Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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  1. Frida Bonita

    Frida Bonita said, 12 months ago

    Inky is going down!

    So am I. Too much food.

    See everyone in the morning.

  2. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, 12 months ago

    Love Roger’s comments, he’d rather have his head crushed like a ripe egg plant then have to listen to Inky’s rant.

  3. fear-ciuil

    fear-ciuil said, 12 months 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.
     
    “For the collected adventures of Joe Minotaur, based on the Pibgorn comic and a television police drama, visit:”
    http://home.earthlink.net/~joeminotaur
    “Be sure to read the posts starting at the bottom of the page.”
     
    Joe Minotaur is the creation of another of our own, Ranma_one_half.
     
    “For threaded discussion of all things Pibgorn and 9 Chickweed Lane, visit:”
    http://www.talkaboutcomics.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=568
    “Yes, you have to register, and yes, it’s free.”
     
    Come one and come all, de-lurk and join in!
    Add your own voice to our great, joyous din!
    Just one bit of wisdom ere joining our game:
    Read the comments! All of them! Or you’ll miss something! (Shame!)
    (No trolls need apply.)

  4. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, 12 months ago

    Dru is lookin’ buff!

  5. Pokefan_Frank

    Pokefan_Frank said, 12 months ago

    I guess now we know what the game is about: “vanquish good, crush self-will and enslave huamnkind…” So he was going to plug all gamers into a game character, like he did with Lena and they’d be caught in an infinite loop? Quite a flawed plan. I doubt the people who can stop him are the same type that would play Suzerain for its plot.

    Ooh, Dru be shiny… and this time it’s not sweat, or is it? Also, Dru seems to be taking a page out of Pib’s book: when all else fails, use fists

    Gweedo Murray says:
    “I wonder if Black Friday is about deep cuts or has the phrase become just another advertising gimmick?”

    definitely an advertising gimick. “Black Friday” used to be reserved for historical events that ruined economies, and coincidentially also happened on Fridays. The most famous Black Friday, according to Wikipedia, was in 1869, over speculation on the price of gold in US dollars.

  6. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, 12 months ago

    Fearciuil: Please explain the new avatar. Inquiring minds wish to know.

  7. Sisyphos

    Sisyphos said, 12 months ago

    Margueritem says: Dru is looking buff.

    –And Inky has bulked up, too, from draining Dru!

  8. emjrn

    emjrn said, 12 months ago

    Spinky looks just a little surprised!

    And I think Dru can take him…and probably make him like it!

  9. fear-ciuil

    fear-ciuil said, 12 months ago

    @margueritem, re: new avatar
    I was iconing 9 Chickweed Lane this evening and decided to use one. This one happens to be from the 1999-06-04 strip:
    http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=1999%2F6%2F4&name=9_Chickweed_Lane
     
    (But I like evil grins!)
    ::end whine::

  10. The Old Wolf

    The Old WolfGenius_badge said, 12 months ago

    Here comes the famous Pibgorn right cross! You go, Drusilla!
     
    Amos and Edda can really play like they’re making love, now. They’ve got the competition in the bag, thinks I! :^D

  11. Sisyphos

    Sisyphos said, 12 months ago

    Anent Black Friday: it’s now being used to signify “the day retailers make it into the black [or not],” i.e., make a profit as vs. in the red=a loss.

  12. The Old Wolf

    The Old WolfGenius_badge said, 12 months ago

    Roger’s response reminds me of Drusilla’s when she was a contenstant on Armageddon:
     
    http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2002/08/28
     
    Pokefan_Frank, I’m not sure he was going to plug people into the game. I got that he was going to do all of that evil stuff outside the game, once he had absorbed Drusilla’s Mojo and become - to his way of thinking - invincible. Anyway, that’s the impression I got…

  13. fear-ciuil

    fear-ciuil said, 12 months ago

    ccdesan’s link, for us freeloaders:
    http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2002/pib020828.gif

  14. Sisyphos

    Sisyphos said, 12 months ago

    Fearciuil. as an academic-manque, I love that 1999 9CWL. It would have found its way to my office Wall of Meaningful Cartoons….

    Edit: I meant the one you just replaced (4th in the row on your LiveJournal page)!

  15. Pokefan_Frank

    Pokefan_Frank said, 12 months ago

    ccdesan:
    you want more Pib right cross?
    http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2002/pib020914.gif

  16. Gweedo Murray

    Gweedo Murray said, 12 months ago

    She’s

    Ba-a-a-a-c-c-k!

    To repeat from last night.

    I saw Your post from yesterday
    Pokefan_Frank. Thanks for the FRIDAY smackdown. I figured the roots were in no good.
    Thanks for the “freeload” link Fearce.

  17. emjrn

    emjrn said, 12 months ago

    Mr. McE has done it again! This strip makes a pretty good cliff hanger.

