do YOU love achewood, too?

WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN ONLY RAY AND BEEF ARE LEFT?

i can't sleep.

Utter genius of a strip. Have bought too many tshirts, strips, posters and books. Damn you Onstad, you're bankrupting me!

http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/9613/dothesmuckle4zp.jpg

also: gothic dance! gothic dance! everybody gothic dance!

The Dude Owns Property!

Officers Remarks: whered you get it

hahaha. Love it.

Trayce, keep at it! So much good awaits you.

"I don't want Vicadin Todd, I want Nachos!"

"He's like the Steve Irwin of STDs"

Sadly enough I have it! I would like to buy Roast Beef's zine but I've spent a bloody fortune on that site!

Pat: Well, filthy creatures ain't allowed in the house. Come along.

Beef: You dis my dog you fluff my hog

Pat: WHAT?! What did you just say to me?

Beef: I said that if you speak against Weldon then you are about to enter a world where the only activity that exists is tasting my hog

OHHHH SHIIIIIIT!

in the last 96 hours I have re-read every single strip, so nice to end up with this one

:)

I like the alt text too, keepin it real.

i love it

Congratulations to the happy couple.

EMOOOOOOOOOOOOO

The whole bit about beef getting married... maybe... has been grebt.

Aw thats sweet. Despite the Sting, lol.

My girlfriend send me this one in an email the other day and said something along the lines of it probably inspiring me to make a similar list regarding our relationship. SHOULD I BE AFRAID BROS?

I am actually a bit choked up! Glad it's finally happened.

Oh lord, I'm talking like this about a comic? I've been reading this too long!!

Clay, you should just reply "Why you even got to do a thing?" She'll leave you alone I'm sure...

TOMORROW: Lyle pukes so hard it makes a football go three feet

I stopped reading this after my computer died and I lost all of my bookmarks and forgot to add this again... and now I can't remember where I was! It's been like 6 months though... long way to go. I fucking LOVED the three-day fight though

marriage. the great indoor fight.

my fave thing from this whole marriage thing might be beef's fortune from chevy ford wo's:

"the lady is the mountain behind the tiny flaming fishing cabin of the man"

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/opinion/story/0,22049,22062745-5001031,00.html

hi dere waht is awesome

http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,5564857,00.jpg

totally sweet editorial portrait

Classy!

I fucking adore Achewood -- got hooked after reading The Great Outdoor Fight story last winter. Ray and Roast Beef in particular are unsettlingly real to me, for internet cartoon cats. LOVED the strip a few days ago where they found the guy who invented Comic Sans.

HE WANTS TO TASTE THE FUCKING CURB!

that is the best thing I have ever read about Australia.

hahaha

phillippe is the best

fact: the brain is the only organ that hates crime.

looking back a few weeks reveals that pat is totally taking on this gladdington's curse thing and basically looking just like his dad, simon. minus a little facial hair.

Also I like that his gay dad's name is Simon Reynolds

Holy shit why did I never notice this very important bit of information before

The guy who writes this strip is my friend's cousin. My friend has a T-shirt. He doesn't let being related to a celebrity go to his head.

Onstad is a celebrity?

Achewood may be the best thing in my life right now. <3<3<3 forever

I was, you know, kidding (about the celebrity thing. My friend really is related to him, though).

He's a celebrity to me, forever.

I have probably a half-dozen achewood shirts. I should buy more.

There was recently a interview with Onstad in the Onion AV Club and they printed the first publically-known photo of him. My first thought was that he resembled some past minor Achewood character, like he had anonymously drawn himself in. But I can't recall which character.

http://www.avclub.com/content/files/images/Chris-Onstad.article.jpg

He looks like a bro.

no way! bros don't have super circular heads, wear purple turtlenecks, rock Lennon glasses, and hang out in front of gothic architecture. his posture might be sending mixed signals but there ain't no way this guy is anything but a geek.

You should read his blogs, he complains about kids in much more expensive houses than his sleeping soundly knowing their parents invented the Google color scheme.

I love how little his cats are anthropomorphized, ie they have the weird gangly legs, long torso, and big thighs of a cat. Inventing the whole Underground thing to explain how they get to Subway is pretty genius, too.

Onstad looks like if Emeril and Spongebath had a third member of their cadre who was even more into the Tenmen than the others.

casuistry to thread

Clay has been pushing Achewood on me for years but it took this one to get me to finally read the whole thing last weekend. It is better in large doses. That particular strip is insanely great, however.

xpost no Clay to thread.

. My first thought was that he resembled some past minor Achewood character, like he had anonymously drawn himself in. But I can't recall which character.

He, uh, is a minor Achewood character!

His legs are, anyway.

http://www.sevillagrande.com/zydrunadas/Nanny.jpg

haha i just tried to post that

Nanny scared the f out of me as a kid. Her socks were a pretty big factor. She dresses like a bag lady.

thanks to this thread for a wasted afternoon. :/

I love Achewood more and more and more and more...

Also some of Ray's finer moments collected here:

RAY MOTHERFUCKING SMUCKLES

I like the one where Nice Pete is telling a "joke" about a man who's been overcharged for dental treatment ram-raiding the surgery with his van and "completely destroying" everyone inside, only the punchline is him getting a carrier bag out and going "here are some of their hands"

Also, Judas Priest Friday

http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=10242003

i'm just going to read achewood for the rest of the day, if thats okay with you

Perfectly fine. Knock yourself out!

Oh Mr. Smuckles, you are a holler and a hoot.

This really should be a picture thread...

dammit now i too have succumbed

Ah well, it was only a matter of time I suppose.

haha now i'm gonna post loads of exuberant comments and make you hate achewood :D

Hilarious as always.

you think i was joking? :D

Remember: Not all attention is good attention.

dude, lighten up ffs and stop picking up on every little thing i say (even if it's an entirely neutral comment) with some 'terse', negative put-down. let some sunshine in, jeez.

Get over thyself young Louis.

onstad should turn our knockabout badinage into a strip

You should email him and see if he does requests.

no way! bros don't have super circular heads, wear purple turtlenecks, rock Lennon glasses, and hang out in front of gothic architecture.

But the shoes, the shoes!

bros don't have super circular heads
lololololol

Todd has a point.

http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/autaux?b=M%5ea11f09b8576e606bcb5038dfdb92fb821&u=http%3A%2F%2Fachewood.com%2Fcomic.php%3Fdate%3D09262007

Indeed...

if this strip were a religion i'd be a missionary

http://lyle151.blogspot.com/2007/08/glases-are-rad.html

I am like half-way through reading every single strip in order, having started about a month ago. It has all the characteristics of the very best sitcoms.

