Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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Margueritem said, 3 months ago

Nat’s detecting instincts come to the fore, in spite of his extremely relaxed state. That tongue looks to be about three feet long…..
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UncaAlby said, 3 months ago

THREE!!
UncaAlby said, 3 months ago

FOUR???
Sisyphos said, 3 months ago

Nat has become awakened; Dru’s had a wardrobe change….
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 3 months ago

The question is who is He?
UncaAlby said, 3 months ago

Oh boy, a toughie. They’re still in the dream!

Fortunately, at least Nat seems aware of the situation. Maybe he’ll be able to get Dru to snap out of it.

In the meantime – Are we going to have Eggs Flambé for breakfast? Or what?
Sisyphos said, 3 months ago

It would appear that, at the appropriate moments, Nat conjures ciggies out of thin air, or perhaps out of his mouth (already remarkable for its copious demon-tongue).
Joe Minotaur said, 3 months ago

QUIZ TIME

What did we see tonight?

9 Chickweed Lane:
.1. The two pair of shoes outside Edda’s door on Seth’s white carpet as speculated for Saturday.
.2. New story line(you pick characters).
.3. One day gag strip(you pick characters).
.4. Newspaper headlines!
.5. Your guess is as good as mine.

Pibgorn:
.1. Burnin’ down the house!
.2. Escape/pulled back to Suzerain.
.3. Satori joins the flambe.
.4. Igor to the rescue!
.5. Dru/Nat alone again…unnaturally.
.6. Geoff/Pib/Maurice.
.7. Oognat/Wolf.
.8. Luciano and 187 little Drucillas.
.9. Tom T./Storm King.
.10. One kiss makes you larger and one kiss makes you small,
.11. And the ones that mother gives you don’t do anything at all,
.12. Go ask Pibby, when she’s ten feet tall.
.13. And if you go chasing demons, and you know you’re going to fall,
.14. Tell ‘em a garbage eating housefly, has given you the call.
.15. Recall Pibby, when she was just small.
.16. When men on the minotaur, get up and tell you where to go,
.17. And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom, and your mind is moving low,
.18. Go ask Pibby, I think she’ll know.
.19. When toadies and Drucilla have fallen seeming dead,
.20. And the White Knight is stalking Roger and the Red Queen’s “off with his head!”
.21. Remember, what the housefly said;
“STUPID DEMONS

STUPID DEMONS”
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 3 months ago

Eggs, cooked to a golden black…
Sisyphos said, 3 months ago

Subtly, Dru’s left pinky and Nat’s right gumshoe break the frame. Nice!
UncaAlby said, 3 months ago

”Why? because we love you!”
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 3 months ago

Speaking of houseflies, Faerie Fly saliva must be reeeeallly powerful, considering what it did to Spitcock.

I wonder if Luciano will save the day for Dru and Gnat.
Sisyphos said, 3 months ago

Excellent point, Nabuquduriuzhur! I suppose “he” could be TommyT, but Nat may have in mind a more potent Dark One….
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 3 months ago

The IRS man…
Sisyphos said, 3 months ago

Joe’s Quiz, official results: 3, 5; me, 2, 4. Close counts only in horseshoes and “gree-nades” (to quote a Wesley from a strip current at CdotC).
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 3 months ago

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090824

Girl Genius is up
BikeNBoatN said, 3 months ago

Well, I’m back. Thanks to everyone who wished me the best on my 25th. It was indeed the best. Spent 5 days in Vegas because Lady Luck smiled on my lovely wife by granting her a $910 win at the slots. Allowed us to spend a couple extra days there, as well as seeing “Jersey Boys”. Which is a wonderful show, highly recommend any Boomers to see it.
RockHouse said, 3 months ago

At Girl Genius, Tarvek’s raving has everyone going nutso (except for Agatha, maybe). I give today’s installment five grins!
BikeNBoatN said, 3 months ago

So Nat seems to be the only one who knows what’s going on? And Dru is amazingly limber to be able to do the splits on his chest like that.
DryGrub Willie said, 3 months ago

And since you ask, I have been saving all the recipes that I spot, since I’m in the process of becoming single, and I figure I’ll need ‘em.

Bless all the wonderful cooks (I assume) who are sharing here…

I suppose I could share… take a pound of hamburger and a can of Campbell’s Beef Barley soup… and a frypan… fry up the hamburger loose, add the soup, don’t add any water, simmer, stirring to avoid stickingto the bottom of the pan.
Put bread on a plate, mixture on the bread. Eat.

Batchelor’s Emergency Dinner.
The Old Wolf said, 3 months ago

@BikeNBoatN Wow, that’s quite a win for your lady. My son and his wife were in Vegas last weekend, they stayed at the MGM and had a wonderful time. Welcome back!
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 3 months ago

You could compile them into a volume.

‘Gorn’s Grub hehe
Ms. Pib’s McE-food
Free Flying Faerie Foods
Demons, Faeries and What to Feed Them
waycyber said, 3 months ago

It’s Waffle Day!

