Jim Benton Cartoons by Jim Benton for November 03, 2022

It’s all fun and games, until a fella gets maimed.. repeatedly.

Don’t stop him, he’s on a roll.

Played Risk with “friends” as a teenager. Learned two things. 1. Which friends were actually friendly. 2. Three bad rolls in a row ended your game.

[We are] but helpless Pieces of the Game He plays

Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days;

Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays

And one by one back in the Closet lays.

- Omar Khayyam