Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 16, 2017

Goat is a scotch man.

it’s been ages since we saw the Grim Reaper.

please, Goat, let Grim finish his sentence for your scream in fear and pass out

Maker’s Mark is my brand of choice. I may never look at it the same after this panel.

Mixing bourbon and martinis? That’ll kill you.

They came there to get ripped, not reaped.

This joke was doomed from the start.

Would Crystal Head Vodka be out of the question?

They were not afraid of Death, they were afraid Death was going to take them to Stephen’s punning sessions.

You don’t say! You must see his drink drip through his skeleton as he gulps it down.

WHAT???? No “Mark the bakers takers makers mark”?

And this reminded me of an old Claudia Schmidt song:This whole album is (to me) great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVXbKPfMUrw

I have a craving for Salmon Mousse

But he does play a mean game of chess!

Welcome back, Mr. Death!

I love Maker’s Mark, one of the great bourbons.

This is a joke where the Spanish version can’t do the word play. So it simply has the Reaper say "you have to come with me…..to the drinks I’m buying for you.

The salmon mousse.

A joke by Tommy Chong: “A skeleton walks into a bar and says, ‘Give me a beer and a mop.’”

Take them to meet their maker? Don’t they hit their maker with a baseball bat at least once a week for a bad pun?

Are they just going to leave Goat lying there?

xxx

Pastis angling for a free case of booze?

Guess he forgot how to draw the Grim Reaper in the strip. This version looks terrible.

Better to drink with the Grim Reaper than to play patty-cake with him, ya know? He’s got that “magic touch”!

Sorry, but I’m not a drinker. I tried whisky once. To me it was trying to swallow Listerine.

Back when I was in AA, they hammered a phrase into me…“To Drink Is To Die”…it eventually drove me back to drinking, but the darned reaper still isn’t showing up…lazy jerk!

https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2015/06/21

“Whiskey’s too rough, Champagne costs too much, vodka puts my mouth in gearThis little refrain should help me explain as a matter of fact I like beer.” Tom T. Hall