Lio by Mark Tatulli for June 13, 2019

cranium croquet… awesome

Aaw, the poor guy lost a tooth!

Jaw-dropping!

“Want to play croquet?” “It’s pronounced croak-ay.”

Hopefully, death isn’t a sore loser!

Hey, if you can play chess with Death, why NOT croquet?

Lio is ahead in the game.

Just don’t play lawn darts!

What a jaw-dropping game.

I love croquet!

macabre

Beat the Devil.

Hey, Lio, grab that tooth he dropped! It should be good by Halloween!

Mallet, scythe, what’s the difference?

Be careful Lio, you may be winning but death has the touch.

One game I will not play with Death: Twenty Questions.

Well stroked, Lio! The Grim Reaper loses today! —Of course, in the long run, GR will always be the winner….

Gives “stroke” a new meaning

I think Death likes a lot of games, but his favorite is probably Cat and Mouse.

Back in the ’70s, I saw a half-hour-length parody, complete with pseudo-Swedish subtitles, of The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman. And in the parody, the protagonist plays badminton with Death. So indeed, why not croquet?

The parody movie of the guy playing badminton with Death? It was called The Dove. More can be found at: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheDove