Lio by Mark Tatulli for May 20, 2018

Primordial Soup for the Soul.

Soup’s on!

looks a bit like lower puna, hawai’i does now.

If you wait long enough, EVERY complex thing and organism on earth will magically emerge from it!

want!

Seems to me that unless the kit comes with a packet of Evolutionary Accelerant it’s going to take a while for the monsters to arrive. Long chain molecules might be a more reasonable expectation. :-)

Look on the bright side, Dad! At least he’s outside playing!

Does his dad work. and are those boxers he wear or stripped shorts

Now boys and girls, what do you think THAT smells like…

Love all the pretty colors too!

When I was a kid all I had were sea monkeys!

Soup is good food.

Jeepers, creepers! Look at all those peepers!

Instant Shub-Niggurath, just add water.

Primordial soup, so you can transform your backyard into an aquatic morass of prehistoric life! Most creatures back then were mostly tentacles and eye-stalks.

Closer to the primordial ones said to generate life for the Old Ones. Biological constructs to produce life of various kinds for the Star-Headed Old Ones to further manipulate to use as service organisms. The rest were allowed to evolve as they will or die.

ABHOTH: The “Gelee Blanche” the white jelly of creation. Designed to create life. We get an example in the Clark Ashton Smith story “The Seven Geases”:: “…depart without delay from the Cavern of the Archetypes, and seek out the slimy gulf in which Abhoth, father and mother of all cosmic uncleanness, eternally carries on Its repugnant fission. We consider that you are fit only for Abhoth, which will perhaps mistake you for one of Its own progeny and devour you in accordance with the custom which It follows.”

“… he descried a sort of pool with a margin of mud that was marled with obscene offal; and in the pool a grayish, horrid mass that nearly choked it from rim to rim.”

“Here, it seemed, was the ultimate source of all miscreation and abomination. For the gray mass quobbed and quivered, and swelled perpetually; and from it, in manifold fission, were spawned the anatomies that crept away on every side through the grotto. There were things like bodiless legs or arms that flailed in the slime, or heads that rolled, or floundering bellies with fishes’ fins; and all manner of things malformed and monstrous, that grew in size as they departed from the neigbborhood of Abhoth. And those that swam not swiftly ashore when they fell into the pool from Abhoth, were devoured by mouths that gaped in the parent bulk.”

Primordial soup from what planet?

So, is the fence to protect the creatures, or to keep them in and protect us?

Now that’s a backyard garden! Gee, what company did Lio order from, to get his Primordial Soup set? I might like one, too. Might put a charge in the neighborhood!

I thought in some strip Lio might EAT it!!

Those are squids.