do YOU love achewood, too?

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.