Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 29, 2022

Jeff Bezos is not going to pay for this.

Ow-hay an-cay is-thay e-bay?

It’s only kind of a smile. It’s actually an arrow that goes from A to Z.

Tweedily deedily dee, tweedily deedily dee

Tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet

On the other hand, you could put Rat’s face on a book and sent it by Messenger

I think he’s making an AUDIBLE bold-faced lie! ;D

My favorite example of product placement was by John Cleese in a segment at the beginning of the movie A Fish Called Wanda.

Stephan’s gotta make a living somehow.

It’s none of your Bezos, Rat.

Yikes! That is the creepiest smile I’ve ever seen.

Hmm… I just wrote a rant on the topic… I can find it in a minute:

Why I despise Amazon!

I still love books but I think Amazon’s monopsony has destroyed the entire publishing industry. Did you know that publishers lose money on most of the books they publish? But they have to publish the losers to find the rare and profitable bestsellers, especially for new authors. However it is now impossible to have a bestseller unless the publisher accepts Amazon’s terms and conditions (and thus surrenders to Amazon). And yet, if Amazon dislikes a publisher, Amazon could always bury that publisher’s books at the bottom of the search results… Can you say “bankruptcy”? I acknowledge this wasn’t obvious 20 years ago after my second and final purchase from Amazon. I just had a knee jerk reaction to the obvious and manipulative abuse of my personal information. I couldn’t have defined a “corporate cancer” in those days, but I knew there was something wrong with Amazon and I wanted no part of it.

One of the ideas I was working on years ago was assessing readers’ specific interests and even competencies based on monitoring their reading speed when using an ebook reader. What do you want to bet that Amazon is already crawling all over that idea?

Product placement is everywhere.

Wrigley’s called. They want their smile logo back.

You make sixteen clicks, and what do you get

Another day older and deeper in debt

St Peter don’t you call me, it ain’t my time

I owe my soul to Amazon Prime

No fans will ship this strip.

Pastis would never sellout.

Innocence for me was lost when they had Fred and Barney do a cigarette commercial.

Slippery road.

OK, that second panel is cursed. Now I’m going to have nightmares.

WHEN I TELL THEM TO LEAVE ON PORCH, DOESN’T MEAN IN THE DRIVEWAY IN THE POURING RAIN

Since it’s so easy to print out a comic (although I have no desire), does anyone here ever BUY A PRINT or LICENSE THIS COMIC? Who does that? And why?

Pastis has eaten his Amazon delivery box.

LOL! Too funny! ☺️

I don’t think you’re helping your case, Stephan.

Got to pay the bills somehow.

YES! YES! PUNS! BRING ME M O R E

Can we PLEASE get back to crocs and zeeba neighba?

Being a corporate shill is 110% TOTALLY in-character for ole’ Stephen! And that’s why we love him.

Use Smokey the Bear as a sponsor—-he’d fit in with this crowd

HA! Two Prime ads popped up as I was reading this. Coincidence? I don’t think so

You don’t believe in coincidence? That’s amazing! Neither do I!

Nothing new. Was watching a Beverly Hillbillies rerun (different side story)and there on the table next to Jethro was a box of Kellogg’s Cornflakes.

Ooh. With free delivery.

G R O A N — Stephan, Stephan

You can blame a guy for trying.

So glad Pastis isn’t a corporate sell-out! 8)

Cartoon-Boy the corporate shill!

I’m appalled, appalled I tell you!

Most Amazon parcels seem to be happy they escaped.