Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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BikeNBoatN said, about 1 month ago

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Today’s 9 Chickweed Lane

Pib: Ah-Ha! So the ‘big red demon’ was Nat all along!! It wasn’t what Bogie would have done. So there’s still hope for Dru after all.
Margueritem said, about 1 month ago

Nat it was, and Nat has a heart. I hope that Tom is in for a world of hurtin’….
azrach said, about 1 month ago

Oh my goodness … Tom T is gonna get his foot … which is already in his mouth … rammed deep into his guts (whatever’s left of them)
And yep, it looks like the speculation that the big red demon is Nat has turned out to be correct.
BikeNBoatN said, about 1 month ago

OK. Joe, shall I take down the boilerplate, or shall you?
Fairportfan said, about 1 month ago

To (quasi-)quote my brother (or possibly Erc Flint): This bodes ill for someone I’d like to see a lot of ill boding for.
Sisyphos said, about 1 month ago

Bogie–Nat–was the Big Bad, and now TomT is about to be further diminished!

Becoming Tiny Tom, our new theme!
UncaAlby said, about 1 month ago

I new it was Knat!
Cashew Jim said, about 1 month ago

Good, no offshoots. Both stories continue the arcs. This should be a great week!
Nat is here, now we need Amos over there.
baslim_the_begger said, about 1 month ago

Bogie will settle scores…
UncaAlby said, about 1 month ago

Boilerplate

Leave both of them up, to balance out the occasions when nobody put one up.
Joe Minotaur said, about 1 month ago

Monday’s Mournful Morsels

QUIZ TIME
What will we see tonight when the strip/page updates?

9 Chickweed Lane
.1. Mary want to see Amos. Edda says NO!
.2. Mary wants to see the video again. Edda says NO!
.3. Mary asks about her relationship with Seth.
.4. Edda changes the subject. Tells her that Seth is gay.
.5. Seth brings in the tea.
.6. Amos walks in with his shirt off(needs button sewn on).
.7. Mark joins this “Religeous Experience”.
.8. Amos runs through the appartment. Isabel follows and screams: “GIVE ME THOSE QUARTERS!!”
.9. Mary announces that she is setting aside her vow of chastity.

Answer: None of the above.

Pibgorn
.1. The Big Demon(Nat?), large and in charge, turns on Tom T.
.2. Big D/Nat Bustard and the demons go toe-to-toe. Bogie be Kicking A$$.
.3. Geoff stands and pulls out…A Harmonica! THE HORROR!!!
.4. Roger/Lena/Satori join up with Pibgorn/Geoff/Oognat.
.5. Funeral for a friend/fiend.
.6. But first…A word from our sponsor.
.7. Lena finds her hoe. Roger will stll have to wait.
.8. Big D. One last goodbye before all HE|| breaks loose!
.9. None of the above/Did NOT see that comming!
.10. Did not WANT to see that comming!
.11. Nat walks up and joins the wake. Big D is NOT Nat Bustard!
Afternoonhandyman said, about 1 month ago

Nat! Naturally!
Cashew Jim said, about 1 month ago

I vote for leaving both boilerplates, and see if either loose the links. I have looked back at some past weeks and months postings and some have lost the linkages, and some have not.
The Old Wolf said, about 1 month ago

Yup yup yup yup yup!

Hat’s off to the first one to suggest our Nat had returned.

Oh, the magma is about to hit the fan…

@9CWL Mary wouldn’t decline to conjugate…
Sisyphos said, about 1 month ago

My only regret is that there is so little of Tom left to experience the pain of a thrashing from Bogie-Nat!
BikeNBoatN said, about 1 month ago

Ok. Both boilerplates it is. We’ll see which one keeps the links active.
Don Tomaso said, about 1 month ago

…all the power her poor, lifeless form YET preserved.
UncaAlby said, about 1 month ago

9CL

Edda looks positively smug.

Watch out, Edda, as they say, “Pride goeth before a Fall!”

And “‘E goeth before the Eye, excepteth after a Sea.”
Jim said, about 1 month ago

G’night all . Pleasant dreams …
Sisyphos said, about 1 month ago

Officially, Joe’s results: [none of the above]; 1+8. Me: 3+4; 5+8.
At least I wasn’t 100% wrong….
azrach said, about 1 month ago

Hey … that bit about “…all the powers her poor lifeless form yet preserved …” So there’s another possible route for Dru’s comeback … in her apparently “lifeless” form .
However, I’m still thinking that it will involve Satori, after seeing her staghorn ears.
The Old Wolf said, about 1 month ago

@Don Tomaso You found the loophole!
BikeNBoatN said, about 1 month ago

Joe looks like he deleted his post with the boilerplate.
Joe Minotaur said, about 1 month ago

Too Late! Only need one Boilerplate per day.
Wouldn’t want to give the CCBSS another thing to complain about.
BikeNBoatN you must have had a time machine to post before me. I thought I had it nailed.
UncaAlby said, about 1 month ago

OK

Where’s Igor?

Where’s Luciano?

