do YOU love achewood, too?

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.

The introducing olden days welshmen to blunts strip on the website is gold

"...Cod?"

Is there some sort of proper introduction to this, or should I just read it from the beginning through (since That's what I started doing, and even then it still seems like an insider thing)

Probably best to just plow through from the beginning- there are certainly highlights (the Great Outdoor Fight being an obvious example) but they all build on hundreds of strips' worth of characterization.

first couple of years of achewood are a little non-sequiter heavy. i say search the archive for the phrase "stoned lightning" and begin reading around there.

then go back and read it all.

Also, My name is Padrig / and the women I fancy put well full bums in their knickers // and I do not apologize to you or any other

Xpost: if you want a single, perfect strip, may I recommend searching for Notorious L.I.N.C.O.L.N.?

the "search storyline" function is pretty great too

I remember thinking the whole thing is one really big non-sequiter. I can appreciate the total lack of origin, it seems like a big loops that starts from the middle and traces back to nowhere.

Up to September 2003, and yeah, this is really great (although its very easy to see why I hated it/thought it was stupid before).
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/AbXy6001/tl-1.jpg

*that is before I read anything other than the occasional strip posted on ILX)

“Probably not, but better” is like the perfect line of Achewood dialogue, a beautiful sapphire to raise and admire the way light refracts through it from different angles

It's probably best to start with a storyline like The Great Outdoor Fight. I remember plowing through the archives when I started and man was it painful, the art was even cruder than it is now and in general the humor wasn't nearly as good. Lots of long running webcomics are like this, though.

Wales is bringing the A+++++ lols.

was re-reading some old favs -> 11.5.04 - i totally lost it @ Roast Beef wants to be thrown away at the bowling alley

“Probably not, but better” is like the perfect line of Achewood dialogue, a beautiful sapphire to raise and admire the way light refracts through it from different angles

― the sound of mu (sic), Friday, May 15, 2009 4:32 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

yes! i thought the same thing, said it out loud in my mind a couple times even.

Nagelsheep

OH GOD, NAGELSHEEP

I love Cornelius on Facebook.

Dude's had it figured out since before everyone else was wearing short pants.

I finished reading the whole thing a few weeks ago, after a month. The idea of waiting a week for a new cartoon now is almost unthinkable.

i didn't understand what a 'nagel serape' was, is this because i am english y/n

i actually just searched this thread to revive it and mention cornelius on facebook

Cardamom L. B. Hayfield belongs to the group I HAVE DIED

Did Ray's blanket-sheep-time-travelling-throw remind anybody else of http://www.littleblackstar.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/ddrio.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Nagel

boy, do I feel dumb.

i'd never heard of him before. but the clues were there, man, the clues were there.

actually, remy, you should feel not dumb. you didn't know nagel and still made the connection!

favorite quote from the whole time traveling welsh story is ray reading the paper:

"Daaamn, Ron Howard's brother. You yo' own kind of ugly."

I made that Rio connection too, without knowing who Nagel was. Whoops.