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Kane finds the half-finished diss critique of his wife's opera that his old friend and employee wrote, along with his passed-out drunk old friend. Because of the stubborness of his character and the way he clings to principles even well after he loses any real sense of idealism, he finishes the review "in the spirit it was intended" to prove a point, then coldly fires his friend, and they never speak again. That sequence of events would probably have been hard to make into a 2-panel joke, though.
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Lurdiak posted:Kane finds the half-finished diss critique of his wife's opera that his old friend and employee wrote, along with his passed-out drunk old friend. Because of the stubborness of his character and the way he clings to principles even well after he loses any real sense of idealism, he finishes the review "in the spirit it was intended" to prove a point, then coldly fires his friend, and they never speak again. That sequence of events would probably have been hard to make into a 2-panel joke, though.
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Does anyone know if there are plans to release the 10th compilation? I'd like to get the set from volume 1 to 10, but have no idea how long it will be before that's possible.
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Good luck. The latest Dark Horse compilation has been pushed back at least four times this year.
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BetterWeirdthanDead posted:Good luck. The latest Dark Horse compilation has been pushed back at least four times this year. I feel really sad about the way everything Achewood seems to keep receding towards the horizon.
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I know we really don't have any right and Onstad doesn't owe us anything, but I'd really love to know what's going on behind the scenes. 
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Aug 31, 2010 08:05
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What's the deal with achewoodstore.com? Everything I tried to buy is sold out and I was gonna buy like a heap of things.
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smashczar posted:What's the deal with achewoodstore.com? Everything I tried to buy is sold out and I was gonna buy like a heap of things. I got it to put a framed strip in the shopping cart but other than that I had the same experience 
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csammis posted:I got it to put a framed strip in the shopping cart but other than that I had the same experience In all fairness I did just check and the 2nd cookbook isn't out yet, as far as I can tell. But the poster and strips and first cookbook seems like things that should be kept in stock. I love Achewood, and the current arc is one of my absolute favourites, not least because it shows the strip is still growing artistically and getting even better as time goes on, but we don't seem to be seeing the fruits of whatever Onstad is working on these days as much as we used to. Or I assume this is the case since I only discovered Achewood recently.
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smashczar posted:In all fairness I did just check and the 2nd cookbook isn't out yet, as far as I can tell. But the poster and strips and first cookbook seems like things that should be kept in stock. If you really want to compare against other months, the archive page very handily displays by month. As dry spells go, it's not the worst; we only got two new strips total in all of January 2009.
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Tolan posted:I know we really don't have any right and Onstad doesn't owe us anything, but I'd really love to know what's going on behind the scenes. If you pay for assetbar you have some right as a paying customer. I let mine lapse though since, well, it updates maybe 2 or 3 times a month the past couple. Also agreein' with the guy who said "I feel really sad about the way everything Achewood seems to keep receding towards the horizon. "
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Grilldos posted:Like most monumental works within a medium, Citizen Kane was the first major work to combine several different emerging techniques while taking them all to the next level. So it was basically Avatar?
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GigaPeon posted:So it was basically Avatar? It's a little-known fact that the butler, the archivist lady and the dancing girls at Kane's party were all entirely mo-cap.
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GigaPeon posted:So it was basically Avatar? "An impressive suite of new techniques in the service of a crappy story" applies pretty well to both, so yes.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:If you really want to compare against other months, the archive page very handily displays by month. As dry spells go, it's not the worst; we only got two new strips total in all of January 2009. January 2009 is when he moved his family from San Francisco to Portland, so I would expect there to be a small amount of strips. August 2010 had only one more strip than that. I'm certainly not demanding Onstad make with the free entertainment, but I am curious as to the why production has been so low.
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GigaPeon posted:So it was basically Avatar? Citizen Kane has this thing called acting and dialog; Avatar has lazy readings of cliches.
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The Action Man posted:Citizen Kane has this thing called acting and dialog; Orson Welles posted:Why? That doesn't make any sense. Sorry. There's no known way of saying an English sentence in which you begin a sentence with "in" and emphasize it. Get me a jury and show me how you can say "in July" and I'll... go down on you. That's just idiotic, if you'll forgive me by saying so. That's just stupid. "In July"? I'd love to know how you emphasize "in" in "in July"... Impossible! Meaningless!
