Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 11, 2014
Transcript:
Goat: Hey, Rat. You're back? Rat: Back from what? Goat: Last week, the creator of 'Garfield' had your head chopped off you can't just reappear without explanation. Pastis: Look, guys. I glued Rat's head back on. Pig; That explains everything! Goat; I need a new job.
wiselad about 10 years ago
this is a very sticky explanation
Sherlock Watson about 10 years ago
They used to sell a T-shirt that read, “If idiots could fly, this place would be an airport”; I can easily see Paris Goat wearing one of those.
Ida No about 10 years ago
Oops…Retroactive backstory time.
AGED_ENGINEER Premium Member about 10 years ago
Sort of like the killer whale “undying” during the baseball game a few years ago.
knight1192a about 10 years ago
Did you also glue his mouth shut?
bluegirl285 about 10 years ago
I also notice Rat’s no longer in “the Garfield way,” if you know what I mean…
Sisyphos about 10 years ago
Goat’s panel 4 reaction is a bit extreme (though I don’t know that Cartoon-Boy pays his characters all that well—kind of minimum wage job, I suspect). But I’m not sure I buy “gluing” Rat’s head back on; everyone knows it should be sewn!
dadoctah about 10 years ago
Now that’s an explanation that works about as well as yesterday’s excuse “not for zeebas” does for a strip about the Obamacare signup deadline running eight months late.
chris_o42 about 10 years ago
Rat should have quit while he was a-head.
jackianne1020 about 10 years ago
Is there an explanation as to why they suddenly moved from the outdoors to the indoors? I guess if they can glue Rat’s head back on (and de-Garfield him), they can shift backgrounds with no reason.
doublepaw about 10 years ago
Time for a vacation for this strip.
mytly4 about 10 years ago
If only Ned Stark had had a pot of glue handy.
puddlesplatt about 10 years ago
golly if life was this simple?
pschearer Premium Member about 10 years ago
As Johnny Carson used to say, buy the premise, buy the bit.
Cameron1988 Premium Member about 10 years ago
More like, he drew it back on
Queen of America about 10 years ago
Pastis is always bringing something back to life – one of the crocs, neighbor Bob….I want Pasts at my deathbed so I can come back.
MeGoNow Premium Member about 10 years ago
Professional cartoonists, no matter how deeply they write themselves into a corner, always, with great effort, manage to write themselves out of the corner. .And then there’s Pastis.
Number Three about 10 years ago
Could Stephan not glue his head on back to front?
That would be hilarious.
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