Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney
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About Pibgorn
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.
© 2009 Brooke McEldowney - All Rights Reserved.
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BikeNBoatN
said,
about 1 month ago
Boilerplate courtesy of fear-ciuil:
If you are new to Pibgorn, start with The Old Wolf’s Pibgorn Tribute Page, which gives story and character info. The Old Wolf has also created a GoComics comments posting guide to special formatting: italic, bold, indents, large fonts, etc.
AmriloJim’s Pibgorn reference page
AmriloJim’s 9CWL reference page
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Mr. McEldowney’s Pibgorn blog
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The Pibgorn books are available here
Today’s 9 Chickweed Lane
Pib: My, my….Satori’s quick! Wonder where she got those lightning quick reflexes? And Nat’s quicker still! Something about bringing a knife to a gunfight? Yet we still don’t get a peek at Satori’s ears.
9CWL: Good old mother-hen Seth.
Margueritem
said,
about 1 month ago
Satori is clearly the victor, as the roscoe speaks….
I like Satori, and hope that what ever has affected her can be removed.
UncaAlby said, about 1 month ago
Barking roscoes?
waycyber
said,
about 1 month ago
SATORI!
Sisyphos said, about 1 month ago
What fine staggered composition, contributing to the speed of the action!
UncaAlby said, about 1 month ago
Satori is fast! It’s almost impossible to actually catch a sword like that in real life!
Oh – real life – my mistake –
(crawls back under the couch – move duck! )
Gweedo Murray said, about 1 month ago
I felt a rush seeing Nat get busy.
♠Lonewolf♠
said,
about 1 month ago
Woo-Hoo!! A fresh piece of artwork!! And some fresh comments.
Sisyphos said, about 1 month ago
Nat’s magical bullets may release the Evil from Satori and enable her to recover, with her benevolent nature (–well, for a swordmistress!) intact.
UncaAlby said, about 1 month ago
“Yesterday” @fatuncle said, 5 minutes ago
Just tell me I’m right!
I haven’t been right since I got married! I think that was the last right decision I ever made!
♠Lonewolf♠
said,
about 1 month ago
Not a whole farther along, are we?
waycyber
said,
about 1 month ago
It’s Rainwear Appreciation Day
Care for your cagoules
Appreciate your anoraks
Pamper your pac-a-macs
Gweedo Murray said, about 1 month ago
A benevolence that usually says; “Bite my blade !”
Ladywolf17 said, about 1 month ago
Oh dear! I hope that shot was only to get their attention.
Sisyphos said, about 1 month ago
waycyber, “Galoshlessness is foolishness when sharply slants the sleet!”
UncaAlby said, about 1 month ago
Here try this link: Houston Chronicle Comics Page
Then go down to the “Crock” link.
They might want you to register to actually see the comics. I dunno. All I know is that when I test my link to “Crock”, it tells me “Authorization failure”.
(grumble grumble, danged authorizers!)
Fairportfan2
said,
about 1 month ago
From “yesterday”:
The negotiating techniques and methods of communication in the new Girl Genius put me in mind of this strip.
fatuncle said
There are some you cannot make peace with, except on their terms - total submission. only thing you can do is kill them.
“Ain’t nothing more peaceful than a dead troublemaker.” - Keith Laumer, Retief and the Warlords
From “today”:
Vlad Taltos is missing a finger from doing that - with a tad less than Satori’s (or Sausilla’s, or whoever’s) pretr\ernatural agility and speed.
The classic line is “Somewhere in the distance, a roscoe sneezed spitefully…”
Quoting myself from April 23rd:
Can’t see any comments yet, though it says there are fifteen…
Maybe after i post this one.
Sisyphos said, about 1 month ago
C’mon, Gweedo, you know we all root for the Digital Maiden!
BikeNBoatN
said,
about 1 month ago
Well, since Nat’s a demon, with bullets that only affect demons, it will be interesting to see what effect demon bullets have on Satori, with demon-style staghorn ears.
waycyber
said,
about 1 month ago
@♠Lonewolf♠ said, 1 minute ago
Not a whole farther along, are we?
Well, the mysterious one instinctively used a Satori move rater than a Drusilla one. She now has another move to make.
She can:
1) Dodge the bullet (in which case it could hit Pib)
2) Deflect the bullet with the sword
3) Use a Drusilla patent plasma blast (with mandatory hip grind)
4) Be hit by the bullet
Also, the new-borns have no Drusilla to feed on - apparently. Interesting.
UncaAlby said, about 1 month ago
Maybe this link will work: How I Feel Sometimes
UncaAlby said, about 1 month ago
@waycyber said, 1 minute ago
That’s my vote.
What happens after that is anybody’s guess.
