Lio by Mark Tatulli for September 03, 2018

Sometimes I wonder if Oscar from Sesame Street at times gets dumped out of his can by accident.

Lio’s gonna be down in the dumps when he finds out.

Selfies are more important than intergalactic peace.

Look at the bright side. You now have an unowned spacecraft at your disposal.

Who knows how many visiting aliens ended up in some landfill?

Looks like one of Dick Tracy’s flying garbage cans.

If he’d landed on Sesame Street, he’d have fitted right in.

Oops…

This strip looks like a load of rubbish to me. I refuse to read it any longer.

Only thing missing from the final panel is the alien’s arm sticking out of the garbage in the back of the truck!

If only his ship had been blue he might have been recycled.

Who’d develop Lio’s film anyway? That looks like a Cano 35mm.

What happens when you try to recycle an alien?

Leaving the can on its side is a nice touch. In the days of metal cans and separate lids, you could always tell it was trash day because the lids were just slopped nearby and not actually secured to the can. How hard can it be to put a lid on a garbage can?

Unwittingly, the Sanitation Engineers stopped the Alien invasion of Earth even before it had properly begun, and only Lio knew!