Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 08, 2014
Transcript:
Pig: Hey, Steph. It's me, Pig... What are you up to? Pastis: I'm going to Jim Davis's studio to apologize for what we did to Garfield, but I'm lost in some Midwestern cornfield... ...Hang on a sec, Pig... I think I hear something. Voice: If you build it, they will come... Pastis: Build what? Build what? Voice; Suction cup cats that stick to your car window... Pastis: Things are getting weird, Pig.
Sherlock Watson almost 10 years ago
Next, he winds up in a mansion full of dancing Transylvanians.:“Let’s do the Cat Nap again!”
Ida No almost 10 years ago
Look for the CD player sitting in the corn rows. Should be pretty close to where you are now. (Marketing 101 – repeatedly play advertising wherever the customer may be.)
Templo S.U.D. almost 10 years ago
Now Stephan is going to have issues with Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones and Phil Alden Robinson.
oldpine52 almost 10 years ago
What do you mean ‘getting weird’?
Bilan almost 10 years ago
Since nobody else said it…What a corny idea!
juicebruce almost 10 years ago
I think Steph is at Woodstock and ate the brown acid !
oldschool434 almost 10 years ago
Stephen, you are looking at weird in the rear view mirror……
Sisyphos almost 10 years ago
“Things are getting weird, Pig.” —Now, that’s funny! Cartoon-Boy sped past “weird” a long, long time ago and far, far away…. You been smoking them corn shuckings, Boy?
doublepaw almost 10 years ago
“I say governor, it’s getting a bit looney out here.”
JudyAz almost 10 years ago
He’s lucky! I can never get service out in those cornfields!
BlackTie almost 10 years ago
I do hate those corn mazes.
Cheapskate0 almost 10 years ago
Oh, heck. I saw the corn field and was expecting a tribute to Jim Davis’ U.S. Acres!.There’s a pig in that cartoon, too!.Why not send Rat there?
Raygun almost 10 years ago
It may be a little weird, but its not “Skin Horse” weird!
CYGNUS X1 almost 10 years ago
Que the little blond haired children!
singlefemalelaywer almost 10 years ago
AHHHHH , your mother smokes corn silk………………my mother doesn’t smoke corn silk, my mother is a a a a butcher, she smo smo smokes hams.
Kali39 almost 10 years ago
Somebody wished Cartoon Boy into the cornfield?
Rick Smith Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Now who didn’t have a Garfield stuck to their window back in the 80’s?
comixrock0124 almost 10 years ago
Horse is right,“THE WHOLE STRIP IS WEIRD!!”
Ink blot Premium Member almost 10 years ago
“Several posters have some kind of “schtick” that they do on these boards:”-Thanks for your list — I’m sure there are others. These posters may annoy some readers; but, they also help create a different “culture” for each board. -“Anyway, if you don’t like the recipes, just scroll past them.”-Yep.
Number Three almost 10 years ago
That’s an understatement.
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danketaz Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Keep an eye out for talking scarecrows.
3pibgorn9 almost 10 years ago
I wonder if that grin of T.J.‘s doesn’t tell it all?
Carl Rennhack Premium Member almost 10 years ago
@Kali39—Submitted for your approval, Stephan Pastis, lawyer turned cartoonist, who is about to learn that “A-MAIZE-ING” things are commonplace in …The Twilight Zone.
Carl Rennhack Premium Member almost 10 years ago
@Kali39—And I’m also a fan of “Benjamin Kubelsky”, especially when he feuded with “John Florence Sullivan”!
heatherjasper almost 10 years ago
My first thought when I read the second panel was “Muppets in Space!”.
laurac5800 almost 10 years ago
If Stephan thinks things are getting weird after the rat is pregnant storyline, they are getting WEIRD!!!!!!!!!!!!
claire de la lune. almost 10 years ago
Wasn’t, “If you build it, it will come,” also in Dilbert?
Carl Rennhack Premium Member almost 10 years ago
@Kali39—and later Fred said to Jack. “Why, you fugitive from a Ripley cartoon!”
Goat the goat almost 4 years ago
Also, those suction cup cats saved someone’s life.