Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 27, 2016

Oh come on!There should at least have been a flicker.

Is that a hard hat or a chamber pot on Rat’s head?

Look, Rat, you should have known this before you started.

Rat could have been making a point…it’s hard to tell in the dark.

Well, laughter worked as a new power source than screaming at the end of film “Monsters, Incorporated.”

How did SP’s desk get wider in panel 2?

And Pastis has saved nearly 50% of the energy he would have expended on drawing this strip (a point he’s made about black panels in some of his treasury books).

What isn’t seen is that in the third panel Pastis beat the &%$^@ out of Rat. And Rat, looking like Bettle Bailey in the fourth panel after Sarge beats him up, is thinking better of his idiotic idea.

Good one!

Maybe this will help: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

The reluctant grandparents lit up my house for days….

This is sort of what came first the chicken or the egg? If the power comes from laughing how can you have a good laugh if you can not see the strip……………..

I trust Cartoon-Boy has been properly chastened by this turn of events. The heart of the darkness is the bright light of revelation.It’s pun-punishment, the wages of dim wit….Carry on.

A typical Pastis pun would power the strip for a week.

Also known as the " Theroy Theory"

Pastis just got an electrical burn.

Groans. He needs groan power.

A fate common to many alternate powers sources. I wonder if rat got a gummint grant for this one.

@ derdave969..They must be a strained couple.

They should have had me hooked up. I laughed heartily!

Shudda made it work with groans from the puns

Not so fast. Call CERN. Rat might have created a black hole. Pastis really does suck.

Rat may have a point. I’ve enjoyed this strip for years, but I don’t think it has ever made me laugh out loud as some strips have. It doesn’t happen often.

poor cartoon boy!

Same could be said about Daddy’s Home and Frog Applause.

I didn’t know that Rat smoked!

Very dark humor.

That’s very harsh, Rat.

xxx

do more political stuff and run the electric on long winded, harsh, or name calling comments and you should be able to run for years and years and years without ever having to be funny – just a thought if you are looking to get off the grid that is :)

LOL I think Cartoon boy is being too hard on himself. That was downright funny! Surely the lights come on in frame 5.

a snickered a little does that help….though it was more towards of the idea that there would be laughter involving his strip

I admit I did not read the above comments, I know this had to have been said already, going to say it again, “Well that brightened my day”.

Did Stephen get divorced in the dark third panel?

No!!! Wait. Those last 2 panels were excellent!

Tell rat to switch to yawns and groans for power. Supernova time!

Poor Steph.

Better get Mike and Sully on this.

Rat, please show us how to do this so we have an excuse to read and watch funny things all day.

i laughed at this one