Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 02, 2021

My friend Angelo and I are looking at this book…

I expected better grammar from Goat.

I need to put this book on my Chopin Liszt.

Surprised he didn’t make a Japanese monster reference.

When there are multiple options, Stephan also needs to Pic-aso.

He has also been known to Mon-et and Scream when he can’t make up his mind.

Two for one!

Ohhh, a two-fer! That setup was on par with the Free Atlas one!

Aw, Guss, That’s really bad. And so is that other one.

I’m surprised SP didn’t have a large vehicle go by, so they could say, “Look at that Van Gogh!”

Bet you had to work at that one, Stephan.

Panel 3, mission accomplished. Panel 4, just pouring it on.

Heinous! Hilarious! Who let you have a pen!?

That’s a bad pun Pastis. You must be out of creative DE-GAS! ;D

Psst! Donatello anyone, but I liked it.

Sometimes you can learn something from here. Rat must be banging his head at that fact.

Nice use of foreshadowing of pun #2 in panel two…

I didn’t need to come a-pun this comic but it’s content was quite punishing in a puntificating sort of way!

The pun police are coming for you Stephan. Cop Ernicus will be there shortly.

Don’t tell O!

The only strip I’ve ever seen having to do with crew! I was on a college crew team. As a coxswain, though; I was too short to be a rower.

There’s a special place . . . well, somewhere, I guess . . . for punsters like Steve. :-)

A carefully sculpted pun is always worth it.

Stephan must have gotten up pretty early in the morning for this one!

With this double pun my avatar got out of control .

You’d have to be stoned to sculpt puns like these! :D

I don’t get it.

I had to look up who sculpted “The Thinker”, now the pun makes sense.

Dang, Cartoon Boy, don’t hurt yourself.

I love the unapologetic puns.

This pun is a bust; it has violated the statue of limitations.

This Pun is Awarded a Bronze Facepalm Statue

Thank GOD something hasn’t changed! Pastis is STILL sculpting AWFUL puns… and we hope he NEVER stops!

Er, no tickee, Noguchi? (I’m so ashamed.)

Here comes Rat with two bats.

A couple of good puns here. I loved them.

Oh my freakin gosh! This is a cartoon people! Just go with it!! Must everyone be so analytical ? The humor is gone, picking a cartoon apart!

Classic.

That’s why you never ask a woodworker to carve the Christmas Turkey. You wind up with sawdust and wood chips all over the dining room table.

Lock him up, Send Pastis to the punitentary.

Wow! Pig certainly knows his sculpture. He didn’t even have to think about it.

The Thinker clearly has brain frieze.

Quite a relief that the puns have returned.

Did you miss the Michelangelo reference in the last panel?

Why, when I click the ‘like’ tab next to the cartoon it goes up by a count of two (2) rather than the count of one (1) that occurs on other cartoon ‘likes’ Looks like Pastis is ‘padding’ his likes.

Only the second day of the new year and we get puns. Pastis, you have a problem. Get help!

No more puns.

Double puns for the price of one! Well done!

More pun strips, please!

I love the pun strips!

Woulda been funnier if he hadn’t seeded the dialogue with the hint as to whom the pun was going to be about.

A bit laborious, especially for a pun…

A double header to start the year! Thanks Stephen!

Cute……

Doubling down on the punnage! Most excellent.

Very punny! I love it!

Now THIS is the Pearls I like! Less of ‘the world sucks’ strips, more of this, please.

I was so sure there was a Michelangelo-related pun (I knew Rodin, just not his first name) that I completely missed the simple solution.

Oooooh, two for the price of one.

Whoa! A two-fer. I’m (somewhat) impressed.

Stephan, you need to get in your van and gogh

I worry that Pastis lies awake at night working these out

It took me about 20 second to get the second one…and then the bricks fell on me.

Oh my … took me a minute :D

/ pounds head on desk /

You know, I’d have been happier if the last panel had an angry Rat with a large mallet…

Come on, Steph – you can and should do better. At your best (which generally involves Larry and the other crocs), you’re hilarious. But you’ve been settling for lazy puns far too often. After many years, I still have fond memories of Zebra and the crocs facing off at the homeowner’s association. I won’t remember this strip by dinner time.

Rat, the BAT, please.

Oh yeah … both are bad … however, it did make me comment and it did get a reaction … a frown is a smile upside down and a nod is a good as a wink …

The louder the groan, the better the pun. Keep on being awesome, Stephan!

hi

Groan

2021 is starting off just as bad as 2020.

Two puns for the price of one—I love it!

Steven’s strip, Steven’s call.

Oh, lordy, that was terrible. Thanks for the laugh.

“Sculptor puns” are a thing?

I don’t get it.

Artistic

Wow – a rare double pun! Go, Stephan!!!

I love this strip.

The year is off to a great start! Pastis comes through again!

Oh boy, two at once.

No no no no no no! This pun pair is intolerable. Just shoot me (or Cartoon-Boy)!

Hey, Pig got something right. Not intentionally, but still.

“Do you like Toulouse-Lautrec?” “I don’t like to lose anybody!” “Don’t give me any of your Fra Filippo Lippi!”

Auguste Rodin

see, this is what happens when you start whining through a whole year instead of practicing your puns

Boy, this sucked

Two puns for the price of one!!!

mybrainhurts.mp4

6 words: best comic ever in the 00’s