Lio by Mark Tatulli for January 17, 2011

Dad, jump on that thing and have some fun!

I remember doing that with garbage can lids or inner tubes. (Boy, am I dating myself!)

If you see it on TV, it ain’t worth buying.

Kiss that ozone layer goodbye!

Dad’s stuck in the past.

This is what’s coming AFTER snowboarding.

Hey Lio snow transportation is supposed to be human powered. Imagine running out of gas in the middle of the Arctic circle and pushing that thing home?

Lio is driving the Art Arfons signature model sled.

http://wikicars.org/nl/Art_Arfons

daddy got pwned!

Aww…took the wind right out of his sails.

From the top side, rayannina.

Dad tries so hard to please Lio!

I’m not giving up on this one. A powered vehicle is okay, but racing down on a sled is its own thrill not to be replaced by machines. Dad might say, “Very nice. Now try this.”

On a slightly different note, I love the slightly retro look Mr. Tatulli always gives the vehicles ( and robots ) in this strip.

We were so poor we used cardboard for sleds. We were so poor we used cardboard for shoes Mom’s cooking was so poor we ate cardboard for dinner Send donations to: Pur Boy C/O Lio’s Dad Poverty Lane ToonTown, Beyond the yellow brick road.

Make checks payable to CASH

Lio is ready for the Planet X games!

Where’s the fun in that?

Well, Lio never claimed to care about the planet anyway…

Saucer sleds and inner tubes were great! No so heavy to carry back up the hill, too.

It has been too long since I saw a snow disk like dad bought. I don’t think Lio has quite thought through the rocket powered version. Seems like it will do a quarter mile in less than 3 seconds.

does it use rocket fuel?

Sorry, Dad, you’re outclassed…

Oh, you had cardboard? (look up Monty Python’s Four Yorkshiremen)

Half the fun of sledding is a wipe out where you land softly in some snowbank. I think I’m giving Dad’s sled the nod for “more fun”.

I’d like to know where Lio got the money for that.

Aww poor dad!! He tries soo hard but Lio is always 1,000,000,000,000 Steps ahead.

Hope Dad has some of Clark Griswold’s supeer lubricant that he was on….

Ha–now THERE’S an ultimate case of one-upping …

I wonder, does Lio realize that with that sled, he will only get one trip down the hill? Those afterburners will melt all the snow behind him!

Poor Dad.