Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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BikeNBoatN said, about 1 month ago

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Today’s 9 Chickweed Lane

Pib: Splat! Ok, so what’s happening to Satori?!! Is Satori Dru?

9CWL: Mary is giving Edda a chance to perform again.
Margueritem said, about 1 month ago

To me, Pib does not look horrified, but looks on at something that she knows is neccesary, as she flinches from the blood…
I hope that the action has the desired effect.
waycyber said, about 1 month ago

World Teacher’s Day
Joe Minotaur said, about 1 month ago

Monday’s Mind-blowing Mutations

QUIZ RESULTS
What did we see when the strip/page updated?
9 Chickweed Lane
.1. Where’s Mary?
.2. Mary is gone!
.3. Mary and Seth wait for Amos and Edda to return.
.4. Amos and Edda continue to examine their relationship.
.5. 6th, 7th, 8th, etc… grade flashback.
.6. An old couple, following them, remembers their youth.
.7. Meanwhile, back at the Burber Farm…
.8. Sister Stevens takes an important phone call.
.9. Get out your hankies!
.10. None of the above/Did NOT see that comming!

Pibgorn
.1. Satori plunges the katana into Dinah’s body.
.2. She pierces the mass/infection and delivers a shock.
.3. Dinah reaches up and stops the blade.
.4. Satori is stopped by A)Pibgorn, B)Geoff, C)Nat, D)Roger, E)Tom T., F)Lena, G)Demon.
.5. Satori warns the others to stand back!
.6. Luciano arrives with 400 Drucillas.
.7. It was a ruse! Satori stabs/cuts someone else.
.8. We interrupt this program for an important announcement!
.9. None of the above/Did NOT see that comming!
.10. Did not WANT to see that comming!

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Optional/We shall see:
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BikeNBoatN said, about 1 month ago

Pib was added in Panel 2 going from the sketch to the final. And her expression there looks a little anxious. Apprehensive? Glad? Hard to say…
Cashew Jim said, about 1 month ago

Where did the blood come from? Dru is supposedly drained.
waycyber said, about 1 month ago

I think that, just as we see something happening to Satori, something is also happening to Dru. I’m sticking with the idea that there is a transfer of power, or they merge.
Sisyphos said, about 1 month ago

Is The Character Previously Known As Satori turning into neo-Drusilla? And, of course, Cashew Jim is quite right: the baby-demon horde supposedly drained Dru dry, so whence comes all that Activated Blood?
Radical-Knight said, about 1 month ago

Dinah was not really Dru, but Dru’s essence was in and will be emerging from Satori. (or not)
Joe Minotaur said, about 1 month ago

Wapsi Square and Looking for Group have updated.
BikeNBoatN said, about 1 month ago

So are those holes forming in Satori, with light shining through from behind?
MurphyHerself said, about 1 month ago

There’s more to Dru than we think.
Sisyphos said, about 1 month ago

The economy of expression on Pibgorn’s face alone is worth the price of admission–admission into the legion of admirers of the art of Honorable Master.
wolfbyte36 said, about 1 month ago

Dru being reborn through blood and Satori is the willing and necessary sacrifice since her body began to show change. The staghorn ears are evidence of that.
waycyber said, about 1 month ago

@Fairportfan ^said, about 6 hours ago*
Darkstar…

One of my favourite films. What with the bouncing ball alien, the captain on ice and the surfing in space. Brilliant film.
Joe Minotaur said, about 1 month ago

9CWL:
What?
Amos. Exit stage right.
Mary. Enter stage left.

Pibgorn:
Lancing a boil? Is this part of the cure?
wolfbyte36 said, about 1 month ago

Was this the secret that Dru was hiding all along.
Sisyphos said, about 1 month ago

Nor need we fret for Roger’s romance; with his handy hand-held, no doubt he can conjure himself a Satori 3.0 for future fun….
Urquell said, about 1 month ago

Thus proving that the program knows more than the programmer. If you do not believe me, ask my computer.
gimmickgenius said, about 1 month ago

Maybe Tom T was hiding in Dinah’s cleavage.
Sisyphos said, about 1 month ago

It appears that the globules of Activated Blood have fairly penetrated the form of Satori; note how much more substantive they seem in the Sketch….
wolfbyte36 said, about 1 month ago

Any vampires in the house?
Joe Minotaur said, about 1 month ago

Satori seems to have proven that she is not just another Non-Player Character(NPC).
Maybe a Demon, trapped in the game by Spitcock and needed a sympathetic lover to free her from it?
wolfbyte36 said, about 1 month ago

WARNING!

