Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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fear-ciuil said, 5 months ago

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Joe Minotaur said, 5 months ago

Pibgorn:
Slow and easy, just the way I like ‘em.

The Winner is… The .38!
Margueritem said, 5 months ago

I think she has disarmed you, Nat.
jimbo1949 said, 5 months ago

I wonder which gun goes off first?
txmystic said, 5 months ago

I want *my* .38 worked on next, Pib…

Guh-………….
MurphyHerself said, 5 months ago

Uumm, Nat’s?? Looks like it’s already gone off :)
txmystic said, 5 months ago

Dude, I’m already looking forward to Friday’s cliffhanger! I’m guessing Dinah will enter this scene and inform Nonna under no uncertain terms will she sit idly by while Nonna works that .38…
mjolnir 9 said, 5 months ago

As Ethel Merman (speaking as Annie Oakley) once remarked:

“Oh, you can’t get a man with a gun!
With a gun, with a gun,
No you can’t get a man with a gun!”

Well…yes, you can, apparently…
Oriscus said, 5 months ago

Mercy!
Saskfan said, 5 months ago

Oh, my, uh, my… oh, my! Careful with that trigger finger, Nat.
SweetPuck said, 5 months ago

Ahahahaha! I suppose that’s one way to clean a gun…
chinawanderer said, 5 months ago

Huh? Why is Nat after Nooney/Pib? Now I am really on the couch.
One Universe said, 5 months ago

My oh my
Saskfan said, 5 months ago

Y’know, considering Honourable Master is not disposed to show the Naughty Bits, he’s getting pretty Naughty in other ways.

I keep thinking of ZZTop: She’s got llips, er, llegs, and she knows how to use them.
invisifan said, 5 months ago

Pib definitely got something out of that merging with Dru …
fear-ciuil said, 5 months ago

@chinawanderer, you need to read the Borgia Cantus arc. The Old Wolf’s tribute page will give you an overview (see the boilerplate, post 1), but it you have patience and willingness to alter the dates in the following link, you can read the arc for yourself (link is to the first strip of the arc):
http://picayune.uclick.com/comics/pib/2003/pib030811.gif
debra4life50 said, 5 months ago

Shouldn’t Pib being appearing to Nat as the woman who came into his office at the start of this story arc, not as this Nonny chick?
debra4life50 said, 5 months ago

fear-ciuil - thank you for the info about joining the Order of the Couch. I thought that maybe you guys had a website somewhere or something.
Story Teller said, 5 months ago

mjolnir9 said “As Ethel Merman (speaking as Annie Oakley) once remarked:

“Oh, you can’t get a man with a gun!
With a gun, with a gun,
No you can’t get a man with a gun!”

Well…yes, you can, apparently…”

Sure. Chicks with guns has always worked on me, but this…!?!
Radical-Knight said, 5 months ago

Well, I’m totally dumbfounded. That’s not the gun Bustard had in Borgia Cantus. What’s the deal?

[EDIT] - That’s awfully brave of Nonny. But then Pib isn’t a demon and Bustard’s gun has bullets that are only effective on demons. Right?
BikeNBoatN said, 5 months ago

Panel 3 looks a little “Lena-ish” to me. And the half-closed eyelids on the sketch definitely looks more seductive.
Radical-Knight said, 5 months ago

I just started to say that Pib looked like Lena in frame three.
Sisyphos said, 5 months ago

Good Grief! I dozed off just before the witching hour and just reawakened! Must have been more tired than I thought!

Well, it was Nat with the .38. And now it’s Pib-Nonny with the .38, in a very direct solution to the problem of “what to do when the gumshoe points his roscoe in your face” (kids, do not try this at home)!
ejcapulet said, 5 months ago

She sure knows how to set the mood, doesn’t she? Why he was planning on - er - blowing her away is beyond me.
BikeNBoatN said, 5 months ago

In the sketch, Pib’s left arm is missing on panel 4. You can still see her fingers wrapped around the top of Nat’s gun, but the rest of her arm is gone. Corrected in the final drawing.
Sisyphos said, 5 months ago

