Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 11, 2014
Transcript:
Goat: Hey, Rat. You're back? Rat: Back from what? Goat: Last week, the creator of 'Garfield' had your head chopped off you can't just reappear without explanation. Pastis: Look, guys. I glued Rat's head back on. Pig; That explains everything! Goat; I need a new job.
wiselad over 9 years ago
this is a very sticky explanation
Sherlock Watson over 9 years ago
They used to sell a T-shirt that read, “If idiots could fly, this place would be an airport”; I can easily see Paris Goat wearing one of those.
Ida No over 9 years ago
Oops…Retroactive backstory time.
AGED_ENGINEER Premium Member over 9 years ago
Sort of like the killer whale “undying” during the baseball game a few years ago.
knight1192a over 9 years ago
Did you also glue his mouth shut?
bluegirl285 over 9 years ago
I also notice Rat’s no longer in “the Garfield way,” if you know what I mean…
Sisyphos over 9 years ago
Goat’s panel 4 reaction is a bit extreme (though I don’t know that Cartoon-Boy pays his characters all that well—kind of minimum wage job, I suspect). But I’m not sure I buy “gluing” Rat’s head back on; everyone knows it should be sewn!
dadoctah over 9 years ago
Now that’s an explanation that works about as well as yesterday’s excuse “not for zeebas” does for a strip about the Obamacare signup deadline running eight months late.
chris_o42 over 9 years ago
Rat should have quit while he was a-head.
jackianne1020 over 9 years ago
Is there an explanation as to why they suddenly moved from the outdoors to the indoors? I guess if they can glue Rat’s head back on (and de-Garfield him), they can shift backgrounds with no reason.
doublepaw over 9 years ago
Time for a vacation for this strip.
mytly4 over 9 years ago
If only Ned Stark had had a pot of glue handy.
puddlesplatt over 9 years ago
golly if life was this simple?
pschearer Premium Member over 9 years ago
As Johnny Carson used to say, buy the premise, buy the bit.
Cameron1988 Premium Member over 9 years ago
More like, he drew it back on
Queen of America over 9 years ago
Pastis is always bringing something back to life – one of the crocs, neighbor Bob….I want Pasts at my deathbed so I can come back.
MeGoNow Premium Member over 9 years ago
Professional cartoonists, no matter how deeply they write themselves into a corner, always, with great effort, manage to write themselves out of the corner. .And then there’s Pastis.
Number Three over 9 years ago
Could Stephan not glue his head on back to front?
That would be hilarious.
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