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McGravin posted:Acting, huh? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2nf-EQQXUs
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Dodgeball posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2nf-EQQXUs
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McGravin posted:As hilarious as the original Frozen Peas recording is, I wish this video clip weren't overdubbed. The Pinky & The Brain parody version is pretty awesome. Maurice LaMarche does a great impression of Welles. Try this'n.
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LaMarche just did Welles again on the most recent Futurama, in another neat rip on Welles' losing his temper over a terrible script.
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Orson Welles was fantastic, and LaMarche probably does the best Welles in the voice acting business. In other news, it seems we're given a peek into the fanflow to tide us over until the next update. Pat's blog is, as usual, the best blog.
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Assetbar update, long-form Pat piece. Up to the usual standards, but gosh, that was a long wait.
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Goddamn that was sweet, I'm so conflicted when I read Pat because he makes me so angry but I laugh so hard the entire time.
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Does Ray have vodka martinis or just ketel one shaked over ice with an olive? I saw a bottle of ketel one the other day and nearly bought it.
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smashczar posted:Does Ray have vodka martinis or just ketel one shaked over ice with an olive? I saw a bottle of ketel one the other day and nearly bought it. Dogg, there ain't no wrong way to drink vodka, you just gotta have some.
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http://twitter.com/achewood/status/22873886221quote:Was Mr. Mom for last two weeks of summer vac. Got sweet f/a done. Holing up with whisky and anger again. Mystery solved!
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Deathlove posted:http://twitter.com/achewood/status/22873886221 Oh no
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If you aren't spelling it "whiskey," you aren't drinking it right. What's "f/a?" vvv ah. okay, that makes sense. All the possibilities in my head started with "family." Fillerbunny fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Sep 3, 2010 |
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Fillerbunny posted:What's "f/a?" "gently caress all," I do believe.
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Deathlove posted:http://twitter.com/achewood/status/22873886221 CapnAndy fucked around with this message at 15:11 on Sep 3, 2010 |
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smashczar posted:Does Ray have vodka martinis or just ketel one shaked over ice with an olive? I saw a bottle of ketel one the other day and nearly bought it. Considering the proper way to make a vodka martini is to put three parts vodka in a shaker, put one part vermouth down the sink, and then shake with ice, pour into a martini glass and fill a toothpick with as many olives as it will fit, I'd say this question is irrelevant.
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Onstad says in the intro to 'Worst Song, Played On Ugliest Guitar' that Ray drinks his vodka with no ice, which he (Onstad) presumes to be based on some faulty evidence he read in a Playboy article.
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Deathlove posted:http://twitter.com/achewood/status/22873886221 YOU DID NOT JUST SPELL WHISKEY INCORRECTLY
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Irish Taxi Driver posted:YOU DID NOT JUST SPELL WHISKEY INCORRECTLY Hey now, he might just be Scottish: Wikipedia posted:Whisky (Scottish English) or whiskey (Irish English) is a type of distilled alcoholic beverage made from fermented grain mash.
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Grandpa Pap posted:Hey now, he might just be Scottish: My mortal enemies.
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Roast Beef posted:It was a pretty basic "weird scene," like might make sense if you were looking at two fairly sophisticated beetles in a terrarium but man was this guy coming off the whiskey or something. Or is it whisky? No wonder people who drink whiskey are always so mad, they're like WHAT THE HELL AM I DRINKING WHISKY OR WHISKEY and that just makes them drink more. This guy was like that, a man who would drink to excess because his beverage had an outmoded spelling distinction, and then yell at people by the cheap electrical parts store. That is the kind of guy who usually notices me in public.
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Shmoses posted:Onstad says in the intro to 'Worst Song, Played On Ugliest Guitar' that Ray drinks his vodka with no ice, which he (Onstad) presumes to be based on some faulty evidence he read in a Playboy article. Aw, but the Playboy Advisor has been so helpful to our animal friends over the years. Except Roast Beef. (That small series of Advisor strips has always been one of my favorites.)
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Howard Beale posted:Aw, but the Playboy Advisor has been so helpful to our animal friends over the years. Except Roast Beef. And the first cookbook has a recipe for Diamond Juice which is Ketel 1 with zest. Ray loves his Ketel 1. and I'm using the numeral to piss people off
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