REGENERATION IS IN EFFECT! PLEASE STAND BACK AND SHIELD YOUR EYES FROM THE LIGHT AS IT WILL IN ALL PROBABILTY BECOME VERY BRIGHT.
Joe Minotaur said, about 1 month ago

Eerie Cuties has… you know.
Saskfan said, about 1 month ago

I am so confused. But the scenery is grand, and my inner first aider is going squick at the amount of blood splashing. Bad, bad, very bad…

And I’m grateful that the weekend is over, and with it (hopefully) the religious discussion. People who are too insistent one way or the other are sure to step on someone’s toes, and cause hurt feelings eventually.
Sisyphos said, about 1 month ago

OFF-TOPIC: Hmmm. A 1X1 pixel insert on this page leads to the OpenX AdServer sign-in page. Any hackers in the house?
Jim said, about 1 month ago

Pib : Hmmm . I’ve got nothing to add , to what’s already been stated at the moment .

9CWL : I thought Mary was already informed about the ” later ” .

Well G’night all . Pleasant dreams ?
wolfbyte36 said, about 1 month ago

Dagnabbit! Satori you spilled my Kool-Aid all over the place. Now we’re going to have ants everywhere.
Joe Minotaur said, about 1 month ago

The answer to last night’s Pibgorn Trivia Question:

What were Pibgorn’s original duties as a Professional Fairy?

Can be found in the strip for April 26&28, 2005.
Saskfan said, about 1 month ago

To everyone who suggested reading material for my 12 yr old: he’s about a third of the way through Arthur C. Clarke’s The Fountains of Paradise. Mwahahahahaaa! Yes, I have created a monster, but at least he’s a literate monster. The Dancing Wu Li Masters might be next…
mjolnir 9 said, about 1 month ago

What a fascinating episode to appear right after the three-day-long discussion on religion…and why I personally find these two panels so fascinating…

The autumn blót - the blood sacrifice - was (and still is)performed in October, by the followers of the Old Faith of the Aesir, the Norse pantheon. Traditionally, a sacrificial victim was ritually bled on the altar…but drops of the blood also fell on sacred objects brought there and on the participants. Much mead was drunk and the incantation
til árs ok friðar, “for a good year and peace” was pronounced.

Nowadays, the ceremony is mostly just a drinking and feasting party…but the ancient basis of blót was the belief that sacrificial blood had the power to transform and transcend.

There sure do appear to be a heap of transformin’ and transcendin’ going on in those two panels.

And an awful lot of blót …
Joe Minotaur said, about 1 month ago

G’Night all you heathens!
May the blood of the immortal Xomulgustar rain down fire and marshmellows from his temple high upon CandyRock Mountain.
waycyber said, about 1 month ago

In Suzerain, didn’t killing Dru reset the program? Could Satori be thinking in the same way?
waycyber said, about 1 month ago

OCRAM
Sisyphos said, about 1 month ago

OLOP!
wolfbyte36 said, about 1 month ago

waycyber I enjoy your days very much.
wolfbyte36 said, about 1 month ago

You know with Satori lighting up like a Christmas Tree, I’m suddenly getting the urge to sing Christmas carols.
paciii said, about 1 month ago

There’s an awful lot of spray from that pucture in panel 1. Seems to me that most sword thrusts like that, with the motion of the thrust paralell to the blade, wouldn’t cause a “normal” wound that would spray like that, especially in the chest or abdomon. Not that I’m speaking from any personal experience here, but wouldn’t that kind of fountain need a major artery or vein to be opened, without the blockage of the weapon remaining in the wound?

