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 at the lower right corner of 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

Geoff has thawed, and Maus is standing by… ‘til Monday, then.
StradMan37 said, 6 months ago

Ah, a compromise - READING glasses……

9CL: A “Nunny-Bun” in the oven???
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 6 months ago

Hmm. Methinks ‘twas no normal freezing that afflicted yon iceman. (His glasses are back, too).
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

How many Pibgorns are there? How many places is she? This dimensional vortex is confusing!
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

“Nunny-Bun”–I like that, Risitas! Sounds like a good brandname, for something (I know not what)….
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

Geoff seems none the worse for his Excellent Cryogenic Adventure!
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 6 months ago

Nunbun? Bunnies from the Nun family…

Gee, Joshua, Moses aide, was the son of Nun - (Ex 33:22, et al.)
Mattimeomeg said, 6 months ago

So…Pib’s kiss thawed Geoff but drained her to the point where she was then transported to the dream world/alternate reality from whence demons and fairies are unable to extract themselves while Dru and Nat…converse, right? Or am I just crazy?
revdave33 said, 6 months ago

Geoff seems none the worse, but Pibgorn doesn’t look all that hot.
Amnor said, 6 months ago

Favorite button is gone? View larger under “More” give a small graphic. Is it just me?
Fairportfan said, 6 months ago

“:Favorite” button is the small grey star just under the right hand lower corner.

I get a much smaller image with the “View Larger” button, too.
Captain Smokeblower said, 6 months ago

Hey, Geoff, that’s a frosty Pibcicle you’ve got there young man!
Quick, kiss her.
Even if your lips stick it’ll be worth it, but no tongue, Geoff.
No, Geoff, on the lips. Just on the lips. This is a family comic. Well, a strange family, but we’re family none the less.
Captain Smokeblower said, 6 months ago

Speaking of strange families, I remember walking hand in hand with this lovely young coed one evening 40 years ago. We were on our way back to her dorm when she sweetly said, “You’re like a brother to me.” She was surprised when I slapped my own face, but I had to do it to keep from asking her how she felt about incest.
Joe Minotaur said, 6 months ago

Fairportfan,
I sent you an email.

I’m at home now. It took me a couple of tries to sign in.
mjolnir 9 said, 6 months ago

Sisyphos says: How many Pibgorns are there? How many places is she?

The Pibgorn situation is easy. The ‘real’ Pibgorn is currently an ice-cube, lying next to Geoff. Meanwhile, her ‘soul’, if you will, is loose in the Dreamtime, where she’s a heller in pink tights (from the movie of the same name), dropping in on Dru. Similarly, the ‘real’ Dru is encased in lava, inside that volcano you see in frame 1, while her ‘soul’ (if succubi have same), also lost in the Dreamtime, has been playing a noir heroine, boinking Nat, committing various other acts considered ‘unnatural’ (well, kicking a cop over the Moon is considered unnatural in *my* neighborhood) and generally misbehaving.

The confusing part is this: What has Geoff been dreaming all this while? Assuming that Pib’s kiss thawed him…why - and how - was he iced in the first place? And why does he look so ‘old-school’? And other questions of the same ilk.

A perfect cliffhanger Friday for this story-arc: Fire…and Ice…and the Couch in a state of confusion.

I’m off to rustle up some viands for the weekend. I shall see thee anon…
ejcapulet said, 6 months ago

So the fairy kiss worked - she switched with Geoff. Lucky him, humans don’t hande freezer burn very well.
debra4life50 said, 6 months ago

Thank you, everyone, for the birthday wishes.
Three of us, wow! - out of how many regulars?, 100? 50? or so? Given there is 365 days in a year, 3% is pretty high.
I threw myself a tea party. About a dozen people came. Everyone had a great time. Just served cookies, grapes, chips, cheesies, and, of course, tea :)
Night, guys.
fatuncle said, 6 months ago

@fear-ciuil

So far, at least for me, to favorite the strip I must click on the Add To Collection tab, and then click on the Add To Favorites gold star in the menu that opens under that tab.

Simply clicking on the star does nothing.
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

I don’t think the volcano melted the ice, MurphyHerself; the volcano is on Manhattan, while the ice is presumably related to the Frozen Tsunami from the last arc and in the mid-Atlantic Ocean. N’est-ce pas vrai?
mjolnir 9 said, 6 months ago

Let me rephrase part of my previous statement (editing - like formatting - doesn’t seem to work, under the new rules):

Pib is currently an ice-cube…but a very well-rounded ice-cube.
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

My initial impression was that the volcano is “melting,” or diminishing (starting to “go away”), just as the contrasted ice is. Was I wrong about that?
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

mjolnir9, your hammering of the dimensional vortex has the elegance of simplicity: Occam’s Razor favors its correctness. But I’m still not sure…!
Margueritem said, 6 months ago

Favorite button doesn’t seem to work…
Joe Minotaur said, 6 months ago

…and over at MythTickle…

Death Takes a Holiday!
Gweedo Murray said, 6 months ago

99

ejcapulet said:

So the fairy kiss worked - she switched with Geoff. Lucky him, humans don’t hande freezer burn very well.

