Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

Tags: My Old Flame, I fell into a burning ring of fire, Lucky Bustard!, Hunk of burnin Love, Dru likes to be on top, Getting it while it*s hot, 04-17-2009, O So Obscene 2009, Lucky Dru!, hot sex, cute ash. Add Tags

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fear-ciuil said, 7 months ago

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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

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Margueritem said, 7 months ago

Just passing through on my nightly rounds.

Bustard and Dinah, together again.
Joe Minotaur said, 7 months ago

My Old Flame!
A Spike Jones classic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_zEfCXnrJk
GEE1A said, 7 months ago

What’s got Dru all fired up.
Sisyphos said, 7 months ago

A much clearer view of “Dinah” in the sketch (and of that other guy, too)!
John Pelt said, 7 months ago
Which is the better theme music here – “Hunka Hunka Burnin’ Love”, or “Ring of Fire”*?
- ..as opposed to yesterday’s “li’l patch of heaven” ;)
Sisyphos said, 7 months ago

It would appear that Nat Bustard’s costume (his “Bogey” look) has gone up in flames, and he is stripped to his demonic essence. Wonder what he looks like now!
Wenthral said, 7 months ago

Did this guy just get it on with a second beautiful supernatural lady in less than a day?

Some demons have all the luck.
Fairportfan said, 7 months ago

Oo-o-okay.

Who saw that one coming?
baslim_the_begger said, 7 months ago

Demon, Demon, Burning Bright
In Volcano’s crimson light!
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy sensual symmetry?

with apologies to William Blake
Gweedo Murray said, 7 months ago

risitasPro says:

Fire meets brimstone!!!
.]
FIRESTONE!!! Huzzah!
The Old Wolf said, 7 months ago

@Captain Smokeblower: My deepest condolences on your loss. Both the news and KalahariNight’s beautiful posting of the Jeffers poem put a big lump in my throat.

Our domestic friends don’t lie about love. The love without guile, without reservation, and without dissimulation.

If you haven’t heard the story about dogs, heaven and Hell, and want another choker-uppper, it’s worth a read: http://www.tuffydog.com/dogs12.html

@9CWL: I’ve always known Edna was a softie under all that crust…
Fairportfan said, 7 months ago

John Pelt says:

“Which is the better theme music here – ‘Hunka Hunka Burnin’ Love’, or ‘Ring of Fire’?”

Help There’s a Fire! by Jason & the Scorchers?

EDIT: Fixed a typo; and thought i’d add - that’s a twofer - song and band name are both fiery…
The Old Wolf said, 7 months ago

@Pib: This is going to be an interesting arc. If Brooke wants to do another two-year story, I wonder what bizarre twists and turns he has waiting for us down the road.
Fairportfan said, 7 months ago

Today’s Non Sequitur resonates with the dog/cat talk here “yesterday”.
ejcapulet said, 7 months ago

I guess he’s not your average human - he may not be a demon but he certainly is flame-retardent.
ejcapulet said, 7 months ago

Poor Geoff, the problem with dating a succubus: they’re not known for fidelity.
mjolnir 9 said, 7 months ago

“O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O stay and hear! Your true love’s coming!
That can sing both high and low
Trip no further, pretty sweeting
Journeys end in lovers’ meeting
Every wise man’s son doth know.”

Ahhh…romance! WHITE-HOT romance, no less. As Feste is right to remind us, there’s no better way to start the weekend…

“So come and kiss me, sweet and twenty.
Youth’s a stuff will not endure!”

Back with snacks anon…but don’t wait up.
Joe Minotaur said, 7 months ago

9CWL:
You would think that this is the first time that Edna has thought about Juliette’s feelings while she was growing up. If she has considered criticizing the same as caring, perhaps she needed this conversation a long time ago.
fatuncle said, 7 months ago

fairportfan says:

“Who saw that one coming?”

Not I.
Sisyphos said, 7 months ago

Kings of Leon, Sex on Fire:

http://tinyurl.com/5qqajo
baslim_the_begger said, 7 months ago

song: Jose Feliciano, Light my fire
Story Teller said, 7 months ago

@ Captain Smokeblower: May I add my condolences to the group. I, too have loved and lost a few four-legged friends. I miss them all on a daily basis. I am sure they wait for me at the next stop, but I suspect my cat Raven looks in on me from time to time. I hear his voice at the window when there is nothing there. He is saying “Okay?” as in “Are you okay?” something he used to do when he was here. Fortunately, I understand fluent cat. I don’t have to speak it because they understand us just fine, they just don’t pay attention most of the time. He is the only cat that ever asked me that.
baslim_the_begger said, 7 months ago

Okay here is my attempted miswrite of The Tiger by William Blake
I lack the imagination to make further changes.

