Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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  1. fear-ciuil

    fear-ciuil said, 11 months ago

    Don’t forget to ‘favorite’ the strip!

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    These are unofficial sites created by one of our very own: CCDesan.
     
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    The 3D pages are created by another of our own, fairportfan.
     
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    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.
     
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  2. thevenbede

    thevenbede said, 11 months ago

    uh oh Roger, methinks you are in trouble

  3. Ranma_one_half

    Ranma_one_half said, 11 months ago

    …Maybe a Bloody Mary?

  4. The Old Wolf

    The Old WolfGenius_badge said, 11 months ago

    That ain’t your granddaddy’s Drusilla… who’s coming to the rescue tomorrow?

  5. emjrn

    emjrn said, 11 months ago

    Dru really doesn’t look like herself at all….and Roger seems to be remarkably calm with her about to impale his neck.

  6. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, 11 months ago

    Dru, restrain yourself, he’s one of the good guys! Thank heaven it’s not the Friday cliff hanger.

  7. paciii

    paciiiGenius_badge said, 11 months ago

    She’ up and at him, and wanting something hot, but not cocoa…

  8. Gweedo Murray

    Gweedo Murray said, 11 months ago

    Heyyy… Pib! Glad you could Stop by. Pib???

  9. thevenbede

    thevenbede said, 11 months ago

    Let’s hope she’s not listening to Seth & Mark…I don’t think Roger would look good moitalized.

  10. emjrn

    emjrn said, 11 months ago

    Good night all. Am leaving a coffee and cream cheesecake (with kahlua) on the table next to the couch. Maybe if we offered some to Dru she would leave Roger intact…..nah! Probably not.

    Will catch up tomorrow.

  11. Ranma_one_half

    Ranma_one_half said, 11 months ago

    And it’s Roger in the lead, but Drucilla is breathing down his neck! Mojo Lamp is no longer in the running and Hot Cocoa is still on the back burner.

  12. AliKzam

    AliKzam said, 11 months ago

    Somebody save him! Fight it, Dru! Fight the demon, Demon! Who will save Roger? A giant danger is in this house, who could possibly fly in and stop this?
    Too subtle?

  13. thevenbede

    thevenbede said, 11 months ago

    Last batch of palmieres just came out of the oven and is heading toward the end table. Don’t you guys in the pool splash all over it-there’s nothing worse than soggy puff pastry….well, maybe Roger could think of something snerk . But I’m just going to pour a small glass of wine & then head for bed.

  14. wndrwrthg

    wndrwrthgGenius_badge said, 11 months ago

    “Lunch is on me”.
    To those who had to clean up my mess yesterday (smeared jello, scorched couch), sorry about that, I was delayed getting back, so thank you. A snifter of Brandy for everyone.

  15. AliKzam

    AliKzam said, 11 months ago

    Oh, good. I wasn’t too subtle.
    (I am referring to the post below mine.)

  16. thevenbede

    thevenbede said, 11 months ago

    You know, I think this might could be a good time for Pib or Luciano to show up. My first thought was Lena and/or Satori, but there is probably too much Spinky in Dru right now for that to be efficacious.

  17. debra4life50

    debra4life50 said, 11 months ago

    Maybe Roger’s little sis will turn up with that hoe of hers.

  18. Frida Bonita

    Frida Bonita said, 11 months ago

    I love Roger’s fingers gripping the frame in the last panel.

    Dru needs a Pib kiss.
    Roger needs a ???

  19. Ranma_one_half

    Ranma_one_half said, 11 months ago

    Almost forgot! I put in an order for the two Pibogrn books(Girl in the Coffee Cup and Midsummer Night’s dream). They were sitting at my front door when I got home tonight! I ordered them Saturday and paid with PayPal. Thank-you PIB PRESS!

  20. Sisyphos

    Sisyphos said, 11 months ago

    Egad! I was dozing at the witching hour! Maybe
    Vampirilla will come to her senses in time to drop Roger and proceed to her true adversary. Besides, I don’t think hot cocoa would be quite the appropriate beverage just here.

  21. Sisyphos

    Sisyphos said, 11 months ago

    Would a little drop of virgin’s blood cure what ails Dru?! (I kinda think Roger is not yet carnally experienced.)

