Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 11, 2018

That’s one powerful lighter than air formula.

Someone remembers Foster Norman in Dick Cavalli’s strip WINTHROP!

He’s goin’ on up to the spirit in the sky?

There’s that weird shading again.

Up!

♫ You can leave here for four days in space. ♫

♫ But when you return, it’s the same old place… ♫

Pooh did this once (in an attempt to get hunny right from the beehive), but he smeared himself with mud before going up so he could pretend he was a raincloud.

Sorry Pig, but there’s no BLTs up there.

Just take a balloon and go sailing, while Rat he, Rat he slowly dies.

Didn’t we do this gag like 3 months ago?

A brief but terrifying trip.

I can’t really explain it, but this strip – especially Pig – gives me a belly laugh almost every morning. Thanks, Steph for brightening my day.

A quiet place….HA!!!! WHEN PIGS FLY!!!

Backpacking off trail with complete solitude in the High Sierra is my escape, and it’s only a half hour drive.

Hold on tight and don’t let go.

In the sixties they used to say drop out. Now they go up.

So, gocomics webmaster, did you get a nice big raise for doubling your clicks by putting in the annoying ’Overview" that shows nothing but a center panel of the days comic to make the viewers click out of it to actually see the comic?

Beam me up!

“Up, Up, and away / My beautiful, my beautiful balloon. . . .” Jimmy Webb. Just Pig’s way of getting high. (I do apologize, but I couldn’t resist.)

Lawn chair,Pig ;)

Looks like a great idea to me!

Pig is ready to be part of a Roger Waters’ show

You’d think a heavyweight comics star like Pig would need 99 Luft-balloons.

Spirit in the Sky, Norman Greenbaum (one-hit wonder) http://tinyurl.com/qc6kk84

I have got to stop occasionally checking Pearls Before Swine. It’s not funny even that often. I keep hoping the incompetent crocodiles will reappear, because they’re the only characters who make me laugh; but I never luck out. The problem isn’t Stephan Pastis’ nasty attitude, it’s simply that his jokes like this aren’t funny, just stupid. Get Fuzzy, it’s not.

Must be a lot of helium in that balloon…..

I’d rather find a nice underground cave so I don’t have to witness the next great extinction event.