r/comics • u/FieldExplores Gator Days • 22h ago
The Great Witch of Cedarhold - Gator Days
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 22h ago
Ms Mercow sounds like an absolute delight! I bet she makes amazing snacks and those hydrangeas are to die for.
Turned a kid into a worm and then his parents into birds and then....
WOW Polly that's some Eric Cartman level story telling and feeding of someone to another someone. That got dark
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u/Made_Bail 22h ago
How can you NOT love being an adult that plays along with kid's games? Ill never understand grumpy ass adults who treat children like an irritation.
I mean, the kid screaming on the plane? I get that. Parents, get your shit together. But kids playing in the street and having a great time? That's magical. Ms Mercow gets it.
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u/DarthJackie2021 22h ago
Right? Imagine being upset that kids are being kids and having fun.
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u/Made_Bail 22h ago
There are a lot of absolutely miserable people out there who take offense to other people not being miserable. Its so sad.
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u/The_cogwheel 22h ago
Also too many people being overprotective of their reputation. I know a few people who'll get upset over someone calling them a witch, simply because theyll stew over silly things like "how could they call me a witch? Im not that ugly and old..." and worry the neighborhood would start treating them like theyre some sort of social outcast.
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u/Not_ur_gilf 21h ago
Exactly! And this game has the effect of “kids leave my yard alone”! What better game is there?!?
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u/Make_Iggy_GreatAgain 22h ago
I have no interest in raising a children, but having fun outside shouldn't bother people.
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u/Astramancer_ 22h ago
I love that my neighborhood has tons of kids playing all the time. It shows how safe the neighborhood is.
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u/I_am_up_to_something 20h ago
I live in front of a playground (live with my parents, the playground was a great thing when I was still a kid) and the sound of children playing there is great. I work from home and even with the window open it just isn't a bother at all. Sometimes you even overhear funny or sweet things the kids say. Like one kid just kept saying I love you to his grandparents in funny voices.
Some sounds are less great though.
Whatever draws children to bricks and wanting to throw it on the ground again and again and again can just fuck right off. I've hidden 3 bricks already! Or maybe less, my hiding spot might just suck.
And to the teens loudly playing tag at 03:00 on a weekday: wtf, it isn't vacation time so why are you loudly playing tag at 03:00? Go the fuck home and go to sleep! Or play tag somewhere that isn't right in the middle of a residential area!
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u/Saucermote 18h ago
Kids playing games I can deal with. Kids feeding birds under my breezeway (so much bird poop) or bouncing basketballs off the side of my home, that's going to be me being grumpy.
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u/Wishnik6502 16h ago
I've already decided that if I outlive all of my peers I'm going to become the scary neighborhood witch. I'd sit all hunched over in my rocker by the window of my "The 'Burbs" house, watching the kids go by while smoking my pipe...
Damn. I'll need to learn how to smoke.
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u/Made_Bail 16h ago
Its easy. Just puff and exhale. And if you take too much and feel the need to cough, wait for the kids to be gone.
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u/Draken09 18h ago
I was briefly believed to be a vampire. Wish I could recreate that success with the high school students I work with.
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u/kitsunewarlock 18h ago
Sadly, a lot of games like this are started by older kids spreading gossip to their younger siblings as a form of establishing control and feeling "powerful".
Thus if you openly wore the witch hat and started to cackle, the preteens would be more likely to find it cringe and instead tell the younger children that "she's not really a witch".
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u/H4llifax 9h ago
Don't you think the parents of the screaming child are the most annoyed of everyone on that plane? After all, they can't say "not my problem", but everyone else can. If that child is screaming, it's because the parents are helpless to stop it.
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u/tdmatchasin 22h ago
Mercow
A manatee? A manatee!
Also I love how she's peaking over the fence like Tim's neighbor Wilson in Home Improvement.
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u/mdallen 22h ago
Sounds like some of the houses in my neighborhood when I was a kid! We had stories about everyone living in them!
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u/Saikotsu 22h ago
My mom has a shirt with a witches hat on it that says, "sometimes you gotta put on the hat to remind people what they're dealing with."
She's a nice old lady like Ms. Mercow, and this reminded me of that.
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u/roshanritter 22h ago
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u/Metalman919 21h ago
It's funny that with how wise he was, Tim Allen would probably call Wilson woke.