    I still think Dru will pound hurt bumps all over him…and take her mojo back and shrink him down to nothin’.

    9CWL is a satisfying strip to read tonight…as it appears to be for A&E performing.

    Good night! Hope all the denizens of the confusion couch had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Looking forward to leftovers!

    Yum!

  18. Gweedo Murray

    Gweedo Murray said, 12 months ago

    If they have plenty of stock on hand at a nice price, the volume of sales awta get the black inkwell spilling over in no time.

    This Pibstrip is as thrilling as the Weed is heartwarming.

  19. fear-ciuil

    fear-ciuil said, 12 months ago

    I’m going to send folks over to Pickles today–Oognat is (sort of, indirectly ;-) referenced.

  20. Sisyphos

    Sisyphos said, 12 months ago

    –And if Drusilla needs any added incentive [Ha!], let us recall her pact with Pib was to stave off Armageddon, Inky’s reveal as his goal, no less! Knock his block off, Dru, with that powerful right of Right!

  21. fear-ciuil

    fear-ciuil said, 12 months ago

    Okay, margueritem, I had to go to your profile page to understand your new avatar–the small version looks like some freaky biology-text illustration of a nearly-to-term in-utero fetus. >D

  22. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, 12 months ago

    fearciuil says:

    @margueritem, re: new avatar
    I was iconing 9 Chickweed Lane this evening and decided to use one. This one happens to be from the 1999-06-04 strip:

    Loved the strip, and love the evil grin avatar.

  23. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, 12 months ago

    Fearciuil: Sometimes these pictures don’t work quite as well in a tiny size. It was a Thomas Nast Santa.

  24. fear-ciuil

    fear-ciuil said, 12 months ago

    margueritem, I’ve noticed that about the tiny icon size. ::offers leftover homemade cranberry sauce as a peace offering::

  25. Sisyphos

    Sisyphos said, 12 months ago

    ‘Night, all. I hope everyone of us is well sated in spirit and body with Thanksgiving goodness.
    See y’all tomorrow, as we ponder the meaning of Pibgorn, young love as a boon to virtuosity, life, and haggis….

  26. fear-ciuil
  27. SirMirom

    SirMirom said, 12 months ago

    Spinky, Spinky, Spinky… falling prey to one of the classic blunders. The first is never get involved in a land war in Asia but only slightly less well known is never start monologuing when Dru is on the way!

  28. Gweedo Murray

    Gweedo Murray said, 12 months ago

    fear c your new icon certainly puts the fear in your name.

    fearciuil says now carries a new and potent urgent authority. Well done old girl.

    Do I see an evil grimace building ?

  29. Bender_Sastre

    Bender_Sastre said, 12 months ago

    Mr McEldowney once again does the same thing to me that I do to others on a daily basis: use words that no average human being knows, causing them to either scowl because they have been proven linguistically simple-minded, or smile and nod their head until they can discreetly grab a dictionary to cure their ignorance. I do the latter when encountering unfamiliar verbeage, but the people I usually interact with commonly react in the former fashion, so they all thinks I’m annoying. Maybe I need new friends?

  30. Adrienne Gormley

    Adrienne Gormley said, 12 months ago

    Bender:

    I’ve had many friends tell me that just from knowing me and talking to me, they’ve increased their vocabulary lots.

    OTOH, since I do write, words are my tools, so I had better know them :)

    (Yes, published; a handful of short stories in various science fiction anthologies).

  31. Gweedo Murray

    Gweedo Murray said, 12 months ago

    You need new friends Bender. They can at least be polite while they nod their head…

  32. Gweedo Murray

    Gweedo Murray said, 12 months ago

    I wonder if writer was part of the skiffy group craze going around England in the late 50’s, early 60’s.

  33. Garrulous

    Garrulous said, 12 months ago

    Black Friday, Black eye
    Nice fist

  34. ejcapulet

    ejcapuletGenius_badge said, 12 months ago

    Say goodnight, Spinky.

  35. barbhinkins

    barbhinkins said, 12 months ago

    SirMirom
    My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

  36. Story Teller

    Story Teller said, 12 months ago

    Oooh, BAY-bee! I cannot decide who I am more in love with, Drucilla or Prof. Berber. Great avatar, Fear. I love strong women, I do not fear them, which tends to confuse them, for some reason.

    SirMirom says: “Spinky, Spinky, Spinky… falling prey to one of the classic blunders. The first is never get involved in a land war in Asia but only slightly less well known is never start monologuing when Dru is on the way!”

    I suspect this falls under the heading of “If your gonna shoot, shoot! Don’t talk!” =)

  37. The Old Wolf

    The Old WolfGenius_badge said, 12 months ago

    @Bender_Sastre: Pull up a place on the couch. We’re a motley bunch here, with lexicons and noses both well-thumbed.
     
    @SirMirom: Any reference to the Princess Bride is a good reference! How’s the little one doing? You getting any sleep?

