Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 20, 2013

Beat her up, Zeeb; nobody here will hold it against you.

If so, tell her you want it your way…

or mabey he can come back as a boat

Zebra’ll come back as a cheeseburger for Larry if you ask me.

Dress the bartender in a Zeeba suit and invite Larry over for lunch.

First stop when you get home -Yelp.

Some hanky-panky going on here; how are all these retreat-folk (not to mention the bartender) getting to and from the island?Maybe Zeeba Neighba is hallucinating?

Bet Zebra is really at a Jamaican Rastafarian Retreat and this episode is really an “episode”.

I remember an earlier set of strips where Rat made a living selling zebra burgers to anyone who would pay for one and his slogan being “Zebra Meat: It’s Whats For Dinner!”

Enough with the island already

This has not been a very good storyline. That & baby bookie. Ditch them.

I think this arc has about run its course.

Food? Rescue?? No! No!!

I do think this arc is getting stale…

Ok, Zebra, time to put pacifism aside. Beat her over the head with the stool until she’s unconcious the take apart her bar and use it to make a raft. Take her cellphone with you so sh finds out what it’s like to have no communication on that sandbar.

I wonder if this storyline and the “baby bookie” one will somehow get merged? Pastis has done that before, run two (or three) storylines at the same time and then merged them.

Zebra is a herbivore, the bartender is an intellectual vegetable…. ZEBRA CHOW DOWN!!!

The May 14th and especially the May 15th strips show more of a bustline for Ms. Superservice.

Gotta tell this one while the telling is good. Once I dreamed I was in a rustic lodge-like hotel like the one near Old Faithful or halfway up Mt. Hood. I was looking for a bathroom, and was roaming the front hall, where crowds of people were walking back and forth. I found a toilet, but it was sitting next to a wall out in the open, all by its lonesome, no stall or anything, with God and everybody passing by. I went to the check-in desk and asked a woman clerk (like Ms. Superservice, above) if they had a regular bathroom that had stalls and was not out in the open. “Yes,” she said. “Well, may I please use it?” “No.”

Kill the bartender and use his/her escape pod.

‘Mr Whiny?’ YOU try being stuck on an island for days and days with nothing to do! At least you’ve got a job.

Some people!

LOL xxx

No Zeebaburgers???

Will this string EVER end?

I always say to those of you who don’t like the strip, then con’t read it and stop your whining! And another thing…in your creative life, is every thing you do at the top of your game???

He’s been there for a long time…

Exactly rigbt starcandles. Too bad this was submitted a while ago so we can onl hope that Pastis finally rrealized it.

WILL YOU END THIS STUPID STORYLINE ALREADY!!!!!!!!!! It’s been going on forever and I stopped laughing two weeks ago!

Zebra: “Again, how is that gonna help me when I’m starving?”

Zeeba is now Mr. Whiny — or should that be Mr. Whinny?