Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 31, 2021

He did it for your own good, Pig. Now go TP his house.

Never trust a fanatic cyclist.

Looks like Jef is being a douche for Halloween.

We all know what cyclist Jeff is going to do next:

Eat all that candy and go on a sugar high and start riding his cycle in the next race.

Superman gets his powers from our sun which is different than the oe on Krypton!

Always has to be that one guy who spoils the fun!

In fact, pigs will eat almost anything, but left to fend for themselves they will ordinarily eat a diet that is high in nuts and seeds and roots and such. Such pigs make for the best pork…

Alternate solution: go to his house first. Or second so he feels like he accomplished something by getting rid of like three pieces of candy.

You should go back and egg his house.

You got tricked Pig! Time for the flaming bag of (Croc) poo on his doorstep!

Okay, Frazz.

how else can he disrupt the Halloween festivities and record it? Call the cops. Sounds like stalking when you don’t have to leave your recliner.

His windows would be SO waxed… Too bad he doesn’t have a car to sugar.

Why isn’t Rat wearing a costume?

In all of the Superman movies and all of the Adventures of Superman shows, I never saw him on a bicycle.

Rat is dressed appropriately.

He was always desperately afraid of “Bicycle Repair Man”

As one of the Monty Python sketches showed!

Biker Jef wears his helmet just to answer the door?

Pig this guy needs Payback ;-)

False information!! Superman got big and strong with no effort at all. It’s the radiation of our Sun. So, stop exercising and get a tan :D

Cycling gives men over 40 a reason to wear spandex

Excessive cycling is also a male birth control method.

Tom Brady

Buy dozens of eggs and TP for the next year.

Pig’s a lot more accurate. . .Nobody knew about that stuff when when Superman came into being. . .the only thing Superman needed to stay away from was kryptonite. . .so he could have had the candy. . .

Moral guardians and health nuts like Jef are always ruining trick or treating.

Pre-dawn? Doesn’t Superman get his powers from the sun? Aw, forget it. :-)

This happens every year, which makes it a cyclist event. If it happened twice a year, it would be a bi-cyclist event.

Reminds me of when I was a tiny young lad of about 5 and I was at a neighbor’s house on Halloween and the older brother of about 15 was there as the first group of kids arrived at the door and in a sing songy way yelled “Trick or Treeeeeeeeeeat” and he yelled back “Beat my meeeeeeeeat.” Years later when I found out what that meant I laughed myself to tears and hiccups. At the time I thought maybe it has something to do with ordering them to come in and tenderize a steak or something.

People in the Netherlands would consider this comic to be bizarre.

This must be what going to Tom Brady’s house for Halloween is like. Side note: Rat’s costume matches him perfectly.

I’m being a demon for halloween now o_O

He could have at least given Pig some nuts!

Pig should’ve smacked Jef on the head with his trick or treat bowl

I thought there would be a frame in which the cyclist sneaks into his house with the garbage can full of candy.

RAT! share your treats with Pig before he cries!

There’s a special Heaven for those types. Most of us refer to that place though as one of the levels of hell…….

Okay Steph, you hate us cyclists. We get it. Now give it a rest. BTW, tonight I’ll be handing out be Reese’s PBCups, Hershey Milk and Cookies ‘n Creme, Nerds, SweeTarts, Laffy Taffy, and maybe Whoppers if I don’t eat them all myself. So much for stereotypes.

If Jeff turned off his light, he couldn’t tell people why they should be like him. Like his kind need a reason to lecture and ridicule people. I shudder to think of him around Thanksgiving. Is Jeff the cyclist Pastis’s way of making fun of anyone who is self-righteous to others and thinks they should be in charge? Rat’s last line is one of the smartest thing he’s ever said. Sorry for the ramble. Happy Halloween.

Runner here. Still giving out candy.

Or a dentist

I dunno… tricking them might be the thing to do

Actually, Jef, Kal-El became “Superman” by coming to Earth from Krypton, which had much higher gravity; thus, he was incredibly strong – a super man.