^^^^^^ trolling or not? anyone, besides jagger?

Give it a rest Tom.

Today Ray = Alec Baldwin in 30 Rock

hoping there will be another strip tomorrow for full fuck you friday fullfillingness

seriously this is some kind of awesome, have just gotten up to the end of 2004, will save the rest for other days.

They're giving away free Achewood tats at a place in Portland! If I had hell of frequent flier miles I would be there in a second.

Do you want me to get one for you, Abbott?

Plz! And you can write my name under it if you want. VICARIOUS LIFE IS GREAT.

Maybe I'll have it be Roast Beef on the moon but instead of JAVA he'll write ABBOTT onto my forearm.

Oh my goodness! :D

I don't know how you'd explain it later in life. "Uh...I just really liked Flatland."

Former MLB pitcher Jim Abbott taught me so much about perseverance and how we should all just do our best no matter what!

Do you think anybody would buy that?

HAHAHAHA I would. There's plenty of barely-explicable tats in this world.

I think I would get that Ray shirt they had a few years ago. Sadly I lost the shirt and contacting Chris & crew brought no results. Someday though...

Oh sorry, the design on the shirt that I would have tatooed on to me was ray from hip up at 3/4 profile holding a martini glass gold medallion and nipples proudly on display. It was great.

Ray will slo-mo this footage and set it to SRV's Life By The Drop

haha fuck, purely by coincidence I've just reached the initial explanation for 'fuck you friday'. i think tombot should just post that comic rather than zing people from now on.

For me nothing beats Phillipe being possessed by the soul of Billy Joel. "Ray you old punter! Got a fag for your mate?" Despite this phrase supposedly being British, I think I am the only person in Britain who says it. It drives my boyfriend mad.

this remains the pinnacle of achewood - and possibly western narrative fiction - thus far:

http://m.assetbar.com/uuatKM4tJ.gif

"That's Todd. I know him. I know Todd."

I was thinking about carving a Philippe pumpkin this year.

I think the one after the one stevie just posted is my absolute favorite (the driftwood one) but that one is pretty fantastic too.

http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/autaux?b=M%5ea11f09b8576e606bcb5038dfdb92fb821&u=http%3A%2F%2Fachewood.com%2Fcomic.php%3Fdate%3D04112005

That is one of my favorites.

"Wallace Shawn is ears-deep in cleavage just giggling his head off"

brilliant

I have this on my bookcase...

http://achewood.com/index.php%3Fdate%3D03012007

yeah, it's wicked

try again

http://m.assetbar.com/uua2xWdRw.gif

ray is the best character, hands down

Ray vs. Philippe

Probably Ray, Philippe is kind of twee but still awesome

Primo Phillipe:

http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/autaux?b=M%5ea11f09b8576e606bcb5038dfdb92fb821&u=http%3A%2F%2Fachewood.com%2Fcomic.php%3Fdate%3D09182007

I see so much of Roast Beef in myself I can't really side with anyone else. I suspect quite a bit of ILX is gonna have my back here, also

Roast Beef is my worst case self and Ray is my idealized self.

I suspect that may be implicit in the strip re: Onstad

(suspicion largely unfounded, based on one or two interviews I read with him)

phillipe is a bit twee yes, but i guess kids just are, that's were twee comes from innit. roast beef is just a classic misery case comedy character, but mr smuckles kills it.

You need to read more/closer if all you get out of Phillipe is 'twee'

no one "gets" phillipe ;_;

Roast Beef is my worst case self and Ray is my idealized self.

v.much OTM

You need to read more/closer if all you get out of Phillipe is 'twee'

-- DJ Mencap, Friday, 28 September 2007 16:01 (12 minutes ago)

k, man i'll have to think really deeply about a stuffed toy baby otter in a web comic, maybe i'll write a thesis on it.

Philippe's fucking great. Yeah, a whole comic with nothing but Philippe would be a bit much, but as one character in an ensemble piece he's a fantastic alternative viewpoint, he's twee BUT HE'S FIVE ffs. I love Philippe.

nothing much can beat nice pete's description of murder

I'd have to say Lyle is my worst-case self. He looks like fun at first, but man, you don't want to be him.

Beef is... relatable, let's say.

http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/autaux?b=M%5ea11f09b8576e606bcb5038dfdb92fb821&u=http%3A%2F%2Fachewood.com%2Fcomic.php%3Fdate%3D12052006

I think (hope) I might grow up to be a little like Cornelius. Failing that, Ray. Failing that, Vlad.

Much as I love all the characters, I think I would get the waiting motorcycle, from the last panel of the strip in which Ray and Beef burn down the Great Outdoor Fight grounds, as a tattoo. It is a powerful symbol of hope.

cornelius = m. white/I DIED
philippe = tuomas
lyle = tombot
nice pete = k3rry
teodor = lj
molly = stevie nixed
t-t-t-todd = aaronhz
emeril = t''t/rjg
ray = hastings

I can live with that, actually. Who's Lie Bot?

max = todd btw :D

lie bot = n/a

vlad = HEY DERE

chucklebot = mr que

ray is the best character, hands down

-- max r, Friday, 28 September 2007 15:51 (Friday, 28 September 2007 15:51)

OTM X a million. I bought his decision chart as a poster.

"Some mothers should not be turned out" - So true u_u

Roast Beef is my worst case self and Ray is my idealized self.

-- Jordan, Friday, 28 September 2007 15:55 (Friday, 28 September 2007 15:55)

Replace RB with Kyle and then you're OTM

teodor = lj

roflroflrofl

little nephew = andi

I would actually say little nephew = jw tbh esp because of this:

http://m.assetbar.com/uua3CDHzw.gif

hahahahahahaha, i just read that one earlier today as well!

i love phillippe

HOLY FUCK this might be my new favourite or something, the eighth panel is some sort of holy monument

Which ILXor is Pat?

Closeted and uptight? Wow. I can think of some but diplomacy demands that I don't name them...

"unforgivingly precise jay." Ray is wonderful with a turn of phrase.

the eighth panel is regularly my facebook profile picture

http://m.assetbar.com/uua9kWzHK.gif

Ha ha ha ha ha

nightlife mingus = tracer hand

oh shit now i see why you compared me to teodor... http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/uuacLfLHM

http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/1683/l0u1sj4gg3rqu6.jpg

Bah LJ you are so not Rod Huggins.

omg cartilage head arc is next level

Cartilage head is when I went from being all "um hey non-internet friends I like this comic online maybe you'd like to see one of them no okay that's alright" to "FUCKIN' RIGHT ACHEWOOD I WILL FIGHT YOU."

that does it, i'm gonna link this shit on my f-book profile

Daring!

it is the pacifist equivalent of your damascene attitude upgrade

I'm ordering the two-poster set of cartilage head arc w/footnotes by Onstad, and probably some stickers.

