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paint dry posted:Man just when I was actually, serious this time, beginning to think the wheels had fallen off the Achewoodmobile, Onstad pulls out a classic Beef ex machina. If you go back and read this thread (and the Achewood threads before it) you'll find this sentiment over and over again. When will the doubters stop doubting?
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Sprecherscrow posted:As somebody who once tried the Dark Side of Oz, "Man there is being tiresome and then there are conspiracy theories about stoner records" is maybe the greatest goddamn thing. Right there with you, chochacho. Luckily I'm old enough where I'm not unwittingly surrounded by stoners anymore. Happy Hippo posted:If you go back and read this thread (and the Achewood threads before it) you'll find this sentiment over and over again. When will the doubters stop doubting? I think being stuck in the thick of it in arcs like this is the reason. Can't see the forest for the trees--it gets desolate.
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Aug 3, 2010 15:42
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Fillerbunny posted:
I remember someone said "Achewood was best before you started reading it". Might've been in this thread, might've been an older one. The way it's set up, when you're going through the archive and reading all the old stuff, if you don't like a comic, you can just click next. Arc is long? Whatever, you don't have to wait for the next comic or anything. Then you get current, and the ones you don't like stand out since you don't have that "fast forward" anymore.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I remember someone said "Achewood was best before you started reading it". Might've been in this thread, might've been an older one. The way it's set up, when you're going through the archive and reading all the old stuff, if you don't like a comic, you can just click next. Arc is long? Whatever, you don't have to wait for the next comic or anything. Then you get current, and the ones you don't like stand out since you don't have that "fast forward" anymore. Yeah, long breaks between strips break the momentum and give you enough time to think about it and go "....this is dragging out, and a bit stupid". If you're reading it all in one go, there's no pacing issues and everything just rolls along.
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Aug 3, 2010 16:23
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Just reread through the whole archive again if an arc stalls. You've got hours of comics there.
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Aug 3, 2010 16:24
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I am seriously pumped about this development.
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Aug 3, 2010 18:11
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I know, right? The one man on earth who can figure his way out of a Nice Pete Situation.
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Aug 3, 2010 18:27
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It's like an extremely limited version of MacGyver.
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Aug 3, 2010 19:13
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Rodney the Piper posted:It's like an extremely limited version of MacGyver. Vagina Products MacGyver?
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Unkempt posted:What's this thread doing down there when there's a new strip? Mr. Onstad: Please be aware that based on your latest installment of "Achewood", I have asked my attorney to initiate action to sue you clear and free on grounds of mental surprise. Rest assured the claim that the reader should have expected such an awesome turn of events will hardly rise to the level of an affirmative defense. Winning this case will certainly be a lesser jubilation to me. Best, Nonvalueadded User
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Phy posted:Vagina Products MacGyver? Bring on the Pennsylvania Love Goose!
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I will be very disappointed if we don't find out exactly what Brisket36 means. I doubt it's just a general 'poo poo's goin' down' thing. No, there's a plan to it, and I want to know what Beef plans for ahead of time.SeanBeansShako posted:Just reread through the whole archive again if an arc stalls. You've got hours of comics there. I already do this; whenever I'm reading something while I eat, most likely with lunch at home, I'm reading one of my eight Achewood book collections. But I've read through them like fifteen times now, which is a little less exciting.
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Have Beef and Nice Pete ever really had any extended interaction? I can't think of any, if I remember right the USB powered internet knife featured Ray and Teodor, didn't it? TO THE ARCHIVES!
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Yeah, long breaks between strips break the momentum and give you enough time to think about it and go "....this is dragging out, and a bit stupid". If you're reading it all in one go, there's no pacing issues and everything just rolls along. Yeah, a slow update schedule is one thing when its one-offs or short, loose arcs. Getting to where there's a comic every 7-10 days in the middle of a very story-driven plot-heavy arc can be grating.
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Radio Paranoia posted:Your cheeseburger says a lot about you. But... that's not Teodor's cheeseburger, is it? Jerusalem posted:Have Beef and Nice Pete ever really had any extended interaction? I can't think of any, if I remember right the USB powered internet knife featured Ray and Teodor, didn't it? Roast Beef showed up after Pete was already unconscious, I believe. More than anything, I really want to see interaction between Nice Pete and Cornelius Bear. For all we know, the two know each other from the past, or Cornelius knew his father or something.
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You know, I'm not sure just anyone could've quite pulled off that panel of Roast Beef practicing hamburger forensics. That's some fine expressive cartooning there.
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Aug 4, 2010 02:15
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I wasn't quite sure what was going on with the hamburger forensics, and just assumed that Beef recognized Ted's cough. Whether or not that cough was old homosexual-related.
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Cobweb Heart posted:But... that's not Teodor's cheeseburger, is it?
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McGravin posted:It is. That is why there is a Teodor-shaped bite taken out of it. Notice Beef analyzing Teodor's chewing pattern in his mind. The cough confirmed Beef's suspicions. He went at it Sherlock Holmes-style.
