Help? What happened? You didn’t hear? Apparently there is this thing called Halloween. I know, I know, it sounds stupid. But there’s candy involved! Now I have your attention. The city of Dern ...

The story goes that following the TV debut of “The Great Pumpkin” on Oct. 27 ... you’re sad and a little of your own Halloween candy for a cartoon kid who didn’t get any.

Any child’s story about Halloween would surely involve a lot of candy, sneaking out of the house, and a space octopus… Well, maybe not that last part, but you’ll find a bevy of strange characters in ...