Of course this isn’t your “normal” target, nor weapon. This does smack of something more like… Hmmm… an eruption of blood.

Now what brought that image to mind…
OH YEAH, that big volcano in NY…
paciii said, about 1 month ago

olop [trying to hide behind the giant rubber ducky…]
Sisyphos said, about 1 month ago

–Can’t keep eyes open…. A good night to all, except for those who are at the start of their day, in which case, good day to you!
paciii said, about 1 month ago

wolfbyte36 said, 3 minutes ago
You know with Satori lighting up like a Christmas Tree, I’m suddenly getting the urge to sing Christmas carols.

maybe “Oh, hole-y knight”

O hole-ly knight,
the lights are brightly shining
right through the holes
where the blood went ker-plop…

That’s it! I’m free-associating again… time for beddy-bye!!
wolfbyte36 said, about 1 month ago

I should head for bed as well.
UncaAlby said, about 1 month ago

Oh dearie me!!
Fairportfan said, about 1 month ago

UncaAlby said

Bleah. I hate 3D stuff.

One, it always looks funny (funny peculiar not funny ha-ha)

Have you seen any recent 3D films? They look incredibly realistic. (Well, as realistic as stop-motion or CGI animation can; i look forward to Tim Burton’s Alice in WOnderland live-action 3D…

Two, they always have to remind you it’s 3D by shoving stuff into your face. (Very funny, guys, you made the audience duck, ha ha. Can we get back to the plot now?)

Ummm - Toy Story? Old movie, converted for 3D? That’s a passing phase; the same sort of trickery accompanied sound, colour and widescreen when they were first introduced.

Three, they often rely on the 3D gimmick in lieu of many other important movie qualities. (Get back to the plot? What plot?)

Coraline, the Toy Story films, Monsters vs Aliens (which i haven’t watche yet, but will be watching in 2D as soon as i finish typing on comments.

The Old Wolf said

Wapsi Square has updated. I’m just as confused over there as I am over here…

At least Pablo has promised us a wrapup to the calendar machine storyline by December…

And now the new strip:

BikeNBoatN said

Pib was added in Panel 2 going from the sketch to the final.

Sometime tomorrow, there shall be…

A Flicker Pic!

waycyber said

Dark Star

One of my favourite films. What with the bouncing ball alien, the captain on ice and the surfing in space. Brilliant film.

And two years before Star Wars. And the direct source of the “R2 searches the Death Star computer” sequence (which was done forStar Wars by Dan O’Bannon).

In Suzerain, didn’t killing Dru reset the program? Could Satori be thinking in the same way?

killing anyone other than the Queen (including Satori) reset it.
Fairportfan said, about 1 month ago

To those wondering what my experience with the Toy Story 3D double feature was:

Excellent.

The films are, of course, the films. The 3D conversion is brilliantly done, and not excessive or gimmicky.

The Toy Story 2 Opening sequence, showing Buzz Lightyear’s infiltration of Zurg’s stronghold, is incredible in 3D. (And makes me hunger for an equally-well-done conversion of The Incredibles)

I noticed some considerable strobing in objects moving rapidly across the scene, and can’t recall if i spotted similar strobing in the flat releases, and/or whether the 3D conversion aggravated it.

Of course, the 3D conversion is actually almost trivial on a CGI-animated film, since the usual method of making such films is to create full three-dimensional models of characters and sets in the computer, and then to choose a virtual “camera position” and to render what the “camera” sees.

Since you have all the original data stored somewhere, the 3D conversion should mainly consist of rendering everything a second time from a viewpoint about two inches to the left of the original “camera position”.

It’s more than that, of course selecting the picture plane for each shot, and mapping out convergence changes that shift it during the shot, etc., but the essential method should be fairly simple.
ejcapulet said, about 1 month ago

Oh gross.
Fairportfan said, about 1 month ago

Click here, then scroll down to read the comic.
ejcapulet said, about 1 month ago

Shouldn’t Dru be out of blood by now?
desertdwlr said, about 1 month ago

Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.

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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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