Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 21, 2014

It DO make a difference.

Let the great seed-spitting begin!

Rat is feeding the figments of his imagination…

…and after eating all those figs, LET MY PEOPLE GO!!!!

Rat ever thoughtabout going into politics???

I guess Rat hurt many more people than just Pig, so there were more people than the number of figs

No faces, yet they can giggle and eat.

Somehow, I had never pictured Rat as Moses, calling down figmanna for his peeps….

Time to move to something more interesting and funny.

Rat is owning up to his fears I see.

I’m glad he used the comma correctly. “Eat, my people” could easily be mistaken as, “Eat my people” and this comic may have taken an ugly turn.

Thus sayeth the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will … make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. Jeremiah 29:17-18

@Nicole—This strip already has more ugly turns than the …((insert your least favorite road here!)

It depends on who is wearing one!

If they wash them down with lots of water, they’ll look like figurines.

What they really want is a date.

The case of the missing comma took another ugly turn when I heard my grandson say, “Time to eat Grandpa”.

this is getting weird. okay… weirder

Now why didn’t I see that coming?

xxx

Because Pastis is an evil genius, Number Three!

Boy oh boy, there’s going to be an epic out-gassing soon…but apparently Rat doesn’t give a fig. No wait – maybe he hasn’t fig-ured that out yet.

this is going to come to a very messy end

Hey, he ended the sub-par people series cleverly!

Okay, I’m not sure how to phrase all this, at least not in a way that wouldn’t be inappropriate, but I’m beginning to get an inkling that there’s more here than meets the eye. First, I didn’t know the song “Ready on the Firing Line.” So I didn’t get your comment. But then, phyllis bear’s comment made me give it a second look. (And you call me a bad girl?! Unless I’m much mistaken in the implications of those lyrics?) And now, looking at the cartoon in that vein, I find that Stephan depicting their mouths as vertical instead of horizontal, is rather remarkable. This gives Rat’s final exhortation to “Eat, my people” a whole new slant. You can not dissect comedy without effectively killing it, so I apologise for doing just that. I must be kind of slow, because it just now has dawned on me that Stephan has slipped another one past the censors.