Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 02, 2015

I see nothing wrong here.

Pig could use the P stencil and then make the \ part free-handed.

Old school. Low tech.

In parts of London, it’s not good to loose your r’s.

Is this a sin of commission or a blessing of omission?

Hmmm, when Rat’s gone long enough Pig smartens up. Why he just realized what Rat is.

Fiend works for Rat as well.

nope! not at all!

Fiend of the devil is a fiend of mine…

Welcome home, at…?

A moment of rare insight for Pig! I am astonished, but encouraged….

And that just about says it all !……………..Good work Pig !

All you have to do is callYou’ve got a fiend, Pig!

Certainly appropriate for Rat.

For Hugh B. Hayve

For mammamoonbeam

“Don’t have an ‘R’…usually Pig doesn’t have a clue!

R U kidding me???? oh my heart breaks for poor rat. without an R from pig he becomes completely exposed for who he R

In Boston they don’t need "R"s

That’s oddly snarky of you, Pig.

Truth in advertising!

Although the stuffed Rat I have sitting on my desk is giving me an evil look right now.

some of my best friends are fiends

If you ask me, Pig did that perfectly.

Rat is a Fiend. You don’t clobber your friends with cricket bats on a regular basis!

xxx

Pig remembered he also had some Cyrillic alphabet stencils and found one for the letter ‘Я’.But then he realised of course he couldn’t use it as it faced the wrong way. Bummer!

Come on, people. They’re housemates after all. Pig should have at least shrugged his shoulders in the last panel.

There is a great tradition in Russian drama and literature wherein the Fool is often the source of Truth.

Is this event like the parable of Matthew 12:43-45, where the roaming fiend brings back seven, worse than himself?

I seem to remember Boris Badenov stealing the “R” from Bullwinkle and Friends in one episode…

That’s an accurate description of Rat.

“Welcome back, Fiend!”