Sweet or savoury?
UncaAlby said, 3 months ago

Observation:

Tom Torquemada didn’t create the Suzerain dream program – but he was able to invade it –

We have been shown a mysterious dark cloud that grabbed Oognat (correctly pronounced, “oognat”) then added her to the current Dreamscape – and once again we have good ol’ Tom Torquemada (correctly pronounced, “Beezelbug”) –

Nat has just dispatched Beezelbug – yet the dream goes on unhindered, unhampered, unhinged –

Supposition:

Tom Torquemada is merely an opportunistic sort of demon (correctly pronounced, “daemon”) and is not really the Evil Master-Mind who has orchestrated everything. That honor belongs to our Infamous but Yet to be Named Mystery Cloud (correctly pronounced, “stormy weather”).
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 3 months ago

If you look at Dru’s legs, that’s an impossible move for a human. I’d say McE is having a bit of fun with us…
debra4life50 said, 3 months ago

Hey, is it just me or are they talking about the “Master”?
Talk about removing the 3rd wall, talking to the audience, etc, etc.
Yeah, I’d say the Master has them “twisting on his hook like a pinwheel”.
What a delicious comment for him to put in here.
Meta-fiction at its best.
Or am I the only one with a degree in literature?
Frida Bonita said, 3 months ago

is all this intimate energy being used to harness the Suzerain game or a little devil of a teddy bear? Are we going to see Igor punted into space to hang out with the lamp, piano et all?
UncaAlby said, 3 months ago

@waycyber said, 1 breakfast ago

It’s Waffle Day!

Food or politics?
UncaAlby said, 3 months ago

@debra4life50 said, 3 walls ago

Talk about removing the 3rd wall

I think you mean fourth wall.
mjolnir 9 said, 3 months ago

Well…we’re back to ‘normal’ - which is to say lust-crazed - interplay between Nat and Dru (who again, apparently, thinks she’s Dinah). Nat appears entirely too relaxed in the first panel…I thought he actually was dead for a moment…

So it’s time for a pick-me-up, the extremely appropriately named:

Shaky Puddin’ Shake

INGREDIENTS

3 cups of ice cold milk
1 ripe banana
1 small box of instant vanilla pudding
12 vanilla wafers

1 Teaspoon of vanilla extract
2-4 ice cubes
2-4 packets of sugar (if extra sweetness is desired)
Ground nutmeg
Plenty of Whipped cream
DIRECTIONS (for two)
Peel the banana. Interestingly. Don’t rush it.
Blend all ingredients - except whipped cream and nutmeg - until light and frothy. Play with whipped cream - interestingly - while waiting. Pour into chilled glasses. Top with remaining (and/or retrieved) whipped cream. Sprinkle with nutmeg.

You should feel less ‘relaxed’ very soon…
UncaAlby said, 3 months ago

@Frida Bonita said, 2 orbits ago

Are we going to see Igor punted into space to hang out with the lamp, piano et all?

Well I should hope not. The Earth is already surrounded by enough orbital space junk to make future space missions a lot more dangerous.

Imagine the embarrassment of having to bring the Space Shuttle back down because a teddy bear got stuck in one of its vents!

Plus, knowing Igor, he might start actively trying to remove heat shielding just to be nasty!
Sisyphos said, 3 months ago

Uhh, BikeNBoatN? I don’t think Dru is on his chest….
UncaAlby said, 3 months ago

“Oh craps! We need to land the Shuttle ASAP! Emergency!”

“Criminy, another billion dollars down the tubes. What went wrong this time?”

“Well – uh – you’re not gonna believe this, but – uh –”
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 3 months ago

Food. I’m sick of politics!!!!!!!!!
waycyber said, 3 months ago

The last scene in this arc? The artist asleep!
lincolnhyde said, 3 months ago

I dunno - if fingers/heels cross the frame boundary, isn’t that third wall? (Yes, talking to the audience is fourth wall.)
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 3 months ago

If their orbits were only slightly different and Igor hit at say, 100 mph, it could be a funny event. SPLAT! on the front windows of the shuttle.

If their orbits were radically different, the difference in velocity could make the shuttle into bits and pieces. Death by teddy bear!
UncaAlby said, 3 months ago

Isn’t Dru’s dress a different color? And with sleeve cuffs, collar and belt that weren’t there before?

Somebody check the archives, I’m too lazy.
mjolnir 9 said, 3 months ago

As Nabuquduriuzhur and debra4life50 have astutely - if in different ways - pointed out, the question of the day is indeed “Who HE?

I don’t believe HE’s the Master himself (a little too much post-modern deconstructionist Meta-fictional irony, don’t you think?). I don’t think HE’s Tom Torquemada (who caught five demon bullets and croaked).

If Tom revives (and this is the Dreamtime; he could) it would reveal that he’s being ‘played’, just like everybody else, by the Something/Somebody (or even Some Part of Drusilla’s own mind…in which case HE isn’t a HE at all, is SHE?) who is the true Big Bad for this story-arc.
wolfbyte36 said, 3 months ago

Well in my state of confusion, I’ve decided that I don’t mind which direction the Honorable Master takes me in. I’m just here to enjoy the ride.
Fairportfan said, 3 months ago

Nabuquduriuzhur said

If you look at Dru’s legs, that’s an impossible move for a human. I’d say McE is having a bit of fun with us…

Multi-Hugo-winning SF artist Kelly Freas once sold a cover concept (to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, i think) for the first of Poul Anderson’s “Operation” series (“Operation: Afrit”, set in an alternate Twentieth Century where Magic works, and WW2 was between Christendom and Islam).

