Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 16, 2021

Zeeba iz a heedun!

I bet.

Charlie tried to push his book, and Zebra said, “What a croc!”

The good thing about religions is that there are so MANY of them! (same for standards… but that’s a different joke). The bad thing is that I can’t get ANYBODY to agree that my religion is better than theirs.

I don’t think that Larry knows what’s in Charlie’s book, because he can’t read.

Back to drawing board

Everybody has to die some time. Even you, Larry.

I thought Charlie was a tuna. Or did he get canned?

Hey Pastis, how about more Zebra and less Rat?

But… But… All mainstream media gives such glowing reeviews of hees good book.

Such a fine piece of dadaistic literature…gone forever.

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Larry’s Presidential memoirs ?

Probably better than “Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying”.

That book is good for some, and a nightmare for others. Kind of like that “Bible” he mentioned in panel two.

Zeeba’s last name is Crusher?

The crocs are speaking in all caps now?

YAY!!! CROCS!!! YAY!! ZEEBA!!! YAY!!!

Zeeba so cute and smart! He not let crocs keel him. Bad crocs!

All hail the return of Zeeba and Gators.

It’s nice to see Zebra and the crocs again. I was getting a little tired of Rat’s complaining.

Actually, it says Zebras are beneficial. By stripes we are healed.

Obviously, “good” is all in a matter of perspective. The book is trash now.

Number 1 on the Beast Seller list

Charlie is right, of course.

Is it too much to hope we will be seeing the Crocs and Zeeba on a regular basis? Rat has become a tiresome fella, imo.

Ice Station Zeeba good book, but crocs no like cold

“To Serve Zebra” is a cookbook! It’s a cookbook!

Wait a second, don’t crocs speak in lowercase letters?

Wait don’t they have an in to the White House now?

Isn’t that how all religion start? Somebody writes a book.

Let have a week of crocs!

LMAO! I missed this type of PBS strip so, so much!

I feel like he missed a panel : Die stephan die

The Gospel According to an Incompetent Predator.

Charlie needs to come up with a better book!

“Good Book” IS a relative term…..

Now he is a Paygun!

Funny! Church of the Gator you not see later.

Why is it that the Crocs are always trying to get Zebra? Why not just go after another zebra, who is less fortunate than our Zebra?

It’s actually German, for “The, Zeeba, The.”

So many misconceptions about religion are based on poor translation…

BURIED SECRET FROM THE 1960’s——

“The Great Garloo” did absolutely nothing.

Wait, the crocs are speaking with their words in all capitals like the other characters; they usually speak with mixed-case letters.

I kept some of my ’60s engineering texts, too tired to tear each page … just the trash for them, tomorrow.

I thought crocks were supposed to be stealthy, these two have a lot to learn.

CROCS!!!!

MORE ZEEBA!

Well, in all fairness, you guys can’t read, so I’m pretty sure whatever is written in that book can’t be that good either….y’know, seeing as you guys can’t read your own writing….er…yeah….no, no, no need to comment. I’ll show myself the door…

So pleased to see the crocs

“De zeeba is de ordaned fud of de krok.”

Hooray!!, the crocs are in back!

Duh!

Nice try Larry, don’t give up

My opinion? Dump the whole zeebra arc.

Crocs can write? Who knew?

I love how the crocs are so dumb and slow they don’t just grab Zebra when they’re this close.

OK, Pastis is supposedly a former Roman Catholic who gave up religion, so this won’t bother him.

We have no problem with any religion that has a God that has no chosen people, and instead wants all people to work together to benefit the entire species homo sapiens.

Unfortunately, the Abrahamic religions have the God of the Torah (Old Testament, for you Christians), Who explicitly has a chosen people, and tells them to commit genocide to acquire territory, with His approval, so that they may gain fields they did not have to prepare, wells they did not have to dig, buildings they did not have to build, etc.

The obvious benefit of genocide is that there will be no survivors or descendants to seek revenge, which a certain German leader used against the very group that originated the method. The derived Abrahamic religions make the new chosen people the followers of the new religions, so you might survive if you join them.

Alas! If you read pre-US-civil-war encyclopedias, you can find that black people, for example, were not only not considered chosen ones, but were actually classed as sub-humans by some Christian writers. Indeed, you can find ‘old’ literature in which people seek to trace their ancestry to the biblical tribes of Israel to establish their racial superiority.

This chosen people routine has been used by many peoples, including the ones whose ancestors wrote the Torah, to justify the use and abuse of the non-chosen. Isn’t it time we come together and admit that we are all members of the same species, and, as a cooperative-group species, respect and work for the benefit of our species as a whole? Please?

Zebra knows a terrible book when he sees one. And it’s usually written by a Zeeba Zeeba Eata croc. Which means most of the pages are blank and the one page with any writing on it is full of both spelling and grammatical errors.

Now when Junior writes a book Zebra will be one of the first in line to get a signed copy.

Book critics can be cruel. I’m trying to write several novels myself.

Larry needs his own spin-off strip.

Yea. Finally crocs instead of sad pig.

The crocs should explain to the zeebah that to everything there is a season and this is his time to die.

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,.” —Especially if the beholder is Zeeba Neighba and the book title is what it is….

But, fear not! I am sure the crocs learned nothing from this episode!

Has anyone else noticed that the Crocs are speaking in a normal font?!

Gators = liberals, good book = Fauci, “has to die” = “get the jab” and zebra of course represents anyone with a functional brain

everyone’s a critic

No appreciation for literature…