Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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Fairportfan said, about 1 year ago

That’s using your head … gear!

I knew that hat was gonna be a Chekhov’s Gun, somehow!

But in the last panel, things don’t look good for the Home Team!
Frida Bonita said, about 1 year ago

My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father prepare to die. …

Forza Luciano!

“For extensive and in depth background information, strip history, synopsis
of story arcs, cast of characters and a short biography of the author of Pibgorn
see The Pibgorn Tribute Site:

http://home.comcast.net/~ccdesan/Pibgorn/Pibgorn.html

This is an unofficial site created by one of our very own - CCDesan.
Margueritem said, about 1 year ago

Excellent!
Margueritem said, about 1 year ago

I have some concern about the last panel. It looks to me that some of Inky’s rays have hit Luc.
Fairportfan said, about 1 year ago

Mother of God! Is this the end of Luciano?
Margueritem said, about 1 year ago

I’m going to say no, that Luciano will be all right. He is a fairy creature after all, and there are methods of bringing him back.
Skulker said, about 1 year ago

No, No. Luciano’s a magical person also. He won;’t die. He also, probably has a few tricks up his sleeve. (if he had a sleeve.)
Mikkail said, about 1 year ago

Is this the end for Luciano?
Skulker said, about 1 year ago

So now we know who the REAL addicts are. But where’s UncaAlby?
AliKzam said, about 1 year ago

This doesn’t look good. Firstly, flies and electrical currents have never gone well together. Second, that hat is so not Inky. It makes him look like that extra member of the Village People.
TGIM
Frida Bonita said, about 1 year ago

“It makes him look like that extra member of the Village People.”

Great, this is the last image I’m going to have before going to sleep?

I’m doomed. Thanks AliKzam.

Yes, count me in as one of the sick and twisted!
Skulker said, about 1 year ago

Didn’t know that flies had eyebrows.
But I guess they are necessary. Eyebrows express emotion easier, more clearly and more quickly than any other facial characteristic. With a couple of little strokes a cartoonist, or any artist, can quickly convey an emotion on people, animals or even inanimate objects.
Fairportfan said, about 1 year ago

Are we obsessive much?
Margueritem said, about 1 year ago

AliKzam: Love the village people remark.

ccdesan, thanks, it worked. I went to you website, and loved it.You’ve put a lot of work into it, and we fellow fans appreciate it.
Fly Guy said, about 1 year ago

9CWL At least they are able to be professionals and not let it affect their performance.

Fear the worst for Luciano, Hope for the best.
fear-ciuil said, about 1 year ago

Looks like Luciano made Inky dizzy (panels 2 & 3)–go, Luciano!
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Another vote that Luciano is probably all right; he looks more stunned than fried to me in the last panel.
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(The … Village … People…. ::snerk::)
Margueritem said, about 1 year ago

OK, another typo. My brain is starting to get fried.
The Old Wolf said, about 1 year ago

Ouch. Ironic that Inky couldn’t hit Luciano on purpose but zaps him with a random bolt. I’m trusting Luciano is fay enough to withstand the energy.

Margueritem: glad you like it.

Luciano has guts!

Fairportfan: OK, I think I’ve done my best to reflect both the facts of the strip and your recommendations.

@fearciuil: what’s a writer of L&A fic doing with “musician” as a handle? ;^)

OK, time to climb the wooden hill. I’ll never live to wed his niece, I’ll only die to feed his geese. Goodnight, goodbye, and sorry.
Skulker said, about 1 year ago

It’s going to be a looonnng time before this arc ends. I bet we get at least two more days of Luciano and Inky fighting and them maybe a teaser on what’s happening in Suzerain with Dru & Satori, Roger & Lena and now Geoff & Pib. And let’s not forget Dru is still strung up on the rack.

So is Brooke a master of suspense or what? We’re going to have cliffhangers all week!
Fly Guy said, about 1 year ago

Looks like 9 of us here.

Gotta go check about a dozen other strips.
UncaAlby said, about 1 year ago

Skulker says:

So now we know who the REAL addicts are. But where’s UncaAlby?

I think he’s in the bathroom. I’ll call him.

Oh wait, there I am!
Pokefan_Frank said, about 1 year ago

The hat appeared again! That should make everybody happy.

Is it just me, or did today’s strip go up earlier?

