do YOU love achewood, too?

Emeril is such a non-character, but after the last few strips this one is like that first breath of fresh air after a diving accident. Beef ftw.

ya srsly

to everything people have been posting

I feel as if its about to get funny.

only 3 months late

Wild guess: Rolling into Emeril as future main character like Beef was years and years ago? Nah probably not.

will this storyline end in 2010 y/n

what's happening in the panel after "cabbage moth upon the berber"

teodor's shoes

oh wow you're right--never would have gotten that

god it feels to good to be back

it is not about to get funny

I don't know if this is lolz or just relief that the last arc is over

It's not over. He said he was taking a week away from it to do the Roomba Kane thing.

He must see something in it that I'm totally missing.

i hate to be that guy but he has a hell of a nerve asking for donations while doing less than 1 strip/week

No, I'm with you on that. I've thought about donating or subscribing to the premium content, but if I do it now while he's holding the strip hostage, then the comics-terrorists win.

i get the impression he's not in a great place at the moment... that roomba strip is excellent though.

"Not in a great place" meaning mentally? or Oregon?

oregon is pretty okay

ffs, jus finish the story u knob

He must be a good writer -- every time Pat shows up, I want to go find somebody like Pat and put them through a wood chipper.

"it was just a statement from the part of me that's how i am."

"connie, that drink did a clear grody in my brain."

emeril looks so hurt!

love ray's face as he dreams about abe lincoln and the computer eating dog.

Decent strip, see you guys in October.

what he said

Beef, apparently proving that keeping it real is the best plan.

2 weeks with no updates -- kinda feels like this really could be the end of the road -- although maybe I'm just saying that because "EVERYBODY OUT! HIGH SCHOOL IS OVER!" would make a fitting epitaph for the comic

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, March 2, 2006 12:27 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark

Is the premium section still active? I guess I can't resent him for wanting it to be a money-making venture, but it's a shame that the downsizing of the free strip coincided with a low point in terms of quality.

No updates anywhere, recently. I would guess he is working on something, and has to deal with the book publishing aspects, but this is still utterly ridiculous considering the clock's just sitting there ticking for everyone who's paid for the premium update subscriptions.

Which apparently is me, on auto-billing. $3 a month for nothing, Onstad!

Sometimes I think he's just doing behavioral experiments on that sad gang of Assetbar commenters. Definitely a bunch of Stockholm Syndrome going on there.

i wish he would just kill it

I'm not sure if it's a combination of Stockholm Syndrome and the knowledge that every strip brings this fucking story arc closer to a long-overdue end, but today's strip wasn't bad...

so this is dead, yeah?

our national nightmare is over

what happened?

Oh, nothing happened. Just, only one comic in October, no premium content as far as I can tell, trying to raise funds to keep the web-host alive -- everything points to The End.

achewood's been put on pause before, i wouldn't read too much into it. i'd be pissed off if i was a subscriber, tho. he said something a couple of weeks ago about feeling sick, iirc?

thumbs up for seasonal sadness

So Onstad basically is trying to tell us that he's the guy who sucks, plus he got depression

always funny (helpful text, trying to click the link on the pdf printout, the idea of a link on a pdf printout), but man the miserablism is a stone drag. dude needs to cut that shit pronto.

So Onstad basically is trying to tell us that he's the guy who sucks, plus he got depression

but man the miserablism is a stone drag. dude needs to cut that shit pronto.

what strip have you guys been reading for the last seven years?

haha! i'm cool with RB being the ultimate sad sack but this goofy molester van stuff was not really my thing

best strips are less about crushing despair, more about hilarious word arrangement

^^ I think this may still be my favorite strip:

http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/autaux?b=M%5ea11f09b8576e606bcb5038dfdb92fb821&u=http%3A%2F%2Fachewood.com%2Fcomic.php%3Fdate%3D09112003

great strip up this week

Not one of my favorites, but chacun à son goût etc etc

Maybe spending six months inside Nice Pete's head has just got him a little freaked out. Whenever it comes, the explanation of What the Fuck Happened to Me in Aught-Ten should be entertaining.