Lio by Mark Tatulli for September 03, 2013

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Good plan, Lio!

That pack must be bigger on the inside.

…and my counsel is not a giant squid hiding in my backpack!

Best. Summer. Ever!

“I know what you did last summer…”

Hands down, the most interesting “what I did this summer” in the whole class—nay, in the whole school!

What I did this summer..Woke up..Did stuff..Went to sleep.

ishy’s got your back . . . . . pack. . . . lio. It will all be fine.

I was always tempted to write “None of your damn business” when we were given these “What did you do last summer” assignments.

A Cheech and Chong classic..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa3HXdqNWIM

Things I didn’t…

Given my health status since birth, my “what I did this summer” essays tended to read like a medical textbook of various orthopedic procedures. Many years later, I learned that my fourth-grade teacher (who got me the summer after I spent 18 days in the hospital undergoing major back surgery) spent her lunch crying in the teacher’s lounge.

I could tell you what I did last summer, but then I’d have to kill you.

I like the little eyes peeking out of Lio’s backpack in the last frame.

besides, if everyone was following him on FB/Twitter, this report would be unnecessary.

A++

I see.

How Calvinesque. Maybe the teacher could have him report in riddles.

Hope the teacher has a sense of humor; she’ll need it if she has Lio in the class.

I thought the description said Lio was a first grader… Anyways, good backup plan! I wouldn’t want to have to explain myself either.

I Could Never Remember Anything I did.