It is funny that the amount of posts appears to be increasing exponentially, perhaps because more and more people are stopping their “lurking” and are actually writing stuff.

Kudos to FridaBonita for the “boilerplate”

—

elfelvin:
“I went to Chickweed Cafe… but about the hats Edda and Amos are wearing, hmmm…”

I don’t think it implies anything about them. It’s just that the day after tomorrow it’s October, and Mr. McEldowney wanted to be ready for Halloween coming up.
UncaAlby said, about 1 year ago

Foo. I wanted him to get the hat, but not as a weapon!

Rather clever, really – Luciano is too smart to be a fly. We should lobby to have him promoted to Second Lieutenant Beetle. Write your congress-critter.
UncaAlby said, about 1 year ago

Skulker said yesterday:

Does anyone here know how to bump up the hit position on google?

Well, they sell advertising based on searched keywords – –

Google’s ranking algorithm is a closely guarded secret, and they tweak it now and then if they think someone has found a way to artificially improve their rank.

That being said, one well-known attribute that gets a high rank is links from other sites. The idea being that, if other webmasters believe your site is worthy of linking from their site, then that bodes well for your relevance to searches.

So, the thing to do is to get other webmasters to put a link on their site to yours. It’s very common to have “Link Exchanges”, where A will link to B will link to A. Google reads the text in and around the link; which makes sense so that “Pibgorn” won’t show up in a search for “Musical Instruments”; so make sure the link has appropriate keywords.
BJamesB86 said, about 1 year ago

Hey, who turned out the lights???
Hroth said, about 1 year ago

As was noted in earlier frame posts, the best place to aim to get an ascending fly is UP and BACK. Looks like its not only Brooke that’s reading these comments…..

We’ve had one of those electric fly-zappers and its never worked properly, so I’m rooting for Luc to be dazed but not shattered. On another tack, hats have their own properties too, like Flann O’Briens bicycle seats. I’d like to think that a Salvation Army hat would imbue its wearer with some of the ethical considerations of the previous incumbent.
The Old Wolf said, about 1 year ago

Comments here reminded me that I had never done any SEO optimizing on the tribute site. I just went in and added a bunch of META tags which should help bump the page’s rankings on Google the next time it’s crawled.

But the idea of link density is also a key factor…
Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 1 year ago

Poor Luciano. What a time to forget your grounding wire…

Ol’ Inky must have a little head if the cap Geoffrey was wearing is blinding him.
UncaAlby said, about 1 year ago

Pokefan_Frank says:

It is funny that the amount of posts appears to be increasing exponentially,

There’s a scary thought.

Imagine, by the time today’s loads completely, it’ll be time for tomorrow’s – –
Fairportfan said, about 1 year ago

Getting back to the Who’s Who?” question, involving Spitcock, Inky and even (possibly) Roger:

I think Brooke was toying with us in the early days of this story - the shadowy figure which we now must assume to have been Spitcock looks rather more like Roge than it does like Spitcock (and, going back over these early strips to fins the ones i wanted, i note that Roger’s posture has improved considerably…)

http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2007/pib070622.gif - Those are Roger’s sleeves; we never see Spitcock in anything but a suit, whereas Roger is always wearing that sweater - except when he isn’t.

Or anything else, for that matter.

http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2007/pib070831.gif - Looks to me as if the silhouette we see has a full head of hair, which Spitcock definitely doesn’t, and the head is shaed more like Roger’s than Spitcock’s.

And on a different tack - things that might make a nervous syndicate editor twitchy:

Observe Dru’s little by-play with the knob on the end of the sword’s hilt: http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2007/pib070815.gif - freudian, much? (Especially given Dru’s earlier paraphrase of Mae West.)
mhgbear said, about 1 year ago

Fashion disaster of 2008! Especially the last panel… looks like a demented meter reader!
As for 9CWL, talk about a love/hate relationship! Why don’t they admit they’re crazy about each other and be done with it?
Fairportfan said, about 1 year ago

Oh, yeah - ccdesan:

When Dru appears in the fghter pilot’s dream (or takes him ointo her world, or whatever) she’s’s not “dressed rather provocatively as a show girl” like just ANY showgirl - that’s Marlene Dietrich’s costume and pose from “The Blue Angel” - http://www.filmforum.org/archivedfilms/blueangel.html - down to the beer barrel she’s posing on.
ejcapulet said, about 1 year ago

Those two are just plain crazy.
trapset02 said, about 1 year ago

“Use the Force, Inky!!”
ozzimandius said, about 1 year ago

The only thing Silly Inky has done at this point is further infuriate Luc.
Hroth said, about 1 year ago

trapset02 says:

“Use the Force, Inky!!”

