Lio by Mark Tatulli for May 09, 2010

Ant robots, guard your chocolate cakes!

Them!

RAID!

They’ll grab your picnic basket and run for the Los Angeles River!!!!!

Lio is leading the Cavalry Charge! Do Robot Ants eat neon cupcakes?

Looks like Stark Industries and Pym Industries have merged.

“Well, I for one welcome our new masters, and would like to remind them that I could be very useful in recruiting new slaves to work the sugar mines…..”

We need the Robot Skeleton Army to stomp them into submission.

Please, take my mother-in-law’s potato salad but leave us alone. Did I mention my mother-in law’s potato salad?

Lio’s Army Ants certainly takes the cake (and anything else they want).

gung ho

They’re in my pants! THEY GOT INTO MY PANTS! AAACK!

For what he spent to build the ants, he could be having lunch at TGIFridays. But where’s the fun in that…?

There goes the neighborhood.

This reminds me of ‘Anty’ from “Honey, I Shrunk The Kids” xD

@Jack: Or Louis Nickel from the CGI movie “The Ant Bully” (2006) ; )

Hey, check out my “Meeting Stephan Pastis” movies on YouTube, in three parts:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Meeting+Stephan+Pastis&aq=f

I love Lio’s expression of triumph. I wonder if it’s The Bully having the picnic?

Mark, I can tell you and Stephan must be really good friends. And, of course, you have the highest respect for him. Just let us know when he gets you back.

Sisyphos That was Brilliant! Nice adaptation from the book “Do robots dream of electric sheep?”

donboyer said, ” “Well, I for one welcome our new masters, and would like to remind them that I could be very useful in recruiting new slaves to work the sugar mines…..” ”

Shades of “Empire of the Ants”!

Liō knows how to be the ant at the picnic.

he shrunk

To be fair, this is going to be a HUGE surprise for Mother’s Day.

Am I the only one who wants to sing The Ants Go Marching?

It’s like Dr. Steel in his youth… ^_^

LuvH8:

yup!

It’s like someone put my childhood dreams on paper!

Yay Giant Ants! Yay Robots! Yay Robot Army! Yay Giant Ant-riding! Yay Robot Giant Ants! Riding Giant Robot Ants while leading a Giant Robot Ant Army?…. SWOON!

I love this comic. but I don’t know why I love the border so much too. I think it adds that little extra detail that hardly anyone notices. Love ya Lio <3

LuvH8, I’ll sing along with you.

“The ants go marching two by two, hurrah, hurrah…”