Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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Margueritem said, about 1 month ago

Funny dialog in the upper right corner, and eerie, beautiful last panel! The middle looks somewhat like Satori’s hair.
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Today’s 9 Chickweed Lane

Pib: Wow! Kaboom! Satori went supernova! Wonder just how big that explosion is? So what happened to Dru? And Nat rambles on.

9CL: Mary’s starting to get her reality checked. There’s always a beautiful and ugly side to nearly everything.
waycyber said, about 1 month ago

BOOM! We have an exploding Satori,

I hope the Eggs scrambled at the same time.
Sisyphos said, about 1 month ago

What happened to Roger, Lena, and Oognat?
Sisyphos said, about 1 month ago

Is this going to be one of those time-twisting phenomena that are so beloved in comics?
BikeNBoatN said, about 1 month ago

It looks like everyone is flying in panel 2. Are they all laying on the ground in panel 3?
AmriloJim said, about 1 month ago

It’s the end of the world as we know it.
Ladywolf17 said, about 1 month ago

9CWL: Beautifly exhausting to behold.

Pibgorn: A beautifully bright explosion of light, if there were any demons left, they’re all dead now.
BikeNBoatN said, about 1 month ago

And if everyone is flying in panel 2, that means Nat can fly too, because both of Pib’s hands are clearly visibly empty.
mjolnir 9 said, about 1 month ago

Disregard ramblings from previous episode…Pibgorn did duck and was not engulfed.

Satori has, however, begun to resemble a nuclear explosion.

And Drusilla is still dead.
Sisyphos said, about 1 month ago

Maybe Sol III didn’t go supernova but is, rather, concealed within The Heart of the Lightness?
azrach said, about 1 month ago

I was wondering about them (Roger, Lena, and Oognat) too, sisyphos.
Now whether that big explosive mass of the .. uh .. spore (?) things will produce a brood of entities that would oppose demons, or will coalase into a re-created Dru (hopefully with a re-created Satori too) or something else is happening is the big question from me.
waycyber said, about 1 month ago

It’s International Day of Rural Women

Arrr! Dose coun’ry gels, dey do ta’e a lo’ o’ beatin’. ‘Specially dose dairy farmer’s daugh’ers. oooh arrr! GET ARF MOY LAND!!
Gweedo Murray said, about 1 month ago

It sure is a ball twister. Oh wait ! That’s a nova thingie.
UncaAlby said, about 1 month ago

Yah, thermonuclear dandelion, that’s what it is.
Ladywolf17 said, about 1 month ago

AmriloJim I’ll take a premature guess that your link features the band R.E.M. singing the song that your link states.

Now to see if I’m right.
whardin1960 said, about 1 month ago

OOOOOOH! AHHHHHH!
Willhelm said, about 1 month ago

Note that Satori didn’t blow up so much as de-Rez (note the pixilation) and release Dru’s white mojo. Satori was a conjured shell.
BikeNBoatN said, about 1 month ago

I see the words Sort of like this… in the last panel never made it from the sketch to the final.
mroberts88 said, about 1 month ago

Its like the fourth of July. Or when the Death Star blew up, both of them.
azrach said, about 1 month ago

conjured shell with staghorn ears ….
♠Lonewolf♠ said, about 1 month ago

Whoa! Fire in the hole!!
KalahariNight said, about 1 month ago

Chandra image of Cassiopeia A supernova

(Click it for a close up)
UncaAlby said, about 1 month ago

@Willhelm said, 3 minutes ago

(note the pixilation)

Hey, you’re right, I didn’t see that at first.

You have to kinda look closely.
waycyber said, about 1 month ago

Pib: bsh

For those that know UNIX
Ladywolf17 said, about 1 month ago
Well here begins another story for you all to enjoy.

CEDAR HILLS

By ladywolf17

Part One - The House In The Forest

Hunting season for deer had finally come to the town of Cedar Hills. Charlie Hawkfeather and his friend John Bane decided to get an early start, before the other hunters could arrive. Unfortunately for then the weather decided not to cooperate with them. A thick fog began to roll in, accompanied by a light rain.

The two hunters trudged on, hoping to spot a buck as soon as possible. Mother nature just would not cooperate with them. It began to rain harder and the fog continued to get thicker by the second. Soon visibility had dropped down to zero. Charlie and John stayed closed together and continued on.

