Lio by Mark Tatulli for June 11, 2020

after helping peel the gum off its face, Lio, better confiscate the gum altogether too

If it’s flesh colored gum, maybe the skull is trying to make itself look human. Just a few more sticks of gum.

Glad Lio seems to be off his covid kick.

Wow, Violet Beauregard can’t stop chewing gum, even after death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_and_the_Chocolate_Factory

That head apparently has a good set of lungs.

Where’s your manners? Help him get it off!

Looks like Han left Chewy in Lio’s bedroom.

You just had to gum up things, didn’t you, Yorick?

Ok, so how did the skull blow a bubble without lips?? THAT’S what’s freaking me out!

Did he bring enough for everyone? :)

If you’re wondering how he chews and blows

And other science facts

Then repeat to yourself,

“It’s just a strip I should really just relax”

That skull is busted.

Bob, is that you? How’d you get away from Dresden? I’m sure you wish the giant Fu dog would take care of that bubblegum if you hadn’t left. Mister would have left it alone though as cats aren’t interested in bubblegum.

What a bubblehead!

See, Lio? Never leave packs of bubblegum lying around where your semi-dead skulls can get a tooth on them!

I saw that movie — “The Masticating Skull”.

Tatulli probably got the idea for this from a Twilight Zone story that had modern sailors (early 1960s) investigating a sunken WWII sub from which a mysterious banging came. They drained the sub, got inside and found the cause of the racket. [Spoiler Alert!!!] There were skeletons, and one of them had a hammer in his hand.

Things that go pop in the night…