Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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The Old Wolf said, 11 months ago

Banzai!

The “Divine Wind” of Drusilla is about to crash into Inky’s con tower…
fear-ciuil said, 11 months ago

And the boilerplate is on the ”off” server. Again.
Sisyphos said, 11 months ago

Dru kinda puts me in mind of those WWE wrestlers who specialize in flamboyant aerial assaults…
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Margueritem said, 11 months ago

Drusilla is coming, and she’s not happy!
Sisyphos said, 11 months ago

You know, you’ve got to admire, a teeny bit, the resilience of Inky: he’s running pretty bleeep well for a demon who just had his “clock” punched!

[EDIT: what you do to socks, not what holds back water, got bleeped!]
The Old Wolf said, 11 months ago

If you can tear your eyes away from other more interesting items, look at Drusilla’s hands… oh yikes, Inky… you’re in deep tapioca now.
baslim_the_begger said, 11 months ago

Out of the frying pan…

I’m thinking this embrace will be different from the previous ones…
9CWL: LOL.
The Old Wolf said, 11 months ago

Time to climb the wooden hill. Pleasant dreams to all, until Christmas Eve day on the morrow.
Joe Minotaur said, 11 months ago
Pibgorn: “Target sighted, same is SUNK!”
- 9CWL: Juliette, Juliette, Juliette.
fear-ciuil said, 11 months ago

Sisyphos said:
Pithily posed problem, my pre-poster!

Preposterous!

::snerk:: Okay, I’ll be good. I promise.
::crosses fingers::

EDIT: Yes, I moved this.
debra4life50 said, 11 months ago

Merry Christmas Eve Day everyone!!
jml58 said, 11 months ago

Rest in pieceses
Sisyphos said, 11 months ago

Hmmm. I think Drusilla is not so much early atom bomb (see someone’s tag) as the latest smart air-to-ground missile! –Hellfire!
GrumpyOldbear said, 11 months ago

God Jul och Skol
Joe Minotaur said, 11 months ago
Is Spitcock running through the same cow pasture that Pibgorn rescued Dru from falling into…?
If so, then he should also look out for “Landmines”.
- “Inky’s running through a Farmer’s Pastureland”, just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
oCinneide said, 11 months ago

“Seek and Destroy”? Seems to fit…
PB Fudge is available for anyone interested. I’m off for tilting at windmills.., er, doing the dishes then for the Land of Nod.

Cheers and Merry Christmas!
Fairportfan said, 11 months ago

That is gonna HURT.

Juliette - you’re a married lady, remember?
Gweedo Murray said, 11 months ago

Sisyphos says:

“Hmmm. I think Drusilla is not so much early atom bomb (see someone’s tag) as the latest smart air-to-ground missile! –Hellfire!”

That’s my tag. I looked it up briefly and I’ll give you that the approach on the moving target is “SMART” style. I was thinking more in terms of the impact.
Joe Minotaur said, 11 months ago

As drained as he is, this may be Spitcock’s true form. He may be running back to the lab to try to recharge off the lamp that Dru put in cold storage. Does he have a back-up? A flashlight? A candle? A match?
Gweedo Murray said, 11 months ago

Maybe some flintstone.
wndrwrthg said, 11 months ago

Think she will stick the landing?
KingRat said, 11 months ago

ccdesan says:
Banzai!

The “Divine Wind” of Drusilla is about to crash into Inky’s con tower…

instant japanese lesson
神風 (かみかぜ) AKA Kamikaze (divine wind)

and

万歳 (ばんざい) AKA banzai (hurrah; long life; congratulations; cheers)

if you cannot see the kanji and hiragana you should install some foreign language fonts :)
WoodGracie said, 11 months ago

Joe_Minotaur says:

As drained as he is, this may be Spitcock’s true form. He may be running back to the lab to try to recharge off the lamp that Dru put in cold storage. Does he have a back-up? A flashlight? A candle? A match?

A prayer?
Joe Minotaur said, 11 months ago
Wednesday’s Girl Genius is up… sort of.
- Spitcock hasn’t got a prayer.
  Good-night Gracie
Mikkail said, 11 months ago

WoodGracie says:
Joe_Minotaur says:
As drained as he is, this may be Spitcock’s true form. He may be running back to the lab to try to recharge off the lamp that Dru put in cold storage. Does he have a back-up? A flashlight? A candle? A match?
A prayer?

A rock to hide under?
Pokefan_Frank said, 11 months ago

This is some sort of sick game of cat and mouse. Inky seems to actually be more afraid of Dru than of Lena with a Hoe!

Debra, I wanted to be the first to say that! Not tht Ccdesan left me with much element of surprize, though. Oh well. Merry Christmas Eve everyone!

Post #27
NebulousRikulau said, 11 months ago

I don’t think that Inky knows that Dru is coming. It’s like the peregrine falcon diving at 180 mph as it crosses the path of a pigeon.
inshadowz said, 11 months ago

Gweedo Murray said yesterday: got to thinking how neat it would be if they were also speaking it so that you could see the words and hear them pronounced at the same time.

Oh no! If there’s one thing that’s worse than badly done subtitles (those in ”Dinner for One” aren’t so bad, really) it’s badly done dubbing! And the worst of all is badly translated dubbing, badly performed with poor lip sync to boot. *shudders at the memory of watching the first Harry Potter movies with the kids*

However, I think the Chinese may have it even worse than that ;-)
http://winterson.com/2005/06/episode-iii-backstroke-of-west.html

(It helps if you’ve actually seen ”Revenge of the Sith”)
inshadowz said, 11 months ago

Gweedo Murray said yesterday: Your new look indicates a very unbalanced individual who might need the restraining order of a Pib frame, for our protection.

