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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I think what makes it worse is the donate link at the top of the page. Maybe there's a donation counter to be filled before the strip resumes and we haven't seen it because every single one of us has Adblock installed and it's been blocked everytime. It's a magical realism webcomic, afterall! Wolfsheim posted:Sure, its a tiny little black-and-white strip, but the writing is gold. You can't force something like "MY WHOLE LIFE I BEEN SOCIETY'S STARED-AT MAN" I tell you, we should wait more. Any mainstream band takes longer than this in between albums, and their writing isn't half as good as Achewood's.
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Zefiel posted:Maybe there's a donation counter to be filled before the strip resumes and we haven't seen it because every single one of us has Adblock installed and it's been blocked everytime. It's a magical realism webcomic, afterall! If he had a "no strip till I get 2000 bucks" counter, my goodness, the internet may explode with angry achewood nerds shaking their sweaty collective fists Thats their mountain dew money I have to say this has given me a chance to look at other comics, I have really got in things like Dr McNinja and Gunshow which are both regular and great
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SeanBeansShako posted:Achewood writing is gold, I always chuckle when I think of Roast Beef sullenly wearing one of his ill bought t-shirts from the internet. I've got like 5 shirts in my closet that have literally never been worn, still have tags on them. Each time it's " oh man that is a riot and a half" and then it gets here and " oh man i can't wear this outside what was I thinking" and too awkward to return it. So, in the closet it goes.
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Johnny Aztec posted:I've got like 5 shirts in my closet that have literally never been worn, still have tags on them. Each time it's " oh man that is a riot and a half" and then it gets here and " oh man i can't wear this outside what was I thinking" and too awkward to return it. So, in the closet it goes. Just do what I do, silently shuffle them off to Goodwill or a clothing drive so someone else can be one day burdened with their awkwardness! (Unless no one ends up buying them!) As for the delay, I feel oddly neutral towards it, it doesn't stir up any anger in me, even though it its in the middle of one crazy story arc. It does make for a nice surprise when one pops up, I guess!
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Cheapsteaks posted:Just do what I do, silently shuffle them off to Goodwill or a clothing drive so someone else can be one day burdened with their awkwardness! (Unless no one ends up buying them!) Then the unwanted shirts will keep getting shoved farther down the clothing food chain, until some kid in Uganda is running around wearing a "Keep staring, I might do a trick" shirt.
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Slashie posted:Then the unwanted shirts will keep getting shoved farther down the clothing food chain, until some kid in Uganda is running around wearing a "Keep staring, I might do a trick" shirt. I hope it's one of these kids:  because they look like they could make good on it. Also, they look like they've been knuckleheads since small times. I agree, I would love to see a childhood strip that includes Pat. The existing childhood strips show that Ray and Beef's personalities have been pretty much the same all their lives. It would be interesting to see if the same is true for Pat, or if his dickishness evolved gradually.
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Dove from Above posted:Also, they look like they've been knuckleheads since small times. I agree, I would love to see a childhood strip that includes Pat. The existing childhood strips show that Ray and Beef's personalities have been pretty much the same all their lives. It would be interesting to see if the same is true for Pat, or if his dickishness evolved gradually. We know that he only became a vegetarian after a traumatic experience with a duck, but it never stipulated that he wasn't already a huge dick.
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I loved that there was a (slight) belief when Pat finally realized he was gay that maybe now he would be a better person because all his dickishness was misplaced anger over his repressed homosexuality.... and then within a couple of strips it turned out that the only change was that now he was a total dick who also happened to be gay, giving him one more thing to be smugly superior about to the "sheeple".
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Jerusalem posted:I loved that there was a (slight) belief when Pat finally realized he was gay that maybe now he would be a better person because all his dickishness was misplaced anger over his repressed homosexuality.... and then within a couple of strips it turned out that the only change was that now he was a total dick who also happened to be gay, giving him one more thing to be smugly superior about to the "sheeple". It wasn't even a couple of strips - it was within the same strip. The alt text is the perfect accent on that whole theme, too.
