Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 05, 2012

Ha Ha, Yeah! Get’em Goat! This is what the comics are for! Thank you, Stephan. aloha

Rat’s a crackhead.

Dead Goat Walk’in!

Wow! Goat finally went postal on Rat! ’Bout time!

Who cares about the Super Bowl, now? .That’s the best HIT you will see today!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And the Crowd rises as one and cheers its acclaim!

Not to worry.

That’s a new expression for Goat, isn’t it?

Who wants to get in line behind Goat to get a crack at Rat?

I would have used a pot of boiling water instead of mere frying pan. But I guess Goat had to improvise.

Go Goat!!! It’s about time you got Rat back for the horrible things he says to you.

Thanks, Goat.

O__O Wow. Looks like Rat got a taste of his own medicine.

Rat had it coming! :D

Only ten years?

YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!! Oh, this has got to be the best one in years. Never saw it coming. It is, however, a bit frightening that Rat’s personality is rubbing off on the others.

Well now, my father always used to say “Worry is the price you pay for what doesn’t happen!” OK, but he never quite got to the first corollary, which is: Therefore worry!

Haven’t seen this side to Goat before. It has to have been building since day one of the strip.

Now it’s Pig’s turn.

Rat et tu y, hirco. . ..

GOTCHA! Oh, Goat, I am so delighted to see that after 10 years of being the butt of Rat’s bad attitude you have finally cranked up a skillet upon his noggin! Pig’s advice, too late for Rat but perhaps timely for you now, may be correct, but savor the moment of a rare victory!

Hey Rat. Bet that’s the one thing you never worried about. Ain’t life a b….

hey ow!

Goat!!!!! let’s have more fun with Rat, make him watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0T-DceJlg0 and this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEAMT7eU35k and finish it with this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW2vGwribjI

Sweet.

Now Goat has to do the worrying. There’s retaliation in his future.

Too bad he didn’t use a guitar instead of a frying pan. I can picture Goat as a sort of intellectual El Kabong.

Wow! That’s the first time I’ve ever seen Goat rat-faced!

Et tu Goat?

What’s interesting though is that Pastis sees himself in rat, or rat in himself. Rat was the first character devised by Pastis very early on and then the cute pig to offset the rat character.

Funniest strip I’ve seen in a long time.

hit him again! hit him again!

OUTSTANDING!

WAY TO GO, GOAT!!!!! Hahahaha!

Thank you Goat. I have been waiting for this moment for a long time. This day will go down in history! All hail The Goat!

Goat is dead, no way is Rat going to let that go!!!

All wrongs have just been righted. THAT WAS EPIC!!!!!!!! Thanks Stephan!!

Hopefully it was a cast iron skillet and not one of those thin ones.

You Go Goat! …er, but not a Yugo… er, you know what I mean.

I’ve waited a long time for this, too. Way to go, Goat!

Now it’s Pig’s turn.

“Bout time rat got his goat . . . ☻AKA: rat under crack . . ☻☻

Wow, another week of head shots. Time for a few weeks of kicks in the oompa-loompas, don’t you think Steven?

game, set, match, Goat

I NEVER would have expected that from Goat! Pig wouldn’t have had the guts.

I was beginning to wonder what was wrong with Goat.

The Goat turns. Who’s the Goat now? But yeah, it’s Dead Goat Walkin…unless Rat also has a Zen moment. The whack of Enlightenment. Sometimes when you ring a guy’s bell he gets the idea. Go ahead, relax…sparring class for waking up.

Somebody reading this comic for the first time would have a much different opinion of goat.

A long time coming, I can hear PBS fans saying. And who would guess that the vindication would come from the self-controlled and refined Goat? Lesson: Don’t confuse gentleness with weakness. Hooray for Goat.

Whooooooooooooooo!

Go Goat!

xxx

Revenge, Goat. Revenge.

Rat gets the Alfred E. Newman award… (Goat, you rock!)

That will get the strip banned. Parents won’t be able to let heir kids read it anymore…too much violence.

Revenge is truly sweet … and long overdue here, too.

Did NOT see this one coming, either!

Its fine to hit him in self defense, but behind his back? with a weapon? not cool.

it’s been a long time coming.well played, Goat.

This is so out of character for goat, I’m torn. Does rat deserve this? Irrelevant. Should goat be the one to do this, and thus sully his name? I think not. Pig should have done it by accident. Pig would never intentionally harm anyone, but accidents just seem to happen around him.

Yeah, Rat deserved it! You go Goat!

This is seriously my favorite strip EVER, and I have read all of the strips

Whoa. Yep, didn’t see that coming.

Hey, Stephan. Pearls has been my fave strip since I could read. And I was five when I learned how to read.

So out of character

I agree with S M… Go Pig! Hit that rat!

can’t wait 4 2morrows strip!

Revenge is a dish best served from a cast iron skillet!

This is now one of my all-time favorite PB4S strips: Rat gets plastered by Paris Goat!This makes PG the second “innocent” character to knock Rat out, the first being Pig (remember “Opposite Day”?); this means that, any day now, Zebra will give Rat a hoof in the mouth.÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷Let’s all flag mitochondria.

Here we see the danger of getting everyone’s goat: Sooner or later, the goat gets you.÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷For someone who’s never played Whack-a-Rat before, Paris shows a lot of skillet the game.÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷Goat is one harsh critic; look how savagely he panned Rat.÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷÷Who’s next at the punsters’ mic?

Goat has gotten out of the frying pan and into the fire, if Rat ever wakes up.

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But it’s true that a wicked person can never stop worrying, while a virtuous person has no need to worry.

no one’s said it yet………………………………RATATOOLIE!!! or, however they spell it.

Best one yet. Very funny.

Goat?? Oh my… that came out of left field

I always wanted to see Charlie Brown kick Lucy instead of aiming for the football! Paris’s panning of Rat is probably the closest we will come to that!

It’s about time that rat got whacked.

That probably worked better than the Thorazine they were planning on using. Heaven knows Rat needed SOMETHING!

WOOO!! Go, GOAT!! ;-)

One of the great comics ever.

FINNALLY!

God I wish I had a computer yesterday. Oh well, better late than never. GO GOAT!Wack a Rat.

so……..when is zeeba s turn?

The old Klingon proverb: “Revenge is a dish best served cold.”

Mathilde, 1841, predating Klingons and a dozen other occasions of plagiarism.

Never saw it coming. So much fun to share the pan!

Oh no! He said ’@*#$%!

This is just what life is like. Worry or don’t worry, you get hurt either way, often by what you can’t see coming.

This is the first time i read this comic.I have lived the same thing,except that rat did not relax,ending was similar tho,found a new partner and im nove living the scene of feb 12…its very strange.instantly hooked,what awaits me next sunday?

Why does rat think exactly like me?

claps for Goat

He had it coming, he only had himself to blame

Woo-hoo!

lets savor this

By FAR my favorite PBS. Goat’s great revenge!

Still worrying