do YOU love achewood, too?

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.

Catching up on all the ones I've missed out on, gotta say the brief sheik-voice-donut arc brought heavy, heavy lolz

Was pronunciation of "achewood" ever covered here?

Also note the frame in the middle here, which I just came by and wouldn't possibly have rembered otherwise.

Ache
wood

?

Can't see how else one would go about pronouncing it...

ACHHHHuh WOOOOOOduh of course

DAS ACH-eh-VOOD

pretty special post by ray about MJ linked up there today

Try wakin’ up tomorrow and writin’ We Are The World. See what you come up with. See if you can get Stevie and Tina to come down to the studio, along with Bruce and Billy and twenty other people who cost a whole hell of a lotta money at the time.

I was saying ay-shh wood for a long time.

that Ray Smuckles blog post is genius xp

he didn't write thriller or pyt tho :/

Michael was our music. The next time you’re out alone in your car, and Smooth Criminal comes on, it’s gonna mean somethin’ different to you. You’re not gonna change it this time. You’re gonna hear it and think to yourself, “I missed knowin’ his music in the moment.” I don’t blame The Cure. That was your call. The Cure is just out there, like car horns or people who make noise when they cry. The Cure is a choice. When we hear Michael, it is not a choice to feel the beat. It is not a choice to cock your head and straighten all the fingers on your right hand.

There is a reason Ray is the man. This paragraph does a lot to explain this reason.