Pearls is the hottest comic in the newspaper business.” –Raleigh News and Observer As the first Pearls Before Swine gift book, this “book of frendsheep” conveys the unusual brand of camaraderie shared by the not-really-so-cold-blooded crocs. Stephan Pastis’s crockydiles say it best in their introduction to this sly tribute to friends: Someone juss says, ‘You…