Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 15, 2015

Apparently Bob didn’t order the beer.

Time for a new delivery plan or scrap the idea altogether.

Drones, better… You don’t want to scare people to death with those stork bundles.

better a stork than a shotgun…

Put a picture of a beer can on the bag Rat, it’s called advertising ! What kind of beer is it that comes shaped like a ball ? I thought they did away with those plastic mini-kegs shaped like a ball…………………

I bet Pastis got this idea from Joe Stork in “Krazy Kat”. Joe would deliver babies, but I believe there were some strips where he was a part time bootlegger.

Guard Duck cannot fly (at least not without a chopper). He is a broken duck.

But I would like to see him more!

My parents would never tell me where beer came from.

A Stork can carry pound or so baby, but a gallon or two, no way Jose!

Rat’s set-up for this gag seems rather improbable, but Bob and the Stork play their parts well and carry it off….

And as we speak, Jeff Bezos is reading today’s strip and saying, “Hmmmm…birds ARE cheaper than drones…”

I loved it. Put physics aside, its a comic so we don’t worry about reality. Best new gag in awhile, it truly did make me laugh out loud. Great one Mr. Pastis. And even if he did steal the idea from KK, thats ok, great artists steal, mediocre artists copy.

During Prohibition G. Herriman had several strips featuring Joe. Stork making special deliveries of this nature.

Beer has caused many stork deliveries, so why not storks delivering the beer?

Congratulations — it’s a Bud!

use geese. there’s too many anyway, might as well put them to work

Why do I find this so cute?

xxx

First come beerthen come lovethen comes Bob with a baby carriage

Rumor has it the stork brought me here

Bird must be related to the Monte Python one that delivered Coconuts in the opening scene of “Holy Grail” (you have to watch to appreciate it!)