# Christmas Eve with Lio **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 24, 2009, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-eve-with-lio/522442 "2009-12-24T14:06:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-eve-with-lio/522442/1 "2009-12-24T14:06:53Z")
I don’t know how many of you read the comic strip Lio, by Mark Tatulli, but for those of you wondering where the little boy’s mother is, [today’s strip](http://www.gocomics.com/comic_page/explore/110420?page=6) answered the question. Totally unexpected (he’s been shopping all week) and truly touching. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-eve-with-lio/522442/2 "2009-12-24T14:45:53Z")
It brought a tear to my eye. Today would have been my mother’s 77th birthday. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-eve-with-lio/522442/3 "2009-12-24T14:54:19Z")
The link takes me to a strip called Stone Soup. Am I doing something wrong? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-eve-with-lio/522442/4 "2009-12-24T14:56:21Z")
Ok, I searched the site and got there eventually. Touching. This is one of my favorite comics, but not one I see every day. Maybe a better link: [http://www.gocomics.com/lio](http://www.gocomics.com/lio) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-eve-with-lio/522442/5 "2009-12-24T16:46:27Z")
It is touching. Lio does this sometimes…usually it’s about a kid who could be Wednesday Addams’s slightly weirder cousin, but occasionally Tatulli puts up something that almost makes you mist up. The most amazing thing about Lio, though, to me, is that it’s the same writer/artist that does Heart of the City. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-eve-with-lio/522442/6 "2009-12-24T22:42:58Z")
Aw, thanks for the heads up, I’m glad I read that. Normally I read it during the week in my Chicago Tribune subscription, but I’m away today for the holiday. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-eve-with-lio/522442/7 "2009-12-24T23:06:47Z")
I don’t get it. Sorry, I don’t read the comic but I want to know what’s going on (cause I’m nosy like that). The mom’s the reindeer in the window? One of the women chatting in the doorway? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-eve-with-lio/522442/8 "2009-12-24T23:10:46Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > I don’t get it. Sorry, I don’t read the comic but I want to know what’s going on (cause I’m nosy like that). The mom’s the reindeer in the window? One of the women chatting in the doorway? The OP has the wrong link. There’s a good one in a later post. [Here](http://www.gocomics.com/lio/2009/12/24/). ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-eve-with-lio/522442/9 "2009-12-24T23:35:20Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > I don’t get it. Sorry, I don’t read the comic but I want to know what’s going on (cause I’m nosy like that). The mom’s the reindeer in the window? One of the women chatting in the doorway? It’s his Mother’s tombstone.