Nat seems more than just a little discombobulated by this turn of events. (–You know, it’s very hard to talk descriptively about this page and at the same time keep one’s remarks family-friendly?) Pib-Nonny is, shall we say, not just “taking things into her own hands,” and Nat is at a loss. What comes next? Or, who…. Hmm, am I still family-friendly?
jml58 said, 5 months ago

Doing that to a gun is likely make it go of.
Sisyphos said, 5 months ago

Yes, BikeNBoatN and Radical-Knight, Pib in panel 3 with her mouth uncharacteristically wide open [side-to-side] does look rather like Lena, whose mouth normally seems wider than Pib’s….
Gunnr said, 5 months ago

Heavenly Betsy!

First Dru, then Pib, then Dinah, then Nonny. That’s one lucky Bustard.

Must be his dream, and a very soggy one by now, considering all the jollies he’s been getting.

Pardon me while I shift the sofa into “Recline,” the better to watch as Hon. Master pushes the envelope pretty durn far… .
desertdwlr said, 5 months ago

HUBBA-HUBBA-HUBBA-DING-DING-DING
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 5 months ago

Yuuuuucccccccckkk!

Considering what the cleaning fluid smells like when you clean a gun, that has GOT to taste absolutely awful.

The mental image Brooke is trying to send is even worse. As the Germans would say, es gibt über.
Gunnr said, 5 months ago

BTW, Whenever it was that people were talking about who was going to San Diego Con, I believe Paul Taylor who draws Wapsi Square is going.
Sisyphos said, 5 months ago

9CWL: Little do Juliette and Elliot know how significant the conversation between Thorax and “that little man” might be! They are us, metaphorically, all unaware as the universe careens along a questionable path!
Sisyphos said, 5 months ago

Pib-Nonny is more at heart a seductress than Pib-Pibgorn (though Pib’s recent experiences with Nat show that her education has progressed enormously) and so more ready for this course of action than Pib-as-herself would be. I wonder if Nonny Vogelsang has played this game before?
fear-ciuil said, 5 months ago

Hey, bmonk, Roger bnTotOo and anyone else who deals with period music/chant on a regular basis might (stressed for a reason!) get a kick out of today’s Working Daze over on Brand X:
http://comics.com/working_daze/
cdward said, 5 months ago

I like panel 3 better in the sketch. Too much tooth (and too much Lena). But panel 4 in the final is … wow!
Skyhawk_maintainer said, 5 months ago

Is she trying to turn that .38 into a .50 machine gun?
sarge112751 said, 5 months ago

o my GAWD!!!!! - I simply MUST change my linen!

“Was it good for YOU?” - Hell, EXCELLENT!
sarge112751 said, 5 months ago

To quote the late Frank Sinatra — “Ring-a-ding-DING-ding”!
arsmall said, 5 months ago

She’s learned WAY too much from being in Dru’s head!
Phoenix_Ascendant said, 5 months ago

She’d better hope he doesn’t have a touchy trigger… O_O

Wow… I couldn’t think of any way to keep that going without it being something fit for only Dru to read… >_>

Got to say, though, Arsmall is right! She’s learned WAY too many dirty little tricks from being in Dru’s head… ^_^
arsmall said, 5 months ago

She’s learned WAY too much from being in Dru’s head.

(in a British accent) “Oh Mr. McE, you naughty, naughty boy!”
chairump said, 5 months ago

OMG!
DeathDealer said, 5 months ago

Hey Nonny! Let me show you my long barrel .44 mag.
TiggerLeBounce said, 5 months ago

Talk about getting attention!
TheDoctortheoneonlya... said, 5 months ago

Hey Nonny Nonny, INDEED!…….and Yes both arms are in panel 4 ========”Whatchutalkin’bout, Willis?”
donhef said, 5 months ago

OY VEY
Dragoncat said, 5 months ago

Pib’s face on Panel 3 is PRICELESS!

Dru has taught her well… He needs to put that gun away before he really starts shooting…
Orgelspieler said, 5 months ago

oh MY.
marchman said, 5 months ago

Oh my I thought that only worked on bananas. And I had another meaning for ‘eating the barrel’.