Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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fear-ciuil said, 11 months ago

Don’t forget to ‘favorite’ the strip!
Margueritem said, 11 months ago

Roger does appear to be in charge. In the middle panel, are those the ‘birds’ that we questioned a while back?
fear-ciuil said, 11 months ago

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Adrienne Gormley said, 11 months ago

I believe those are all the scimitars he’s blowing into orbit.

This ought to be interesting.
Adrienne Gormley said, 11 months ago

Oh, and at Girl Genius, what a pumpkin coach for the holiday version of Cinderella. :)
fear-ciuil said, 11 months ago

9CWL:
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2008%2F12%2F8&name=9_Chickweed_Lane
Sisyphos said, 11 months ago

Not just the 38 scimitars, Adrienne: there are far more specks in the centre-panel sky.
Sisyphos said, 11 months ago

margueritem, I have the same question; bits o’ Satoris?
Sisyphos said, 11 months ago

Is Roger waiting to send in a second wave of Satoris? –Or maybe just one, to finish the job?
Ranma_one_half said, 11 months ago

Wait for it!!
Roger knows RPGs!
paciii said, 11 months ago

Maybe instead of “Spinky” we should call him “Sparky” since he seems, at least so far, to have that as a favorite offensive “weapon”.
Lampblack said, 11 months ago

Could someone explain the usefulness of favoriting the strip? Does McEldowney get money for having the most-favorited strip? Do we get free teddy bears?
paciii said, 11 months ago

If nothing else, if we all favorite the strip, we can get a count of the number of unique logins that have viewed the strip for any given day (so we know how many donuts to bring to the couch next time…) Twizzlers and Peanut-butter cups on the end table for those that want a sugar rush… Night all!!
paciii said, 11 months ago

Wonder if Roger’s programed a mojo-meter to track his level so he knows when to stop biding and unveil his next hack…
Sisyphos said, 11 months ago

Does 9CWL remind anyone else of the old classic Bob and Ray “slow talker” routine?
Fairportfan said, 11 months ago

…incidentally, i thought that the kind of perv … i mean, art lovers … who approve so heartils of Dru would enjoy today’s Luann: http://tinyurl.com/59ferh
Fairportfan said, 11 months ago

EEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!
Fairportfan said, 11 months ago

fearciuil:

Is that avatar a touch of nostalgia for what will be no more?
fear-ciuil said, 11 months ago

fairportfan said:
fearciuil:

Is that avatar a touch of nostalgia for what will be no more?

Explain your meaning, sir, if you please.

: )
Sisyphos said, 11 months ago

Joe Minotaur, read all the parody postings at your site and like them all, but I especially “fell” for Dru’s Falling in a Farmer’s Pastureland. Seasonal, you know.
fear-ciuil said, 11 months ago

Charles said:
Could someone explain the usefulness of favoriting the strip? Does McEldowney get money for having the most-favorited strip? Do we get free teddy bears?

I believe the theory is that ‘favoriting’ strips is something like a popularity contest; at worst, we’re telling someone (or something; whatever is keeping track of strips that have been ‘favorited’) that Mr. McE’s work is popular; at best, said popularity will give Mr. McE more artistic freedom.

Or something like that. I’ve got a stomach bug at the moment and am feeling somewhat less-than-completely-coherent.
Ranma_one_half said, 11 months ago

sisyphos:
If you go back to the 11/26/08 strip and read that one again, it’s even better.
Ranma_one_half said, 11 months ago

To “Favorite” a strip, you have to be registered. This will give the webhost a tally of those registered who like one strip better than others and may influence which strips remain and which do not when it is time to renew the artists contracts.
Sisyphos said, 11 months ago

Ranma_one_half: hmmmmm. Your secret identity is safe with me, he said to the superhero.
wndrwrthg said, 11 months ago

