Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 02, 2012

That’s so Rat…

“Pop a top again,have another my friend”.

In the Land of Make Believe, does Mr Ratgers find women attractive whom he otherwise would not?And does the world exist in a perpetual earthquake?

I would seriously love to have one of those

Rat looks like a little Newt with a long snoot.

Not only is it the land of ‘Make Believe’ it’s also the ‘Land of …Ten Feet Tall and Bullet Proof.’

What I mistook for a vacuous faux Mr. Rogers, I now realize, was in fact a drunken faux Mr. Rogers! Ah, make-believe! At least Rat has caused the director to panic, so some good has come of his sodden escapade.

This is so Rat! Totally uncut and without filters!

Rat has a one track mind.

Does Rat look like a newt or does Newt look like a rat?

How am I supposed to follow that ^^!!!! ;-)

I think Stephan has been watching the Coors Light commercials with the snowy train one too many times.

Beginner Beer Train

Intermediate Beer Train

Advanced Intermediate Beer Train

Professional Beer Train

Beer Train Accident Scene

Alright; time for a cold one!

Has anyone ever read Shel Silverstein’s “Uncle Shelby’s ABZ Book.” Definitely in the spirit of Rat.

Can you say “wasted”, boys and girls? I knew you could…

It’s a Beautiful day in the neighborhood… especially when the rat rules the subways of New York City.

A quick Google of “Eddy Murphy Mr. Rogers” drug up this relic.. http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=4942

Are they BEER cans on the top?

Typical Rat!

LOL xxx

Rat’s getting troll-y? But he’s not even posting on the internet!

Next, Mr. Rat will get out the telescope and show us how to keep a close eye on our neighbors, especially the pretty ones.

he won’t get far on that generic stuff. Pilsner Urquel will take you a lot further. Ken Kesey’s bus was named Further, maybe this would be like Hops on the Bus?

I think that Pearls before swine used to be great, but now that he has his own strip, it’s just gonna go down further and further. As you can already see he’s already starting to get desperate…

Pearls before swine was added to my paper today. They only deliver it 3 days a week, so they show the strip for today, then the next 2 days, with the exception of sunday. That being said, I just read Friday and Saturday’s strip. In a word: YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I like Rats thinking.Works for me.

ROFL, almost spilled my coffee on the keyboard. Steve, U R a real crack up! This comic should be an animated TV show.

Somewhere, Fred Rogers is just shaking his head very slowly.

♪Glug, glug, glug went the trolley…♪

Yummy!

This may be my favorite Pearls strip ever.

If Pastis puts in a representation of Mohammed he had better duck for cover or alert “Guard Duck”

Mr. Ratgers.