Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 29, 2012

Robert Louis Stevenson (author of “Treasure Island” and “Jekyll/Hyde”) died in 1894 of a brain hemorrhage. He never finished writing “Weir of Hermiston.”

DYING is natural, Steph. Why delay the inevitable?

Something about Stephan seems to offend Rat. Or maybe it’s just that Rat has this ‘thing’ about authority and prerogatives…and now that i think about it, it’s just as well they ’don’t get along’…

There’s some truth to this – just look at Peanuts, B.C., Wizard of Id, etc…..

My Avatar’s (Rat’s) stick arms are apparently much stronger than they lead you 2 believe. I wonder why Rat didn’t use that on Andy Capp in the Cartoonist’s War?

I believe that Rat has been depicted killing Stephan several times.

… and besides, the UFS will just hire somebody else to draw the strip …

I dispise ’dat Rat

@ ИOMЯOM: Jim Fixx was the guy that inspired the jogging craze. He died while out running; he had a heart attack.

Rat, Pastis has suggested, is Pastis’s evil alter ego. So if Rat whacked cartoon-Pastis, would that be a case of comedic suicide?

Use the bat on Rat. Time to remind Rat of Pearls without Rat.

Sometimes the comments section is the funniest part of the strip

Dying is easy. Comedy is tough.

Rat’s got it all wrong . . . he’s choking up on the bat too much. You lose power that way.

Rat has always been the designated hitter.

Stephan should know better than to give Rat an opportunity like that.

I quote that great country ode, “These Boots Are Made For Walkin’”“What’s rat is rat, and you ain’t been rat yet.” — Nancy Sinatra.

“When I said I wanted to die in bed, I meant after age 90 being stepped on by an elephant while making love.”

Eh, I want to see more comic strips of Rat dressed as a baby.

The bat is made of natural wood, right?

this is the best comic strip ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i lamanate the really good ones from paper

not funny today. I’ve had 2 clients die yesterday. Now I don’t want to answer the phone anymore.

Technically murder is natural

If I am to die, it will not be at the hands of a figure I created!

I’d like to die like this guy I read about. Quickly and peacefully. Of course it was hard on the other three members of the car pool he was driving at the time.

I guess Steph believes that mother nature is not a fan of baseball

Look, I throughly enjoy this comic and a few others but do we really need to analyze every strip to get to it’s root meaning… they’re comics.