Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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fear-ciuil said, 5 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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Joe Minotaur said, 5 months ago

From molten lava, to molten lead.
Things are melting all over!
Even the ice!
Margueritem said, 5 months ago

‘Scarlet Wound’, I’ll have to look for that color. Liquified bullets, the mental picture that paints…
StradMan37 said, 5 months ago

What a great party trick!!!

Ready……..aim…………SLURPPPP!!!!!
onergie said, 5 months ago

hang on to the cliff, where do we go from here? Its a fun ride in the dark.
Sisyphos said, 5 months ago

So, just how often has she heard that?!
Joe Minotaur said, 5 months ago

Kiddies, DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!!
Joe Minotaur said, 5 months ago

9CWL: Full Monty/Empty Planet?
Joe Minotaur said, 5 months ago

Sisyphos
The Gunbroker auction site is a valuable resource on rare antique as well as modern guns.
Saskfan said, 5 months ago

Liquified bullets; yes, a neat party trick. And here I thought she’s just put the gun safety lever in place.

As for the new look, I’m already tired of the offer to find my old friends; it pops up when I click to start a comment, and when I click anywhere else on the site. :(
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 5 months ago

Definately don’t try that trick at home!
Sisyphos said, 5 months ago

Margueritem, I certainly wouldn’t be surprised if some lipstick manufacturer already offers a color under that name!
Sisyphos said, 5 months ago

“Pib! Come back, Pib!” (with apologies to Shane) –I wonder whither she wanders….
StradMan37 said, 5 months ago

9CL:
THORAX: Don’t let Monty do it - we’re FAR too entertaining a species. Surely, you’d miss our bungling attempts to destroy AND save the planet SIMULTANEOUSLY!!!

And, of course, the flowers we cultivate are REAL PURTY!

Um, errr…….a VERY EARLY FATHER’S DAY, PAPA!!!!! (presents to The All-bald-y a Super-Fragant Stargazer Lilly Bouquet, then turns & crawls away, groveling & simpering)
Sisyphos said, 5 months ago

Bookmarked it, Joe!
Joe Minotaur said, 5 months ago

Ex-Post Bedo.
G’nite
Sisyphos said, 5 months ago

Where’s that spotlight coming from?
Basqueian said, 5 months ago

Gee1a, its from “hey,nonny, nonny”, I think
4deerinmyyard said, 5 months ago

“If I had a nickel for every time I heard that.” Such a Druish remark. Yet, where it sounds out of character for Pib, it’s right IN character for Nonny. Perhaps Pib needs to be in Nonny-mode in order to manifest some of the myriad tricks and traits she has lately picked up from her intimate association with Dru.

Greetings, esteemed Couchlings. I feel I must introduce myself, for though I have been lurking in yonder shadowy corner for ages, eavesdropping upon your conversation, and thus feel that I know all of you rather well, I have not heretofore spoken. Foolishly, I believed that I should completely catch up on the conversation before barging into it, fearing I might otherwise embarrass myself. But I never could quite manage to catch up – y’all a LOQUACIOUS li’l ol’ Couch-Klatsch – and now I never shall, since the format switchover has cut me off from about three or four weeks of comments I hadn’t gotten to and now can’t reach. So, hi.

Especially howdy neighbors kcboomer and atajayhawk. –KCK here.

My talents do not incline towards the culinary,alas. However, there is something I can contribute to the collective co-hospitality: deep, relaxing, healing massages for anyone who happens to be having a bad day. (Not a pro, but universally attested a talented amateur.) To that end, I am now setting up a massage table a few feet behind the couch, leaving walking room in between so people can stretch their legs, get to the pool, etc. Or, if you prefer not to budge from the couch (or stop eating), I would be happy to stand behind the couch and give you a neck- and shoulder-rub.

Either that, or I can just bring the sody pop.
ejcapulet said, 5 months ago

Yow! That’s quite the trick! I can’t complain about today’s cliff hanger. Nat may try not to emote much but even he can’t keep his cool when a dame can melt his bullets!
desertdwlr said, 5 months ago

Liquified his bullets !!?? Guess he’ll just hafta shoot blanks
VicTR said, 5 months ago

BASQUEIAN…I think you’re right, about “Hey Nonny Nonny” which is originally from “Much Ado About Nothing”.
OldMan Montgomery said, 5 months ago

Sisyphos; any woman who can melt bullets in such fashion deserves a spotlight. In my mis-spent youth I cast bullets. Lead melts at between 800 and 900 degrees Fahrenheit. Of course, if Nat is carrying the demon revolver I couldn’t say about those bullets. But now that I look, he didn’t say ‘melted’, he said ‘liquified’. Actually, in Nat’s place, I would not be so concerned about bullets. Between Dinah and Nonny, I’d be more concerned about my brain being liquified.

