Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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Margueritem said, 6 months ago

I think that the officer will change his mind very quickly. “Ticket? What ticket?”
fear-ciuil said, 6 months ago

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Basically, I think it provides a method for spreading the word.
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StradMan37 said, 6 months ago

“Where’s the fire, Mac???”
Gorgeous Gams hath bedeviled th’ bobby.
Fairportfan said, 6 months ago

Sisyphos says:

9CWL: It appears that Thorax has somehow multiplied the stilettos of this gang, “The Brotherhood”! And Seth is cool, as ever.
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I hope Brooke is going to start something else tomorrow; if he continues this, i see two possibil;ities: 1) The subsequent streips fall flat, for none can surpass thie level of silliness or 2) I am found dead, slumped over my keyboard Thursday morn, looking as if i’d been done in by The Joker’s gas…
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“Pib: Even if Nat dreams in the 1930s, still that bike-cop’s uniform looks more like a hotel doorman’s to me (lacking, perhaps, a long overcoat). I don’t think NYC or (NY State) cops wore purple with really high hats (though I am not certain).”
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The hat is sorta excessive, but i suspect the colour may be an artifact of trying to make it look like night - kind of like the strange colours you sometimes see in a film scene that’s shot nuit Americaine.
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Personally, i don’t think the cop can see the seams from that angle, but i also bet it’s not going to stop him looking very hard to try to…
Fairportfan said, 6 months ago

A further note about police acoutrements (a pause, whilst Dru adjusts her acoutrements): The gauntlets he’s wearing are appropriate for a motorcycle cop in the 1930’s (and he’s probably riding an Indian).
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Interesting small change in dialog.
txmystic said, 6 months ago

That cop is about to meet an unfortunate end…
fear-ciuil said, 6 months ago

Not feeling 100% tonight … g’night, OTC.
txmystic said, 6 months ago

Drunah looks pretty ticked off that she still has to play the part and thus is not in control…but she clearly still holds sway over some things…

…which reminds me:

Guh-………….
txmystic said, 6 months ago

Codladh sámh duit, fear-ciuil…
Gweedo Murray said, 6 months ago

For the hardcores:

http://www.gocomics.com/comic_page/explore/283241?page=21#
StradMan37 said, 6 months ago

fear-ciuil says:

Not feeling 100% tonight … g’night, OTC.

98.6 myself - at least until viewing panel 6…..
wndrwrthg said, 6 months ago

Hah! The jokes on her… the seams run up the back!
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

fairportfan’s quoting of my “last night” remarks has prompted me to correct the placement of the opening parenthesis to before “…or NY State….” Perish the thought that I should let a gaffe bleed before this merry school of grammar-piranhas!

At first I thought the copper had developed a moustache in panel 5, until I realized it was just his gaping mouth. “What’s a matter, copper? Never seen a gorgeous gam before?!”
LLeRay said, 6 months ago

“Sure, the seam is straight, but my eyes are crossed!”
ejcapulet said, 6 months ago

Careful, officer, that’s no normal dame.
StradMan37 said, 6 months ago

wndrwrthg says:

Hah! The jokes on her… the seams run up the back!

Ocifer seems a bit too preoccupied w/looking AT instead of FOR anything.
The Old Wolf said, 6 months ago

All this giddiness about 6-inch stilettos makes me realize that Prince Crewth and Gaggot are made of pretty stern stuff. http://home.comcast.net/~ccdesan/Pibgorn/pibgorn982.jpg

Ow…
Fairportfan said, 6 months ago

Sisyphos says:

