Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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fear-ciuil said, 6 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

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Margueritem said, 6 months ago

Much too distracting…
Demons and fire are like ducks and water.
StradMan37 said, 6 months ago

Great Balls O’ Fire!!!
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

Geesh, Nat! You are too easily distracted! Now look what you’ve done to your snappy little coupe!
txmystic said, 6 months ago

The flames are inconsequential…they’re already inside a volcano…

but one wonders what this will do to the “dream”…do we find out Monday who’s behind it, or do we get a few days of Pib looking helplessly at the wall o’ice?
Fairportfan said, 6 months ago

Okay.
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It’s not hanging.
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It’s supposed to hang.
VicTR said, 6 months ago

Well, at least he wasn’t on his cell phone !
The Old Wolf said, 6 months ago

What would you call this… “Unadulterated bling-blang huffa-puffa?” XP
txmystic said, 6 months ago

You can tell in panel 3 exactly what Dru has in mind…

@margueritem: nice gems…emeralds?
Fairportfan said, 6 months ago

What the aitch-ee-double toothpicks happened to Bustard’s left arm and hand?
txmystic said, 6 months ago

@fairportfan: Excellent point to ponder on the weekend…

GoodNightNow!
StradMan37 said, 6 months ago

fairportfan says:

Okay.
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It’s not hanging.
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It’s supposed to hang.

Well, Nat may be no longer hung.

Have youse any idea what a car crash may do to a hummer-in-progress?
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

So, if Nat was lamming it northward out from Manhattan, did they end up somewhere in the Hudson River Valley? Or did they start from New Jersey, where I still think his office is located? Just trying to figure out where to send the rescue squad. And do they end up in the hospital again?
The Old Wolf said, 6 months ago

My entire site, including Tribute Pages and Gallery, appears to be down for a while. Hope Comcast gets their act together soon…
Gweedo Murray said, 6 months ago

Do you need help getting your rocks off marg? ¦;–] Any cake left emjrn?
Today’s renderings look really good. My lap has gone cold from lack of use. Glad someone’s goin’ out with a bang here.
Fairportfan said, 6 months ago

Actually, looking at panels 2 & 3, what happened to both of Bustard’s arms?
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Instant polio? (I’m old enough to remember the days when mothers worried about their kids all summer … when the Salk vaccine first came out …)
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Some sort of previously unknown fast-acting wasting disease?
Fairportfan said, 6 months ago

Risitas:
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I wasn’t talking about a ding a ling.
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I was talking about the car and the cliff…
emjrn said, 6 months ago

Oh, the dangers of distractions!

Yes, there is cake left…Angel food with sweet butter sauce and fresh strawberries and whipped cream….it was my birthday and I baked my own birthday cake…7 days late.
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

fairportfan, I think that new disease is called renderingdam quickior!
StradMan37 said, 6 months ago

fairportfan says:

Risitas:
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I wasn’t talking about a ding a ling.
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I was talking about the car and the cliff…

@fairportfan:

Just a little wordplay there.
Fairportfan said, 6 months ago

Update on Kate’s condition and our plans (which at least involve a couple of weeks with Helen and the grandkids…):
http://mog.com/fairportfan/blog/1309723
jml58 said, 6 months ago

That was not the gearshift.
Gweedo Murray said, 6 months ago

I think MASTER is copping on the FINE artwork that’s been a hallmark at Dick Tracy for some time now. I think Brooke has taken a page from the Ranma 1/2 stories too, with the ‘kicking a character way high into the air’ bit, on a really long leg at that.
Margueritem said, 6 months ago

txmystic: Thanks, May’s birthstone.
CaptainNerd said, 6 months ago

The perfect expression, fear and desire all at once. The only way to fly!
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

What about the tail-car? Who was it–cops? Will they come to the rescue?

In any case, I can’t worry too much: you can’t keep a good succubus down! –Or is it, you can’t keep a bad succubus down? –Or, a bad succubus can’t keep a distracted demon up? Or…?

(Slumps exhaustedly into Confusion Couch….)
ejcapulet said, 6 months ago

Uh, you’d think THAT would be obvious.
fear-ciuil said, 6 months ago

Okay, I admit it … Nat’s dialog in Panel 2 is making me crack up.

