Lio by Mark Tatulli for September 05, 2014

Still can’t bring his mom back to life, no matter how weird he gets?

I imagine Lio has to talk to the school psychologist a lot.

“How I Did It.”

Very ambitious biological experiments may lead Lio to Frankensteinian successes. Just be careful about brains and socialization, Lio!

Poor little Beth and Timmy sitting next to Lio…..The things they must see in a day!

Sounds like fun.

I think Lio should copy Larry Niven’s “Unfinished Story #2” for his report…

The reason that this is one of my favorite comics is because he reminds me of myself at that age. Yeah, I like to think this strip is based upon my childhood!

I go with What I did last summer.

So, when was this strip written? As I recall, it’s fall now!.Oh, wait! I forgot it’s just a comic…

Think this through. If someone died in a catastrophic accident, severed limbs, compound fractures & such, what happens when you bring back life with all that agony? Will they all thank you for making them live as a quadriplegic or brain damaged? Playing God ain’t what it’s cracked up to be.

“That’s FrAHnkenLio!” And we’ll hope that the brain didn’t come from “Abby-somebody”.

Actually, Snoopy was parodying Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who wrote the line as the opening of his novel, “Paul Clifford.” The whole opening paragraph has become the symbol for hyperflorid overwrought descriptive prose..Bulwer-Lytton also coined the phrase, “The pen is mightier than the sword.” Just an potentially interesting bit of trivia.

I still have my copy of Snoopy the Musical on VHS.