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Three-panel strip. Top left: a girl with glasses and striped overalls sits on a small stool, chin in hand, while a grinning boy points at her and says “Wait ’til you see my Halloween costume this year — pure evil!” She answers, “I think I’m going as an existential threat…” Top right, the girl shrugs: “Plague, fuel shortages, civil unrest — I can’t make up my mind.” Bottom, a large panel: the girl asks “What about you?” and the boy, now wearing a big orange circus peanut costume, jerks a thumb at himself: “Circus peanut.”

Halloween Costume

by Based Comic© 2026 Based Comic. Reprinted with permission.Original
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Panel 1. Boy: Wait ’til you see my Halloween costume this year — pure evil! Girl: I think I’m going as an existential threat…

Panel 2. Girl: Plague, fuel shortages, civil unrest — I can’t make up my mind.

Panel 3. Girl: What about you? Boy, in a circus peanut costume: Circus peanut.

Four-panel strip. Panel 1: in a living room, an older ghost with round glasses, a mustache and a clipboard coaches a small trainee ghost in a baseball cap, while an old woman sits on the couch: “Okay, kid. To haunt your subject…” Panel 2: “…you’re gonna wanna choose something really terrifying.” Panel 3: the trainee peeks over the back of the couch as the TV zaps on in front of the old woman: “And now the news.” Panel 4: the trainee holds up the remote, and the mentor nods: “Nice work, kid.” Signed War and Peas.

Ghost Job

by War and Peas© 2026 War and Peas (Elizabeth Pich & Jonathan Kunz). Shared with permission.Original
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Panel 1. Mentor ghost, to the trainee: Okay, kid. To haunt your subject…

Panel 2. Mentor ghost: …you’re gonna wanna choose something really terrifying.

Panel 3. The trainee switches on the old woman’s TV. TV: And now the news.

Panel 4. Mentor ghost: Nice work, kid.

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