Well, what have we here? Pumpkin hunters?

The pumpkins gathered around the crows, a pack of ghoulish, grinning Jack o' Lanterns!

Um, we're just on a nature hike ... in search of pumpkins.

Yeah, well, beat it if you know what's good for you.

You face them, Reggie. This is your area of expertise.


Trust us -- you should leave this place immediately! The pumpkin urging them didn't look menacing, so much as frightened. Hurry, before it's too late!

Before the boys could react, as if on command, the pumpkins parted with a murmur to let another take center stage. A gruesome pumpkin, whose carved features were mutilated....

We Return to Our Regularly Scheduled Story ...

When we last encounter our heroes, they were off to the forbidden forest, in search of the world's only unpicked pumpkin patch and a prize Jack o' Lantern.

Despite high spirits and song-singing, however, they couldn't help but notice the forest seemed dark and...well, forbidding. As the trees closed over them in a tight canopy --

-- the first signs of evil emerged from the shadows!