Heavenly said, about 1 month ago
BNBN said:
Well, since Nat’s a demon, with bullets that only affect demons, it will be interesting to see what effect demon bullets have on Satori, with demon-style staghorn ears
Have we seen the ears on this new Satori creature? Did I miss that?
fatuncle
said,
about 1 month ago
Well, that answers one question - Pib was trying to do harm to Satori. Next question: at what or which is Nat shooting?
♠Lonewolf♠
said,
about 1 month ago
I second the being hit by the bullet!
UncaAlby
The Crock strip worked for me sir.
Saskfan said, about 1 month ago
I hope that gorgeous outfit doesn’t get destroyed.
@KalarahariNight: You have a lovely voice, milady.
Ladywolf17 said, about 1 month ago
I just got a call from my cousin Deej, who is working on some lizzard project. He asked me what lizard it was that opens up it’s flaps to look threatening. All I could think of was the frilled lizard. Am I right or do I need to call him back.
fatuncle
said,
about 1 month ago
Heavenly said, ”Have we seen the ears on this new Satori creature? Did I miss that?”
I was about to say yes, but it’s no, isn’t it? Not since the fireworks that resulted from Satori stabbing Dru.
UncaAlby said, about 1 month ago
@♠Lonewolf♠ said, 9 minutes ago
Cut the man some slack! He’s writing a book here that’s going to be published some day (break a leg, Brooke!). When you’re turning the pages, instead of waiting day by day by day, you don’t want the action to move too fast!
Since we’re restricted to reading day by day, it may seem to move at a glacier’s pace. But go back to page one, and read it page after page after page, and see if it still seems to move too slowly. My bet is the pacing would be much better.
I just wonder how he’s going to explain or otherwise handle the characters here from the previous arc that were not (to my knowledge) intended for publishing in a book. Are they going to have some preamble?
Sisyphos said, about 1 month ago
As I implied in my second post (above), I believe Nat’s magical/plasmoidal bullets will hit their target (The One Who Looks Like Satori), and that the effect will ultimately (though not necessarily proximally) be beneficial….
waycyber
said,
about 1 month ago
@UncaAlby said, 16 minutes ago
Satori is fast! It’s almost impossible to actually catch a sword like that in real life!
It has been done in fiction many times. Even in Discworld.
ejcapulet
said,
about 1 month ago
Okay, I’m confused - dibs on the pink cushion with the gold tassels (slaps squirrel off the couch and sits down).
waycyber
said,
about 1 month ago
On a completely different subject, what is it with cage matches? Almost every action series I have seen in recent years has a fight club/cage match episode. This weekend there was one in Merlin!
UncaAlby said, about 1 month ago
@fatuncle said, less than a minute ago
Well – I can’t imagine the ears went away.
There wouldn’t be much point in Brooke showing us the ears in the first place if he was going to make them just disappear, and certainly disappear without explanation.
I’d have to say – Satori must be a demon of some sort, and so therefore Nat’s bullets will have some effect.
Ladywolf17 said, about 1 month ago
I’m not going to do any story tonight. I just don’t feel up to it.
I may take a few days off from story telling.
waycyber
said,
about 1 month ago
On the subject of magical bullets, does anyone remember a DC character whose bullets could do things as amazing as Green Arrow’s -er- arrows?
Saskfan said, about 1 month ago
It grows colder here in southern Saskatchewan, and we have snow on the ground. And I have a black cat grooming himself at my feet.
Last winter, my Beloved offered shelter from the cold to a black cat who will NOT use a litter box. But while it was cold, he was quite willing to be our cat. We tried to get him neutered, but he broke the cat carrier. C’est la guerre…
As the weather warmed, and spring arrived, said cat - known here as Emo, since he wears black, is a fighter and full of scars, and likes to complain - stopped coming back in when he went out to do his business.
Summer came, and Emo was not to be seen. I did catch sight of him once, but he wouldn’t let me near him.
But today, with the weather at -5C and a predicted low of -11C, he has returned to claim his place in our home. He was a little skittish at first, but 12 hours later, he has been in and out several times, and he’s happy indoors.
Night-time should be interesting, though. We have a mouse in the house. We have a live trap set, but it has avoided the trap. Emo’s used to fending for himself, so he should have no trouble catching the mouse.
I hope he doesn’t find it at night. It will be loud and messy…
UncaAlby said, about 1 month ago
@waycyber said, 3 minutes ago
The “Mythbusters” did a show where they tested that myth. Danged if I remember what their results were!
Go to the Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters website if you’re interested in looking it up. I think they might have a video of the test in question, but I have no idea how hard it might be to find. (I know I’ve had troubles finding stuff.)
BikeNBoatN
said,
about 1 month ago
While it’s true we haven’t actually seen Satori’s ears recently, I agree with UncaAlby that HM wouldn’t make them just disappear without an accompanying story.
