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― ai lien m. draheim (kold_krush), Sunday, 21 November 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes!

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 21 November 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

high five!

― ai lien m. draheim (kold_krush), Sunday, 21 November 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

stella!

― Remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 21 November 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

awesome

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Sunday, 21 November 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

is it ache as in pain, or ache as in tony asher?

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Monday, 22 November 2004 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

of COURSE I do

― trigonalmayhem (trigonalmayhem), Monday, 22 November 2004 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

omygod! patrick in grappa (which he mistook for pinot grigio) chugging-induced coughing fit-induced accidental shooting of cornelius with lyle's gun! man ray!

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 22 November 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

particularly excellent today

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 27 January 2005 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

WHY IS BEEF WEARING GOGGLES?

WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN ONLY RAY AND BEEF ARE LEFT?

i can't sleep.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 2 March 2006 04:45 (twenty years ago)

I--AM--RUUUUUDE.

― Pwnjabi MC (Matt Chesnut), Thursday, 2 March 2006 05:21 (twenty years ago)

This was better back near the beginning when other characters were more involved! Still classic though.

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Thursday, 2 March 2006 05:57 (twenty years ago)

I must have got my bone on six times!

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

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Thursday, 2 March 2006 10:53 (twenty years ago)

Argh, I've just remembered the dream I was having last night in which Achewood had to finish because Chris Onstad ran out of money! The very last page just said something like "Sorry, that's it!"

― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Thursday, 2 March 2006 12:27 (twenty years ago)

Nooooooooooo!

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Thursday, 2 March 2006 12:35 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

FINALLY got into this strip on the fourth of july when i had the whole day off and nothing to do with it but read ACHEWOOD! best so far (besides the badass games): ray all entering into a rap battle with little nephew over LN's "fuck algebra" album and then after drilling him with like six consecutive verses suddenly busting into this thing

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

― ath (ath), Friday, 7 July 2006 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

haha

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

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 7 July 2006 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

By far my favorite online comic. I was more into NOTORIOUS LINCOLN when it came to the rap bits from it!

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Friday, 7 July 2006 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

you mean NOTORIOUS L.I.N.C.O.L.N.

The Dude Owns Property!

― ath (ath), Friday, 7 July 2006 04:15 (nineteen years ago)

i have seriously and literally read two years' worth in the last two days

― ath (ath), Friday, 7 July 2006 04:16 (nineteen years ago)

Indeed. I've been reading it almost from the beginning, hard for me to believe how long it's been going, when I go back to the archives. I'd like to see Nightlife make a comeback.

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Friday, 7 July 2006 04:24 (nineteen years ago)

Heh. I just dipped into this and I loved the parking notice one:

NOTICE THAT YOUR CAR IS FRIKKIN AWESOME

Officers Remarks: whered you get it

hahaha. Love it.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 7 July 2006 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

Ah God, it's when they're in Germany and Ray asks why the fries-salesman is shouting at him. Figures that he must think Ray is touched in the head and RB says "he is definitely seeing an apartment with posters of owls..." Brilliant. If really badly told by me.

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

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

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Friday, 7 July 2006 07:32 (nineteen years ago)

I like the one where they win Oasis.

― Allyzay will never stop making pancakes (allyzay), Friday, 7 July 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

"Why is only one of you cut?"

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Friday, 7 July 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Billy Idol possessing Philippe was genius.

― patita (patita), Friday, 7 July 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

achewood :D

― bad hair day house (fandango), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost) "Stop... you must now call it a sex bicycle"

"He's like the Steve Irwin of STDs"

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 07:25 (nineteen years ago)

"How do you avoid gettin' gonnoreah or herpes or stuff like that?"
"I guess b-b-b-b-by not g-g-g-givin' a fuck!"
"Whoa! That answer needs some WORK!"

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (allyzay), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

I really want this:
http://www.achewood.com/shop/acc_cookset1.php

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (allyzay), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

"can't talk now bro, i'm three-ballin'."

― in praise of wakka-wakka (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

THE MAN IS SO OLD SCHOOL HE DRIVES A YELLOW BUS WITH GOTHIC ARCH WINDOWS!

― Allyzay is cool: with Blue n White, with Eli Manning, with NY Giants (allyzay), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

also roast beef's erotic fiction is the finest work of its genre

― in praise of wakka-wakka (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

I really want this:
http://www.achewood.com/shop/acc_cookset1.php

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

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

I love Achewood so much now.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

so much

― ai lien (kold_krush), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Yo mama so crass, she smokes a cigar and eats shrimp cocktail on the bus!
Yo mama so grouchy, she slaps the doorknob before she turns it!
Yo mama got such bad breath, dogs get calories by huffin' her mouth!

― ath (ath), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

(re: beef's aibo, weldon...)

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

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man I hope Ray doesn't die forever.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 7 September 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Thursday, 7 September 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

this Magreaux dog business is creeping me out. and now Ppat has hair?! and a sweater vest?!

