Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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Margueritem said, about 1 year ago

D@rn, this is going nowhere fast!
The Old Wolf said, about 1 year ago

I’m hoping the light goes on before the end of the week, but I think we still have quite a few strips before all the loose ends are tied up.

As much as I want to know what the qibp is going on, that doesn’t bother me too much…
Frida Bonita said, about 1 year ago

Do what?
fear-ciuil said, about 1 year ago

“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

“For info and a guide to special formatting on this forum (italic, bold, indents, large fonts, etc.), see The Pibgorn Style Guide:”
http://home.comcast.net/~ccdesan/Pibgorn/StyleGuide.html

This is an unofficial site created by one of our very own: CCDesan.

“For 3D converted versions of a couple of ‘Pibgorn’ panels, go to:”
http://electronictiger.net/stereo/dru.htm

“For ‘How to Commit 3D,’ a page of quick-and-dirty description of how stereo images work and the rudiments of converting comics to 3D, visit:”
http://electronictiger.net/stereo/demo.htm

The 3D pages are created by another of our own, fairportfan.
Frida Bonita said, about 1 year ago

lines on the ceiling, lines on his face
he pretended not to notice
he was caught up in the race……….

Maybe the lines are like a time piece, pendulum or sun dial and the hoe also acts as a marker of time. When Lena dropped the hoe it marks the entry of time into the game.

I’m not liking it but it’s the best I can do for now.
macFicheallaigh said, about 1 year ago

Strange – Roger is holding the business end of the hoe, but it’s lying on the floor, business end closest to the monitor. How did that happen?
mcduffy322432 said, about 1 year ago

Hmm … Looks like he may put all the pieces together soon.
Frida Bonita said, about 1 year ago

If the hoe is a marker of time then it has been moving as the game progresses????
macFicheallaigh said, about 1 year ago

I just went through the archives – before Roger went through the portal, the business end of the hoe was lying away from the computer table. After Roger goes through, the position is reversed.

If this is a clue, what could it mean?
AliKzam said, about 1 year ago

Maybe… the way the hoe was pointed, um, with the metal thingy pointed away from the screen… like the lines in the room… and the other thingy? Because his screen didn’t do that before they did that with the hoe… but it did when they did that.
But I don’t understand how that’s supposed to save Lena.
(See, this is why I haven’t commented much, lately.)
UncaAlby said, about 1 year ago

Ok, I officially have no clue what’s going on.
Frida Bonita said, about 1 year ago

Like Spitcock, Roger could have several monitors connected to his hard drive, all showing Suzerain.

That would also explain keyboard vs no key board.
Gweedo Murray said, about 1 year ago

It doesn’t take an official to know we’re clueless. If D.T. was this good no one would complain about the cosmological pace, that this story is the master of.

I checked and replied to yesterday’s link direction Unc.
Gweedo Murray said, about 1 year ago

In advance– Thank you for the icon(ic) complement Margueritem.
UncaAlby said, about 1 year ago

Yah, Gweedo, I saw that. Sorry it doesn’t always work.
macFicheallaigh said, about 1 year ago

Ok, when Lena goes into the portal, it’s 17 years in the past. I’m guessing that the program was still in the process of booting up at the time Lena went in.

Roger goes in, and he’s in the Now of the game.

The hoe is connected with Lena – the program was in the process of digitalizing the whole package, i.e., Lena holding the hoe, but then she drops it. The hoe lies outside the game world, incompletely digitalized.

In the meantime, Lena becomes the queen. I’ll say that the hoe changed because Lena changed?