^what dudes want for their birthday

A friend bought me the Ray gets stoned one linked upthread awhile back. It is framed and hung in the hallway. Most people who come by do not really understand what it is doing there.

me: Oh, I had a dream that St. Louis got nuked. So, y'know, keep an eye out.
s.: Will do.
me: Also a horrific dream that I met my ex in Portland, had a nice time, were going to get back together, but she decided not to, but wanted me to pretend we had, just to freak out her boyfriend.
s.: Well I'm glad your dreams are being nicer to you.
me: It was so bad that I realized I was dreaming but couldn't wake up, but was able to bargain with my subconscious to let me watch it take place in comic form.
me: Drawn by Chris Onstad.
s.: dude. that's just weird.

went from being all "um hey non-internet friends I like this comic online maybe you'd like to see one of them no okay that's alright" to "FUCKIN' RIGHT ACHEWOOD I WILL FIGHT YOU."

The other day my friend went on this insane rant about how he hates the farming industry which for all the world reminded me of Pat phoning up talk radio and shouting about how barbers should be paid less. But it would have been way too long and arcane to try and explain it so I just let him go on

IF THIS CAR'S A-ROCKIN', TWO BARBERS HAVE NO DOUBT BROKEN TO COMMIT LEWD ACTS ON EACH OTHER

hey, that's Todd.

I know him.

I know Todd.

oh man oh man have i ever been in those shoes before (yes)

http://m.assetbar.com/uuab6HPPb.gif

October 1, 2001.

Happy sixth birthday, Achewood. You are now older than Phillipe.

So true. HB AW!!

today's is genius, but also a little sad (ray dies! eventually...)

I like how Philippe's future is unceasingly bright, however.

Did Ray lose his ears in an accident, and get them replaced with robot ears?

ray's robot ears: class

I just dropped a three figure sum on merchandise o_0

(well a 2 figure sum on shirtz and a 2 figure sum on international postage)

still trying to figure out beef's look before his demise. angry ranting doorag wearing guy?

Roast Beef's future is confusing - he grows hair, then loses it? He doesn't die, just ... disappears.

Maybe he shaves his head now?

still trying to figure out beef's look before his demise. angry ranting doorag wearing guy?

That's Molly yelling at him for something, probably related to the previous panel

Molly leaving him, no? He goes to x because she IS his life.

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/7493/deniseth4.jpg

Phillipe stays five forever! :D

that does appear to be the otter lifecycle

haha mookieproof! forgot about that one.

What strip is that from?

"Denise Are You Crappin'" 12/19/2003

http://m.assetbar.com/uua1Wwx3r.gif

yeah thanks to this thread I have discovered the genius of this, been obsessively reading through from the beginning. Are the blogs... worthwhile?

they're a bit hit and miss, pat's one is quite funny:

http://journeyintoreason.blogspot.com/

I wouldn't really have time to keep up with them sadly. I'm sure if you read them regularly they would be. I would love the new t shirt. Not willing to spend yet more money on achewood stuff just yet though...

kev, do they deliver to the UK swiftly? is postage pricy? i want a stoned lightning tee shirt.

I'm in Ireland but I think it's much of a muchness. The cost of postage isn't high, it's pretty normal for the US to Europe. They do bundle things though which means that you save a bit of money. It is very slow getting to you, they only have one person (I think) working with them on the mail outs so things can get a bit held up. It normally takes about 2 weeks all told. They're very good with emails though so if you're worried you can email and expect a reply.

In short: Buy it.

In re: blogs

They're way worthwhile, espec. Ray, Beef, and Cornelius.

Not essential, but next time you embark on a re-reading (as we all must do at times), opt to read them instead.

There's a storyline in there with Ray as a "silent partner" in a pub Cornelius runs that is A++ Can Do With a Yes Attitude.

Beef's 'Kraftwerk dinner' dialogue was killer

Oh hellz yes.

I've definitely been waiting patiently for a situation to come up that allows me to C&P that in a relevant manner.

The time is now... C&P away plz!

http://m.assetbar.com/uua7XKmr0.gif

Haha, that Denise strip is amazing.

The blogs are funny, and they only update 1-2x per month.

Has anyone ever shelled out for the "subscriber-only archive"? Is it funny?

awes

http://m.assetbar.com/uuad2pBZP.gif

Every time Ray burps, "an angel gets a plantar wart," or so he says. He has had some wine.

"She's so pretty, a dog barks!" (if you see a really pretty lady)

my only nitpick with philippe's friday facts is that it's a little transparent that it's just an excuse to dump a series of punchlines chris couldn't work into a full strip, instead of being a full helping of philippe. still funnier than 99% of the rest of the world though.

I love Philippe's Friday Facts but not as much as I love Fuck You Fridays

Has anyone ever shelled out for the "subscriber-only archive"? Is it funny?

-- Jordan, Thursday, 4 October 2007 19:53 (Thursday, 4 October 2007 19:53)

Yes.

Molly leaving him, no? He goes to x because she IS his life.

Yeah, but, uh, didn't they meet each other when they were both dead?

dude they are cats. they don't die/they are not really dead until you kill them 10 times

my only nitpick with philippe's friday facts is that it's a little transparent that it's just an excuse to dump a series of punchlines chris couldn't work into a full strip, instead of being a full helping of philippe. still funnier than 99% of the rest of the world though.

-- El Tomboto, Friday, October 5, 2007 2:55 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark Link

word

a computer is a box where decisions are made

i'm not a big fan of phillipe's friday facts either

I dunno, the death scenes came off as way more complicated than just "they're cats, they have nine lives".

dude it's a cartoon dude

achewood makes me want to get drunk with my friends more often

^get drunk with my friends and cook foods

yes, that!

I never don't want to have a barbecue with pals, achewood is more responsible for me wanting to burn one in a hot tub while listening to the police

phillipe's friday facts is funny but doesnt it just remind you of the onion's jackie harvey?

not as much as the rest of the internet?

the onion's jackie harvey + cusswords = gawkermedia, inc

the onion's jackie harvey + asperger's syndrom = ilx

I love Philippe's Friday Facts! It reminds me of a newsletter I used to make when I was a kid. Plus the pictures of him are so cute. "This is what happens when kids smoke. (die)"

I ONLY LISTEN TO DOUBLE MUSIC

I don't think I like Todd. :(

that's it.

i guess you don't like squirrels that do cocaine. ;__;

Cocaine has ruined him. When he was a crazy tearaway with a cool van and an endless enthusiasm he was great. Hopefully he can cut down his coke usage to more manageable levels and get back to his old self.