  22. Mikkail

    MikkailGenius_badge said, 11 months ago

    And I have to say - that is one bad overbite. Time to see Jessica, Darling (Thanks, Ranmaonehalf!)

    Why are comments out of order??

  23. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, 11 months ago

    Her pink ears are clashing with her new black and demon red look.

  24. Mikkail

    MikkailGenius_badge said, 11 months ago

    Greetings, all. Just in time for a nightcap… I seem to recall a previous time when Dru bit someone - Oognat - to return to normal. Deja vu?

  25. Sisyphos

    Sisyphos said, 11 months ago

    9CWL: I barely remember the Bowery Boys from tv reruns in my early youth; how did Amos come up with that reference so fast, and does he expect Edda to get it?! (EDIT: Maybe its been a dvd “thing” in their little circle?)

  26. Fairportfan

    Fairportfan said, 11 months ago

    Ruh-roh!
     
    I can see one Heaven of a cliff-hanger coming tomorrow…

  27. fear-ciuil

    fear-ciuil said, 11 months ago

    mikkail said:
    Why are comments out of order??
     
    The collective best guess from those who know of what they speak is that gocomics uses multiple servers, which are not time-synchronized. So, depending through which server your comment was routed, the time stamp may vary by as much as five minutes, resulting in disordered comments.
     
    An annoying little quirk, yes.

  28. Sisyphos

    Sisyphos said, 11 months ago

    Re: NW side Chicago & plastic seatcovers: I still have them in my condo, a legacy from Mom, however, who was mostly Polish (while Dad was Italian). We lived on the NW side or in contiguous suburbs most of the time. I still do.

  29. Fairportfan

    Fairportfan said, 11 months ago

    Did Dru always have a cute little snub nose?

  30. Frida Bonita

    Frida Bonita said, 11 months ago

    Drucilla, the red dappled succubus

    had a way too much mojo.
    And if you ever saw her,
    you would even say it glows.

    All of the other demons
    used to laugh and call her names.
    They tried to suck Dru’s energy
    in a weird Suzerain game.

    Then one fateful encounter with Ink
    Roger came to say:
    “Drucilla with your mojo plight,
    won’t you aide in destroying Inky tonight?”

    Then all beings felt grim
    as they shouted out “OH GEE,”
    Drucilla the red dappled succubus,
    you need a Pib kissory!

  31. tallwoman41

    tallwoman41 said, 11 months ago

    And here’s to you, demon Drusilla,
    your Mojo’s rising fast as it can go…
    whoa whoa whoa
    What’s that you say, demon Drusilla,
    the fangs are out…and he can’t get away…
    hey hey hey…hey hey hey

  32. fear-ciuil
  33. Sisyphos

    Sisyphos said, 11 months ago

    The more I look at Dru [and I do that a lot], the more I suspect she not being aggressive here, strictly speaking; for one, her claws are not out; and, secondly, her grip on Roger seems almost gentle (like a moma tiger with her cub). So maybe she does need, and knows it, just a little drop of his innocent blood as an antidote to her Inky infection.

  34. Fairportfan

    Fairportfan said, 11 months ago

    Sisyphos says:

    “The more I look at Dru [and I do that a lot], the more I suspect she not being aggressive here, strictly speaking; for one, her claws are not out; and, secondly, her grip on Roger seems almost gentle (like a moma tiger with her cub). So maybe she does need, and knows it, just a little drop of his innocent blood as an antidote to her Inky infection.”
     
    Roger, of course, not being privy to her thoughts, is ready to begin a new career as a superhero known as Golden Shower…

  35. tallwoman41

    tallwoman41 said, 11 months ago

    I bid you all a fond so long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, good night.
    I leave a nice pan of fudge and cold eggnog (bourbon anyone?) by the couch. Watch out, the cat is climbing the Pib Tree.
    Hey…when did we get a pool?!

  36. geckohale

    geckohaleGenius_badge said, 11 months ago

    This better turn into a passionate kiss – MINUS THE TEETH – or I am going to be sorely disappointed with the whole turn of events.

