Pain and Suffering

For some reason I thought yesterday had an update. In supplication, double post!

6/27/07
I'm probably more amused than I should be by the chiding laughter of the birds at Liō's failure to fly. Did the Wright brothers, in their initial failures to achieve flight, ever receive such cruel reactions from the very species they were attempting to emulate?

6/28/07
And so Papa Liō quickly dies on the beach after giving his very last breath for the enjoyment of his only son. Liō, either unaware of his passing or unconcerned by it, joyously forges a path into the ocean using the result of his father's lethal actions.

Kooks, Apocalypse, and Mechas

So I was busy most of the weekend and then part of the week. As a result, experience the great Liō Quintuple Postravanganza!

6/22/07
Liō takes shots at nerds a lot, despite the fact I highly doubt Mark Tatulli is unaware of the extreme geek appeal of his comic. Still, I must wonder - why does Cool Clothes carry clothes for Kooks? And where are the Girls clothes? Seriously, I think they need to rethink their business angle.

6/23/07I don't have much more to add. Really. The guy's about to be a squishy little pancake. What more can I add to that?

6/24/07Two days of robots, two days of impending doom! I like how the rampaging robot destruction is handled, not by the army, but a trip to the principal's office. Clearly, our Dark Child has a self-imposed quota before he ceases his killing for the day or he'd have naturally turned the robot on the school to ensure his freedom.

6/25/07
It is rare that the tables are turned on the Dark Child. But today, Papa Liō has his victory. He enjoys an ice cold beer as he watches the suffering of his only child. It is no wonder where Liō has learned his behavior from.

6/26/07And finally, we see Leeroy Hateeachother, I mean, Lockhorn, taken away by the police after a harrowing evening of domestic terror. No doubt by morning, Loretta will have bailed him out and the cycle of abuse will continue.

I intend to not get so far behind in the future, so hopefully this will be the last Quintuple Postravanganza.

Candy, candy, candy, Christmas

6/20/07
Here's some classic Liō dark humor. Nothing starts my day quite like a children getting launched out of catapults at a quarter a pop. Lucy must be having a slow day down at the old psychiatric office if Liō can get them lining up for 20 cents more.

Again, the real joy for me is the underreaction. Father Liō seems only mildly upset, rather than horrified at the doubtlessly large pile of broken bodies. Liō, of course, doesn't seem to think he's doing anything wrong.

I personally wonder - does Liō's ride get repeat customers? Does he prevent refunds just by shaming his victims into believing their thoughts were not wonderful enough?

Fun with Robots

6/18/07Hey look, Papa Liō is still alive and with us!

Naturally, a child of Liō's temperament has found himself in trouble at school frequently. Like most characters in the strip, the teacher here has no name, but this isn't her first appearance. Today's strip also shows another common theme - robots. Liō is quite the mechanic and machines and robots are frequently deployed in his master plans.

But as we can see today, his plans are not always flawless. In fact, judging from the thickness of that stack of papers, our dark child has likely generated numerous robot-related concerns. Personally, I'd like to know whether the robot could have carried on a conversation had its spring-loaded head not popped off.

Happy Father's Day!

6/17/07
Naturally, any comic about a child is going to involve the child constantly one-upping the authority figures in his life. In a cast this small, Liō's ever-suffering father is usually the target.

Take today - here the man is given the impression that his adoring son is celebrating Father's Day. It is immediately subverted by the darker motivation - not love, but a selfish desire to bring his dinosaur (that is a dinosaur, right?) into the home via massive destruction of his father's property. Look at him. Sitting so blissfully, enjoying his gift, not realizing that in a few moments that dinosaur is going to squash him into a puddle. Perhaps this explains the absence of Mother Liō?