Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 09, 2016

I think the bird ODed in the third panel.

Finally.

It had to happen. His own characters have turned on him!

Watch for “Revenge of the Punned” at a theater near you. AKA as “Stephan Finally Gets His”

Definitely not funny. Stephan Pastis should get Alfred Hitchcocked here.

Stephan definitely deserves a “Time Out” for this stinker.

And notice that even Larry is taking part in this intervention. How low have you fallen, Stephan, when even a too-stupid-to-live crocodile has a problem with the puns?

Larry doesn’t know anything about puns — he just thought there might be beer.

Punitive measures must be taken. I say force Toon Boy to include twice as many wordplay inversions in his strips. He’s not punning hard enough!

What pun!

Well like I said last week, its rock bottom when Larry gets involved and there he is. Im surprised Lil Guard Duck doesnt have a bazooka out.

Enjoy the buzz little bird…………..good one !

A pun-tervention!

This sort of reminds me of the time Hollywood wanted to make a movie about the early days of rock and roll. They wanted to put Mick Jagger in the lead, but in the end, they couldn’t do it.

No one wanted to cast the first Stone.

I love this comic and the comments!

Let’s hope this is a storyline.

even Larry the croc is fed up with Stephan’s puns

I’m surprised, Rat, didn’t bring his baseball bat

Hey bird, don’t be blue.I would not feel so all alone, everybody must get stoned.

Leave him alone. I look forward to them. I know when he’s setting me up. His puns are soooooo bad they’re good.

bravo!

Best pun ever!

how about ‘a bird in hand is worth two in the bush’ – can you do that one mr. pastis?orhow about ‘look before you leap’or‘every dog has his day’?or‘even a blind pig finds an acorn sooner or later’or‘thirty days or $1000’ – oops sorry that was a sentence

Pastis needs to be started on a week’s course of punicillin.

That was pretty funny

Every time… I see it coming, yet continue reading.

Clever.

Wow. It’s gotten Zebra to work with Larry the croc. This is serious.

Now, that’s good.

Blue bird of hippieness?

I like it … however, i like Patsis puns, too …

Wow. It’s getting serious now!

By the way, I’ve always hated that saying. Don’t know why.

xxx

Thank goodness the cast is finally intervening! (No attempted puns here about stoning the first cast, etc.). You know it’s really serious when you appreciate one of Cartoon-Boy’s strips for the art work!

see, the problem with a strip like this, you can’t print it out and show it to people.anybody you’d show it to has either no knowledge of any of those characters so they wouldn’t get it, or they’ve read it already!

This is one of my 3 favourite strips. The other two are Doonesbury and Arlo and Janis. So all this crapping on Stephen, that’s all part of the game? Right?

OK Stephan. I feel properly PUNished.

Don’t let them stop you!!!

especially bad pun cause its basically a repeat of one of the early Sunday pun strips. a repeated pun is the worse pun of all

He’s Stephan’s bodyguard.

This isn’t the greatest, but I love his punning, so rock on, Pastis!

You think Stephen has poor punmanship? Back in the fifties and sixties, there was a gentleman named Bennett Cerf. He was the founder and a publisher of a book publishing company named Random House. He was also a big punster. Example Four ghosts were playing cards. There was a knock on the door. One of the ghosts said, who is it? Rigor Mortis. May I set in? From Bennett Cerf’s Treasury of Atrocious Puns. And, that’s how I learned to love puns. I think that I have good punmanship.

You mean a puntervention, right?

Reminds me of the tragedy when a falcon flew over a rock concert, ending the lives of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

Wait for it …

Killing two Stones with one bird.

[Ducking now … And, Sorry, Mick & Keith.]

Good One!

He’ll have pun pun pun pun till his daddy takes the sketchboard away.

Zebra, look out. Zebra? Zebra?! ZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEBBBBBBBBBBBBBRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAA! A CROC IS STANDING NEAR YOU! GET AWAY FROM THE CROC!