Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 20, 2009
May 19, 2009
May 21, 2009
Transcript:
Rat says, "That would be very confusing." Pig says, "Wow. Can you imagine if comic strips did that?" Rat says, "No, you idiot. They put the beginning of a book at what we'd call the end and read in the reverse order we would." Pig says, "Oh my goodness. So they read the end of a book first?" Rat says, "Did you know that Chinese is traditionally read from right to left, instead of left to right?"
KEA about 13 years ago
uh, yeah.
slimbrownweed about 13 years ago
PARADOX STRIP BABY!!
Soroxas over 12 years ago
It’s like manga
zoeysha101 about 12 years ago
I get it now! I was very confused at first…
legoguy77 about 12 years ago
“wow. can you imagine if comic strips did that?”
11vandev almost 12 years ago
“No thanks, I already heard it”
Two seconds later: “Did you hear the joke about the psychic?”
Marvelmoan1114 over 11 years ago
Haha
kamb8 over 11 years ago
Did you notice that Stephen put a hint between the panels?
simon corphey over 10 years ago
this strip looks better both ways if you read it both ways
dolf37 over 7 years ago
Brilliant!
rgcviper over 6 years ago
Well done! Made me laugh. I was gonna try to post a comment to be read from right-to-left, but couldn’t.
One Navy Seal over 4 years ago
.dear eb ti dluohs ti woh si sihT
huky over 4 years ago
manga
Ωmega about 4 years ago
it confused me SO much….
daHunter3 about 4 years ago
I used to own a few books like that, and even though I knew how to read them, it was still very confusing
DareplayzWasTaken (G.R.O.S.S Agent) about 4 years ago
Rat got it all wrong. Chinese is traditionally read vertically, not horizontally. Get your facts right, pastis.
Caedmon The Great about 4 years ago
Im so dumb I didn’t realize the strip was backwards until I read it for the 8th time XD
Drunk Larry over 1 year ago
that’s nclever