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 7 September 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Because he's gay now, I guess?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 7 September 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

pat's looking a bit like tim gunn these days

― ath (ath), Thursday, 7 September 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

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.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

i wonder how nice pete feels about all that

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

i'm sure he retains a positive outlook on it all

― ath (ath), Thursday, 7 September 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Today's should be sent to all those smug IT bods with all their skills and things!

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

eight months pass...

OHHHH SHIIIIIIT!

― mookieproof, Thursday, 7 June 2007 02:53 (eighteen years ago)

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

― Dimension 5ive, Thursday, 7 June 2007 02:56 (eighteen years ago)

I like the alt text too, keepin it real.

― Jordan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 03:08 (eighteen years ago)

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*reads thread* HOLY SHIT THERE'S NEW ACHEWOODS

― davey, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 00:09 (nine years ago)

And they're good!

― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 03:39 (nine years ago)

two months pass...

http://www.eater.com/2016/11/2/13499170/carls-jr-brother-chris-onstad

― mh 😏, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 17:27 (nine years ago)

Ok, shut down western civilization. We've achieved the pinnacle.

― hardcore dilettante, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 02:39 (nine years ago)

First time I laughed out loud at something that guy wrote.

― pplains, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 02:49 (nine years ago)

that was odd even by his standards

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 02:55 (nine years ago)

I read a good chunk of it until I gave up hope and bailed on it. It seemed to me he was trying much too hard to write comically, rather like a stand-up comic who constantly inserts long pauses in the story in order to pull a 'funny' face and stare at the audience, begging for laughter.

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 02:57 (nine years ago)

Every time I relate to Onstad he throws out some bit of internal cruelty or half-recanted aloofness for the human condition that turns me off until the next moment, the point where someone gets mad rutty with a bank teller

― mh 😏, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 04:21 (nine years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://chrisonstad.blogspot.com/2016/12/some-news-to-wrap-up-2016.html

rip, for now

― Clay, Monday, 26 December 2016 08:15 (nine years ago)

went out on a good note imo

― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 17:00 (nine years ago)

three years pass...

SaniTaco's time is here

― absolute idiot liar uneducated person (mh), Thursday, 26 March 2020 01:54 (six years ago)

https://www.achewood.com/comic.php?date=07202004

― absolute idiot liar uneducated person (mh), Thursday, 26 March 2020 01:54 (six years ago)

https://www.achewood.com/comic.php?date=07212004

― the burrito that defined a generation, Thursday, 26 March 2020 02:34 (six years ago)

one year passes...

http://achewood.com/comic.php?date=10012001

happy 20th anniversary

― Clay, Friday, 1 October 2021 22:02 (four years ago)

fuck

― mookieproof, Friday, 1 October 2021 22:04 (four years ago)

feeling old are we

― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Friday, 1 October 2021 22:08 (four years ago)

https://scs-assets-cdn.vice.com/int/guide_comics/htdocs/this-dude-no-mercy-107/1.gif

― sleeve, Friday, 1 October 2021 23:12 (four years ago)

Weird, I posted a clip from an achewood strip on fb today (where the judge’s verdict is that Lyle is an Asshole), without knowing it was the anniversary. Muss be something in the air.

― "The Pus/Worm" by The Smiths (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 2 October 2021 01:16 (four years ago)

got some time off next week, might just read achewood for a few days

― gbx, Saturday, 2 October 2021 15:12 (four years ago)

three months pass...

Or a google drive link if you prefer. Seems more reliable than onedrive https://t.co/pwq3b46hK6
— Howling Techie (@Howling_techie) January 3, 2022

complete achewood in pdf form with alt-text, in case anybody wants it

― 龜, Monday, 10 January 2022 02:20 (four years ago)

wow that rules

― Clay, Monday, 10 January 2022 02:28 (four years ago)

Is it still available on the website too?

Are the printed editions that were supposed to begin dropping last year still coming? Anyone like sic know why the Fantagraphics series petered out so soon?

― Enjoy the brighter sounds of Analog on CD (stevie), Monday, 10 January 2022 09:45 (four years ago)

The complete collections were due to start in June 2020; one can only guess at forces that may have delayed the first one, especially if the editor was traveling to the US to work on it.

Dark Horse did the fizzled-out hardcovers. Onstad is selling the original tape-bound books for $225-250 rn, and dropped a new issue of Beef’s zine in 2020.

― dark end of the st. maud (sic), Monday, 10 January 2022 17:26 (four years ago)

Thanks sic. Why did the Dark Horse hardcovers fizzle out? Lack of sales, or did Onstad give up on them first?

― Enjoy the brighter sounds of Analog on CD (stevie), Monday, 10 January 2022 20:16 (four years ago)

It looks like this was the announced 2020 release:

https://onipress.com/pages/achewood

The zombie pages still exist on the vendor sites, which, while not a guarantee of anything, means it’s only partially dead

― mh, Monday, 10 January 2022 20:44 (four years ago)

Following that link Barnes & Noble suggests it will come in September

― Enjoy the brighter sounds of Analog on CD (stevie), Monday, 10 January 2022 23:09 (four years ago)

Possibly. I know some publishers/stores will just auto-bump a release date from the original date.

― mh, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 00:02 (four years ago)

nine months pass...