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are we doing ACHEWOOD: A RETROSPECTIVE now? because Lyle's brief dalliance in the gonzo porn industry's one of my favorite thingsquote:Jimmy crapped in my yard! Followed shortly afterwards by his lucid tenure as cook at a Scottish all-girls school. What makes Lyle the best character is that he's a natural businessman; if he had Ray's luck he'd be Microsoft rich
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One of my favorites were the Badass Games. Every strip was gold.
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I love that arc simply for the image of a young Corny just patiently waiting for the war to end in the Nazi POW camp. Also, the jabs at Todd.
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Thought I'd share that I dreamt I received Achewood vol 3 in the mail... and packaged with it were volumes 4, 5, 6, and 7. And a note saying essentially "ha ha motherfuckers, this is what I've been up to". I shouldn't read SA right before I go to bed. But... but maybe this is what he's been up to!
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Ashenai posted:One of my favorites were the Badass Games. Every strip was gold. I remember that came shortly after THE GREAT OUTDOOR FIGHT and some people were a bit concerned that Onstad was basically retreading the same ground again. Instead we got baking bread, chatting with a convict, a multi-choice exam and impressing a dog. Plus the bus they made him ruled.
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Manwithastick posted:If he had a "no strip till I get 2000 bucks" counter, my goodness, the internet may explode with angry achewood nerds shaking their sweaty collective fists You forgot the part where the fans would then promptly fill the counter.
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Oct 18, 2010 23:38
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 NEW STRIP!But I like Bill Murray 
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If I have to wait weeks at a time for a surprise guest of this caliber I am fine with that.
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aw Bill Murray don't be in a fire dogg
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Oct 19, 2010 00:49
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Strips like this make me glad that our issue is quantity rather than quality.
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Oct 19, 2010 01:02
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After a weekend of listening to my brother talk non-stop about David Lynch this is the best strip.
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I love David Lynch. I love Achewood. I love David Lynch guest starring in Achewood. "Moaning bucket of tar." That is all.
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David Lynch knowing an insanely rich talking cat in a thong really shouldn't come as a surprise to me at all. I don't like waiting for new strips but they are ALWAYS worth the wait, that was great.
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Oct 19, 2010 04:44
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That's the most terrifying depiction of Bill Murray ever. And I saw Garfield.
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Holy crap, signs of life!
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That was brilliant.
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Dang, is there anything Ray can't turn into an ill-advised business opportunity?
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robot roll call posted:Strips like this make me glad that our issue is quantity rather than quality. I complain, but I do it out of greed. It's a problem with me.
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Post-fire Bill Murray kind of reminded me of Cartilage Head. Do you think that's what Lynch's movie is really about? If it's not, shouldn't it be?
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Don't worry, Bill Murray. All you gotta do is take fifty percent hydrogen peroxide and fifty percent water and gargle with it. Do not swallow. You spit it out. Don't swallow, Bill Murray.
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In an amazing coincidence, I just added a bunch of David Lynch films to my Netflix queue AND watched a documentary about him before this strip was published. 
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Grandpa Pap posted:In an amazing coincidence, I just added a bunch of David Lynch films to my Netflix queue AND watched a documentary about him before this strip was published. 'bout loving time. Onstad was waiting for you.
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Howard Beale posted:Don't worry, Bill Murray. you're a dick for getting this stuck in my head you jerk
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:you're a dick for getting this stuck in my head you jerk Christ. Hadn't seen that before. Sorta glad he's permabanned now. Didn't mean to stick that one in your ear. Here, purge yourself with some coffee and cigarettes.
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glug posted:'bout loving time.
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I just finished a full rewatch of Twin Peaks so I kind of want David Lynch to get on with my imaginary fanfic movie where Harry and Audrey rescue Cooper from the Black Lodge and nearly get their asses kicked but everyone is rescued at the last minute by Diane (Gillian Anderson)... but this will suffice.
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I love Ray's,"....okay, so, don't make that movie...." as well as Lynch's assurance that while he has people coming to talk to him he will make certain to listen for the phone and to answer it. He's so wonderfully earnest.
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Someone commented today on the fact that my msn profile at work says "you can do anything you want in life." I promptly linked them the relevant strip: http://achewood.com/index.php?date=10242007
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Jerusalem posted:David Lynch knowing an insanely rich talking cat in a thong really shouldn't come as a surprise to me at all. It's the most realistic, natural thing I've seen in either Achewood or a Lynch film.
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