Lio by Mark Tatulli for December 15, 2009

It did say “easy to assemble”…

Hahahah, had ME fooled!! Dang that panel 2…. xD

Must be for corners…

The artificial tree company didn’t make any claims on the box about its being three-dimensional. And Lio and Dad do also have the decorated outdoors tree we saw yesterday! (P.S. Dad: put on some closed slippers, please! There’s a hole in your sock!)

Great fake, I need one.

Throw it in your fireplace when done for a nice warm fire, to recycle.

You could do that with the real ones, but they go pretty quickly, Just keep the fire bottle handy!

Trying to decorate that thing is going to be a kicker!

They got this tree from the “Blazing Saddles” gift catalog.

ROFL LIppone! exactly!

No, cutiepie, instead of thse little wire things use thumbtacks or drawing pins and just think! tinsel, garland and fairylights will fo 3X as far (only 1 dimension to cover) and there’s be no worries about the bare spot (decorating logic dictates there is always one spot everyone accidently misses because when decorating en masse as it were everyone sees these moves things to cover it and creates a larger one elsewhere!)

I like the metaphor here for what christmas has become.

A response from yesterday’s strip that could relate to today’s strip as well: This is from a kid who’s sick desire is to destroy all creation and live in a world of dystopia.

I love the dissection of comic strips…giving meaning to every little detail and utterance and assigning a direct correlation between the comic world and the real world. Distilling and separating the pieces so we can stare and pontificate about each little organ and ventricle. It really makes comics reading fun!

Life is so much easier in a two-dimensional world – as long as you don’t move…

I say to Lio: good effort! (Perhaps you can just draw some decorations on. Or glue?)

Now that’s my kind of tree. Real cheap looks good from the front & no hassle putting it up & taking it back down

put the tree in the corner and use a hot glue gun to put on the ornaments and lights, no one will ever know

That is too funny.

Hey, what’d you expect for 10 bucks anyway, dad?

Great for small apartments!

I wonder if Lio realized the fake tree is made out of wood!

7 ft tall? lio’s dad is almost as tall as that tree. tall guy!

I didn’t know Dad had a glass eye.

ninmas: He’s not that tall. There’s gotta be at least 9 inches of hair sticking straight up.

So Lio saves a tree yesterday, but today gets a wood fake tree that came in a wood box delivered to a store by a gas-guzzling vehicle?

mtatuli: Are you implying that this is just a comic strip and not a two-panel dissertation?

…It wouldn’t be make believe, If you believed in me.

I wonder what the strip would look like from behind Doc?

Hey Mark, is that a Don Quixote painting in the other room? (I’m squinting)..or a tree?

O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum, We’re hoping you don’t fall down.

it’s like a scene from “Sunset boulevard” the musical! (the cardboard trees the painted scenes….etc)

That’s what you get when you buy a tree from the Dollar Store…