That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 31, 2019

The kid in the lion costume got a rock.

“It would be a shame if something bad were to happen to your house. How about a few more candies for the both of us.”

He won’t forget rule number one next year – BRING A BAG!

If you don’t want chocolate all over your porch, I suggest you let my brother use your bathroom

. . . and fast.

“Ya got any of the real stuff in the house? I mean chocolate! The Skittles and Sweetarts are going in the garbage as soon as we get home.”

Actually daddy and mister-mom let me decide……

I’m sorry Mr Smithers… my mother specifically instructed us to NOT come inside to try out your big lollipop.

“i really wanted to be in a norman rockwell painting, but this second rate illustrator was the best i could do…”

The kid in the yellow jogging suit would have been a lion but his parents decided it was too scary, so he is dressed as a desert rat.

I said “Yippee ki-yay mother……”

“He’s just shy about his ‘lion’ costume, mister … he wanted to be a zombie-killer-clown.”

“I peed in my brother’s candy.”

“What am I? I’m Donald Trump – Daddy said he was the scariest. But nobody gives me any candy!”

“No candy for you – and NO tricks, I know where you live.”

“Mister…..if you dump that bowl of candy in my hat, you can have my little brother. Mom never wanted him anyway.”

I’m whatever I wanna be. Got a problem with that?

Oh crap. Now I have to ask what they think they are?

That’s it.

I’m taking down the decorations, smashing the pumpkins, and chasing the ankle biters off the property.

GET OFF MY LAWN!

“I’m a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.” Wednesday Addams (Christina Ricci) in The Addams Family (1991).

“Psst…You wouldn’t have any of those blue pills, would you, Mister? I got a hot date.”

Trick Or Treat!: 

https://brocknicol.tumblr.com/post/37112832936/trick-or-treat 

has sparse info about this pre-2014 painting or drawing (says it was created 6 years ago, but not 6 years ago relative to when).

https://www.freelanced.com/freelancers/about.aspx?freelancerid=97208 

https://www.brocknicolart.com/about 

both have limited info about this artist. This is the first work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2319 (October 30, 2019) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Hey Joey, the skillet grilled pennies that last house gave us are starting to make my bag smoke…

Leave it to a Canadian to still be painting idyllic Norman Rockwell style paintings in 2016. Everything and everyone is just so pleasant up north. Except the weather.

“T’is my favorite night of the year !” said Lars, with a lecherous leer, “There’s no need to lurk/ outside in the murk-/ The kiddies come to me right here !”

The kid in the lion costume looks in his bag and thinks “I’ve been collecting all over the neighborhood. Should be really good when I set fire to it on his porch.”

want more candy boys? them come inside, but tell anybody.

My exclamations are “Arrrrgh!” and “Yeeee-Haw!”

“You’re a level four what?”