Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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fear-ciuil said, 3 months ago

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Margueritem said, 3 months ago

She is well and truly skewered.
BikeNBoatN said, 3 months ago

Looks like Dru is caught in the same type of predicament Pib found herself in a couple of times. I love how the lines have alternating light and dark bands. Doesn’t make Dru’s predicament any less painful, but it does look cool.
Joe Minotaur said, 3 months ago

From yesterday

QUIZ TIME

What will we see tonight?

9CWL:
.1. More Amos and Edda.
.2. Juliette and Eliott.
.3. Seth and Mark.
.4. Thorax and Butternut.
.5. Thorax and Madelene.
.6. Solange and Edda.
.7. Mix and Match.
.8. None of the above.

Pibgorn:
.1. Dru BLEEDS!
.2. Lena and Roger try to leave game. CAN’T!
.3. Pibgorn breaks free and shrinks Tom T.
.4. Geoff/Pib/Maurice(Finally!)
.5. But first…
.6. The volcano breaks through into the gameshow!
.7. He|| gets a steam cleaning.
.8. Roger and Lena are forced to find exit to Spitcock’s lab.
.9. Every time they do a Robin Hood movie, they burn down our village.
.10. Leave us alone Mel Brooks!

Fatal, but not serious.
Radical-Knight said, 3 months ago

Definately pinned, but not leaking…
Sisyphos said, 3 months ago

Well, I guess I should acknowledge that The Ecstasy of St Dru continues, after a fashion.
Fairportfan said, 3 months ago

Rposted from the end of “yesterday’s” comments:

cimmeron, were you aware that the oldest known recipe for haggis is in an English cookery book? Your mention of haggis and bagpipes in the same post reminded me of an old joke i originally heard from an Irishman: “You know, we Irish invented the bagpipe … we gave it to the Scots. It’s been eight hundred years and they haven’t seen the joke yet.”

An Englishman’s equivalent to that joke wrote itelf in my head.

Anyol’tomcat said

Even though Edda apparently has one hair out of place–as is not uncommon for her, though Amos was too distracted to notice–is there a strong suggestion that much of her seductive powers are mental/phantasmal, not too unlike Dru’s usual M.O.?

Dunno - but Juliette once demonstrated that she could muss Elliott’s hair, wrinkle his shirt, losen his tie and untie his shoes from across the room.

Maybe it’s hereditary.

OTOH, a lot of women seem to have the knack:
http://www.wapsisquare.com/d/20051122.html
http://www.wapsisquare.com/d/20051123.html

(or the attitude):
http://geebasonparade.keenspot.com/d/20090710.html
(Jenny Breeden does live-action-roleplaying games; she’s an orc in this strip.)

The Old Wolf said

(To be recited in a thick pseudo-Scottish brogue for best effect!)

MacGregor was sitting in a bar bemoaning his fate to a younger friend.

“D’ye see that stane wall out there? I built that wall and many like it in Scotland. I pulled up each stane by hand from the fields and created that wall. It’s the strongest wall in all of Scotland. But do they call me MacGregor the wall-builder? No aye!

”This bar we’re sitting at. I chopped the wood and planed it to a glass edge and made this fine bar we’re all sitting at. Royalty has some in and commented on it’s greatness. But do they call me MacGregor the bar-builder? No aye!

”Noo, look at that pier on the water…I studied ocean effects on piers, I treated the wood by hand, and I made the fastening rope in my own shed with the finest hairs to be found. But do they call me MacGregor the pier-builder? No aye!”

Then looking around sheepishly he mutters in a low voice, “But let a man screw one goat…”

Scotland {or Wales: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw}, where the men are men and the sheep are nervous.

Why do Scots wear kilts? Sheep can hear a zipper a mile off.
Fairportfan said, 3 months ago

It shows me the strip. It tells me there are comments. It lets me post comments.

But can i see the bloody comments?
thevenbede said, 3 months ago

I can see the strip, I can see the comment numbers increase..but can I see the comments-HAH!
BikeNBoatN said, 3 months ago

The way the skewers are arranged looks like the vortex seen a few days ago.
KalahariNight said, 3 months ago

Nice rendering of the shadows - wow.

And the specular reflections off the rays or wires or whatever they are - gosh
Fairportfan said, 3 months ago

Ah! There they are!!

BikeNBoatN said

The way the skewers are arranged looks like the vortex seen a few days ago.

And of the whirlpool when Dru smashed the cieling and let the ocean into Hell.
Ladywolf17 said, 3 months ago

Strung up like a puppet for Tom T’s pleasure apparently.
Fairportfan said, 3 months ago

And once again the Miraculous Torn Dress ensures that the evil-sniffers don’t have anything overt to complain about.
waycyber said, 3 months ago

Methinks the pattern doth resemble a volcano
CoBass said, 3 months ago

(From “yesterday”) @atajayhawk Re: Ivan Reprov.

Nope, can’t say that I am.

And fairportfan, thevenbede: It seems like we have to get to 10 comments before they appear.
MurphyHerself said, 3 months ago

Looks like it’s excruciating.
Ladywolf17 said, 3 months ago

Tonight I have decided to take a rest from story telling.

Not to worry though because I am working on another story, it’s just not ready yet.
Sisyphos said, 3 months ago

Actually, for me at least (on an iMac), if at first I don’t see the Comments, I just flip to another page (usually, the Sketch) and then back again: presto!
Fairportfan said, 3 months ago

Seth has nipples
Saskfan said, 3 months ago

Oh OW! That doesn’t look good for the complexion!

