Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 31, 2022

Cool, a coffee shop that allows smoking.

It’s a lot better than “How’s it hanging”; Rat should track down whoever started that and apply a sledgehammer.

Not hoping, not moping, just cracking.

Rat: you know the #1 Rule Pig: NEVER bother me, until i’ve finished my Coffee!!!

I’m w/ Rat on this one. Don’t even TRY to talk to me until I’m upright, caffeinated and verbal.

Why does anyone talk to Rat?

Not hoping, not moping, not coping.

Umm.. er.. eek.. I mean.. uhhh…what did Rat him it with?It looks like a giant… pen?

Not cool, Rat.

This sounds like something I might want to try out on someone.

Or maybe as Ratkin’s earlier comment suggests: “Are you hoping or moping? … Or just coping?”

He’s “Bopping” people on the head with plates!

Rat knows how to dish it out.

“Turn that frown upside down!”

[Next panel, Pig is hanging by his trotters from a meat hook.]

Since the plate is missing in the last panel there’s hope the „CRACK“ wasn’t Pigs skull.

So, I’ll take that as a moping then?

C’mon Pig. Rat hasn’t even had time to shave this morning.

Rat wrote a book, “How to influence people and make them you friends” Not many buyers however!

I don’t remember Rat being a smoker. Is this new?

Sounds like someone’s got a case of the Mondays.

Rat is moping.

Pig has been plated.

Ah Monday mopping and scrubbing (Laundry Day)

Looks like he is doping.

Violence always a laff riot…

PIG should have picked up RATs mood….wham bang….Bruised pork!

I agree. Bacon, coming up.

This one made me laugh out loud.

I have no reason to mope. With Halloween passing today, I can start seeing Christmas commercials! :D

Thank you, Mr. Rat.

Rat sounds like Garfield in the last panel.

Agreed. A real bacon for breakfast evoker.

I wonder how much Bushmills or Jameson Rat has in that morning coffee?

And me thoughts Garfield was most mad about Mondays.

Looks more like he’s doping.

Then moping it is…..

Groping

Rat is too much for any day.

Not one Pauly P comment, if Rat had used a hammer it may have been different.

Definitely Noping

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZLkqYy-LvA

Rat was noping.

Insufferable cheeriness on a Monday morning is most certainly a Capital Offense. Yay, Rat!

Really, Rat? On Halloween??? You better not go trick or treating because you will end up with a bag of rocks!

I say hoping.

I love pig’s face is just like that.