Pibgorn is a web comic by Brooke McEldowney, creator of 9 Chickweed Lane and is more or less a spin-off of the earlier strip. It follows the life of the eponymous fairy as she reacts to demigods who act like petty bureaucrats, her rival Drusilla the succubus, blustering loon Thorax, demonic game show hosts, idiotic robots and angels of death who act like bike couriers. It allows McEldowney more latitude to use large words and engage in the double entendre and good girl art that is his forte. Unlike his other strip 9 Chickweed Lane, Pibgorn is highly sexualized, and frequently features nudity, violence, and gratuitous sexual liaisons involving the main cast.
All Women Are Lustful: Since most of the early strips were dedicated to seeing which of the two female leads would get the right to service Author Avatar Geoff, it's sort of easy to see that the author is marching merrily on with the same theme he propounded in the parent strip. Indeed, virtually every single female character introduced invariably beds an Author Avatar of some variety or another. Frequent motifs include BDSM, demon mind-rape, and sight gags involving nudity of the titular character.
Alt Text / Author Tract / Wall of Text: The "commentary"◊ added into a rerun arc, apparently triggered after The Other Wiki told him he couldn't edit pages on his own work (he didn't like that someone described a scene as "the sexualization of music" but that's precisely what's going on: in the next scene Geoff tells Dru that he gets the impression she's pimping the music and in the commentary Brooke admits that Dru can't not do anything in a supernaturally sexy manner, not to mention all those other scenes of passionate piano playing). Let it also be known that in refute of his argument against the "fetish fuel" theory, that Drusilla employs hip grinds and pelvic thrusts as part of her "performance" during her concerto.
Breakout Character: Drusilla. In the beginning, she was strictly a supporting character—Geoff's Disposable Fiancé and a bit of a Butt Monkey. Then, Drusilla revealed to Pibgorn that she was a succubus and promptly moved to the forefront as a main character.
Cold Opening: How most arcs of Pibgorn begin (at least the ones I've read); the latest one about aliens accidentally targeting a vampire/rapist was particularly incomprehensible.
Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Pibgorn the fairy is mottled green over a human flesh tone; Drusilla the succubus is red and black; Drusilla's "daughter" is blue...
Deal with the Devil: A guy who hated Drusilla around the Elizabethan Era made such a deal in order to torture her and the playwright she was in love with (I think) due to her being the playwright's muse.
Early Installment Weirdness: In Drusilla's first story arc, Pibgorn rallies some friendly beasts to scare her away — and she looks genuinely frightened. Granted, this is before the readers learn she isn't human.
Informed Ability: Drusilla often states she is omnipotent, yet is hurt, foiled and defeated by other characters more often than anyone else in the strip.
Ridiculously Human Robots: Cornelia is actually an alien android modeled on Pib sent to gather human sperm for some reason. Unfortunately vampire sperm is "dead seed" so the aliens decide to kindly Mercy Kill humanity.
Rape Is Love: How the vampire rapist and "Pib"/Cornelia meet.
Really 700 Years Old: The magical/demonic characters in Pibgorn; possibly possible interdimentional visitor Thorax and his Pap.
Sealed Evil in a Can: Apparently the common cold is/was an army of baby demons just waiting for "an incredibly stupid succubus" to mistakenly set them off.
She's Got Legs: Everyone except the hair fairy, and who'd want to see hairy gams anyway.
Shout Out: Death/Mildred looks like Louise Brooks.
Who Wants to Live Forever?/I Just Want to Be Normal: A mysterious young woman who has been trying to kill herself for centuries is actually the daughter of Drusilla and a human man she was inspiring circa the Elizabethan Era, artificially created just to torture Dru.
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