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u/BreakfastNext476 17h ago
Yeah... God man turned into a fucking moron. Probably always was, but knew to keep it contained for decades
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u/Cool_Set4681 22h ago
Ms. Mercow seems super chill and likeable. She gets to be a witch if she wants to 🧙🏻
One of the few times were I cant relate to the kids. In my childhood neighborhood we didn't have a scary house or person or a story like that 😅
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u/ArchaicSoil 21h ago
Petition for Ms. Mercow to become the Mr. Wilson of Gator Days - you only see the top of her head when she's talking to someone over a fence.
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u/AnEldritchWriter 21h ago
Love that Ma Mercow is so willing to go along with it. Love out your witchy dreams via the ghost stories the kids tell
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u/InaneSpontaneity 17h ago
I misread it that she turned his pants into birds, which was honestly kind of terrifying...
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u/TheGardenerAtWillows 22h ago
I wanna see Ms. Mercow’s garden, I’m sure it’s lovely with all sorts of cool exotic witchy plants
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u/figgypie 19h ago
It's so much fun to roll with the silliness. I too aspire to one day become the Neighborhood Witch.
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u/HamsterKazam 8h ago
Time to riot if we don't see Ms. Mercrow in a witch hat during Halloween, living her best witchy life.
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u/big_green_boulder 13h ago
Oddly enough, I named my island on AC:NH Cedarhold when I remade it a couple years ago! I love it :D
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u/StoriesToonHQ 12h ago
the kid hyping her up like a horror story and the reality being a gardening grandma, FieldExplores always nails these
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u/never_____________ 7h ago
I’m somewhat (very) reclusive and have a habit of talking to myself in a very animated fashion when I walk the dog. I’m idly curious what image I’ve been transformed into by the small children around the neighborhood.
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u/aciakatura 4h ago
The hydrangeas are clearly a magic herb. If you get too close to them, you'll get cursed.
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u/Crowmanhunter 7h ago
At my job in college, I was the supervisor for the Event Center, and my uniform was all black and had a lot of pockets. I was also flirting with the on campus Police Officer right next to me. Just then, a tour of elementary school kids were walking through, and I could hear them whispering, "See him? I think he's a Police Officer." To which one of the kids builds up the courage and yells at me very excitedly, "ARE YOU A POLICE OFFICER?"
The on campus police officer gives me the most sardonic look because she knows what I'm about to do and whispers, "Don't you dare."
I look her straight in the eyes and shout back at the kids, "THAT'S RIGHT, I'M A POLICE OFFICER."
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u/FieldExplores Gator Days 22h ago
The Great Witch of Cedarhold - Gator Days
Characters
Polly - Opossum - A young teen with an eclectic taste in music. In tune with her emotions and those of others. Olivia's older sister.
Gustopher - Alligator - An easily excitable boy who loves making friends. August's son.
Olivia - Opossum - A child who is shy until she gets to know you. In reality she's rather mischievous and likes pranks. Polly's younger sister.
Ms. Mercow - Manatee - An older woman who might be a witch.
Transcript
Panel 1
Polly is standing by a fence and is telling Gustopher and Olivia about a local legend. The top of someone's head can just barely be seen behind the fence.
Polly: CAREFUL! The Great Witch of Cedarhold lives here!
Panel 2
Polly contorts her face to look as frightening as possible.
Polly: A kid broke her shed window so she turned him into a worm. Then she turned his parents into birds. And then-
No, no, no. This is much too scary for me. I'm just going to assume that the bird parents worked out some plans on how to best take care of their worm son. They probably sent him to medical school and taught him how to play the drums.
Panel 3
Polly doesn't get to finish her story as the person behind the fence has made herself known. She looks over the top of the fence revealing her inquisitive eyes and shares her own reaction to the story.
Ms. Mercow: Oh my...
Gustopher: THE WITCH!
Olivia: RUN!
Panel 4
Polly suddenly feels embarrassed about making up such a scary story and apologizes.
Polly: I'm sorry, Ms. Mercow.
Ms. Mercow: I always wanted to be a witch. Tell them I'll take their bones if they hurt my hydrangeas.
Ms. Mercow is also contemplating buying a pointy hat.