Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 12, 2018

Those bunkers aren’t cheap, you know.

uh… song (and artist) reference?

We’re Sergeant Prepper’s Lonely Hearts club band…

Like Rat, Herr Drumpf is the prepper president. He’s a prepper for the inevitable, that is, wanting to hide from the inevitable obstruction indictment that he knows is coming after just one year on the job. And so he’s desperate to make himself the center of everything (see: The CFP Championship).

Where’s Li’l Guard Duck?

Rat may not be above product endorsement deals, but he is certainly beneath them.

You’re going to Partis for this latest pun, Rat?

You can be a prepper if you want to. Personally I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony.

I try to take preppers with a grain of salt.

I read recently how there are companies selling bomb shelters like in the 1950s. Back then, we thought the Soviets were going to nuke us. Now we think it’s the North Koreans. So it goes.

I watched Doom Preppers for a while and that would run through my head to.

There is something weird about people who spend their whole lives getting ready for a major disaster. They have no life other than prepping, so what is the point?

This strip is making me thirsty!

’I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony…’. Sorry, wrong soft drink reference.

If the bombs are falling you won’t need carbonated prune juice.

Prepper-Izzat anything like a Valley Girl?

Hope Guard Duck makes an appearance! I miss him : (

gotta love Rat.

You know who’s going up against them? I myself, with my Repeating Cannon!

♫ Me and my RC… me and my RC… ♫

the “first time award” goes to me.. for finally seeing the punch line coming.

Where’s Guard Duck?

xxx

I saw that one coming in the first panel.

Shameless, Cartoon-Boy!

So, just out of curiosity, did Dr. Pepper give you a free six-pack for this endorsement? —To add to your bunker supplies, of course.

Hunker in the bunker! Doom and gloom!

I thought a prepper was someone who uses Preparation H…

Preparing for the Trumpocalypse.

We need the preppers so that the cockroaches will have something to eat.

I’m a Sith Lord, he’s a Sith Lord, wouldn’t you like to be a Sith Lord too?

Nice little advertisement to the nuclear apocalypse