Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

Tags: Moar dental work, Tom!, Nat to the rescue!. Add Tags

Comments (150) Jump to Comments Form

Sisyphos said, 3 months ago

Okay, here we are!
Fairportfan said, 3 months ago

I had to get here by a truly circuitos route.
razorback2824 said, 3 months ago

Nat Bustard’s actually going to do something!

Wait, Nat Bustard’s going to do something?

This will not end well.

It is man vs. man, so he does have a shot.
Saskfan said, 3 months ago

It’s finally up! And only marginally obscure…
BikeNBoatN said, 3 months ago

Yay! Nat to the rescue. Wait a minute, Nat??!!

Thank you, Brooke!

9CWL: Edda, be thankful. Remember, too much reminds you of “cocker spaniel”. See 7/23/08.

edit: added link
waycyber said, 3 months ago

It’s Youth Day
Sisyphos said, 3 months ago

Very wordy (maybe that’s why the Sketch is pantomime); but it looks to me like Nat is about to unload on Terrible Tom! –At least, I hope so!
pittfall said, 3 months ago

Yay, Nat to the rescue.
BikeNBoatN said, 3 months ago

Wow! Dru saying “I can’t”? I know that’s not a first for her, but I’m sure she must hate saying that.
azrach said, 3 months ago

WOW!! Nat’s gonna be a part of whatever retaliation comes down on Tom T.? And he seems to have some insight into whatever it is that our ladies are experiencing …
The Old Wolf said, 3 months ago

w00t - I get my Phix before I go to bed. (Yas, yas, I know I’m mixing comic metaphorz there, but I am teh tired and cannot brain tonite.)

Ahh… Nat is about to show Tom what it means to be a real Bustard…
Sisyphos said, 3 months ago

It is nonetheless still curious to me how Nat Bustard, unrepentant demon, manages to keep a grip on what passes for reality while everyone else directly involved, demon, fairy, or human, gets caught up in the magic….
The Old Wolf said, 3 months ago

Just Published!

Wally Boag, the Clown Prince of Disneyland.

If you remember Wally from The Golden Horseshoe Revue at Disneyland, this book is for you. If you’ve ever enjoyed The Enchanted Tiki Room, this volume is for you. Read my gratuitous plug here.

For what it’s worth, I have no financial interest in this book, but Wally is a dear friend, and I’m just tooting his horn a bit.
azrach said, 3 months ago

right , sisyphos. My thoughts exactly when I referred to his “insight”, but you said it much better. thank u
Jim-D said, 3 months ago

Don’t forget Nat has a Demon plasma shootin iron.
JNJ2tinydog said, 3 months ago

Good early morning to you all here on the couch. Nice to see that Nat finally appears, now hopefully we get to see some action.
BikeNBoatN said, 3 months ago

And I’m amazed at how clingy the remnants of fabric are on the top of Dru’s tattered red dress. Just enough to keep “things” covered. Well, maybe not so amazing, if it’s her plumage, and not actually clothing.
mjolnir 9 said, 3 months ago

A quck paraphrase of Nat’s soliloquy: “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

Remember that today is Wednesday, leaving two episodes to come, this week.
Remember Tom and Nat’s previous encounter.
Remember that Suzerain is back…with an adult ‘suzerain’ in the person of Lena.
Remember that Geoff is now asleep.
Remember all these things and you may conclude - as I do - that we are about to see a major ‘Convergence in the Force’, as it were…

There! Having done my OTC duty, duly making Off The Cuff commentary worded vaguely enough to make it sound like I have some notion of what’s actually going on, as well as a Fearless Prediction (if caught or captured in a mistake, my secretary will disavow all knowledge of my actions), I can now try to get some work done.

I leave a fresh pot of Peete’s Major Dickason’s blend on the sideboard for the late-night crowd…
JNJ2tinydog said, 3 months ago

YOUTH DAY IS IT.

How many of us here can truly say we’re youths.

I have cerebral palsy in my legs. With an occasional flare up of pain every so often. The pain makes me feel old sometimes.

