Lio by Mark Tatulli for June 12, 2022

an ent in Middle Earth or one of those trees in the Land of Oz

Might be a cousin of Charlie Brown’s kite-eating tree.

A bit rubbery, so is the tire.

Pocket chainsaw to the rescue…

And it looked like a friendly tree.

His bite IS worse than his bark.

Kite eating tree Lio style:https://www.gocomics.com/lio/2006/11/29?ct=v&cti=2632465

It’s my turn! So you can keep the centre, but spit out that tire.

Paging Tom Bombadil!

Yo, Mark! When you swing on a swing the rope or chain that holds your seat is generally almost perfectly straight, because it’s being pulled outward by a force greater than the weight of the passenger. It wouldn’t curve like that unless Lio was somehow bouncing on it. Is Lio using a giant rubber band for his tire swing?

Should that bother me? Probably not.

Did it completely distract this particular reader from the joke?

Yes. Yes, it did.

There was a farside where the trees used a tire swing appendage as a lure. I love both strips.

I’ve heard of a kite-eating tree, but a tire swing eating tree?

Hogwarts has it’s whomping willow, Lio found a chomping camphor.

Uh-oh. Is this the end of the comic?

The Giving Tree’s distant cousin.

Yummy…….

I hate it when that happens…

Trees are carnivores?

there was the kite eating tree from the Peanuts … this is an extension of it?

Mistook Lio for a little orc.

This beats Charlie Brown’s kite eating tree…..

The Giving Tree gets its revenge.

BURP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Tree definitely not from around here.

The problem is that he seemingly gets snuffed out on a regular basis. But the next day, he’s back like nothing happened. C’mon tree! Do your stuff……

I’ve heard of a kite eating tree, but not a tire swing eating tree.

Wow, and Charlie Brown thought he had it bad with a kite-eating tree!

This is great