Lio by Mark Tatulli for June 23, 2019

so much for helping out with the environment, Lio

“Don’t know why they’re running, I’m only here to help!”

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Trash Pickup Duty.

I hope the robot’s not leaking oil all over the place. That would be counter-productive.

So now Lio has to clean the neighborhood all by himself, including picking up the tools the rest of the neighbors left behind when they took off.

Lio just brought his own tool, why’s everybody runnin’?

Lio has a green machine.

Lio needs to install a Shield of Boringness in that thing…

Why sure… they can clean up the bodies after the event…

i wonder how old mark was when he started drawing robots?

Hmm. Sideways Sundays usually go the other way so we still read from left to right.

Hey, Mark, some of us have stiff necks, you know!

I remember a Buck Rogers comic strip arc from many decades ago in which Buck and others played a kind of football game while piloting huge robots like Lio’s. And there was also a forgettable sub-B-class movie I saw on TV with a Good Guy vs. Villain death match in big piloted robots, too.

But why are the Good Citizens so apprehensive? Lio and his mechanical man are performing a Public Service!

Why are they so scared? Is he going to clean up by taking certain neighbors?