Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 09, 2011

Who else, but the bubonic lawyer? Surely you knew he was chomping at the bit to rat you out?

Steph’s beard is getting worse every day…

Writing Pearls, on your own without puns.

But as long as we’re all holding keyboards

This forum can still turn out tons.

If you think you’d escape all the wordplay

free at last, when you let Stephan fry….

Well…. punish the man who has made you

But we’d never let all the puns die.

Um….. anybody else think it’s past my bedtime?

Et tu, Rat?

Gosh! The lead defense attorney, a star witness for the prosecution? What is this—a comic strip? Chicago?

What’s the can he’s drinking? Beer? What?

How can the judge let Rat testify while he’s drinking a brewskie?………………………I guess when you think about it though, it’s because Pastis is the judge and jury.

With friends like Rat……

I never thought he would rat on him.

Rat-a-tat-tattle-tale…

You didn’t have to ask. I knew it all along.

You can’t fool-a-me. There ain’t no sanity clause!_-Chico Marx

Much as I love Pearls, this gag is starting to wear. What is this, three weeks now? Bring back the Crocs!

Pastis should fire Rat and hire Steve Dallas.

Love it, Susan!

Bring in Little Guard Duck to cross-examine Rat.

Very tired of this story line.

Sweet mother of…….WOW WOW WOW great strip!

Oh RATS!

Hehe xxx

I never get tired of Stephan featuring himself in the strip. I admire his humility.

I love this story arc, too. It’s great that Steph can make such fun of himself…

Great idea, ananomoose. It would work.

No 6 – Believe it or not, that was the first thing I thought of when I re-read the thing before posting, but I only had a few minutes to write it…

So… I decided, naw, nobody’s going to think of Stephen Fry. Of COURSE not!

Oops…meant to add… Nonetheless, if Stephan’s name were Stephen, I just couldn’t have allowed myself to use that line. :)

Can you say ‘conflict of interest’, boys and girls? I knew you could.

Talk about a Sword of Damocles over your head. Steph is doomed. I agree with Doug Douglas, bring back the crocs or Steph needs to go into the Box ’O Stupid People.

i love the surreal trip this strip is taking. this is PBS at it absolutely best. RAY RAY RAY.

Been a Pearls fan for a long time but that is quickly fading. It is time to bring this to a close and get a new story line.

Hmm—Rat can’t be all that bad as a lawyer. He did tell his client exactly what the next witness would do.

haha this is funny

haha yeah

Perry Mason: The Case of the Witless Witness.

The truth? Stephan, you can’t handle the truth!

Uh oh

Poker! Cocaine! Secret Games! Henchmen! Mystery girlfriend! Hundreds of thousands of dollars! hey, I love this strip!!