Lio by Mark Tatulli for March 19, 2019

not a typo, Dad

Lio forgot his cowboy hat..

Be afraid, Dad. Be very afraid.

This joke will soon be celebrating its 70th birthday.

Uh-oh, this won’t end well.

Just don’t let the “Far-out Space Nuts” near your launch computer… (you have to be a certain age to know that reference, and who the two stars were…)

Have a blast, Lio!

A guy with a weird haircut and a nuclear missile? Seems familiar somehow.

Bah dum Tisshhh

Compact, transportable missile; ten independently targeted warheads (MIRVed). It’s no fun being one of the unfortunate cities with which Lio conducts his nuclear testing!

The next day: Gone Fission.

Remember how yuppies used to talk in the 1980s? Tripoli Rocketry Association, the club of model rocket enthusiasts, used to say, “Let’s do launch!”