Lio by Mark Tatulli for April 18, 2020

luckily both my father’s parents and mother’s parents survived the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic as children (my stepmother’s parents were born the following decade when it cleared)

Leo has the Coronavirus

Mark,normally I appreciate your humor, but the strip with Lio carrying the corona virus like a balloon is in very poor taste. Too many people are sick and are dying to make a joke of this deadly disease. George

No, you want to eat Grandma. (grabs pesticide) Bad Virus! Bad! Bad!

Do we eventually get to see Liö’s coronavirus deflate and die?

You want to meet Grandmom….but does Grandmom want to meet you?

I think this is a better approach. Hopefully those most affected have now left the room.

This story line is actually quite sick, monsters and squids are one thing but a disease the kills old people, total over the line.

Time to go to school, the country is being reopened.

Lio’s world is surrounded by the virus, just like we are. And Tatulli gives us a straightforward message wrapped in a touching strip.

There is such a HUGE number of people working on this there are GOING to be light bulb moments that will allow us to nail this sucker to the wall!! And I am duly impressed with the amount of MONEY coming out of the woodwork to fix the immediate problem!

Even his lamp is twisted.

It must be tedious drawing those things.

It’s okay Lio, just act like you don’t give a sh^& about anyone else and visit Grandma anyway. Then when any rational or conscientious people ask you why you did something so thoughtless and reckless, just blather on about “civil liberties”. /s

Lio has very weird friends, maybe even some of them undesirable, but basically Lio is a good boy—just a touch eccentric, shall we say?

This says it better than any of us ever could to our relatives who are more casual about the risks than they should be. Thank you. My best take was, Live in such a way that you don’t look back later and regret what you chose.