Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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fear-ciuil said, 9 months ago

If you would like to

‘favorite’ the strip,

(and maybe the sketch, too), simply log in and click on the ‘Favorite’ star directly above the strip. Mr. McEldowney very kindly asked for us what purpose is served by favoriting, and this was the answer:
I asked my editor at Gocomics about the purpose of “favoriting” a strip. Her answer was this: “‘Favoriting’ allows people following you to see what comics you like. ‘Favorited’ comics also show up under your profile, and allow us to see what comics people are enjoying.”
Basically, I think it provides a method for spreading the word.
Brooke

ccdesan has been kind enough to provide several resources:
Pibgorn in-depth background info, strip history, synopsis of story arcs, etc.
• http://home.comcast.net/~ccdesan/Pibgorn/Pibgorn.html

9 Chickweed Lane in-depth background info, strip history, synopsis of story arcs, etc.
• http://home.comcast.net/~ccdesan/Chickweed/Chickweed.html

GoComics comments posting guide to special formatting: italic, bold, indents, large fonts, etc.
• http://home.comcast.net/~ccdesan/Pibgorn/StyleGuide.html

fairportfan has samples and a guide for converting 2D comics to 3D and for “flicker” comparisons:
3D conversions of a couple of Pibgorn panels, go to:
• http://electronictiger.net/stereo/dru.htm
How to Commit 3D - quick-and-dirty guide for stereo images:
• http://electronictiger.net/stereo/demo.htm
Index of “flicker” images:
• http://electronictiger.net/avail/flick/
Flicker Picture Tutorial:
• http://electronictiger.net/avail/how2

Joe_Minotaur has a number of fan fictions based upon Pibgorn and TV police dramas:
• http://home.earthlink.net/~joeminotaur (start reading at the bottom of the page!)

Free registration to participate in a forum dedicated to Brooke McEldowny’s work:
• http://www.talkaboutcomics.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=568 [link to forum]
• http://marmoe.livejournal.com/34590.html [for registration assistance]

Brooke McEldowney info at:
• http://officialpibgorn.livejournal.com/ [Brooke’s Pibgorn blog]
• http://chickweedcafe.blogspot.com/ [Brooke’s Chickweed blog]
• http://www.wuky.org/tonicarchivesvisual [WUKY NPR interview (audio)]
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_McEldowney

Come one and come all, de-lurk and join in!
Add your own voice to our great, joyous din!
Just one bit of wisdom ere joining our game:
Read the comments! All of them! Or you’ll miss something! (Shame!)
(No trolls need apply.)

Today’s 9 Chickweed Lane can be found at:
http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComic.mpl?date=2009%2F2%2F12&name=9_Chickweed_Lane
An index of old 9 Chickweed Lane strips, 2001-present, can be found at:
http://www.comicstriparchive.com/9_Chickweed_Lane/
Margueritem said, 9 months ago

Dru has got to be drained of that excess mojo. It’s making her downright nasty…
paciii said, 9 months ago

Oh my! Hard to tell if she’s showing Pib the answer, sharing the power or shorting out her nervous system. Regardless, it doesn’t look like anything nice.
debra4life50 said, 9 months ago

Merci Beaucoup
debra4life50 said, 9 months ago

I would have to say that the answer was “Yes!”
Sisyphos said, 9 months ago

Touchy, touchy!
Sisyphos said, 9 months ago

(Re-post from “”last night”)

9CWL: Edda has by now become so utterly soulmate to Amos that she even fantasizes with precision his ripostes to her blunter verbal thrusts!
txmystic said, 9 months ago

Dru may not need to be drained (although to do so would require us to check in w/Roger and Lena), I’m going to venture that she will need to learn to transmute the icky Inky energy so it does not compel her to do what she’s doing to Pibby. We already know that even with the excess mojo she’s still willing to take a quiver of hellishly-poisoned arrows for Pib…
Sisyphos said, 9 months ago

Drusilla’s dappling in panel 4 looks like an Elvira bodice-buster.
paciii said, 9 months ago

Gweedo Murray says:
… Instead I’ll just crawl under the rug under the couch and whimper like a puppy ‘til it’s all better.

Maybe Murphy will be by to give some puppy comfort down there under the rug. [don’t’cha just love it when your reply comes in before the comment you reply to??]
Gweedo Murray said, 9 months ago

Despite the obvious appearance I wont spectacle myself into speculation. Instead I’ll just crawl under the rug under the couch and whimper like a puppy ‘til it’s all better.