G’night, folks!
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

paciii, you and Buttons should take a look at this week’s strips at Monty on cdotc: young Master Sedgwick’s teddy plays a prominent rôle in his week-long quest after Fleshy (Monty’s hairless cat, if you’re not familiar)….
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

Musical accompaniment for today’s page:
http://tinyurl.com/rcqnny
Pay special attention to the image at 1:20!
Joe Minotaur said, 6 months ago
Thank-you for all of yesterday’s Bidet Vicis. Happy Birthday to all Minotaureans, what ever that day may fall on. Just remember: All Taurus, no bull.
- 9CWL: I guess Thorax had to think long and hard to decide on which one to let drop.
- Pibgorn: Argent(the band); Hold you head up. Hold your head up. Hold your head up. Hold your head high!
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiA8AVpf6M4
Gweedo Murray said, 6 months ago

Based on Brooke’s somewhat vague drawing and the vehicle in Sisypho’s link, Nat’s car looks more like a Dodge than a Plymouth or a Ford.
desertdwlr said, 6 months ago

been there—done that
Phoenix_Ascendant said, 6 months ago

Dear lord… O_O I’d give my left (and right) arm to be in his position…
baslim_the_begger said, 6 months ago

Heads, you lose…

A real cliffhangtimer….
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 6 months ago

back to the volcano…
Fairportfan said, 6 months ago

Sisyphos says:

“Musical accompaniment for today’s page:
“http://tinyurl.com/rcqnny”
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Try this one:
http://electronictiger.net/avail/years.mp3
starfighter441 said, 6 months ago

Must be some strong crosswinds there, Nat seems to have been blown off the road…
matsu23 said, 6 months ago

Take out Peking duck for someone who can unconfuse me about the two red dots on Dru’s head, since her eyes appear to be closed.
Galford said, 6 months ago

‘How many times must I tell you? Leave the gearstick alone!!’

I know it sounds like rubbish, but I have been in that situation. Then a truck driver flashed his lights as I passed him. Then, I was doing 140mph due to embarrassment…!

Oh, and 9CWL - is that Roger on the checkout…?
rundstyk said, 6 months ago

Right out of “Parenthood”!
The best part is Steve Martin suggesting that Mary Steenburgen tells the police officer, how the accident happened.
MasterDiver said, 6 months ago

The flames are the wrong color for a gasoline fire, not enough orange, and nowhere near enough smoke. I think they may have just crashed the gate to the offices of Lucifer, Mephitopheles and Scratch, LLC!

Devilsfood cupcakes and Kona Coffee with Kaluha for the morning shift. I gotta get under the Couch and back down to Callahan’s to sweep the glass out of the Fireplace.

Also, I have to pick up the roses for Mrs Diver’s and my 27th Anniversary. 27 Long-stem Yellows!
pschearer said, 6 months ago

I can’t believe no one offered a new spelling for “succubus”.
TiggerLeBounce said, 6 months ago

Happy Anniversary, MasterDiver!

And blessings and good luck to Kate, Fairportfan! If she can find relief, the trip will be worth it!
Story Teller said, 6 months ago

The Old WolfPro says: “My entire site, including Tribute Pages and Gallery, appears to be down for a while. Hope Comcast gets their act together soon…”

Comcast? Get their act together??? Well, you know what they say: you can wish in one hand…
Story Teller said, 6 months ago

fairportfanPro says: “Update on Kate’s condition and our plans (which at least involve a couple of weeks with Helen and the grandkids…):
http://mog.com/fairportfan/blog/1309723”

I will hold good thoughts for your beloved. I hope the procedure works well. In my experience, anything that is not approved by the general medical community is probably at least worth looking at.
fatuncle said, 6 months ago

pschearer says:

”…I can’t believe no one offered a new spelling for “succubus”…”

That’s because we are all mature adults here, and above such things as really bad puns.

Besides, I didn’t think of it.
pabrunner said, 6 months ago

‘Say hello to my little friend’
eddieal said, 6 months ago

What a way to go…GAAAWD!!!
Simon_Jester said, 6 months ago

Ehhh, you a lot to learn dere, Nat.

Why youse tink she’s called a SUCC-u-buss inna foist place?