Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 16, 2012

I hate laugh tracks. And background music.-especially over use of musical montages. I’m talking to you Sutter-Son of Hackarchy.

Wouldn’t work if his hair wasn’t standing up. Or would it?

Feed him to the crocs. He has to die and they need a yearly meal. Everybody but him wins, and well he’s gonna be ripped apart by overgrown reptiles… Wait can we sell tickets to this?

Zoinks? Too pitiful, cartoon-Pastis. Trying to get by on cartooned litotes will not do! But, as your evil alter ego, Rat always gets the blame!

More visual cues! More visual cues! .

Is this yet another character to join the Tortoise and Buffalo Head?

And – Great Googly-Moogly!

Stephan, how in the world do you put up with your characters constantly talking smack to you? Sheesh. Have you no white-out?

Notary Sojack.

Why is he smoking? That is a bad example for our kids!

I won’t look at Munch’s “The Scream” in the same way again.

If he marks the punch line, then why doesn’t Rat punch him?

I always look forward to this strip’s fourth wall breaking!

Escort him to the exit!

LOL xxx

Personally, I rely on the comments. We don’t need that guy.

Yeah, especially since the closest I get to camping is going to a Motel without a reservation. BTW: The pic is from Mallory Square in Key West. I was surprised at how well it turned out since I had been on Duvall St. for about 5 hours at that point.

So in other words… exactly what Pig does in at least half of the strips?

..the laughs on supposed live audiences are even worse….

BaZinga!

I am guilty of using the wide-eyed, open-mouthed guy in most of my Charmy’s Army strips… but that is because my strip is REALLY bad……..

I think the main reason they used to do that was to remind you that it is a comedy strip. Back than a LOT of the dailies were serious comics like Superman and Dick Tracey.

funny real… funny

I hate to say it, but having such a reaction only seems to boost comedic effect.

this comic was the day I was born