Lets hold a panel to decide if two panels is enough

img_0621Normally, I don’t cover new coloring books on the blog – there’s just too many of them, and I don’t particularly collect them (although I do accumulate some), but AAUGH Blog reader John sent me this coloring book and while waiting for my first trick-or-treater of the evening, I just noticed that it has two panels reproduced from the strip. Does that mean it counts as a strip-reprint book?

Nah.

Happy halloween! May your pumpkin patch be judged “sincere”.

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