.

ej.., you’re a light house in this fog of confusion. If I was in motion my nose would be bloody against the wall of the obvious.
StradMan37 said, 6 months ago

Sisyphos said, Comment to comment on,

“Nunny-Bun”–I like that, Risitas! Sounds like a good brandname, for something (I know not what)….

“Nunny-Bunny” is an affectionate term applied by some to “traditionally-dressed” (“The Flying Nun” ring a bell, fellow oldsters?) Cath’lic Sisters. They, of course, are easily ID’d in public: “Hey, there’s a Nunny-Bunny!”

Sisyphos said, Comment 2 to comment on,

My initial impression was that the volcano is “melting,” or diminishing (starting to “go away”), just as the contrasted ice is. Was I wrong about that?

THAT’S the impression I got, too, right away. All the tops of the bldgs on surrounding streets suddenly are now visible.
Fairportfan said, 6 months ago

debra4life50 said

“Thank you, everyone, for the birthday wishes.
“Three of us, wow! - out of how many regulars?, 100? 50? or so? Given there is 365 days in a year, 3% is pretty high.”

Actually, it’s maybe a tad low - for any random group of thirty people, odds are something like 2 to 1 in favour of at least 2 matching birthdays. Out of any random group of six, it’s like 3 to 1 that 2 will have birthdays in the same month.

mjolnir9 said

“Let me rephrase part of my previous statement (editing - like formatting - doesn’t seem to work, under the new rules)”

Both work for me - in fact, you have to edit to format…

Sisyphos said

“My initial impression was that the volcano is “melting,” or diminishing (starting to “go away”), just as the contrasted ice is.”

I don’t think so. I don’t know what tall buildings are near 77th and Park, but it’s taller than any of them and still erupting.
Joe Minotaur said, 6 months ago

Looks like Pibgorn could use some coffee.
BJamesB86 said, 6 months ago

This beats the pants off those global warming theories for the year 2064. THIS is NYC in a worst case scenario!
Fairportfan said, 6 months ago

Risitas said

“THAT’S the impression I got, too, right away. All the tops of the bldgs on surrounding streets suddenly are now visible.”

I don’t think those are close-in buildings becoming visible - i think those are further buildings being overwhelmed.
Joe Minotaur said, 6 months ago

I sleep now…z-z-z
Fairportfan said, 6 months ago

What doesn’t work for me is the “remember me” button on the sign-in. Every time i fo away and come back, i have to sign in again.

Girl Genius: I wondered if Gil was really Klaus’ son.

Now i’m beginning to wonder if he’s really human.
VicTR said, 6 months ago

I’m gonna miss Manhattan . :{
BikeNBoatN said, 6 months ago

Shame on me! I didn’t even notice Pib-sicle there till after I read the comments.
Gunnr said, 6 months ago

Thanks all for the b-day wishes. Spent the evening very congenially. My mom cooked a wonderful pot roast dinner with all the trimmings for a small gathering of family and friends.

I think my boy kitties are through the worst of their colds and are on the mend, still stuffy and sniffly, but not sneezing and snorking constantly like before. The little girl kitty has sneezed a couple times but (touch wood) so far appears to have fended off the virus.

Ref the Littermaid modification – the drawer works OK, but what works even better (for me, anyway) is one of those under-the-bed storage boxes (see subsequent post). If you use the drawer and you let the bag get too full, it’s hard to get the drawer open without tearing the bag. But with the storage box, you can set the Littermaid off to the side and take the lid off the storage box and simply lift out the sack of poop. I use regular drawstring 20 gallon trash bags and with 3 cats I can go up to 2 weeks per bag. (I could go three weeks, but the bag would be too heavy for me to lift!)

If you had a small or “toy” size dog like a Yorkie, or Chihuahua or even a Jack Russell size dog, I bet you could train it to use a Littermaid full of clumping cat litter. The “evidence” doesn’t have to be buried for the Littermaid to do it’s thing.
tooslowglass said, 6 months ago

Last three days, since the changeover, I can’t get Favorites to work any more. I was pleasantly surprised to discover all the Pibs I’d previously Favorited are now in a nice browseable folder, but none of the last three days has been saved there no matter how often I click the Favorite button. Nor is my Favorited vote counted. Are there Higher Powers we can complain to/get a workaround from?
Fairportfan said, 6 months ago

tooslowglass said

Last three days, since the changeover, I can’t get Favorites to work any more. I was pleasantly surprised to discover all the Pibs I’d previously Favorited are now in a nice browseable folder, but none of the last three days has been saved there no matter how often I click the Favorite button.

