Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 24, 2023

An Avalon? Thought you would at least have a 4Runner.

Is Mrs. Pastis getting a cut?

Tsk, tsk, tsk. Trust a cartoonist to leave his car’s pink slip where a rat could find it.

43 mpg, my foot, The V-6 Avalon only gets 22 in the city and 32 in the highway.

You’ll probably need the money to get home

This is so fake. That ad doesn’t even have a phone number to call. (Or I would be tempted.)

Eh no thanks. Me is look for right hand drive. This a left hand drive.

43.9 mpg with a v6?

Selling used cars seems right up Rat’s alley…

When this page first loaded I thought the strip was being blocked by a particularly intrusive pop up ad.

Should have asked Pig to draw the strip while he was away.

$10

At first glance it looked like there was a lot of damage to the exterior.

Looking closer, I can see that the apparent “dents” are/were just due to reflection off the car’s finish.

I’m glad the first panel was there to explain the joke.

Would YOU buy a used car from Rat?!

Yeah… right… the author of THAT can afford a Toyota Avalon… nice try, Pastis. :D

$2350 (best offer I can make…)

I’d buy that for a dollar.

Is that a good price for that car?

Decent mileage for a non-hybrid

Boy, when Stephen decides to do a “boring as hell” persona, he sure sweats the details.

I’d call on it if they had posted a phone number with the ad.

I wonder if that is actually Stephan’s car. It probably is, but I don’t know.

43.9 MPG?! I’d buy it.

Rat, you sneaky little vermin. You should have sold his house!

very low mileage

Rat’s negotiating the price with a baseball bat.

In today’s inflated used car market this is an outstanding deal…

I’ll take it!

The Pint Room: 165 beer taps, 130 of which are locally made.

I thought he was selling a wrecked car at first.

The Count ❤️ it! A gasoline burning smogmobile (note: Millennial weenies will have to Google “smog” because they have no idea what it is) that leaves a bigger carbon footprint (whatever that is) than Godzilla. Dilly! Dilly!

Maybe I should have Rat try and sell my Jeep Cherokee. Not at all happy with that car. Should have stuck with Honda.

The car looks kind of broken.

Just remember, Pastis, we here in Denver are extreme Crocs fans. Remember.

Yes, he REALLY is in Denver today – schedule say: Teller Elementary school. Not far from where I live. But, I’m WAY too old to attend.

Laugh Out Loud…I literally laughed at loud this morning. Thanks! One must admire the enterprising nature of Rat ( we used to have a Scottish Terrier who we would call Mr. Rat btw and he could be rather opportunistic as well).

Nothing says old man like driving an Avalon!

I have a 2020 Avalon that I love. Mine is a hybrid and I get about 41 mpg. In fact, I have owned 3 Avalons dating back to when they were first introduced. And now, Toyota had stopped making them. WHY?

No thank you. I’ll stick to my ‘90s suburban. In my neck of the woods, it’s practically a requirement for driving. And I’m buying any EVs ever.

Really funny. That said, would you take 18,000 Canadian?

Is that a dent in the rear right fender?

… no wonder Rat is selling at a bargain … get rid of the evidence.

That rat!

I miss the Cressida.

Stevie-Boy, great restaurant in the foothills west of town, but, their only downside, they serve Rocky Mountain Oysters.

Dang, this is one of the funniest story arcs we’ve had since the arc about what the “Family Circus” characters would be like if they ever grew up!

No used car gets a bumper to bumper warranty.. that right there is a scam, sir!

A steal, in more ways than one (evidently).

I’m loving this

Try this: When I am on the “Pearls Before Swine” page here and type “Government” in the search box at the top, I get an “Internal Error”. But on any other comic page I get actual comics that show the word “Government”.

Stephan, you have great taste in cars. I’m driving a 2019 Avalon hybrid, which is my fourth hybrid, and I’ve loved them all.I

Rat has figured out how to make a comic profitable.

That milage figure is pretty false.

has been so hard selling a smokers car because its hard to get the stink outy

Ha! Pig rats out Rat, who sells off Cartoon-Boy’s wheels! Terrific. Shows what happens when you let the characters run the strip for you, Cartoon-Boy! Suck it up….

Remember, that ad cost US$10,000, so the real value is only US$13,500.