Where’s Waldo?
Sisyphos said, about 1 month ago

It is good and satisfying unto the righteously wroth to have looked upon the true and mighty form of the demon known as Nat Bustard….
Fairportfan said, about 1 month ago

Girl Genius is up. Poor Agatha; a ringside seat fore the clowns and can’t laugh…
Afternoonhandyman said, about 1 month ago

final frame - Tom T’s eyes and posture suggest…

(Tom T.) Whimper
(Nat) Goodnight schweethart
Fairportfan said, about 1 month ago

Time to become comatose.
razorback2824 said, about 1 month ago

Nat Bustard is not useless anymore? Pibgorn is posted on time?
♠Lonewolf♠ said, about 1 month ago

Congrats to those that figured it was Nat. And thanks for all the explanations as to why it was thought to be Nat. This one is helping me to follow this strip better. Though there is still much that is confusing to me!!
ejcapulet said, about 1 month ago

Yay! Nat to the rescue! Tom hasn’t learned a thing, has he? He wanted to hurt Dru, so he went after Pib and Dru retaliated by giving him his “makeover”, he got revenge on Dru by making sure she got hurt (distracting all help) but he didn’t think at all about someone who might have the guts and strength to give him another makeover.
Saskfan said, about 1 month ago

Ladywolf: to continue from your question from “yesterday;” if you consider corn to be a vegetable, then popcorn should be a vegetable. If you consider beans to be a vegetable,then chocolate, which comes from a bean, is also a vegetable. Personally, jelly beans are my favourite vegetable. Hey, they say they’re beans, so who am I to deny their natural heritage; who am I to claim they lied?

Of course, this may only count beside the pool of our Escherian universe. In the Real World(pat. pending), Your Mileage (kilometreage for my fellows Canadians) May Vary.
Joe Minotaur said, about 1 month ago

With Tom T.’s ability to take over our cast, don’t count him out yet!
ejcapulet said, about 1 month ago

And I am SOOOO MAD at whoever here got me hooked on Girl Genius! I scared the daylights out of my whole office on Friday - they didn’t expect me to explode with laughter and not stop for 5 minutes! (“oh, now that’s too lively!” snort snort)
KalahariNight said, about 1 month ago

I love the way the first clue we get is the “Nat Narration” in panel 2.

(Yes, I’m still awake, and - ridiculous as it is - I just finished work. Long story that I won’t go into, b/c it’s boring and I’m tired and besides, Nat is back!)
paciii said, about 1 month ago

Yes!!! [pumping fist in air] it IS Nat!!

and Dru is not powerless, yet…
lifeless, but not drained…
where will this lead??
hopefully to TT’s ultimate demise, but that’s probably too much to ask for…
Joe Minotaur said, about 1 month ago

For my Bogie impression:

The Big Sleep

G’Night all.
WoodGracie said, about 1 month ago

Yay! it’s Nat!!! Get ‘im Nat!! It’s what Bogey would do!!!

Old Wolf re: yup yup…those two aliens were some of my favorite characters!!! thanks for the memories…

re: Girl Genius…I’m a little confused, are the boys sharing thoughts?

Happy Monday couchers!! yip yip yip yip yup yup yup
DryGrub Willie said, about 1 month ago

1… 2… 3… 4… 5… 6… 7… (I’m sorry, you were saying???)

Do you suppose one of our majickal beasties will use their bicer-de-la-faye to make Tom well and whole, THEN whomp the livin’ ex-cement out of him?

Nitol.
Afternoonhandyman said, about 1 month ago

If Nat is the Big B, I doubt Tom T has any power over him, and we may just find out that Tom’s been doing all this behind Nat/Big B’s back. If so, he’s in a whole lot of doo-doo.
Joe Minotaur said, about 1 month ago

ejcapulet

I’m innocent I tell ya, INNOCENT!

Blame those who led me astray into the world of online comics!
waycyber said, about 1 month ago

What he needs now is a good extractor fan!
baslim_the_begger said, about 1 month ago

A song is playing in my mind, “Transfusion”
waycyber said, about 1 month ago

It’s Right to Know Day

Hmm, but it is also…

Ask a Stupid Question Day
ARF2 said, about 1 month ago

When I saw the narration in panel 2, I knew what I would be scrolling down to. And now, Nat is about to answer the question, just what would Bogie do.
Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 1 month ago

Gnat is not happy. And when Gnat is not happy, Tom will soon not be happy, either…
azrach said, about 1 month ago

This is not a dumb act. I’m really not sure what all this stuff is referring to … does the term “bug bad” in the context it’s being used here mean the old boy himself? Or just to Matt being an extremely powerfull demon? (remembering back to Dru’s run-in with what I assume was the old boy himself when she first got thrown onto Tom ‘s show… Aug 12 - 18, 2002 …The old boy didn’t have the same regard for her that Nat has AT ALL)
Nabuquduriuzhur said, about 1 month ago

Stupid Question Day?

Does that require filing a FOIA? (A Freedom Of Information Act request)
The Old Wolf said, about 1 month ago

@ejcapulet Ho! Ho! Ho!

Girl Genius is a superb strip. And yes, WoodGracie, Agatha’s got the boys in a perpetual mindmeld. For now.

Ooh, my poor blistered hands. and I still have half my acorns to peel. Time to hit the hay.

Until tomorrow!

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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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