Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 27, 2012
Transcript:
Rat: Listen, Steph, I know that every year you're up for cartooning's highest award, the Reuben, and that every year you lose. So now I feel bad for building you this empty trophy shelf. Pastis: Is that so? Rat: Yeah. So I bought you some decorative wooden letters to fill the space. They're fun to rearrange if you're ever bored. Pastis: Well, I guess that's pretty nice of you. Thanks. Rat: Oh, look, I've rearranged them. Pastis: Take them down. Pig: That does not look like a trophy.
Rat must have destroyed Stephan’s other Reuban. He won one a few years back. Rat probably pawned it with Pig.