Lio by Mark Tatulli for October 21, 2009

Poor, long suffering, Dad.

Wow, I want one of those Tardis bags! gimme… :o))

Lio’s a smart shopper!

I love, love, love Lio. It is beautiful to look at. So many strips nowadays are not much to look at. But these? I mean, really, Mark doesn’t use dialog because he is such a good artist.

Sorry to gush so much, but I pretty much spent the last several minutes simply studying the second panel soaking in every detail. I didn’t notice the bouncing eyeballs right away, for example, but when I did they fascinated me.

Good old Dad! Nothing Lio has in his bag o’ Halloween tricks can faze him or disturb his televiewing!

Dad didn’t even flinch.

Hooray! Halloween is coming!

BOO!

Just another day, huh, dad?

the joy of halloween

I want to find that Halloween store!

I’ve just ordered a bunch of stuff like that for my Halloween: the Eviltron (which you can hide somewhere, where it will periodically emit weird sounds, driving people crazy as they try to figure out what’s doing that), a portrait of a girl whose face occasionally turns demonic, and the Toilet Monster, which pops out of the can when you lift the lid.

Man I wish we had a store like that around here

I want the bouncin’ skulls!…

Gonna need an(URP!)other beer….

Check out the LOL back cover of the new LIO “Astonishing Tales” book @ http://tinyurl.com/yhulg9q –

– also now under $10 at Amazon.

ThinkGeek has a lot of that stuff, Photobug12.

While it’s still easy to identify with a lot of what Lio goes through, in all honesty the ongoing obsession with Halloween and monsters is getting a bit tedious. A few more conventional grade school age escapades from him would be more than welcome.

What Dad’s thinking while creepy creatures skitter around the room: “Ah. October.”

I could use a bottomless bag like that for grocery shopping

this is definitely Lilo’s time of the year

Isn’t Lio’s obsession with Halloween and monsters why everybody likes this strip so much??

Regisandkelly said, about 2 hours ago

Isn’t Lio’s obsession with Halloween and monsters why everybody likes this strip so much??

BINGO!

BlitzMcD you may want to avoid anything by Chas. Addams.

What used to be our local CompUSA is now a Halloween store.

Bigg3469-I agree and I love his obsession with monsters, etc. unlike BlitzMcD

Now if Annie enrolled in high school and Ziggy got a job as an accountant these comics would really start to POP!

Just imagine what he will get Nov 2, when everything is 75% off!

♫♪It’s the mooost wonderful tiiiiiime of the year!!!♪♫

Merry Christmas Lio!

Merry Christmas, Lio!!