MythTickle by Justin Thompson for October 19, 2011

A real groaner!And now Frankystein is off on his own, at Halloween time! Rrr! Gaaahh!

Great second panel.

As if getting smacked wasn’t bad enough, Franky had just picked his nose. Ew!

Oh, so spiders aren’t scary? You didn’t see the one in my bathroom the other day and how many times I had to whack it with a toilet brush before it died. That was scary!

The jack-o-lanterns are laughing!

Heh. My wife is an entomologist – when we see a spider in the bathroom, we carefully pick it up with a damp sponge and let it go in the flowerbeds.

We once caught a big centipede in an apartment kitchen; admired it for a few minutes and let it go under the stove to eat cockroaches.

Do brown recluse spiders prefer to live near hermits?

I brought a glass into the bathroom to catch the hairy beast, but it felt my footsteps and scurried to where I couldn’t catch him, so on the principle of “wrong place at the wrong time”, I killed it.

BTW, a friend of mine suffered for months from a growing necrotizing sore on her ankle that had her in a wheelchair and in fear of losing a foot. No treatment was helping until she got a diagnosis of a brown recluse spider bite. Then with appropriate meds, she recovered rapidly.

A few months back I read Shelley’s “Frankenstein”. I don’t recommend it unless you are studying early Romantic hysterical female authors.

Small plastic film cans used to be handy for moving spiders outside, but now I have a digital camera and I don’t know what happened to the containers I already had.

(Do brown recluse spiders prefer to live near hermits?)

“They prefer closets and clothes.”

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But that’s so prosaic. I was trying to pun on their name; hermits are also called recluses.