Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 26, 2023

I think Neighbor Bob is a free agent; you can’t trade him.

Shouldn’t Rod Serling be in here somewhere?

I ain’t mad at him

And now to exchange Jeff the cyclist.

Loud and rude? Butts his nose into everybody’s business?

Sounds like Rat’s kind of guy.

The comic strip solution! Yes!

Note that, while Nhbor Bob looks bug-eyed with astonishment at the end, it’s exactly the same face as in the others. Image cloning!

Thanks Rat, I should do this to my noisy neighbors.

Skipped the frame where Bob spits his drink at them.

I’d exchange my brother for Pig…or even Andy Capp!

Surprised Rat does not move Larry the Croc’s family into that house!

Since the people may not elect the correct government, the government has elected to replace the people.

I can’t wait to see who Bob exchanges Rat for.

Can you change or exchange rats? Can you change or exchange Rat?

… You can’t? … “Rats!”

There goes the neighborhood.

If only I could do the same with the desks near me at the office.

Rat is the real problem, not everyone else. It’s a miracle nobody has called the exterminator on him.

I don’t think that will work out in the long run, Rat.

Oh, if it were only that easy.

Rat is getting too close to Heinrich Himmler.

My good friend has a real Bob for a husband and would exchange him for my dog Fred in a second.

Is neighbour Bob Palestinian, perchance? Getting booted out of his own home for a stranger because someone else decides it should happen?

I have pretty good relationships with my neighbors. (At least the ones I know.)

In a year, (or less) he’ll be tired of Fred, and will exchange him for Phil.(Of course, the neighbors might just exchange Rat.)

Good idea, need to change the guy in the White House.

Can’t we replace Stephan with Ellipsis Hunt? This comic needs more Goblins… :D

Geeze. If it were only that simple….

Hate to think how many times I would have had to move…

Wish it were that simple.

I wonder how many people would exchange me for someone else. A part of me says a good handful, but I’m hoping my sense of humor saves it.

Squatters

That’s not how that works. That’s not how ANYTHING works.

I think I’m going to skip this one. It’s Sunday.

Bob needs to set a big rat trap in his yard. Problem solved.

Am I the only one who thinks Fred looks like Leon Trotsky?!?

If only …

This sounds like a Karen the crazy neighbor story from Reddit.

I’m not sure…

Rat must be their HOA President.

If Rat could replace all those he currently interacts with, then world would be a much better place for all those who he currently interacts with.

Not all the problems. Rat. You still have to deal with Fred.

Rat needs to move to a cabin in the woods and write his manifesto.

If Schrodinger’s cat can be alive and dead at the same time, Fred can replace Bob and everything would still be hunky dory.

Wonder where Fred came from? Bob needs directions

Sounds like Rat is one of the Body Snatchers

How long before there are Fred Issues?

My name is Fred, I look nothing like that.

Might work in theory, Rat. But what about all the Neighbor Bobs who resist physically? You’d be overwhelmed, Rat!

Rat must have bailed Patis out of jail during the book tour and played his reward card.