Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 26, 2020

I thought gods are suppose to be immortal.

Must be a pan-demic.

Don’t start a pan-ic!

He was killed by bad tea; he didn’t check the expiration date during his Pan tea raid.

Two days in a row; Pastis phones it in.

I thought I had seen the worst that Pastis can offer, then he outdoes himself.

Ummm… maybe he died of a PANdemic?

Remember, folks – puns are the lowest form of humor when someone else thinks of them before you do.

Wan’t he Goat’s ancestor?

off to Hades he goes I s’pose

Now we’ll never know the joke…

Pastis is just being satyr-ical. Or, is he just fauning over us ?

There is a story that a sailor heard a divine voice saying “The Great God Pan is dead”, but that was before Pastis drew this strip.

This is a family cartoon. Just as well that a demigod of naughty behavior died in just few panels.

We know the strips are a HERCULEAN effort, ICARUS not like we’re asking Pastis to fly to the sun. He’d probably go APOLLO 13 if he TRIDENT and be POSEIDON himself. For all we know, Stephen must have been KRAKEN for his date with MEDUSA when he wrote this. We got FLEECED and he must have gotten STONED with the EROS of his character.

Deities know we MORTALS do, Rat.

At least they aren’t dropping Coca-Cola bottles on him.

WTF Rat? Where’s that Baseball Bat??

Biting social satyr.

Pan wasn’t a god.

Pastis scraped the bottom of the pan for that one.

…finally, a pun we can use…

…thank Jebus the virus is over…

Didn’t quite “pan out” for the poor guy!

The floating head of death makes the strip…

That was really a “dead pun” delivery.

He would have delivered that joke with his usual pan-ache! Too bad…

We have Gods ? When did they go back to work ?… Croc Power !

A Pan Pun??

Rat panned that pun.

“That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange aeons even death may die.”

Pan-demonium breaks loose

amazing how everyone pans this because they didn’t think of it first…

Who is Pan?

I’ve got a fry pan delivery for you Steph.

The great god Pan is dead/ and most of his fans have fled/ but have no fear/ there’s “divinity” near / we now have “Don” instead.

Good one Steph. We’ve mythed your puns of late.

this one didn’t pan out

I liked it. I like all of his puns. And, I loved the little skull and crossbones.

This was roundly panned by the critics

He’ll be Baccus.

Honestly officer, we were just engaging in some wordplay.

Looks like cabrito tonight.Fire up the grill.

At least the crocs have something to eat now besides KFC.

Looks like Stephan is off his meds again!

The skull is almost as great a touch as taking the camera and filming slowly from south, to east, to north, to west, and to south again, or whatever it’s called.

Aaaahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Another victim of the pan-demic.

my corrupted soul is revealed in my enjoyment of Pastis puns. I am lost, lost, happy, but lost.

I originally thought Pastis would only walk a block or two for a pun, I’m beginning to think he’d fly to the moon. I’m sure there are those who wish he would. Me, I think he’s funny.

Speaking of – Zamfir.

Pizza Hut is running a special on ‘Pan’ pizza

final panel add: Pastis: Don’t pan me bro.

good one pastis … didn’t see it coming and thank you!

I’m sure that in a better world today’s strip would be Panned.

If they don’t then I do

His immortality didn’t pan out….

Greek Cartoon-Boy, slayer of the Country-Boy Greek god! Mythology mangled!

Et in Arcadia ego….

The classical historian Plutarch claimed that a sailor heard a divine voice saying, “The great god Pan is dead!”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_(god)#%22The_Great_God_Pan_is_dead%22

Pastis and his puns, no matter how stupid, may be seen as a sign we are moving to normalcy.

The funniest thing: Pan is the god of the environment, the environment died, eh, eh?

Not how pan died!

Pan dering to Greek geeks