You’re welcome fear-c.
paciii said, 9 months ago

I love the artwork in the final panel; the juxtaposition of legs and arms, opposite torso arches, wings & hair up vs hair down… good vs evil? Is Dru burning out the link that they shared? Somehow I dread that we won’t get any answers tomorrow, either…

Sigh… another night of confusion couch crowding. Good thing the extra section is dry, I think we’re gonna need it today.
VicTR said, 9 months ago

Hmmm…Is that really Pib or someone else?…Or is it that
time of month again ?
fear-ciuil said, 9 months ago

G’night, folks.
The Old Wolf said, 9 months ago

Dang! She’s gone and killed Pib again! (Unless that’s not Pib. Unless that’s not Dru. Unless it’s not Thursday. Unless the snowman comes in our house and sits by the gas stove until he melts into a puddle of molasses.)

Joins Gweedo in a quivering heap under the rug…
TheSkulker said, 9 months ago

Joe_Minotaur says: [from yesterday]
I wish more people could have made it. He may go to the San Diego Comic Con
later this year. Anyone interested?

He11 yes, count me in!
TheSkulker said, 9 months ago

ccdesan says:
Since you old wheezers mentioned Dondi:

It’s geezers NOT wheezers!!! We may have some years but we’re not out of wind yet
TheSkulker said, 9 months ago

Dru’s legs seem to be getting blacker and that is the longest hair I can remember
ever seeing on her. Samsonita???
Sisyphos said, 9 months ago

ccdesan says
Dang! She’s gone and killed Pib again!
Pib=Kenny?
ejcapulet said, 9 months ago

I don’t think she went to get Pib just to nuke her. Maybe Pib is getting a new “paint job” too.
Sisyphos said, 9 months ago

@ The Skulker: remember singer Crystal Gayle?
[EDIT] memory-jogger: http://tinyurl.com/bek3oc
(could be a theme song for the Comfy Couch of Confusion Clutch)
bmonk said, 9 months ago

Don’t mind me, I’m under the couch whimpering with Gweedo Murray. I hope, I hope, I hope, I just hope that’s not really Pib.
Gweedo Murray said, 9 months ago

What ? they couldn’t get Miss Piggy to do the Crystal Gayle number ?
mjolnir 9 said, 9 months ago

I finally de-lurk, after months of observation, to observe that this story-arc is going off into strange,elliptical and foggy tangents. I miss Lena; I miss Roger; I miss Suzerain; I miss Satori.
Whither wander we?
AliKzam said, 9 months ago

Well, there’s your answer.
Oh, what to do with Dru? Can we say “intervention?”
Sisyphos said, 9 months ago

By Crystal Gayle’s own statement, her hair, when she was bare-foot, reached to the floor. It was black. Can you say “real-life Dru lookalike”?
Gweedo Murray said, 9 months ago

This wont take nearly as long to catch up but does anybody remember this one ? He used to be on the site but, if I remember correctly, left the constraints of this medium to do it his way.

http://www.brinkcomic.com/
otpu said, 9 months ago

Nope, Crystal can’t be a Drusilla look-a-like. She would never fit the succubus profile.

http://clm72.free.fr/CG/crystal/pics/magazines/country-music-july-78-cover2.pdf

scroll down to the second picture.

otpu
mjolnir 9 said, 9 months ago

Oh…almost forgot. New arrivals should bring symbolic offerings. Hefty portions of Grilled Flatbread - with Sun-dried tomatoes, Mt. Tamalpais cheese and basil - for the Confusion Couch.
If the story’s gotten foggy, there’s nothing better than take-out from the Fog City Diner.
baslim_the_begger said, 9 months ago

Sisyphos: Nope! Crystal is prettier…ZZZOOTT (missed me, Dru that was a hologram, remotely projected).

But thanks for the link to that wonderful song. I never heard it and missed that episode of the Muppet Show.

I hope Brooke knows whats going on here…
9CWL: Like they’re married already…
Bill Wa said, 9 months ago

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutly
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 9 months ago

Power reveals a corrupted heart. We’ve had a few good kings and leaders over the years. Most are mediocre or did the job without incident and never made history because of it. Some were pretty evil and we read about them.

Unfortunately, most people don’t read history or they would see the same trends repeat again and again. Us poor stupid humans…
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 9 months ago

Don’t it make my Red Eyes Bluuuuue?
Phoenix_Ascendant said, 9 months ago

She’s lost in the worst state… she believes she has control over the power. That is when it comes around and bites you HARD on the tookus.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 9 months ago

Immeasurable means only that it can’t be measured, not that it is a large amount… :)
Fly Guy said, 9 months ago

@mjoinr9, thanks for the flatbread,welcome to the legion of de-lurkers. Is there a story
behind your avatar amulet?
Sun-dried tomatoes…………fresh crushed basil…………mmmmmmmm……..makes cowering under the couch a little more bearable.
Squire_of_the_shire said, 9 months ago

There is a time to to ask questions in a familiar tone of voice that may have a hint of sarcasm to it. In this particular circumstance I’d say a good two time zones distance would be just about right.

