Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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ejcapulet said, about 1 year ago

I don’t think Dru is going to take kindly to being turned into a demon version of “The Fly”.
paciii said, about 1 year ago

love perspective shots!!
and Spiky returns OUT of Spitcock!! nice touch!!
txmystic said, about 1 year ago

Now Spitcock is totally hosed. Dru still has the ability to use the attacker’s energy against him…and this time it’ll be SUPERcharged!

And why has Roger not deployed the bat strategem?
ejcapulet said, about 1 year ago

Having a part of you that hates the other part’s guts isn’t going to work very well, Spinky.
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:”
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“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.

“For the collected adventures of Joe Minotaur, based on the Pibgorn comic and a television police drama, visit:”
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jimbo1949 said, about 1 year ago

Bravo Brooke! Another stunning Friday cliffhanger.
Margueritem said, about 1 year ago

Sigh, another cliffhanger. That rotten Spinky, stealing Dru’s powers and hiding them in a lamp. Oh when will she get her revenge?
paciii said, about 1 year ago

There’re no “bulbs” in the lamp, just glows!!
fear-ciuil said, about 1 year ago

Didn’t Spinky’s mother tell him to never stick his finger in a light socket?!?!?

Oh … he doesn’t have a mother. Um … never mind.
txmystic said, about 1 year ago

And just what does Spitcock hope to accomplish? An incubus is supposed to gather the life force of unsuspecting slumbering females, but now that he’s cheated and robbed Dru, won’t the balance of power shift suddenly and not in his favor?
txmystic said, about 1 year ago

9CWL—hee hee
ejcapulet said, about 1 year ago

So just smash the blipping lamp, Roger!
Sisyphos said, about 1 year ago

Friday is always a cliffhanger, Margueritem; you know that.
But Monday, ah, Monday, Monday! “Stupid demons.”
Trail_Blazer said, about 1 year ago

Dru is going to be assimilated??

Let’s hope that resistance is not futile!
txmystic said, about 1 year ago

ejcapulet:

I think it’s too late…he’s already drained the mojo lamp.

We’ll just have to wait until Monday for more action and answers…

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

C’ya on the weekend all,
GoodNightNow!
fear-ciuil said, about 1 year ago

Current 9CWL:
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2008%2F11%2F21&name=9_Chickweed_Lane
Fairportfan said, about 1 year ago

Today’s 9CL conjures up memories of two different strips:
http://comics.com/9chickweedlane/2005-05-08/
and
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2007/pib071001.gif
Fairportfan said, about 1 year ago

Responding to a question in yesterday’s comments:

txmystic says:

“Wasn’t Majel Barrett the actress who played Troi’s mother and supplied the voice of the computer on Next Generation?”

Yes, and played the First officer (“Number One”) in the Very First Pilot, and played Nurse Chappell in the original series… And, of course, Nichelle was Uhuru. Maj Barrett (at one time at least) was the answer to the trivia question, “Who is the only person who has appeared in every version of Star Trek, in one role or another?” (A character who is obviously “played” by Maj Barrett appears in Peter David’s Excalibur ST novels.)

And, of course, she’s Roddenberry’s widow.
thevenbede said, about 1 year ago

Spinky is overconfident, there are still all those unaccounted for people..Roger and his bat are nearby, Lena & her hoe (what is it with the Eggs and implements, anyway?), Pib & Luciano & Geoff. I’m sure Mr McE hads plenty of twists and turns planned. Sigh. Every time I think I have it figured out, he confounds me.
Heavenly said, about 1 year ago
Dru is going to be assimilated??

Let’s hope that resistance is not futile!
Tee hee.
- I’m kind of feeling sorry for Spinky…well, sort of. ;)
paciii said, about 1 year ago

Smash the lamp… does it matter now that Spinky has “assimilated” the powers?

