Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 05, 2011

How about removing the crocs?

Didn’t he already kill off the lions and the seals? Or did they undied?

Where’s the KABOOM? There’s supposed to be an earth-shattering KABOOM!

Noticed the lions’ house; yet we hardly see them any more. I wonder if they are still getting their spousal support from their ex-wives.

I vote for Danny Donkey’s house!

Unusual initiative on the part of the other crocs. I suppose survival instinct is also a mother of invention. . .

I vote Stephan’s desk with an assist by Rat. By the way, the search on FB doesn’t seem to go anywhere votable.

Looks like Melvin’s life is forfeit regardless.

Obviously, he’s going to hit Stephan’s jail cell and bust him out, thus fulfilling the brick joke.

The Seals still live in the neighborhood? We haven’t seen them since the killer whale died. Also, it looks like the house next to Zebra’s is labeled “Bob and Patty’s house”. Shouldn’t that be “Larry and Patty’s house”? I thought the croc family had a separate residence from the other crocs.I wouldn’t be surprised to see him land on Neighbor Bob’s house. Of course it would be poetic justice if he landed back on the frat house.

Melvinland? is that like Disneyland?

I vote cartoon Stephan’s cell! Maybe he’ll take out a lawyer or two while he’s at it. . .

Never mind, I just noticed on Stephan’s facebook page that he admits that “Larry and Patty’s house” is mislabeled.

Well, obviously he is going to land on the courthouse, thus insidiously concluding two story-lines with one big kaboom. I am assuming the wall will simply be ‘unbuilt’.

i’m sad so my house!

I hate Facebook.

I’m surprised no one said Pigita’s house (she doesn’t have to be in it). But why not the wall of the jail where Pastis is being held? Then he could escape to the Underground. And with his buddies they could form the A PBS Team.

High above the quiet streets of Pearlswood, a bomb-laden green form speeds through the skies and barrels downward! Faster and faster, the croc-o’-doom streaks down, down to a single house…. [To be continued….]

Considering how inept the crocs are I wonder if the vest will even explode. They are not the explosive experts like Little Guard Duck!

Can we pick for him to land on the jail and stephan excape? If not, let’s take out the seals… they don’t do much any way.

Over the Hills & Far Away.

The courthouse where Steph is about to be sentenced to jail for life.

I vote Mayor Bloomberg’s house.

The judge-who-sentenced-Pastis-to-prison’s house.

well, if I could read the placards, I’d love to vote, but the neighbour Bob sounds pretty good.

…aside from why they need someone to wear a vest in the first place rather than just planting the bomb.

…and if you haven’t noticed, @Rodney is channeling Marvin the Martian.

I had trouble finding it on FB. Just search “Stephan Pastis” and you will get the page – click on the top link.

Well you dont’t have to read them, but I still read Beetle, On the other hand, I would no longer miss B.C. if it were gone. That strip should have died with Johnny Hart.

well the crocs aren’t too smart so….instead of dyamite they wrapped Melvin in road flares and he comes straight back down on Larry’s house and sets it on fire, when the flares go off.

Have Melvin land in the frat house…the Crocs are too inept to actually build a bomb that works….

Maybe on Larry`s house…not on the map by the way.

Another vote for the Keane Family Kompound here. Extra points if he lands directly on Jeffy.

SP’s house so it will blow like these recent strips!

I found the facebook site, but nowhere to vote. It’s bound to work against the crocs no matter where the explosion occurs, it always does.

I’d go for Danny Donkey.

I like the idea of him landing on another comic strip. It’s too bad Cathy’s not still around.

How did all these animals qualify for home loans??When you’re selling hundreds of millions of dollars of securities backed by the promise that a donkey or a rat will faithfully maintain mortgage payments . . . no wonder we had a financial collapse!

Um. Mr. Pastis? I don’t see your house listed in the last panel? Must be a typo, yes?

I vote he land in either Cathy or Family Circus. Let Billy deal with him.

It won’t be any of the options Steph put up, it will be something else. Something totally random.

He won’t land on anyone’s house. Lil Guard Duck will shoot him down.

where’s rick perry’s house?

I’d go to facebook, but I’m antisocial. I don’t have a facebook account and never ever EVER plan on having one.

So I’ll just say here, the croc should go straight up and land right where he started.

He should land right back down where he launched from, but the vest won’t explode… there’s no way crocs make gud vest.

If it wouldn’t be too much trouble, landing in the middle of Mallard Fillmore would be nice.

I’d really like to see that dorky purple dinosaur, Barney be ground zero.

…on Ann Coulter.

Facebook link doesn’t go anywhere to vote. Obviously the crocs are totally inept and the bomb isn’t going to go off so I choose rat/pig’s house so rat can give Melvin some rat philosophy on being stupid.

I’m annoyed and insulted that the participatory element here is being done via the facebook. I’m not unsocial, but I’m also not an idiot, and the political ramifications of the privacy issues around the facebook are no joke.

On the other hand, landing him in another strip would be an outstanding choice. It won’t be Mallard Fillmore, more’s the pity, but the Family Circus has shown itself to a bottomless goldmine for Mr. Pastis. Forget Billy and Jeffy; this is a job for Dolly!

