Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 05, 2017

I see that Hell doesn’t have a dress code.

“Hell is other people” – Sartre

how ridiculous

Leave it to Rat to get himself kicked out of Heaven!

I guess St Peter hasn’t been reading GoComics.

Looks like the greeter is a clone of the heavenly one.

“We were once so close to Heaven.

Peter came out and gave us medals

Declaring us the nicest of the @#$&ed."

-They Might Be Giants

Obviously a fantasy sequence, that Rat would ever have any chance of getting into Heaven.

@ Blunebottle: Well, they’re all angels or ex-angels, true?

If Murray is going to be in Hell, then I don’t want to be there.

If Rat couldn’t act like Rat, it wouldn’t have been heaven for him anyway.

Reality makes cowards cry. That’s why they hope for a magical 2nd life, aka the heaven fantasy. It’s not a harmless belief because it makes terrorism possible.

LMAO!

Looks like Rat’s “Paperwork” got screwed up !

You don’t get to heaven based on good works vs. bad works. A perfect God demands perfection (one small bad thing is not excused). Thus the reason why Jesus had to die for us (he’s the only one who lived the perfect life).

I wonder if Stephan realizes that this is actually sort of profound.

Rat: there is something to be said for quitting while you’re ahead…

Reminds me of an episode of CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM. Larry David dies and goes to heaven, but gets into a fight with his guardian angel (played by Dustin Hoffman) and they start trading angry ‘F*** you’s’.

Murray must have been admitted on probation.

he got further than what I would have guessed.

Hmm, it’s based on Christian ideas of what happens after death, but seems more like Karma to me :)

Believe or don’t believe. The Universe goes on heedless of our opinions. Best to live this life as best we can. We’ll be introduced to the truth soon enough.

Rat (when alive) worked?!

I’m still trying to come to terms with that.

Murray is devilish. Rat is, I guess, a two-time loser.

Hell isn’t big enough for both Rat and Murray, Beware, Satan!

How the hell did Rat get to Heaven in the first place?

Dude, are you trying to get WBC to picket your funeral?

WBC can go picket a volcanic eruption.

This was the first Pearls strip I ever read.