Saskfan, most revolvers do not have a safety lever, despite what one might hear in movies or television. Nor, from the drawing is that a Webley-Fosbury. Then again, in the Pibverse, who can be sure?

I’ve been a shootist pretty much all my life and this is new ground for me. But one should always be ready for new experiences and finding out new information, right?

‘Scarlet Wound’? That shade looks very close to ‘Hello Sailor’ or the old reliable ‘Hooker Red’. Not that such a gentleman as myself would know about such things.

However, my observation is that Nat looks not so much distraught or upset as he looks curious. I suppose so far he has not realized the connection - however tenuous - between his latest client and Nonny. When is that penny going to drop?
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 5 months ago

Oooh! Agatha was spared having to shoot her former mentor. Now, she looks like she’s going to make corn oil out of Zola in today’s Girl Genius.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 5 months ago

How about Thallium bullets? Twice as heavy as lead and was abandoned as rat poison (except in China) because it was too toxic. Perfect for a demonic pistol bullet.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 5 months ago

Maybe the bullets were Indium? You can melt some of its alloys in the hand. Neat stuff. Smallparts.com sometimes carries it.
ToniAnne said, 5 months ago

G’morning to all,
Glad you are feeling better Risitas and may everyone feel good better and best..
4deerinmyyard…welcome and I’ll be first in line every day for a massage! I will give one back as a thankyou!
When I saw Old Wolf last week I said I was thinking of posing a question, he said ‘Do it!’ So here it is.
What books do you think everyone should read? Your own person ‘classic’? Oh and if someone has already mentioned, say it anyway again, and add a runner up or two. AND as far as that goes … as many as you like I’ve added a library on the other side of the room from the pool, of course and need to stock it for us… So the more the merry. Oh and finally I am returning to the working world after too long living frugally off my bank account, will be nice to be putting some in instead of taking out!
Pizza and Pepsi for all to celebrate with me!
sarge112751 said, 5 months ago

All I can say is … “oh, she’s VERY good at what she does! - VERY good indeed!”

OldMan Montgomery - as one who ‘monitored the followers of the Fleet’, I VIVIDLY remember those “girls” - not that I participated in such tawdry activities mind you; I always found my solace in a good novel or visiting the afternoons with the Parson’s daughter for a rousing game of Cribbage!

( ! - point!)
DeathDealer said, 5 months ago

4Deerinmyyard let me get in line for the massage and welcome to the the couch!
I am up the road/river from you north of Leavenworth.
Great to have you de-lurk.
thevenbede said, 5 months ago

Hey ToniAnne Congratulations! I’ve got a laundry list of books for the library, but no time this am to give it to you….got to hurry off to the cherubs. I’ll be back later thought.

Welcome 4deerinmyyard. I’ll line up for one of your massages, I fell asleep last night on my ittybitty booklight and I feel like I slept on a boulder.

A big pot of french roast, assorted bagels and toppings- cream cheese, lox, sweet onion, butter, strawberry and black current jams, honey, and seedless raspberry jam. There’s some of the cheese left from last night, too. And a large pitcher of fresh-squeezed oj.
paciii said, 5 months ago

ToniAnne said,
G’morning to all, …What books do you think everyone should read? Your own person ‘classic’?

Gotta read: Dumas: The Count of Monte Christo. Try to get one of the older translations rather than a modern one. If you like reading online, A nice translation is available at Project Gutenberg. My ink-on-paper copy is part of a set I found at an estate auction years ago, large-size, including of all of his “historical” novel series, including the three books staring the Musketeers.

Several weeks/months ago I had asked if anyone knew a SciFi story about fighting suits with arms and colored rays and such. I may have missed some comments, but I don’t think anyone had come up with it.

I FOUND it!! Took reading through 10 anthology paperbacks (two of which were over 600 pages each) but it turned up in one put together by Asimov (Before the Golden Age) about 1930’s SciFi short stories: Awlo of Ulm. by Capt. S.P.Meek. YEAH!! I found it. Booo… he didn’t write much else. SIgh. But it was nice to wander through all those books. I’d stack some of them in a corner of the shelves as a interesting look at what was thought to be “cutting edge” before the two world wars.

