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Explanation
This comic spoofs ghost story tropes and supernatural folklore. A narrator describes a classic haunted-river story: "And so, her ghost haunts the river still, in her wedding veil, looking for her drowned lover."
But then the tale gets complicated: "What she doesn't realize is that the drowned lover who walks on land takes new forms in the supernatural realm." The ghost's lover is currently "a poly triad with a leprechaun and a sasquatch."
In the final panel, someone spots trick-or-treaters and says "Oh! Get kids, be cool, play it cool" — suggesting the supernatural beings are trying to act normal when humans come around.
The humor comes from applying modern relationship dynamics (polyamory) to the world of folklore and ghost stories. The traditional tragic ghost — endlessly searching for her lost love — becomes an unwitting figure of dramatic irony, because her lover has moved on in the most absurd way possible. The comic deflates the romanticism of ghost stories by suggesting that even in the afterlife, people move on, date around, and end up in unconventional relationship structures. The final gag about playing it cool for trick-or-treaters adds a layer of domesticity to the supernatural world.