Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 24, 2011

Ya think so?

How much does he get paid for this chore?

’Twill soon be raining wallets.

Melvin? MELVIN? What happened to Bob? This is a job for Bob! Take one for Team Croc, old suicide-bomber buddy-Bob!

“Melvin, pees don worry. Pooty soon you no feel bad.”

That should be Bob’s job, shouldn’t it?

Larry, you might want to attach that bomb to the wall as Melvin might forget and follow you home.

Say, Melvin, why don’t you give Larry a big hug before you go to work?

No, in their cult they yell “Alla Gator!”

If they really want to blow a hole in the wall, ZZE should gopher broke and hire an expert.

I don’t believe we’ve seen Melvin before, and something tells me we won’t be seeing him again.

Ahhh … the life of a terrorist!

Tell them zeeba is related to pig.

And Melvin doesn’t even question how this is a chore….. lol

@sisyphos YEAH! Where’s Bob, Floyd… okay that’s about the only other two crocs. Has anyone noticed that near the beginning of the strip, Larry kept dying?

A croc not named Larry or Bob in Pearls is the equivalent of a guy wearing a red shirt in a Star Trek landing party.

This is how it works, now watch closely because I’m only going to do this once…

Oh make yourself useful Melvin!

xxx

they may get 72 virgins but they didn’t specify that they would be female.

Mel’s in for a mind-blowing, once in a lifetime, experience…Larry’s heading for Walmart….ummm….☻

IF Melvin does it will he get 72 virgin zeebas????

Marvie neat. Pastis gets it, and we all get a belly laugh.Typical hierarchical power ploy, too “You …..” and I’ll go pick up the grub. What a CROC. Where and how many times have we seen this?

Is it just me or do the crocs look cut and pasted in front of the wall?

One of the bricks in the wall changes from light gray to dark gray in the second panel and then back again in the third panel.

& cdward

Unless, they’re at a sci-fi convention, then they’ll yell, “Admiral Akbar!”

Zeeba Zeeba Eata! Love it!

Not even smart enough to realize that they should just blow up the wall, without dissipating the charge with a crocodile’s body.

Just stick the frikken bomb to the wall ya dumb croc! If I was there I’d just punch a hole through it with my oversized forearms! Then punch Larry in the head.

Well, my last two posts were deleted, so I can only assume that I am being censured by some prissy little ‘Family Circus’ fan…

Tough luck for Melvin, but this is a plan that might work.

@EmptyP Good point, but they keep wearing red shirts don’t they?

Don’t be too upset, Melvin. Next week you not have to do any chore if you get this one right.

Would not the explosives work better if not attached to the croc?

Wait… why not just put the bomb on the wall?