Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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  1. Margueritem

    MargueritemGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Henmellyn? Tom is getting quite down and dirty.

  2. fear-ciuil

    fear-ciuil said, 2 months ago

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  3. lincolnhyde

    lincolnhyde said, 2 months ago

    Well, whoever caught the “confinement” implications was right!

  4. Joe Minotaur

    Joe Minotaur said, 2 months ago

    Monday’s Mesmerizing Moments!

    QUIZ TIME

    What did we see when the strip/page updated tonight?

    9 Chickweed Lane: We hope!
    .1. Edda’s girl friend from Highschool is still running late.
    .2. Edda’s friend arrives. She’s dressed as A)Novice, B)Punk Rocker?
    .3. She has a problem with Seth.
    .4. Seth leaves the shower to answer the door in a towel. She has no problem.
    .5. SQUIRREL!!
    .6. She asks about Amos.
    .7. She is not alone!
    .8. And then along comes Mary.

    Pibgorn:
    .1. Roger, Lena and Satori. Journey to the Center of the Volcano!
    .2. The Volcano blows up/goes quiet/shrinks/turns to sparklies/vanishes.
    .3. Pibgorn wakes up Geoff and Maurice.
    .4. Oognat walks off with wolf.
    .5. Lena interrupts, so does the volcano.
    .6. More dirty talk about A) Merging files, B) Defragging a hard drive, C) Ctrl+Alt+Del.
    .7. Drucilla’s “Confinement” means she A)Is/was pregnant, B)No unearthly idea.
    .8. Igor has something to say.
    .9. Mrs. Egg, poached and boilling mad!
    .10. “My Uncle Baldrick was in a play once. It was called, MacBeth.”
    .11. “And what did he play?” “Second codpiece. MacBeth wore him in the fight scenes.”
    .12. “So, he was a ‘Stunt’ codpiece? Did he have a large part?”
    .13. “Depends on who was playing MacBeth.”
    .14. None of the above.

  5. Saskfan

    Saskfan said, 2 months ago

    Confinement: since Honourable Master likes playing with language, it should’a bin more obvious to more of us.

    Of course, hindsight, as my Beloved once said, is always 50/50.

  6. fatuncle

    fatuncleGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    And still with the little soot-ball critters.

    Here’s a trivia for ya - which Oscar winning film had characters that were soot-balls?

  7. The Old Wolf

    The Old WolfGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    OK, now I can finally see Pib. What outside of Earth is Dru going to give birth to? Henmellyn never came into the world that way - she was a concoction of demon blood, human blood and dark magic. Dru has mentioned that she doesn’t reproduce in the normal manner… and has even intimated that she doesn’t have the plumbing to do so.

    So what, what, what is growing within?

    Phat props to whomever made the “confinement” call - that was supremely astute.

  8. Saskfan

    Saskfan said, 2 months ago

    My Beloved says that Dru should ask for a refund from the in-vitro fertilization clinic.

  9. KalahariNight

    KalahariNightGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Is it just me, or does Tom T’s posture, size and shape bear more than a passing resemblance to Tinkerbell?

  10. AmriloJim

    AmriloJim said, 2 months ago

    Thanks, Cashew Jim!

    And a tip of the Hatlo hat to Uncle Milty, the reknowned “Thief of Badgag”.

  11. The Old Wolf

    The Old WolfGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Quoth Fatuncle: >Here’s a trivia for ya - which Oscar winning film had characters that were soot-balls?

    Don’t know about Oscar-winners, but I immediately thought of My Neighbor Totoro…

  12. BikeNBoatN

    BikeNBoatNGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    So, it is a pregnant Dru!

  13. AmriloJim

    AmriloJim said, 2 months ago

    KalahariNight, is that a veiled reference to the demonic implications of the Disney/Marvel merger?

  14. MurphyHerself

    MurphyHerself said, 2 months ago

    Didn’t see this one coming. Did anybody ever see the parody of This Is Your Life by Sid Caesar? Really, really funny,

    Joe, where is 9CWL posted? Yahoo comics and The Houston Chronicle aren’t refreshing, Thanks.

  15. fatuncle

    fatuncleGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    The Old Wolf said, ”Don’t know about Oscar-winners, but I immediately thought of My Neighbor Totoro…”

    Nope, but close.

  16. Saskfan

    Saskfan said, 2 months ago

    The current images at the Mt. Wilson tower cam look like Mount Doom from LOTR. They’re at http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~obs/towercam.htm#imagetop

  17. invisifan

    invisifanGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    @the Old Wolf — but that’s sort of the point lol, still, you’re right — better not to tempt fate (or Dru) (especially now)

  18. Adrienne Gormley

    Adrienne Gormley said, 2 months ago

    Interesting look at Dru today/tonight.

    and, Brand X is STILL down, with nary a peep on their main syndicate website about why or when it will be up that i can find, anyway.

  19. mjolnir 9

    mjolnir 9 said, 2 months ago

    It’s ‘Labor’ Day….
    A soon-to-be-important question: Who’s your Daddy?

  20. Adrienne Gormley

    Adrienne Gormley said, 2 months ago

    Addendum:

    Ini the sketch panel 1, Dru very much resembles Edda when she’s befuddled. Her plumage tends to hide this in the finished version.

  21. AmriloJim

    AmriloJim said, 2 months ago

    MurphyHerself, today’s 9CWL is here. I won’t be able to echo it at the reference site until I get dredge up a link (sometime after 2:00am CDT).

  22. fatuncle

    fatuncleGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Saskfan
    Wow. Just … wow.

