![]() He was originally determined to save his herd from becoming prey to lions, either through schemes to thwart them (such as dressing in costumes.unfortunately, they dressed up as gazelle) or attempts to communicate with them (but the lions tend to respond to his moving letters with "Yu taste gud!") Their neighbor Goat is much more intelligent and well-read than the other characters thus his default expression tends to be "Why do I put up with these morons?"Īnother neighbor, gentle, sensitive Zebra, was originally intended to be a one-shot character but was soon elevated to star status. His best friend and roomie Rat, a wannabe author, is a cynical, totally unrepentant Jerkass and Deadpan Snarker constantly on the lookout for a quick buck. Pig is a perpetually cheerful innocent who sails through life just barely aware enough to survive. and partly - some suspect mostly - as an excuse to let off really, really awful puns. The strip serves partly as a chronicle of their amusingly surreal adventures, partly as a satire of modern American society, partly as a meta-commentary on the state of the modern American comic strip (not surprisingly, it isn't impressed). They are, naturally, a rat, a pig, a zebra, and a goat. ![]() ![]() ![]() An American Comic Strip drawn by former lawyer Stephan Pastis about the lives of Rat, Pig, Zebra, and Goat, anthropomorphic Civilized Animal suburbanites operating freely in a human world just slightly off-plumb from our own. ![]()
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