Pearls Before Swine User Reviews

By: Stephan Pastis
Average User Rating: 4.8 out of 5 (12 reviews)

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gemidnight 
Greatest comic strip I've ever read...Second being Calvin and Hobbs.

jackedit 
Very innovatve characters and punch lines. One of the few truly creative cartoonists drawing and thinking today.

forgeron 
I love all of the characters, but the Zeeba's make me laugh out loud. Just brilliant!

Heidi47 
Fantastic

tallwoman 
One of the best. Laugh out loud funny. Quirky, offbeat, unexpected. Love the crocs. My new favorite strip. Destined to be a classic. Like Calvin & Hobbes! Love it.

celebra8life 
Uses too much comic cursing

DXSSI 
Pearls is an anomaly in the modern comic strip business. The crude drawings and borderline unimaginative characters (a pig named Pig, a rat named Rat, etc.) shouldn't be so endearing, but it's the situations they're placed in that make them so oddly lovable. Author Stephan Pastis frequently relies on jokes so stupid and puns so bad that they make you want to cringe, yet at the same time you can't help but smile because his brand of humor is so unique. One of Pastis' most unusual trademarks is parodies of other comic strips; Pearls frequently crosses over into the competition's territory and writes new punchlines, often about how much those other comics suck. But Pastis takes it as well as he dishes it out, using himself as an occasional character who is largely disrespected and blatantly ignored by his own creations. Pearls surely isn't for everyone; it's a modern comic strip for a modern age and stands out among the rest not because it has to, but because it WANTS to.

amills93 
love it! it's great! you never see anything like this in any other strip!

njpooch 
Didn't get it at first..but now love this strip. Get a good laugh. The Gators are great.

forgray 
This exemplifies the crazy, mixed up world we live in. Sometimes the truth cuts to the bone and almost hurts. We all can put names of people we know to the characters.

deadheadzan43 
Probably the funniest, most imaginative since The Far Side. The art work which seems simplistic, is really very subtle and the huge eyes and horrified expressions are priceless.

dream420 
This comic strip tickles me pink every morning! I have clipped so many out of the newspaper that I could make a book. I taped them to my fridge and I reuse the laughs all through the day.

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