Lio by Mark Tatulli for June 18, 2013

I’m as confused as Lio’s father. What’s the punchline?

Very punny Lio!

Lio likes the movies but I didn’t like that one.

Sometimes Lio can’t believe how funny he is!(Neither can Dad.)

Technically, you only need three points to define a plane. Today’s nitpicking is brought to you by WaitingMan Industries.

I get the geometry angle, but it could also be directions to fold the paper into a paper airplane.

Is it an exceptionally bad pun if so many people don’t get it?

I just like any comic with snakes…..sure do miss The Far Side!

Reverse the panels for a more effective set-up/punchline scenario.

I just stopped in to confess that I lol-ed at this. Then I read the other comments, & started to wonder if there’s even more of a joke in the kind of plane that he drew. All I get is that those angle depictions aren’t for the obtuse. Oh, and sure, you only need three points to define a plane, but a more complex drawing of a plane still flies.

For a more effective set-up/punchline scenario, reverse the order of the panels

Puns aren’t really Lio’s forte. He’s an action figure, by trade.

I am waaayyy too much of a geek, as I found this hilarious. (Actually, my B.S. is in mathematics.)

Those are rare Cartesian rattlers, known for their unsurpassed coordination.

I see.

Gasp! Next thing you’ll be telling me is that lines can be parallel and also curve at the same time…

how about Rhombus & Remus.

Enough with the three-points-define-a-plane. If he had drawn it that way it would look like Snakes on a Triangle.

Brilliant.

It’s rather two-dimensional.

Come, come now… He even labeled the vertices and created a triangle inside… The boy’s a genius! But, we already knew that… :D… Well, I know it better now, anyways, I thought he was just a misunderstood Goth child…

@Bruno Zeigerts I boycotted reading all things Pastis after he changed up the way he did his comic to match his attempted online cartoon. Sell-out-worse-than-Garfield, because at least Garfield didn’t change their strip in the paper!… Even though the movie and cartoon, were, um, … Sorry, cute but lacking something…

In reading that title, one would expect to see snakes possibly slithering on the floor inside the cabin of a plane… Lio referred to a geometric concept….all points on the diagram are on a flat plane ….as opposed possibly to a three- dimensional triangle.

Actually, Lio was being quite inIelligent in this situation for such a young kid. That said, any kid who can invent some of the sophisticated gadgets he has in the past, are really really intelligent.