Lio by Mark Tatulli for September 07, 2009

This is a new one! This should be good.

Too late with nailing down the door! Cousin Bubbles looks like more than even Lio can manage!

Aw, Bubbles wants a huggy. Lio hug Bubbles!

she looks like stedman. maybe lio needs clovis’ help

Looks like Mr. Burns after his injections.

Most frightening creature ever!

Lio must be scared out of his mind. Nailing the door shut? Didn’t he know that in the entire combined history of cartoons and comics, it never worked once…

Lio’s just lucky there isn’t cousins Ricky and Julian.

this could be a very dangerous child if lio is afraid (BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID)

Dexter has Dee-Dee…and you have her.

gaaahhhh…. it’s like the Uh-Oh Baby from Cul-de- sac met the “LOVE IS… ” characters and went wrong… very, very wrong.

cousin Bubbles has creeeeeeeped me out, big time.

“I bring you peace…and LOVE!”

bubbles must be really something to have lio looking so afraid

Bubbles looks like a mutant Power Puff Girl. No doubt the work of…Mojo Jojo!

Hey! it’s Rosemary’s baby!!!

Cute and cuddly! Perfect nemesis for Lio

Never thought I’d see the day when Lio would be scared of ANTYTHING!!!!!!!!!!

Has anybody else been having trouble getting daily comics from the other site comics.com? Haven’t gotten mine for 3 days. It is emailed but there are only grey squares where the comics should be.

comics.com has been down since Saturday. There is a suggestion to fix on page 2 of Big Top. Didn’t work for me though.

Edit: The fix finally worked for me. I also had to type 64.58.142.26 into the address bar instead of the name.

I think Bubbles must have survived Voldemort. Is that a lightning bolt scar on her forehead?

(I’m posting this info on some of the more heavily commented GoComics sites. Feel free to repost.)

If you’re reading comics at GoComics, you’re probably also reading comics at comics.com.

And if so, you’ve noticed that Comics.com has been down hard since Saturday.

The comics.com site hasn’t shut down and it’s not the victim of a hacking attack. The short version there’s a DNS problem. The site’s still there, but the Internet can’t find it. That’s why comics.com can’t put up a “We’re working the problem” sign on their main page. Well, they COULD, but it wouldn’t do any good. The rest of the internet couldn’t find the page.

The good news is that there’s a workaround to view the site and the strips. Go to http://www.softsailor.com/news/7155-comics-com-down-for-second-day-in-a-row.html and look for the comments by Comic Geek and patrick. I’d recommend reading the entire thread (it’s not that long), but the posts by Comic Geek and patrick are the importants ones.

Note that the workaround requires editing a system file. If you don’t know what “DNS” means, or you don’t know the kinds of problems you can create for yourself by incorrect editing of a system file, then you probably shouldn’t edit the system file. Find someone to help you edit the file.

I initially had problems with comics.com sites I had bookmarked as www.comics.com instead of just comics.com (note the leading www), but I think that might have been a typo that has since been fixed. In my case, changing all my comics.com bookmarks from www.comics.com to just comics.com fixed my problem.

I did a reboot in as well, but I’m not sure that was really necessary. A reboot can’t hurt, though.

NOTE: You’re have to re-edit the system file, to reverse the changes, once comics.com gets its DNS problem solved.

@Saucy1121 Re: comics.com fix posted on Big Top

The fix mentioned on Big Top omits the “ipconfig /flushdns” step mentioned on the softsailor.com site.

The DNS flush is important.

Tried typing the mumbers and it didn’t work. All the other stuff I don’t understand.

whoops -numbers.

OK, it now appears that as I was posting my info on a workaround to the problems with the comics.com site, comics.com was fixing their problem. I’ve seen several people say that they can now get to the comics.com site without editing the system file.

If you’re still having problems getting to comics.com, wait a while before doing anything. First, the fixes comics.com made will take a while to propagate through the Internet. Second, the site will probably be heavily loaded for a while, due to people catching up on their favorite strips.

Doesn’t matter how ugly a baby really is - have you noticed there will always be women talking about “what a darling baby”, and the mother beaming proudly? As the saying goes, “A face only a mother could love”.

Comics.com: I gave up on them and canceled several months ago - their system has only two speeds, “very slow” or “not working”.

I know what you mean Ushindi, comics.com is frequently inaccessible or slow, whoever designed the site must have been massively impaired when they made it….even this site is starting to bug me, they have pop-ups describing the comic on the index page (which is where I browse through the comics), but the pop-ups appear RIGHT ON TOP OF LINK TO THE STRIP! It’s like playing a frickin video game trying shake off the pop-ups and click on the link. They really need to re-think that idea big time.

You’re still holding the hammer, Lio… no one would blame you…

Did she get her eyes from B. T.?

Is it me, or does she look like MJ’s bubbles the chimp?