I know Todd.

He just doesn't have the ... pathos of the other characters.

todd is all id

Todd hall of fame:

http://m.assetbar.com/uua3N2npx.gif

Best Achewood Animal

http://m.assetbar.com/uua6Lv1Pb.gif

http://m.assetbar.com/uua8bwm0G.gif

I did make that pumpkin:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2039/1514258737_d8a20a7bbe.jpg?v=0

oh my
that is GENIUS

I love you

hey. that's phillipe.
i know him.
i know phillipe.

Vinnie, can we put in advance orders for halloween?

me wanting to burn one in a hot tub while listening to the police

in the fairly unlikely event that I ever meet you in person, can that evening please include this activity? And can I request Zenyatta Mondatta?

Turn on the radio, the static hurts my ears
Tell me, where would I go? I ain't been out in years

Vinnie, can we put in advance orders for halloween?

Yeah I should be trying to make money off this huh. Cartilage Head seems designed to be made into a pumpkin.

'd never even HEARD of achewood before yesterday, but now after clicking two years of it I...I...think I've a sort of a crush on Téodor? Anyway thx for reference ilx!

btw yesterday I started at mid-2002. An hour ago I started at very beginning and I am not so sure abt T-crush anymore. Best com-char-demotion ever, or something.

My wife told me yesterday that she caught herself worrying about Roast Beef while she was walking to the store.

ok the Todd creation myth is actually astonishing.

I keep saying "¡CHINGA JAIME!" to myself because of this strip.

the.
great.
outdoor.
fight.

fuck

...and now I find the 'phone dong appendage' sequence. like, this is not only the funniest web cartoon ever, but the comments it makes on comradeship, insecurity, communication and braggadocio in these few strips alone are proof of quite brilliant intellect.

Stop proving that you are smart, LJ, and start being more amusing.

Has he proved that he's smart?

http://www.jour.sc.edu/pages/wigginsweb/481_Sisyphus.jpg

If you're gonna go on about stuff I wish I ever got a blowjob that didn't end in me getting yelled at

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2053/1803499739_de94f9c45c.jpg

Today's and yesterday's were both really funny.

Did you do those, Jordan?

yeah, though maddie did most of the work

I GET TO TAKE A SHOWER WITH A BAND?

Absolutely love the Beef pumpkin. Perfectly captures his whole personality.

mmm beef pumpkin

neat pumpkins!

OK, the Phillipe line "Is that...the Olympics?" and the entire "Bad Porn" cartoon have just made me laugh more than anything else ever on the internet.

*Philippe

O shit.

I'm totally gonna have me an Achewood marathon.

Cook up some food, grab a few Stellas, and read every single strip in order...

Salute me.

OH SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTT!

lyle in specs is great

His blog posting about his glasses is GREAT:

glases are rad

nw glasses acdtauly fuck n alritht gotaskeds a qusation by soem chick toadya

shes' aall susse me sir can yoiu tell eme theh time

im' like ACE OF SPAEDES 1

fn she baceked off but whateaqvre thassa most headway i maidae w a chick inlike sixi yearas \

dpretty soone its like lyle will yo ohave my baby

no but good teo get some rewasapct

BAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH1!!!!!$5 6939%%%%%%% *((**(

got glases

Man so fn in time for this fn wedding of beefs ai i hadda go and get some glases s and inm' gonna look like a ffuckling fjagfgffgt50987q2345

bettert not wear em

the good kinda glasses withi frames people can barely see cost like four hudhnred so i just went with thet plain sdbasics

i look like a afucking old cop

crnelus vs lyle POLL

Man, today's is icegravy... crapgaskets, digital canaries, Onstaad is party to some sacred knowledge.

every time lyle makes an appearance I love him more

"Hey kid, I'm an asshole. Your parents around?"

"webmas✧✧✧@stillborn-tigers-being-b✧✧✧.c✧✧" drew laffs

born

fuckin ell

buses-on-fire-mannequins-inside.com

is nolan a new character? very creepy...

There's a tiny whiff of shark-jumping about Nolan...

insert kv_nol joke here :D

this little nolan tangent shouldn't last long.

There's a tiny whiff of shark-jumping about Nolan...

-- Mark C, Thursday, 6 December 2007 15:34 (49 minutes ago) Link

they can't all be winners. let the man explore the occasional dullish thread without immediately invoking that ghastly meme. sheesh.

yeah I thought the whole nice pete kidnapping philippe & bensington butters storylines were kind of off-kilter too until they played themselves out

Sorry! I don't really see why Onstad needs to create a character who's relatively one-dimensional (so far, maybe?) or maybe obvious, like Nolan. And it bugs me he looks exactly the same as Edgar Allan Poe.

my sheeshing was good-natured. i don't like nolan so much either.

ooh la La? more like ooh la NEXT AMIRITE?!

nice pete should kill nolan

I think he is funny, but he is no Nice Pete, who is an Honest Raised Man.

yeah so it looks like nolan from the internet went the way of dornheim smuckles.

wtf ever happened to the robots?

I miss Chucklebot. Dornheim Smuckles was the most disappointing new character in years.

chucklebot is so gay

yeah, i love ray and beef, but i miss vlad. i can see how many of the characters are somewhat limited (t-t-t-todd, lyle) but it seems like there should be more lines for molly. maybe a return of tina too.

I just ordered the cookbook.

i dont understand the star wars one everyone is posting

cornelius got a tattoo

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v185/hollycrapitsfine/Raystoned.gif

looks worryingly familiar...

http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/autaux?b=M%5ea11f09b8576e606bcb5038dfdb92fb821&u=http%3A%2F%2Fachewood.com%2Fcomic.php%3Fdate%3D01072008

That pageview is one rape joke away from being ILX.

Does an Onstad read ILX for material? Would not surprise me.

except for "179,213 topics and over 23 replies!", they need a racist bottle opener thread, or something on the topic of tipping.

I think if the poll were started over I'd vote for Cornelius.

So... who fell over today?

on a related note, i was glad to see the monk diming plotline cross over from blog to strip yesterday.

i don't understand caves :(

HELP I did a 2 but I wanted to do a 1 (HURRY!)

^^^ actually have more sympathy for this than the "my friend stuck his hand in a deep fryer" thread

So... who fell over today?

Who in this bitch fell over today?

Haha no way

Whatever happened with Cornelius' Tattoo? Is is a great lost plotline or will we hear more?

didn't his tears wash the 'tattoo' away?

yeah the other characters all had temporary nerd tattoos.

