Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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paciii said, 11 months ago

9CwL’s up, Seth & Mark’s turn!!
Love the feet in the last frame! :)
emjrn said, 11 months ago

What happened to Inky’s cut marks from Satori’s blade?

And why is Inky looking at Satori like he looked at Dru???

If he tries to “merge” with Satori, will that drain the rest of his stored Mojo?

Questions, questions! Where are the answers?!
fear-ciuil said, 11 months ago

http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2008%2F12%2F3&name=9_Chickweed_Lane
Margueritem said, 11 months ago

Not at all what we had hoped for. Any guesses as to what his next move will be? Perhaps he’ll still step on Lena’s hoe, and knock himself out.
fear-ciuil said, 11 months ago

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fear-ciuil said, 11 months ago

Uh … whut? Servers???
Fairportfan said, 11 months ago

So Inky was the Suzerain. Interesting.

And i’ll repeat what i just said about the new 9CL:

Awwwww…
fear-ciuil said, 11 months ago

Huh. Well, anyway….

Remember to ‘favorite’ the strip!
paciii said, 11 months ago

Love the sky changing color…
and that Spinky’s hair gets bushier and bushier… maybe he’s getting younger and younger and will eventually be a baby demon… goo, goo, ZAP….

If he follows through from that last pain, he may get a bad taste in his mouth, depending on what else Roger has been able to program…
emjrn said, 11 months ago

I like the new 9CWL! A definite AWWWW moment!

Will have to catch up with the comments tomorrow. Have had lots of people in with a rather nasty gastro-intestinal bug, and unfortunately, I think they may have shared with me.

I may be talking with “Ralph on the porcelin phone” for a while.

Good night.
marlenewade said, 11 months ago

fearciuil says:

Huh. Well, anyway….

Remember to ‘favorite’ the strip!

I so glad everyone is following through with my suggestion. I mean, Pibgorn is our favorite, right?!
paciii said, 11 months ago

feel better emjrn!!

Already almost 1:30… I’ve GOT to get more sleep. (The practical side of me is hoping the next storylines won’t be so exciting so I can get to bed earlier without feeling like I’m missing things.)

See y’all from the corner of the couch later!!

OOooo… a thought, then I’m really gone… what if Roger is programming Satori to be able to assimilate powers when they hit her, like Dru… Won’t Spinky be surprised.
txmystic said, 11 months ago

well, this is just getting weird. Did roger reprogram this thing or not?? And Spincucock till has the ability to self-heal without regenerating…

Now, the last frame is quite telling…if he is able to feed off Satori, is she perhaps real after all? I mean, he says he programmed her to kill for him, but that doesn’t make her a program, does it?

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm………

I think this calls for a return to ye olde Absinthe. With lemonade, this time…
marlenewade said, 11 months ago

Well, well, well, what is Roger going to do now, especially with that lecherous grin that Inky is giving Satori in the last panel!
Sisyphos said, 11 months ago

The six gaping wounds in Satori, in a gallows humor vein, put me in mind of Fearless Fosdick, L’il Abner’s hero, who often looked like Swiss cheese but always snapped back. So should our Satori, somehow!
Sisyphos said, 11 months ago

Artistically, it may be better left to our imaginations, but seeing that it brought a tear to Seth’s eye, I really am wondering now, what is the magical music piece that Edda and Amos are playing? Is it a selection from the Romantics?
CaptainNerd said, 11 months ago

Well, darn…

I notice his face is more human when he tells Satori that he’s her Suzerain. Probably doesn’t mean anything…

I think I have to stop reading this when it’s first posted, it makes waiting for the next one feel like even longer.
Fairportfan said, 11 months ago

Sisyphos says:

“Artistically, it may be better left to our imaginations, but seeing that it brought a tear to Seth’s eye, I really am wondering now, what is the magical music piece that Edda and Amos are playing? Is it a selection from the Romantics?”

The general concensus in the comments over at comics.com is that people woud favour a particular Rachmaninoff concerto for piano and cello. (Can’t recall what beyond that, though.)
fear-ciuil said, 11 months ago

“Say ‘good night,’ Gracie.”