  37. Sisyphos

    Sisyphos said, 11 months ago

    Not a perfect match, but analogous in enough points to merit recalling: Dark Lady animation: http://tinyurl.com/3t2uzd

  38. ejcapulet

    ejcapuletGenius_badge said, 11 months ago

    I hope this isn’t going to turn into a succubus version of a not-so-simple thank-you. The “simple” version could unnerve a FAIRY!

  39. fear-ciuil

    fear-ciuil said, 11 months ago

    Post 40
    Bonne nuit, Minotaureans.

  40. Fairportfan

    Fairportfan said, 11 months ago

    For some reason, i’m in animation mode today: http://tinyurl.com/5yqmw9

  41. Sisyphos

    Sisyphos said, 11 months ago

    fairportfan, good conversion! Got it on my (Mac) Desktop!

  42. bigchiroal

    bigchiroal said, 11 months ago

    “gg015879 said
    “fairportfan says:
    “Ranmaonehalf says:
    “’CWL: How did this woman make it this far, if her playing is so inferior that she can’t compete with Roger? Will she blame Roger’s cello next if she loses?’
    “Ummm, would you care to reparse those sentences?”
    “For those of us who were never required to diagram sentences,
    What is the deal with the sentences?”

    No diagramming necessary. What is Roger doing playing cello?”
    .
    Like they said in National Lampoon’s Animal House, when Bluto commented about “Did they give up after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor”: “Don’t stop him, he’s on a roll!”

  43. Shalamett

    ShalamettGenius_badge said, 11 months ago

    Nice animation, fairportfan.

    I still never have been able to get registered on TAC. Never got a confirmation e-mail.

  44. Fairportfan

    Fairportfan said, 11 months ago

    Shalamett* says:

    “I still never have been able to get registered on TAC. Never got a confirmation e-mail.”
     
    What e-mail are you using? If it’s GMail, it eill probably dump it to the spam trap, i discovered.
     
    If you’e not using GMail, why not set up an account there, use it to register, fish the confirm out of the spam trap, and then change the e-mail in yourprofile to your preferred one?
     
    If you are using GMail, and checking the spam folder doesn’t find the confirmation, then i don’t know what to do…

  45. Shalamett

    ShalamettGenius_badge said, 11 months ago

    fairportfan

    Thanks for the advice. I had to change my ID to Shala since my previous attempt had Shalamett in use. I use AOL but the confirmation email never even went to the spam folder. The gmail address worked a charm. Thanks!

  46. Ranma_one_half

    Ranma_one_half said, 11 months ago

    fairportfan:
    http://tinyurl.com/4avwtl
    Near as I can tell from my archives is that the panel in question is from the strip dated: 1998/12/08.
    If you have the whole strip, compare the date with another strip that is from the 8th of any month. You should be able to tell by Brooke’s handwriting.

  47. Fairportfan

    Fairportfan said, 11 months ago

    Shalamett says:

    “The gmail address worked a charm. Thanks!”
     
    As a friend said, after i fixed his Apple II {which a Georgia Tech Electrical Engineering friend of ours had pored over fruitlessly for a couple hours) in less than thirty minutes after i looked at the schematics for the first time:
     
    “That’s the difference between an engineer and a technician!”
     
    Techs tend to look for ways to make things work; engineers tend to try to figure out why they aren’t working as they should.
     
    (It’s a situation not unlike senior enlisted personnel and officers up to about the rank of Lieutenant {Navy} or Captain {Army}…)

  48. Ranma_one_half

    Ranma_one_half said, 11 months ago

    Frida!
    You need to get some sleep!
    Me Too!

  49. Fairportfan

    Fairportfan said, 11 months ago

    GEE1A says:

    “bigchiroal says:

    “Like they said in National Lampoon’s Animal House, when Bluto commented about ‘Did they give up after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor’

    “Actually they did, Japan was acting as a surrogate for the 3d Reich”
     
    Not hardly - Hitler and his crew wanted nothing to do with anything that would bring the US into the war as an active belligerent.
     
    Bombing Pearl Harbor was strictly part of a Pacific Rim power grab on the part of the Japanese.
     
    Germany declared war on the US because they were bound by treaty to support Japan when the US declared war on it.

  50. Pokefan_Frank

    Pokefan_Frank said, 11 months ago

    Brooke Mc Eldowney has quite a thing for evil grins, though I can definitely say these are not without reason!