Those appear to be “m” birds.
Fly Guy said, 11 months ago

It seems to me the comment count (and Quality) would be a good
measure to encourage advertisers, also the hit count could
be useful. If each of us refreshes 20 to 40 times an evening that
would raise the hit count. Now PibPress represents 99.2% of the
ads seen here, maybe they have an exclusive on this.
Mikkail said, 11 months ago

Greetings, all. It seems we are moving towards a denouement - but I am kind of sorry to see Roger being so careless with the Satoris. I know they are NPC’s and all that, but I was hoping he’s find some way to get her out of Suzerain.
Hroth said, 11 months ago
Is it just me, or does Dru appear a tad peeved in the last frame? Roger is lucky that she’s currently mojo-less!
- Of course, even being ravished by a mojo-less Dru has its attractions….
Garrulous said, 11 months ago

mikkail says:
“Greetings, all. It seems we are moving towards a denouement - but I am kind of sorry to see Roger being so careless with the Satoris. I know they are NPC’s and all that, but I was hoping he’s find some way to get her out of Suzerain.”
Patience Mikkail, This long and wonderful story will have MR.Mc directing Roger to choreograph these final events to lead to a fine and proper conclusion.

This is always my favorited strip.
Fairportfan said, 11 months ago

Hroth says:

“Of course, even being ravished by a mojo-less Dru has its attractions….”

One of which is that one is more likelt to actually remember the occasion, later in life, when one is acreaky od codger with a long grey beard, whomnot even Viagra can help any more, sitting by the fire, reminiscing…

That is: http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2008/pib080707.gif

(Incidientally, looking back to find that page, i loved the way that Pib’s markings in Dru’s colour look like black opera gloves and thigh-high stckings…
Fairportfan said, 11 months ago

Here i am again - may i invite you to my most recent blog post: http://mog.com/fairportfan/blog/258158
ejcapulet said, 11 months ago

Aha! So once Spinky is out of oomph, it’s time to go in for the kill?
Story Teller said, 11 months ago

fearciuil says: “Don’t forget to ‘favorite’ the strip!”

I’m afraid I have to add my vote…add this to the boilerplate along with a description of how to do it and an explanation why.

Please.

In addition to “favoriting,” if you make this your homepage it will tag something in the web browsers and…oh, I shouldn’t have slept through HTML class that day!
SirMirom said, 11 months ago

Theory: Roger will wait for Spinky to hit ‘empty’ and will either then block him from rejuicing, or will send in the ‘real’ Satori to get him when he’s powerless.

Brouhahahahaha!
WoodGracie said, 11 months ago

Those are birds taking flight with surprise due to the crack of electrical mojo bursting through the tree tops from the clearing.

How is Dru going to get her mojo back? Someone mentioned something about going back to hell, but didn’t I read in the background info something about her rejecting evil? Can she still go back?
mmm twizzlers (chew chew chew)
Pokefan_Frank said, 11 months ago

So… do we get another plethora of Satoris now? I have the feeling that any more than 38 Satoris will have them talking amongst themselves. Satori: “Why am I beside myself?”

I think Dru’s scorn in the last panel is more like “If you’re taking the Mojo back, why aren’t you giving it to me?”

OK, I think I’ve just sent myself to the couch. D’oh
fatuncle said, 11 months ago

Oh, yes. The old annoy-the-demon-and-suction-pump-the-mojo-out-of-him trick. Works every time.

Except, of course, when it doesn’t.
Fairportfan said, 11 months ago

WoodGracie says:

“How is Dru going to get her mojo back? Someone mentioned something about going back to hell, but didn’t I read in the background info something about her rejecting evil? Can she still go back?”