God I totally missed that.

it was just one panel!

http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=12212007

http://m.assetbar.com/uuab51ZdV.gif

ah fuck it squashed it!

click here for it http://m.assetbar.com/uuab51ZdV.gif

Absolutely beautiful strip today. I've just finished reading Acme Novelty Library and this is such a perfect parody of chris ware. Very sad too!

omg i hadn't seen cornelius w/cricket bat! :D

Not that I'm implying anything but there've been at least a couple of Achewoods in the last two months or so with these really crepeily specific refs to blowjobs

Holy shit yeah, spot on Chris Ware, but I thought it was making fun of the Ware sad and not being the actual sad sad.

What's crepey about blowjobs?

a spat out blowjob under a concrete bridge which results in crusty jeans leg and the lady drives home by herself? pretty creepy!

guysguysguys don't let this turn into assetbar (which used to be kinda diverting when there were only like 20 comments per strip, but is now absurd)

haha lj doesn't want commentary on humor?

i refuse to read comments on the achewood site.

i refuse to read comments on the achewood site.

-- Jordan, Friday, January 11, 2008 2:45 PM (41 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

yeah, it's never even occurred to me. why would anyone do this?

which elements of assetbar are you trying to avoid? only i haven't been there before and i would hate to upset you by reminding you of it!

xpost

and yes, just got offed, practise what you preach eh? or do i need to direct you to the pbf thread?

in case you missed a reference or whatever. like i say, it was better back before it became an excuse for 250 plus people to be all "i'm posting to achewood amirite, plz let onstad's humour rub off on me"

slumpman there's a difference between what i did and what assetbar does

ILE after stet introduces the ability to block posts with too many "lame" votes:

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2004/12/31/hiroshima_wideweb__430x323.jpg

hi I'm stupid what happened to Chris Ware?

nothing happened to him, he got parodied, see above

"Cartooning."

Achewood love?
I'm standing on it.

xpost right, I thought it was a tribute parody because something bad happened to him. everyone kept saying how sad it was.

no it was just a sad story about a blowjob

i refuse to read comments on the achewood site.

FIX'D

i don't even wanna know who's blowing téodor

I get the impression that Onstad's toddler's been cock-blocking him lately.

These new strips are just like fucking Chris Ware! Overwhelmingly great to look at, but boring, and they make hardly any sense. (Well, today's one with Vlad.)

can someone please get onstad to stop his current election politics schtick? weeeaaak

Yeah, the constant bitterness is not what I expect from the Smuckles and his magic Mayan medallion!

it needs to have more of a floundering campaign thing like bloom county, not winner-of-the-GOF-runs-for-president-on-badass-credentials bunkum

but he is otm about florida

phillippe was a better candidate

self-evident

philippe as candidate had the bonus of all the other characters trying to help him out. nobody can tell smuckles anything, therefore kind of boring

But, but, but, you guys, this went from 30 to 65 to Mach 4 in about seven panels. I'm prepared to play out a little more line...maybe this is a male-pattern-baldness-induced dream.

uh i don't know, i like ray and all but this is like is approaching bart-simpson level in terms of character overexposure

uhhh typos

Well, Ray is about my least favorite character anyway.

i think this could be good if taken way, way farther. not that i want to force another GOF-like epic tale, but there is potential here!

maybe this is a male-pattern-baldness-induced dream.

'monk diming' one of the more inspired recent plot twists

i'm lukewarm on this. phillippe was definitely the better candidate.

Ray could never some up with "it's...HOMOSEXUALS!"

ok, glad we can move on now

ahh. Ass tea. It's good to have Ray back.

yo

the cookbook is pretty cool.

if you're young and clueless in the kitchen like i am.

http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/one_strip?b=M%5ea11f09b8576e606bcb5038dfdb92fb821&u=http%3A%2F%2Fachewood.com%2Fcomic.php%3Fdate%3D03172008

!

http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/autaux?b=M%5ea11f09b8576e606bcb5038dfdb92fb821&u=http%3A%2F%2Fachewood.com%2Fcomic.php%3Fdate%3D03172008

longbow / crossbow haha

uk pwned

"Mrs Agnes Ronay"

I would learn there.

I went to a south bedfordshire secondary school!

The italian car simile is a little labored, even for smuckles

"like our Woody Harrelson" is A+ though

disturbing

COO COO CLUCK CLUCK

SIGN ME BOOK PLEASE

Is there anything more British than a man sick on beef?

Shrovis-Bishopthorpe leads the pack in considering the Internet a nuisance. To this end we have installed a lock, so that the decision to leave the real world behind and venture into a land of codswallop and hastily documented buggery is anything but a thoughtless one.

To send for your Internet key, please post two forms of identification and £25 to the address shown on the box.

CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S REALLY YOU

Shrovis-Bishopthorpe Envision III is the best thing in the strip for a long time.

I want one.

it smells like Sean Connery's neck at a wedding

http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/autaux?b=M%5ea11f09b8576e606bcb5038dfdb92fb821&u=http%3A%2F%2Fachewood.com%2Fcomic.php%3Fdate%3D04302008

so many funny things in that one but "Is this a ... "Friends' Arrest"?" cracks me up each time i read it

also roast beef's tiny signature

I woke up this morning thinking I need to get myself that size of maglite

love this one

it is inexplicably fascinating

i think it's explicable, but also that we should not explain it.

...I don't see anything. But I want to see.

just go to the site, jesse.

Oh...I'm slow... Jordan was referring to the comic posted above. (I would have understood had he said "THAT one".)

I'm eating. No time for thinking.

The one 2 before that one is great too ("Sorry I didn't pay attention to the movie and kept reaching back to feel my kidneys")

I'm over a year behind on my Achewood :(

I had this dream where Hazel from Watership Down was in fact an Achewood character, and he was ravaged to death by a giant-size flea who was Todd's significant other. I wept like a child. And then I woke up.

w t f

I would make one of those cards myself but I don't think I have the Microsoft Publisher skills pat down yet.

her definition of kinky is so white keds in dallas

I am so anxious that Beef might cheat on Molly.

I don't want him to!

dude he is roast beef kazenzakis, he's just going to lose it on the poor woman
it's kind of out of character that he hasn't freaked out already

I know for real but STILL. Cheating makes me so antsy! It is the thing I am most old-fashioned about.

me too abbott i was going to bump this thread when i read the strip this morning

doesnt he know what hes got in molly??

