Lio by Mark Tatulli for September 13, 2019

You’re going out of business, George, thanks to a rampaging squid.

Yumm nice fresh George tartare!

Ishy’s not happy!

Ruling: justifiable squidicide.

I hope Cap’n George knows a good laundry.

My dog makes the same face as Ishy, everytime it thunders and lightnings

Some squid eat squid, usually larger species eating smaller ones. At 2000 pounds, a colossal squid might regard a human diver as possible prey, though such has never been reliably documented.

I was bitten by a very small squid when I was around 12 years old. It’s beak was sharp enough and strong enough to draw blood.

Just seeing the look on Lio’s face!

Is there a lot of fried calamari in the sea?

When I first saw this, before I took a better look at Ishy’s expression, I was envisioning the scene with the guy in the gorilla suit locked up with the gorilla in “Trading Places”.

Inkconceivable!

Mum … ?!!

Ishy is hot, but not fried.

Berserk Button hereby pushed…

That’s why Lio can’t take Ishy anywhere.

After years of tolerating it for the sake of humor (after all, it’s a cartoon), I am becoming annoyed by Tatulli’s misrepresentation of squid anatomy. I know it’s my problem.

Is the real squid attracted to the other or angry?

Big Cal, the Giant Squid of the Blues, endorses this message.

Don’t know what he is, but he isn’t a squid. Squid don’t have teeth and the mouth is surrounded by tentacles.

Kalamarakia tiganita (fried squidlits) are a yummy seafood.

But Billboard Boy has angered a Giant Squid, and Ishmael is out of control! Bye bye, employee/imposter squid of Cap’n George’s….

So often we see ads for animal flesh where the animal in question, usually a chicken, happily hawks the product.