Lio by Mark Tatulli for December 27, 2020

An amazing feat (or foot in this case)!

Could that be Thing’s cousin Whatchamacalit?

Where’s the other one?

Looks like it belongs on the tree along with the other “ornaments” ….

I really hope that’s not what’s left of Dad from yesterday.

The great writer Annie Dillard said that jokes and pranks were the daily bread of her family when she was growing up.

One Christmas morning the children found those “stockings hung by the chimney with care” each contained a full size leg.

Their parents had persuaded a friend who owned a clothing store to loan them legs from his mannequins.

Dillard’s many books, by the way, are each unique, no one is like any of the others, and every one is a masterwork. She won a Pulitzer for her very first, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.

Looks like there is a conspiracy a-foot!

You know when you’re trying to figure out something? And when you do it just makes you feel dumber for not having seen it immediately?

That’s me, reading today’s strip, and trying to figure out what the number 017 has to do with anything.

Christmas is when you sit in front of a dead tree and eat candy from your sock.

The ornaments look like what’s on our tree.

Would have expected those pairs of socks and slippers to be groups of three…

Could someone please explain the joke? My friend doesn’t get it.