Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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  1. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Love the look on the Eggs’ faces. Will they ever find Igor? Will Dinah come clean? Stay tuned….don’t you touch that dial.

  2. Sisyphos

    Sisyphos said, 2 months ago

    To tell the truth, I prefer smooth Satori, not chunky….

  3. UncaAlby

    UncaAlby said, 2 months ago

    So – I guess Satori’s hair is coming through the portal – ?? ??

  4. UncaAlby

    UncaAlby said, 2 months ago

    All we need is a way to glue the pixels all back together – in the right order –

  5. BikeNBoatN

    BikeNBoatNGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

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  6. Fairportfan

    Fairportfan said, 2 months ago

    Panel 2 - Uh Oh.

  7. The Old Wolf

    The Old WolfGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    I hope those bytes of Satori get re-assembled somewhere. I’m afraid I’ll never look at a pair of fried eggs the same way again…

  8. Sisyphos

    Sisyphos said, 2 months ago

    Sheer terror X2; travel problems cubed; Love’s Labor Confused!

  9. BikeNBoatN

    BikeNBoatNGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Nat seems to know an awful lot, doesn’t he.

  10. UncaAlby

    UncaAlby said, 2 months ago

    Wait a sec – WAIT a sec –

    “Listen to my narrative …”

    Is this like – breaking the fourth wall – from inside –

    – breaking the inside fourth wall, while keeping the real fourth wall intact?

    – is that what’s going on here? ? ? ? ? ? ?

    NOOO!! You can’t recursively break walls!

  11. Fairportfan

    Fairportfan said, 2 months ago

    UncaAlby said

    All we need is a way to glue the pixels all back together – in the right order –

    BitTorrent!

  12. fatuncle

    fatuncleGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Now that is pixilated.

  13. evadrepus

    evadrepusGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Looking back at Monday and Tuesday, I am beginning to suspect that this is cliff hanger week.

    Tomorrow and Friday?

    Pib and Teau-Teau or Geoff, Maurice and Pib, take your choice.

    Maybe some resolution Monday…

    Oh well, I’ll always have that vision of Satori giving it her best shot no matter what happens.

  14. debra4life50

    debra4life50 said, 2 months ago

    Will the Eggs be barbequed?
    Will Dinah listen to Nat’s narrative or get her brains blown out?
    Will Satori become unpixelated in the right order?
    Where else will those black pollen-shaped thingies show up and what is their purpose?
    Answers to all these and more will be coming up.
    Don’t touch that dial.

  15. MurphyHerself

    MurphyHerself said, 2 months ago

    Oh, dearie me. NOW what????

  16. Nabuquduriuzhur

    Nabuquduriuzhur said, 2 months ago

    JB Weld?

  17. Sisyphos

    Sisyphos said, 2 months ago

    Is Nat too caught up in his own narrative? What might Dinah Cloverly “know”? Or is this a deception to pave the way for his blowing her brains in (yes, I said “in” and not “out”: I mean, is shooting her Nat’s form of therapy to restore her awareness)?

  18. Nabuquduriuzhur

    Nabuquduriuzhur said, 2 months ago

    Reminds me of a line from Star Trek (I can hear the groans…) where Kirk is fighting sword to sword with Captain Kang (a Klingon). Kirk has just finished a narrative, trying to convince Kang that an alien is repairing them as they are injured.
    Kang doesn’t buy it and says, “no doubt you will reassemble. After I’ve hacked you to bits!”

  19. Willhelm

    Willhelm said, 2 months ago

    It looks like Satori is going to Hell, no doubt to join Nat and Dru and the rest.

  20. Fairportfan

    Fairportfan said, 2 months ago

    Okay - mid-week and Gunther and Elwood see Luann with wossname looking happy and sort of taken, as it were.

    Which gives the author three more days ths week before Sunday to further complicate things…

  21. mjolnir 9

    mjolnir 9 said, 2 months ago

    It’s not The Convergence of the Twain (as in the poem by Thomas Hardy)…it’s The Convergence of the…er, what would that be? Thrain? TripleAAAin?

    Anyway, I kind of had the right idea…which should make my secretary - who hates disavowing - happy.