    Really, really striking.

  23. KalahariNight

    KalahariNightGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    @fatuncle, Spirited Away?

    [PS:commented on your avatar late “yesterday”- thought I had done so earlier. It’s a great sketch. Did you draw it?]

  24. Sisyphos

    Sisyphos said, 2 months ago

    Drusilla is assuredly quite pregnant. The issues are: who? how? when? why? And, of course, what will be the outcome (so to speak)?!

  25. fjordanrr

    fjordanrr said, 2 months ago

    @fatuncle

    The movie you’re refering to is ‘Spirited Away’ directed by Miyazaki. It won the Oscar for best Animated film for 2001.

  26. fatuncle

    fatuncleGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    KalahariNight, fjordanrr — yes. They worked in the furnace room of the bathhouse, loading fuel into the furnace.

  27. mjolnir 9

    mjolnir 9 said, 2 months ago

    Those black thingies do look remarkably…fecund…somehow, don’t they?

  28. Sisyphos

    Sisyphos said, 2 months ago

    Once more, for the record, the credit for first calling this goes to liamsmom! Hurrah for liamsmom!

  29. fatuncle

    fatuncleGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    KalahariNight
    My first attempt to directly input a drawing using a Wacom pad.

  30. Urquell

    Urquell said, 2 months ago

    Just Gas ??

  31. waycyber

    waycyberGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Today celebrates the Clay Pigeon Protection League

  32. ejcapulet

    ejcapuletGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    It’s another trick of some kind. Demons don’t work that way.

  33. fatuncle

    fatuncleGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    waycyber

    The Clay Pigeon Protection League – aren’t those guys the radical wing of PETA?

  34. Afternoonhandyman

    Afternoonhandyman said, 2 months ago

    First time here, by recomendation of CashewJim. He advises me to read back a bit so I can catch the story line. How far back do I need to go?

  35. The Old Wolf

    The Old WolfGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    @Fatuncle a) Nice work! b) Jealous of your Wacom tablet.

  36. Sisyphos

    Sisyphos said, 2 months ago

    Official results of Joe’s Quiz vs. my guesses: 1 & 7 vs. 8 & 7. I was too impatient for Mary’s arrival at the apartment of Seth and Edda, but guessed correctly at Dru’s confinement, following the perceptive lead of liamsmom.

  37. waycyber

    waycyberGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    So, is Dru eating the black things or producing them from her mouth? Maybe they are baby demons. Maybe Dru is having to repopulate hell after Borgia Cantus

  38. Joe Minotaur

    Joe Minotaur said, 2 months ago

    MurphyHerself
    HouChron is updating but is slow:
    http://tinyurl.com/ksr4ea

  39. Fairportfan

    Fairportfan said, 2 months ago

    Daddy’s pretty much got to be Geiff or Spitcock.

  40. fatuncle

    fatuncleGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Afternoonhandyman said, ”… read back a bit so I can catch the story line. How far back do I need to go?”

    Several years. And no, not kidding. Go to the second post on this page, and hit the link for AmriloJim’s Pibgorn reference page, take a deep breath, and plunge.

    You won’t regret it.

  41. Sisyphos

    Sisyphos said, 2 months ago

    fatuncle, you’ve made of yourself a jovial but devilish character, I’d say!

  42. mjolnir 9

    mjolnir 9 said, 2 months ago

    I know I already left a nightcap…but I just can’t resist this one…

    A toast to our expectant mom! The drink?

    Barefoot and Pregnant!

    INGREDIENTS:
    1.0 oz Brandy
    2.0 tsp Cherry Liqueur
    1.0 tsp White Creme de Menthe
    0.5 oz Dry Vermouth
    DIRECTIONS:
    Fill a shaker half full with ice cubes. Pour all ingredients into shaker and shake well. Strain drink into a Cocktail glass and serve.

  43. Fairportfan

    Fairportfan said, 2 months ago

    Afternoonhandyman said

    First time here, by recomendation of CashewJim. He advises me to read back a bit so I can catch the story line. How far back do I need to go?

    The Very Veginning, for preterence, but “The Borgia Cantus” would be a good start - see the “boilerplate” (Today’s second post.)

  44. MurphyHerself

    MurphyHerself said, 2 months ago

    @AmriloJim and Joe: Thanks so much for the links. I’ve been missing my 9CWL fix.

    @KalahariNight: NO, not TinkerBell!!! Say it isn’t so!!!

    @ mjoinir9: “Labor Day”. Groan. Just too funny.

  45. fear-ciuil

    fear-ciuil said, 2 months ago

    GoodNightNow!

  46. Don Tomaso

    Don Tomaso said, 2 months ago

    Hmmm…..if Dru is pregnant her charlies should grow bigger…..

    Hey, just saying!……….

  47. Sisyphos

    Sisyphos said, 2 months ago

    …And a tip o’ me sailor’s cap to fear-ciuil for a record-making 24 consecutive uninterrupted posts “last night”!

  48. fatuncle

    fatuncleGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    fear-ciuil

    Good night, sleep well.

  49. fatuncle

    fatuncleGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    Sisyphos said, ”…And a tip o’ me sailor’s cap to fear-ciuil for a record-making 24 consecutive uninterrupted posts “last night”!”

    “What?!? While we were lost in mindless passion, you were counting?”

  50. waycyber

    waycyberGenius_badge said, 2 months ago

    @fatuncle said, about 1 hour ago
    NOT ONE FREAKING COMMENT on my avatar!?!?
    Geeze! I’m gonna change the damned thing.

    I can sympathise