Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 22, 2012

Not easier on Private Duckling, I’m afraid.

Well this might be one way but …

DUCK!!!

Pvt. Dinky is finding LGD to be a tough drill master, but it will be good for him in the end, making him a stronger, tougher duck!None of that “I want my mommy” stuff, son!

When will Dinky ever learn. Don’t stand to close to a duck that chucks you like a hand grenade and think’s you’re a surveillance drone.

Course on the plus side Guard Duck has succesfully taught Dinky to fly now. Look, no bandages and Dinky doesn’t need a wheelchair to get around. Clearly he learned to strech his stuby little duckling wings and fly.

When the highly capable deign to teach the young, the young often THINK they suffer and will never ‘get it’…gruffness is just the older person trying to give the student the material…in the most direct, least onerous way…and since the info is concentrated, the pupil is overwhelmed. It takes time to become a surveillance instrument, hovering and calling targets…

I love guard duck, especially that he smokes, no one smoke in movies, comics or anywhere – love his rebel status.

Dinky should ask for reassignment to covert ops…….probably a lot safer for him.

Hey – this is a family strip – that duck should try to keep his hands off his privates.

Pastis’ self cartoon version usually has a cigarette in his mouth.

I want Guard Duck and Rat to go at it! Dinky will be fine.

Where do I sign up with Guard Duck? I’d go to war with him any day! That’s a tough son of a — hen?

Now that’s what I call a throw-away line. =rimshot=

No bazooka?

Awwwww! That is sweet.

LOL xxx

Guard Duck is so mean.

That duck really quacks me up.

Private Duckling sure is a high-flier. He’s heels-over-head in love with his job.

I cant help it, I worry about Private Duckling…I wanna take the lil guy home and put him in some warm water in the sink and then feed him some worms (its raining softly here in Minnesota so the worms are out)…poor lil motherless guy…

like I said last week:PULL!

preatty funny but mean.

Food for thought: We haven’t seen anyone kicked in the Oompa Loompas lately. Just sayin’ …

Never trust a smoking duck. Or, is that a duck that smokes? I can never remember which is which.

I never noticed before that Guard Duck smokes…

Aw, poor ducky. If I had to go to the army with someone like the big duck running the show, I would a: try to get out of there as fast as I can, and b: miss my mommy a billion x a billion.…How much is that?

Good bye, Dinky.