Lio by Mark Tatulli for December 01, 2022

I guess the sadistic girlfriend (my bad yesterday for calling her masochist; I wasn’t thinking of the right word clearly) doesn’t watch Hugo at all.

No squid, no girl…Sorry Liõ, looks like Hugo it alone.

Poor guy. Cheer up you’ll get over it.

Lio I though you would’ve learned your lesson by now !

You have a better chance of taking the cat…

Nice art, Mark, the breaking heart egging.

These type strips are an homage to Peanuts. Charlie Brown never got the red-headed girl and Lio never gets his girl.

Is this a depiction of the phrase “egg on his face”?

She could floss with rope. And Lio seems to have just one supertooth.

Sigh. I was hoping she would be happu to go with him.

The last panel is a clever conflation of two images.

Sorry kid, your dreams have been poached.

To say that “she is just mean” is an understatement of the obvious….

Scrambled egg all over my face! What is a boy to do?

Huh, you know, it’s almost like she doesn’t care for him after all.

That was a friendly invitation to a fun screening Eva!