Lio by Mark Tatulli for October 19, 2012

Lio has a conscience?!?

Awwwwww…what a sweetie Lio is! Love the little guy….

Rather Pumpkin Love than Penguin Lust! But it is a shame not to put that Shank 9000 to good use….

Yet another deleted scene from It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown“Is this what happens when we’re left all alone without parents? Do we all go nuts like this?”

Jack O is happy about that…

So what did today’s pumpkin have that yesterday’s didn’t? Lio didn’t seem to have a problem carving it.

I’d rather be stabbed.

I think Lio is a sweet, lonely little boy with a huge imagination, a big heart, and some mischief thrown into the mix.

Great. Not even a vegetarian diet will suit him now.

First pumpkin hugger I’ve ever seen.

Lio doesn’t want to carve another pumpkin.

Just as well, those kid safe plastic saws never do work. RDS has it right w/butcher knife..BLM you need to go to a grocery store. Every 4-yr-old in the place will be hugging and begging pumpkins. 6-yr-olds candy, and everyone else – costumes.

I’m gonna use my Flex-Cut wood carving tools this year on our pumpkin. They last a lot longer when you don’t decapitate and gut them.

What gets me is the name of the tool – the Pumpkin Shank 9000!

Awww… It’s LOVE!… I guess he decided to stop the killing massacre, maybe he’ll dress it up w/ some fabrics, I was considering this option… But, um, in the next strip, he scares another little boy, so, um, he hurt HIS feelings, but not the pumpkins’… I don’t see an inability to eat anything at all, I see that eating it’s what it grew for (per Kirilian photography)… The plants get excited when you eat them… But, why massacre the food, um, well, I don’t know but what else to do w/ an emptied out pumpkin gourd?…

And a few days later, he’s selling Great Pumpkin pies.