After about an hour of walking the two men decided to call off the hunt for the time being. They had failed to realize that they had wondered to far off the trail. They were lost and they didn’t even know it. They walked on and soon luck smiled upon them. Up ahead of them, despite the thickness of the fog they could make out a dark shape of a house.

Upon reaching the house, they walked onto the front porch and knocked on the front door. No answer came from inside, so Charlie decided to turn the doorknob. To his surprise the door opened. The two men shined their flashlights all through the house. Except for them, there was not a single living soul. The house had been abandoned, but for what reason was anyone’s guess.

As Charlie began to look around the cabin, John had taken an interest in a trapdoor that had a padlock on it. The trapdoor was in the middle of the floor. John used his flashlight to look around the room and saw an axe leaning against the wall. “Perfect!” he said to himself, and went over to fetch the axe.

Charlie was a little bit hungry so he made his way over to the cupboards, and opened them up. To his pleasant surprise, he saw that the cupboards were stacked full of canned food. It was perfect for a quick meal. Charlie looked at John who was busy trying to break the padlock of the trapdoor. “Are you hungry?” he asked his friend who began to work up a sweat.

John paid Charlie no attention. He was so focused and determined to break the padlock that held the trapdoor shut. Finally with one last mighty swing of the axe, the lock broke. Excitement filled the air as John gave a triumphant yell of victory. He then looked at Charlie and said, “I’m not hungry now.” Charlie gave John a nod and began to prepare himself a nice little breakfast of pork and beans.

Excitement was not going to last for John as he began to slowly lift up the trapdoor. Strange growling sounds could be heard from below him. Suddenly! Without warning John felt something grab his legs and pulled him down. He began to scream with fright, which grabbed the attention of his friend.

Charlie began to run towards the trapdoor then stopped. He had become frozen with fear at what he saw. Tons of demons surrounded John as he tried valiantly to fight them all off. It was no use, he was heavily out numbered and totally defenseless against them He began to scream as the demons moved in for the kill.
Seeing his friend get bloodied up and devoured alive was just to much for Charlie to handle. As he grabbed his hunting gear and left the house, He heard his friend scream at the top of his lungs. “charlie!” then all was quiet. Charlie ran with all his might, through the thick fog, and downpour of rain without looking back.

He knew three things now.
1. He would never be the same again.
2. The guilt of watching his friend get devoured alive would forever haunt him.
3. The gates of Hell had just been opened, and soon a dark evil would consume this town, and maybe the whole world unless the demons could be stopped.
TO BE CONTINUED

……………………………………………………………………………………………..
Sisyphos said, about 1 month ago

Since it appears that the Pibgorn Express and passengers Geoff and Nat landed, I must conclude that Terra has not exploded but is enveloped in the Unbearable Lightness of Being illuminated by sparklies-burst ex-Satori….
UncaAlby said, about 1 month ago

I see in the Sketch a small “note to self” for Brooke, I suppose, that apparently wasn’t needed in the Final.
waycyber said, about 1 month ago

OK, who turned the Van de Graaff generator on?
Jim said, about 1 month ago

Satori/Dru ?

9Cwl : Mmmm . Hmmm .
Ladywolf17 said, about 1 month ago

A blinding flash of light. I will forever see stars before my eyes.
Fairportfan2 said, about 1 month ago

That’s spectacular. Looks like Luke hit the exhaust shaft just right…

From “Yesterday, Pt One:

waycyber said

Gaiman is a true story weaver. I have enjoyed his graphic novels and film adaptations.

In the special features on the Stardust disk, he says he was almost afraid to go to the studio while they were shooting the flying pirate ship scenes - “the action takes place on a flying pirate ship”, he said, was easy to write, and he did it ‘cos it sounded cool.

It was only slightly harder for the artist.

But now he had to go and face all those people who actually had tp build the frshlugginer thing full sacle and make it convincing…

UncaAlby said

I don’t know what you’d have to do on a Mac or a Linux, but I’ll wager there is something equivalent.

In Linux, with Opera of Firefox, you do the same thing you’d do in Windows. Don’t know about Konqueror, i’m running the Gnome desktop on my Linux partition. Tried KDE, did not like it.