SHE IS SO TOLERANT OF HIS WAYS

FAME IS FLEETING, BEEF

wait I thought he was imagining all this

Yeah guys this is completely a dream. That's why he has the muscles

haha i had this same reaction

http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/autaux?b=M%5ea11f09b8576e606bcb5038dfdb92fb821&u=http%3A%2F%2Fachewood.com%2Fcomic.php%3Fdate%3D04242008

Muscles: explained.

Wait, it's in the alt text:

Look how much Beef's arm muscles pop out as he hates the greeting card industry and rethinks it

I think if I had dumb scratch for the first time in my life I could handle it better. Too bad for Beef.

Dumb scratch + mad fame. Bet kind of big diff.

ray is a good friend

"Let's go. We'll talk in Airwolf."

every line in today's strip is GOLDEN

AAHHHHHHH MOTHS

AHHHHHHHHHHHH

one for tuomas

Already posted here as I wasn't sure he'd look at this thread!

why he make fun of yoorpeen countries so much. maybe it's "affectionate" but hard to spot affection in above strip.

I can't think of any others to fit your example other than the thing about UK slebs which was pretty completely harmless - they went on holiday to Berlin some time back and if there was a message it was 'lol tourists'

ok lose the "so much". UK slebs was fun but the whole recent cornelius brit computer arc over-egged the pudding.

no homily

man i thought todd was dead (again)!

schroedinger's todd

i was hating on this but i have to admit the greeting card shit was funny

OH MAN how do I get registered at Templeton's Psychiatric Services? Smoke break in services = genius.

Molly and Beef are getting married a week after I am. Wheee!

http://bp1.blogger.com/_8o-bd_Wib3M/SA2AGF3imAI/AAAAAAAAACs/_2IipvkXBVU/s1600-h/a_dudes_cake.jpg

!!!!!

I love Beef's concept of good graphic design.

abbott are you having a cake? you should make molly and beef figures for it

oh, beef

I want to make Beef & Molly figures on the real.

"jiminy hendrix"

omg "jazz hose"

i have missed vlad

n=1

loving it lately, the last week has been delightful.

Very true!

Ray, today: "Oh, police blotter, you make every newspaper a newspaper from Florida."

And: "Damn. All this temperature lately got folks real on edge."

OH SHIT

You knew bubbleup was comin.

This is all Teodor's fault for being such a vittles bitch.

i dunno, beef has seemed pretty into the food and i don't recall him being all carbon-footprint-mandarin.

teodor is such a bitch, tho

The aunt's face in the fantasy sequence has burned a hole in my brain

the interview in the new yorker is hell of pretentious dogg

you mean w/the interviewer jacking his style (unless he interviewed himself)?

like, even if his responses are like that because he's purposefully making a meta-joke about the publication and the interviewer is in on the joke or whatever, that's all like mcsweeney's +20

but I laughed so I'm just nit-picking, really

i guess i don't read the new yorker enough to get more than normal onstadisms out of it

whenever i feel bad about ilx i look at the achewood comment threads

haaaa ha haaa! I did that just last week and was rather taken aback. webcomic fans are terrible people.

(unless he interviewed himself)

this is perhaps relevant:

Chris, I am swamped. I have nearly two posts to write a week, on top of a sandwich shop I’m trying to start out of my apartment. (Readers, call me if you are interested in any sandwiches.) Can you write some more stuff for us that I would post as if I had done any work?

webcomic fans are terrible people

webcomic fans people are terrible people

Still though, they are married and that is <3

Who are all these damn relatives, I can't tell the difference between identikit cartoon cats.

identikit cartoon cats terrible people

...um, Philippe's mother, Ray's dad, Molly's parents (from the late 1700s), a couple of flashback shots of childhood Roast Beef and lots of Aibos...

i subbed to the premium updates. kill me now...

have we just been introduced to beef's dad?!?!

lol asti spumante

NOOOOOO

poor Little Nephew!

yeah, no one should have to go to Wales!

All I can recommend is not having the premium updates be sent to you by text message, unless you like random messages about charcoal grills at 5AM that confuse the hell out of you

OK I'm not gonna register to enter the comment fold over at that place. Help me out in my confusion.

I am confused about why Iorwerth conspicuously needed the consent of Ray _and_ of Charley to remove the latter from the country before he could Do This?

how did he get from this interview, which makes him sound like a lot of people i know (we are about the same age, lived in the same neighborhoods, went to the same college) to the new yorker one, which makes me want to kick him in the head

Do you want to kick everyone who's not like a lot of people you knew?

only people who are hell of pretentious dogg

i would kick this guy who writes this unfathomably shitty comic that cathy and garfield both shit all over

yeah, no one should have to go to Wales!

read the alt-text :(

dell-enging opinions

nah, that comic sucks

food chain get used 2 it imo

Fattens The Thingy SPECIFICALLY.

Tom, are you still in the comics game?

Oh, god, today's strip.

that was awesome

Roast Beef was the world's most freebased-next-to baby of all time

Clafouti Schwanz

tina lives

flippers all lashed to its body by an unravelled mixtape titled "Tintern Supplicant"

http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr251/mookieproof/bwrrrrr.jpg

Is anyone following the New Yorker sandwich duel? I was confused and sceptical after jumping in at part 15, but after reading in the right order I'm now hooked.

Cornelius with a leaf blower gag made me laugh like crazy

Phillipe's fantasy of what kinds of "grown-up things" dolls might do -- "MARTHA CAN WE AFFORD THE TAXES" "NO WE CAN'T BILL" "OH THIS IS HORRIBLE" -- just about made me have a bladder incident.

gomez worships idols

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/achewood.png

horrible

Cornelius with a leaf blower gag made me laugh like crazy

Thanks god I'm not the only one. I'm not even totally sure why it's funny.

It was because of the suit he was wearing with the backpack

I lost it too btw

Yeah it has something to do with him not being a yardwork guy at all.

And that look he's giving Teodor, like he doesn't know why that is the last thing he should be doing

Oh no we're assetbar

I've always been kinda "eh, achewood, okay" but I just bought Great Outdoor Fight and my god it's sublime.

Assetbar is awful!

What's the deeeeeal with the XKCD thing there

I've said it before, and I will say it again: fuck an xkcd

It doesn't matter, I just read the rest of the parodies in that series (Dinosaur Comics, Natalie Dee, some others) and they all read the same way ie not really parodies as basically straightlaced fan tributes by someone who doesn't have any grasp of the nuances of the humour

where did the fachewood thing up there come from? i'm confused. i hate it and i wanna know the enemy.

it's some xkcd ass bullsquid

I wonder what xkcd guy could ever do to redeem himself.

