Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 17, 2020

Hopefully, June 2021 is more like June 2019 than June 2020.

Let us all sing the new national anthem:

“CAPTAIN CAAAAVE-MAAAAANNN!”

used to be we all could group together to make a team to save the day now, its a miracle if we see another team member sorry dude

Pastis is not going to last much longer.

Can he catch it from Pig? It’s not swine flu.

When an airplane I’m on is landing, I try to see people out the window, but usually I don’t.

For me, the years have been very similar — except now I get to wear a mask in public and nobody can tell me not to! It’s awesome. The bank tellers look so nervous….

Wow, Pastis really let his “lettuce” get loose. Nowadays a lot of us are looking like extras from “Breaking Bad” or we just jumped out of a time machine from Woodstock….. My response to my college aged daughter when she mentions how long her Pop’s hair has gotten: “I’m simply happy I still got hair as a lot of my friends said bon voyage to it already and the haircut can wait a while until things settle down…..”

Mustn’t lie to yourself, Pastis.

gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2019/11/22

No, no more cocktails. Hopefully June 2020 will be “Take off the masks and Get Real”.

I remember that song….What a difference a year makes, only 8760 hours.

Would like to see the Croc Family wearing Masks …. Croc Power !

Having watched “Downton Abbey,” I consider myself an expert on the Spanish Flu pandemic and I can tell you that Trump has done a MUCH better job of handling this pandemic, totally justifying the 12 times the busloads of us from the institute voted for him.

As an introvert, this hasn’t been much different than a regular day. Except for the masks.

How quickly does stephan’s beard grow?

Why are we to assume that people are not shaving during COVID. they did it before COVID, so why not now?

I Need Your Help, Barry Manilow.

Your songs can really comfort thee unlucky.

Sing me a song. Sing it sad and low.

I wish i didn’t have to feel so yukky.

I wish i didn’t have to feel… so yukky!

Happy Birthday Barry

Oy! A shave and a haircut…..two bits…keep wearing those masks….it on the rise again…

if it wasn’t for a barber the human race wouldn’t be distinguished from a hairy sloth and all it’s lazy hairy brats.

Send Pig to China-that’s where all our pork is going anyway. That’s why we have a pork shortage.

I’m going to a party July 4th and it is gonna be weird to be with people again.

I have ventured out to have my hair done, but my husband has not had a haircut since February. He is looking strikingly like Pastis. Only blonde. And bald on top.

I never understood why so many people think a place being jammed is a good thing.

In a different house in a different city and my wife is working from home, but not much different for me.

Well, maybe 5’ is OK if you are downwind. Or unless you’re a deer which can smell our stench from 100 yards or further if you walk through the woods like a steamroller.

Just go outside for few minutes a day.

Are the 6 feet to avoid the virus, or avoid the horrible stench?

I guess he’s afraid he’ll catch swine flu

Trump has a plan to make sure June 2020 looks like June 2019. This is what Trump has to say.

“Our testing is so much bigger and more advanced than any other country (we have done a great job on this!) that it shows more cases. Without testing, or weak testing, we would be showing almost no cases. Testing is a double edged sword – Makes us look bad, but good to have!!!”

“If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any,”

That’s like saying if we stop giving mammograms we won’t have breast cancer, or if doctors stop giving DRE’s we won’t have prostrate cancer. And as far as the testing rate in the USA is concerned.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104645/covid19-testing-rate-select-countries-worldwide/

Pardon my pessimism, but I’m afraid those halcyon days of 2019 are gone … never to return.

The world is teetering on the brink of international wars, civil wars, and another round of this pandemic while egomaniacs like BoJo the Clown, and the Orange Maroon play ostrich and pretend nothing bad is happening in their circuses.

Perhaps this accounts for recent bigfoot sightings.

Move to Georgia, Florida, or Texas, Steph

Hopefully, those missing people aren’t all dead.

I am suddenly thankful for window sills.

Well, at least he’s wearing a shirt in the last panel. Honestly, 2020 isn’t much different than 2019 for me. That’s the benefits of being a friendless loser. I mean, Asocial. I definitely meant Asocial.

A pretty crummy one, too.

Hard to keep 6 feet from all that yummy bacon.

That guy has his mask on while walking outside? Does he bike with one on, too? Howabout driving in a car by himself? Some people are idiotically over cautious.

in 2021 there will be armed guards out front, not to keep the looters out – but to keep you in. And if you sneak out the back a neighbor or your kid will turn you in – shades of Nazi Germany. Of course this will only happen if sleepy Joe is elected. Had to get political.

Something tells me Pastis is not handling isolation well.

June 2020 guy makes me think," Wilson! I’m sorry Wilson!"

Is there some reason why Pastis has crosshairs on his window?

Thank goodness you have a job you can do from home, Stephan!

I do hope for yalls sake it’s better, but I’m enjoying it.

I’m an insect. I’ve kept six feet all my life.

Cartoon-Boy gets this one so right! Instant Classic….

Nice of that people to go masked while outside.

wait a little longer, stephan, and you’ll be able to trick-or-treat as chewbacca

If we do get to do it this year…