Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 03, 2020

I’m with Goat on this one when it comes to the end of the pandemic.

Today’s background music: “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (and I Feel Fine)” by REM.

“And now/the end is near….”

And the cockroaches shall inherit the Earth.

It ends when we say it ends and don’t take no for an answer.

so it’s actually going to end with a bang and not a whimper…?

Nuclear war remains just a maybe. Global roasting, however, is a dead, in the most literal sense, certainty.

Thank God it won’t be a Nuke-u-ler war!

Well, you might give a little whistle and look on the bright side of life!

Debbie Downer Blues …… Croc Power !

When you attend a funeral

It is sad to think that sooner or

Later those you love will do the same for you

And you may have thought it tragic

Not to mention other adjec-

Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do

But don’t you worry

No more ashes, no more sackcloth

And an armband made of black cloth

Will some day never more adorn a sleeve

For if the bomb that drops on you

Gets your friends and neighbors too

There’ll be nobody left behind to grieve

And we will all go together when we go

What a comforting fact that is to know

Universal bereavement

An inspiring achievement

Yes we all will go together when we go

Oh great. Here we go with the old nuclear war paranoia again.

No worries: we’ll survive (well, most of us) a nuclear war, it will just be a little “messy” (ever seethe movie “The Road”?).

I’ll be more worried about climate change…

As they say dont worry too much about the planet, it will be just fine without us.

I’m getting tired of hearing people complain about 2020.

No, no, no. . .nuclear war was the Cold War threat. . .gotta come up with a new one ’cause I ’m immune to that one. . .

I’ll be much happier on Jan 21, 2021.

No nuke used in war since August 9, 1945. 75 years is kinda good. May it continue…

Rat panel 1: OptimistRat panel 2: Realist (At least the first line)Rat panel 3: Pessimist

To quote that great American philosopher, Roseanne Roseannadanna, “…it just goes to show you, it’s always something — if it ain’t one thing, it’s another … it’s always something, you either got a toenail in your hamburger or toilet paper clinging in your shoe. "

Instead of ending the world with water, God will end it with fire next time.

Any strip mentioning nuclear war is not funny.

https://gbdeclaration.org/

Nope, we end by global warming and more diseases that were stuck in ice.

I’m hoping once life gets back to normal, Stephan will get out of his emo phase and write comedy again.

Reminds me of a song I haven’t thought of or heard in years, Randy Newman’s “Political Science” 1972: ♪♫ “They all hate us anyhow, so let’s drop the big one now.”♫ ♪

Derp Furor still has forty-eight days to end end the world.

“We have them, so we might as well use them”, or words to that effect, from his 2016 cam-pain

No, no… Vanya gets mad while playing the violin and her family tries to stop her from destroying everything. In desperation, they shoot her, and she screams, destroying the moon that crashes… Don’t you know ANYTHING? ;D

“Sticks and stones …”

Sorry Rat, but that would be too quick. The Universe wants to watch us suffer more so it’s stretching it out as much as it can.

It’s about time.

The battle ends when the virus tires of us.

I likeee that

I’m still hoping for the alien overlords to show up

What’s that? Won’t happen till we have three nukes for every man, woman, and child on the planet.

Be happy, you’re one day closer to death. Ohhh, sweet sweet death!

https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2003/03/09

im through with this comic strip. im already well aware of the virus and all the negetive gloom and doom depressing crap going on. stop reminding us.

I get the feeling that there is a worldwide leadership crisis going on. Events are coming that they have not a clue about what to do. Their ‘play’ books are all filled with obsolete re-runs.

I thought comics were supposed to be funny, not dark and pessimistic.

They’re Rioting in Africa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8-BI89mb9A

You know, at this point I’d welcome it.

“We will all go together when we go / All suffused with an incandescent glow”

What if Rat is right?

C’mon Giant Meteor!

The virus will still be around, but it may have mutated, look out for moaning, green skinned, bloody people that try to munch on you