Stephan Pastis clairvoyance or a master planner?

Alan Gardner August 17, 2011 1 minute 4 comments

Last week I posted a letter to the editor by a certain offended reader of the Baltimore Sun who decried the profanity in Pearls Before Swine. Just to be clear, we’re not talking real swear words – we’re talking characters like @#$@. Then on Sunday, Scott Hilburn drops the big #%@!* in his strip.

Yesterday Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis runs a strip making fun of comics teaching kids profanity. It’s like he planned this whole thing.

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Ben Carlsen

So is our new theory that the letter to the editor was a plant by Pastis?

Aug 17,2011
Mike Cope

“Dear Wheeler: you provide the prose poems. I’ll provide the war.”
– Charles Foster Kane

Aug 17,2011
b.j. Dewey

Thanks for the clarification, Alan. I mistakenly thought/assumed the swearing went beyond the characters. I did think Hilburn’s use of them was clever and funny so it’s all in how they’re used.

Aug 17,2011
RA

Well, technically, that form of “swearing” is inappropriate too.

Aug 17,2011

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Stephan Pastis clairvoyance or a master planner?

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