The Demon

Demon, demon, burning bright
In volcano’s crimson light,
What immortal hand or eye
Could claim thy sensual symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burns the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare you aspire?
What dread form enters thy pyre?

And what shoulder and what art
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand lay upon thy teat?

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? What dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And water’d heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his love to see?
Did he who made the dame make thee?

Demon, demon, burning bright
In volcano’s crimson light,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare claim thy sensual symmetry?

Edit: removed edit
Story Teller said, 7 months ago

TheSkulkerPro says: “Story Teller Living in Portland, do you ever frequent the Goose Hollow Inn? It is(was) in western Portland not too far from downtown. I don’t remember the address. Hopefully it is still in business. It was a neighborhood pub - one that you didn’t want to examine too closely in bright light - that had quite an eclectic clientel. The owner, Bud Clark, was talked into running for mayor in ‘84 by his drinking buddies/patrons after grousing on how bad was the current administration. He won 52% of the vote in the primary because the then mayor didn’t put any credence into his amateur oponent and didn’t campaign. Don’t know how good a mayor he turned out to be but he was a colorful character. In one of the most memorable if not the most famous picture of Portland, Bud is the person in the trenchcoat flashing a nude statue. I loved his sense of humor.”

Yup. Still there. I have been by it many times, but have never gone in. I must do that someday.

I loved Bud. I still write him in for every uncontested position on the ballots. I predicted that when the time came to make the decision whether to run agin it would depend entirely on how much fun he was having at the time. I was right. Everybody was giving him grief so he said “Screw it! I’m going back to bartending!” I loved the time he put his foot down on the then-chief of police who was getting a little snotty at a city council meeting. The chief said that Bud could not tell him what to do. Clark looked over his reading glasses and pointedly said “I sign your paychecks, so yes I can tell you what to do.” That shut the chief right up! Gotta admire the man for that.
Gweedo Murray said, 7 months ago

I wuz gonna say: “This is where the rubber drops a load!” Oh… never mind.. (walks away whistling)
ejcapulet said, 7 months ago

Oooo, nice one, Baslim! The Tiger was always one of my favorites!
LLeRay said, 7 months ago

Good one Joe_Minotaur

John Pelt, fairport - I think “I’m Burning for You” by Blue Oyster Cult is a better fit.
LLeRay said, 7 months ago

baslimthebegger that was interesting. Now I have to go get my Blake book out of my car and read it again.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 7 months ago

If I push these impulse engines too hard in the condition they’re in they’ll blow apart.
baslim_the_begger said, 7 months ago

Nabuquduriuzhur: You’re saying you’re impulsive? Or is it that too much impulse leads to repulse?
desertdwlr said, 7 months ago

alright !!!! another boink-a-thon
DreamScourge said, 7 months ago

The procreation begins!
The Old Wolf said, 7 months ago

Easter is over, and with it the discussion of peeps… so perhaps this is the appropriate time to point this out: http://tinyurl.com/SpartanPeepArmy
3Xp4t said, 7 months ago

And nobody complains about a weekend cliffhanger, or mentions it ‘til now.

So, Bustard did awaken our Dru with a kiss (of demon sorts). And now she arouses, uhrrr … arises, fully awake and hungry, it seems. Or, is that a more combative pose ..?

Wondering what spells/magic that Dru put on Nat that might still be in effect. From Borgia Cantus, we are led to believe that Dru imprisoned Nat in the book, meaning she bested him in a contest previously. Is Nat “trapped” in his persona as Nat due to this spell ..? How did Nat escape ..?

In panel #3, he sure does appear to be a handsome devil …
DaveGlass said, 7 months ago

“Come on baby light my fire”
Saskfan said, 7 months ago

To Storyteller & The Skulker: “Expose Yourself To Art!” The art gallery in my workplace used to have that poster on their office wall; I loved it. They also had a poster of an Elsbeth Coop painting that I adored.

