I am not familiar with the “Krazy Kat” strip where they are lighting a bomb with a cigar. Perhaps it is twist on “Ignatz” and his ubiquitous “brick” from “Kolin Kelley’s” brick works? Mr. Lemon of course draws the current “Alley Oop” and “Little Oop” strips.
Refers to the Twilight Zone episode “It’s a Good Life” with the telekinetic little boy and the cornfield where he sends the bodies of all those who displease him. The Simpsons did a parody on one of their Halloween Treehouse of Horror Shows.
The overdue book/Librarian with beheading axe from the closet gag is recycled from a Bloom Co. mid 80s [?] strip and has been redrawn. The Internet Threat was not in the earlier strip, of course.
Exactly what I thought immediately as I read the strip.