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Tauhid Bondia, Creator of the syndicated comic strip Crabgrass
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(45/46) Candy Cain
(The gang, now back on the street, is watching other children Trick-or-Treat) Kevin: Man, saving holidays is thankless work. Miles: Yeah, but somebody’s gotta do it. Carla: Can I call Not IT in advance for Thanksgiving? Baxter: Full disclosure: I actually thought Halloween was the one with colored eggs.
November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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(44/46) Candy Cain
(Lewis is watching the gang as they exit the sewer) Baxter: Lewis, I know people treated you badly. But if you ever decide to come back to the surface, just know you’ve got friends up there now. Lewis: Thanks, Baxter. Thanks ALL of you. Now hurry up and get home. I’m sure your parents are worried. (Kevin approaches thee cut ladder carry a bag of candy larger than his body) Lewis: Sure you got enough candy? Kevin: You sure this is the biggest bag you have?
November 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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(43/46) Candy Cain
Kevin: (to Lewis) So, you’re just going to stay down here in the sewers forever? Lewis: Why not? Lewis: There’s nothing up there for me. No friends, no family. And now, without Candy Cain, I get to make my own choices. I’m finally free! Lewis: (Pushing open a door at the back of the dungeon) And I have you to thank for that! To show my gratitude I’ve got something special to show you. Lewis: (Revealing an entire room piled high with halloween candy) Ever wonder what Candy Cain did with all that candy?
November 12, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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(42/46) Candy Cain
Carla: What do you mean you don’t want to leave? In your diary you said you had to find a way out! Candy Cain: oh that. Candy Cain: Those were my early entries. After some time down here, I actually began to enjoy the solitude, believe it or not. Candy Cain: It turns out you don’t really miss getting constantly ignored or made fun of all that much. Go figure. Carla: (looking at Lewis’ diary) Oh…I didn’t realize. Candy Cain: There’s also a spy novel I’ve been working on if you keep reading.
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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(41/46) Candy Cain
Kimmy: (excited) You guys, we did it! We rescued Lewis and stopped Candy Cain! Baxter: (off tot he side with a sarcastic glance) “We?” Kimmy: We SAVEd Halloween! Carla: Oh, I don’t think Halloween was really in dan- Kimmy: MYSTERY MAVERICKS FOREVER! Benji: (looking at his wrist) And just in time too. We’ve only got a few minutes before we have to be back at Kevin’s house for the sleepover. Krystal: (To Lewis Cain) Come on, Lewis! We’ll take you back to the surface! Lewis: (calmly) Oh, no thank you.
November 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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(40/46) Candy Cain
Lewis Cain: (slowly coming out of a years long stupor) What…? What’s happening? Who are you people? Miles: (cautiously) Lewis Cain? Is that you? Lewis: (touching his face) I… yes! I can’t hear his voice anymore! I’m ME! Lewis: (suddenly standing up straight) I’M FREE!!
November 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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(39/46) Candy Cain
“What happened to 38?”. The same thing that always happens. I accidentally updated the same number twice at some point throwing the whole count off by one. Bad news: One less comic in this arc. Good news: one less comic in this arc (it all depends on how you feel about this arc).🤷🏾‍♂️
Miles: Baxter! Did you just SAVE us? Baxter: ( Struggling to hold on to the bag of needs) Maybe! I’ve never used a Bag of Needs this way. Baxter: (watching as the bag lifts out of his hands on its own and begins swirling around in a tight circle) I’m not sure what happens when you put something INSIDE of- (Baxter watches as the back swirls tighter and tighter seeming to shrink in on itself) Baxter: (The bag finally swirls even tighter collapsing into a single point and disappearing with a *POP*) Oh.
November 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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(37/46) Candy Cain
Mask: WHO WANTS TO BE CANDY CAIN FIRST?! Lewis: (holding the mask up limply) Guuuh… Kevin: (stepping in front of the rest of the kids) Now WAY! Get back! Stay away from my friends! Baxter: (Quickly grabbing the mask from Lewis’ weak grip) I have a better idea! Mask: Wha-? No! (Baxter shoves the mask deep into his magic bag of needs)
November 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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(36/46) Candy Cain
Candy Cain: Unfortunately, human suffering cannot be maintained without HOPE, which poor Lewis ran out of long ago. Candy Cain: And THAT, little ones is where you come in. Lewis was already broken by his life when I found him. But YOU, I can break slowly over time. Benji: (furious) YOU MONSTER! Candy Cain: How easy it would be to believe that. But I’m not monster… (Candy Cain removes the most revealing an old, weathered dazed looking Lewis Cain) Mask: I merely wish to survive. Lewis: Uuuugh…
November 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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(35/46) Candy Cain
Candy Cain: It was a simple thing to inspire Lewis to create the mask that allowed me to inhabit his body. Candy Cain: A keeping him locked away down here on deepened his deliscious suffering. Candy Cain: But after years of feeding on him, Lewis’ misery began to spoil. Candy Cain: I would come away still hungry. I was beginning to fade…
November 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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(33,34/46)Candy Cain
November 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Baxter: (to Candy Cain) You’ve gone to great lengths to disguise yourself a a typical Halloween Monster, but I know the TRUTH. Candy Cain: Do tell. Baxter: It’s like this. Anywhere where a lot of humans live you end up with a bunch of excess emotional energy in the atmosphere. Baxter: Over time, this energy coalesces into these sort of spirits that thrive on either good or bad emotions. Love Bugs and their counterparts, Bitter Flies. Baxter: Three guess which one this guy is.
