Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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fear-ciuil said, 10 months ago

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The Old Wolf said, 10 months ago

I find it interesting that Drusilla is in human form… Spitcock looks worried, but Dru doesn’t.

Mother of Mogg, lady… do those legs go all the way up, or what? Yowza!
Fairportfan said, 10 months ago

Okay - kinky. Kinda a PVC look there.

Interesting that they’re both in human form…

Spitcock sorta has that Brando vibe going.
Joe Minotaur said, 10 months ago

Post Haste!
On tonight’s noose:
Spitcock is an accordion loving, vampiric Incubusy!
Dru is a lava leaping, bleeding heart, liberal arts major Succubusy!
Flesh of tone and ready to party!
Sisyphos said, 10 months ago

You’re right, ccdesan, Drusilla in a very skimpy dress and chains is intellectually stimulating fare! -snicker-
Fairportfan said, 10 months ago

Of course Dru doesn’t look worried - this is her third (or fourth, depending on how you interpret the earliest) encounter with Tommy-boy, and he’s definitely come off holding the dirty end of the stick each time before.
wndrwrthg said, 10 months ago

The chains do look good on her.
Fairportfan said, 10 months ago

wndrwrthg says:

“Somehow the chains look good on her.”

Of course they do - everything looks sexy when Druy does it:
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2008/pib080915.gif
Sisyphos said, 10 months ago

I may be wrong, but I think in Spitcock’s description I hear a cue for the reappearance of Geoff….
Fairportfan said, 10 months ago

Now, you see - Dru has panty lines in her normal form, but i don’t see any panty lines here…

And i probably won’t see any panties if she makes a wrong move or moves too fast, either…
Sisyphos said, 10 months ago

–And do those traps they’re posed on drop to the Pits of Gehenna that Dru loves strolling barefoot through?
Sisyphos said, 10 months ago

You’re right, debra4life50,–and what look like good old Converse tennies!
debra4life50 said, 10 months ago

Is it just me….or is Spitcock sporting staghorn ears also?????
Fairportfan said, 10 months ago

debra4life50 says:

“Is it just me….or is Spitcock sporting staghorn ears also?????”

He always has: http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2008/pib081006.gif

… except when he’s in his cantankerous old man form:
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2008/pib081002.gif
fear-ciuil said, 10 months ago

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Sisyphos said, 10 months ago

Comparing 9CWL and Pib: hotties in slit skirts are the order of the day. (I’ll take one of each, please!)
Joseph H said, 10 months ago

Ah-HA! I KNEW that it wasn’t just Spitcock who was the game show contestant (again).

Dru’s looking really good there, despite the noose on her neck.
RockHouse said, 10 months ago

ccdesan

If you like split skirts, try this:

http://tinyurl.com/7ussy2

Cyd Charisse passed away recently. Fred Astaire paid tribute to Charisse, calling her “beautiful dynamite” and writing: “That Cyd! When you’ve danced with her you stay danced with.”
jml58 said, 10 months ago

Anything looks good on Drusilla.
Nothing looks better.
txmystic said, 10 months ago

I know I said i loved the black, but gotta say LOVE the pink, too!

oh yeah, spitcock is there, too…
baslim_the_begger said, 10 months ago

Re Cyd Cherisse:
Cut to the scene in “The Mask” where Jim Carrey turns into cartoon wolf, etc (doing homage to earlier cartoons)… that’s me, right now
SirMirom said, 10 months ago

I’m getting more ballet dancer than Brando off of Spitty, myself. Love the shoes!
macFicheallaigh said, 10 months ago

Wow. Dru in any pose is alluring. Oh yeah, Spitcock is standing there too.

SirMirom says:
I’m getting more ballet dancer than Brando off of Spitty, myself. Love the shoes!

Yeah, kind of both – Brando and ballet. Sort of like Seth – Arnold Schwarzenegger in ballet garb.

Come to think of it, at one point Arnold did take ballet lessons in preparation for his Mr. Olympia posing routines. A possible humorous take off on Brooke’s part, in creating the Seth character?
macFicheallaigh said, 10 months ago

Now here’s a good question – can a narcissistic and power mad megalomaniac figure out his fatal flaw? Did Tom slant this game in Dru’s favor because he doesn’t want to get his teeth knocked out again?
BJamesB86 said, 10 months ago

I never thought I’d see Dru in pink.
macFicheallaigh said, 10 months ago

BJamesB86 says:
I never thought I’d see Dru in pink.

The pink pantheress (is that a word?)
The Old Wolf said, 10 months ago

@RockHouse: Re Cyd Charisse, Holy Flapping Scrith! Bring me a cziltang brone, Dr. Wu!

To stay somewhat on-topic, http://tinyurl.com/Gloriosky
Frida Bonita said, 10 months ago

Spitcock is not so Brando’ish as a Jet from Westside Story.

When your an Ink
Your an Ink all the way
from your first blood letting dream
to your last dying day
DuaneV said, 10 months ago

Any competent hangman will tell you that the knot has to be behind the left ear for the hanging to be successful - else the effect will be a slow strangling…
Frida Bonita said, 10 months ago

ccdesanPro says:

@FridaB: Given your essay on Grüner Ladrone, will you forgive me if I always laughed at the prices of “Lladró” ceramics?

