Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Atlas bugs


Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis has a fairly large number of violent characters in the cast.  The duck is excessively militaristic.  The cat is a psychopath.  The crocodiles are constantly failing to eat their neighbor the zebra and accidentally killing each other.  And one of the two central characters, the rat, is sociopath.  This particular strip, of course, deliberately mixes up the myth of Atlas with the Oracle at Delphi to comic effect .

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