Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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fear-ciuil said, 10 months ago

Don’t forget to ‘favorite’ the strip!

And maybe the sketch, too!

Simply log in and click on the ‘Favorite’ star directly above the strip. We believe this may give Mr. McEldowney and Pibgorn a head-start when it comes time for GoComics to decide which comics to keep, and which to lose.

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Joe Minotaur said, 10 months ago

Did she just erupt from heck?!
Sisyphos said, 10 months ago

Now maybe Luciano can at long last reappear and play a useful supporting role!
jimbo1949 said, 10 months ago

From Lucifer to Luciano
Fairportfan said, 10 months ago

Ka-BOOM!

“Heaven won’t have me and He||’s afraid i’ll take over…”
emjrn said, 10 months ago

It looks like Dru was exploded “up” into the city where maybe Luciano is still lurking somewhere around a large building….therefore, he should be able to see, smell, or otherwise sense Dru.

Dru has had a nice, warm fire bath and hopefully is recovered enough to do some serious kicking of several “ass-pects”!

9CWL
I knew Sister Steven (Caligula) had it in her to be happy and celebrate for Amos and Edda!
Way to go Sister!!!
Gweedo Murray said, 10 months ago

And She’s OUTA there !
Margueritem said, 10 months ago

Dru is blasted into the city. I sincerely hope that she meets up with Luciano….
emjrn said, 10 months ago

I think we are all waiting for Luciano to reappear.
fear-ciuil said, 10 months ago

fairportfan, we’re on the same wavelength tonight.
Margueritem said, 10 months ago

Sisyphos says:

margueritem, the SAS are denying you the priority you deserve in referring to the imminent likely return of the big bug!

Ah well, we all had the same thought at about the same time. ;-)
Adrienne Gormley said, 10 months ago

Crawling into a corner of the couch of confusion, I await the return of the mega super fly.
Sisyphos said, 10 months ago

margueritem, the SAS are denying you the priority you deserve in referring to the imminent likely return of the big bug!
Joe Minotaur said, 10 months ago

((8+1)+(B+A)+(V+A)+(K+A)):Could this become a habit for S. Stevens?
Joe Minotaur said, 10 months ago

Pibgorn: Looks like supper is over. Did Roger make there in time?
wndrwrthg said, 10 months ago

“There are eight million stories in the Naked City…”.
fear-ciuil said, 10 months ago

God natt, Minotaureans.
AliKzam said, 10 months ago

Ruh-roh!
And I bet nobody in the city noticed that either.
Fairportfan said, 10 months ago

fearciuil says:

“fairportfan, we’re on the same wavelength tonight.”

Friend of mine - Hoakie Hickel, who used to play bass in a butt-kickin’ cowpunk bar band called Dash Rip Rock - the kind of bar band who play gigs all over the world - wrote a pounding little instrumental they used to open their shows with called He||’s Scared…
emjrn said, 10 months ago

Good night all. Will look forward to Luciano showing up tomorrow…or the next day….or sometime soon…..?
Joe Minotaur said, 10 months ago

fairportfan: Not the Dash Rip Rock? I thought only modern stoneage cavemen listened to them!

ccdesan: I posted this yesterday, but you can reach me at the email address on my blog site.
Shalamett said, 10 months ago

22

My post to make the comments show up….
TheSkulker said, 10 months ago

Gweedo Murray says: (N)ice festival package Skulker &%@!:grumble:$%:mutter:#@$%…*
Thatsa buncha time I’ll never get back. ;~}

Ah, but think of the enjoyment and experience that you’ve gained.

And the glee of anticipation as you plot to pass the temptation on to other
“victi..” err… “friends”!
Sisyphos said, 10 months ago

Just, finally, got around to reading the 11 I 09 Joe Minotaur, Joe_Minotaur: bravo. Very Post-Modern, self-referential….
erwins_cat said, 10 months ago

So …. the last dozen episodes have just been a bit of corporal punishment? They play rough. And Pib?
txmystic said, 10 months ago

9CWL: I imagine that in the last panel, she’s shouting some archaic expression of joy, like “huzzah!”
Fairportfan said, 10 months ago

Joe_Minotaur says:

“fairportfan: Not the Dash Rip Rock? I thought only modern stoneage cavemen listened to them!”