@Cimmeron: Re your comment yesterday. Glad you liked the story; I had’t een it before. BTW, I was born in Edinburgh, to English parents. They drove too far one day when I was 4 yrs old, and fell off the edge, landing in sunny Saskatchewan.
waycyber said, 3 months ago

Today is Pasta Appreciation Day

People often take pasta for granted, but it is really useful stuff, not just for food.
BikeNBoatN said, 3 months ago

CoBass said And fairportfan, thevenbede: It seems like we have to get to 10 comments before they appear.

Must be a quirk with your systems. I’ve had that occur to me before, so I keep hitting reload until the comments appear. Happened again today, so I hit reload again till fearciuil and Margueritem’s posts appeared. Entered my comment, posted, and, voila, ended up as #3.

edit: fearciuil, not fairportfan.
Sisyphos said, 3 months ago

(Repost from late “last night” & in response to Fairportfan’s repost today)

Fairportfan: bah! Those sheepboys credit themselves, but not the hard-working border collies!
ejcapulet said, 3 months ago

Extreme acupuncture?
Sisyphos said, 3 months ago

I rather like the “Geodesic Dome” shadows created on the floor (if I may call it such) by the dramatic overhead lighting of TommyT’s torture session….
Saskfan said, 3 months ago

Just read the last of “last night’s” comments (or tonight’s last comments on yesterday’s strip) (does that sound like time travel??).

I imagine that haggis would have been the first boil-in-a-bag meal.
The Old Wolf said, 3 months ago

According to the “Hooray for Everything” calendar by Lindsay Jane,

Today is also Play in the Sand Day.

Whee!
BikeNBoatN said, 3 months ago

9CWL: I cannot begin to fathom razor stubble there.
VicTR said, 3 months ago

If she doesn’t quit getting into these scrapes ,
her HMO is going to cancel !
thevenbede said, 3 months ago

Given the way it’s raining right now, I’d say it’s more like play in the mud….but that’s fun, too, Old Wolf !
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 3 months ago

Speaking of old wolves, all of the ElfQuests of old are online here:
http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics3.html

Been catching up. Didn’t read the ones in the mid-1990s.
Paigely said, 3 months ago

Ye gads. That looks horrifically and incredibly painful! Right out of a horror movie…
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 3 months ago

Congrats to the Foglios!
Sisyphos said, 3 months ago

But waycyber: I do appreciate pasta. As food! Yum!
Joe Minotaur said, 3 months ago

Learned about ElfQuest in the 80’s. Started collecting the underground comics before they went mainstream. Had to sell them off when I went to Europe for two years. Now, I have 5 volumes of the “Dead Tree” editions.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 3 months ago

“Boil in Bag meal” hehe Good one, Saskfan. I’ll have to remember that one!

An old cookbook my mom has (from about 1910) has “Take the liver and lights from a sheep. Place them in the large bag from a cow…”
Sisyphos said, 3 months ago

Lio is playing in the sand today, Old Wolf, with mixed results….

http://tinyurl.com/lt3ogw
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 3 months ago

I read the first two cycles of Elfquest and then lost track about the time I went to high school. The artwork by Pini was always first rate. Some of the later stuff doesn’t look as good, but most of the stories are very good. Some really unexpected twists, though.
BJamesB86 said, 3 months ago

Edda needs to meet up with Dru some time.
JNJ2tinydog said, 3 months ago

THE GETAWAY

By JNJ2tinydog

Randy Carl always fancied himself as the worlds greatest pick-pocket artist. Unfortunately however, his luck had finally ran out. Caught red-handed he was handcuffed and carted off to prison.

Being thrown in prison wasn’t so bad, but being put on a chain gang to work in the trenches, Well! that wasn’t going to sit to well with him. He needed to hatch out a plan to escape this hell.

The inmates were shackled together by a long chain. As the prison guard came to Randy to make sure his hands and feet were locked securely, Randy using his skill was able to steal the key to his shackles without being noticed.

The day was long and hot, for the prisoners working in the trenches. One of the prisoners started complaining about a stomach cramp, which was the perfect distraction that Randy needed. As the prison guards went to the bent over prisoner in pain, Randy quickly undid his shackles and bolted out of the trenches.

One of the prison guards spotted him and alerted the others. Two prison guards took off after Randy hoping to get a good shot on him.

“Not today”! Randy said to himself and continued on running.

He came to a tall chain-linked fence and quickly began climbing it, Despite the sharp razor wire on top cutting into his flesh, he managed to get over it and continued to run.

The landscape changed as he ran into a desert of sand. He had escaped his pursuers so he felt that he could slow down, besides he felt light-headed from loosing a lot of blood.

He walked for what seemed like hours before collapsing to the heat and loss of blood. The last thing he heard was a loud voice. “Can someone get him off the set! He’s ruining our scene shot “. The voice belonging to a Hollywood director said. THE END
desertdwlr said, 3 months ago

ouch
JNJ2tinydog said, 3 months ago

No problem ladywolf17. I covered it with this little story.
JNJ2tinydog said, 3 months ago

The Old Wolf you said today is play in the sand day. Perfect timing for my short story dayview. Since it ends up in the sand.
UncaAlby said, 3 months ago

Oooooh, today’s episode reminds me – I need to sew up some torn pants –
JNJ2tinydog said, 3 months ago

Now for a late night snack and some TV.

see ya’ later.
BikeNBoatN said, 3 months ago

So, like Geoff asked back in the Lena arc on 1/23/09, ”Forgive me for straying off topic, but have you seen Pibby?”
Ladywolf17 said, 3 months ago

So what you guys are saying, sounds to me like I should eat my pasta while playing in the sand.
Ladywolf17 said, 3 months ago

lol!

good night all.
Fairportfan said, 3 months ago

But if you drop your pasta while playing in the sand, you’ll have to throw it away.

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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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