do YOU love achewood, too?

"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.

have no issue with him dropping the previous storyline entirely.

yeah, dude should just reread his archives for a lil' bit or something — get back to basics imo — maybe draw in color 4 a little bit 2 get away from ~depressing vibes~

so we are just to assume that ray sorted everthing out with the film deal and that was the last strip of the arc, then?

dunno. I kind of want to see him at least ATTEMPT to tie it all together. Even if its a miserable flop at the end.

but, I'm glad he's at least putting them out again. Will love this strip for evah.

It needs more Molly, though. Never enough of her.

achewood delivers

took me a couple minutes to read that, i was laughing so hard

laughed at the portland/depression alt text in the one before this

good one today

BAP!

http://m.assetbar.com/uuac2fdKK.gif

weird last panel

yeah wtf?

You mean awesome last panel

Also, the reappearance of the dude from Lyle's past in the fish contest panels makes me happy

http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=12022010
^so accurately assesses my mindstate and recent cajoling into taking a three month pottery class with the gf that it's kinda spooky

i got a couple of chuckles from the 'free' chapbook, but mostly i got the sense of a sad family life

yeah, that shit is GRIM

he's the guy who sucks

and he's got depression

how much to read into the reference to a "brain problem" in the meta tag?

i love this guy as much as anyone and interviewed him years ago and buy his print collections whenever they come out but it's pretty obvious he does not want to draw this strip anymore and i kinda wish he'd stop instead of just getting increasingly cranky and half-assed about it.

I don't know if he knows what else to do, and there is still a fanbase

It's pretty tricky

no, yeah, he's often made bitter remarks about how if he stopped "nerds in honda goldwings" would crucify him. i appreciate the difficulty.

pretty sure what he wants to do is write, which is why the strips these days are so often just huge blocks of illuminated text. i mean, i don't know where his money comes from or how important it is to his family that he keep writing the strip, but if it's not absolutely necessary i kinda think he should stop and write his novel or whatever it is he wants to do. (also he's been dropping hints about adult swim for years, but that's obv out of his control.)