for a casket; the hand that reaches out through the wall and so forth. But that was back when kids would still TorT my neighborhood.

This is the first time he has done it.