Lio by Mark Tatulli for July 13, 2010

A real live ball machine!

Y’know, I’m pretty sure that counts as a balk …

Watch out!!!!

It’s a giant hail storm!!!

Baseball season will never be the same.

Steee-rike eight! Yer OUT!

(I choose Ishmael! I choose Ismael for our team!)

It looks like Lio is getting a ‘horse’s laugh’ from a squid…

Ishy just digging the hell out of himself again!

You might have to refresh him on the rules there, Lio.

Lio did read that book his father gave him yesterday.

If only Charlie Brown were willing to give up the pitcher’s mound, one trade would make his team champions.

But Dad must be so proud - Lio’s actually playing a “normal” game! Of course, baseball’s so boring he had to spice it up a bit.

Talk about adding new excitement to baseball! Now games will be over in half the time.

Steeee-rike Thirty-Seven!

Ishy looks like he’s having a ball out there. Same for Lio… Oh um, no, that’s panic, strike that.

Ishmael looks like he could be an entire team unto himself.

I don’t remember Ishmael being on the MLB All-Star ballot…a travesty.

Mets should sign him, maybe then National League would have a chance in the All-Star game.

Ishy’s gonna find his record asterisked, if he’s not careful.

Ishy in the last frame singing “Take me out to the ballgame?”

I count two strikes and six balls. Take a base!

wow! nine strikes at the same time! three outs in one at bat! George Steinbrenner would have signed him in a minute. RIP

I don’t want to be anywhere near when Ishy comes to bat!!

And we wonder why Lio doesn’t like sports.

This is like a variation on the gag used in “Baseball Bugs”; “1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 strikes, yer out!”

First Lio book < $6 at Amazon. Hurry! Only 6 left! http://tinyurl.com/29qx7wm

Thanks,

John @ GoComics

to many baseballs

Yeah, George would have signed him. I wonder if they can still afford to buy everybody under the sun now that the money may be getting divided up.

Good for Ishy!

“Don’t make me slap your donkey.”