  38. Kaibyo

    Kaibyo said, 12 months ago

    Oh dear, Inky! “Hell hath no fury…..”

  39. Anyol'tomcat

    Anyol'tomcatGenius_badge said, 12 months ago

    Folks: an Aubergine is an [heh, heh] EGGplant.
    http://tinyurl.com/bprpz
    Brooke sometimes slips in a pun, esp. if he can be very sly with it. Roger has an oval-shaped head doesn’t he?

  40. Pokefan_Frank

    Pokefan_Frank said, 12 months ago

    Popysmatus, Roger’s last name literally is “Egg”. I personaly prefer to call them Brinjals, it makes translation into romance languages way easier.

    Siffywriter, oh really? in which ones?

    Ccdesan, I’m guessing he’s only up because of the little one

    Anybody: aparently Pib got her looks from Dr. Burber http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2003%2F12%2F1&name=9_Chickweed_Lane
    I wonder if Brooke McEldowney also got Pib’s right cross from her?

    Post #40. 7:30 EDT

  41. Anyol'tomcat

    Anyol'tomcatGenius_badge said, 12 months ago

    CwL: Please, let there be tape rolling.
     .
    Makes me think of Catullus’ [#51} translation of Sappho
    http://tinyurl.com/5zrrdd
    Guess it’s the bit about hearing “sweet laughter” and surpassing the gods-applicable to either A. or E.

  42. Anyol'tomcat

    Anyol'tomcatGenius_badge said, 12 months ago

    Pokefan_Frank: Brooke mentions [in interviews] his very first strip proposal, Luda, a medieval lutenist and itinerant female musician who had magical powers. Edda and Pib are both derived from her; Edda appears as a fairy with Pib’s body camo at least once after the Nov. 98 Chickweeds. I think Pib’s head is more oval than either Edda’s or Juliette’s though.
     
    Pib seems to have a lot of Edda’s black belt abilities, not just the right cross. She gives Satori at least one good kick before the tree impales them.

  43. Pokefan_Frank

    Pokefan_Frank said, 12 months ago

    fearciuil, even the elder generation has its moments of evil smiles
    http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2003%2F12%2F8&name=9_Chickweed_Lane

    However, her glasses (and possibly the lack of fangs) don’t make it nearly as frightening as your avatar

  44. Simon_Jester

    Simon_Jester said, 12 months ago

    What’s she gonna use, harsh language? Inky drained all her energy, remember?

  45. Joseph H

    Joseph H said, 12 months ago

    Ah, the Baiser de la Fee (and I’m probably butchering that because it’s been so long) works for demonesses too.

    And I KNEW it. I KNEW that WOW and MMORPG’s were the spawn of Satan. ;)

  46. Ranma_one_half

    Ranma_one_half said, 12 months ago

    Remember Pibgorn’s advice when she and Drucilla were merged?
    “Skip the plasma and deck the B…!”



    • I don’t think Spitinky and Dru ever used plasma on each other.
      With Spitinky doing his monologue, Dru could easily have gone to the lamp to restore her “Mojo”.

  47. Paigely

    PaigelyGenius_badge said, 12 months ago

    Inky, Inky, Inky. Dost thou not know? Thy doom is at hand, for thouest has started to monologue.

  48. aerwalt

    aerwaltGenius_badge said, 12 months ago

    47 Good morning all.

    Do not get the Succubus PO’ed.
    And somehow, Lena is going to help.

  49. Poms

    PomsGenius_badge said, 12 months ago

    A Happy Morning to the Couch. Hoping your bellies are full and hearts content and, of course, enjoying the cliff.



    • poppy = thanks for the EGGplant catch, I am still not in full brain mode..


    • fearciuil = another thanks for all your links - it helps when on the road. Also, love the avatar. You Go Girl!


    • Burgundy2 = Happy you are back.


    • Alikzam - Glad you are feeling well and hope you maintain your strength for the market mania today.


    • txmystic = Are you recovered from the Holiday?


    • frida - Hope you had a fun day with the power group of 22.
      *
      The Couch Crew - Thanks for all your comments and support. It has been an different Thanksgiving for me, though I am content and happy with my memories and the encouragement from friends here. Gratitude is a wonderful Response to what life brings us.


    • Hopefully able to post tomorrow. Enjoy the leftovers - if there are any

  50. txmystic

    txmysticGenius_badge said, 12 months ago

    OK, it really was an incubus disguising himself as Spitcock, greedily hoarding power to speed up the rush of Armaggeddon…

    Jeez, now that we know, it seems just a tad anticlimactic, cuz there are many unanswered questions regarding the Suzerain world.

    Oh well, enjoy digestion day/black Friday, all! Looking forward to seeing Dru send the Incubus flying, but what then? How does Dru get her mojo back? Does Geoff need to strap on the accordion again??