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This is 2008! … NO CIGARETTE FOR YOU!

• Posted: 2008-08-08T05:26:34Z

I think there’s a special dispensation to smoke when you’re immortal.

• Posted: 2008-08-08T08:31:57Z

Aaah…
Are you going to tell Dru?

• Posted: 2008-08-08T08:50:32Z

Well, NATURALLY Drusilla is smitten. He’s her own kind. An Incubus is male ( a “demon lover” who preys on women, and is something of a vampire too in this particular case)and a Succubus is female, draining the ” life force” of men. Both are the same kind of seductive sexual demon.

• Posted: 2008-08-08T08:52:32Z

I think that traditionally an Incubus and a Succubus were the same demon. It would take on the form of a Succubus in order to gather a man’s seed. It would then transform into an Incubus and use this seed to fertilise a woman.
This was before the invention of the turkey baster, of course.

• Posted: 2008-08-08T11:34:31Z

i have to wait all weekend before i learn what profound statement Dru will use to summarize her experience. AAAAARRRRRGGGGG

• Posted: 2008-08-08T12:32:59Z

Gee Bugger…imagine if you had to wait through the weekend, AND wait one day in between each strip too! Brooke is human like the rest of us - although a rather superior one - only characters like Pib, Dru and the gang are immortal.

• Posted: 2008-08-08T13:05:41Z

And Pib got to go along for the ride, as it were. Not that I think she’d mind, free spirit that she is. The main annoyance would be losing control of herself and the situation, though some can find that fun… :^)

• Posted: 2008-08-08T13:42:55Z

I just read all 6 years of this comics existence..I FINALLY understand the comic..for thos that don’t know…Dur is in love with Geoff and Pib saved her life with the Baiser la Fee so she’s indebted to her and must protect Geoff eventhough he loves the fairy..Dru & Pib have made a pack to rid “our” world of evil…So, I wonder if she’s really in love or just saying that..She falls in love every several hundred years…so let’s stay consistant Brooke..

• Posted: 2008-08-08T13:58:00Z

Some of you are not reading the panels in the proper order. Go clockwise starting with the largest panel and ending with the one in the center. Dru already said what she had to say.

• Posted: 2008-08-08T14:02:22Z

Yeah, I did the same thing thinking that “All I can say is…” was the last panel, but it’s really “I think I may be in love”.
I like all the creative panel shapes, but sometimes it does get confusing.

• Posted: 2008-08-08T14:20:19Z

I believe QueenMum45 is correct. It seem to work that way.

• Posted: 2008-08-08T14:36:24Z

You can also go from largest panel to smallest. Either way, Dru’s saying, “I think I’m in love” is the last panel. I don’t think she really is, though. I think she’s just, temporarily sated.

• Posted: 2008-08-08T14:40:33Z

The showdown between Roger and the Evil Queen will have to be spectacular to top the last two or three episodes.

• Posted: 2008-08-08T15:05:42Z

I read it this way:after she’s rolled over as Dru, the first panel is “i think I may be in love”, the second is what happened, and the last is the smoke panel (since she’s standing up). In any case, lots of story in a tiny package, a Brooke trademark!

• Posted: 2008-08-08T15:07:00Z

I think the center panel is the last one. As Satori turns Pib over she changes to Dru, says her piece lying down, then in the center panel she is on her feet with Satori helping her up.

• Posted: 2008-08-08T15:14:27Z

Re: panel order. The three center panels read top to bottom. At top, Satori holds Pib’s arm. Next, she’s still holding the arm as Pib has turned back into Dru, who’s lying on the ground, not standing. “I think I may be in love” is next, as Satori has let go of the arm and Dru has turned back onto her stomach again.

In the final panel, the phrasing seems reversed. “All I can say is, work it out for yourself, sweetie” would make more sense. Unless the point is that Dru’s still a bit addled and mixing up her syntax.

• Posted: 2008-08-08T15:55:03Z

Remember that Brooke likes to change perspective - in the center panel, Dru is still lying down - the torqueing of the body (nicely done, too!) shows us that she is still in the act of being turned over, from Satori’s POV - Dru is never standing up - from the center panel, the next logical thing is for Satori to ask the leading question - and Dru’s answer, including Pinterian ellipses, gets us to the final panel, at Dru’s level, and from HER perspective. Wheee - what a ride!

• Posted: 2008-08-08T15:58:12Z

The dialogue makes the most sense when read:

“Oh man… I could do with … ”

“What Happened?”

“Work it out yourself, sweetie… all I can say is …

“I think I may be in love.”

So it’s left, right, down, right, left. Easy!

• Posted: 2008-08-08T16:03:24Z

Quit picking it apart. It’s a lovely, sensual moment. Enjoy it!

• Posted: 2008-08-08T16:31:30Z

More likely she’s “in lust” rather than “in love”. Seems like it’s just the endorphines at work. She’ll have to face down “Inky” eventually and that won’t be pretty in any case. This is just a momentary reprieve.

• Posted: 2008-08-08T16:49:43Z

I’d like to know how this experience for Dru compares with the surge of energy she felt in the continuum when she first detected evil little sister Lena’s presence before she got sucked in the simulation (she got an entire building excited!)

• Posted: 2008-08-08T16:50:13Z

Y’know, in olden times, when a comic made use of creative shapes, and the flow of action didn’t follow the standard left-right- down left-right- down, the artist would put little arrows in the corner to cue the reader which panel was next.
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I suppose that’s just too gauche for Brooke. >;-(
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I think the way to have the directions here make sense is to pretend that the major division line is perfectly vertical. That is, tilt your head to the right a bit. Then it reads left-right- down the way it’s supposed to.

• Posted: 2008-08-08T17:14:35Z

The elipsis following”…all I can say…” is the clue I needed to follow the narrative.

• Posted: 2008-08-08T18:51:34Z

Don’t you wish there was someplace you could go to see this strip from the beginning all the way through??

The Tribute site is nice for its synopses of all the stories lines but there isn’t anything quite like seeing the strips. And, of course, the two books are marvelous.

• Posted: 2008-08-08T20:05:50Z

kcboomer – I think you can see it from the beginning all the way through right here on gocomics.com, but it’ll cost you some $$.

• Posted: 2008-08-08T20:30:52Z

Yeah, “Pro” is about $12 for the year and you can see all the previous strips by clicking “From Beginning”. The black and white ones are stuck in the middle starting from March 28, 2005, though.
I admit it, I only got the Pro membership for Pibgorn. It really does help to read the whole thing straight through.

• Posted: 2008-08-08T20:53:11Z