Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 24, 2020

I hope he backed up his novel on his computer.

Maybe Twiki and Dr. Huer can explain the situation to him.

Welcome to our world nightmare , neighbor Bob .

Writing a novel without a computer is impressive. Is that a pen on the table?

At last, Stephen King finishes The Stand, the Expanded, Unabridged, Holy Crap, This Book Weighs a Ton novel. I pre-ordered mine last December. It’s delivered with a forklift.

author here sure got out of the loop (did he even happen to have two months’ food and other necessities while isolating himself in do-not-disturb solitude so he could write his novel?)

Pig to the rescue!

In what reality would one ever say, “I’d better go ask Rat what’s happening”?

If he’d turned the computer on and the Internet off, he could have finished in one month.

Wait! He didn’t say he wrote it. Maybe he just read it.

Seems a shame to miss the Great American Novel just because it’s been sprayed with disinfectant.

Yeh, he’s gonna need that pig; maybe right now!

Was Neighbor Bob the only one that didn’t make a silly home video during the last two months?

(No)

Neighbor Bob, welcome to the Twilight Zone!

This happened to a group that river rafted the Grand Canyon for 25 days in March, cut off from all communication with the outside world. https://abc7.com/pandemic-coronavirus-covid-grand-canyon/6032652/

This could have made a great Twilight Zone back in the day with Rod Serling starting the prologue with “I submit for your approval a struggling novelist, Neighbor Bob, who is about to come out of his house for the first time in 4 fortnights to enter…pause…… The Twilight Zone”… Rat would be the antagonist who kills him in the end with Goat trying to stop the insanity to no avail……

After 3 months alone at sea a Canadian sailor landed in New Zealand not knowing anything about the pandemic. https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/canadian-sailor-oblivious-covid-19-pandemic-lands-in-christchurch-after-months-sea

Melaniia is way hotter than Michelle!

Pig is wearing the best protection gear to avoid getting the virus

Pig how do you use TP when you are in that suit ? … Croc Power !

Yes, things have changed very quickly. Nearly 100,000 dead in just over 2 months. 38 million on unemployment (and soon to be kicked off the enhanced version by Trump).

Pig just won the nobel peace prize

Brave new world

Duh! Trump, of course!

The Electoral College has one function- to keep New York, California, and Chicago from running the country. Chicago running the country- now there’s a happy thought…

How about we keep the politics out of something that is supposed to distract us from such things?

Nobody can touch anything without cleaning it first.

Pretty much sums everything up

What does that have anything to do with this comic? I come to these pages to get away from politics. I have a very definite opinion of who I support but won’t be sharing it here. If you want to talk politics there are plenty more sites to do that.

Is this the zombie apocalypse people predicted?

The attack of the paranoid control freaks.

The Rip Van Winkle story, 2020 edition.

See what happens when you stop paying attention to what is going on around you?

On St. Patrick’s Day (March 17th), holing up (at least partly) was ALREADY recommended.

The last 60 days in a nutshell—-or Cliff notes

I’m writing a few novels myself, but I don’t think I’d survive without internet, television, or a phone. Kudos for him. Of course, I was social distancing before it became cool.

Summing up this insanity in 8 panels or less. Over in Bloom County (my second stop every day after Pearls), BB coined the phrase “snowflake veils” for the face masks.

CoRoNa ViRuS

The comments section for comics is the stupidest thing ever created. And i say this fully aware i am participating in it. I would pay five bucks a month to taser anyone who posts a comment on any comic strip, starting with myself, as i already own the taser.

And so, Dear Friends, another Neighbor Bob bites the dust.

Moral of the story: never cut yourself off from the outside world altogether—-especially not for an extended period of time!

Nice variation on Rip Van Winkle.

I found Neighbor Bob’s cousin! He was on a Buddhist retreat in Vermont … https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/us/coronavirus-meditation.html

Like this comment if you agree this should be the next “Borderlands” or anarchy game