Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 21, 2021

“No stupid cousins but my mother-in-law is visiting next week.”

Heya. Long time no see Crocs!

Croc’s non-aggressive policy.

Aside from his wife and son, does Larry have any smart cousins?

… well, I have a very distant cousin who lives with a pig.

He is referred to as Rat. He cons his way through life, which often makes him an a$$.

Well heck, in nature the meet, fitting, and proper fate for a primary herbivore, and certainly a zebra is a primary salad eater, is to be killed and eaten by some generally predatory carnivore. That’d be the crocs. Few primary herbivores die of old age asleep in their bed. So where’s the problem?

This reminds me of the beginning of Operation: Rabbit; Larry should be handing Zeeba a card that reads, “Larry D. Crocodile, Moron.”

“Get in my belly!”

“Not anymore. They got eaten or went into politics.”

That’s was actually an intelligent question by Larry.

Zebra go sit with the wise ass on the hill ! Larry next time just eat the zebra .

Croc’s comment is the best one in a while!

Dramatic pause there, in the third panel. Don’t want anyone to miss it. ;-)

Haven’t seen them in awhile, hopefully hijinks will ensue.

Yay! Zeeba and the Crocs are back!

I guess Larry only comes out when he’s hungry.

Eat your own Croc, tis the GOP way.

That is nice goal Zebra, but crocs usually don’t ask if you would be lunch.

And, wow, a Zebra and croc strip. It has been a long time.

Larry, lunch with Zeeba be boring anyway.

Never before has a zebra been so wise.

Zeeba is cleba.

LOVE, LOVE the crocs.

Worst predator ever. How is it he hasn’t starved to death yet?

Larry must have been in quarantine. We haven’t seen him in a long time.

Ask da Google Croc!

Call Marty from “ Madagascar”

Welcome back, zeeba. We missed you!

he out-wised him(And welcome back croc)

Zeeba outsmart croc! Croc desperate and confused…

The green guy looks vaguely familiar

I’m pretty sure your destiny is to become purses, shoes and watch straps

“I have a stupid neighbor.”

More Zebra and Crock cartoons, please!!!

Yes I do but unfortunately they all work for the government or are in Congress…

Got any entitled people?

No fate but what we make.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE can we have Crocs and Zeeba on a regular basis???

Yay, Zeeba is back !!!!!

Okay, I’ll take Zeeba and Croc and give up on the Guard Duck Insurrection. More, more, more!

Say hello to my little friend.

CROCS!!!!!!!!!!

My destiny mostly involves beer. And doughnuts.

There’s no bush, no fence, no wall, no sliding glass door. Why the Crocs didn’t attack then and there I will never wrap my head around.

Yes!! We need more strips with the Crocs and Zeeba!!!

Larry!!!

Larry Niven posited a race in the Puppeteers that basically argued that for prey to survive they had to be smarter than the predator. Perhaps Pastis is a fan …

…well there’s one who’s a dumbass…

Croc is more into determinism. At least, he’s determined to have lunch.

Zeeba’s back!

We need more Zebra-vs-Larry the Crocodile cartoons and less bitching about smartphones and social media by Rat, Pig, and Goat.

I love Larry, he’s hilarious

Larry (?) demonstrates a surprising level of insight here. I expected a response along the lines of, “How come you uses big word all the time?”

Although the panels appear the same, there are slight variations among them.

my destiny is to became a dotucer

Nope.

Vitriolic political comments in 3-2-1….(or maybe they already happened? Didn’t dare read other comments!)

I remember when Zebra was actually a main character and not just a foil to the crocs.

Cousin Larry has spoken. Ahem!

Glad to see the gator !! Give us more of him !

Hey Larry, Try Republicans, they might not be tasty, but they are definitely stupid, gullible, and sheepish to believe the BS the Republican party is spewing. Perhaps, Covid-19 will help cull the herd of people who chose to be ignorant. Happy eating!!