Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 06, 2013

Love it!

Come on, Goat — have you MET Rat? You know he torments Pig like this for the fun of it — and because he can!

And tomorrow, Pig will encounter the horror of… MAGNETS!

Wait til Rat pulls out the Van der Graff generator. Mwhahaha.

Rat gives everyone static…

Ohmy.

Next, Pig finds out who’s transforming his bread into toast inside that silver box.

I’ve had some very good jello shots, and there was definitely spirits in there……….sayin’….

Insane ghosts like walls also, after a good fur rub….

Pig should stay informed on “current” affairs…

“The word electric was first used by Francis Bacon to describe materials like amber that attracted other objects.” – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology_of_electricity

“Give me the phone… There’s a company that makes special pins for spectral balloons.”

“Who you gonna call?”

“……..”

A prime example of the Spilled Coffee Trope, one of the tells of Pastis. Pig is shocked by any of Rat’s insane ghost tales. Goat should be resigned by now to Rat’s merciless amoral mode of operation.

I got a charge out of reading all your comments.

In the real world, would the balloon turn with Rat’s head in panel #4, or would it maintain its position (things at rest, stay at rest …)?I have neither the hair nor a balloon to test it.

Nikolai Tesla would like this Strip.

A natural. UP HIGH, RAT!

Eclectic electric commentary, today!

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a balloon that color.

Can a ghost be insane?

for some reason, I always pictured Rat as being of a rather rubbery texture… maybe because fur would make him fuzzy and cute? dunno.

Resistance is futile. Impedance, however….

People can’t fly because insane ghosts pin them to the ground.

I like Goat’s face.

Rat, you’re an idiot. Instead of trying to stupidly scare Pig with the whole “static electricity is an invisible ghost sticking the ballon to my head” shtick you could be smart and tell him all about static electricity and then repeated demonstrate it with a good old fashioned static electricity zap. Being your obnoxious self you’d just love repeatedly zapping poor Pig.

Pig’s face…so funny.

That’s just mean.

GOAT’S A WHOVIAN!!!!

Ballooning a superstition.

Ballooning a superstition.

rat has fur?