Lio by Mark Tatulli for September 24, 2024

Let’s just hope it’s going for the steak.

The pterodactyl is going to ptear that meat apart.

Is that Aaron Hill?

That’s pretty big for a pterosaur (pterodactyls were just one species of pterosaur, and a smaller one, with a wingspan of about a metre) and most of the bigger pterosaurs, especially including the huge ones with the 10-metre wings, were mostly fish eaters. They were also mostly covered in something close to hair. The 10-metre wingspan pterosaurs were the largest animals to be able to fly and might weigh up to a quarter ton.

Feeding a large pterosaur, or even one the size of a pterodactyl, by hand is unwise for the same reasons why feeding a tiger or a wolf by hand is unwise. If a quarter ton of hairy warm-blooded reptile-like flying death machine decides that the bald ape holding the food is part of the meal plan, changing his mind would probably involve a .450 or .470 Double Nitro Express rifle. Or a Barrett .50.

Has Lio left his life of crime behind him? (Of course, he’s probably violating a local city ordinance…..)

Lio should move to Scary Gary’s neighborhood, he’d fit right in.

Hmm. Steak or kid with his back to you?

Big kid, small bird, small kid BIG “bird”.

Oy vey! I’m outta herrrrrre!

The perspective in today’s strip is awesome.