This appeared last Sunday, and while neither Mitch nor I got it at first glance, maybe I do after staring at it a bit more. But it’s still opaque enough to make me want to hear what others think of it.
Tatulli also gets points IMHO for doing a decent job of copying Jim Borgman’s style! It’s always fun when you see one cartoonist do that with another’s characters.
Comics I Don't Understand 
The Monster Under the Bed fell through the floor into the strip the newspaper put under Lio, namely Zits. Except nobody reads comics in newspapers any more, Mark Tatulli! (For values of “nobody” that mean, “I don’t, so you can assume nobody does.”)
But the Monster wasn’t Under the Bed. It was apparently shackled to the wall.
Is that a big hunk of meat he’s bringing, to feed the monster? Or a violin case?
A violin? No, that’s definitely a hunk of meat.
I didn’t really understand the fake Zits comic strip thing at first. It’d be a better illusion with the Zits name and author listed in the gutter between the two.
Yes, Carl, that’s what I got on rereading. I’d missed the hole in the “floor”. And your interpretation of falling thru to the next strip makes more sense than me wondering why Liō and Jeremy are suddenly living in apartments, doh!
I don’t Jeremy is “living” any more. The monster just burped.
I think that this is a Metamorphosis reference.
Lio has done this before…he did a whole comics section where his giant ant farm broke and the ants invaded all the other strips.
My favorite actual crossover involves “Pearls Before Swine”. One of the idiot crocs decided to go for easy, can’t-miss prey. The payoff was a happy infant from “Baby Blues” beside the clearly defeated croc. That same day, the “Baby Blues” strip slipped the same x-eyed croc among the toys on the floor within an unrelated gag.
Note the “lazy bones” comment from Mom, and the actual bones.
I get the joke, but what’s with the gigantic shoes?
Pete, Jeremy has giant feet in Zits.
@ Brian in StL (10) – Excellent catch! I noticed the burp, but missed the bones completely.
Carl Fink – I read the strips in our local newspaper every day. So as usual, I am apparently different than everyone else.
I read the (morning) paper after eating dinner. In addition to annoying Robert by reading him comics I find funny enough to bother him about (he does not like comics), I also read or tell him about news stories I think of interest to him, when I do the latter his standard comic is “heard that on the news today” as I am reading stories that happened and were printed before we woke for the day.