Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 27, 2013

Sick, Pastis. Even for you.

Is this how Steve Austin got started?

Don’t cry Bobby – it’s only CGI

How can he have walks through the neighborhood if he doesn’t have a leg do stand on?

Well, that’s a kick in the head. Rat put his foot in his mouth this time. For year’s worst joke, this is a shoe-in.

oh, pastis, shame on you!

Wasn’t he in “trading places”?

Lieutenant Dan!Oh, wait. Wrong fable.Talk about your knuckle-dragging neighbors….

Hey Pastis. You need to go check out Tod Browning’s movie “Freaks.” If you’re not careful, your characters will turn you into a chicken-man.

Pastis better hope the doctors at his institution don’t read this; they’ll up his meds!

A bad run-in with Obi-Wan Kenobi.

When the man tried to sue the doctor for amputating the wrong leg, his case was thrown out of court. He didn’t have a leg to stand on …

@High Peaks—I wonder what Johnny Eck would have said about today’s travesty!

As Molly used to tell Fibber, “It ain’t funny, McGee.”

It’s only a flesh wound!

Is his name Bob?

OHHHHH! That’s gonna generate some hatemail.Been nice knowing you.(Can the cartoonist get kicked off of his own strip? Let’s ask A & E.)

WHOOPSIE!!

I think this guy had a part in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Well you’re not specific enough, Rat.

Oh wait… Never mind.xxx

Always wondered what ever became of Johnny from “Freaks”.

Bet he could get a job as a bottomless dancer.

No! Crossed King Arthur from Python’s Holy Grail, shortly after dispatching the Black Knight…

I agree with ed in the first comment. Not cool, Stephan.

No more twisted than much of the work of the late John Callahan. If he were still around, he would probably stand up and cheer — in a manner of speaking, that is. ;-D

In a comic strip, everything must be taken completely seriously.