Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 13, 2012

… only got a m-16, hope that suffices …

I got your back, Stephan.

They soitainly are!

The Schulz Museum is in Santa Rosa today. Chuck was West Coast all the way — a straight-up gangsta.

Duck! Then call Guard Duck.

This has all the signs of a ‘collaborative hoax’ between Pastis and Walker. Otherwise Walker would have nailed him in the first volley.

This sounds like a Guard Duck set up. Time to bring back the helicat (hope Snuffles has made up with Guard Duck or things could get nasty)

2Pearls and the Notorious Bailey

Guard Duck should have enough weaponry, by himself …

Guard Duck and Snuffles to the rescue!!!!

Isn’t Mort like 108 years old?

East Coast: old hat. West Coast: get your groove on, baby! Where’s Li’l Guard Duck and Mr. Snuffles when you need them?

Three shots, four bullet holes….

Cartoonists are also an odd lunch….

Varnes…. that sounds like an odd hunch.

Mort walker is 88 and still draws his strip!

Which means he still has good motor control and eye-hand coordination.

But his son writes the strips… maybe cos Mort is also a bit loony……

Perfect comination for a crazed shooter!

Oh — and bmonk (from yesterday) — Thanks. De tail like dat fleshes out de characters.

Ha! Those toothpick arms can’t lift more than a pencil!!

Speaking as an Australian . .

What the?!?!?!

“Toon Boy” is in his panic mode.

I don’t suppose anyone here remembers the comic strip called “Willie & Joe” from WW II. its about foxhole & combat humor. Now those two saw REAL action.

west coast rules

Guard Duck will rip Sarge a new and improved orfice.

i’m with rat on this one

ZING!

Mort has a Reuben award, too.

I know, I know- wrong genre.

East Coast/West Coast? No biggie.

Bring in Guard Duck, Snuffles and Rip Haywire. Something is going to get blown up and destroyed.

Get guard duck and the hippo and Ellie Elephant

Wait a minute…is this going to interfere with Pastis subbing for Richard Thompson on Cul-de-Sac this month?

Is this the war that causes the apocalypse that leads to the world of Weapon Brown?If you don’t know what I mean, look it up; you will be so glad you did!

I love Stephen’s face expression in the second panel!

LOL xxx

I’m based in Jax, FL so I guess that makes me East Siiiidddde! Time to open the gun safe…

PBS > BB, except for the Wednesday Miss Buxley strips.

Speaking of Miss Buxley strips, Mort Walker’s poster of Miss Buxley nude is one of the all-time biggest selling comic posters.

wouldnt it make more sense if he had to “draw his uzi”?

Hmm…this is a new development. Hope it doesn’t spill across the rest of the page.

Cathy’s gonna start throwing pies any minute….. well on second thought maybe she won’t.

If i was going into a fight, I think I’d want to have LGD, Rip Haywire, Wally Wallechinksky, Holly Hollister and maybe Sluggy Freelance’s Bunbun.

It would have been really if on the Beetle Bailey strip it showed Zero accidentely setting off some shots.

By the way – did I just see Mary Worth with a bayonet in her teeth?

If Schultz was west coast, Walker is doomed…beware Weapon Brown!

I don’t buy it. Rat’s got a golden ticket to cause mayhem with an Uzi and he takes time out to talk to pig? No way!

HA HA HA HA!!! “Yo, Toon Boy…” HA HA HA HA!!!

guard duck should have enough weapons on him to be a third world country.

They may be ODD, but they certainly know how to get EVEN.

Pig’s head looks puffy…Is it getting puffier?

How come there was three shots but four holes. C’mon Pastis you’re better than this!

Three shots, four bullet holes…No wonder he didn’t get nominated.

Poor cartoonists

i got ak-47 would that help

55th comment. Did anyone check to see if it’s true? If you did, you saw this IS the 55th comment. Sorry for wasting your time.

Oh no not agian