do YOU love achewood, too?

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.