Thank you very much :) You wouldn’t believe how often I get that … and yet I am still here, able to type without a straight-jacket ;)
inshadowz said, 11 months ago

Oops! I was supposed to be lurking!

* inshadowz sets mode +lurk

There. That ought to do it.
Kaibyo said, 11 months ago

Anyone else hearing the theme from “Jaws”?

LOVE the new coloring-dark, dangerous,lethal,sexy- THE uber-succubus.Anybody know Mr.McE had a thing for Emma Peel?
ThatCat said, 11 months ago

If one were to ponder symbolism, Dru’s hair makes a very alpha statement? Especially to Spinkster’s ‘running to save the jewels’ reaction below.
DeathDealer said, 11 months ago

Sisyphos: “[EDIT: what you do to socks, not what holds back water, got bleeped!]

I have seen the nickname of the 37th president of the USA get bleeped. (It also my nickname, which is why it got bleeped. It has been rejected when I have tried to use it to register for this site).
…absurdity taken to the extreme.
Anyol'tomcat said, 11 months ago

Looks like Dru is gonna haul Spit’s ashes yet again–and dump them in the valley of Tophet.

Juliette may be mourning the lost opportunities for Womankind rather than any specific–nah she’s Lusting in Her Heart. How very human.
DeathDealer said, 11 months ago

Maybe Dru will take take Spinky for a trip to Hawaii… and dump him in Kilauea (The Halemaumau).
DeathDealer said, 11 months ago

For any brothers or sisters in arms who might be reading this on the “FOB,” Merry Christmas.
Being on a FOB at this time of year is tough. We’re thinking of you.
Orgelspieler said, 11 months ago

Kaibyo - yes indeed, the Emma Peel connection goes WAY back, especially in 9CWL.
TiggerLeBounce said, 11 months ago

Somehow I don’t think Spinky can run fast enough to escape female wrath! From terror in form of an 8 year old on up!

Of course, the fact that he’s running at all IS impressive…
atajayhawk said, 11 months ago

Love the Gerard Manly Hopkins tag!
Paigely said, 11 months ago

My my my. Inky is looking positively lovely in a sick shade of green today! I love the look on Dru, if only his temperament didn’t seem to go with it.

I have to plead ignorance, DeathDealer. What does FOB stand for?
gg015879 said, 11 months ago

DeathDealer says:
Maybe Dru will take take Spinky for a trip to Hawaii… and dump him in Kilauea (The Halemaumau). *

If so - Pele will certainly see to his permanent demise*

In Hawaiian mythology, Pele (pronounced [ˈpɛlɛ] in Hawaiian, /ˈpeɪleɪ/ PAY-lay in English) is the goddess of fire, lightning, dance, volcanoes and violence. She is a daughter of Haumea and Kane Milohai, and her home is believed to be the fire pit, Halema’uma’u crater, at the summit caldera of Kīlauea, one of the Earth’s most and continuously active volcanoes; *
Mmmm, goddess of fire and violence, how apropriate!
gg
thevenbede said, 11 months ago

Somehow I don’t think this bolt of Tash(q.v.tag) will get hung up the way Lewis’s did! Much though Spinky would like to have a convenient nail for her.
Anyol'tomcat said, 11 months ago

fairportfan: I Think you’re right, there’s a lot of Benny in Amos. There may be a little Tommy as well:
http://tinyurl.com/92j2ze

Amos also aspired to being Humphrey at one time:
http://tinyurl.com/9872u8
Orgelspieler said, 11 months ago

With all due respect to Madam Pele, I would rather see Spinky get roped (or chained) into being a contestant on this week’s game show with Tom and Julian. He’d still have to get pulled through magma to get there, so everybody’s happy.
tallwoman41 said, 11 months ago

Holy flurkin’ schnit! Spinky’s gonn-na get it! I think he was looking at a pursuing Lena (it looks like he is looking behind, not up) Wait til he realizes that Dru up there.
Bender_Sastre said, 11 months ago

Mr. McEldowney now interrupts the action to bring you this Christmas Special: Smackdown to continue on December 26th. Maybe they’ll all pose for a cheesy picture tomorrow, after which Dru will deck him out of frame …followed by massive pyrotechnics.
Moe A. said, 11 months ago

This… dude… is… TOAST! (pilfered and paraphrased from Bill Murray).
Incoming!
Hmmm, I grew up watching “The Avengers” (Rigg/Thorson, I was too young for Blackman), nice nostalgic tweak there by several of you.
My family were such TV-philes. This was when you turned on the TV, went out and got a snack, and when you came back, it MIGHT be warming up.
Happy Xmas Eve, mes amis, & Happy Chanukkah to those to whom it applies!
-MOE & DONNA
gg015879 said, 11 months ago

Gweedo Murray says:
gg015879 If you change your name to “go go” it would have more sizzle and go with your new face and what’s with the locker combination ? ;-)*

The numbers are - or were - my employee number(also called ‘g number’) from a job I had at Texas Commerce Bank many years ago. When I first signed up on gocomics so I could sign on I didnt realize how it would come accross on the posts. But now I kinda like it! and I will stick with gg, at least for now.*

gg
Kaibyo said, 11 months ago

Thank you, Roger,but not THAT one, that explains SOOOOO very much!!

Dru also reminds me today of a black widow spider. Wonder if she’s got a little red hour-glass tat somewhere? Hmmmm. We may not know until she puts the bite on Spinky-boy.