Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Pearls Before Swine: Me sell ranch to Bob. He say key to cheeken ranch is have axe. Show stoopid cheekin who boss.

I know a lot of people don't like the way the crocs in Pearls Before Swine talk, but I think it's an interesting attempt at dialect, which isn't something we see a whole lot of in the comics section anymore. Granted, Stephan Pastis occasionally uses it as a crutch, which is lamentable, but most of the time it's just a part of the crocs' identity. Characters should speak differently than one another. There are more subtle ways to achieve this than dialect, of course, but subtlety has never exactly been Pastis's specialty.

Also, more comics need axe murders.

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