Here it is:

http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2007/pib071210.gif

You can see that the business end of the hoe is lying away from the computer table, just after Lena dropped it.
allyheartz said, about 1 year ago

Yes! =D
I’ve been wondering how to sign up for a while, and I just realized how.
Now I can make an early post! =]
allyheartz said, about 1 year ago

But anyway, regarding the storyline… =]
I’m definitely really confused.
What is this supposed to mean?
It clears up nothing about anything =\
desertdwlr said, about 1 year ago

hoe hoe hoe here we go
macFicheallaigh said, about 1 year ago

fingers drumming … it’s a symmetry switch of some kind. Doesn’t look like anything else in the room changed, just the hoe. Even the inmage of Satori is unchanged.
Margueritem said, about 1 year ago

Gweedo, I like the new avatar, wait, I see that you’ve already thanked me.
macFicheallaigh said, about 1 year ago

http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2007/pib071207.gif

Did they both let go at the same time? So the hoe switched positions only after Roger entered the world? What could that mean?
macFicheallaigh said, about 1 year ago

More idle speculations – is there a kind of dream wish fulfillment attached to the game world? Lena wants to become like Dru, she becomes an evil succubus. Roger dreams of Satori, he meets her. Dru meets someone who is the near match of her sexual prowess and falls in love.
UncaAlby said, about 1 year ago

The lines on the floor at Sphinchie’s portal have something to do with it, I’m sure. What exactly is anybody’s guess.

Except Mr. McE of course. He knows.

And he’s not tellin! We’ll just have to wait ANOTHER 23 anna half hours!
UncaAlby said, about 1 year ago

macFicheallaigh says:

More idle speculations – is there a kind of dream wish fulfillment attached to the game world?

There very well might be!

Maybe even for Roger, who was wishing for a world with less boredom! (be careful what you wish for!)
UncaAlby said, about 1 year ago

I CAN’T KEEP UP WITH EVERYBODY KEEPS CHANGING THEIR PICTURE!!

So I won’t.
Too lazy.
fear-ciuil said, about 1 year ago

Post 27
Good night.
UncaAlby said, about 1 year ago

9CL

I just had a horrible thought –

What if Amos and Edda make up, make nice, and get back to becoming bestest of friends again –

– and this affects his playing –

– – – by making it worse – ???

It’s a possibility!

Of course, that plot device has also been beaten to death. We might as well find out there’s an Odd Polite Twin to go with the Evin Rude one.

http://www.themarina.on.ca/images/EvinrudeETEC115Blue.jpg
Paigely said, about 1 year ago

UncaAlby, I love your picture. Leave it. I just had to get away from that Paigely/Paisely pic I had at the beginning. =)
The Old Wolf said, about 1 year ago

UncaAlby:
Pass the brain bleach, please.

Sphinchie??

Now I won’t ever be able to think of him as anything but “the ol’ Sphincter”…

Curse you, Red Baron!

@MacFeely: Love the new “Luchorpán” icon!
Mikkail said, about 1 year ago

Just a quick thought - I’m still at work - Lena fell into Suzerain through Roger’s computer. Everybody else went in through Spitcock’s - maybe her aging faster has to do with CPU speeds?

Alternative - there are THREE realities - Suzerain, the real world outside Spitcock’s computer, the real world outside Roger’s. [And before someone says so, yes, I do know that I hve said real world twice… : )]
UncaAlby said, about 1 year ago

Yah, ccdesan, what’s wrong with “Sphinchie”?

It has that certain, “jenny see kwa”, no?
(yah, I saw Kwa, what about him?)

Got some bleach here, don’t know if it’s good for the brain or not, but yer welcome to try it. (sign this waiver first, please)
UncaAlby said, about 1 year ago

Paigely says:

UncaAlby, I love your picture. Leave it.

Thanks! Laziness has its rewards after all!
Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 1 year ago

Hmmmm. Hopefully, McE will explain what Roger means. There’s been a time or two in years past that things were resolved, but we, the readers were not quite in the loop as to how, precisely, it was accomplished. The artwork was great, but one wondered just what it depicted in a few cases, for example.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 1 year ago

Sodium hypochlorite bleach? A few drops and it kills all but the most stubborn bacteria in your camp drinking water (and giardia, drat it).
_Charlotte_ said, about 1 year ago

Ooo… I can answer that, Roger. –>Drusilla. The portal opened up after she was hooked up and began powering the program. That’s why you didn’t fall through when you were fondling the image of Satori after installing your warez, and did afterwards.

