Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 18, 2014

And handled very sensitively here.

YES!

That’s showing that lousy no-good rodent!

Today’s gag is a slam dunk.

Thought at first that was the ink well he stuffed him into…..would have been a more indelible choice…..

Stephan is now the proud inventor of Rat-atoo Tea.

About time, Stephan. Now grab a nine-iron and fire away!

The World Runs on Dunkin’ Rat’s Coffee!Bravo, Cartoon-Boy! —Putting Rat in his place!

Now I want a donut.

Crazy Yes, but I like it Too ! To borrow a line from the beach party movies"Beware of the Rats revenge"

Yes it is referred as the Obituary page and you are 1 turn away from it.

He didn’t have an inkling that that was coming.

He’s like Jeff Dunham on paper!

people read newspapers? thought everything even the news is online and on their tablets/ipads? and, newspapers are bankrupt.

Looks like he went to Dunkin Rodents for breakfast.

It’s the house blend.

I will survive!

I sometimes groan when I read the third panel, but today’s is the best I’ve seen in a loooong time!

LOL

Yay Steph! You won today’s funny-comment-inspirer award!

Rat never knows when to stop talking. Well deserved!!

Why doesn’t anyone like Rat? I do coz he speaks his mind..OK he’s an annoying but I think more er what ! "kaa chunk " oh yes .. Ha Ha Rat got dunked like a bourbon biscuit.

While I am all for him putting Rat in his place – this is a horrible waste of coffee!

Three cheers for dunking the rat!

maybe not an ink blot, but the Road Runner’s “portable hole” ???

Cartoon-Boy should have used a bottle of ink erraticator, a-la classic Bugs Bunny vs Daffy Duck.

I’ve always thought that Stephan was doing his best.

Rat deserved that. Stephan Pastis deserves to be in the funny pages!

xxx

the sad but doing their best are the NFL owners and goodell page

Rat is very perceptive… and he can take a good dunkin’.

Rat getting some of what’s owed him!

@Phaze58—RE: your avatar. Will the blue soon be out of the Union Jack?!?

Usually all Pastis can do is run to the end of his chain and bark, but today he was BIG CHEESE and packed a rat!

Finally, Rat serves a useful purpose!

This reminds me of the series Pastis did in 2003 about insulting the comics page.