    We have plot lines converging, people! This is good! Story may start making sense!

    Of course, it’s not good that Satori is little pink cubes at the moment, when we’d much rather be seeing her little pink… but never mind about that now…I have another fearless prediction! Here it is:

    We’ll see even *more convergence tomorrow*!

    (usual mumbled disavowment boilerplate)

    Yes, I think old Geoff, Pibgorn (as Nonny), Oognat (as Teau-Teau), maybe even Maurice and, lest we forget, Luciano the fly and Igor the potty-mouth Teddy Bear…stand a good chance of popping into the frame(s)!

    So let us all enjoy this fraught-with-calamity frolic…and stop arguing politics…

  22. Nabuquduriuzhur

    Nabuquduriuzhur said, 2 months ago

    Hmm. Can a computer program go to hell?

  23. waycyber

    waycyberGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Dru’s Dinah blue plate special, Two Eggs and diced assassin

  24. BikeNBoatN

    BikeNBoatNGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    If everything and everyone is going to hell, where’s the handbasket?

  25. Nabuquduriuzhur

    Nabuquduriuzhur said, 2 months ago

    Be interesting if Satori turned out to be Igor…

  26. evadrepus

    evadrepusGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Nabuquduriuzhur said, 1 minute ago

    Hmm. Can a computer program go to hell?

    Yup! I know many that have.

  27. waycyber

    waycyberGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    It’s Cream Filled Biscuit Day

    Break out the Oreos, Custard Creams, Bourbon Biscuits. Hob Nobs? Not today.

  28. Saskfan

    Saskfan said, 2 months ago

    Nabuquduriuzhur said, 25 minutes ago

    JB Weld?

    Digital Super Glue!

    Nab also said:
    Can a computer program go to hell?

    For all the paper I used up trying to time various functions on my work ‘puter today, I suspect Hades Inc. CREATES the software. 2 minutes to print a receipt for a commnuity art or swim class registration, and they wonder why we’re not going fast enough on the telephone…

  29. Saskfan

    Saskfan said, 2 months ago

    Hmmmm. Interesting how the H~ word gets past the nannybots if’n there’s punctuation involved.

  30. Saskfan

    Saskfan said, 2 months ago

    Oh, I was going to comment, before getting sidetracked, that it’s most unsporting of Nat to offer to aerate Dru’s/Dinah’s skull after all that humma-humma. How can he even hold the gun steady?!?

  31. Nabuquduriuzhur

    Nabuquduriuzhur said, 2 months ago

    If it’s a dark cloud that is doing all this, here’s some fun ways to deal with it:

    -silver iodide or dry ice it to make it condense into rain and watch it drain away.
    -suck it up into a shop vac and sneak it into one of the outer set of heat exchangers for a “dry” type nuclear power plant’s reactor. (Give’s a new meaning to “live steam” and it gets to make the trip through the turbines several times an hour. Rather like going through the ringer?)
    -start a jet engine in front of it and blow it to shreds of vapor.
    -add some smoke to it and make it sick.

    Of course, being magical, none of that is likely to work.

  32. evadrepus

    evadrepusGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    I don’t think that the nanny-bot knows what punctuation is, so of course the word hell? isn’t in its list.

    Edit: looks like that’s it maybe: ?hell

    Edit: Yes, we have no punctuation in the nanny-bot, a fine example of programing.

  33. Sisyphos

    Sisyphos said, 2 months ago

    Honorable Master gleefully (–as I suspect–) has his plot galloping off madly in three directions in today’s installment (with apologies to the late Stephen Leacock, possibly the funniest Canadian ever; stolen from his story Gertrude the Governess, almost as funny as Guido the Gimlet of Ghent}!
    [Are you listening, Gweedo?]

  34. Sisyphos

    Sisyphos said, 2 months ago

    But have you all noticed how the terrified (I was tempted to pun terrifried but restrained myself) Eggs in panel 1 could be read as being terrified by what they seem to be looking at in panel 2 (little cubes of Satori)?

  35. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Gweedo another hero for you!

  36. steelbladeoffury

    steelbladeoffury said, 2 months ago

    Okay! does anybody here know how to put a block puzzle of Satori back together?