“Good night, Gracie!”
jml58 said, 11 months ago

Progam has been changed.
Spinky is now designated enemy.
Fairportfan said, 11 months ago

Interesting change in dialog in panel 1 between the sketch and finish.
Sisyphos said, 11 months ago

Inky, it seems to me, is speaking recklessly in asserting that he *is* Satori’s Suzerain, for he is still speaking as the Programmer, whereas now he is in, and is part of, the VR and bound by its rules and programming, too. He will be less necrophiliac when Satori “undies” and rejoins (with some of the other Good Guys?) in putting him DOWN.
The Old Wolf said, 11 months ago

@emjrn: Oh geez, hope it’s not as bad as you fear, and that you feel better soon. GI bugs must be destroyed! (And those who treat other’s ailments ought, by law, right and fiat, to be exempt!) >:^G

9CWL: Aw¹⁰⁰! (A GoogolAw) sniff

Aha, aha. Spinky is the suzerain. I should have seen that one coming, after his boring exultation over Roger. And now Roger has overridden her directive. Interesting plot twist.

As emjrn said, “Questions, question.” I wonder if Mr. McE intends to keep this arc running for 20 more days, and use January 1 as the start of a new arc, or if this one will spill over into 2009? I know there are a few folks who are wishing for a new story, but I’m not tired yet. Still, I have a hard time believing Satori’s been going for 1¾ years!
AliKzam said, 11 months ago

Well, no matter what happens to Satori, Inky just used some of his mojo. Guess who’s powering the game, now?
I’ve tried to write this ten different ways, and it doesn’t sound right, so I’ll just say it plainly: I don’t think we’ve seen the last of Diggory Spitcock.
The Old Wolf said, 11 months ago

Over at Chickweed, a fan named KingRat wrote: “I can see the headlines now: Sept 7, 2009 human population increases by 30% in less than one week.”

I’m still chuckling over that one.
Ranma_one_half said, 11 months ago

DM must have rolled an odd number. Inky still has the power to regenerate.
desertdwlr said, 11 months ago

here comes the tounge thing again
Gweedo Murray said, 11 months ago

And to think I used to read those goody goody/bad Archie comics.
Nice She-Hulk Graphic fairport.

Thevenbede I find this kind of news sadly, distressing and can only imagine what your friends are going through right now. I wish you the best as you go about providing the support these people will surely need. I laud your planning in regard to your own situation. You’re gonna get through okay.
Ranma_one_half said, 11 months ago

New Girl Genius is up.
Ranma_one_half said, 11 months ago

You kill me, I kill you, you kill me, I kill you, etc…
VermilionSparrow said, 11 months ago

I’ve been reading this strip for years and I still can never tell what’s going on from one strip to the next, or often one panel to the next.

While it utterly amazes me that anyone can discern a plot, I still read it because I just CAN’T NOT.

I don’t understand at all.
Ranma_one_half said, 11 months ago
Sparrow:
Maybe this will help;
- White Roger(White Rabbit-Jefferson Airplane)
One kiss makes you larger
And one kiss makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don’t do anything at all
Go ask Pibby
When she’s ten feet tall

And if you go chasing demons
And you know you’re going to fall
Tell ‘em a garbage eating housefly
Has given you the call
Recall Pibby
When she was just small

When men on the minotaur
Get up and tell you where to go
And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Pibby
I think she’ll know

When toadies and Drucilla
Have fallen seeming dead
And the White Knight is stalking Roger
And the Red Queen’s “off with his head!”
Remember what the housefly said;
“STUPID DEMONS

STUPID DEMONS”
SirMirom said, 11 months ago

Ranma, your version is a psychedelic as the original. Well done!

I do NOT like what the last panel here portends for Satori, be she digital maiden or no, gosh, you should still get her consent!

And I very much enjoy how contorted Spinky is in panel one - what Brooke has to do to keep this a family feature!
ejcapulet said, 11 months ago

9 CWL, I think Mark and Seth are such a cute (and hilariously mis-matched sometimes) couple.
ejcapulet said, 11 months ago

I wonder what little “alterations” Roger made? I wonder if Inky is about to find out the hard way.
Galford said, 11 months ago

I can tell you now, that if Satori was a real person, she would seriously not like the angle that the first frame was taken from!

Plus, why is everyone so surprised that Spinky’s blood has disappeared? This is a computer game! Have you not seen Mortal Kombat?? I’ll bet it’s only rated ‘T’ by the ESRB!

Also, chill out people! Why is everyone in such a hurry for the arc to finish? Enjoy the ride while you can!
The Old Wolf said, 11 months ago

@VermillionSparrow: It helps to read an entire arc at once. Plot summaries are available - check the link posted by Fearciuil above.

@Ranma: Outstanding. I can hear the music in my head as I read it. That’s stuff I grew up with.