♠Lonewolf♠
said,
about 1 month ago
UncaAlby
As human beings we DO want the pages to turn faster. He can publish the book faster, make the money faster and retire faster. Ooh, strike that last piece from the record! No retiring yet.
And if I go back to start over again, I’ll just be behind all over again. Well, something like that. It is gatting late and I am becoming exhausted. I keep having to correct my spelling now.
Fairportfan2
said,
about 1 month ago
Also from “yesterday”:
DNTME said
Fairportfan2 said
”I have looked at DNTME’s site and gallery.
”Much is made clear.*
Ooo, I feel the armchair, psych-101, crystal gazing, tree hugging new age psychoanalysis bubbling to the surface.
Hardly.
Let me say now, you have no idea. Nothing in your wildest imaginations will even come close to the reality. Nothing illegal or bad on my part mind you. Just that you will never, ever guess what was done TO me. Certainly not from whatever pics I may post.
I not only have no idea - I. Don’t. Care.
If you challenged me, i might hazard a few guesses, many of which would probably be a lot more lurid than Whatever Terrible Things you are hinting at.
I’m not far short of three times your age, and i’ve seen a lot of Awful Things (luckily, none of them during my year in Viet Nam) and known a lot of Bad People.
I’ve come not far short of committing assault that might well have become manslaughter more than once, and barely avoided being on the receiving end of same a couple times, too.
But your choice of pics does makesome things clear - like the picture of Hillary, and your caption, for instance.
The poetry may give you a faint clue, however. But don’t even begin to think you “know” me from it.
Went through this with a guy about your age in a usenet newsgroup a few years ago - he kept insisting that his pain was so deep and so personal and so unlike anything anyone had ever suffered before or since that we couldn’t possibly understand.
And he got real insulted and said i was insulting him and saying he was crazy when i told him that it happened that i knew a good psychiatrist (an ex-girlfiend,as it happened) in his home town who worked with the County Services (whatever they’re called in Michigan) and he ought to at least give her a call…
But as to “…what was done TO [you]…” -
Let me reiterate my favourite quote from Tommy Lee Jones:
I. Don’t. Care.
What i care about is that you seem to be a disruptive influence here - whether by your own intention or simple happenstance makes no never mind. (I’m willing to give you the benefit of the doubt on that one - so far- BTW.)
And now for something completely diffierent…
fatuncle said
fairportfan2, nope, never met Code Name: Hunter before. Thanks for the link!
I particularly liked the one where Hunter has to bail Ruby out after she re-enacts Ray Stevens’ “The Streak”…
UncaAlby said, about 1 month ago
@♠Lonewolf♠ said, less than a minute ago
Get some sleep – it’ll all still be here tomorrow!
Fairportfan2
said,
about 1 month ago
Can’t see Edda’s feet - but i note that both Seth and Mary seem to be in sock feet…
Fairportfan2
said,
about 1 month ago
BTW: the “Streak” sequence in Code Name: Hunter begins here
Gweedo Murray said, about 1 month ago
Before I forget. That Kalahari’s a real songbird, an’ that’s just her talkin’ voice.
UncaAlby said, 7 failed attempts ago
Here try this link: Houston Chronicle Comics Page
Then go down to the “Crock” link.
They might want you to register to actually see the comics. I dunno. All I know is that when I test my link to “Crock”, it tells me “Authorization failure”.
(grumble grumble, danged authorizers!)
.
I know how you feel Unca. I’m an Authorized Failure too.
Sisyphos said, 6 cheers ago
C’mon, Gweedo, you know we all root for the Digital Maiden!
.
Shucks! I know that sisy-o, but she’s not quite herself lately.
BikeNBoatN
said,
about 1 month ago
fairportfan2 said Can’t see Edda’s feet - but i note that both Seth and Mary seem to be in sock feet…
I wonder if that’s another example of HM’s technique of simplifying features that aren’t pivotal to the strip in the interest of time. Sorta like the way he sometimes draws hands as 2-digit lobster claws (see Seth’s hands in panel 1).
♠Lonewolf♠
said,
about 1 month ago
UncaAlby
I’m still good for a few more seconds or more. Thank you.
fatuncle
said,
about 1 month ago
fairportfan2 – I’ve just started reading it, and am no further than page nine …
Mikkail
said,
about 1 month ago
UncaAlby said, 29 minutes ago
Satori is fast! It’s almost impossible to actually catch a sword like that in real life!
Yet it can be done. I’ve seen it - at an Iaido exhibition I was at when living in Japan… They used a sharp dai-katana, too.
♠Lonewolf♠
said,
about 1 month ago
Gweedo
I’ve never registered with that site and I can get through.