This made me laugh out loud when I read it yesterday! Especially the part about Anthony’s “Wallpaper Brush Mustache!”
And be sure to see what Lio’s writing on the last cue card - he’s so twisted!
“Lio” showed up in our daily paper sometime last year, and more often than not is good for a chuckle. Interestingly, there’s never any dialog in the strip - the creator calls it a “pantomine strip.” As far as I can remember this is the first time I’ve ever seen dialog balloons.
While Liz not wanting to end up with the “wuss with a wall-paper brush mustache” was funny, I liked Grandpa getting out of the chair and ditching the “losers” so he could blow some dough on hot dancing girls.
All in all, I love Lio. It reminds me of Charles Addams’ work. Even more though, I love the letters to the editor complaining about Lio.
I linked to one with speech a few months ago. I don’t know if I can find it again today, and I don’t feel inclined to try, so I’m just going to lay it out.
First panel: Lio standing next to a little table with a telephone on it. The handset is off the phone, and Lio is blowing a trombone into the mouthpiece.
Second panel: Charlie Brown and Lucy Van Pelt, in the style they looked like in about 1959. Lucy is holding the phone out to Charlie Brown, saying, “It’s your teacher.”
Oh, yes, I also laughed out loud at “For Worser or for Best”.
Lio replaced Foxtrot in my local paper. Considering I remember a letter to the editor objecting to Dan Piraro’s Bizarro as “gross-out” (& we lost Bizarro), I wonder how long it will last.