Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 02, 2012

Should we now be afraid that when Rat goes on his rampages, we might get hit? Or one of Guard Ducks bullets might ricocheted and look as if it is going to hit us.

Wow, and I didn’t even need the glasses!

Wow! That cup made me duck..speaking of which, Joel, bullets? You should be afraid of Little Guard Duck’s RPGs….sayin….

Well, thatnicecollegeguy, you were wrong. But don’t worry, we’ll get em’ next time. {:<{)

Okay, so the 3D effect works, but the 4thWall Transition needs work. The coffee tastes like newsprint.Even on a computer monitor, it tastes like newsprint.

Wow … just like the 3D effect they use on SCTV (move the object closer to the viewer) …

Fooled my cat..she tried to snatch him up.

seems out of place seeing Rat “cuter and friendlier than usual” in 2nd panel………….. than again, he is so extreme in being nasty and unfriendly, that almost anything else is friendlier and cuter

Rat a tat tat

By the way, I usually ignore ads on websites, but the one to the right here “Hire Stephan to speak at your next event”, makes me wish I was planning an event I could hire him for. …just saying.

I’m pretty sure I was given a 3D Spider-Man comic back in ’85 with those stupid blue and red “3D” glasses that just give you a headache trying to look at the supposed 3D effect.

Aw… Pastis is just showing off that he can draw better these days.Well, they still have stick arms, Stephan! Hah!

I guess this means I’ll have to stop reading PBS! Sigh. I mean, I can now only view it properly in an iMax theater, and I can’t afford to go to one of those every day of the week, all year ’round! Curse you, Technogeek-Pastis! Give me back my 2D comic strip!

Rat is ready for his close-up, Mr. DeMille!!!

Well, that ought to be worth a Ruben right there…

Pig’s reaction is priceless.

This is especially funny as I’m reading your first treasury where perspective was nowhere to be found.

It’ll be even better with Smell-o-vision.

(Shuddering as I type)……but maybe he’ll take Rat with him on the next deep dive and leave him there.

knowing Rat, im surprised he didnt throw the coffee at us

Now if they made it scratch & sniff as well, they might have something…

When the Rat comes out of the screen at you, it’s time to get The Rat Trap out.

just you wait until the crocs decide they wan’t to eat humans again, then were in trouble

The middle panel should be on a t-shirt or at least a COFFEE MUG!

So cool!!

It’s SOOO real, like it’s right here in my . . . . GAAAAAA……Hot Coffee HOT COFFEEE EEEEE . . . ☻

Here the same 3D effect: http://www.gocomics.com/onion-and-pea/2010/10/29

I want you to know that Rat’s nose poked me in the eye. As soon as I get back from the emergency room, I’m talking to my lawyer.

I’ve never seen Rat so close up to the page before.

LOL xxx

I could almost taste the COFFEE!!! Very filling.

COFFEE?!?!?!yes, yes i will…

Rat on a good day.

Does this mean Rat can get out of the panels and go after anyone- I mean- everyone who displeases him?

he should have used Stephan’s nose. Now THAT would have stuck waaaay out off the page.

Goat will never see the 3-D effect if he keeps his eyes closed.

The first? Didn’t Garfield have a 3D a couple of weeks ago?http://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2012/03/18

I’m partially color blind, but that has no effect on the red/blue 3-D effect. The color is filtered by the lens, not by your eye. The lens on the right filters out the left eye image and vice-versa. The light hitting the right eyeball is the right-eyed image, and vice-versa. How the eyeball interprets the color does not effect how it interprets a stereo image.

Does this mean that we can now reach in there and play Whack-a-Rat?

Goat needs to get with the program…

@saywhatwhat… perfect placement of your comment. Well played, saywhatwhat, well played.

awesome technolagy

coffeeeee!