  37. Nabuquduriuzhur

    Nabuquduriuzhur said, 2 months ago

    Ted Kennedy just died.

  38. Radical-Knight

    Radical-KnightGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Marker

  39. waycyber

    waycyberGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Do trainee demons wear L plates?

  40. UncaAlby

    UncaAlby said, 2 months ago

    Dinah gots more cleavage in the sketch

  41. UncaAlby

    UncaAlby said, 2 months ago

    And Nat has still gots no Hat

    – or Brooke’s Cat

    – and that’s That

  42. azrach

    azrach said, 2 months ago

    OK …. remembering back to the question of how many demon-slugs mat fired off into Tom T. back at Aug. 13 …. aparently there’s one (at least) left.
    Meanwhile, I’m glad I didn’t post my rather convoluted speculations about how Satori was gonna come out of the portal, and I have no idea … or speculations … what Nat’s narrative will involve.

  43. Nabuquduriuzhur

    Nabuquduriuzhur said, 2 months ago

    The Cat without a Hat. The Hat without a Cat.

    Maurice, the only detective mouse. Wonder if he has a J.D.?

  44. mjolnir 9

    mjolnir 9 said, 2 months ago

    azrach

    I believe that - in dreams - the same rules apply to guns that apply to snacks here on the Couch. It’s an Escherian universe…ammunition (just like munchies) never runs out.

  45. BikeNBoatN

    BikeNBoatNGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    I think h-e-l-l must be like the old Hollywood war movies–guns have unlimited ammo.

  46. Nabuquduriuzhur

    Nabuquduriuzhur said, 2 months ago

    Weren’t there 5 in Tom? Of course, it’s a dream, or he could have reloaded.

  47. Joe Minotaur

    Joe Minotaur said, 2 months ago

    QUIZ TIME

    What will we see tonight?

    9 Chickweed Lane:
    .1. One more B&W Ballet study of Edda.
    .2. B&W Ballet study of Seth.
    .3. B&W Ballet study of Edda and Seth.
    .4. Equal time for Amos and Cello.
    .5. B&W study of Solange.
    .6. Edda at the piano.
    .7. Meanwhile, back at the farm…
    .8. OOPSIE!! Ink spill!
    .9. None of youse mugs move! This is a… BANG!
    .10. Aw-w. You moved!
    .11. Equal parts 4 and 6.

    Pibgorn:
    .1. Satori goes “Pfft!”
    .2. Satori rematerializes back in Suzerain.
    .3. New/improved Satori w/wo clothes joins Roger and Lena(On her way).
    .4. Satori reaches through portal and pulls them back.
    .5. Nat/Dru have a meaningful discussion.
    .6. Geoff/Pib/Maurice(It could happen).
    .7. Oognat/Wolf(Don’t look at me like that).
    .8. Tom T. visits with the Storm King.
    .9. Kama Sutra page 77(Zero Gravity Edition).
    .10. Inagaddadavida, baby.
    .11. ‘Scuse me, while I catch this fly.
    .12. “Mister Lizzard! You want a hamburger?”
    .13. “It’s me, Dave!” “Dave? Dave’s not here.”
    .14. “Class, class… SHUT UP!!!”

  48. waycyber

    waycyberGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    You mean we can’t say “He||?”

  49. Saskfan

    Saskfan said, 2 months ago

    @Wilorg: Re your comments yesterday about the Moulin Rouge:

    My cousin’s english by birth, and he married one of the chorus girls; she dumped him a couple of years later when they moved back to England. Then he met a Oz lass, and is now happily teaching in Melbourne.

    @Risitas: Aussie football is watchable; North American football pales in comparison. And yes, it does sound like a Python sketch. The players are bonkers, they are.

    And I apologize: the field is oval, 150 metres or more by 135 metres or more, and it’s a curved line “only” 50 metres from the goal. Not 65, as I thought.

    See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-PFRrJQtew .

    And the video shows that it may not be a proper dropkick either. It appears to be the same kick as an NFL/CFL punt. At a dead run.

    It’s still madness.

    They’d fit right in here!

  50. waycyber

    waycyberGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    If the Eggs quarrel, is it a food fight?