Actually, they named the band after a character in The Beverley Hillbillies; when they started out at University of Louisville (about 1984 or so - Bill got a Masters in Communication about the time the band was starting, with a thesis about the negative effects on teenagers of MTV), Donna Douglas was living somewhere in the area, and they thought that the Hillbillies reference was amusing.

Wikipedia article: http://tinyurl.com/9yes7d
baslim_the_begger said, 10 months ago

To do list:
Retrieve Pibgorn
Stomp T.T.’s Teeth down throat and thorax
Incinerate Incubus

Apply Wrath of Dru as needed
Susie Rasmussen said, 10 months ago

It never ever surprises me at how smart all of you who write in are. I guess I’m just not in tune with all the goings on with this toon. I enjoy the toon but don’t understand it much. The colors are very pretty though. Sometimes I wish I knew what was up. I’m impressed by all of you.
Fairportfan said, 10 months ago

Okay, kiddies there’s a flicker picture after all, but it’s not today’s strip: http://electronictiger.net/avail/compare/diff.htm
Fairportfan said, 10 months ago

baslimthebegger says:

“Stomp T.T.’s Teeth down throat and thorax”

One assumes that Edda’s Granmight have some comments on that part of the agenda.

And i don’t think even Dru would want to get into it with Gran…
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 10 months ago

Maybe Luciano can use that special method that special method that flies have for eating- spewing out digestive fluid from their proboscis and then vacuuming it back up- and do that to dear Tom Torquewrenchemada. That would be fitting.
The Old Wolf said, 10 months ago

9CWL: I love Sister Steven. She reminds me a lot of the Mother Superior from The Sound of Music. She lives her faith… for herself. She admonishes her flock according to the dictates of her conscience. She understands that everyone is not cut from the same cloth. And she leaves judgment in the hands of Him to whom it is given.

Pib: I favorited the strip, but I have no idea what I’m favoriting today. Shakes head and reaches for opium pipe

I had to look at that image long and hard today… the empty windows, the hellish lighting in the sky behind the buildings - it almost looks like she’s being disgorged into an abandoned city, just another corner of Hell.

If that’s all just artistic license, and she’s really been blown back into “the real world”, then I’ll never look at a manhole cover the same way again…

http://home.comcast.net/~ccdesan/ManHellCover.jpg
SirMirom said, 10 months ago

*wndrwrthg says:
“There are eight million stories in the Naked City…”.*

… You see, I was thinking there’s a naked chick going up 8 million stories in the city.
FinderW said, 10 months ago

This is a great strip but the last one I’ll be reading. I’m sick of coming in day in and day out and getting it crammed down my throat to
Don’t forget to ‘favorite’ the strip!

We get it, your passionate about the strip. But guess what, you just chased away someone who would have done just that.
ThatCat said, 10 months ago

Finder, you are letting a little thing get too big in your mind. The boilerplate just becomes part of the scenery to be honest - if one doesn’t allow it to become something it is not.

The information available to new comers is invaluable. (Have you ever asked yourself how many times these people who post every day have answered the same question over and over again - patiently?) chuckle That alone deserves a pause for the cause in your obvious irritation.

C’mon - have a nice cuppa something hot and enjoy the prettiest thing the sewers have ever spewed out. You’ll be sliding past that boilerplate and forgetting it is there before you know it.

