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Summary: Truly Funny
Review: "Pearls Before Swine" features wonderfully unique characters: the arrogant Rat, the dense Pig, smarty Goat, and occasionally bleeding heart Zebra. Pastis's writing is quite sharp, (although the quality of his drawings tends to be inconsistent). The strip features a wide variety of interesting and amusing scenarios and very funny word play.Recommended!
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Summary: One of the funniest strip since
Review: "Pearls Before Swine" is without the doubt the FUNNIEST strip ever made, from beginning to today's strip...and I've been hooked to it ever since...
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Summary: Truly Funny
Review: "Pearls Before Swine" features wonderfully unique characters: the arrogant Rat, the dense Pig, smarty Goat, and occasionally bleeding heart Zebra. Pastis's writing is quite sharp, (although the quality of his drawings tends to be inconsistent). The strip features a wide variety of interesting and amusing scenarios and very funny word play. Recommended!
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Summary: Stabilizing influence in troubled times.
Review: One surefire antidote to the complexities of modern life can be found in the first collection of comic strip "Pearls Before Swine," an Internet pleasure brought on by Stephan Pastis. Up-to-date strips can be read online, but it's great to have "BLTs Taste So Darn Good" on hand when you need a laugh and the university network connection is down or, better yet, when nature is calling. Pastis' story is interesting - he's a lawyer who simply decided to hop into cartooning, found a supportive United Media editor who backed the strip, and then rocketed to glory when he got endorsements from two of the comic world's best and brightest shining stars, Scott Adams ("Dilbert") and Darby Conley ("Get Fuzzy").
"Swine" has grabbed attention from critics who have deemed it a throwback to dearly departed "Calvin and Hobbes." The golden classic and the newbie certainly share the same amount of heart. Pastis gives us characters who voice the things we wish we could say as we muddle through our days. Rat is a self-center schemer who just wants to strike it rich by doing as little work as possible. His plans for doing so include creating his own comic strip, which bears a striking resemblance to "Dilbert" (after perusing a "Dilbert" desk calendar, Rat informs his pals that he has about 365 new ideas for his "Bildert"), hosting his own television show and interviewing local celebrities like the waitress at the Waffle Barn and his garbageman and just basically insulting Pig. Pig is naïve to the point of stupidity, which makes him the perfect foil for Rat's schemes, and also excellent comic fodder. He makes friends with a reflection of himself in a small pond ("You remind me of my other friend, Mr. Quiet Medicine Cabinet Guy"), plays hopscotch on chalk body outlines and ... simply exists, trying to muddle through. My absolute favorite "Pearls Before Swine": Rat to Pig: "If you could have a conversation with one person, living or dead, who would it be?" Pig: "The living one." (Pause.) "You must think I'm really stupid." Hee-larious. Pig and Rat are the big names, but they are joined by socially conscious Zebra, who is trying to get the herd back home to stop getting eaten by alligators, and Goat, who is the voice of reason in the strip. Goat doesn't show up all that often. Overall, it's a quiet, little strip that is capable of eliciting big, loud guffaws.
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Summary: read it!
Review: Don't waste time reading reviews, read the book! You won't regret it. Pastis has a novel sense of humor peppered with great puns. Enough now: see what Rat and Pig are up to.
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Summary: pearls before swine taste so darn good
Review: Every so often a comic full of offbeat humor emerges, and sticks around for a while. I think Pearls Before Swine has a chance to reach that status. The interaction of Pig (who manages to say the stupidest things, while still being good-hearted), Rat (who says the stupidest things, while remaining completely arrogant), Goat (who knows what is going on, but is beginning to accept the futility of it all), and the zebra, obsessesed with saving his dim-wited kin from the lions and other predators, gives the strip its "Calvin and Hobbes element, while the off-beat nature of the humor (a pig who loves BLT's, for instance) reminds me of the Far Side at its best. Definitely worth every penny of the price, but, if you've read the strip on-line, you already know this.
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Summary: Calvin & Hobbes cute meets Far Side quirky
Review: Every so often a comic full of offbeat humor emerges, and sticks around for a while. I think Pearls Before Swine has a chance to reach that status. The interaction of Pig (who manages to say the stupidest things, while still being good-hearted), Rat (who says the stupidest things, while remaining completely arrogant), Goat (who knows what is going on, but is beginning to accept the futility of it all), and the zebra, obsessesed with saving his dim-wited kin from the lions and other predators, gives the strip its "Calvin and Hobbes element, while the off-beat nature of the humor (a pig who loves BLT's, for instance) reminds me of the Far Side at its best. Definitely worth every penny of the price, but, if you've read the strip on-line, you already know this.
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Summary: Gut busters
Review: Great collection of a very humorous strip. I read the strip every day, yet can't stop from reading the book over and over. The characters are reminiscent of people we all know, and say things we would like to say! There are many strips in the book that have made me laugh out loud no matter how many times I have read them. Looking forward to seeing Chuckie in the next book.
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Summary: Funny, Funny, Funny Stuff
Review: I arrived home late from work the night this book arrived and literally woke up my wife from laughing so loudly while reading. The drawings are simple, the subject matter implausible, and the hip, biting, quick-witted humor add up to an uproarious good time. Any fans of Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, Get Fuzzy or any fine comic should get this book.
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Summary: Hysterical
Review: I found this comic when it recently came out in my city newspaper. I instantly thought it was hillarious. I have the daily comic programmed onto my homepage. I highly suggest you buy one of the books or read the comic.
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