Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 28, 2020

Rat, that’s messy. How about a big can of bug spray?

Today’s background music: The theme from S.W.A.T.

Splat!!

Things can now happen — PIG can FLY.

If the fly flies with Pig on his back, we can say “oh look, flying pig!”

Stephan, your fly is open…

“Be afraid. Be very afraid.’

(I seem to be making a lot of old TV and movie references in this strip this week.)

Well THAT pun just buzzed right on by.

PS: Did you know that most houseflies travel in nearly linear segments with sharp turns between them? I think it’s a survival characteristic in an environment with predators who can be led into assuming you’re going to be there by the time they can attack. Similar to the way squirrels make a sudden turn and let their tail mislead the eye into thinking they’re still moving in a line.

Wouldn’t you like to flee on the fly?

In the dark, Pig could be a FLY by night author!!

This is one of those SWATings I’ve been hearing about?

Oh, Stephan. Pig’s on Fly, really?

This is the kind of strip I like, skip the political crap

he’s just trying to pun-ish everyone

Rat you need a " Bug – a – Salt " Firearm. Shoot Pastis in the butt ;-) … Croc Power !

Well, I love puns. Miss my hubby’s.

Is the fly, by any chance, Gregor Samsa?

That’s it, Rat calls in the swat team!

Lmao. This is absolutely hilarious. The imagery, the pun. Only Pastis can make me laugh so hard.

Highly.

Ewwww!

HIT ‘IM AGAIN!

Rat is bugged by jokes like this.

I prefer Ron O’Neal, the original Super Fly!

I have gotten appundicidis from reading this strip.

Pigs on the wing. This may call for the full SWAT Team!

Rat, DO IT!

It’s a flypaper story.

Me, I’m thinkin’ “tactical nuke”.

Now the fly was overwelmed

by this deep generosity of Pig,

to give give give of the foodage.

’Cause all life lassk ssk suf of the foodage, ha!

He look at Pig and said.

Is there anything I can reciprocale,

or do in the joy of return for your generosity,

for giving me food and stuffy?

Pig, I’m looking for the other half of the moon and dangly,

This is my folly, show me where the missing half of that moon.

I don’t know, said the fly returnly, but I know someone who know,

if only I were big enough to transporty most.

I would take you there myself, I would do this.

And Pig, having the possey power of the Magicold,

Ah, standed over, roley out the sleevey,

wavely hand, hovery hovery hovery hovery

and out with these magic wordy.

If all the flys were one fly,

what a great enormouse flyfelolifer that would bold, oh.

And there, incredible but oh dear, hovery hovery.

Now the fly recalled with these wordage.

Not only will I transportnum there,

but I will sing it a deep joy of a songload in your eardroves.

That I will Do.

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Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake

The next time one of your local TV channels shows “The Fly” of 1958, check out the credits. Watch for an actor named “Al.”

I can’t figure out how Stephan does this. At first glance I thought he had just copied panel 1 into panel 2 and changed the dialogue. I checked all three figures and could not find the slightest difference.

Then I noticed the skyline.

And he kept telling pig about his problems… pig’s fly was open

The grass between rat and the fly is longer in panel 2.

Love it! More, more, more.

Swat him, Rat!!

Help me! Help me! Hellllppp meeee!

I might wrong but don’t fly’s have something like antennae?

I get all my best ideas in the shower. But, it’s really hard on laptops.

If Rat caught Pig on the fly, he’s out.

It could have been worse, Pig could have been wearing a pair of pants with the fly open if he would have made a pun like that.

Nobody who writes can deny/ that it’s harder to write on the fly/ so why take a chance ?/ Use the SEAT of your pants/ But be sure that the pants are quite dry…

Why did I visualize the last panel before I saw it? ..lol

I’ve been attacked by horse flies almost that big. Nasty, painful things.

Include a chapter on the rapid figure eight wing pattern and supergluing your ass to it. Another chapter of the great odors while eating dung and rotting flesh. Oh yes, another chapter on walking the rim of my milk glass.

Too small, Rat. With the size of the fly he gave the strip, that swatter needs to be five times that size.

HAH! Another LOL moment. Thx, Steph.

That’s too disgusting, Rat. Try something like bug spray.

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Your fly is open.

guh-roan

Today I got a huge laugh from this strip!

With this transport, Pig and his literary output can end up on the same dung-heap.

ka-swat

Pig is just winging it.

Swat! Swat! Swat!

Ahh, now I feel better. Just deserts for Cartoon-Boy….

Best drawing of a fly to ever appear in Pearls

It explains a few strips.

This certainly was!

I swear, soda almost came out of my nose when I read the PUNchline.