@Captain Smokeblower: I had to go back to yesterday to see your unfortunate news. I also offer condolences; I’ve had two cats die since I married my Beloved, and I remember them both in computer passwords (well disguised, of course). Tober the Maine Coon left us in 1995 and I still miss him.
AliKzam said, 7 months ago

Yay, hug!…;)
Ehol said, 7 months ago

Hey, this guy is really lucky.
I think I’m going envious of Nat Bustard …
MasterDiver said, 7 months ago

@Captain Smokeblower: My sympathies also on your companion’s passing. We lost one of our feline housemates Monday to colon cancer. He didn’t show a sign until Friday night, but the vet said the tumor had spread to his lymph nodes and there was nothing to do but send him on the next branch of the Nine-fold Path. I keep hearing Annie Lennox singing “Into the West”. I’m sure he’s happy chasing mice in the hold of a Grey Ship.
Hugh B. Hayve said, 7 months ago

@Sisyphos, I was going to mention the Kings of Leon tune, but you beat me to it. Good song, it’s on my mp3 player.
Gunnr said, 7 months ago

My Condolences Captain Smoke Blower.

The first two kitties I adopted were a brother and sister from the same litter. Sadly, I lost Sister (Shadow) quite suddenly and unexpected to cancer in 2004. I decided that it would be a fitting legacy for her to bequeath her happy home to another little kitty girl in need. About a month later, I adopted a little grey kitten from one of our local rescue orgainizations. Stormie was the sole survivor from an abandoned litter, and the first months of her life were pretty rocky, but now she is a healthy, happy 5-year old beauty. If circumstances permit, and when the time is right, it would be a fitting legacy to Miss Oreo to open your heart and home to a rescue, in her honor. There are so many who need what you have to give.

(Edit: can’t resist making the comment: Lucky Bustard! )
DeathDealer said, 7 months ago

Check the sketch! If the volcano were thermally hot before Bustard met Dru within the flames, it is x-ray hot now.
Gunnr said, 7 months ago

@MasterDriver – Ref: “Into the West” by Annie Lennox –a song and an artist I need to revisit. Check out the Jethro Tull song from the album “Heavy Horses” called “The Mouse Police Never Sleeps.” It’s an oldie but a goodie, and very appropros for a mouser. The whole album is vintaqe Ian Anderson.
Dry said, 7 months ago

“We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel
txmystic said, 7 months ago

ccdesan says:

Easter is over, and with it the discussion of peeps… so perhaps this is the appropriate time to point this out: http://tinyurl.com/SpartanPeepArmy

I only counted 43, not 300, yuk yuk yuk…
txmystic said, 7 months ago

Hey little girl is your daddy home
Did he go away and leave you all alone
I got a bad desire
Im on fire

Tell me now baby is he good to you
Can he do to you the things that I do
I can take you higher
Im on fire

Sometimes its like someone took a knife baby
Edgy and dull and cut a six-inch valley
Through the middle of my soul

At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
And a freight train running through the
Middle of my head
Only you can cool my desire
Im on fire
TiggerLeBounce said, 7 months ago

Oh My!
Moe A. said, 7 months ago

Capt. Smoke our best wishes to all. When either of us sits down here to type, our orange tab Hobbes is up on the back of the chair, typically with one paw draped over the lucky victim’s shoulder.
-MOE & DONNA
gailystitches2 said, 7 months ago

Hey, now, huh-huh
Hey, hey, hey, no, (ow, now)
Hey, now, huh-huh
Hey, hey, hey, no

Fire (uh) (uh)
Fire (it’s all about)(uh, uh)
Fire (woo, woo, woo)
Fire

The way you walk and talk really sets me off
To a full alarm, child, yes, it does, uh
The way you squeeze and tease, knocks to me my knees
‘Cause I’m smokin’, baby, baby

The way you swerve and curve, really wrecks my nerves
And I’m so excited, child (yeah), woo, woo
The way you push, push let’s me know that you’re good
(you’re gonna get your wish) Oh, yeah

Fire (what I said, child, ow)
Fire (uh-huh)
Got me burnin’, burnin’, burnin’
Got me burnin’, burnin’, burnin’ (yeah)
Got me burnin’, burnin’, burnin’ (yeah)

Woo…hoo…hoo…baby
Start burnin, burnin’ baby
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
Burnin, burnin’ baby
Oh, baby

When you shake what you got, and girl, you’ve got a lot
You’re really somethin’, child, yes, you are
When you’re hot you’re hot, you really shoot your shot
You’re dyn-o-mite, child, yeah

Well, I can tell by your game, you’re gonna start a flame
Love, baby, baby
I’m not gon’ choke from the smoke, got me tightenin’ up my stroke
Do you feel it, girl, yeah

Got me burnin’, burnin’, burnin’