Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 03, 2012

One f lighter. HA!

If you put on 12 1/2 pounds, do you become 0% efficient?

JEF, somehow, it’s fitting…

Oh, the war with Frazz (creator Jef Mallett) is so DEFINITELY on!

While I was getting my cruiser tires replaced the bike guy had a discussion with a customer about open pedals, cadence, and carbon fiber wheels that cost a couple of grand each.

The degree of my dislike for Jef[f] the Cyclist is in inverse proportion to his weight reduction. —Gee; maybe he could waste away to NOTHING AT ALL; ya think?

LOSER Door prize is what I’d like to give him ie opening the drivers side door to turn him into road meat

Stephan Vs Jef? Mr Pastis is the victim of today’s Frazz…

Stan, it really is. Read Frazz today, it’s about Pearls…Man, these guys…..

Puns and all….

I always wondered why he spelled it like that…

Silly me, I thought it was an homage to Bil Keene.

Smart of him, BTW, to lose an F instead of one of those L’s in Mallet… that crossbar must weigh something…though those final T’s are probably heavier and even more useless.Maybe next year…

Jef is an idiot. Let’s say that actually does eliminate weight from the brain, it’s bound to be about .0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 of a gram, so infinitesimal of a weight as to not even have any serious effect on Jeff’s preformance on the hill climb. The sunglasses add more weight than the letter F could, so loose them.

Oh oh, a weight gain by a cyclist could indicate foreign substances in the body.

i see he already ditched those burdensome IQ points.

Hey, Jeff don’t forget to go potty before you go, that will lighten your “load”.

sticka-ka jefuh-fuh hu-hu-hu

I love Pearls, but I do save Frazz until the very last…

A couple of penslingers are drawing their weapons it would seem. Love it…

This is going to be interesting. Pastis has the words to win, I should think?

Well, it is God, not Godd.

The best fights are always between good friends. This is going to be good!

Round 1 to Mallet. Pastis just missed a TKO in the first round with Pig saying that’s a F..n…L.

This good natured ribbing is nothing compared to the real fun that happens when cartoonists party. That’s why it’s such an isolated profession. Too much togetherness would be a disaster of immense proportions.

Where the F did it it go?.I mean, where did the F go?

Dude, yes, of course I do. (Either that, or I’m so stupid I thought it was a colossal coincidence that each of their strips tweaked the other on the same day.)

Apparently, Jef doesn’t give an f anymore

littleannoyingdog: Really? You want to main, cripple, or kill cyclists with your car?

You need help.

Meanwhile, stop driving.

Good Luck in the race, Jeff or Jef.

Though you won’t need it!

xxx

If Jef really wants to win he needs to think castration. He can lose weight and fit the seat better.

I’m new to Frazz, and checked it out. Is it me or does our hero look like Calvin grown up?

JFF would be even lighter.

lizardlover, Yeah, a lot of people say that. And conclude that Calvin would grow up to be like Frazz….

Round one, Pastis.

Re: “Someone explain the pun…what is the significance of Pig’s comment in Panel 3?”I can’t believe you missed it, but the name went from “Jeff The Cyclist” in panel 1 to “Jef The Cyclist” in Panel 3 – one “f” in “Jeff” was dropped.And the cartonist for Frazz is Jef (one “f”) Mallett.

These cartoon “wars” are helping me understand male bonding……

Yknow if he cut it down to just JE he wouldn’t have that exhale on FF which is probably pushing back against his velocity just a bit.

Thinking of Calvin as a grown up,makes my head…explode.And Hobbes? What of him?

Relax.littleannoyingdog is all “Yap yap yap yap yap” and no bite.Would never really try to injure someone, just likes to make annoying comments.

They’re friends. I don’t know about best buds – where’d you hear that? And it certainly doesn’t mean there can’t be a ’toon war.

OK so after reading both comics – as I do daily, I have to wonder if each artist sent the other the drawings and had the other fill in the dialog.

Mallett – does that rhyme with ballet?

Oh thats so ucked up..lol

The only way I could really like “Frazz” is if they’d dump that sermonizing janitor and rename it “Caulfield and Friends.”

Some war – did Napoleon and Wellington give each other three weeks’ notice of their maneuvers (or manoeuvres if you speak English)?

huzzah!

yeah but for the readers they start wars and sometimes they wright the others lines for the comics

There’s already a strip called F Minus.

And the other half of the war… sorry, Frazz wins it today.

I almost flattened a cyclist once. I was coming up on a red light, no cars in front of me, one van stopped at the light in the lane to my left. Light turned green before I approached the intersection, I whzzed through, wondering why the van wasn’t moving. Then I saw the cyclist run the red light on the street perpendicular to my direction of travel. I jerked the wheel to the left, passed the cyclist who ws still in the right lane, missed him by about a foot, jerked again to the right after passing said cyclist. Saw him pull up at the other side of the street, stop, and let out a huge sigh. I had only been driving for about 6 months to a year at that time.

Think of it like a snowball fight…

…or he could leave his helmet off and shave his head. He wouldn’t lose anything important in a crash, but he’s probably too vain to lose his hair. ;-)

I work with a guy like that…

this is the first strip of the treasury ‘gets sacrificed’