Trying to make achewood go viral on TikTok pic.twitter.com/G4xbdfYQIB
— Jason Pargin, author of John Dies at the End, etc (@JohnDiesattheEn) November 3, 2022

― mh, Thursday, 3 November 2022 18:40 (three years ago)

It never occurred to me that it could be pronounced any way but "Ake-wood."

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 3 November 2022 18:45 (three years ago)

wait now I'm confused

― mh, Thursday, 3 November 2022 20:38 (three years ago)

six months pass...

https://www.patreon.com/Achewood

― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Saturday, 6 May 2023 14:14 (three years ago)

hmmm. would like to know if he’s actually going to stick with it this time.

― call all destroyer, Saturday, 6 May 2023 16:51 (three years ago)

^ publishing weekly, $5/mo minimum tier

― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Saturday, 6 May 2023 17:43 (three years ago)

All that effort expended on A.I. Raybot...while it does seem like something Ray would do, does anyone actually want that?

― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Monday, 8 May 2023 21:21 (three years ago)

did the big book ever come out?

― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Monday, 8 May 2023 21:34 (three years ago)

I feel like if I subbed to this I'd also want the in-universe material, as I used to love the old blogs, etc

― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Monday, 8 May 2023 21:35 (three years ago)

I know some people think Achewood is corny and it fell off towards the end but the peak stuff was just wonderful, hilarious and beautiful

― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Monday, 8 May 2023 21:36 (three years ago)

the book question is mentioned here: https://www.theverge.com/23713940/achewood-chris-onstad-return-patreon-ai-raybot

sounds like the tumult of having the possible animated series be canceled followed by a shake-up at the publisher meant it didn't happen

― mh, Monday, 8 May 2023 21:39 (three years ago)

thanks for the link mh.

― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Monday, 8 May 2023 21:44 (three years ago)

oh my fucking god i am going to patreon immediately and cancelling my sub pic.twitter.com/Tq9XSt412S
— 𝓓𝓻. 𝓜𝓸𝓷𝓮𝔂 (@xomputer) May 8, 2023

― 龜, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 17:31 (three years ago)

yeah did not come away from that piece feeling super optimistic

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 18:11 (three years ago)

I've been a John Allison supporter on Patreon for a few years but he's gone off in directions that don't interest me, so I'm going to shift that support to Onstad and see how it goes.

― The Terroir of Tiny Town (WmC), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 18:19 (three years ago)

https://raybot.help was a lot more amusing and Achewood-like than portrayed in the article

― mh, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 18:37 (three years ago)

I note that the twitter thread does mention the short-lived artisanal soda company that Onstad was part of that the recent articles seem to have missed

― mh, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 18:40 (three years ago)

I did start making weird faces when I read this, though

“I’ve had like two jobs for a total of 18 months in my whole life, outside of Achewood. Maybe it’s time to admit, like, This is who I am. And this is what I do.”

― mh, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 18:42 (three years ago)

Had a huge sense of dread reading that Verge piece that he was suddenly going to declare his interest in NFTs or something, small mercies. Pouring so much cash into a novelty AI thing is just nuts though, what is he thinking.

Have to admit to being gutted to hear about the Penn Ward "Great Outdoor Fight" series that got scrapped, that surely had to've been better than the failed pilot from ages ago.

― "Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Wednesday, 10 May 2023 22:30 (three years ago)

this list of skilled people they're looking for that's posted on the website, um, lol?

Software Engineering
AI/LLMs
UX design
Game design (from card game, to board games, to digital, to ?)
Materials / Arts / Toys / Finer Things
Textile / clothing production / pattern makers
3D modeling & printer specialists
Woodworking
Toy design
Leatherworking
Silkscreening (fine art, apparel)
DTG / apparel decorators / silkscreen / Embroiderers
General tinkerers and gadgeteers
Recipe Testers
Videographers
Photographers (fashion, product, portrait)
Models
Automotive designers
Model-makers (figurine production/detailing)
Arduino/Raspberry Pi developer
Roboticists
Luthiers
Horologists
Jewelers / metalsmiths
Engravers
Business skill-havers and Opportunity Makers
CPAs
Payroll specialists
Attorneys
Public Relations
Voodoo hex or curse blocker (Abrahamic exorcist OK)
Investors / Woosterites
Event planners
Venue owners
Intoxicant Purveyors
Distillers/brewers/winemakers/cidermakers
Cannabis product formulation
Alcoholic beverage reps

― call all destroyer, Thursday, 11 May 2023 00:42 (three years ago)

Pouring so much cash into a novelty AI thing is just nuts though, what is he thinking.

the guy's whole career is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

― dicbo=v2-ubswizzb&hrt (stevie), Thursday, 11 May 2023 07:29 (three years ago)

he has assured people giving money to the patreon that none of that money will be going to the raybot ai

xp I feel like the list is kind of him doing a bit, but absolutely not a bit

― mh, Thursday, 11 May 2023 14:10 (three years ago)

eleven months pass...

https://bsky.app/profile/manningkrull.bsky.social/post/3kqilftfyk22m

― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Friday, 19 April 2024 15:36 (two years ago)

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