Hmmm…

”Assimilate”: “to take in and incorporate as one’s own”

Dru does that all the time; it depends on if that part of her powers was stolen. If not, there they come back. If it was, Hmmmm…
Sisyphos said, about 1 year ago

–Although, Trail_Blazer, Dru is well-equipped to take on the role of 7 of 9….
Trail_Blazer said, about 1 year ago

Sisyphos says:
–Although, Trail_Blazer, Dru is well-equipped to take on the role of 7 of 9

Yes indeed, for at least two reasons I can think of… ;-)
thevenbede said, about 1 year ago

Well, if the confusion couch weren’t so comfy, I’d have been in bed an hour ago…well past my bedtime. Night all.
Fairportfan said, about 1 year ago

When i was seven or so, living in Cleveland, we had a floor lamp just like that - except that instead of a mazda socket in the center (i think that’s what they were called - the standard socket is an “Ediaon” socket), it had an Edison socket for a three-way bulb.
Sisyphos said, about 1 year ago

Speaking from memory only, I think Majel Barrett was also Executive Producer [i.e., basically, Gene’s heir] on all the later tv versions.
Fairportfan said, about 1 year ago

So Spitcock and Inky would seem, indeed, to be one and the same.

And this one reminsds me of anohter strip - for a couple of reasons:
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2005/pib050221.gif
Fairportfan said, about 1 year ago

*Sisyphos says:

“Although, Trail_Blazer, Dru is well-equipped to take on the role of 7 of 9.”

You mean 2 of 38?

Nah - Dru wouldn’t float nearly as well as she does.
tallwoman41 said, about 1 year ago

inky and spitty ARE the same.

maybe that plasma blast put roger out for a while and that’s why he didn’t smash the lamp. I still think Inky’s gonna get it though, and he’s giving Dru all the ammo to do it with.
Trail_Blazer said, about 1 year ago

Majel was in every Trek incarnation until the prequel Enterprise. I liked her Lawaxana Troi character the best, especially when she’d come on board the Enterprise-D and pester Capt. Picard. Really made me feel sorry for poor ol’ Jean-Luc.
fear-ciuil said, about 1 year ago

Good night, all.

(Let’s see if this comment gets bumped down the queue–that particular practice is making it increasingly difficult to follow the conversation. Grr.)
Fairportfan said, about 1 year ago

Sisyphos says:

“Speaking from memory only, I think Majel Barrett was also Executive Producer [i.e., basically, Gene’s heir] on all the later tv versions.”

I’m pretty sure you’re right - and she ran Lincoln Enterprises, which, at one time, was the official purveyor of ST tchotchkes(http://www.roddenberry.com/) - still in existence, and run by their son.
Trail_Blazer said, about 1 year ago

You mean 2 of 38?
Nah - Dru wouldn’t float nearly as well as she does.

LOL!! Thanks for the awesome mental picture! :-O
Fairportfan said, about 1 year ago

Trail_Blazer says:

“Majel was in every Trek incarnation until the prequel Enterprise. I liked her Lawaxana Troi character the best, especially when she’d come on board the Enterprise-D and pester Capt. Picard. Really made me feel sorry for poor ol’ Jean-Luc.”

I never watchd Enterprise. Did they have a ship’s compter with a female voice? Because, if they did, Maj may have been it - that’s where she comes in to some of the movies.

Of course, in the old animated series, she was Chappell, the computer and at least on eother character, just as Nicols was Uhuru and M’Ress. George Takei couldn’t be in the animated series as Sulu, because he was running for some state or local office, and California law (at least at the time) banned people running for office from appearing on TV in any form (Ronald Reagan’s films couldn’t be shown there while he was running for Governor or President). However, Takei did voice Lt Arek, Sulu’s replacement.

Both M’ress and Arek (and Scotty), due to time-warp accidents, are characters in Peter David’s Excalibur series, which is set some time after TNG and DS9.
paciii said, about 1 year ago

9CwL: Love the expressions… MrMcE has a great way of showing them!!! From subtle to off the chart…

“Will she tell him, won’t she tell him, ah yes, ah no…”
paciii said, about 1 year ago

fearciuil says:

(Let’s see if this comment gets bumped down the queue–that particular practice is making it increasingly difficult to follow the conversation. Grr.)