DNTME said

liamsmom said
”Quick, I need a pity party! I’m about to go off and teach about “motivation theories” to a bunch of highly unmotivated, sleepy students.”

Bribe them. Money is a great motivator.

Rawhide whips are better.

wilorg said
Are you saying that your kids wouldn’t watch “Casablanca” or “Grapes of Wrath” unless it was colourised? Ow! That hurts!

Some people thses days literally cannot “see; B&W films. I sometimes have to watch for a few minues, myself, then start over once the B&W-processing part of my brain wakes up.

I used to prefer B&W film for a lot of my photography, back when it was easily available and processing was simple to get.

BTW, Blueray is making the porn industry cringe - the significantly better detail means that every scar, every blemish, every (whatever) is visible and in massive detail.

Based on the statistics and surveys, Blueray is doing only slightly better than Windows Vists - the increase in quality - about 20% measured objectively - over DVD is just not enough to justify the price for many.

Personally, i’m not even considering it till the price for recordable media comes down out of the stratosphere. (Thsese days, i’m paying about twenty cents each - $9.99/50 - for name-brand DVD blanks. (Best prices i see online right now, lots of 5 is about $50 - $3-plus each. Singles run $9.98 to $19.99 each)

bmonk said,

I also remember a story of a student suspended because of a table knife in the student’s lunchbox, to cut the apple or something. A table knife! But it was metal and a knife, so–Suspend that student! Sorry, no exceptions!

Actuall, it was a folding fork/knife/spoon camping tool, and it was, i believe, a tad sharper than the average table knife. And the 45-day suspension originally handed out has been cut to three, and the school board is re-considering some of its more draconian rules.

But when i was in fifth grade, in South Carolina along about nineteen-ought-fifty-eight, if a teacher needed to cut something, likely she’d turn to the neares random kid (quite often a girl, for that matter) and say “Johnny” (or “Diane”) “lend me your pocket knife,” assuming, rightly, that the kid had one.

UncaAlby said

@wilorg said, 14 minutes ago

”That is why Tort reform is such an important issue for the US lawmakers.”

Mostly as to preventing it, since the majority of them are lawyers.

You are absolutely correct.

A California lawyer who is a Big Noise (the type generally associated with pinto beans and boiled cabbage, i think) in the “birthrer” movement has just been hit with a $20K fine by a Georgia court for abuse of process and frivolous lawsuits after filing a suit for a soldier alleging that since Obama is not legally President because he isn’t a natural-born citizen, the order sending her to Iraq is illegal…

wilorg said

I don’ think they’ll do that, since it wouldn’t be HD any-more. I did suggest that they put in the softening filter on the lens, the way we do with 35mmm and 70mm (otherwise it would be too sharp), but he simply said it was giving him nightmares, especially the private part shots, and that he’d had enough….

A friend of a friend is a sound tech. He had done some work in porn Back In The Day, including working on some of Traci Lords’ films.

A few years back, Traci was starring in a cable-tv SF series (i forget the name) involving an alien invasion; she was a Resistance leader type.

And the same guy wound up working on some episodes of that. One of which wa sone in which TL’s character and the mae lead (a cop) had to get hold of a McGuffin that was in a Police Evidence Room; they conned the property clerk into letting them in and leave them alone by strongly implying that they needed a private place for sex. Ahd then, as they searched the room, they pretended to be having loud and verbal sex - sounded like a slightly bowdlerised version of one of her loops from her previous career.

And my friend’s friend said it really reminded him of those days. Said it was just about as “real” asmost of the ones in the loops, and that he was laughing so hard he had trouble working on it at first.

Someday i have to find a context proper for posting the story of my friend’s lunch with Juliet Anderson. (Some might recognise the name “Aunt Peg” better than her real anme…)

DNTME said

I would think that sort of life would make a person one of two ways. Gregarious and easy to make friends, or totally withdrawn and a loner.

My high school experiences did both to me - made me an incredibly shy introvert with an extrovert false-face personality laid over it.

I’m only half-way through “yesterday” and it’s 0129 Thursday. What i get for taking a five-hour nap in the afternoon…

(Taking a break from comments for a while to read other strips - like Wapsi. I’ll post this and then come back in a while to do Even More…)
Ladywolf17 said, about 1 month ago

Jim I’m glad you liked my motorcycle momma icon. I found it Wednesday night while playing around with the computer.
Fairportfan2 said, about 1 month ago

A quick comment for “today”:

“Does he ever shut up?”