But I’ll go along with it being YOUTH DAY

Glad I’m not in a wheel chair and can walk.
ejcapulet said, 3 months ago

Hooray! The cavalry has arrived! (and arrived in style, I might add).
Fairportfan said, 3 months ago

When i began reading Nat’s “Stupid” speech, i was wondering if we were about to get the Big Reveal that Bustard was the actual villain of the piece all along and was beginning to monolog.

The Old Wolf said

*Just Published!

Wally Boag, the Clown Prince of Disneyland.

If you remember Wally from The Golden Horseshoe Revue at Disneyland, this book is for you. If you’ve ever enjoyed The Enchanted Tiki Room, this volume is for you. Read my gratuitous plug here.

The one time i was at Disneyland (1984, when the World SF Convention was right across the road) i didn’t do anything but rides.

OTOH, i do know who Wally Boag is, because i saw him on “The Muppet Show”. [http://tinyurl.com/p8wyrw]
JNJ2tinydog said, 3 months ago

going to watch tv now . See you tomorrow probably.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 3 months ago

Reading today’s strip, I thought of the scene from Airplane! where Stryker says “the sh– s going to hit the fan” and they actually scoop some into a fan…
UncaAlby said, 3 months ago

The only gag I remember from “Airplane” was:

“Surely you jest!”
“No I’m serious, and don’t call me Shirley.”

Oh, and the auto-pilot.
pittfall said, 3 months ago

Well, I can tell there is 24 comments, I just can not see them. Nat’s trying to tell her that it’s all a dream and that she can just drop down anytime she wants.

I like the first panel. If this were a live action film, I’d imagine echoing footsteps from Nat as he walked up, like he was in a big open room with hard floors.
Hroth said, 3 months ago

“Youth” day?

Its all in the mind! (Something that Nat seems to be able to hang on to…..)

Never mind, act your shoe size, not your age! An advertising slogan that works in the UK, probably in the US, but not in Continental Europe, where they use a system where UK 10.5 (male) equates to 45. Then again, this might give an insight into the apparent lack of humour in Germany.

:-)
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 3 months ago

You’re probably right, Pittfall.

Maybe it’s like Spock in Spectre of the Gun, where he’s convinced there is no reality and wins the day by convincing the others that the bullets aren’t real.
UncaAlby said, 3 months ago

Mauve hair ??

Is he talking about color, or did Tom steal Anton’s toupee? And how would Nat know this?
waycyber said, 3 months ago

Well, it says on my calendar that it is International Youth Day. However, as a personal choice, I’d like to make today:

The International Day of the Paper Clip

These guys have so many used besides fastening paper together and giving unwanted advice about writing letters and so on, they just gotta have their own day.
invisifan said, 3 months ago

_@ UncaAlby: _
“As a mauve … a shade of purple-gray” “lilac” … and don’t you get the impression T2 is well known in demonic circles?
Fairportfan said, 3 months ago

Invisifan: Ah, yes. The infamous sorceror.
Burgundy2 said, 3 months ago

Oooh, I can’t wait for Tom to learn what “hard boiled”means.

On the other hand, I wouldn’t mind seeing Lena and her Hoe of Justice have a shot at Tom…
Ladywolf17 said, 3 months ago

RIFF
By ladywolf17

Prologue :

Me name be Riff. I be a pirate, or so I thought. I stood on t’ deck o’ Queen Anne’s Revenge. This be Blackbeard’s ship. This was not a meetin’ o’ t’ minds.

I was t’ be punished for me treachery. I was bent over t’ railin’, me hands bein’ held down by a pirate on both side o’ me. Captain Blackbeard borrowed a whip, then dealt me twenty lashes across me aft, (that be back, for those of ye who don’t speak pirate).

After t’ lashin’ was done, I was tied up and made t’ walk t’ plank. ” Time for ye t’ be visitin’ Davy Jones’ locker, matey”. Blackbeard said and then pushed me into t’ water, that was t’ be me grave.

I wasn’t afraid o’ death, no I felt strangely at peace. To t’ bottom o’ t’ sea I sank, and thar I went t’ Davy Jones’ locker.

By all means, that should have been t’ end o’ me, but it wasn’t. And so begins me haunting tale o’ revenge.