9CWL: It appears that Thorax has somehow multiplied the stilettos of this gang, “The Brotherhood”! And Seth is cool, as ever.
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I hope Brooke is going to start something else tomorrow; if he continues this, i see two possibil;ities: 1) The subsequent streips fall flat, for none can surpass thie level of silliness or 2) I am found dead, slumped over my keyboard Thursday morn, looking as if i’d been done in by The Joker’s gas…
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“Pib: Even if Nat dreams in the 1930s, still that bike-cop’s uniform looks more like a hotel doorman’s to me (lacking, perhaps, a long overcoat). I don’t think NYC or (NY State) cops wore purple with really high hats (though I am not certain).”
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The hat is sorta excessive, but i suspect the colour may be an artifact of trying to make it look like night - kind of like the strange colours you sometimes see in a film scene that’s shot nuit Americaine.
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.Personally, i don’t think the cop could see the seams from that angle, but i also bet it’s not going to stop him looking very hard to try to…
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A 1924 Glen Falls (NY, i think) motorcycle cop: http://www.glensfallspd.com/graphics/pastmembers/motorcycle1924.jpg ; i think the bike’s an Indian - it seems to have a sidecar.
Cops on Indians in a factory photo - undated: http://www.ironwigwam.com/Images/PICS01/PICS01-00338-L.jpg
Enlarged section showin officer’s headgear: http://www.ironwigwam.com/Images/PICS01/PICS01-00339-L.jpg
Indian police and military motorcycles with some (unfortunately small) phtos of New York (and other otorcycle cops from the 1920s and 30s): http://www.wgby.org/localprograms/indian/pages/militaryandpolice.html
StradMan37 said, 6 months ago

9CWL:

The Brotherhood might be provoked to KEEP wearing the dang things.
Fairportfan said, 6 months ago

txmystic says:

“That cop is about to meet an unfortunate end…”
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I doubt if he’ll think it’s that “unfortunate” - at least till he wakes up from the erotic dream Dinah/Dru is likely to leave him in and has to explain to Grizzel why he was sleeping on the job while Bustard and the murderess escaped.
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Gweedo Murray says:

“For the hardcores:

“http://www.gocomics.com/comic_page/explore/283241?page=21#”
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Got a “You must be loggid in to view this page”.
Fairportfan said, 6 months ago

Or even “…logged in…”
CoBass said, 6 months ago

@Story Teller: Re: Thorax and antenna diversity. You want the antennas to be at least a wavelength apart. For two stilleto heel antennas on Thorax’s head, that puts a lower limit on the frequency of ~3GHz, somewhat above the frequency band allocated to 4G cell phones in the U.S. If even higher frequencies are used, then the minimum requied spacing goes down by the same ratio.

I suppose Thorax could also hold one stiletto antenna in his outstretched hand, as well.
StradMan37 said, 6 months ago

fairportfan Says:

Got a “You must be loggid in to view this page”.

I got an “unable to find that collection”.
debra4life50 said, 6 months ago

Gweedo Murray says:

“For the hardcores:

“http://www.gocomics.com/comic_page/explore/283241?page=21#”
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Hey, Gweedo!!! All I get is my My Comics Page. What’s up with that?
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

I also, Gweedo, got sent to my homepage, where Dr. Lynwood McDougall told me he was “unable to find that collection.” Same result when I tried editing out that number-symbol at the end of the link….
Margueritem said, 6 months ago

Gweedo: What’s up with that?
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

Given Drusilla’s propensity for going commando, for the poor schmuck-cop’s sake I hope she didn’t hoist her skirt too high! Poor lad would be overwhelmed by the succubian fundamentals!
Gweedo Murray said, 6 months ago

It’s today’s Last Kiss @Gocomics. It works for me? Sorry about the mess.
VicTR said, 6 months ago

Dru ain’t wearing any hose.
They don’t make any that sheer !
Gweedo Murray said, 6 months ago

I don’t know what happened. I was at the strip and did the “Copy Link Location” on it, posted, and immediately tested, With good results. Post post testing has yielded same.
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EDIT: when I punch the link that youse copied I still get the strip…
Phaze58 said, 6 months ago

It looks like the “officer” is going to get “hosed down”
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

In celebration of …something or other…, I have made the first-ever change to my avatar since I de-lurked!

–Wherefore, I present for the hungry, blueberry pie and optional French vanilla ice cream (Breyer’s). To accompany that, I offer a choice of St. John’s Commanderia (dessert wine, from Cyprus) or imported peach nectar.
Squire_of_the_shire said, 6 months ago

Man this confusion gets thick in here; Fun, but thick.

First off Dru just gets done having two good rounds of humina humina with our man of steel Nat. So why is she looking so non-heaven bent on clocking someone?

Second, based on my personal experience in buying suggestive lingerie, the seams as a rule go up the back and over the calves to points north.

My final point of confusion has to do with where Nat and Dru are. Are they still in the operating room of a volcanic hospital or have they been spirited elsewhere and I’ve just missed it?

