Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 12, 2018

Rat would equate personal success with debauchery.

Somebody PLEASE whack Rat with a baseball bat.

Guess never read The Masque of the Red Death.

Um, so does this mean that there’s an opening at the castle?

Take me!

JoJo Should just GET BACK to where he once belonged… in the castle!

Like the proverb says, one never fully appreciates debauchery until one gets eaten by a giant lizard!

I don’t care what Pig says, Susan is not bad.

Stop dragon my heart around.

Good lessons, both of them.

The lesson is that you have to stop dragon your ass around.

I need to find me one of those luxurious castles.

♫ Only the Good Die Young ♫

Now castles made of sand fall into the sea eventually.

The dragon looks a bit like Bob the Dinosaur from Dilbert.

Reminded me of “The Hell Bound Train”, an SF short by Robert Bloch

But smoke gooood!

Welcome the the Castle of the Illusion of Personal Success. Dragon slayers get the damsel.

Wouldn’t debauchery lead to personal problems in the first place?

At last. A lesson I can use.

so 2019 PBS calendar, pastis is further dividing his readers. guess after 7 years, I won’t be buying anymore.

…and that’s why I always took my vacations and retired early.

Oh, lordy! Pig is Over the Top again in his acting; but I like his line: Sunshine Bad! (P.S. JoJo got what he deserved. Urp!)

Way to go, Stephen Pastis! This is a spot-on description of addiction.

Jojo be drinking, Jojo be soused. Jojo set fire to the whole @#$%#&% house.

There actually IS a lesson to that story. It would be, “you can’t run away from your problems.”