Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 13, 2024

Also, don’t get into car accidents.

Great advice, Pig! I was planning to fall off my roof a few times this week, but now I won’t!

This comic strip, for the first(1st) time in my life EVER in about 5(five) decades, is a comic strip that used ALL four(4) panels for the EXACT same visual image, but with different dialogue for each panel!!!!! Dan aka…

Playing the part of Captain Obvious…Pig!

Falling off the roof seems more like something Pig would do.

Rat now has a different type of shingles, no vaccine for that!

Do I sense an homage to Peanuts? Two characters behind a wall.

Eh why Pig apologise? It Pig’s fault he fall off roof?

That’s a very rat-like comment…

Normally, it’s Rat’s mind that’s in the gutter.

RAT cleaning ANYTHING ??? Doubtful. Most likely, he decided on dropping a brick on neighbor Bob, but doesn’t want to admit it.

Sound advice! There really is no point falling off one’s roof.

The Count remembers a time when a girl in The Count’s 8th grade class didn’t fall off the roof and went to live with her grandmother for nine months.

I think that makes Rat a guttersnipe. (Should that be hyphenated? Carbonated?)

Good advice, Pig!

Checkmate, Rat. Stay on the roof next time.

Too bad Pig didn’t advise me before I fell off my ladder. Fell off the dang thing twice and ruined a perfectly good (aluminum) ladder that I only got <$5 for at the recycling center. >:(

Good advice, Pig.

I don’t mind falling off the roof, it’s the sudden stop that bothers me.

Walt Kelly liked doing “shadow” strips. But the hard part was coming up with the gag.

I go to the doctor and said “it hurts when I do that”

He wrote a prescription. It said “Don’t do that”

Rat just admitted to eavesdropping

PSA, No one over 55 belongs on a ladder! Believe me, I have seen way to many in the ER/OR.

In my case it was; next time use the ladder, not the trellis.

Stephan is a master craftsman

Sigh. Pig, common sense isn’t so common these days, eh?

Actually, Rat was cleaning the sidewalk and he fell off the gutter

In this strip, it’s hard to tell when somebody is writing or when they’ve fallen off the roof.

“Rat should get Leaf Gutter Guard Toppers. And if he’s one of the first 1000 callers, he could get a free gift card towards gutters for the garage.” All the companies that install them in my area are now advertising on the tv. Seems like every 5th or 6th commercial.

I fell while I was standing on the ground and it hurt, how is rat even walking?

All the blood rushes to my head when cleaning gutters on the roof … it’s my pitch.

“But only if you’re planning to have an accident.”

4 panels?

If you don’t want to fall off the roof, you have to keep your head out of the gutter.