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 over 9 years ago
Next, he winds up in a mansion full of dancing Transylvanians.:“Let’s do the Cat Nap again!”
Ida No over 9 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. over 9 years ago
Now Stephan is going to have issues with Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones and Phil Alden Robinson.
oldpine52 over 9 years ago
What do you mean ‘getting weird’?
Bilan over 9 years ago
Since nobody else said it…What a corny idea!
juicebruce over 9 years ago
I think Steph is at Woodstock and ate the brown acid !
oldschool434 over 9 years ago
Stephen, you are looking at weird in the rear view mirror……
Sisyphos over 9 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 over 9 years ago
“I say governor, it’s getting a bit looney out here.”
JudyAz over 9 years ago
He’s lucky! I can never get service out in those cornfields!
BlackTie over 9 years ago
I do hate those corn mazes.
Cheapskate0 over 9 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 over 9 years ago
It may be a little weird, but its not “Skin Horse” weird!
CYGNUS X1 over 9 years ago
Que the little blond haired children!
singlefemalelaywer over 9 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 over 9 years ago
Somebody wished Cartoon Boy into the cornfield?
Rick Smith Premium Member over 9 years ago
Now who didn’t have a Garfield stuck to their window back in the 80’s?
comixrock0124 over 9 years ago
Horse is right,“THE WHOLE STRIP IS WEIRD!!”
Ink blot Premium Member over 9 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 over 9 years ago
That’s an understatement.
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danketaz Premium Member over 9 years ago
Keep an eye out for talking scarecrows.
3pibgorn9 over 9 years ago
I wonder if that grin of T.J.‘s doesn’t tell it all?
Carl Rennhack Premium Member over 9 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 over 9 years ago
@Kali39—And I’m also a fan of “Benjamin Kubelsky”, especially when he feuded with “John Florence Sullivan”!
heatherjasper over 9 years ago
My first thought when I read the second panel was “Muppets in Space!”.
laurac5800 over 9 years ago
If Stephan thinks things are getting weird after the rat is pregnant storyline, they are getting WEIRD!!!!!!!!!!!!
claire de la lune. over 9 years ago
Wasn’t, “If you build it, it will come,” also in Dilbert?
Carl Rennhack Premium Member over 9 years ago
@Kali39—and later Fred said to Jack. “Why, you fugitive from a Ripley cartoon!”
Goat the goat over 3 years ago
Also, those suction cup cats saved someone’s life.