Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 02, 2012

Perhaps the most useful thing he’s ever done for her.

I’d need a bigger shell!

Four beers is a lot for most turtles.

Tina is a hardcore drinker. Is there a hidden Temperance pun in Pig’s last words? —“More ice tea in a turtle”?

I love the background on frame 2. Stripey was seeing the light.

A practical thinker, that Tina!

gosh, I guess we can use dead guys a lot more these days

…Timmy filled up with beer…

Hey watchit Pig,you’re spillin the ice

They need to bring back Toby the agoraphobic turtle. Tina could borrow his beer bong.

ha-ha… I like Tina!

Turtles and beer……Crocs and beer……Rat and beer…….yup; reptiles in this strip like beer!

Either way, he was probably always full of beer.

For any fellow tropers: STEREOTYPE FLIP!

It’s what Timmy would have wanted.

I truly love tina turtle!

You don’t put ice in beer.@kevin“More ice Tina Turtle” can sound like “more ice tea in a turtle”

What happened to the Spectral Tortoise hanging in the air…?

“I still miss my ex…but my aim is getting better.”

Middle panel is pretty great. Love the emotional closeup of Zebra. Terribly morbid joke though. Hey, maybe Tina’s dead husband is the Specral Tortoise of Perspective! And maybe Toby the Agorophobic Turtle is their useless layabout son! But then Toby would be a turtle-tortoise hybrid…is that possible? Am I making sense?

All husbands should be turtles.

I just love Zebra’s face in the last panel.

LOL xxx

I love you, Tina Turtle!

Tina not only carries her departed husband on her back, but also all of her forbears!

Wow… how can she reach that beer up there with such short arms? :-s

Great to finally see Zebra again, after a LONG absence …

The shell is simply an ice bucket to keep her beer cold. What’s wrong with that. I wish my dead friends’ remains left something useful behind like that.

Making the best of it.