Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney

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Margueritem said, 26 days ago

She’s just coming back and a tentacle is already trying to pull her under again! No rest for poor Dru…
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Today’s 9 Chickweed Lane

Pib: Yay! Dru’s back, black, and shiny! But about to get ensnared, by who? TT?

9CWL: Solange!
Joe Minotaur said, 26 days ago

Monday’s Maligned Metaphors

QUIZ RESULTS
What did we see when the strip/page updated?
9 Chickweed Lane
.1. Amos and Edda share a private moment.
.2. CCBSS gets equal time. 15 years in solitary.
.3. Letter to the Editor(Thorax) from A)Amos, B)Edda, C)Juliette, D)Gran, E)Elliot, F)Other.
.4. Mary meets her new Pre-Med teacher, A)Juliette, B)Elloit, C)Thorax.
.5. Time for Solange to take center stage apart, frame by frame.
.6. Seth/Edda practice, practice, practice.
.7. Sr Steven breaks the 4th wall.
.8. Musical interlude.
.9. The details are sketchy.
.10. Negative images.
.11. You call this art? I call it, AMAZING!
.12. Look Ma! No hands!
.13. Watch the fingers!
.14. Toe the line.
.15. None of the above, but I saw it coming!
.16. No, you didn’t!

Pibgorn
.1. Meet the new Dru. Same as the old Dru…NOT!
.2. Roger/Satori: A walk into the pixelated sunset.
.3. Roger returns alone.
.4. Lena’s hoe pulls them back.
.5. Geoff and Pibgorn gaze in wonder at the world around them.
.6. Oognat sits and chats with Igor.
.7. NYC: Same old, same old.
.8. Somewhere over the volcano…
.9. Tom T. Smouldering, but still there.
.10. Nat lends Dru a hand, or two.
.11. Digory Spitcock is still dead!
.12. None of the above/Didn’t see that coming.
.13. Neither did you.
.14. If you did, why didn’t you say something while I was writing this, huh?
WOLFBYTE said, 26 days ago

Wake up Dru!
Jim said, 26 days ago

Okay . Who else hears the Jaws tune ?
Sisyphos said, 26 days ago

That ominous view from below of a tentacle reaching up for the floating form of Drusilla is superb!
VicTR said, 26 days ago

Oh C R A P ! Now what ? !
AmriloJim said, 26 days ago

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skeezix47 said, 26 days ago

Just when you thought it was safe to come back out of the water …
Fairportfan2 said, 26 days ago

Hey, AJ: unless you did it twice, i think you got the boilerplate on the Wrong Page - i can’t see the comments for “today” yet, but it definitely appears on Page 17 of “yesterday“‘s.
Jim said, 26 days ago

Thanks for the link whardin1960 .
WOLFBYTE said, 26 days ago

AAARRRRGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She’s about to get pulled under any moment.
MoonsingerFan said, 26 days ago

This is crazy. The Friday strip shows there should be a page 17 of comments, but when I click on it, it redirects to Monday, which has 14 comments, but I can’t see any of them yet.
Sisyphos said, 26 days ago

Dru is in good shape (oh, yes!) and floating comfortably, but Something Wicked wants to drag her down to the inky depths of Ocean….
Fairportfan2 said, 26 days ago

Yeah, it works weird. To see that Page 17 after the site updates, you have to go to “today“‘s strip and click the “Previous” arrow.
Jim said, 26 days ago

9CwL : Purrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr .
MoonsingerFan said, 26 days ago

Fairport: The site would take me from page 16 to Monday, but not to 17 and was not showing comments from Monday yet, which meant that my other post didn’t show up until updating got squared away. Now I can read p.17 and Monday’s comments, just couldn’t see either for a few minutes.
Saskfan said, 26 days ago

Oh, dear. If Satori gave away all the mojo she had (presumably to Dru), why does Dru still appear dead? And why the tentacles? Hasn’t she suffered enough yet?

9CL: I just shed a couple of tears for you, AbbieT. Today’s Solange strip reminded me of the two cats I’ve been owned by, and the tears popped out on their own. Silly, isn’t it? (Not really, since I’m a sentimental fellow.)
Jim said, 26 days ago

G’night all . Pleasant dreams .
Sisyphos said, 26 days ago

All sorts of mixed metaphors involving Ivory Soap, a notorious porn star, and slogans like “99 and 44/100s% impure! New Ivory Succubus floats!” are dancing about my confused cranium….
desertdwlr said, 26 days ago

oh no —–now what?
MoonsingerFan said, 26 days ago

It’s good to see Solange at 9CL.

Don’t like the look of the tentacle here, though.

