Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 09, 2019

I’m going to start reading Garfield in place of PBS.

Apartment 3-G is still running? That was ancient when I was a kid, multiple decades ago.

How many times does Rat have to kill this guy?

you walked yourself into that one, Rat, once you mentioned a pool of water surrounding the house and fancying it up

Rat, panel 4, you are right. Enough of this Franz!

These music professor strips aren’t even worth commenting on. So WHY the heI_I_ did I just do that!?

The Puns are great keep them coming

Should have attacked him with a wolf gang.

Bach, humbug….

Rat, you’ll have to Handel him by yourself!

You have to give Franz some respect. He’s been avoiding the I’ll be Bach joke this whole time.

But still funnier than Mary Worth.

Still funnier than The Conners.

Croc Power !

I usually like puns myself, however this one doesn’t track. Motzart, Bach et.al. have nothing to do with decorating with art, they are musicians. Their “art” would be heard but not seen.

Jeez, look at the time. I better make like David and Van Gogh.

Pasties, king of bad music related puns. However the low platform his throne sits on was recently destroyed. This caused him to cry out, “Ah! My dais!”

How many times has this guy been shot, and he still keeps coming back?

And then there’s the guy who thought “Mozart” was a painting that’s owned by one of the Three Stooges!

Mary Worth was always a hoot. Plus, she actually helped people, like a superhero with blue hair.

I think this one is real funny!

Sigh, I was hoping we would see Larry and neighbor Zeeba again today.

Apartment 3-G! Is that even still around??

Well, the croc’s appearance was short lived. Pastis must have some of those in reserve for the days he has cartoonists bloc

What was it the young boy said when his bicycle broke down? Grr, Schwinn.

Love puns, the worse they are the better they are.

Of course, the final years of Apartment 3-G were hilarious, but in a really sad sort of way. I hope all is well with the strip’s 94 year-old artist Frank Bolle.

I kind of thought this was worth a Rimsky-Korsakov shot.

i kinda miss Apartment 3G…

Ah well. Bach to the drawing board.

Ouch. Now THAT is insulting. Even for Steph

These puns are why this comic is on my Liszt of must-reads.

Steph, you brain must be a marvelous place.

C’mon,that was re-moat-ly funny,still the puns are dying,so I will fly my flag at half-“staff” but only for one day, because I have “scaled” Bach!

I love these. One of those things that’s so bad it’s funny.

Maybe I really needed something stupid to laugh at, but this one got me to groan out loud.

Hahahahaha….Moat’s Art!…hahahahahaha…….the challenge to Mr Pastis’s, is to read the first 1-2 panels and then figure out what the end will be…..

Wait…..I can do this…..if Steven was is business with relatives in Italy that were running a money laundering scam through a food processing company, would the US authorities be forced to Inform him that they were going “ To Seize ur salad and Italian Pastis “ ?

This is certainly making the moat of a situation.

I always call my bicycle “Tchaikovsky” because it’s got a nutcracker seat.

That’s one of the best ones he came up with.

It’s funnier than the past three years of Apartment 3-G.

I’ve often wondered how he comes up with these. I think he sit’s in a pub, drinking beer and chatting – it’s just Bartok!

Rat should arrange to have Joan Lunden arrive the next time he shows up. Then Rat can exclaim “I see Lunden, I see Franz…”

Remember that scene in Silence of the Lambs, where Dr. Lector took off the top of the guy’s skull to get some brains for his feast with Clarice? Well, do ya, Cartoon-Boy?

You could probably still draw as well as now after a lobotomy!

shame on you for not giving Lampy a background cameo…you know how long he’s been out of work? actually he was in Zippy last week…or was it Ziggy?

AND I MISS APARTMENT 3G!

Pettiness=instant comedy

Aaaaaaaarrrrrgh! Why won’t he stay dead!?!