Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 21, 2021

Millicent Mosquito will call this FAKE NEWS in a nanosecond!

It wasn’t easy to get that title—in fact, it was murder!

Nice thought, Zebra, but not what Hippo has in mind.

Keep up the good work, Holly.

The new spokesmodel for the children’s game “Hungry Hungry Hippos “

I’m waiting for Hippo Week on the Discovery Channel…..

Fake news. Human race is #1.

And we mean to go on and on and on and on…..

And yet no one boasts hunting hippos. They have good PR.

But humans kill more animals than any other animal does. Sadly, we will probably be number one for a long time.

Its hip to be a hippo, but rhino he’s to fat to fly, oh.

Fat chance that campaign has got of succeeding!

Who’s going to argue with him?

As if hippos walk into towns and kill people. What exactly was all those peoples doing near hippos when they gots killed?

But wouldn’t zeeba concerned more abouts wheech animal kill more zeebas? Is it crocs? Or is it hippoos?

When you’ve got it, flaunt it!

Hippos are the sixth most deadly mammal according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. Anyone want to guess which mammal is the deadliest before you check the list?

https://www.britannica.com/list/9-of-the-worlds-deadliest-mammals

Holly apparently subscribes to the Homer Simpson school of superlatives.

But this is a world where animals who act like people are slaughtered for food, or do only humans still count as people in context?

How about “Miley Virus”? !

Except! For People!

No Hippo, people animals get first place for that distinction. And that’s just for person on person attacks. if you include motor vehicles, it goes up by 1000000000’s. add military weapons, it goes up by Billions of percentile.

Hippos are some of the fiercest mammals alive. They could take down a crocodile in one battle.

I think Pearls Before Swine has gotten a new character!

ZEEBA! SO cute!

Holly is first cousin to Henrietta Hippo…you know, the Hippo with the TUTU and ballet slippers?

Holly is a protesting rebel, however, or so the story goes…..whereas Henrietta, went into fine arts and became a Ballet sensation, the world over.

Killer joke today, Steph.

The millions of mosquitos in the world would say that this bites. I’m just glad that Zebra is getting more time in this strip.

I like how stephan pastis made holly hippo resemble total from timmy failure

Hippos are cute.

But I never met a mosquito I didn’t want to brutally murder and then brag about it.

One other thing—-in the old days I would see pygmy hippos exhibited in small carnivalsunder cramped conditions.They were advertised as “blood sweating hippos”.Theywere nothing of the kind.So why??

And about the immortality thing—-Sophia Loren was 87 yesterday.Doesn’t remotelylook it.

Everybody sing along: “I want a hippopotamus for Christmas…”

We don’t have a hippo problem in South America … uh … except in Colombia, where drug-lord Pablo Escobar imported them for one of his ranches. He’s dead, they bred, enough said!

Ah, the bloody red hand.

I’m reminded of this one.

https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2003/08/22

Holly is my favorite killer hippo. Make her a strip favorites, along with the zebras and alligators.

He’s trying to keep his record…

My dedication to the show The Most Extreme compels me to share with Holly (with love and kindness) that Hippopotamuses were not on the list of most extreme killers, however they do rank #2 on the list of bitters!

And they make great Christmas gifts: https://youtu.be/vsvOrtcrA5c

Comic strip cencor police should be here any second

Why am I suspecting that Holly Hippo is not a jolly hippo and that approaching her booth would not be my Number 1 move?

Holly seems more like one of Rat’s friends than Pig’s

I used to know someone named Holly that I sure wish I could show this to

This is obviously a different hippo from the one in March of 2009.