The bubbles look whimsical and playful in the first couple panels…the third reveals that it’s a torture being used to extract the location of the sugar. (Bubbles are, after all, soap.)
Too bad there’s not a little tickbox here, like the “uptick” on GoComics. williamkiraly at 6:51 am, consider yourself upticked. … Oh, and I see the autocensor is still hard at work here. My innocuous comment on “Because… they’re drawings??” got moderated.
I think the reason that I managed to repress any memory of ever having seen this (very old) PBF strip (#095) is that it recalls disturbing images from “A Clockwork Orange”.
P.S. I agree with woozy that PBF is not really “edgy” – it’s closer to “surreal”.
P.P.S. Did anyone catch “There, There”, which recently appeared in PBF’s RSS feed? The strip was unusual in two respects: it was fairly poorly drawn, and it was removed from the website just a few days later. The link now produces a “not found”.
Comics I Don't Understand 
Ah, you’ve never had bubble soap get in your eyes before…
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The first two panels are of happy-looking gnomes blowing
bubbles. The last panel shows that you were wrong about them
being happy (or even benign).
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Sugar gnomes appear to be a thing. https://www.countrykitchensa.com/shop/ingredients-icing-colors-flavors/dec-ons-molded-sugar-merry-gnomes/46/751/1518/645364/
I don’t quite get the joke but I love the artwork and pure Charles Addams/Harry Bliss absurdity
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That’s what I want to be. Nine.
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Is he on a sugar high that keeps him from sleeping? Are the little men imaginary? Why the bubbles? I’m not getting it. Definitely a CIDU.
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It’s the Perry Bible Fellowship. It thinks it’s edgy and its friends don’t have the heart to tell it it’s not.
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The bubbles look whimsical and playful in the first couple panels…the third reveals that it’s a torture being used to extract the location of the sugar. (Bubbles are, after all, soap.)
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I’m all about being strong and not giving key information. But it’s sugar. Why be tortured and hold out?
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Too bad there’s not a little tickbox here, like the “uptick” on GoComics. williamkiraly at 6:51 am, consider yourself upticked. … Oh, and I see the autocensor is still hard at work here. My innocuous comment on “Because… they’re drawings??” got moderated.
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” it’s sugar. Why be tortured and hold out?”
If you think these gnomes are bad now, wait’ll you see what they’re like if you feed them after midnight.
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Everybody’s first comment on the “new” site gets moderated by default.
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I think the reason that I managed to repress any memory of ever having seen this (very old) PBF strip (#095) is that it recalls disturbing images from “A Clockwork Orange”.
P.S. I agree with woozy that PBF is not really “edgy” – it’s closer to “surreal”.
P.P.S. Did anyone catch “There, There”, which recently appeared in PBF’s RSS feed? The strip was unusual in two respects: it was fairly poorly drawn, and it was removed from the website just a few days later. The link now produces a “not found”.
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