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McGravin posted:It is. That is why there is a Teodor-shaped bite taken out of it. Notice Beef analyzing Teodor's chewing pattern in his mind. The cough confirmed Beef's suspicions. I get what Beef did. It's just bothering me - Nathan orders a cheeseburger and takes it into the van at Pete's urging, and then, for some reason, Teodor is now the one that has finally taken a few bites. I just wish Onstad had shown Teodor eating it or being hungry or something.
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Cobweb Heart posted:I get what Beef did. It's just bothering me - Nathan orders a cheeseburger and takes it into the van at Pete's urging, and then, for some reason, Teodor is now the one that has finally taken a few bites. I just wish Onstad had shown Teodor eating it or being hungry or something. Presumably Nice Pete gave him some, since you know he can't leave doing the Deed to Nature.
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OH the wonderful relief of suddenly feeling that SOMEHOW things are going to be okay! Maybe not for Lurquilla's chinchillas, because they're all soggy.
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Cobweb Heart posted:I get what Beef did. It's just bothering me - Nathan orders a cheeseburger and takes it into the van at Pete's urging, and then, for some reason, Teodor is now the one that has finally taken a few bites. I just wish Onstad had shown Teodor eating it or being hungry or something. Pete told Beef that he had Teodor with him, Beef looked at the burger to try and determine if it was Teodor who took a bite from the burger, but then heard a cough he recognized as Teodor's, gave Emeril the codeword and hopped into the van to go along with Pete in order to rescue Teodor. That's how I read it.
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Jerusalem posted:Pete told Beef that he had Teodor with him, Beef looked at the burger to try and determine if it was Teodor who took a bite from the burger, but then heard a cough he recognized as Teodor's, gave Emeril the codeword and hopped into the van to go along with Pete in order to rescue Teodor. That's how I read it. I think this interpretation makes the most sense.
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I think I can only count this adventure as a complete success if the chinchillas get a blow-dry and a dust-bath and a cup of hot cocoa 
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Chinchilla Lady will end up with Johnny Bigcock, Teodor was trying to break out and get away from the chinchillas, and Beef's buddies are skitchin' the back of Nice Pete's van, trying to pop the back end open. At that point, Beef... uh... Throws chili powder in Nice Pete's eyes and bails out the window or something. Nice Pete crashes into a school bus and the chinchillas feed like kings.
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Aug 4, 2010 10:56
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The fact you want Nice Pete dead disappoints me, sir.
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I'm hoping Roast Beef breaks Nice Petes daze by telling him he is going to go to a crummy college if he doesn't clean up his act. He might fail and have to take a really low blue collar job too! And they all go back to the house and eat something special Ray cooked up for T losing his butt cherry.
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SeanBeansShako posted:I'm hoping Roast Beef breaks Nice Petes daze by telling him he is going to go to a crummy college if he doesn't clean up his act. That worked really well when Teodor tried it.
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SeanBeansShako posted:T losing his butt cherry. I hope you mean a dude totally rocking his can.
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robot roll call posted:That worked really well when Teodor tried it. In Nice Petes High School Adventure universe, Teodor is all established and knowing Nice Pete has a rambling long serial killer style back story planned. Pete didn't plan on including Beef in on this, And Beef who had a seriously sucky High School experince could take him down a notch. The sad cat beats the psychotic eerie killer cat with his smarts.
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There could be problems if Roast Beef enters Nice Pete's high school world as the guidance counselor. Nobody likes guidance counselors.
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Haha, I just noticed Emeril called it "The Far Side of the Moon".
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robot roll call posted:Haha, I just noticed Emeril called it "The Far Side of the Moon". I saw that and I wondered if Chris was doing this to see how many nerdy e-mails he would get correcting him.
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robot roll call posted:Haha, I just noticed Emeril called it "The Far Side of the Moon". A tragically overlooked rock comic crossover project between Gary Larson and Pink Floyd.
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In a world where talking cats and teddy bears hang out and own pubs and recording companies, Pink Floyd was clever enough to realize that the moon has no proper dark side, but relative to Earth it does have a far side. Oh, that that world were this.
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Aug 5, 2010 08:34
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the last time I got into a van with a nude mustache, he ate my cheeseburger
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Aug 5, 2010 09:42
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As someone who has just recently read Nice Pete's blog in its entirety, I'm happy to see him prominently featured in this arc.
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MizuZero posted:the last time I got into a van with a nude mustache, he ate my cheeseburger Amazingly, I didn't read any of that as innuendo. It is the much vaunted non-tendre.
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After hearing all this rot about Chinchillas needing dust baths I felt it necessary to see for myself. Thankfully youtube Chinchilla owners have taken the courtesy of documenting this behavior. I find it incredibly strange and wonderous that despite how essential water is to life, it can be dangerous to these cute furry critters. So until the next new strip is posted, here's a video of a Chinchilla rolling around in a bowl of dust like a spaz. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8cWcdIXIZE
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