Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 15, 2017

He probably has some mixed tapes he wants to play on that boombox.

Oh, won’t the police like to see this one when citing Eighties Man for disturbing the peace due to that boom box.

Was he keeping the maps, boom box, video camera and dimes under the rock with him?

Quarters for the payphone in the 80’s.

I’d trust a map before any GPS.

This storyline would make more sense if he and his tools were magically frozen/time travelled which would explain why he’s so young and they’re in working order.

Don’t bother bringing your pennies if you go to Canada.

Oh, man those now dated instant-action video cameras TV reporters used to use!

You have reached the 1980’s. Please stand by to be thoroughly corrected:

Preppies wore Sony Walkmans; they didn’t carry boom boxes.Preppies wore Izod shirts and short hair (not mullets). Audio/visual equipment was for nerds. Payphone calls cost a quarter. We used a road atlas not “a trunk full of maps”.

Stone knives and bear skins!

Good luck finding a payphone

Not to be a bummer, but folks getting out of prison (especially those convicted in error) coming out 30 years later find these things to be a constant problem.

Before he crawled under the rock, and it was still the 80s for everyone, was he called 80s Man- or has he forgotten his name?

Wait…. you can call people on the cell phone? What wondrous technology we have made

Check out Ted Rall’s cartoon today

Pretty sure 80’s cars had cassette decks in them. No need for a boom box. I even knew a few people that had aftermarket CD players in their car. I had a CD player in my dorm by ‘86, but didn’t get a car unit until ’95.

Road maps don’t cause people to drive into the ocean. The music on boom boxes sounds much better than MP3 files. A video camera isn’t nearly as obnoxious as a “selfie device.” Give him a flip phone, and he’ll be greatly superior to all the Millennials.

80s Man, I salute you.

/..

Drive? You didn’t tell him about the flying cars?

I think this is an amusing direction for the strip, but it will be interesting to see how much mileage Pastis can get out of it.

It would seem that 80’s Man was already old-fashioned and behind the times back in his own day!

Just take him “for a ride” Pig, and don’t tell anyone what you did with the body (indeed, being a pig, maybe you’d consume it)….

Would be interesting to see a reboot of “Back to the Future” just to see what would replace the full-size VHS camcorder that Marty used to prove to Doc that he was from the future. He could take a cellphone back thirty years from today but he wouldn’t be able to demonstrate how it works because the cell towers wouldn’t be there.

That’s what smartphones are for..