Lio by Mark Tatulli for June 03, 2019

I wonder what was the first entry.

Isn’t it a little early for winged skulls?

Perhaps they fly to the south pole for the summer months, and we see them hang out awhile as they fly back to the Arctic for the winter.

Mating season.

They look like a breeding pair. I hope Liō put up a nesting crypt.

just make sure that they don’t bite you!

And you know it’s spring when the first robin is eaten by the first winged skull!

I like to spot the first bat of spring. Here, the bats are insectivorous. Their flying insect prey is absent in winter, and the bats go into a hibernation-like state of torpor. When the insects re-emerge with the warming weather, the bats wake up and feed. I used to have a dog that was fascinated by bats because they would fly low to catch bugs, criss-crossing the yard over and over. He would run back and forth too, following a bat overhead. I don’t know if he hoped to catch one or just thought of them as playmates.

It’s almost like he’s talking! Maybe all this time, Liō’s been keeping his thoughts in a journal, instead of letting them pop up in balloons over his head.

Reminds me of a Charles Addams cartoon where Morticia is writing to Gomez “myriad slugs have appeared in the garden as if by magic…”

Is it October already? Where did the summer go?!

We don’t get those in our neighborhood. I’m envious.

Hey, Mark, you could probably make a tidy sum selling “The Weird Kid Chronicles.” If he lets you.

“Weird Kid Chronicles” was probably an early alternative name when this strip was being created. “Lio” is shorter and easier.

I have never seen an actual Winged Skull. Sob!

Bat-winged skulls like other such things are unnatural constructs created by witches, warlocks and conjurors.

You are DOOMed.