Oh yea, my favorite line is; Miss, today for you, special price, cheaper than a plate of spaghetti……..”
Mel(ody) said, 10 months ago

It’s He-double-hockeysticks, I imagine a slow strangling trumps a quick mercifull “death” any day.
Moe A. said, 10 months ago

‘Morning all.
CCDESAN, Dru does indeed seem less distressed than her earlier appearances on TT’s stage; but am I reading this wrong, or did Dru not actually bring about their appearance there by her strafing run upon the fleeing Spitcock?
Nice look on the latter by the way, he’s gone through some interesting characterizations in this arc.
Enjoy the day, folks!
MOE
Moe A. said, 10 months ago

OH! I just noticed! He’s wearing Tennies!
I’m cracking up here!
Mel(ody) said, 10 months ago

That’s the thing about being a demon, one’s performance evaluation is a bit daunting. And where would one be sent upon being down-sized?
Bender_Sastre said, 10 months ago

Spitcock’s hosed unless Dru decides she simply has to kill him herself and thus saves him from Torquemada. Does any woman in her right mind wear a skirt that short? I’m mean, c’mon, if she does anything but stand in place in a windless plane, she’s advertising beach front property in Florida. California too, if you’re one of those sort. Personally, I’m not. Of course, this is a succubus we’re starring at, so why wouldn’t she advertise equal-opportunity.
gg015879 said, 10 months ago

I just favorited, just wish I could favorite more than once a day!*

GODA-MIGHTY I love this strip! comic strip that is. If you were thinking otherwise, wash your brain out with soap.*

Also - I have spent WAY TOO MUCH TIME reading twolumps funny hilarious sick perverted bizarre and wonderful! thanks for the link; I am keeping that bookmark.*

Back to topic; Dru should do fairly well in Whats my Fatal Flaw She has been to Toms shows before; perhaps she took Spinky down to He11 or drove him there on purpose, just to visit with her favorite game show host!
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gg
Orgelspieler said, 10 months ago

So what if Dru brought Spinky to the game? She’s not precisely what one would call a “cooperative employee”, what with being AWOL and in league with a fairy and a mortal, and her erstwhile boss isn’t known for playing fair. I figure she decided this is a gamble she can deal with… and maybe she knows she’s still got enough “mojo” to get out of it if things go badly. Who knows?
Shalamett said, 10 months ago

39 Place marker
Simon_Jester said, 10 months ago

I dunno about this, I don’t think that contraption is safe.
bmonk said, 10 months ago

DuaneV says:

“Any competent hangman will tell you that the knot has to be behind the left ear for the hanging to be successful - else the effect will be a slow strangling…””

Mel(ody) says:*

“It’s He-double-hockeysticks, I imagine a slow strangling trumps a quick mercifull “death” any day.”

and “That’s the thing about being a demon, one’s performance evaluation is a bit daunting. And where would one be sent upon being down-sized?”

Drats! Mel beat me to the response about a slow strangulation being desired. But, as for being down-sized, why not just send them back to the burning pit of flames, or freeze them back into the ice, or whatever?
Gweedo Murray said, 10 months ago

.Damn it ! Everyone’s focusing on the “headlights” But the halo on Dru, especially her hair, just glows. The Dagmars reference almost had me in hysterics. I mean who has pointy boobs that stand straight out ? The guy, and I know it was, who came up with that musta laughed so hard that tears were coming out and his belly hurt. Been there, done that !
Anyol'tomcat said, 10 months ago

Looks as if someone has been rummaging about in Juliette’s closet for that dress on Dru–the Dragon Lady section J. keeps for when she wishes to prime Elliot’s pump.

There are several CwL strips with similar dresses, but C.Com is being glacial for me today, so can’t find them. In one, Edda is trying on a party dress & J. remarks that her “only modest option is to stand bolt upright on a windless day,” but she wants to try it on as well, of course.

Sisyphos: Edda’s slit dress mirrors Dru’s as you noticed. Interesting that Brooke revealed it today–think he’s ramping up the tension in the musical duel, just more slowly this time.
Gweedo Murray said, 10 months ago

P-chan ! .. Here P-chan ! ..My widdle Charlotte.. Akane wants you…. :-} Piggy, piggy
Couple cleaver !
pibfan868 said, 10 months ago

Dru could be plotting with the way she’s looking up–Spitcock looks like this is not what it’s been cracked up to be, more than a little apprehensive. I suppose if you are nearly immortal it must be possible to suffer a long time and in many ways-perhaps he’s so far been able to play and not pay? Very interesting!
Simon_Jester said, 10 months ago

To paraphrase Led Zep:

Hangman…
Hangman…
Wait a little while
I think I see Drusilla’s legs
risin’ many a mile
Orgelspieler said, 10 months ago

Loser gets busted down to an imp, second-class, with no surface privileges for 200 years.
borusa said, 10 months ago

BJamesB86Pro says:
I never thought I’d see Dru in pink.

Ah, but it’s hot pink!
Simon_Jester said, 10 months ago

Now if Spinky were to behave like most guys in this sort of situation, he’d turn to Dru and say something like this:

“Awww c’mon Baby…I only imprisoned you, stole your mojo, and tried to kill you once! C’mon, it’s not like I do this every DAY! At least give me a look over here, please…okay?”
kcboomer said, 10 months ago

Wow, Dru has legs just the way I like them. Feet on one end and ……
Lisa said, 10 months ago

Interesting.•I do like the hot pink • My favorite is the vampirism w/ accordion. Has that actually been incorporated into this story line, or is it just today?