Good-night, all!
AmriloJim said, 26 days ago

Actually, Sisyphos, purity had nothing to do with Ivory’s floatability. P&G whipped the soap using a process to infuse air before casting the bars. They still do.
gimmickgenius said, 26 days ago

Hasn’t she been through enough lately?1
TheDoctortheoneonlya... said, 26 days ago

Dru thinking: “Is that a tentacle or are you happy to see me?”
——————————————————————————–
OR How about INSTANT SUCCUBUS Just Add Water
Heavenly said, 26 days ago
Doesn’t water indicate a dream state with Dru? I’m racking my brains trying to remember the Dru/water connection.
- Anyone else remembering this, or am I just falling off the end of the couch?
Sisyphos said, 26 days ago

I am put in mind of Victor Hugo’s Toilers of the Sea [alt.Toilers of the Deep]–
mjolnir 9 said, 26 days ago

Abbie T.

kua ser-ten, uat sesh-tha, ta em hetep
(the path is opened, the earth is at peace)

It’s from an old Egyptian prayer to Bastet, the goddess Bast in her purely feline manifestation, spoken when cats pass to the next world.
TheDoctortheoneonlya... said, 26 days ago

”We’re Gonna need a BIGGER Boat!”
ejcapulet said, 26 days ago

Hmmm, calamari…
ejcapulet said, 26 days ago

Here we are, back in the water. Nat was in a similar situation and he got himself shot and that was a dream, so is this a dream too?
UncaAlby said, 26 days ago

Well, it can’t be said whether or not Drusilla can swim –

but obviously she can float –

that is, at least until the Kraken hauls back down under!
Just plain Steve said, 26 days ago

Let’s get Dru back to life first. Then we can think about dream sequences!! (“I do belive in succubi, I do believe in succubi…”)
UncaAlby said, 26 days ago

AH HAH! AH HAH! AH HAH!

The Global Warming Doomsayers were right after all!

Rising water levels have made New York underwater thanks to the volcano’s acceleration of the melting of the polar ice caps!

Now all the “Global Warmers,” or at least the ones who didn’t get crisped by the volcano or drowned by the flood, can go ”nyah nyah nyah! told ya so!”
WOLFBYTE said, 26 days ago

Calamari is okay, but I prefer eel.
Joe Minotaur said, 26 days ago

Does the tentacle belong to a natural creature(Octopus, Squid, etc…) or an unnatural creature(Big Bad, Tom T., Nat, etc…)?
UncaAlby said, 26 days ago

@Heavenly said, 19 minutes ago

Anyone else remembering this, or am I just falling off the end of the couch?

s’Ok, that’s why we put a pillow there.
Joe Minotaur said, 26 days ago

I’m sleeping in. I don’t care what my alarm clock…

:^(
WOLFBYTE said, 26 days ago

GOLLUM! stop saying that you like them raw and wiggly. You’re freaking me out. :-P
UncaAlby said, 26 days ago

@Joe Minotaur said, 5 minutes ago

Does the tentacle belong to a natural creature(Octopus, Squid, etc…) or an unnatural creature(Big Bad, Tom T., Nat, etc…)?

And just who here, exactly, are you expecting to be able to answer that??

?? ?? ??
Nabuquduriuzhur said, 26 days ago

Heavens to CH2 molecules… Never liked ivory. They didn’t bother to react the last bit of NAOH and so it burned up your skin.
pyotr2009 said, 26 days ago

Nice set of mae west life preservers there, though.
azrach said, 26 days ago

Looking at UncaAlby’s speculation (Kakren). then Joe Minotaur’s ( octopus, squid, Big bad, Tom T., Nat, etc)…. would it be possible that Cthulhu is getting into this strip?
Sisyphos said, 26 days ago

If Dru regenerated at the point of the Antipodean Event, she is floating in the south Indian Ocean. In that case, her stalker (tentacler?) could, if a natural creature, be hypothesized to be a Colossal Squid….
steelbladeoffury said, 26 days ago

And so the terror of the deep expects to get an easy meal. Well it is in for a rude awakening.
steelbladeoffury said, 26 days ago

Sayonara for now.
waycyber said, 26 days ago

Trust Oz to have something deadly to attack Dru. They just don’t know how to treat supernatural Shielas!
WOLFBYTE said, 26 days ago

How will Dru ink her way out of this situation?
WOLFBYTE said, 26 days ago

Squidward Tentacles!

No wait! wrong cartoon. Sorry about that.
Story Teller said, 26 days ago

Saskfan said: “I agree too, that Shure make very good microphones. My own choice, however, was the Audix OM3B, which seems now to be known only as the OM3. It’s basically interchangeable with the Shure SM58; the Audix has better feedback rejection and slightly better bass response. They were quite inexpensive at the time.”

I have no experience with that one, that I can recall…some of those gigs were over so quick I barely had time to unpack! It sounds like it would be a better overall mic and almost certainly a better mic for use in a club or other public forum. As I find myself in the market for a good all-around mic right now, I shall have to keep my eyes open for one.