Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 21, 2013

Cracked crab for everybody!

Gonna be hard to hold a can of beer with pincers.

If Larry the crab dies, then as what will he reincarnate next: a flounder followed by a pelican and then… oh, I don’t know… a crocodile?

This is Zeeba’s big chance; a lot of “vegetarians” eat seafood.

Sea food. Eat food.

well, zebra, instead of having Crab Louie, have Crab Larry…

larry looks like a Dungeness…

LARRY THE CROC IS DEAD?! Larry the Crab?!I don’t know if I can adjust to this new reality.Or, is it reality?

It’s better not to kill Larry the Crab. With Zeeba’s luck, he’ll be re-reincarnated into his old croc self instantaneously. Zeeba should put him in a terrarium, feed him well, and give him a long and happy crab life…

When I get reincarnated I want to come back as a girl’s bicycle seat.

Larry the Croc is now Larry the Crab!?

Shouldn’t Zebra be getting thinner by now?

In a previous life I proved reincarnation was a fraud!

Lary’s dead again? How awful

Zeeba …… start melting the butter!

Poor Larry – he ends up dead more often than anyone I know.

mmmmmmmm Crabcakes! =^..^=

Zebra IS getting thinner… the horizontal stripes just make him SEEM like he’s not…

“Crab Lay-ree”; not the same ring as “Crab Louis”

I’m counting on it.

Zebra isn’t vegetarian. Some earlier strips depict him eating lobster.

How quickly the tables turn…

At least Larry is still crabbing about his troubles . . . ☻

Count your blessings, Larry, you could have become a sea cucumber or sponge or some other loathsome thing.

Zeeba’s is starving. Who would turn down a nice crab meat salad?

Pescetarians eat fish, and seafood, not vegetarians. Most people are too ignorant to know that though.

Too bad that crab isn’t her.

Jump the shark much, Stephan?

He should have come back as a lobster, then he could be Larry the Lobster.

OMG. Please please please get off this arc!

I don’t believe in reincarnation.

I used to, but that was in a previous existance.

Oh yeah. Larry crab cakes. mmmm!

Oh no… Oh no!

xxx

Zebra’s design has gotten gradually thinner.

Ask the idiot at the bar if she has a light. Cook the crab then burn her bar. Bet they come and rescue you then Zeeb.

sad day sad day

Wow. I thought he’d come back as something worse. A Zebra maybe?

The perils of reincarnation.

The bar switched sides of the island.

I LOVE STEAMED CRAB! YUM!!!!!!!!!!

You wanted something different, you got your wish, d00ds!

Just as annoying, but not quite as dangerous!

Larry is crabby now. But he can sidle up to Zeeba.

+++++

Hope Larry read the escape claws.

Rosie’s not a girl, is she?

56 dead crocs

Zebra actually looks upset by Larry’s “death” in panel 2.

More like reincrustation.

Based on PBS history, Pastis is just as likely to forget that Larry is a crab within in a few days as he is to craft an improbably explanation

Wow!! What an improvement!

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