Dru’s losing herself to this super-duper amped up batch of mojo she acquired from Spinky. Roger and Lena need to put in one last appearance with the hoe to ground out Dru’s excess mojo. Mind you, I rather like the new paint scheme and the little sheen of what I’m guessing is either power or perspiration that’s been strategically placed. I’ll take one of those flat breads if there’s any left.
3Xp4t said, 9 months ago

Dru always was one for demonstrations, rather than wordy explanations. Pib looks like she’s taking quite a shock … with Dru’s new power level, things don’t just go “ZONGK!” anymore; they probably pinch more than ever:
• http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2005/pib050804.gif

I also suspect that the hip grinds are MUCH more intense than ever, and possibly even run a risk of addiction:
• http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2002/pib021120.gif

My suspicion is that Dru is becoming much more in touch with her inner demon right now. She’s been somewhat in denial of her nature, doing all sorts of good things & feeling emotions of love & rescuing & caring about folks for some time now. What was she like for the 824-something years prior to this current story?

In any event, Dru just died for Pib, and she just cleaned out a section of he|| (although, possibly for her own personal benefit). No matter today’s strip, she’s not entirely on the Dark Side (yet); but it certainly appears she’s somewhat conflicted. Equally, what about Dru’s love for Geoff ..? Is that waning, or becoming more intense ..? Maybe she’s feeling the denial of that relationship more intensely just now.

However, I’ll take a stab at it and predict that she’s giving Pib a demonstration of power & control, perhaps even transferring something to Pib. Maybe Pib gets new power of somesort now? Possibly a sign and move of trust, perhaps to put Pib in a position of truly best friend … someone who can question and pull Dru back if/when Dru is controlled by her power in the future ..?

I think I will finally take a seat on the Confusion Couch today.

Brings in a large platter of assorted, tradiitonal Latvian smoked meats, salmon, countryside cheeses and fresh-baked breads to construct sandwiches with. Be sure to try the intensely hot horseradish and krievu mustard as condiments; I recommend mixing the mustard with a bit of raw, summer honey from the countryside, especially with the cured ham. There are more than a dozen cold bottles of strong, 6% beer. It will help a lot with that mustard. It’s hotter than wasabi.
sarge112751 said, 9 months ago

Dru believes that if “A picture is worth a thousand words.” - then one ‘good ZAP’ should help you get the picture!
Delawarebob said, 9 months ago

mjolnir9 says:

Oh…almost forgot. New arrivals should bring symbolic offerings. Hefty portions of Grilled Flatbread - with Sun-dried tomatoes, Mt. Tamalpais cheese and basil - for the Confusion Couch.
If the story’s gotten foggy, there’s nothing better than take-out from the Fog City Diner.

Well, I’m not THAT new, but can I bring a gallon of fresh-brewed Kona coffee? And maybe some home-made sticky buns? Still warm?
DeathDealer said, 9 months ago

What in hell has gotten into Dru?
Gigantor said, 9 months ago

It doesn’t look like Dru’s usual plasma bolt. Maybe she’s using her power to boost Pib’s. Dru may not be the only one in the strip who gets a new paint job.
Mel(ody) said, 9 months ago

Now you all know we’re being set up for the friday cliff-hanger…..
Setebos said, 9 months ago

“How do you solve a problem like Drusilla?
How can you set her firmly on her bum?
Do we all go out and build fallout shelters?
Now that she’s joined the Q Continuum!”
TiggerLeBounce said, 9 months ago

Oh dear…
Paigely said, 9 months ago

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

I’d definitely say that power is tainted.
Orgelspieler said, 9 months ago

okay, all together now… everybody quote Lord Acton…

“Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

OK? Out of everyone’s system? Good.

(If I had to read that quote one more time from one more poster I was gonna go kind of nuts, myself. Thanks for cooperating with my venting.)
kcboomer said, 9 months ago

I guess Pib had to be punished for her insolence.
papa smurf said, 9 months ago

I’m reminded of the the story of the scorpion that asked the frog to take him across a river. When the sting was issued in midstream and as they were going down, the frog asked the scorpion ‘Why,’ and the reply was ‘Its my nature.’ Succubus nature + raw evil sourced mojo = unfortunate event.

But bravo to Pib for speaking truth to power with her question. Unfortunately its the verbal equivalent of poking a tiger with a stick. I’d say she got her answer. Talk about a ‘dangerous beauty!’

PS I’d say the angle of view makes Dru’s hair appear longer than it is.
Joe Minotaur said, 9 months ago
Just a note before I leave the hotel.
Yes, I was wrong about the location of the museum. It is in just northeast of Dayton Ohio. I did not see a B-36(I _do_ know what they look like). It is now called the: National Museum of the Air Force.
Since I left Minnesota in the middle of winter, I feel I can handle what I.O.W.A. can throw at me.
Thank you for your safe travel wishes and ccdesan, take care on your next trip. We need to complete this project and hopefully lessen some of the confusion with the answers provided by Brooke and Nicola.
- On the road again…