Lio by Mark Tatulli for December 28, 2020

even Mittens himself was in on it I see

Good one Dad and Mittens

Not often Dad gets the win….

The giant squid would have been tougher to pull off….

Who is Mittens and why does a lobster live in a dog house?

GREAT one, Dad! Touche. Big time. And it’s about time.

Ooo! Don’t end the strip there!

Over in Bloom County, Milo and the ganged punked Opus in a similar fashion. After Opus expressed his distain for freeze drying or taxidermy for pets, Milo told Opus that Portnoy punched his ticket and that had him stuffed and mounted by the fireplace…..

April 1st has come a little early…

It’s nice when Dad gets a good laugh on Lio.

Dad finally got him back! Well done!

…Get it? “Well done”? LOL?

I’ll see myself out

Dad did one of his rare “get back” at Lio gags!

Didn’t SNL do a bit many years ago where Eddie Murphy had a live lobster named Larry, and a national viewer call-in to decide whether to save it or “boil Larry’s behind”?

About time dad gets one over on Lio. :-D

Now that’s funny!

I have a quibble with this toon. Panel 1: Lio bends over to peer beneath the top of the opening of an arched doorway. Panel 2: Lio has moved forward, partway inside the structure, and now stands upright well beneath the top of a rectangular wall opening looking at dad standing next to a kitchen range (is the opening he stands in the aforementioned doorway?). Panel 3: Dad is standing in the same spot by the same range, and Lio has not moved either — so what happened to the doorway opening in the wall?

Where can I get one? It could keep my rubber chicken company. :)

And it was really hilarious when the dad did that with the rubber dummy likeness of Lio’s little brother!

Then there are the two scenes in Annie Hall involving boiling lobsters.

Great prank!

About time his dad got him back…

Pedro!