the C&H plane/train/earthquake strip above it so expertly done
I lose it every time at "his eye twitches involuntarily"
― Number None, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 23:28 (eight years ago) link
yes. iirc the caption on that strip in the 10th anniversary book: "One of Calvin's better buildups."
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 23:30 (eight years ago) link
My favorite bit in the Prehistory book:
http://images.mentalfloss.com/sites/default/files/styles/insert_main_wide_image/public/02-far-side-dennis-the-menace.png
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 23:40 (eight years ago) link
xp still i think my favorite cruel-god-calvin strip is this earlier, cruder one. the timing.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v87/Inuxx/664f9ab0ded9013171bc005056a9545d_zps48z20fwu.jpg
boredom comes so swiftly.
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 23:42 (eight years ago) link
hahaha i'll never get over the petrified skull mixup
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 9 December 2015 23:49 (eight years ago) link
That deer one sure hits a bit closer to home than it used to.
― pplains, Thursday, 10 December 2015 01:00 (eight years ago) link
some kid in my cub scout "pack" made half of us enact that one as a skit. he worried you a little.
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 10 December 2015 01:31 (eight years ago) link
later he threatened to kill me over his sister (we were 9)
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 10 December 2015 01:32 (eight years ago) link
Wow, I just went through the whole thread after only doing sections at a time.
Top Of My To Do List:~Gasoline Alley~The Spirit
I used to collect Fox Trot when I was younger. And like lots of things, I got turned off and remain that way. I remember when Jason didn't like school in the first couple books. Life In Hell is overrated. Achewood is overrated.
― The Once-ler, Thursday, 10 December 2015 03:07 (eight years ago) link
ok, maybe I'm being a little hard on Groening
― The Once-ler, Thursday, 10 December 2015 03:20 (eight years ago) link
i had a lot of foxtrot books too. this was in the dark years after c&h ended. my best friend and i sat in a panda express and talked about it as a potential second coming. of course it wasn't.
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 10 December 2015 03:22 (eight years ago) link
In my memory, FoxTrot was already past its peak and well into routine by the time C&H ended. It only debuted a couple years after C&H, so I guess that's not so surprising. Or maybe I was just growing out of it. I like the 80s-ness of the early strips, with Peter obsessing over Bruce Springsteen and stuff.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 10 December 2015 04:03 (eight years ago) link
oh yeah i was reading it in collections exclusively; i don't think it was in my paper.
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 10 December 2015 04:37 (eight years ago) link
a personal second coming i guess.
so apparently there's a new achewood and it's a good one! (there are 2 new ones actually, the other is a fuck you friday)
― nerd shit (Will M.), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 17:22 (eight years ago) link
a brief rumination on recent Achewood:http://fleen.com/archives/2016/08/26/in-which-i-go-on-about-achewood-for-a-while/
― Shakey δσς (sic), Sunday, 4 September 2016 12:52 (seven years ago) link
on the discussion about the degree to which Achewood was native to the web, and to not being stand alone random gags: Tyrell using hypertext there, far more than explicit wording, to reference and allude to the way the accretion of detail is linked through time, both for the reader and the characters' lives within the strip (cf the recent one with Beef divining Showbiz' approach by treating the local papers minor police reports as runes)
although, of course, his doubt over whether this death of Todd's will take any more firmly than any previous can give weight to those who want to dismiss any seriousness of character or tone
― Shakey δσς (sic), Sunday, 4 September 2016 12:58 (seven years ago) link
recent achewood has been scorchin, reminded me why i loved it in the first place
― beer say hi to me (stevie), Sunday, 11 September 2016 08:19 (seven years ago) link
RIP New Zealand's David Sim.
― Vernon Locke, Sunday, 12 March 2017 23:13 (seven years ago) link