WHO’S side are you on?

Remember, an infuriated foe makes mistakes……
Paigely said, about 1 year ago

Skulker says: So is Brooke a master of suspense or what? We’re going to have cliffhangers all week!

The amazing part is that he can keep us in suspense for days and weeks on end, and this chat group keeps growing. I haven’t heard anyone say yet that they’ve gotten tired of waiting and had better things to do. Now THAT takes talent!

Man, I wanted Luc to get the hat, but I wanted him to keep it! Oh well. A necessary sacrifice, I guess…
Lampblack said, about 1 year ago

Mr. McEldowney once said that he does not draw a character without first deciding what the character’s name is.

I wonder what he calls Inky?
Ranma_one_half said, about 1 year ago

Hat’s too big? I think Inky(pending official naming by Mr. McE) takes a 6 and 7/8ths. Give the man a batton and he could be a Drum Major.
Orgelspieler said, about 1 year ago

If you haven’t already done, you need to check out Brooke’s most recent blog entry at http://officialpibgorn.livejournal.com/
It explains all about the nipples, other naughty bits, and even why Thorax wears coveralls. Also a great drawing of Edda and Seth in the swimwear competition.
MermaidStitcher said, about 1 year ago

the hat might not be to big. Just forced down by L jumping on it in panel 3. He still might get the hat back. It hasn’t been distrou\yed yet. So there is hope still.
gg015879 said, about 1 year ago

I finally signed up and singed in! All because I thought there was NO other person in the world that quoted - “My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!”

Now if I could just find someone quoting - “Time to make the donuts. Time to make the donuts.”

A day without Pibgorn is like a day without waking up.

BTW - I think Luciano is arcing that energy between his hands, fingers, ah ah paws, no, ah ah apendages and is going to blast Inky back, catch his hat, and dive into the portal!

how ‘bout that for a first post?

gotta luv it
Poms said, about 1 year ago

Congrats to all those who stayed awake! Unfortunately, my eyelids did not want to cooperate - plus having to be a work at 6 a.m. - their logic won over the parts that wanted to wait up.

Magical flies probably will survive and if not, Pib has her fairy kiss to bring him back.

Hope Frida did not have any nightmares about the Village People. (hehehe)
kcboomer said, about 1 year ago

One wonders if all this screwing around with Inky and Luciano means Brooke is at odds with himself on how to end this arc. By my count we have had 237 panels and no end in sight.
r80 said, about 1 year ago

Luciano uses the pimpin’ hat as an imporvised weapon. Now Inky be pimpin’!
macFicheallaigh said, about 1 year ago

Pretty good blog by Brooke – wonder if he caught the Monty Python reference in the way we’ve been tossing about the phrase “naughty bits”? :-)

The imaginative poses in keeping the art work true and still blue seem to add all the more to characters like Inky. He’s either looking like a classical Greek statue, or a modern body builder.

Wondering about the action in the last two panels of today’s Pibgorn. Luciano claps the hat down hard on Inky, smacking it down with his backside (if that’s a fly backside) for good measure, and as he does so Inky’s arms are outspread. Looks like stretched his arms out just like that, just barely catching Luciano and maybe suspending him in the air?

Luciano is lightning fast, too fast for Inky. Once he’s free of the plasma bolts, he’s outa there!
macFicheallaigh said, about 1 year ago

kcboomer says:
One wonders if all this screwing around with Inky and Luciano means Brooke is at odds with himself on how to end this arc. By my count we have had 237 panels and no end in sight.

I think Brooke knows where the story is going – we might be looking at one his most ambitious Pib stories yet.
Burgundy2 said, about 1 year ago

demented meter reader 0 LOL!
TiggerLeBounce said, about 1 year ago

Methinks the fly is MAD now! Is anyone else noticing how Inky is still changing?
Poms said, about 1 year ago

OUCH. A 37 lb fly landing on your head at full force has got to hurt.

Erudite and arcane - yes, that sums of this group….