Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 14, 2011

If you don’t like the answer, Rat, don’t ask the question.

Hey, can I get today’s strip printed on a beer can?

Wonder what MST 3000 would do with this story line?

The oxygen tanks appeared to be “falling”. There’s an up and down in space?

I’m waiting for the kamikaze Beer People attack.

Kreole, the gravity of the situation demands it!

Once again, Rat’s pretty brave for an erasable.

Actually, he’s just jealous cos everybody else is getting tanked.Even Pluto. (Stephan is obviously looped most of the time anyway.)

@X-Tech — with open arms, I bet!

BTW – - – rats were not responsible for the Bubonic plague. [I got your back Rat…]

Well at least they’ll live long enough to eat their peanut butter sandwiches.

quick draw, Mr. Pastis!

Killing two birds with one stone.

I seriously don’t believe that you need anyone to talk to…you seem to do a fine job of entertaining yourself with conversation and we get to enjoy the show! …LOL

Just as long as the aliens don’t ;land on Pluto. He looked thirsty!

O2 BrutusPastis?

genius

I’d love to have Pastis problems sometime.

Brilliant, all the loose ends tied-up neatly, just like Star Wars Episode 3. (George who?)

If Pastis drew it, then there must be an up and down in space. After all his painstaking work in making the alien beer cans true to life, I can’t believe he would allow anything in his strip that wasn’t scientifically accurate.

This ending suits me. It looks like Pastis is flying his saucers by the seat of his pants anyway.“The enemy’s gate is down!”

Good one! I would like to see some other strips wrap up multiple story lines in 3 panes! Good luck there…

Why isn’t guard duck toting a gun?

I didn’t know they swore in this Strip.

Hehehe xxx

Ha! Great strip..

Best one in a while! Keep it up, Pastis. You’re the king of the puns.

Attacking an unarmed vessel in space? Those aliens are really a couple of cold ones.

It all comes together so nicely…

Oh, Friggin’ Hell—that last line is PRICELESS!

roger the last panel.

Had the same problem. Accidentally found that if I shrink the Comment Window by pushing the 6-Dot Triangle over to the left, the Green Submit comes out of hiding.

Another thing I’ve noticed today: the green “Submit” button is cut off on the bottom; now it seems to be cut off more than before. Maybe by tomorrow it will have vanished entirely. . . .

Where are the TU & TD buttons? I don’t like to TD but I sure wish I could TU some of these terrific answers!

They get payed A LOT

This was almost as funny a thread linkup as the Brother Mole thread linking up with the crocs and their nuclear bomb thread (which has a nice tribute to Slim Pickens in it).

I loved it when Pastis started drawing himself in to the strip. Self depreciating humor is always funny, I should know, I have to look in the mirror every morning!

If Rat has summoned up a Deus ex machina from cartoon-Pastis, does this make Pastis Lord of the Strip? Consider the implications….

Pastis is, in my humble opinion, the funniest cartoonist to come along in a long time (and I’m old and have seen oodles of cartoons). Plus, he’s a really nice person!

LOL

Rat and his grumpy, sarcastic, rude personality.

The one with Sweet Fanny, Officer Potus and a few others wrapping up in one strip was the best.

they do pay him!!!

Hey, you never said to finish it PROPERLY.