Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 23, 2013

And the plot is a little thin.

True that……

What’s it all about, Alfie?

Please, Pastis, enough with the armadillos’ short lives by means of roadkill! You’re making sound like Armando will be the last armadillo on Earth!

Why do they sleep so close to the road?

Chapter 1“They were the best of tires, they were the worst of tires. Extreme-performance dry road tires. With large tread blocks and aggressive lateral grip. Their speed was mesmerizing.”The End.

Poor Alfie! He tried to raise a little Caine, but in his short life, he wasn’t Abel.

Believe me. any armadillo you see ’sleeping" so close to the edge of the road is Not “sleeping.”

Is that it? I thought it would be like “my AUTObiography: I’ve been hit by Chevy, VW, Ford, Toyota and even by Bentley once.” )

“This rare, honest autobiography by the promising late author, Alfie Armadillo, has real existential angst, capturing vividly the short but meaningful life of a true American roadkill.” —NYTimes.

yet so poignant. living in florida you get introduced to the dillos. nice enough as a class but dumber than a box of tongues and uglier than a hatfull of assh***s. apologies to alfie!

It must have been a Good Year for Alfie.

it’s an “Auto” biograpy

Short life = no writer’s block.

Do armadillos resemble the Michelin Man? Is that an accident…or fate?

just a few more words, would have bought tears to my eyes!

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why is Armando still alive. He should have been roadkill a long time ago.

Would someone please tell me how to insert an image in a comment box?

Maybe he watched Rango one to many times.

Well, at least Armando has lived long enough to have a name and there is hope for him because it isn’t BOB!!! . . .

And then… VROOM!

Armando obviously needs to write a book on how to keep from getting run over for other armadillos to read.

Armadillos, Lemmings, Crocs named Bob and other “one-hit wonders” in this strip.

What did armadillos do before there were cars to flatten them, anyway?

Awwwwww… Shame.

xxx

My kids were in middle school before they realized that there was such a thing as a live possum.