He’ll land in the Crocs Frat House..they get as good as they give…

Obviously where ever Melvin does land, it’ll turn out that the bomb mechanism doesn’t work . . . another croc’s failure.

I vote for the Crocs’ clubhouse.

I vote for Stephen’s cell.

pigita’s house. Tried to find his site on facebook and only found fan pages.

Danny Donkey.

Shot out of the sky by the guard duck with a Surface to Air Missile.

Back on the Croc’s frat house. It will showcase their lack of engineering (or any) skill.

He should hit the Pearlswood sign. It’s an eyesore and devaluing the neighborhood.

He always kills Bob…so not sure which Bob will be dying

pastis is a lawyer. check out the bio. must be trying to up the hits on his website so he can increase the billables to his advertisers.

If LGD were on the ball, he could quickly fire up his Stinger SAM and take out Melvin.

Well, I figure since this was written weeks ago and the results will be this week, I don’t think there was actually a survey. Still, my money’s on Neighbor Bob’s house, it always blows up Neighbor Bob’s house.

I always thought that billy from family circus was a evil terrorist and probably the leader of the crocs. that’s where my vote goes.

Melvin will land in Pearlswood Park Lake. The water will defuse the bomb, and Melvin will discover a new vacation spot for all the crocs.

Croc frat house, with Rat & Pig as witnesses (and marginal collateral damage)

Marvin the Martian is a lot like these crocs. I prefer Marvin the robot. The bomb won’t work if it hits Zeeba’s wall, but will if it hits the frat house.

He will splat against the outside of Zebra’s new wall, with no KA-BOOM. You don’t really think the crocs are smart enough to properly wire a vest bomb, do you?

I vote for the Republican debate

Tried to vote, but the FB site goes nowhere.

Stephan, please stop picking on me. :—)

Land on the courthouse and break out poor author Stephan! What’s with author? Isn’t cartoonist a better descriptive word?

That’s it! That’s how he’ll get out of prison! OH YEAH!!!!!!!!!!

^ ^ ^ No—we want to fire at Will.

:( cant seem to find the page.

Nothing on FB, so I’ll try here ..

1) What are the odds a bomb made by the crocs will even go off in any conventional manner?2) Drop it on Pigetta, so she has to move in with Pig & Rat …

I vote that Melvin should land on the Croc’s house.

Slam dunk – on Stephen’s desk…

LOL LOL

xxx

I LIKE the idea of Melvin landing on ‘Family Circus’!! Dolly: “Look, Jeffy! It’s a flying frog! Wait, that’s no frog. That’s- that’s- HOLY S##T!!!”

PIG AND RATS HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’d vote for him landing on whoever won’t let Zits into GoComics

Get Stephan out of jail

I vote for the Croc’s Frat House. :-)

The obvious outcome would be for Melvin to land in the lake the “Bomb Vest” to malfunction then for the Gators to take it to pig to fix it then Melvin takes another potty break and blows up the house

You know, Brother Mole was around the last big Pearls explosion. I wonder if Melvin might come down near there this time.

Give me the lat and long of Pastis house and I’ll tell you where croc can come down.

He will be shot out of the sky by Guard Duck with an anti-aircraft missile, thus not landing anywhere.

My vote goes to Danny Donkey’s house for the humor value. However, Zebra’s house would be extremely ironic … and interesting to see!

I say he flies all the way to Bucky Katt’s house and Sach saves the day

I think the croc landed on Stephan’s Face Book page and blew off the search path. Part of the evil conspiracy to keep us from voting!

This whole thing is verging on uncomfortably weird, IMO. Now you want us to decide who should get hit with a suicide bomb? No thanks.

It’s not a suicide bomb. Melvin’s too dumb for that. This is a homicide bomb. Or a zeebacide bomb. Or a Jeffycide bomb. Or a pastiscide bomb. Or, well, whatever. And is it any wonder poor Pastis screwed-up the Facebook thing? Hell, poor guy draws COMICS for a living, and can’t even remember that it is LARRY who is married to Patty, and not Bob. So sad…

He’s obviously going to land somewhere which allows him to be the punchline for some terrible pun.

Offhand, can’t think of any that include “Melvin”.

I vote for Pigita’s occupied house.

I think he should land on the Family Circus kids!

land him on rat. like strip when rat is not featured because he is a very angry violent insulting character..so he could be a causualty.

The Croc should land on the House! When the House is in session!

I can’t find anyplace on the page to vote, either. But I believe there will be enough pieces of him to land on each place at the same time.

vote,shmote…soon ol’ Melvin’sgonna be with a ’72 version croc!

I love it!!!! Stephen – NOW is the time to do a political commentary strip!

Most definitely on the Cemetery Plot of Charles M. Schulz.

@Grog

B.C. had a pretty funny one back on August the 5th. It made me start reading it regularly again.

That was funny….. not.

PIGITA’S HOUSE!!

i vote for danny donkey’s house (rat can always draw him again)

I voted for him to land on the sign that says Pearlswood.

“Pearlswood”. Nice.

Pearlswood?

Wait, didn’t Stephan draw this in advance?? How did he get all the votes on the day it was published, and draw the strip then, as well as draw every following strip??? He must’ve worked really hard….

Come on, Pigita’s House… come on Pigita’s House..

Kaboom?

Yes, Melvin, Kaboom.

Finally, a map of the pearls town!