Have a better day - Cat
Shalamett said, 10 months ago

*witholds comment, remembering childhood adage*
lindavid3 said, 10 months ago

Nicely said, Cat. The boilerplate just becomes part of the scenery and you learn to just bypass it as you head on down to the comments.
tharrisl said, 10 months ago

SirMirom says:

*wndrwrthg says:
“There are eight million stories in the Naked City…”.*

… You see, I was thinking there’s a naked chick going up 8 million stories in the city

bleeep … I thought there were 8 million naked chicks in the story!
Moe A. said, 10 months ago

Hi Susie, and welcome to the informal yet dedicated fan club of a man who ranks with Al Capp as one of the finest cartoonists/ artists/ writers/ storytellers ever.
I’m fairly new myself, but I’d strongly suggest going way back for some flavor of the strip’s origins.
Mr. McE also has two paperbacks for sale.
Additionally, see FEARCIUIL’s links? CCDESAN has composed a wonderful PIBGORN page which will bring you to speed on the Canon, I highly recommend that you check it out.
And thanks for the collective compliment, but I can’t claim bragging rights to the level of intelligence these other fine folks have; I’m just the best in my price range!
Again, Welcome!
-MOE hisownself
xenon314 said, 10 months ago

(Ahem), Joe_Minotaur - I am one of those modern stoneage cavemen!

I remember Dash Rip Rock - great bar band!! I haven’t thought of them since my “youth” - brings back fond memories of being young and single and (mostly) carefree!
Moe A. said, 10 months ago

M84, thanks for that super recipe yesterday. A Drink To Watch Dru Melt By! Until now, the best ancillary I’ve found for hot chocolate has been Bailey’s.
MAEV: Yesterday’s poem was brilliant, I’ve never seen that. I’ve just sent it off to some programming-savvy pals (me? why, I can barely find the on/off switch with both hands and a map).
Ciao,
MOE
r80 said, 10 months ago

Ruh roh!! The Nether regions just blu Dru out it’s butt!
(Huh, huh….I said “butt”.
Joe Minotaur said, 10 months ago
fairportfan:
Oops! I thought Dash Rip Rock was on the Flintstones, not the Beverly Hillbillies.
- NYComicCon note:
  I will try to get Brooke to do an interview Q&A session. Most questions can be answered here or TAC or his blogs, but I will pick the 10 Best Questions posted here between now and the convention and try to get the answers and post them here.
atajayhawk said, 10 months ago

9CWL Go, Sister Caligula!
thevenbede said, 10 months ago

Oh my ears and whiskers! I get sidelined for a week and all hel.l breaks Dru out.

And haven’t you all been having fun this past weekend…it took me forever to read through the 7 pages of comments. So many fun -and funny- side trips to explore! I really wished I could be there in real time. However, the school filters don’t allow it (I can just see asking: please Mr. Übergeek Controlfreak Computerczar, would you please unlock the GC Pibgorn site so I can get my fix during the school day-yeah, right)and we were having connectivity problems with the lap top and the desktop needed to have its teeny-tiny little circuits adjusted, soooooo…

At any rate, I’m back. And before I head off to torment small children, I’ve left some goodies for the civil couch of confusion denizens (Hey, does that make us civilians or merely civilized?).

The coffee urn of French Roast is on the right, French Roast flavored with orange, cinnamon, and vanilla is on the left, and the urn in the middle has hot water for tea (selections in the blue bowl on the buffet). For your delectation…bagels (assorted)lox, cream cheese, cornichons, sweet onions. Also butter, seedless black raspberry jam, strawberry preserves, and orange marmelade. Scrambled eggs with chives and sausages are on the hot tray, don’t for get to put the covers back so they stay warm. OJ, tomato juice, and apricot nectar.

See you all tonight!
arsmall said, 10 months ago

Where is all this going?
Garrulous said, 10 months ago

It looks like her arrows were burned off.

There is a water tower on the building in the distance making it looks like NYC. But, is this NYC or someplace else in hell?

Why would TT release Dru so easily? Isn’t Dru supposed to be Inky’s prize?

I am off to the couch with biscotti and coffee.
Garrulous said, 10 months ago

arsmall says:
Where is all this going?

Nobody but Mr. B McE knows for sure.
The mystery is a part of the fun.
Bucky Katt said, 10 months ago

armsall - Where is all this going?

Seems like it’s going nowhere, which is a pity, because this was a fantastic story up through the climatic confrontation in the castle five months ago. Since then, I hate to say, it really seems to have lost its focus.