“Not so you’d notice.”

Puts me in mind of this Exiern strip… (Specifically the bottom tier of panels.)

May i remind the Couch that Tiffany, the Amazonian blonde, was originally Typhan-Knee, a typical muscular blonde fur-jockstrap Northern barbarian, turned into a woman by a misfired spell cast by Faden, the prisoner in this strip. For a long time - weeks in her time, a year or so in ours) she has been in charge of Delivering Faden to The Authorities, and he greatly enjoys needling her.

And cutting off his head doesn’t stop him wizards can’t die…
ejcapulet said, about 1 month ago

Yow! What was that about?
Ladywolf17 said, about 1 month ago

KalahariNightGenius

I went outside one night a couple of years ago and saw a shooting star explode into a supernova. I will never ever forget that awesome moment.

One moment it was shooting across the sky and the next moment it exploded into a bright light.
UncaAlby said, about 1 month ago

@Sisyphos said, 25 minutes ago

What happened to Roger, Lena, and Oognat?

Evaporated!!
mjolnir 9 said, about 1 month ago

Oh yeah…one other minor detail. Unless we are otherwise informed, the ‘nuclear explosion’ took place at Park Avenue and 77th St….you remember…where the volcano used to be…

New York City’s been taking it on the chin recently…
The Old Wolf said, about 1 month ago

Sweet Satori, the mother of all tribbles… One bowl of confusion furmity, an it please you… with extra rum!
Gweedo Murray said, about 1 month ago

ladywolf17 Pib Fanatic said, 1 SHRIEK ago

::SNIP::
“Tons of demons surrounded John as he tried valiantly to fight them all off.”
.
“Tons of demons..”
Despite what the serious writers here would say; That line is cool! Don’t change it.
waycyber said, about 1 month ago

For fans of the Doctor, the new SJA starts on BBC1 today.
UncaAlby said, about 1 month ago

@ladywolf17 Pib Fanatic said, 2 minutes ago

I went outside one night a couple of years ago and saw a shooting star explode into a supernova. I will never ever forget that awesome moment.

One moment it was shooting across the sky and the next moment it exploded into a bright light.

A rare and delightful event indeed, but I doubt it was a ”supernova”.

More likely a meteorite exploded in the upper atmosphere. They do that sometimes, although I’ve never been lucky enough to witness it.
Jim said, about 1 month ago

Fairportfan2 Check this out .

Well , my show‘s on . G’night all .
Ladywolf17 said, about 1 month ago

Gweedo! I have no plans on changing it. It is unique and I like how it sounds.
whardin1960 said, about 1 month ago

UncaAlby remember, in space - meteoroid, while visible in our atmosphere - meteor, once it hits the ground - meteorite. Saw one (meteor) break apart into a largish fireball Tuesday nite.
Ladywolf17 said, about 1 month ago

Oh I know I could have easily have said a ton of demons, or even a swarm of demons, or perhaps a horde of demons, but sometimes I like to be different than most writers and get creative.
BikeNBoatN said, about 1 month ago

C’yall tomorrow.
VicTR said, about 1 month ago

Stars don’t ” shoot across the sky “. And, with luck , we
won’t ever see a naked-eye supernova. That would make it too “dam” close for survival.
I’ve been an amateur astronomer since 1937. :}
Had to edit this… they bleeped that word that ends in an n !
Ladywolf17 said, about 1 month ago

If you don’t like the word tons, then you can use the words I put in my list here in my last post
Saskfan said, about 1 month ago

Ladywolf: you were VERY lucky to see a meteor break up.

I have never seen a meteor break up, or a fireball, despite having watched (and counted) several Perseid showers, and having seen manymany meteors, most of them tiny.

It seemed a bit stinky around the couch recently, but less so now; did someone clean the pool?

As for the strip: Oh, My… The Eye of Mordor? A dandelion? It’s not a nuclear explosion; it looks electrical to me. A Van de Graaf generator?? One thing’s certain: she RUINED that lovely dress!

And someone will form again from the particles. But probably not until Monday. Durn it.

EDIT: spelling is apparently not my fort - fotre - fOr- strong point, at least not tonight.

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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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