It showed Ginny (one of the protagonists, a sexy red-haired witch) getting ready to cast a sell, laying out her ingredients, drawing the circles, whatever. Kelly figured he’d get his wife Polly to pose for the cover (and the finished result is recognisable as Polly by anyone who knew her). But he wound up having to take two photos of her and cut and paste them to work from, as he discovered that his lovely composition required her to bend backward ninety degrees at the waist…

UncaAlby said

@debra4life50 said, 3 walls ago

”Talk about removing the 3rd wall”

I think you mean fourth wall.

Nah - the third wall - the back wall, so the author can sneak up behind the characters…

*UncaAlby said, 14 minutes ago

Imagine the embarrassment of having to bring the Space Shuttle back down because a teddy bear got stuck in one of its vents!

There was an episode of Babylon 5, in which Peter David introduced a bear to be sold at the station souvenir shop, dressed as the station commander. However, it was actually a sort of friendly dig atcreator J Michael Straczynski (it was identified as a “JMS Bear”). JMS did a re-write, and the bear got spaced - and did, indeed, go “Thump!” against the “windshield” of a small ship operating near B5.

(The other gag that JMS would let PAD put in was a sort of throwaway scene in which Garibaldi [established as a pop culture fan, with a Daffy Duck poster on the wall over his bunk] has apprently been bugging Londo about something. Finally, Londo says “Mister Garibaldi, I do not understand why you wish me to do this thing.” and Garibaldi says “Never mind why - just do it.”

(And Londo says “Oh, very well. ‘Moose and squirrel’.”

(As PAD said - if you don’t get it on the first pass, no amount of explaining can make it funny for you.)

UncaAlby said

Isn’t Dru’s dress a different color? And with sleeve cuffs, collar and belt that weren’t there before?

There’s rather more of it than there was, too. It’s not really a dress, it’s her plumage. And she can do whatever she wants with it.
Fairportfan said, 3 months ago

Oh, my.

Over in Luann, Gunther and Elwood are beginning to get in each others’ faces … they’e gonna both gonna be rather taken aback when Luann and Quill come out together…
waycyber said, 3 months ago

@wolfbyte36 said, 2 minutes ago
Well in my state of confusion

State of confusion. Is that DC?
UncaAlby said, 3 months ago

@UncaAlby said

”Isn’t Dru’s dress a different color? And with sleeve cuffs, collar and belt that weren’t there before?”

@Fairportfan replies

There’s rather more of it than there was, too. It’s not really a dress, it’s her plumage. And she can do whatever she wants with it.

to which UncaAlby retorts

No no no, that is decidedly not “plumage,” at least not in this case!

It’s a dress as part of the dream in which she is playing the part of what’s-her-name, and actually really believes that’s who she is!

And that dress is different!
The Old Wolf said, 3 months ago

@Wolfbyte36 Brother! There is a spot on the couch right over here, where the confusion swirls the thickest. I ain’t got no clue…
Saskfan said, 3 months ago

Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 1 hour ago
If you look at Dru’s legs, that’s an impossible move for a human. I’d say McE is having a bit of fun with us…

I’m not certain that it IS impossible. It’s unlikely that many people will be that flexible, but look at Edda this morning. True, her thighs are rolled about 90 degrees from Dru’s.

Then again, Dru’s a succubus, not a human. In fact, she’s really a cartoon character. And as Bugs once said, you can get any with almost anything in a cartoon. So if what Dru’s doing does turn out to be anatomically impossible, don’t tell her; she might never have studied anatomy.
Saskfan said, 3 months ago

That genius fatuncle said, lae last night:
Fairfortfan
Eating such “fast food,” while not spilling one’s coffee, and driving a stick-shift automobile with no power assists of any kind, must have presented quite a challenge.

Not to mention that the transmissions of the day were crash boxes (unsynchronised), necessitating doubleclutching…*

And let us not forget that roads of that period were a sick joke by today’s standards.

Actually, the highways in my province are considerably worse than they were 40 years ago. Saskatchewan used to be known among bicyclists for its broad, smooth shoulders on at least the main highways. I was watching the same shoulders on a couple of weekends this summer, and lamenting the now-gravelled shoulders. And where they are still asphalt, they could test Martian rovers on the durn things…

And between the shoulders, the ruts and potholes in the asphalt haven’t gotten any shallower or smaller. But the asphalt itself is not of the same quality it used to be. And with the interchanges at most entrances to the city, it’s dangerous to try to enter or leave by bicycle.
wolfbyte36 said, 3 months ago

To everyone here, Ladywolf17 wants me to tell you all hello, She is sound asleep right now because she works tomorrow.
wolfbyte36 said, 3 months ago

Heck waycyber in my state of confusion, you know I just can’t think straight right now. Must be my tired mind. I need to turn in and get some sleep.

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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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