God… it’s like Chinese water torture. One pretty panel 3 times a week, but the pace of the storytelling is beyond glacial. A snail on qualudes could outrace this storyline.
Well, geez, read the description:
I wouldn’t be expecting Die Hard, here.
Have you never read Mary Worth?
I predict the next person to reply to this thread will do so on Wednesday. And thereafter on Friday. By the end of next week you’ll have eight replies. Yay you!
BTW, you know that in his notebooks, Brooke McEldowney has got X-rated Pibgorn/Chickweed crossover femslash doodlings. None of it on line, though.
:o not that I’ve googled for it or anything.
I’ve got both the Pibgorn TPB collections.
Suuuuuuure you haven’t. 
…Yeah, I’d pay to see those, too.
I agree the pace is very slow, exacerbated by McEldowney’s penchant for doing dialogless panels.
I like the strip – when the characters speak, it’s always worth it. And since this is probably just a side project for him, I guess he’d rather work slowly. But I wish they would pick up the story.
I was going to bring her up. I think one poolside party lasted six months at one point. And it wasn’t exactly a marathon party.
Another contender in the slow stakes. David Lynch’s The Angriest Dog in the World
Ironic, since Brooke resembles the actor who plays Elliot Stabler.
Was the pace faster in the beginning? I only started reading it within about the last year and I haven’t found an archive.
Would it be worth getting the first book, or was it slow then, too?
I don’t know if it’s all that bad, but the slow pacing was the second thing that finally turned me off of Alpha Shade.
…the first thing was that after reading 200 pages, I still had no idea what was going on. 
Definitely. It seems even slower when, in this case, you’ve already guessed long ago what the big storyline revelation is probably going to be and now have to likely wait until late 2009 to find out if you’re right.
The early strips were much better at pacing – fewer (if any) wordless art panels, and a story that worked nicely. But eventually McEldowney found the pace of doing two strips a day too much (especially a full color one line Pigborn) and switched to three a week.
I looked through several of the panels and finally realized that it’s not called “Pigborn.” :smack:
Abrams (“Sluggy Freelance”) descended into molasseshood back during the “Bun-Bun The No-Time Pirate” era a year or so back. I think that storyline lasted for three years, and very little actually happened.
The problem isn’t that he’s working slowly. I get updating only a few times a week. But the would still be crawling if he updated twice a day. He just tells it slowly. His Shakespeare story was glacial.
Speaking of slow - Judge Parker just had a neighbor couple busted for growing pot. They brought over some pot laced brownies to Abbey’s place ‘yesterday’ in the strip. ‘Yesterday’ in the strip happened back in the first week of January.
Whoa! Pibgorn has been five days a week since the 14[sup]th[/sup]!
According to Blanche on the Golden Girls, Apartment 3G would be a contender. Dorothy mentions that she hasn’t read Apartment 3G in some 15 years (going on memory here!) and Blanche replies, “Well let me catch you up! It’s later that same afternoon…”