Lio by Mark Tatulli for October 19, 2017

And to think the pumpkin trusted you, Lio. (Device must take four AA batteries.)

Yeah yeah, depending on whom he hitches a ride with, he may find himself regretting his departure on line to Punkin Chunkin.

“You may feel a little pinch.”

Maybe the bus driven by Gordo will drive by.

I have a feeling that in the end, he won’t have the heart to carve this pumpkin.

That’s what you get for buying a free-range gourd, Lio…

But if it isn’t a real thumb, people may not stop.

I thought the “politically correct” thing to do nowadays was buy a hollow, plastic pumpkin you could carve and put a battery-operated lamp inside

A gang of kids will come by and smash it in the road anyway!

Wasn’t Lio the one trying to shield the pumpkin yesterday?

Didn’t we already have this pumpkin cutter a few weeks ago and Lio was too scared to try it when the Pumpkin brought a child chopper?

What a waste of perfectly good pumpkin flesh…… how many people actually eat what they scoop out?

Didn’t your Mammy-kin teach you Never To Hitchhike, little pumpkin? You will inevitably meet a fate worse than any Lio had in mind for you, at the hands of some Pumpkin-Bashing & Trashing Maniac….

You have a license in surgery—right, Lio??