Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 07, 2017

Don’t pop his bubble.

Let’s build a wall around Rat, and make him pay for it!

I guess my world would encompass my workbench where I endeavour to be the best on the stool.

The Zen of Rat.

I’m the greatest on my computer, until the cat sits on it.

Au contraire, my rodent friend! Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. … or so claim some.

Big fish in a little pond.

I’m sorry, but that is not a legitimate micronation. In international law, the Montevideo Convention on the Right and Duties of States sets down the criteria for statehood in article 1: The state as a person of international law should possess the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; © government; and (d) capacity to enter into relations with the other states.

To Rat it’s Ratopia. Goat looks at him and tells him it’s Youtopia.

SHERLOCK: Make sure the wall is sufficiently high and strong, then fill it with water.

But Goat is outside the jurisdiction of Ratopia, you stupid Rat.

“See the little nowhere rat…”

Oh everybody is a nobody according to Rat.

Geez, I hate him!

Haha.

xxx

Goat’s ever-shrinking personality exists, so it seems, only for Rat to kick around. C’mon, Goat, stand up for your rights and those of the nation of Goatland! Maybe declare war on Ratopia!

Welcome back to Ratopia! https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2010/01/04