What browser are you using? Do you have Java/Javascript/Flash enabled?

It works for me - i click on it, the gray stripy animated stripe appears at the top, and the cute little star wiggles and turns gold.

Granted, i don’t see how many times the strip’s been favorited.
tooslowglass said, 6 months ago

P.S. When/if we can get “Favorite” to work, where are the results tallied/displayed?
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

From the varied comments so far, I guess there’s some room for disputing whether or not the volcano is receding. I figure we’ll see in future pages, maybe next week….
Gunnr said, 6 months ago

Evidently, speculation about Pib’s color change as reving up for a baiser de la fey (sp?) was correct. She appears to have “healed” Geoff of being frozen stiff by transfering his frozen stiff state onto herself.

We know that both Dru and Bustard are physically in the volcano in NYC, and Pib, Geoff and Maurice are physically where-ever the ice is, but as to the mental/psychic/dream state goings on and where/how they are going on, I can but settle into a reclining section of the couch, ask to be passed some Harvey’s Bristol Cream on the rocks, please, and be confused in comfort.
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

Your wish is granted, Gunnr: (pours a liberal amount of Harvey’s over small clear ice-cubes) Here ya go, old(er by one year) man!
Sisyphos said, 6 months ago

Just clicked to my “Profile” page on a whim and learned a few things about myself, including, e.g., that my tags are now identified as mine: no more anonymity there! Also, when I signed up, how many postings I’ve made, how many “Favorites” I’ve accumulated….

I also find that some info I had excised [“location”] has been reincarnated, resulting in a redundancy, as I had re-placed that info into the section now named “bio,” where it still also appears…. :-(
Fairportfan said, 6 months ago

Gunnr said

“Evidently, speculation about Pib’s color change as reving up for a baiser de la fey (sp?) was correct. She appears to have “healed” Geoff of being frozen stiff by transfering his frozen stiff state onto herself.”

A) I believe Pib pronounces if “baiser de la fee” - French, ou know.

B) I also believe that your analysis is likely correct, and that’s another way in which this story is echoing past events - when Pib revved up and kissed Geoff to cure his arrow wound:

http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2002/pib020418.gif
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2002/pib020419.gif

it did cure him, but it had Consequences:

http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2002/pib020422.gif
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2002/pib020424.gif

(Pib was a lot less Cute in those days, wasn’t she?)
Fairportfan said, 6 months ago

9CL: As i posted Over There: “…and with a little “ting” the metaphorical lightbulb lit up…”

Maybe Edda will be able to keep her Big Mouth shut this time.
Fairportfan said, 6 months ago

This is Interesting: if you want a Huge copy of the strip, click “More”, click “View Larger” - and, no matter what size it shows up on your screen, right-click (for Mac users, i have no idea…) on the new image, select “Save image” (or equivalent - Firefox and Safari say “Save image as” and IE says “Save picture as”), select a location and a filename, click “Save” and Robert is your maternal unit’s sibling.

Comes in at 900x1200, rather than the 600x800 you get by clicking on the image on the page.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 6 months ago

Edda? No, probably not. Remember the how she’s kept secrets in the past…
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 6 months ago

Geoff doesn’t deserve either “lady”. Sheesh. Treat’em a little better, Geoff.
MasterDiver said, 6 months ago

Don’t tell me Pib is now FRIGID??!!!

9CWL: Francis better watch it. The last time Diane thought she might be expecting, Sr. Steven pulled him into a dark alley and gave him a little <> “councelling.”
invisifan said, 6 months ago

Fairportfan said This is Interesting: if you want a Huge copy of the strip, click “More”, click “View Larger” - and, no matter what size it shows up on your screen, right-click (for Mac users, i have no idea…) on the new image, select “Save image” (or equivalent - Firefox and Safari say “Save image as” and IE says “Save picture as”), select a location and a filename, click “Save” and Robert is your maternal unit’s sibling.

Comes in at 900x1200, rather than the 600x800 you get by clicking on the image on the page.

Don’t bother … unlike what you’d get at 9CL’s host (where the on-page art is reduced), here you get a 50% machine resize of the image you see anyway - therefore it’s slightly degraded (not as bad here as with images that are more line art tho’) - you’re better off saving from the page & then using a viewer with zoom capability – you’ll get a slightly clearer image.

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A fantastic saga of adventure both high and low, of forbidden passion and iambic pentameter, of fays, fools, organists, demons, accordions, heaven, hell and Shakespeare, Pibgorn follows the whims and flights of its eponymous fairy heroine as she plies her conviction that there must be more to life than depositing dew drops on dandelions and sleeping under mushrooms.

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