Close to Home by John McPherson for March 25, 2024

and the children never slept again…

Steve, Child Protective Services would like a word with you.

Sounds like some of the original fairy tales. Anyone ever read “Der Struwelpeter” (which Mark Twain translated as Shock-haired Peter”)?

Horrible to read to kids!

Bleeb is even too scared to show!

That’s actually a decent drawing of Stephan King LOL

Lovecraft

Lovecraft .

Looks like John and Bleeb are on a short vacation, so here’s a rerun of a pro tip.

Pro Tip For Mornings:

A mouse trap carefully placed on top of your alarm clock can prevent you from being late for work. Your morning may not start-off exactly as planned, but our research shows that the chances of you rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button, are painful and slim at best.

— your friends at Pro Tips

Not for me, thank you.

Blatant plagiarism. This is the scene with the Black Knight from MP & the Holy Grail.

Try the original “3 little pigs” to scare the kids.

The kids became “cereal killers”

Brutal. Lol

At least they have vivid nightmares.

I didn’t realise until recently that he’s branched out into crime books now. Still a bit gruesome in places, but not like his horror books

When he reads, he likes to clown around with IT.

And now his son is an author in his own right

“And the children never slept again”. And thus the age of Zombie stories were born.

Go to the movies and watch Nontey Python’s Holy Grail

Frightfully hilarious!

So the cellar dweller had three ears and three arms? Scary!

Stephen should buy the rights to this cartoon and send it out on his 2024 Christmas cards.

Gotta give them kids their phobias early.

When you suffer from a malady….with no vaccine…and it tends to impact your work….It tells in your work. By constantly referencing said malady it really dates the novels and irritates half of the readship.

Sounds like the kind of bedtime stories my mom would tell us kids.

That bed is gonna need to be changed soon….