Lio by Mark Tatulli for October 27, 2021

That’s why I keep spiders around.

Time to get out the pesticide, exterminators’ office. Like two fifty-gallon drums’ worth.

I wonder if John Goodman is going to come running out of that door???

Needs one huge rolled up newspaper.

Is Lio challenging them? Or applying for the job?

An equal opportunity employer, I hope.

Nice to have Shelob as a pet. Takes care of all the bullies, neatly packaged for disposal.

but is this an eight-legged ant, or a three-body-part spider?

A little too big for our line of pest killers kid. However, the Sopranos live just a block down the road, across the street from the Corleone residence. Can’t miss it. I hear they need exterminators that might just be up your alley…..

That is no spider of Earth, possibly the Dreamlands. They can grow larger and some have stingers and are intelligent.

If the applicant can make it past the front door, they’re hired.