Love Quote by Sergio Aragones

Turning the Boogeyman into a conscience is a sly cartoonist’s judo move: it flips a stock monster from external threat to internal accountability. Aragones isn’t interested in the gothic fog-machine version of fear. He’s poking at the childish logic that says danger lives under the bed, then yanking the bed away to reveal a far less escapable culprit: you. The repetition, “The Boogeyman is... The Boogeyman is...,” works like a panel-to-panel gag beat, each line tightening the joke while narrowing the target. By the time he lands on “your own bad behavior,” the fright has been demystified into something closer to guilt, shame, and that annoying moral narrating voice you can’t swat with a shoe.

“I love this Boogeyman” is the sharper twist. Love here isn’t affection; it’s creative delight in a villain that does the work for him. A conscience-as-monster is endlessly reusable: it explains why people panic when no one’s watching, why the innocent still get spooked, why “getting away with it” never really sticks. It also rescues moral judgment from sanctimony. Instead of preaching, Aragones frames ethics as a mischievous character design: the Boogeyman becomes a private cartoon that animates consequence.

Coming from a humorist whose career thrives on visual punchlines and wordless escalation, the line reads like a manifesto for comedy itself: the best monsters aren’t supernatural. They’re self-authored, and they follow you home because they live there.