She’s been back once or twice since then - one time when she was bored, she dived down to spend a nice relaxing afternoon lolling on an obsidian crag in the middle of a lava lake…
Glomar said, 11 months ago

I’ve located Luciano - seems he’s visiting Liberty Meadows today!!!
inshadowz said, 11 months ago

Fly Guy says: *It seems to me the comment count (and Quality) would be a good
measure to encourage advertisers*

Sadly, in that context, I find that ads slow down the page something terrible, sometimes to the point of being inaccessible (possibly on account of the ad servers and me being on opposite sides of the Atlantic). Hence I’ve invoked AdBlock to remove the delay and let me read my beloved Pibgorn. And it’s not the only place where I’ve had to remove ads to be able to access. The least the advertisers could do is make sure their ads are stored on servers with enough mojo to meet the pressure of Pib readers. What the heck is the point in having broadband if most of your time is spent standing in line for ads anyway?
The Old Wolf said, 11 months ago

@Fearciuil, yuck. Hope you feel better soon.

Those m-birds do make me wonder if what we saw before was an echo of spinky’s Mojo blast.

Dru’s getting impatient, but I’m confident Roger knows what he’s doing. You don’t bide your time unless you know what you’re waiting for.

@Fairportfan: interesting link, I hadn’t heard about the Bratz brouhaha, even though those little beasties made me cringe the first day I saw them.

Greg Evans is venturing into territory he has usually left untouched… uh, I mean unexplored… uh…
thevenbede said, 11 months ago

Second/third/fifth (take a little wine for thy stomach’s sake?) the good wishes Fearciuil. It’s a nasty bug that’s making the rounds. My son’s got it and and to cancel his birthday dinner with us yesterday.

We may be winding to a denoument but I think we’ve still got a way to go. If Roger’s biding his time, that must mean the maestro’s is gathering up all the loose ends and putting them in order also. But at least for this week the question will probably be what’s going on with Satori. Was Satori, or rather were the Satoris, changed into birds?
refuse to believe Luciano’s just been on a tour of other comic strips all these weeks. There are so many other things that need ‘splaining, too.
Rats, gotta leave for work, it’s 8 in the mayhem on this side of the farm and the kiddos await. I’ve left cheesey scrambled eggs with chives and Canadian bacon under that silver cover on the hot tray, assorted muffins in the covered basket, and there’s fresh-squeezed oj in the pitcher, Sumatra/French roast coffee is in the thermos. Have a good day all-thanks for the peanut butter cups, I snagged a couple for snack time, Pacii!
txmystic said, 11 months ago

Sweet! I walk to the couch and Thevenbede has left this wonderful spread, Thanks!

Feel better, fearciuil–my old wives’ cure for a stomach bug: 1 Teaspoon of Coca-Cola every 15 minutes for like an entire day. Has never failed.

One comment on the strip–I hope Roger remebered to keep the mojo lamp plugged in!!
txmystic said, 11 months ago

That middle pane looks a heckuva lot like the last panel of 12/21/07:

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

Any thoughts? That one has had much discussion on the couch for a long time…
Moe A. said, 11 months ago

Good morning.
Denouement indeed…. Begs the questions of course: 1. where exactly is that mojo going; 2. wonder why Dru hasn’t made a move for the lamp just in case Spinky merely took a fix rather than draining it?
So many questions, so little coffee.
Enjoy the day, folks.
-Moe & Donna
edcoyote said, 11 months ago

Regarding Luann, Greg Evans seems to open up the strip a little when Toni makes an appearance. If you can, check out the strips from 04/18/2007 and 04/19/2007.

She had me at banana.

–Ed
fieromike1945 said, 11 months ago

My bet is that those ‘birds’ are really bats…
gjbivin said, 11 months ago

I don’t think there’s much significance to the birds except as a visual effect – every bird in the forest startled into flight by the blast (in the case of today’s strip), or scream (in the case of Lena’s original predicament).
acswebb said, 11 months ago

Okay, one more time about the favoriting - do you favorite every day, or only once per subscriber?

The birds are probably there to give some depth to the image of the lightning, it makes a bigger impact.

Mmmm, apple cinnamon muffin, thanks thevenbede!
Orgelspieler said, 11 months ago

I could go for a free teddy bear. (favoriting NOW)