Lio by Mark Tatulli for March 29, 2017

What are YOU in for, mister? Oh, mixing your white laundry with your colored laundry, eh?

… and creating a nuisance.

There was a great cover illustration on an early issue of “National Lampoon” that imitated the style of old lurid crime magazine illustrations. It depicted a frightened woman cowering, defensive and fearful, menaced by a large figure looming over her. Back to us, he holds a cushion bearing the “DO NOT REMOVE” warning, with the other, he is poised to rip the tag away.

My mother would warn us to never remove it. I think she thought it was against the law to ever remove it.

Doing hard time for that? What a rip-off!

I’d keep my mouth shut if I were you, Mr. Con. Lio prefers it quiet, and he has powerful friends on the Outside….

20 panels hard labor…

Speech! I’m speechless.

Pretty much everything is a crime right now. What’s next? They will penalize you if you don’t pay for going to a public bathroom?

Do the crime, do the time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydW2J-8fdhQ

How 1990.

Funny, even if you know what the whole tag says.

Wait… I know I’ve seen a comic with this exact joke in it before. But it was when I was a kid, so before Lio was around. Someone please tell me which comic it was! This is going to bother me until I find out.

Busted!

He fought the law and the law won!