I’m going over to the bean bah chair of befuddlement and nosh on my red pudding and chips.
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

Gweedo, the “explore” in your link suggests you were linking through your selection of favorite comics; the unfettered link right now would end just in the strip’s title….
http://www.gocomics.com/lastkiss
3Xp4t said, 6 months ago

Given Mr. McE’s penchant for playing with time twists and quantum infinitives, I’m wondering if Nat & Dru are gonna end up in Gotham (in the 1930’s) at 77th & Park. Some sort of connection between the noir ‘dreamworld’ and the hospital inside a volcano might then take place across the 70-80 years time gap ..?

Thorax hisself may be required to connect some cubes into dots.
starfighter441 said, 6 months ago

txmystic says:

That cop is about to meet an unfortunate end

I wouldn’t consider meeting Dru’s end unfortunate…
invisifan said, 6 months ago

Don’t you need to be wearing nylons to have seams (straight or otherwise)??
Galford said, 6 months ago

Okay, so comparing the sketch to the strip - where did the car go in panel 5? Actually, once you have seen the sketch, it looks even stranger, seeing as the cop has his foot on the running board in panel 4… Unless he jumped back in amazement!
Fairportfan said, 6 months ago

Galford says:

“Okay, so comparing the sketch to the strip - where did the car go in panel 5? Actually, once you have seen the sketch, it looks even stranger, seeing as the cop has his foot on the running board in panel 4… Unless he jumped back in amazement”
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Okay, colour me embarrassed.
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I diodn’t even notice that, even though i noticed the caption change in panel 2.
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There will be a flicker. This evening.
Fairportfan said, 6 months ago

Also - “crouching in the rumble seat”? Hello? I think Brooke must have meant “back seat” this is a rumble seat: http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/1932-plymouth-pa-rumble-seat-coupe-2.jpg
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And anybody who could “crouch” in one when it was closed - note panel 2 - would have to be very very small.
sarge112751 said, 6 months ago

Homina-Homina-Homina…!
JonD17 said, 6 months ago

I think the officer’s attire very closely resembles Rhode Island State Police, also somewhat like New Jersey.
ThatCat said, 6 months ago

Brooke is schooling us in the fine art of pleasure. Instead of worrying so much where the plot is going, it has become more that we just boggle mesmerized while being aware that there is probably a plot somewhere. It will be fun when we begin to see it, but then.. who cares? This is just great fun!
Saskfan said, 6 months ago

Galford says:
“Okay, so comparing the sketch to the strip - where did the car go in panel 5? Actually, once you have seen the sketch, it looks even stranger, seeing as the cop has his foot on the running board in panel 4… Unless he jumped back in amazement”

Maybe Honourable Master was as surprised as the cop. After all, when it’s Miss Cloverly’s gams on display, who’s going to notice ANYTHING missing?

Chocolate milk and oatmeal chocolate chip cookies for me at the couch; I just spent 20 hours at work: 8 hours working, then a supper break and 10 hours more painting three coats of arms on a herald’s tabard. Not very sensible, that. next time, I won’t wait for the deadline; yeah right. Who am I trying to kid? Um, me, I guess.

Good night and good morning.
DeathDealer said, 6 months ago

Did someone say blueberry pie and ice cream!? What a great breakfast.
The comments today are picky, picky, picky. All I see is the last panel, and a lot of gorgeous leg.
prasrinivara said, 6 months ago

How about substituting in saskatoon pie with cheddar, DeathDealer?
kcboomer said, 6 months ago

You know I have no idea where this arc is going but when Dinah is on stage it is one smoking hot piece of cartoonage.

CWL: I gotta tell you this 6” stiletto drill has gotten old fast.
maeverin said, 6 months ago

“before they homed in on the scent…”
there’s that “they” again.

Dru looks good and pissed.

sisyphos says:
I also, Gweedo, got sent to my homepage, where Dr. Lynwood McDougall told me he was “unable to find that collection.”

i thought he was Dr. Quest.
TheDoctortheoneonlya... said, 6 months ago

“Hey, wait a minute, that’s a trick Question Lady.You ain’t wearin’ no pantyhos–Oh!Awwwwhhh”
Captain Smokeblower said, 6 months ago

To conserve silk for parachutes during WWII women gave up stockings, but to maintain the look they had the seam line painted on the back of their legs. That would have been my ideal job and I would have introduced mini-skirts then and there to extend my work.