Hey, I know a solid bro that did move from DC to Adelaide to escape Bush.

lol @ the rendering of the Black Flag bars

If the Aussie dollar hadn't collapsed into a heap this week, I would have spent $50 to get the free t-shirt.

so is Polly going to be new permanent cast member y/n/hmmm

nah

mars achewood needs women

Connie's geezerly romance could provide more grist for Smuckles-angst.

molly vs polly t/s

So perfect!

so basically he married off roast beef, killed little nephew, and then ran out of ideas.

RIP achewood, the great outdoor fight book tour was too much for you and we all knew it had to happen eventually

kinda seems that way but dude deserves a vacation, let's not write him off yet

the stripper gf storyline is completely odious for more reasons than i can count

ts: disappointing episodes of free internet cartoons vs people who often complain about disappointing episodes of free internet cartoons

n/a is right to make fun. we shouldn't care so much about the direction this thing we like is taking because it's free! pay to care.

i dunno i just haven't really noticed any vast changes in quality myself and i get sick of whiners

Is anyone a subscriber? If so, is it worth it?

and seriously "completely odious for more reasons than i can count"? take a hot bath bro

the stripper gf storyline is completely odious for more reasons than i can count

― ㋡ (cankles), Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:58 AM (12 minutes ago)

What are some of them?

also how high can you count?

i understand this thing must be onstad's primary or only means of income, but the thing is just spread too thin -- i get it that to make money you offer paid subscriptions, but premium membership twitter / blog / discussion / zine nonsense can only expand so far before it diverts value from the main product, yes?

I subscribed in 2007 and was pretty disappointed by the bonus content.

he stripper gf storyline is completely odious for more reasons than i can count

― ㋡ (cankles), Wednesday, December 31, 2008 9:58 AM (12 minutes ago)

What are some of them?

cartoon cat stripper not hot enough?

xp That's too bad. That twitter thing looks ridiculous though.

I think he's saving up the Little Nephew storyline so he can try to recreate the Great Outdoor Fight with a big rescue plot, which could go either way.

But nothing can recreate the GOF so get ready for another few months of boring in the new year

here are some reasons: it sucks and is gay

also lol n/a u whine more than anyone on here lately - perhaps it's time 2 gaze in tha mirror O_O

kinda seems that way but dude deserves a vacation, let's not write him off yet

Basically this, the strips from the book tour until now have been bitty (often good still IMO) but the impression is that he's been snowed under with stuff (maybe this is protesting too much I dunno) and I'd rather he kept the good plotlines for good strips that he can actually go at, if y'get me

i dunno i just haven't really noticed any vast changes in quality myself and i get sick of whiners

― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, December 31, 2008 4:11 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^^^^^^^^^OTM

;_;

what

so - chris and his family got evicted from their home so the govt could build a freeway? poor dude... first nu-achewood of new year pretty aces, especially considering...

Jesse Thorn interviewed Onstad last weekend, I guess it'll be here eventually:

http://www.maximumfun.org/blog/

Ha, his explanation said more or less the same thing as my last post there, but I suppose he would say that

Jesse Thorn interviewed Onstad last weekend, I guess it'll be here eventually:

http://www.maximumfun.org/blog/2009/01/chris-onstad-creator-of-achewood.html

Google interview sez the first 'proper' Dark Horse collection will be strips 1-400 with the alt text included and lots of backstory for the characters. Really, really hope he integrates the contemporary blog posts into the new books myself.

huh, guy looks kind of a douche:

http://www.maximumfun.org/blog/uploaded_images/Chris-Onstad.article-765743.jpg

yard sale roast beef = favourite achewood thing in ages

guy on this radio thing says 'ay-she-wood', i thought it was 'ash-e-wood'

why is the story about the stripper odious, c'mon ade

what? obviously it's ake-wood I thought, especially as Ray is of a breed that originated in Lakewood, California (um according to wikipedia)...

guy looks kind of a douche

in the google interview I mentioned he looks like a hell of tubby yo internet dork. should have kept his salingerian mystique!

why is the story about the stripper odious, c'mon ade

― thomp, Tuesday, January 13, 2009 7:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it reminds me of some xkcd playing in a ballpit bullshitty ass shit, basically my 'it sucks and is gay' response was how i ~*tRuLy fEeL*~

i mean, is there anything appealing abt cornelius as a character? has there ever been? no of course not he blows, and so does his mirror-image-except-90-years-younger smug ass gf

a nigga who like the cornelius stripper gf storyline... shame on a nigga ~_~

wtf are you on about cornelius rules.

Get thee to 4chan! (xpost)

did you not like the one where cornelius is the most hardcore of the dudes then

"you failed with a focus and intensity normally seen only in successes"

Dude is seriously flailing to find his fastball again.

Agree but seriously feel for him and what's been happening in his life. It could be hugely detrimental to his business.

He's been flailing for at least a year.

I have no idea what's going on in his life, but it does suck that he hasn't been able to come out with more strips lately. He's also working on that print collection now, right?

Agree but seriously feel for him and what's been happening in his life. It could be hugely detrimental to his business.

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, February 11, 2009 1:07 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what r u referring to

Landlord dispute, job issues, move to Oregon.

http://chrisonstad.blogspot.com/

Yeah, I think he had 2-3 weeks notice to pack up and move? (xpost)

yeah that's what i heard. really sucks for a self-supporting business that's essentially based on the goodwill of his readers.

i think he needs to get the strip back on a regular schedule, not because of anything on a readership end but because he's said in every interview he's done that he doesn't pre-plan and you can tell when he's not in a rhythm at all. i liked it when he could do a two or three-week story arc and then a run of normal dailies--he needs to get back to some of the longer and more involved stuff. it also seems like he doesn't really know how to develop his characters further, which is funny because two or three of them are still pretty untapped.

I think he's still trying to figure out how much new stuff to put behind the paywall without driving people away.

it's funny because i would have paid if he started that up right after the great outdoor fight. now? not really in the mood.

the last part of the interview he did on Sound of Young America was all about dealing with his newfound success, basically how he's having performance anxiety and trying to figure how where to go with the strip.

I'm behind the paywall and it's not expensive for some of the gems you see. It does seem to me that he is determined to move everything except the strip behind said wall which rather may spoil Achewood for new arrivals. I don't know though, when I found it there was no context bar the alt text so what do I know?

I feel bad for him though with the move. There are one or two characters I'd like to see more of. I'd like more of the Molly/Roast Beef and Cornelius' new love affair. I'm willing to give it a good chance, I was looking over the books a while ago and while not every strip is gold the vast majority are very good.

the last part of the interview he did on Sound of Young America was all about dealing with his newfound success, basically how he's having performance anxiety and trying to figure how where to go with the strip.

