Coming Soon 👀 At the beginning of April, you’ll be
introduced to a brand-new GoComics! See more information here. Subscribers, check your
email for more details.
Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 16, 2012
April 15, 2012
April 17, 2012
Transcript:
Rat: What are you doing, Pig? Pig: Just getting outside for change... Enjoying nature... It's so peaceful... So harmonious... The bird, the fish, the insects... Rat: All of whom are trying to kill each other. Pig: Let's never leave the living room again.
Havelock_Vetinari almost 13 years ago
Nature is a Rat eat Pig world.
Havelock_Vetinari almost 13 years ago
Also Croc try to eat Zeeba
Havelock_Vetinari almost 13 years ago
They are. I don’t know why they haven’t just paid Rat a bunch of money to kill Zebra. Of course, he’d probably just betray them for more money….
Templo S.U.D. almost 13 years ago
About week ago or so, Rat said he dislikes people that say “whom.” In the middle panel, he contradicted himself!
Sherlock Watson almost 13 years ago
People who think that “all-natural” things are good for you should try a nice poison ivy salad for lunch.
rexxster almost 13 years ago
did rat not just use the word “whom”?? dude’s spent to much time in the lab recently would explain the short term memory loss.
DGWillie almost 13 years ago
The way Rat sees it, it’s a “Rat eat everybody else” world.
Gluteus Maximus almost 13 years ago
I’ve discovered that Rat is two things: A realist and a hypocrite.
sherman035 almost 13 years ago
WHOMER, REPENT!
PocketNaomi almost 13 years ago
I wonder what the crocs have been surviving on for the several years that they’ve been too dumb to catch a zebra?
bornfree99 almost 13 years ago
Rat is a Whomer! burn him on a stake!
Proginoskes almost 13 years ago
@ PocketNaomi: Pizza.
That was the subject of a comic a few years ago.
BobSpelledBackwards almost 13 years ago
Doesn’t Larry usually walk around with a bucket of chicken made to look like a bucket of zeeba??
Sisyphos almost 13 years ago
Pig is trying for a Walden Pond approach, but Nature (red in tooth and claw) is resisting through her spokescynic, Rat.
Peabody-Martini almost 13 years ago
Sorry boys, your living room is just as much a part of the ecosystem as that log you were sitting on.
zero almost 13 years ago
Look not to the creation, but its creator. . ..
nemo0037 almost 13 years ago
Should have added “and eat”
Hillbillyman almost 13 years ago
Leave it to Rat to spoil someone’s day.
knight1192a almost 13 years ago
“Let’s never leave the living room again.”
Ok, there is just so much wrong with that idea, Pig. First you gotta eventually use the bathroom to relieve yourself. Just picture the pile and the stench as you relieve yourself in the living room. Then there’s food and drink, someone’s gonna have to leave the living room to go get it (and we all know Rat will force Pig to be that someone). And food and drink (particulary beer for Rat) will have to be replaced in the fridge which means you’ll have to go to the store eventually. Which means someone has to go to work to pay for it. Yeah, there’s delievery services for food and folks can work from home, but as that pile gets bigger and bigger and the smell gets worse and worse none of the delivery guys are going to want to show up at the house or to pick up anything that you guys may try to put out (like Rat’s Danny Donkey strips).
SwimsWithSharks almost 13 years ago
I love these landscapes. Bob Ross would be proud. Pastis even drew a friend for the tree on the right. And I love the extra reflections of tree trunks in the water.Cartoonist of Light!
the burser almost 13 years ago
“all of whom are trying to kill each other….” yep thats rat
imbaldeagle almost 13 years ago
Hakuna Matata!
jmartin1955 almost 13 years ago
Terrific punchline
xall2h1 almost 13 years ago
Thats how nature works. The insect food chain is just trying to kill each other
bluegirl285 almost 13 years ago
Leave it to Rat to ruin an outing with nature…
tigre1 almost 13 years ago
Ah, the peace of Nature…because we’re at the top…except if you look up and out of your own frame…you see the people and forces shaping YOUR world and existence…you live only because THEIR peace is a piece of YOU…like ants let aphids live, because they excrete a sweet? try telling the guy…if you can find him…the one who owns your congressman and Supreme Court?
Ah, the peace of Nature. Have some pink slime, slime.
The Boston Banana almost 13 years ago
i love how rat looks at it that way
ratfanatic almost 13 years ago
Rat will always be my hero! He sees the world for what it really is……..we just don’t want to admit it to ourselves!!
imbaldeagle almost 13 years ago
You are what you eat.
Number Three almost 13 years ago
Awwwwwwww. Cute!
xxx
PrincessOheina almost 13 years ago
Wait. Am i the only one who noticed that Rat, in this strip, is using “whom”, and, in a previous strip, was waging war against “whomers”?
Popeyesforearm almost 13 years ago
Ahhh, the food chain of spring.Honey, get the Raid.
DavidMac almost 13 years ago
Poor Pig! He just got slapped in the face with Rat Reality.
rclake1963 almost 13 years ago
The artist must be getting lazy … those trees in the second panel on the right look like lollipops – like something a 4-year old would draw!
Chocoloop almost 13 years ago
Rat does come up with some good ones…
Zebrails almost 13 years ago
uh, aren’t Rat and Pig “Anti-Whom” activists?
:awesomeface: almost 13 years ago
¯\(°_o)/¯ I will never think on nature the same way again. WHEN DID YOU START WORKING FOR DISCOVERY?!
miazma Premium Member almost 13 years ago
whomer!
Nuttypearls115 almost 13 years ago
Never thought of it that way.
Ncc17018472 over 12 years ago
Finally! Someone who shares my sentiments on the ouside world! It’s all death and distruction.
One Navy Seal almost 5 years ago
RAT’S A “WHOM”ER!
Ultracus over 2 years ago
WHOMER REPENT
David Vrensk Premium Member 6 months ago
It was only a week ago that Rat wanted to get rid of all people who use the word “whom”. I wonder where this will lead.