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bgaesop posted:I am deeply unnerved You and me both    I've never really followed Achewood and only started reading it properly in the middle of this current arc. ...I'm not sure if it was a good time to arrive or not.
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Jul 9, 2010 12:17
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Radio Paranoia posted:You and me both   I don't know if I can possibly handle having to wait more than a couple of days to see what happens next.
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Jul 9, 2010 12:39
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Jerusalem posted:
I dunno man, I remember when we talked about this stuff in high school health class and I'm pretty sure I know what happens next. (spoiler:  )
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Jul 9, 2010 12:44
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i want the police to arrive, but maybe no straight away.
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Jul 9, 2010 12:50
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Ashenai posted:Holy poo poo, panel 4 didn't fully register for me the first time I saw it I was hoping that's not what I thought it was.
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Jul 9, 2010 13:28
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I'm waiting for Teodor's diginity to just bust through the back of the door and put everything back to normal, waving it away as a dream. But deep inside I know his dignity ain't never coming back.
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Jul 9, 2010 14:04
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JHomer722 posted:I was hoping that's not what I thought it was.
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Jul 9, 2010 14:06
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And as this happens, Nice Pete is carefully backing the Van up into Rays garage which has been all decorated for a surprise party where everyone eagerly awaits with present in hand. Except Mr Bear, who is calmly sitting down with a small glass of refined Pimms.
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Jul 9, 2010 14:48
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Oh Jesus. Oh T. I still don't understand why Pete's shadow was making a Molotov cocktail two strips ago...
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Jul 9, 2010 14:59
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Happy Hippo posted:Oh Jesus. Oh T. He was fantasizing about what he could do to two people locked in the back of his van. The shadow was a cool, artistic way of showing what he was thinking about.
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Jul 9, 2010 15:00
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Ooohhh. Makes sense! Thanks!
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Jul 9, 2010 15:01
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It is my sincere hope that Teodor's hands are on the lock, and old Nathan just enjoys exposing himself to an unwilling audience. That is a quality I would not be surprised to find in a 3AM Denny's patron.
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Jul 9, 2010 15:06
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Nathan looks really really scared in that last panel.
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Jul 9, 2010 15:32
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If he is going to die, it is going to be la petite mort.
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Jul 9, 2010 16:10
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bgaesop posted:I am deeply unnerved Me too. Mostly about what will happen in the next strip but more specifically if it involves the adverb "deeply" in a way which will make Teodor want to go in a shower and never come out.
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Jul 9, 2010 16:40
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Umm...so you guys realize that these last few strips are going on entirely in Nice Pete's head, right? The shift in art style and the "Unreliable Narrator" alt-text were supposed to indicate the shift from reality into fantasy?
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Jul 9, 2010 16:54
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This art style isn't what I would have imagined for Pete's thoughts.
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Jul 9, 2010 16:55
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Sigma-X posted:I'm waiting for Teodor's diginity to just bust through the back of the door and put everything back to normal, waving it away as a dream. CUT IT OUT YOU TWO DON'T YOU KNOW THERE'S A WAR GOING ON
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Jul 9, 2010 16:57
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blue.eyed.ash posted:Umm...so you guys realize that these last few strips are going on entirely in Nice Pete's head, right? The shift in art style and the "Unreliable Narrator" alt-text were supposed to indicate the shift from reality into fantasy?
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Jul 9, 2010 17:16
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LegoMan posted:Old Denny's Patron getting blown by naked bloody Teodor doesn't seem like a happy High School memory thing to be dreamed up. By Nice Pete?
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Jul 9, 2010 17:24
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LegoMan posted:Old Denny's Patron getting blown by naked bloody Teodor doesn't seem like a happy High School memory thing to be dreamed up. Hey, just because YOUR high school was dull...
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Jul 9, 2010 18:00
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Teodor never thought he'd know something so beautiful. He was wrong, I suppose. (Onstad, you gonna get letters for that alt text)
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Jul 9, 2010 20:57
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blue.eyed.ash posted:Umm...so you guys realize that these last few strips are going on entirely in Nice Pete's head, right? The shift in art style and the "Unreliable Narrator" alt-text were supposed to indicate the shift from reality into fantasy? I think this is wishful thinking rather than real evidence. The "Unhinged Narrator" was most likely confined to that one comic, in which Nice Pete was obviously imagining/hallucinating. The change in art style is most likely caused by playing around with brushes and a WACOM. *edit* If anything, it's a hallucination of one of the passengers. Locus fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Jul 9, 2010 |
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Jul 9, 2010 21:13
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Honestly, I haven't liked this story arc for a while, and it's going on for way too long. It's kind of turning me off to the strip right now.
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Jul 9, 2010 22:30
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poor and weird posted:Honestly, I haven't liked this story arc for a while, and it's going on for way too long. It's kind of turning me off to the strip right now. Quick Onstad! Make a comic where Lyle pukes on Todd before you lose this one reader! *Cracks whip for good measure* Honestly, the only explanation we've come up with for "30'ed" so far is that people in their middle life crisis smoke more weed? C'mon, goons, we're better than that 
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Jul 9, 2010 22:44
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Any strip related to Nice Pete is a good strip and I won't hear otherwise.
