Not sure what you aren’t seeing. (This is marked “CIDU”.) Lio has always been the creepy “weird kid” who loves monsters and critters. His spider friends are helping him decorate the tree. He also has a pet squid, and back at the beginning of the strip he used to have a spider who he would cuddle, before he replaced it with his current squid, IIRC.
Before I read Arthur’s comment @2, I thought this was the first appearance of Liō’s mom, but I see now that it’s supposed to be his dad (despite the confusing man-boobs that B.A. mentioned @6).
There’s a game like that: when someone is asleep in an armchair, everyone in turn puts an object on him; points lost when an object falls. At the end of the game, take a picture of the result before waking up the sleeper.
He’s decorating the tree as well… just there’s this extra large animate ornament attached to it. You can see him carrying the tree from the box, and it’s there in between his father/mother/The Queen’s legs.
I suppose the victim is supposed to be snoring with mouth slackly hanging open but it does look as though he/she/Her Majesty is saying something.
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Not sure what you aren’t seeing. (This is marked “CIDU”.) Lio has always been the creepy “weird kid” who loves monsters and critters. His spider friends are helping him decorate the tree. He also has a pet squid, and back at the beginning of the strip he used to have a spider who he would cuddle, before he replaced it with his current squid, IIRC.
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It took me a while to figure out what was going on. Instead of decorating a tree, he decorated his father (asleep in a high-backed chair).
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He’s a passive-aggressive little creep who put the decorations on his dad because, despite Lio’s repeated demands, he hasn’t gotten a tree yet.
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It sounds like the first comment describes the 12/16 comic and the next two the 12/14 comic. Did they get switched?
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Oh, that’s his FATHER in there. And he decorated his father.
Okay. My best guess was he opened the box and took out the Queen of England wrapped in plastic.
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Does his father have breasts?
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Carlfink, with all due respect, I’m not sure what you ARE seeing.
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Before I read Arthur’s comment @2, I thought this was the first appearance of Liō’s mom, but I see now that it’s supposed to be his dad (despite the confusing man-boobs that B.A. mentioned @6).
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There’s a game like that: when someone is asleep in an armchair, everyone in turn puts an object on him; points lost when an object falls. At the end of the game, take a picture of the result before waking up the sleeper.
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He’s decorating the tree as well… just there’s this extra large animate ornament attached to it. You can see him carrying the tree from the box, and it’s there in between his father/mother/The Queen’s legs.
I suppose the victim is supposed to be snoring with mouth slackly hanging open but it does look as though he/she/Her Majesty is saying something.
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I thought this was the first appearance of Liō’s mom
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@ B.A. “Does his father have breasts?”
Yes.
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Lio’s mom is a florist?
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If you look closely, you can see the stubble on his dad’s legs.
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Um, no . . . she’s dead.
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You’re correct of course, Chak: Let’s replace “breasts” with “boobs”.
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She’s a dead florist?
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No, larK, she’s in the last panel, lying under the gravestone.
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