Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 16, 2021

A true hero when one is needed.

A too optimistic superhero.

I hope he didn’t ask the crocs for training – their attempts to be superheroes did not end well.

Did he get his powers by eating a radioactive fortune cookie?

Noteman! A superhero for our time!

A positive form of social media.

Yeah, I get those in fortune cookies from Chinese food.

As an angsty teen, I used to write (bad) poetry on slips of paper and leave them here and there. That stopped shortly after I overheard a couple of young women talking about having found one, how utterly stupid it was, and what a loser somebody must be to spend time doing something so dumb.

No, not because of that. Because I finally found a young lady who was willing to put up with me as a boyfriend. Though they were surely correct about the lack of quality in the poems.

Iron Man he’s not.

When Pigs fly. Oh, wait…

Aww, what a sweet concept Pig

How nice . Pig now has a full time job :-)

The town he’s talking about is probably not Kabul.

As long as Pig is getting some excercise, I think we can excuse him for spelling bitter incorrectly.

At least no-one can troll a note.

The world will get better if we make it better.

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/16/travel/16iht-fortune.9260526.html

I’m going to make a note of that!!

Rat notes an increase in general embarassment.

A previous Note Man told them things like “B sharp!” or just “B natural”. Sometimes he would leave a note – sometimes a whole note, sometimes only a half note. When I had car trouble, he noticed a change in my voice, “G, I C how A flat lowers your pitch.”

Pig bounced back quickly from yesterday’s strip.

I hope they are sticky notes as we want that message to stay !

Aww.

We need more people like Noteman.

and on that note…

“The worse things get, the more room there is for things to get better” is not a philosophy to cling to.

and when he’s feeling frisky

it’s pronounced

Not -E-Man

The hero we need but don’t deserve.

Noteman please come to my town!

Has Noteman appeared before?

LOL! It’s good to see Pig now has a purpose in life!

The world won’t improve unless we do something to stop these disasters.

According to the Bible, it will only get worse (and it is). Sorry for the news.

Yes, he is!

Tell Noteman (pausing here for trumpet fanfare) to stay out of Afghanistan. He should also stay away from the White House. Apparently our Vacationer-in-Chief has.

On a lighter note…

Think he can work in the Kabul airport?

I wonder how a lot of these people, particularly Rat, will react to the notes that Noteman has been leaving around?

Noteman: Please leave some positive notes for congress…

Are we note men?

NOTEMAN LIES

noteman save us all!!!!!

Too few Notemen, too many Nut jobs

It might get better in two or three generations but I doubt it.

Once again, Pig is my hero.

’Had a co-worker management pal who put call messages on his friends phones with elevator numbers and the name Mr. E. L. Vator. Fun noon-time walk stories.

If Piggy was real, I’d invite him to a sleep-over where we can have pizza, cheese sticks, and nachos smothered in cheese! Sweet little guy. <3

What is sorely needed is another one of Stephan’s lame jokes.

So wholesome! Go, Pig, go!

Calm down. It’ll all be over soon. Very soon.

Always the optimist!

This aged poorly.

I’m not sure Rat actually wants that message …

Rat>: “We are sick of Gym Sock Nose Guy. We are so sick of Gym Sock Nose Guy that we could throw up. So you know what, Pig? There’s not gonna be anymore Gym Sock Nose Guy.”

[grabs and rip off the gym sock from Pig’s nose; yells]

“NO MORE! Ya see what I’m telling you? NO MORE!”

[ throws gym sock on the ground and angrily jumps up and down on it ]

" No more EVER! Now what do ya think of that?"

[ Pig seemingly feels broken-hearted over Rat’s outburst]

Pig: “I don’t care, because…”

[changes into a new superhero persona with googles, red shower cap with a white N and cape]

“I’ve always wanted be… NOTEMAN! Da-Da-DAAAAAA!!!!

This is why I love Pig!

Noteman, noteman, friendly neighborhood noteman.

Does whatever a notebook can.

Lookout, here comes, the noteman…

You are wonderful Pig! Keep doing what you are doing!

When did Pastis start drawing his characters with huge heads?

What you do when social media proves ineffective.

We need more good news guys like him ;-)

My last fortune cookie just said “RUN!!!!!”

NOTEMAN! Faster than a fat running pig! Slipperier than freshly-cooked bacon! More obnoxious than a Marvel superhero!

He’s coming! He’s coming! Don’t look, Ethel!