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Jul 9, 2010 22:48
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I really like this arc to be honest, it's a very cool change in tone from what I'm used to. The constant experimentation and re-invention of Achewood's style is what I love about it.
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Jul 9, 2010 23:00
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Ashenai posted:I really like this arc to be honest, it's a very cool change in tone from what I'm used to. The constant experimentation and re-invention of Achewood's style is what I love about it. Thanks for saying that. Yeah, I've been doing this for like nine years or whatever. If I made the same old Marmaduke barfing into Garfield's gaping meatus gag every day, would you respect me? I wouldn't. Anyhow, it's been interesting to see how many readers are against Téodor's gay experimentation/dalliance. Lots of folks are inadvertently outing themselves, I guess. (My logic is that if you hate gay people, it's because you yourself won't admit that you're gay, and are a little gay teapot of rage.) Myself? Sexuality is a spectrum, son. However, I personally am, unfortunately or fortunately, straighter than John Wayne voting for Reagan on a horse. I can't get hot about dudes, and for that, I apologize to hot dudes. Keep up the good work, fellas. Go getcha' some.
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Jul 9, 2010 23:21
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I love the change of tone too. Achewood can be a lot of things. It's hilarious most of the time, so let it be like Ian Curtis sang a song that David Lynch wrote about Charles Manson for a while, alright people? Having said that, there has never been a better opportunity to include men being punched on the erection and slidewhistle noises.
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Jul 9, 2010 23:31
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The whole time I was reading this strip I was saying outloud " Oooh no teodor dont do it man dont do it. dont suck that cock teodor oh nooo"
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Jul 9, 2010 23:38
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robot roll call posted:Having said that, there has never been a better opportunity to include men being punched on the erection and slidewhistle noises. I have been absolutely on edge waiting for someone to get punched in/on the erection.
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Jul 9, 2010 23:49
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Chris Onstad posted:If I made the same old Marmaduke barfing into Garfield's gaping meatus gag every day, would you respect me? I wouldn't. I both love and hate this arc, or at least the last couple strips, pretty much because I agree with your "sexuality is a spectrum" statement. For instance, I believe you can be pretty far to one end or the other, but still willing to dabble with what lies at the opposite end, such as Teodor here. Maybe that's why these strips have made me uncomfortable; I consider myself pretty far towards the "straight" end of the spectrum, but I'll admit there are certain guys (and perhaps certain near-death situations) that I would go gay for. A young, suave Sean Connery comes to mind, or else an old, commanding Sean Connery. So perhaps these strips have hit too close to home for my usual comfort zone. I see where Teodor is at, and I say to myself "Perhaps, if facing my own imminent murder, I might be willing to suck the cock of a perfect stranger." But then isn't it the goal of art to make the reader/viewer feel something, and whether that something is good or bad is mostly irrelevant?
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Jul 9, 2010 23:51
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What about punched with an erection?
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Jul 9, 2010 23:55
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McGravin posted:So perhaps these strips have hit too close to home for my usual comfort zone. I see where Teodor is at, and I say to myself "Perhaps, if facing my own imminent murder, I might be willing to suck the cock of a perfect stranger." Yeah, Téodor is just a really interesting dude. He has these urges, but he's ashamed of them, but at the same time he's enlightened enough to know that he shouldn't be ashamed of them. Maybe. Or maybe I'm reading too much into the sexuality of a stuffed bear. Either way, the dude has a tension, and I'm interested to see where it goes.
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Jul 9, 2010 23:57
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LordSaturn posted:I have been absolutely on edge waiting for someone to get punched in/on the erection. Well, we're halfway there. A fist could get involved somehow, there's still time!
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Jul 9, 2010 23:58
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The thing is, if T wants to explore his sexuality, it'd be nice if it wasn't in the back of a sociopath's van with an elderly man's 10 inch dick. But then again, I guess that's always how it is.
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Jul 10, 2010 00:13
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blue.eyed.ash posted:Umm...so you guys realize that these last few strips are going on entirely in Nice Pete's head, right? The shift in art style and the "Unreliable Narrator" alt-text were supposed to indicate the shift from reality into fantasy? Nice Pete's fantasies in this strip don't fit with your art style theory.
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Jul 10, 2010 00:24
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Time Cowboy posted:What about punched with an erection? That's how they're gonna break free. Teodor's hefting Old Denny's Man up by the dingus and plans to break the lock by force by throwing an old man onto it.
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Jul 10, 2010 00:34
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ChibiSoma posted:That's how they're gonna break free. Teodor's hefting Old Denny's Man up by the dingus and plans to break the lock by force by throwing an old man onto it. Then he uses it as a melee weapon to knock out Nice Pete.
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Jul 10, 2010 00:40
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