The physiques are wrong, but I saw Seth and Mark reflected in Luann for December 3…
Bill Case said, 11 months ago

{Sliding back into the cushions} Never mind. Sigh - I see it. Time for new glasses!
Bill Case said, 11 months ago

{Pokes head out from between the couch cushions} Sorry. How does one FAVORITE a strip. I see nothing on the site which allows be to do so.
Shalamett said, 11 months ago

thevenbede I can’t even imagine how your neighbors feel. I have been through seven miscarriages in 10 years (with still no luck), but they have always been in the first trimester. Not nearly as devastating, I’m sure. I actually might be adopting my niece’s baby in January, depending on her decision. Those of you that pray, please pray that whatever she decides is the best thing for the baby (even if it’s not us).

Bill Case I did that same exact thing yesterday. Why is it that we look and look for something like that, only to find it AFTER we say we can’t find it. LOL
inshadowz said, 11 months ago

On “Santa Baby”

Thanks to everyone for outstanding detective work. The version I was looking for was indeed the one with Madonna, and it is now thoroughly acquired and added to my collection :)

Planning to make a music CD as a countermeasure weapon for when I overdose (or choke) on one too many of my girfriend’s more thoroughly annoying Christmas carols that tend to inhabit the CD player in eternal repeat mode for the entire month of December (and then some). Some of them are as kind to my ears as bits of chalk screeching across a blackboard. The CD will include every version of that song that I’ve found, including of course the one that she does like which is Miss Piggy’s number ;)

For the record, I’ve nothing against Carols, but some are more wearing on the ears than others ;)

Incidentally, I was somewhat amused to read that Wikipedia lists both Miss Piggy and RuPaul among the countless female artists who have covered the song. Both Frank Oz (Miss Piggy’s voice) and RuPaul are quite male. I know, I have a strange sense of humour ;)

ccdesan says: You probably saw the video of the Betty Boop doll

No, haven’t seen that before, although I do seem to remember one or more of Madonna’s music videos from the good old Eighties featuring Betty Boop as her cartoon animated alter ego. And the “Santa Baby” song comes complete with an oh so Betty Boopy “ba-boop-de-boop” somewhere in the middle.

Frida Bonita says: Congratulations on the apple pie. Mae Questel was the voice of Betty Boop. I can only find one youtube version and it’s very poor quality

Thank you :) The apple pie was for my turn to show up with cake for the weekly team meeting at work (a new tradition we’ve taken up), and was well received by all my colleagues. I’ll number it a surprising success :) And thanks for the video link. Is that Mae Questel’s voice, or another cover?
inshadowz said, 11 months ago

ccdesan and Gweedo: Thanks for kind words on my Venus shot :)

Gweedo, thankl you very much for that extensive comment on my photos. I now have a (way) better camera, and am only waiting for NJ to be unaware of its presence for long enough to let me get a couple of shots in. Downside is that it’s (way) more difficult to do candid or surprise shots with a big SLR than with a tiny compact ;) Congrats on your new camera. I hope you’ll have lots of fun with it :)
inshadowz said, 11 months ago

Actually on topic (a rare occurrence for me): What would you say are the odds that Roger has booby-trapped* Satori for Spinky’s (dis)pleasure, and that her apparent death merely serves as bait and distraction?

* No, I’m not talking about her “Bleeeps” – not this time anyway.
DriverEd said, 11 months ago

Perhaps they’re each subject to their own preprogrammed desires.
Radical-Knight said, 11 months ago

I, for one, am not in a hurry for this story arc to end. Although I do try to see ahead in events or possibilities, I prefer the unexpected twists and surprises. I am unimpressed by movies or books where events are too predictable.
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McE can masterfully spin a great web.
SirMirom said, 11 months ago

Shalamett, amen! I was blessed to have two successful IVF pregnancies… and I’ve had miscarriages as well. May you end up with a child soon, whichever way God chooses to send it to you.
Pokefan_Frank said, 11 months ago

Love Satori’s expression in panel 2; it’s the same expression she wore when Roger said something like “And just for the record, I LOVE YOU! It being a recently-discovered affinity of mine to communicate one’s affection before dieing”

emjrn:
“What happened to Inky’s cut marks from Satori’s blade?”

It’s a video-game world, remember? You “lose”, you regenerate… which brings the question of whether Spitcock will have to change his plans if Satori comes back to life in his arms
Bucky Katt said, 11 months ago

So what’s the reason for favoriting a comic? I must have missed that conversation.

So, will Satori not regenerate since she was killed by the Suzerain? Is that why he’s bumming?
TiggerLeBounce said, 11 months ago

Nicely done parody, Ranma!

No brownies today, but I did bring an urn of coffee with all the fixings!

And feel better, emjrn! That’s no way to spend a day!
Burgundy2 said, 11 months ago

Love the White Roger, Ranma!