Roger believes the “You bastard” message came from Lena, but I always wondered if it was from Spitcock, to Roger, referring to the fact that Roger had stolen his program and it had ended up putting an unwanted player in it that Spitcock didn’t want and had to deal with.

http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2007/pib071221.gif

That looks to me like the face of a man who is annoyed and upset about something and could easily say, “You bastard” when he finds out who has caused the aggro. I just don’t hear “you bastard” as a comment coming from Lena.
Hroth said, about 1 year ago

UncaAlby: Isn’t that “My Mother the Car”?

(Morning coffee arrived too late….)
Hroth said, about 1 year ago

I was just looking at that frame of ‘ol TinTrousers raising his sword to strike at Young Lena. Perhaps that was the moment when she learned she had the power to Zonk, and that the rising birds/digitalisation effect was the kniggit disintegrating? Spitcock’s expression might have been because he’s taken aback by an unexpected magical discharge in Suzerain.

The “You Bastard” screen may be due to him messaging the terminal of whoever has opened another portal into “his” world, it might have been Lena’s mental shriek as she totalled the knight.

Ain’t speculation fun!
mhgbear said, about 1 year ago

Is Roger questioning the position of the hoe, or the ability to be able to be drawn into or leap into the monitor and enter the game itself? The hoe having done a 180 and positioned where it is could be significant. Or it could be one of those “make them watch one hand while you do something with the other” things.
Kaibyo said, about 1 year ago

And what about Maurice?
thinkingaboutit said, about 1 year ago

I will suggest that the teddy bear is the source of her power, something she holds dear and in the past has confided all her dreams in.

The hoe needs to be extended into the monitor that Lena can grab and be brought back to Roger’s point in time reference.

What ‘that’ is - could be that Spitcock controls which portals are exit portals. In other words you may enter through more than one portal, however, there is only ONE portal which can be used to exit.

What Roger may be thinking is How can he open another exit portal?
Radical-Knight said, about 1 year ago

Ooooh, ccdesan used the “Q” word.

Mayhaps yonder hoe’s thingy end was magically magnetized and swung around after being dropped to the floor to point directly towards the portal.

Yes, speculation IS fun…It’s the blasted lack of answers that crowds us all onto the couch of confusion.
Orgelspieler said, about 1 year ago

Makes perfect sense to me. I know that all MY garden tools tend to move around on their own when I’m not watching.
jamodio said, about 1 year ago

I jusrt saw the Sketches page: Except for the center sketch, all the others are replicates from past strips. They appear to me to be in Roger’s minds eye as he ponders the whichness of what.
I have wondered about the “compass rose” fanning out beneath the door…..
Brooke McEldowney said, about 1 year ago

You might as well know now. Take a look at officialpibgorn.livejournal.com.

Brooke
Radical-Knight said, about 1 year ago

The hoe? WHOOPSIE!
Radical-Knight said, about 1 year ago

Yeah I know the master has spoken, but I did like the magnetized idea.

nutz!!
RockHouse said, about 1 year ago

Some thoughts:

Could the lines under Spitcock’s main portal monitor be ley lines for the enregy flux?

Could the genius of Spitcock be his working out the overlay of a quantum anomaly onto a computer, with the monitor at its focus?

Could Spitcock’s computer system allow him to perform a chronofracture, allowing the ability to travel back in time and subtly altering events? The chronofracture might have to be initiated in the present in Spitcock’s lab, and completed in the past, in the same space, allowing Roger to be the (re)programmer we’ve been speculating about.

The hoe could then be more profitably used to extract Lena in Roger’s room as Pigely has previously speculated.
arsmall said, about 1 year ago

Thanks Mr. McE!

Mikkail says: Lena fell into Suzerain through Roger’s computer. Everybody else went in through Spitcock’s - maybe her aging faster has to do with CPU speeds?

Roger went in through his monitor.
kcboomer said, about 1 year ago

Well, we are on strip 259. My guess isa bookie would set the over/under at 300. If so, we have another 8 weeks before the finish. That’s lot of time for plot twists and explanations.