Is that online perchance?

he's also been doing some recurring gig for the New Yorker which is the kiss of death as far as i'm concerned

is that online perchance

Yep.

i've been saying (mostly to myself) for a couple of years that teodor has suffered enough and deserves a story arc where something good happens to him.

Thanks sic!

today's strip is straight up genius, all you haterz to the back of the bus

He has gotten WAY too wordy. It's kind of killed his pacing. I miss like the strips where the punchline was a reaction shot, like when Ray starts the hygienic taco truck and the punchline is Lyle flipping him off through the gloved box. Like it's not near as funny having some cats recite slangy prose poems.

I still lol and all but... :(

such is my love for wales that i must accept your hideous challenge

huuuuuugs!

My favourite strip ever is the one where Phillipe is delighting everyone by calling them "big hot tranny mess" $6 IS a cute amount of money, too.

The introducing olden days welshmen to blunts strip on the website is gold

"...Cod?"

Is there some sort of proper introduction to this, or should I just read it from the beginning through (since That's what I started doing, and even then it still seems like an insider thing)

Probably best to just plow through from the beginning- there are certainly highlights (the Great Outdoor Fight being an obvious example) but they all build on hundreds of strips' worth of characterization.

first couple of years of achewood are a little non-sequiter heavy. i say search the archive for the phrase "stoned lightning" and begin reading around there.

then go back and read it all.

Also, My name is Padrig / and the women I fancy put well full bums in their knickers // and I do not apologize to you or any other

Xpost: if you want a single, perfect strip, may I recommend searching for Notorious L.I.N.C.O.L.N.?

the "search storyline" function is pretty great too

I remember thinking the whole thing is one really big non-sequiter. I can appreciate the total lack of origin, it seems like a big loops that starts from the middle and traces back to nowhere.

Up to September 2003, and yeah, this is really great (although its very easy to see why I hated it/thought it was stupid before).
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/AbXy6001/tl-1.jpg

*that is before I read anything other than the occasional strip posted on ILX)

“Probably not, but better” is like the perfect line of Achewood dialogue, a beautiful sapphire to raise and admire the way light refracts through it from different angles

It's probably best to start with a storyline like The Great Outdoor Fight. I remember plowing through the archives when I started and man was it painful, the art was even cruder than it is now and in general the humor wasn't nearly as good. Lots of long running webcomics are like this, though.

Wales is bringing the A+++++ lols.

was re-reading some old favs -> 11.5.04 - i totally lost it @ Roast Beef wants to be thrown away at the bowling alley

“Probably not, but better” is like the perfect line of Achewood dialogue, a beautiful sapphire to raise and admire the way light refracts through it from different angles

― the sound of mu (sic), Friday, May 15, 2009 4:32 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

yes! i thought the same thing, said it out loud in my mind a couple times even.

Nagelsheep

OH GOD, NAGELSHEEP

I love Cornelius on Facebook.

Dude's had it figured out since before everyone else was wearing short pants.

I finished reading the whole thing a few weeks ago, after a month. The idea of waiting a week for a new cartoon now is almost unthinkable.

i didn't understand what a 'nagel serape' was, is this because i am english y/n

i actually just searched this thread to revive it and mention cornelius on facebook

Cardamom L. B. Hayfield belongs to the group I HAVE DIED

Did Ray's blanket-sheep-time-travelling-throw remind anybody else of http://www.littleblackstar.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/ddrio.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Nagel

boy, do I feel dumb.

i'd never heard of him before. but the clues were there, man, the clues were there.

actually, remy, you should feel not dumb. you didn't know nagel and still made the connection!

favorite quote from the whole time traveling welsh story is ray reading the paper:

"Daaamn, Ron Howard's brother. You yo' own kind of ugly."

I made that Rio connection too, without knowing who Nagel was. Whoops.

Catching up on all the ones I've missed out on, gotta say the brief sheik-voice-donut arc brought heavy, heavy lolz

Was pronunciation of "achewood" ever covered here?

Also note the frame in the middle here, which I just came by and wouldn't possibly have rembered otherwise.

Ache
wood

?

Can't see how else one would go about pronouncing it...

ACHHHHuh WOOOOOOduh of course

DAS ACH-eh-VOOD

pretty special post by ray about MJ linked up there today

Try wakin’ up tomorrow and writin’ We Are The World. See what you come up with. See if you can get Stevie and Tina to come down to the studio, along with Bruce and Billy and twenty other people who cost a whole hell of a lotta money at the time.

I was saying ay-shh wood for a long time.

that Ray Smuckles blog post is genius xp

he didn't write thriller or pyt tho :/

Michael was our music. The next time you’re out alone in your car, and Smooth Criminal comes on, it’s gonna mean somethin’ different to you. You’re not gonna change it this time. You’re gonna hear it and think to yourself, “I missed knowin’ his music in the moment.” I don’t blame The Cure. That was your call. The Cure is just out there, like car horns or people who make noise when they cry. The Cure is a choice. When we hear Michael, it is not a choice to feel the beat. It is not a choice to cock your head and straighten all the fingers on your right hand.

There is a reason Ray is the man. This paragraph does a lot to explain this reason.

If you insist.

he didn't write thriller or pyt tho :/

perhaps cornelius could have fact-checked

this williams-sonoma erotica storyline is some bullshit

Give it time. It may pan out to something funny.

We do need more Molly and Beef stuff. They bring the heavy lolz.

it's bad. i miss beef, molly, and teodor.

ANd Phillippe. His phone call to Ray in the current strip was the only lol.

"it is essential that we both wear identical elephant costumes" - good line. But I didn't even understand the July 18 strip.

I am not buying into this erotica subplot.

Y'know, I realized that When your not reading half a years worth of strips in 2 days, reading these storylines as they go along is pretty tedious, or is this one just bad (which i think it probably is).

he doesn't pre-plan his storylines and the results are occasionally magical and often disappointing.

i'm just confused as to why you would spend years developing these v. complete characters and then basically not challenge them in any way.

^^^ single posts that sum up ILX

okay wtf is going on here

german shepherd is easily one of the most acceptable dogs

but yeah i'm lost too

Lady Bourré gets a kickback for every customer she delivers.

Cartilage Head is being earmarked as Achewood's version of That Coupon Chicken From Family Guy That Had A Long Fight With Peter That Was Funny The First Time.

why is he going to fall onto the biplane!? why??

Also isn't Cartilage Head just a performance artist? Not some incarnation of death

Skymall.

maybe we'll get to see troubleman and no no again

The phone convo between Lyle and Ray where Lyle wouldn't just hold on made me LOL, though.