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.
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…
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.
BE THIS GUY about 3 years ago
Zeeba iz a heedun!
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member about 3 years ago
I bet.
BasilBruce about 3 years ago
Charlie tried to push his book, and Zebra said, “What a croc!”
Concretionist about 3 years ago
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.
Wilde Bill about 3 years ago
I don’t think that Larry knows what’s in Charlie’s book, because he can’t read.
Templo S.U.D. about 3 years ago
Back to drawing board
blunebottle about 3 years ago
Everybody has to die some time. Even you, Larry.
alasko about 3 years ago
I thought Charlie was a tuna. Or did he get canned?
TampaFanatic1 about 3 years ago
Hey Pastis, how about more Zebra and less Rat?
Gent about 3 years ago
But… But… All mainstream media gives such glowing reeviews of hees good book.
AndreasMartin about 3 years ago
Such a fine piece of dadaistic literature…gone forever.
lpvzer about 3 years ago
16 comment
iggyman about 3 years ago
Larry’s Presidential memoirs ?
Major Matt Mason Premium Member about 3 years ago
Probably better than “Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying”.
Chithing Premium Member about 3 years ago
That book is good for some, and a nightmare for others. Kind of like that “Bible” he mentioned in panel two.
nosirrom about 3 years ago
Zeeba’s last name is Crusher?
bookworm0812 about 3 years ago
The crocs are speaking in all caps now?
Masterskrain almost 3 years ago
YAY!!! CROCS!!! YAY!! ZEEBA!!! YAY!!!
Zebrastripes almost 3 years ago
Zeeba so cute and smart! He not let crocs keel him. Bad crocs!
bwoodruf Premium Member almost 3 years ago
All hail the return of Zeeba and Gators.
Ellis97 almost 3 years ago
It’s nice to see Zebra and the crocs again. I was getting a little tired of Rat’s complaining.
Ignatz Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Actually, it says Zebras are beneficial. By stripes we are healed.
monya_43 almost 3 years ago
Obviously, “good” is all in a matter of perspective. The book is trash now.
franki_g almost 3 years ago
Number 1 on the Beast Seller list
Huckleberry Hiroshima almost 3 years ago
Charlie is right, of course.
jessegooddoggy almost 3 years ago
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.
SALUDADOG almost 3 years ago
Ice Station Zeeba good book, but crocs no like cold
Opus Croakus almost 3 years ago
“To Serve Zebra” is a cookbook! It’s a cookbook!
Goat from PBS almost 3 years ago
Wait a second, don’t crocs speak in lowercase letters?
Marc Schiffres almost 3 years ago
Wait don’t they have an in to the White House now?
petermerck almost 3 years ago
Isn’t that how all religion start? Somebody writes a book.
diskus Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Let have a week of crocs!
Cameron1988 Premium Member almost 3 years ago
LMAO! I missed this type of PBS strip so, so much!
Denver Reader Premium Member almost 3 years ago
I feel like he missed a panel : Die stephan die
Otis Rufus Driftwood almost 3 years ago
The Gospel According to an Incompetent Predator.
Troglodyte almost 3 years ago
Charlie needs to come up with a better book!
raybarb44 almost 3 years ago
“Good Book” IS a relative term…..
Vangoghdog01 almost 3 years ago
Now he is a Paygun!
Adam-Stone(Soup) almost 3 years ago
Funny! Church of the Gator you not see later.
CaveCat87 almost 3 years ago
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?
fritzoid Premium Member almost 3 years ago
It’s actually German, for “The, Zeeba, The.”
So many misconceptions about religion are based on poor translation…
198.23.5.11 almost 3 years ago
BURIED SECRET FROM THE 1960’s——
“The Great Garloo” did absolutely nothing.
mail2jbl almost 3 years ago
Wait, the crocs are speaking with their words in all capitals like the other characters; they usually speak with mixed-case letters.
zeexenon almost 3 years ago
I kept some of my ’60s engineering texts, too tired to tear each page … just the trash for them, tomorrow.
Buckeye67 almost 3 years ago
I thought crocks were supposed to be stealthy, these two have a lot to learn.
Spiny Norman Premium Member almost 3 years ago
CROCS!!!!
Darth Stevious almost 3 years ago
MORE ZEEBA!
TwilightFaze almost 3 years ago
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…
alexius23 almost 3 years ago
So pleased to see the crocs
willie_mctell almost 3 years ago
“De zeeba is de ordaned fud of de krok.”
Old27F20 almost 3 years ago
Hooray!!, the crocs are in back!
James Noury Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Duh!
dcoyote almost 3 years ago
Nice try Larry, don’t give up
Ginny Premium Member almost 3 years ago
My opinion? Dump the whole zeebra arc.
jbruins84341 almost 3 years ago
Crocs can write? Who knew?
billdaviswords almost 3 years ago
I love how the crocs are so dumb and slow they don’t just grab Zebra when they’re this close.
Flower Girl almost 3 years ago
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?
knight1192a almost 3 years ago
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.
Mentor397 almost 3 years ago
Book critics can be cruel. I’m trying to write several novels myself.
lms1231 Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Larry needs his own spin-off strip.
Up Your's almost 3 years ago
Yea. Finally crocs instead of sad pig.
kauri44 almost 3 years ago
The crocs should explain to the zeebah that to everything there is a season and this is his time to die.
Sisyphos almost 3 years ago
“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!
Totally Not a Killer Dolphin almost 3 years ago
Has anyone else noticed that the Crocs are speaking in a normal font?!
pontiac59 almost 3 years ago
Gators = liberals, good book = Fauci, “has to die” = “get the jab” and zebra of course represents anyone with a functional brain
oakie817 almost 3 years ago
everyone’s a critic
lindz.coop Premium Member almost 3 years ago
No appreciation for literature…