Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 27, 2012

I hate you too, Pastis and Goat

Do any of Stephan’s creations actually like him?

could pastis’ pasta be past its prime?

Shoot Pastis, now, Rat.

I dunno, I thought it was clever.

ouch; what a tongue twister in the third panel

The truly sick part is, you can tell from the first panel he is setting us up, but we have to keep reading till the horrible end. Its like watching a train wreck really.

I knew something was coming….. and thought it has been a while since we had a pun or something……

Pastis you got beat up a lot in high school didn’t you. But you didn’t learn.

spamster, Yup, just like that…but man, I had to read it 3 or 4 times, before it made any sense…so that’s how ,many times I watched the train wreck

this was punishment

Hmm — a pun and a tongue-twister all rolled up into one? Well played, Pastis — but now even Goat hates you. It’s a good thing he’s not normally inclined to violence the way Rat is — I shudder to think what Rat would have done to you if he had heard you!

Cartoon-Pastis had to stick his head in, didn’t he? At least he was smart enough to do it with just Pig and Goat, the non-violent characters. Imagine what would have happened to his head had he tried that stunt with Rat, or Li’l Guard Duck, or Mr. Snuffles, or Danny Donkey, or Pigita, or….

I pronounce sentence on Stephan Pastis. He will go to jail in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where he will be forced to play table-tennis, against an endangered Asian animal named after a Greek god, using a skillet. His writing instruments will be fastened to a specially created bread item so that he cannot use them.

He is going to Penn. Pen to play ping pong with a pan against panda Pan, with his pens pinned ’pon a pun bun.

even goat is getting tired of those !….wont be surprised if goat and rat team up agaisnt pastis next time he does this

Pastis, you alliterate fool!

A punning linguist…

Pastis… stay out of this strip! LOL

Hey! I’m with Goat. STFU

Toon Boy was very clever using Goat in this strip, instead of his alter ego. ‘Cause Rat definitely would have took his Louisville slugger to Toon Boy’s noggin.

please let this stay in the pasta

That exhausted my brain. I need to go lie down now.

Swing and a miss

Brilliant, just brilliant-SP

Kind of an interesting twist, having Pastis himself deliver the pun.

Beat-up kids learn who and how they can mess around with safely…as adults.

I wholeheartedly agree.

Sometimes with the puns he makes, I agree

It’s unusual that Cartoon-Pastis delivers the pun. It’s usually Pig!

@spamsterYou nailed it!

I dunno, I think it would lack luster if it lasted longer . . Don’t think it is a pun, just word-play today . . SusanS – where are you?!? . . . ☻

This is Stephan either at his all-time worst or best.

His name could have been Lindquist – Pastis, you could get strung up for less.

Goat found someone he hates more then Rat.

Extinguish ths Anguish

I LOVED IT, LOVED IT, LOVED IT!!! Is that overkill?

I LOVE that guy.

I would have thought Rat would have said that …

I love that guy.

“I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.” (Steve Martin, The Jerk)

The cartoonist was having lunch with his church minister and he handed him a serving of spaghetti, manoeuvring it around a blanched looking meat pie that someone had left on the table.So . . .. . .. . .Pastis passed his pastor pasta past a pasty pastie.

LOL LOL…

Rat would have something to say.

xxx

Is it significant that the animals in his strip frequently bear a strong resemblance to champagne/wine corks?

Absolutely love the comic. The rest of you are giving me a headache!

Pastis should be arrested for felony paronomasia.

I think the puns are the best! Keep it up Stefan!

:D

I love it all! Way to go, Pastis, Waycyber and Logical duck!

Whenever you see “linguini” in a comic strip, you know that something is afoot – or aslither.

Yup—I smelled some kind of wordplay from a mile away.

lundquist’s lungs lunge too late into the fray to save the day from pastis’ daze

oh great!

Loved this – gave me a big laugh!

This is one clever strip. Thank you Pastis.

Send them all to Anguilla.

I love how Pastis said the punchline himself in this one.