4deerinmyyard said,
…My talents do not incline towards the culinary,alas. However, there is something I can contribute to the collective co-hospitality: deep, relaxing, healing massages for anyone who happens to be having a bad day. …

Welcome to the couch!!! And thanks for the contribution..AAAaaaaahhhhhh…right there……….
[[slumps into a little puddle of confused contentment.]]
Moe A. said, 5 months ago

Hi everyone and happy Friday, sorry for recent absences from the Couch. I’m certain that Nonny has met other men of Nat’s Caliber.
Sorry.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Homemade Jiao Tzi all around!
Inexorably,
MOE
TiggerLeBounce said, 5 months ago

Welcome to the couch, 4deerinmyyard! As you’ve noticed, we truly are a bunch of chatter-boxes. And as hot as it has been where I live, a game of Marco Polo in the pool sounds marvelous! Who’s up for it?
Joe Minotaur said, 5 months ago

Morning to all! Lurkers as well as delurkers/regulars/irregulars can join in on a large stack of blueberry pancakes with various syrups. Remember to wait half an hour before swimming.
A neck masssage would be great, but mind the sunburn.
MARCO!! SPLASH
Captain Smokeblower said, 5 months ago

4deerinmyyard said,
However, there is something I can contribute to the collective co-hospitality: deep, relaxing, healing massages … if you prefer not to budge from the couch I would be happy to stand behind the couch and give you a neck- and shoulder-rub.

Good to have you out from under the Couch cushions, 4dderinmyyard. A Couch massage would be wonderful. It’s time chairs stopped hogging all the massages. Couches need massages too.
Dragoncat said, 5 months ago

I should have said this yesterday…

I can’t imagine any Martial Artist recommending what Nonny did as a self-defense tactic…

…but BOY-OH-BOY! It sure did the trick, didn’t it?
marchman said, 5 months ago

Liquified the bullets, I am surprised that it didn’t just melt the barrel. The thought of that old sight gag makes me lol.
Burgundy2 said, 5 months ago

@4deerinmyyard - oooooh, massage….Hope you have strong hands, ‘cause I think we’re gonna keep you busy!

Welcome!

@ Pacii - you beat me to it! First thing I thought of was Count of Monte Cristo - excellent tale of sweet revenge.

Hmmmm, what other books…Jane Eyre is a great read. Most of my other favourites are a bit too genre specific, like Lord of the Rings. I think everyone should read some Shakespeare, but I expect not everyone would agree!

Thanks for the pancakes, Joe - blueberry is my favourite!
bhandraoijo said, 5 months ago

Hello all -

Another lurker climbing out from under the Couch. Have been thoroughly enjoying the conversations and getting to know you all -

Love the direction Pib is going now, though I am getting a bit impatient to see what is going to transpire - but the film noir aspect is awesome - have always loved the dark and mysterious -

Anyway, I am not much hand in kitchen witchery, but I will be glad to bring the drinks - and a nice tall pitcher of Long Island tea for those that indulge - have been told I make a mean tea!

And for the library, I highly recommend “Jubilation Gap” by Dan Parkinson - one of the funniest books I have ever read and a Western to boot! Doesn’t get any better -

Looking forward to more quality time -
Gweedo Murray said, 5 months ago

Margueritem I love your new, in my face, flower of the day.

Welcome to the couch 4deerinmyyard, and make it a full body treatment followed by hot tub, and I am there. a sody for after.. yes.

JFri posted in color over at ANDY CAPP.
maeverin said, 5 months ago

welcome to 4deerinmyyard!
your talents will be most welcomed, thank you!

and a big congrats to Tonianne! for doing the near-impossible at a time like this!

on to Pib: as much as i love the word “geez” (i use it constantly) it seems almost out of character for Nat, which makes me love it all the more that he’s saying it!
Toxicdave said, 5 months ago

An effective dis-arming maneuver
aerwalt said, 5 months ago

$3; Pretty tame for a Friday cliff hanger.
maeverin said, 5 months ago

and welcome to bhandaoijo!
sluuurrrp!
mmmmm good tea–but why is it so mean?
was it not hugged enough as a leaf?
Poms said, 5 months ago

Happy Friday to All:

Welcome 4deerinmyyard and bhandraoijo - Ahhh, a lovely way to wind down the week - massages and Long Island ice tea.

Ooh, a library - well, I have several I could “donate”. Will attach list later.

I am still on the couch about what is going on and perceive it will be months before any real questions are answered.

Have a grand weekend!
Sisyphos said, 5 months ago

ToniAnne, good luck on your re-entry into The Workplace! I’ll have to think a bit longer before I suggest books for the OTC library, but later on I’m sure I’ll have some….

Welcome to the Couch, 4deerinmyyard and bhandraoijo! –Put me on your “backrub” list, 4deer…; that would really feel good!
Sisyphos said, 5 months ago

Gweedo,

We can do it here, too!
fatuncle said, 5 months ago

Hey! How did you do that?
nighthawks said, 5 months ago

talk about ‘hotlips”…..
Radical-Knight said, 5 months ago

Morning everyone.