I saw the boiler plate as 2nd, 3rd (after I saw it as 2, I messaged and the plate became 3!!), now 5 in the stream… Who knows what algorithm is being used or order these things…

Too cold for a last dip in the pool, Electric blanket time for me…
Lampblack said, about 1 year ago

paciii7223 says:

“Will she tell him, won’t she tell him, ah yes, ah no…”

Yes… no… but yes… no… yes. Yes. Yes! Yes! YES!

Cigarette?
Trail_Blazer said, about 1 year ago

fairportfan,

Enterprise was a really underrated (IMO) show. The first couple of seasons were mostly dedicated to character development, and some of the episodes were less than “stellar” (pun definitely intended). :) The idea was that since the Federation hadn’t yet been founded, there was no Prime Directive and so the characters’ actions wouldn’t be as constrained as in the previous Trek series.

It was just hitting its stride IMO when it was canceled after four seasons, but part of that was because it was on an incompatible network (Spike, I think). I mean, c’mon - a Trek series followed by America’s Next Top Model? Puh-leeze.

Anyway, that first Enterprise was very primitive. I haven’t watched an episode in quite a while so I could be wrong, but I think that the computer either had a male voice or none at all.
Fairportfan said, about 1 year ago

A comment i posted on the sketch page:

Dru’s “flotation devices” are les obscured in the sketch.

The term for comics with that sort of image on the cover is “headlights comics” - http://www.toonopedia.com/phanlady.htm; this is a page from Don Markstein’s Toonopedia, an invaluable source for basic info on almost anything comic or animattion related.

A minor point of comics trivia: since Phantom Lady was a publication of Quality Comics, as were also Blackhawk and Plastic Man, she probably came out of the old Eisner and Iger shop (no relations to the modern-day pair who screwed up Disney for a while), and may well have been created by Will Eisner himself, whose magnum opus, The Spirit (http://www.toonopedia.com/spirit.htm) , is currently being desecrated as a film by Frank Miller…
Trail_Blazer said, about 1 year ago

Well, my better half is telling me to quit fooling around on the computer and get to bed - tomorrow is a work day, after all. :)

See y’all!
Sisyphos said, about 1 year ago

Dunno, Trail_Blazer. I tried watching Enterprise, but gave up after a while–just couldn’t get into it. I didn’t like the casting, and the plots, at least the first season, seemed to have lost the Roddenberry Vision. DS9 was always limited by its fixed main locale, and jumped the shark towards the end when it became too metaphysical. TNG remains my favorite ST series, with just the right balance (though I know some fans can’t stand it).
Fairportfan said, about 1 year ago

Speaking of the nice Borg lady in the silver spandex outfit: http://grantgoboom.blogspot.com/2007/06/ar-7-of-9.html
Fairportfan said, about 1 year ago

Trail_Blazer says:

“I mean, c’mon - a Trek series followed by America’s Next Top Model? Puh-leeze.”

Louise Jameson, who played Leela on Dr Who during the Tom Baker years, remarked that, while it was usual for stars on the show to get fanmail from kids, she was unusual and got quite a bit from dads, too.

“Of course,” she said, “that’s not all that surprising when you wear a leather bikini and come on right after football.”
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Lot/9501/leela19.jpg

Sisyphos says:
“TNG remains my favorite ST series, with just the right balance (though I know some fans can’t stand it).”

Button for sale at one time at SF conventions “Westley must die - painlessly, if necessary.”
Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 1 year ago

Well, when Roddenberry kicked off, the careful timelines, situations, and technology that he maintained went out the window. Star Trek just wasn’t the same after that. It went in all directions.

2 of 38? Sorry, I’m dense, but I don’t get it.

