Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 23, 2021

Read this strip like Hebrew, from right to left.

They are not as think as you dumb they are!

This daily was directed by Christopher Nolan. You see, I have this condition…

At least none of the panels are upside down or rotated 45 degrees.

Time to move to the one panel format.

(Snort). As someone who’s dealt with collation and (much much worse) automated collation of submissions… and (I’m imagining this one) automated collation of submissions made by people who are not all that technical… I’m always amazed that ANYTHING ever comes out as expected.

Gives new meaning to the term “ass-backward.”

On the flip side…… !

Those “morons” must be smart. Today’s strip wouldn’t be funny without their help.

If he really wanted to make it look like the panels were messed with, he should have put them in random order instead of just reversing them.

Pastis is starting to get a little too clever for his own good.

Of course, I still enjoyed it. After a while, though, I could see where it was going. At first I was a bit confused by this strip.

.did just They .know ya what’d Well,

Is he upset because people are or that nobody does?

Brilliant Stephan!

It’s a palindrome!

Morons, Stephan? Haven’t you “woke” up yet?

ROFLOL

Why are the files so large??? I’m sure I can convert them to PCX without any loss.

Maybe GoComics just posted the Israel and Middle East edition of PBS here by “mistake”… :D

Because the strip puts bread on the table and the satire is very witty. Not to mention relatable characters.

Reminds me of a Seinfeld episode

I’ll be keeping this strip as a ‘Memento’.

I’m dyslexic, so…..I was wondering why this one was so easy to read.

Beware the power of the layout people…

Those morons published them backward today.

I really feel dumb. I did not realize what was going on until I read the comments. Still half asleep, I guess.

To quote it with the Lion King:

Everybody look left

Everybody look right

Everywhere you look the

Panels an out of joint-sight

Oy vey!

Brilliant.

Harold Pinter might have liked today’s strip.

Ha! This is is good.

meh, they’re only right to left, not scrambled

i’m slipping..didn’t see it ’til the last..

Well, the punch line is in the right place.

Didn’t we just go back in time?

Too late, they already got the panels in the wrong order.

!tuo ti erugif ot elihwa em koot tI

I did not get this…until I read the comments. Clever.

Difficulty with order, have I. Screw it up, I might.

I’m thinking that’s exactly what happened

Clever, Mr. Pastis, Clever. And you did it without resorting to a pun! Kudos!

Took a minute.

wonder if Pastis did this to annoy his editors?

Pastis might be too good at his job

I like this strip, made me wake up and pay attention!

Sure they do. Keep dreaming humans are perfect boy. (I tried emailing a 1+ gig file earlier this year and had to call my ISP to fix the problems … there still seems something not right with Outlook.)

LOL!!!

Clever gag!

I do think it is funny that it is officially called a “Syndicate”.

Pastis strikes again. It’s so cornball, but it makes me laugh so hard.

is this funny ? is beyond me.

This was laugh out loud funny. And when you get to the last panel you can’t help but read it again in reverse.

A bit dyslexic, today, you feel, Stephan?

oof

Took me a minute or two. I thought they might be scrambled. I tried every variation. Clever @StevenPastis

This is why I love Stephan Pastis. He pushes the envelope with the comic strip medium like no one else before him.

Very clever! It’s funny, and it made me spend twice the usual amount of time reading it, in order to figure it out!

Tomorrow, no vowels.

Memento did it better. :-)

Of course, I checked for myself:   the strip is all one image.

Boy-Cartoon’s cartoon backwards runs!

Kinda suits you, Cartoon-Boy….

love it!

Karma is a bi__h, Stephan!(morons, too)

If Pastis is correct then we should read the strip from right to wronged.

lol I got it, very clever S.P.

At least his shirt stays tucked in when he stands up to yell!