do YOU love achewood, too?

All these years thinking how well Onstad's non-punctuation and "uh"-prefixing of Beef's lines conveys him speaking in a hesitant monotone and it turns out that Onstad-voiced Beef does not talk in a hesitant monotone

(but yeah, Beef way less jarring than Ray, certainly)

In an ideal world, the Achewood cartoon would be entirely in scratchy hand drawn cel animation, kind of like the old MTV Migraine Boy bumpers. The current footage as it stands all feels a little too...smooth.

agreed. this computer animation is both too smooth and too weird. in the credits they mention motion capture was used, which maybe explains why it feels like one long uncomfortable cutscene.

i'm only bummed about this because a) i love achewood and b) i've always thought it had potential as an animation.

All these years thinking how well Onstad's non-punctuation and "uh"-prefixing of Beef's lines conveys him speaking in a hesitant monotone and it turns out that Onstad-voiced Beef does not talk in a hesitant monotone

totes

It's weird to me that anyone might have a problem with the smoothness of the animation itself considering that the original Illustrator vector art is about as smooth as you can get. It was off-putting when the Simpsons made the transition to that creepy all-computer razor-sharp HD art, but Achewood's always looked that way. That was part of its original charm for me, that the guy who created it was clearly just goofing off with Illustrator when he was probably supposed to be at work designing something important.

spacecadet, completely agree - I expected beef to be waaay flatter and 100% monotone.

It's weird to me that anyone might have a problem with the smoothness of the animation itself considering that the original Illustrator vector art is about as smooth as you can get. It was off-putting when the Simpsons made the transition to that creepy all-computer razor-sharp HD art, but Achewood's always looked that way. That was part of its original charm for me, that the guy who created it was clearly just goofing off with Illustrator when he was probably supposed to be at work designing something important.

I agree with this. Re: Onstad's Beef voice, I wouldn't be surprised if they tried it flatter and in a monotone and it just didn't work for a cartoon. Another option could have just been audible mumbling and subtitles, but naaaaah. I think this is a workable compromise.

ray's mouth shouldn't work like that
it's like a wobbling ass with a pendulum underneath

after watching this again i've softened from 'certain disaster' to 'needs a few adjustments but i can see it working'

Ray sounds a lot older than I imagined him sounding. Like 10-20 years older. That cat could be purple, is what I'm saying, but not old.

I'd probably get used to it, but I'm not sure there's any reason to get used to it. I love Achewood. It doesn't have to go on forever, get animated, or even have closure. I'd like to see Onstad do something different, or just enjoy his life beyond the bounds of my awareness.

http://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/068d24f167402586b7bef8d2d1ca453e/tumblr_mlicsmSKl31s76b06o1_500.jpg

roast beef when they recreated cheers for him

new strip

is boring

cornelius wasn't good for achewood, in the end

cornelius is my least fav character by a country mile.

was always the worst-heard voice, became more and more florid with time, the harder it tries to be wodehouse the further away it drifts

I like the character, but I think C.O. has lost how to write him.

I like the comic, but I think C.O. has lost how to write it.

^

so this is making a comeback huh

cool but idg the ending to the Dead Kennedys one :/

did ray fart on beef's earphone?

hes pleasing his anus with the bass, is the joke

last few have been really good! and there are a few of them!

yeah, the one a few weeks ago involving Nice Pete and female characters was kind of amazing.

The mouseover text on the one where Philippe writes his will made me LOL in the office.

OMG at today's strip: http://achewood.com/index.php?date=11152013

he killed Molly????

i think he's just imagining worst-case scenarios

PHEW

one weird trick to last longer

i love the strip before this.

http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=03182014

what particularly creeped me out after reading this was that I had unconsciously removed my wedding ring and put it on my desk. then i looked down from this comic and saw it sitting there.

This is from a few months ago, but I googled him up when I couldn't get achewood.com to load.

http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/eat-and-drink/articles/portland-soda-works-geeks-out-on-pop-september-2014

Rereading it aaaaaalllllllll

Weird how this came true: http://achewood.com/index.php?date=01122006

prescient

hey, remember when he got it together again? that was like a year and a half ago.

I reread the books a few months back. When it was on, it was glorious. There's so much of it to revisit too. Though I guess those Dark Horse reprints are finished now.

https://twitter.com/leyawn/status/667372532748722176

context: http://nymag.com/following/2015/11/this-8-month-twitter-roast-is-a-masterpiece.html

Ferocious tweets flew at Hendren left and right, mainly coming from users @Arr and @weedguy420boner.

Most 2015 sentence ever.

Could have been 2011 just as easily.

oh hey, there are some new ones and they're pretty good.

i just saw!

thank god

Welcome back.

http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=04222016

the preceding FYF comic hit a nerve

50% better than coffee alone

xp yeah, esp "lookin' in the bathroom mirror without drawin' an X in the steam"

really love that he's posting regularly again. once a week seems way more reasonable that his old posting schedule.

I hadn't been reading for a while so I'm catching up and this really made me lol: http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=03112016

this recent burst of strips has been excellent.

was wondering if we'll ever see molly again or if she was an analog for the former mrs onstad.