Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 05, 2016

Zebra, you have to make an occasional appearance to keep your Cartoon Guild card.

definitely do, Steph, keep your punchlines out of Zebra’s life

Better yet, keep former NFL players out of archery. And current NFL players. And MLB players. And NFL players. And soccer players. And race car drivers. And tennis players. And. golfers. And absolutely, positively, keep NBA, most especially the current NBA, and WNBA players out of archery.

I think Zebra might be drawing a long bow. . .

Will the commercial feature Bono playing the oboe?

Well, they haven’t censured this cartoon yet.Bet it’s on their mind, tho!

groan.

If he could just tie in some Muay Thai blows, or maybe some Tae Bo Cardio… while using a Bo Long Oblong Long Bow… every Joe Blow would want a go.

Actually…. umm maybe I’d better go….

Beau geste Cartoon Boy… Beau geste.

Larry Croc your meal is in today’s strip ! Come and get it !…….Then you get Man-Card back !………….. You can even use Zebra’s bow against him !………..How’s that for a Low- Bow :-)

The pain. It’s like peeing after multiple orgasms. It hurts so good.

This joke on bows is long in the punchline

Thank goodness Bob Loblaw’s Law Blog was already taken.

I live for this.

Go Raiders!

@AlexikakosOr as Dr. Seuss once said, “The tough coughs as he ploughs the dough.”

There’s a reason I never figure out the punchline in these pun-strips before the last panel, no matter how obvious it is. My mind shies away from THE HORROR.

Bo long oblong long bow-Hey look, it’s a tongue twister!

Hey, Why don’t you ask Stephen to stick his name on there?

Haha.

xxx

Yeah, Zebra. Me, too!

As soon as I saw the second panel I knew a good payoff was coming! :)

shoulda used jackson and howie insteda bo and long sew we coulda understud it beter

or maybe Long should have told Bo to go long and he would shoot him an arrow instead of pass a football. speaking of passing a football, I wonder how hard that would be. I passed a kidney stone once and thought I was going to die. but of course I do realize that there are many people all over America that pass footballs almost everyday and don’t seem to be the worse for wear and tear.

what do you people have against archery? it’s a perfectly valid sport requiring strength skill and good eyesight. is it only a sport if there is at least a minimal amount of pushy shovy like basketball which gets nastier than some people realize not to mention what can happen with a runner sliding into a fielder. yeesh. i see. no actual violence except historically. not a real sport. sigh. better tell those olympic athletes to yield the field to beach volleyball and that swimming dancing thing i forget the name of

Saw this one coming from a hundred yards away, Cartoon-Boy, no wind, few yews. Pinned it!

Believe it or not, they pulled this off in Spanish. A longbow is “arco largo,” and it’s elongated (alargado) and named after Marcos Longo and Lucas Larco, so it’s an “arco largo alargado Longo Larco.” Somebody earned his day’s pay.

Don Ho and his oboe

I saw this one coming since the second panel.

What qualifies “unique shape” in a long bow? It bends in the opposite direction?