Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 10, 2011

Rat is gonna suffer SOOOO much when Stephan’s gets out of this.

I can almost sympathisze with Rat. Almost.

Stephan is facing only ‘life’. Warren Jeffs got ‘life + 20 years’. My question on this is as follows. When Warren dies in prison does the prison system retain the body for the final 20 years?

Nah, they clone him and make the clone serve out his 20 years…

Don’t worry Stephan, I make sure Rat doesn’t have any worrys about warm beer.Hey, Number Six, he’s got Prickly Pear Beer imported from Harmony!

Cartoon-Stephan’s case has expanded and exploded—speaking of which, Li’l Guard Duck may be his only remaining option for getting out. But that would leave him a fugitive. He’ll probably get a “mistrial” verdict instead!

With rat away, there may still be hope for Stephan.

What’s that Dan Aykroyd said in “Sneakers” again? “20 years in the electric chair!”

Warm beer?…The folks in ‘The Long branch’ guttled it down.

At least Rat knows what’s important.

Is it better to face life in prison or to just turn your back on it? I think that I would rather not contemplate that question.

Steph, really. Would you really make rat face the horrors of warm beer just for the sake of your freedom?

A cold beer is a terrible thing to waste

Rat’s the one who isn’t prioritizing correctly… everybody knows you need enough ice so your last beer is as cold as the first!

Given Rat’s performance yesterday, why would “comic Pastis” even care if Rat showed up or not?

Can we tell a lawyer is writing this? This story line is NOT funny except to the yes men and fan boys. BRING BACK THE CROCS!

When Steph gets convicted, are we going to have to go thu the prison thing, like cavity searches?

Why does rat care if Patis goes to jail? Patis can still draw in his cell.

I have a feeling this is going to go badly for rat… like he’ll discover his cooler is filled with near-beer ha ha

Always someone worse off than yourself Rat (!)

LOL xxx

There seems to be a fraction of ‘Pearls’ fans who like the crocs but little else about the strip. Maybe Pastis should spin the crocs off into their own strip to appease these folks.

If Rat was British, would he be trying to drink all the beer before it got cold?

And they look like a good import too. Priority, man.

They allow prisoners to have cell phones?

“twenty years in the electric chair” always reminds me of the Snark’s verdict: “So the Snark found the verdict, although, as it owned,It was spent with the toils of the day:When it said the word “GUILTY!” the Jury all groaned,And some of them fainted away..“Then the Snark pronounced sentence, the Judge being quiteToo nervous to utter a word:When it rose to its feet, there was silence like night,And the fall of a pin might be heard.." ‘Transportation for life’ was the sentence it gave,‘And then to be fined forty pound.’The Jury all cheered, though the Judge said he fearedThat the phrase was not legally sound.".The complete Sixth Fit (“The Barrister’s Dream”) may be perused here.

We need a miracle to win this case.

time to stop reading this comic for a month or two.

Rat, you are hereby sentenced to horrible pun strips every Sunday for the next six months. . .

This story line sux!

If you insist on making meta jokes for a newspaper comic strip, they should still be few and far between. The creator should appear in, at most, one panel per month.

Why, you ask?

Because otherwise, you get stupid, pointless, humorless storylines like this one.