Nah, 7 of 9, perhaps 2 of “DD”, maybe? Dru is prettier (actually most women are prettier of face than 7 of 9), but Dru would have to have dual forward augmentation for the role…
Sisyphos said, about 1 year ago

Fairportfan: I’ll grant you that about Doc Crusher’s son–I couldn’t stand the little twerp, and was very glad when he was written out to Starfleet Academy (? –or however).
Fairportfan said, about 1 year ago

Nabuquduriuzhur says:
“2 of 38? Sorry, I’m dense, but I don’t get it.”

Okay, having just checked IMDB (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005394/bio), “2 of 36”.
AliKzam said, about 1 year ago

Pib: uh-oh. This doesn’t look good. Also,Suzerain has officially been dubbed as “that program” by Spitcock, which I guess we already knew. But does anyone else wonder if we’ve really seen the last of Satori?

Speaking of Jeri Ryan, here’s a little AliKzam trivia: I was an extra on “Boston Public” for three seasons, which also had the actor Chi MacBride in it. I felt he did an okay job in his role there, but I especially loved him in “Pushing Daisies”, which I just found out has been cancelled :(
Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 1 year ago

Ah, I see. Well, the 36 is the size across the chest. The D is the “cup size” of the brassier. Being completely politically incorrect: one can be completely flat and 38.

Nah, busty and ugly just never “did it” for me. Apparently the beauty contests mentioned in the IMDB article never looked above the neck. It’s always struck me how the average woman on the street is usually better looking facially than the models and even most of hollywood (without the makeup). The reason- modeling outfits and hollywood usually go for the famine victim look. I don’t know if it’s still “in”, but for a few years there, one heard about the “Hollywood nose” that all the actresses had about 2000 or so.
Gweedo Murray said, about 1 year ago
Dru, Geoff and Spinky, Roger, Luc and Lena. “I’d need a bleeep computer to keep track of all these names.”+ I hope this Pibby thing don’t go too far.

Thanks for delurking Poms, long enough to slosh around on the soggy carpet from our pool dwelling 7 yr. olds, to refresh your claim on the couch. I vacuum the Chee wa wa hair off occasionally lest they infer permanent resident status, but at least they’re doing their part to keep it warm. If you ‘n’ Unca come back a late Saturday/early Sunday we’ll have more time to celebrate during the doldrums between installments.

That Lutefisk update link dropped by *cc* went down like Dru’s finger. Will jump in from the boiler room after awhile.

I think Amos is taking all the stares rather grandly or should I say.. studly. It’s just like the women to think: “that slut !” when they would all give their everything to play “Edda’s Tune”.

Sorry to hear your com. link is in danger of pixelating fairportfan. Besides all the fun you have regaling us with stories, references and photos, you are, for real, one of the great educators in this column/couch. I don’t know how you relate to your immediate neighbor(s) or how far apart the houses are but it might be worth sharing internet if not too many people ride it between the two houses. One of you would be the subscriber and the other would need to buy something like a Linksys G, Range expander to catch and relay the signal. If you’re that close, a laptop might catch it anyway. If it’s a desktop then you’re most likely aware of the wireless adapter card which has the two antennas sticking up from it.(might still need the expander) Check store return policy. I already gather from previous posts that you don’t want charity. I respect that and hope you find a lasting solution.

Oh BTW ! Could you ask your sister, the Drapery/Blanketeer, to weave us a new cover for yon sofa as repeated washing has become less effective at removing food and drink stains. I don’t wanna be the one to say it, but there’s what looks like an A&E spot that’s just not coming out.

Just mulching through the Pibgorn comments columns takes more time than it used to to do all my comics for the day.
- Lou Reed: “BEGINNING OF A GREAT ADVENTURE” From “NEW YORK”.
Gweedo Murray said, about 1 year ago

My last post tried to say d.amn instead of Bleeeep ! There’s some other boogers i could fix but I’m too lazy. It’s close to 2:30 in the AM here. Need to assimilate the mattress. UGH !

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