TO BE CONTINUED

…………………………………………………
Ladywolf17 said, 3 months ago

I couldn’t sleep, So here is the beginning of a pirate tale for you all. I had to use a pirate translator for some of the words.
Hope you all don’t mind and enjoy the story.

-ladywolf17
geedub said, 3 months ago

Despite Nat,s “campy” monolog methinks the plot doth thicken!! I like the hard boiled double meaning rap! (I forgot how to spell entondre)
IamMac said, 3 months ago

Methinks things are being set up for an epic Friday cliff hanger!

And methinks Dru’s dress should be commended for hanging in there thru’ thick and thin……
waycyber said, 3 months ago

@IamMac

Dru’s dress should have an award for best supporting role
CarolinaGirls said, 3 months ago

I think Lena will eventually have a hand in saving her mentor….
waycyber said, 3 months ago

@CarolinaGirls

Well, Lena certainly qualifies as a hard boiled Egg
poncerj said, 3 months ago

I’m thinking, after Dru’s vampiring “melding” of minds with Nat, that that’s not physically Nat of course, but either a trace of his psyche or simply a representation of Nat mentally communicating with Dru … So perhaps he’s able to “see” what’s going on because he’s only a psychic bystander in this case

Also, if we go back to when Tom shot Bustard off of the boat, he was busy talking about distractions … which is in essense what the bachelor gameshow and everything else is … a distraction to keep everyone entranced from realizing that their entranced

Remember, in the “real” world, Nat and Dru are at the center of the volcano, Pib is frozen solid, and Oognat is comatose somewhere with what appears to be a wolf nearby standing vigil.

And somehow Dru seems to be getting an inkling, but Nat’s words “Why not” seem to suggest that he’s telling her “Wake up, Dummy. Just wake up.”
j parsons said, 3 months ago

This is YOUTHday? And on my 86th BIRTHday. That’s about as something or other as the complexities of the Pibgorn arcs. Also as the realization that this is my very first contribution to this honored society.
inshadowz said, 3 months ago

mjolnir9 said: “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

Hush! Did I just hear the starting phrase on Propaganda’s album “A Secret Wish”?

Edit:

And of course that’s the one Propaganda album not included on Spotify. Sacrilege! :-þ
waycyber said, 3 months ago

Welcome @jparsons220 to the couch.

I have a friend who works in London, Paris and Rome. He is a capitalist.
kcboomer said, 3 months ago

Ah, the game is afoot!!
OldMan Montgomery said, 3 months ago

Brother Bustard is the quintessential gumshoe. Sometimes a little slow to understand it all, but once he catches on, the subject stays caught.

He may even take a few lumps yet - as he already has - but he will not let go.

“A demon’s gotta do what a demon’s gotta do.”
Skywatcher68 said, 3 months ago

@The Old Wolf

Do be careful with that horn. No telling what Wally put in there.

@fairportfan
I just watched that episode the other night! I also have the Golden Horseshoe’s anniversary show on tape somewhere.
waycyber said, 3 months ago

@kcboomer

The game is, indeed, afoot. And the gumshoe is hot on the heels of Tom T. Nat, it seems, has a soul. He will be OK if he watches his tongue and does not act so straight laced.
atajayhawk said, 3 months ago

Hi, jparsons220! Happy Birthday, and welcome to the couch. I assume that you’ve been lurking for a while, and therefore need no warning about the many and varied forms of wild life (quadrupedal, that is. There’s really no point trying to warn about the other posters: they’re wild, woolly, and really great cooks!) Find yourself a cushion and enjoy the confusion. We’ll all have cake later.

Hi, Llefty; how they goin’? Don’t llet Gruff chew your tail.
KalahariNight said, 3 months ago

This could play out with some pretty big issues embedded into it - like how does a being with a soul and a moral compass fight against someone who has none? How does “good” successfully war against evil without compromising its nature, when evil will use any tactic it can think of?

The scope of this arc just got a whole lot bigger. I am looking forward to what’s next.

I do expect there might be some twists and turns ahead, since the arc is only a few months old. But I am now officially on the edge of my seat.
MurphyHerself said, 3 months ago

Where’s Margueritem?