October 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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(30/46) Candy Cain
Kevin: But WHY! Why start kidnapping kids NOW? Krystal: each! You’ve been terrorizing this neighborhood for years! And all you’ve ever done was steal candy! Baxter: (interrupting) I know why. Baxter: (approaching Candy Cain) It’s because he’s DYING.
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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(29/64) Candy Cain
Krystal: Uhm, Mister Cain, if you don’t mind me asking. You never kidnapped anyone before. Why did you choose us? Candy Cain: Isn’t it Obvious, child? You’re all friends. Candy Cain: A sickeningly happy band of compatriots who have never experienced the loneliness of being ostracized from society. Candy Cain: I couldn’t have asked for a more perfect group.
October 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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(27, 28/46) Candy Cain
October 27, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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(26/46) Candy Cain
Miles: So, Candy Cain is actually the mask, no the guy wearing it. Krystal: Yeah, and if we can find a way to get it off he might go back to normal. Or whatever counts as normal after being locked in a cage for years. Baxter: Speaking of which, we still have to find a way out of here. Carla: Actually, I may have an idea about BOTH of those.
October 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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(25/46) Candy Cain
Kimmy: There are years of entries in this journal. It sounds like Lewis is a PRISONER down here! Miles: Wait. Do you mean…? Kimmy: It’s the MASK! There’s some kind of entity inside it controlling him and turning him into Candy Cain. Do you guys know what this means? Kevin: (punching his palm) YES! It means we have to defeat Lewis ONCE AND FOR ALL and END his reign of terror! Carla: (both hands up in a pump the brakes gesture) No. Kevin, we have to SAVE Lewis. Kevin: Really? Then I haven’t been following at ALL.
October 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Years ago I made a comic based on the lyrics of MeWithoutYou’s The King Beetle on a Coconut Estate. The original files are lost to time, but today I stumbled on a YouTube video someone one made with a slideshow of my comic played against the song! love it!

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the King Beetle on a Coconut Estate
YouTube video by coink
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October 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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(24/46) Candy Cain
Krystal: (to Kimmy) What do you think it is? Kimmy: (opening the book) It looks like Lewis Cain’s diary. Kimmy: (reading from the the diary) “ I woke up in the cage again. I don’t know what year it is or how long. Candy Cain was in control. I have to find a way out… Kimmy: (continues reading) …I can’t get the mask off no mater what I try. I wish I’d never found the Cursed thing… Kevin: (from off-panel) GUH! Kevin: (throwing hands up frustrated) We’re already trapped in a dungeon, you guys! Do we really have to throw READING HOMEWORK in the mix?
October 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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(23/46) Candy Cain
Baxter: (still holding the magic bag) Sorry guys. I really thought that would work. I forgot I pulled a sandwich out of the bag earlier this week. Miles: You used a magical Bag of Needs to make a sandwich? Baxter: I needed one. Kimmy: (Holding some sort of book) YOU GUYS! Check this out! There’s some kind of notebook under these rocks here! Kimmy: (holding up the notebook) And I think it belongs to LEWIS CAIN!
October 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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(22/46) Candy Cain
Baxter: (Holding up his golden magic bag) This boys and girls, is a magical Bag of Needs. Once a week, you can reach into it and pull out just what you need at the moment. Baxter: (reaching into he bag)Like the key to a locked cell for example! Observe… Baxter: (continues to search inside Bag of Needs)…Hunh. That’s weird. Baxter: (confused) Wait, what day is it again?
October 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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(21/46) Candy Cain
Carla: We STILL don’t have a way out of this cell you guys! Baxter: I may have that covered. Baxter: (holding open a magical golden bag) One good thing about knowing a goblin is you get access to a lot of cool magical items. (Kevin examines the bag arms crossed) Kevin: (grabbing the edge of the bag) ALL RIGHT! Everybody in the magic bag. Baxter: (annoyed) It’s not that kind of magic bag!
October 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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(20/46) Candy Cain
Miles: This is our chance, guys. We have to find a way to escape while he’s gone. Carla: (gesturing around them) To where? A labyrinth of sewer tunnels? Benji: Actually, Kimmy and me use to LIVE down here in the summer. We know this place inside out. Kevin: (impressed) Really? That’s awesome! Kevin: (thoughtful) Now, when you say you LIVED down here… Benji: (interrupting) We played in the tunnels a lot. Kevin: Oh, right. Okay. Miles: (unsurprised) Did you think Kimmy and Benji were Mole People? Kevin: Maybe. Kimmy: (confused) You’ve been to my HOUSE!
October 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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(19/46) Candy Cain
Kevin: (From behind bars in a Candy Cain’s underground dungeon) Hey, you wacko! You can’t keep us in here! Do you hear me? Candy Cain: Silence! You will stay put until I return. Candy Cain: (leaving the dungeon) I have more work to do! Kimmy: (looking a little surprised talking to Carla, Miles, and Krystal) Is anyone else surprised he could talk?
October 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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(18/46) Candy Cain
(Kevin, Krystal and Benji running up to Carla) Kevin: Carla, we have a problem. Where’s Miles? Carla: (arms crossed) God question! I think he’s hiding from me or something as a prank. He can be such a child sometimes. Kevin: Oh, no! When’s the last time you saw him? Carla: About fifteen minutes ago. Why? Kevin: (holding his head) I think Candy Cain might have got him! Carla: (annoyed) Greeeaat. You guys are in on it too.
October 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM