Lio by Mark Tatulli for October 24, 2021

Wrong timing, Lio; find a different pumpkin patch.

Lio, The Great Pumpkin will not be amused.

Thanks for the laugh, Mr. Tatulli.

Lio, Lio!

This would be a bigger twist than the Newhart finale!

I don’t know about other parts of the country, but my local PBS station is broadcasting It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! at 7:30 EDT tonight.

Is Lio Eva Rose’s Sweet Baboo too?

Mental Floss (www.mentalfloss.com) has a good article about the Great Pumpkin. Apparently, the G.P. is a morality play on the number of children who are disappointed each year by Santa Claus.

THIS is the year Linus because Lio cares……

Sunday rerun originally from October 26, 2008.

Poor Linus traded to Lio for his unpopular beliefs.

Happy early Halloween … thanks, Lio … :)

That is one sincerely drawn pumpkin patch, Mr. Tatulli.

Somewhere a sentient pumpkin is sitting on a playground shouting “Great Linus where are you?!?”

Wasn’t the shock of the Great Pumpkin appearing actually Snoopy?

If this involves the demise of Linus and Lucy I’m all for it.

Nice one, Lio!

Be careful what you wish for, Linus.

Lio, don’t you dare!

Right behind you, Linus.

Lio is about to cure Linus of his Pumpkin fixation once and for good.

Linus was a prophet ahead of his time. Only decades later did Tim Burton document the time the Pumpkin King unsuccessfully tried to take over someone else’s holiday. Disappointed but not defeated, he instead had the epiphany of bringing a little of the Christmas spirit to Halloween.