We used to have a very low number issue of Action Comics (might even have been #1; I wasn’t paying that much attention) at my Grandma’s; it was a comic and we were kids, so we just read and reread it until it fell apart.

Originally, he couldn’t fly – he actually (as the TV opening used to say) could “leap tall buildings in a single bound”. Wanted to get somewhere fast? He’d jump up on the (then brand new most places – and not there yet in others) electric lines and run “faster than a speeding bullet”. And he wasn’t bullet-proof and invincible, he was, as his muscles had developed in Krypton’s gravity and were dealing with Earth’s, “stronger than a locomotive”.

Not bullet-proof (but quick enough to dodge them), no X-ray vision, no heat vision – none of that silly stuff. To my thinking, he was a much better superhero as originally conceived than after the “powers creep” (which is, of course, analogous to “mission creep”) turned him into what he is now.

That’s it, this guy is officially going down!

speaking of intrepid cyclists, there’s a guy I recognize locally who I was amazed to see half way down to Panama City Beach.

He could have just given pig a tire patch kit…

Actually it’s a combination of both our yellow sun’s solar radiation and Earth’s lower density gravity in comparison to Krypton’s red son and higher density gravity. Further due to Superman’s alien biology being supercharged by our sun he has a faster metabolism so he can eat and drink anything he wants.

But Jef is clearly going as the unpopular party pooper so I don’t expect him to know that.

Congrats, to Jef the Cyclist! You have now ousteated the people in Charlie Brown’s neighborhood who gave him rocks as the worst house at which to Trick or treat.

However, you still have a long way to go before you outseat Donald Duck, who put lit firecrackers in the bags of his nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie.

Some runners and cyclists can eat whatever they want. They’ll burn off the calories by telling everyone who doesn’t want to hear it about their runs/rides, gear & outifts, and how much time and money they’ve spent. And by putting lots of decals on the back of their SUV’s.

For some reason, this strip makes me angry. How dare he dump out all poor pig’s candy.

Another Euell Gibbons … died age 64 of a ruptured aortic aneurysm. Or Jim Fixx who died of a heart attack at the age of 52 years while running.

What a SAD comic. :( Poor Pig. However, Rat’s costume is quite appropriate… and quite a haul, too.

Sprocket head is really bad at his superhero lore.

Everyone knows what makes the Krypton hero strong is the Earth’s yellow sun. Sheesh. I think the cyclist is a super villain.

great getup for both Pig and Rat

Actually, Superman was an alien from a distant planet of other super humans.

I can just see fitness fanatic Jack LaLanne pulling something like this. He HATED junk food.

Reportedly Jeff’s based on a RL friend of Pastis’. If that’s the case he’d be no friend of mine. I LOATHE fanaticd!

Someone doesn’t know their superheroes and is trying to use that to foist his treeible ideas on others.

This includes doctor, dentists and health care providers. Avoid all health nuts.

..and i’d leave his home the egg & t.p. diet.

disagree totally. i give the kids reeces cups and i own bikes that cost more than my cars.

Someone getting a visit from Sam.

Always nice to see Jeff

Jef (only one “f,” to reduce his weight and drag) the Cyclist is such a pr*ck. Rat should have used his baseball bat to save Superpig his candies!

Actually it’s because Superman comes from Krypton, a planet that revolved around a red star, where as Earth revolves around a yellow star, which gives off more energy. Superman’s body absorbs that energy and stores it like a battery, and it results in him having powers. I doubt that simple healthy eating would grant anyone the ability to be “more powerful than a locomotive”.

chocolate is an acceptable part of a healthy diet!

Don’t give him your candy, ever

Eat the pamphlet right in front of him.

He’s still wearing that hideous helmet of his, so it would seem that not everyone approves his preaching.

Just look at those Quads!

As a power cyclist myself, I will be the first to admit that chocolate is one of the best energy sources, with peanut butter, so chomp down those Reese’s candies and Hershey bars, don’t forget Twix and Milky Ways.

Not all bicyclists are like that.

Jef the Cyclist ought to be hit with a MALLETT! ;D

Me gonna kil jef