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I used to think like that but then i read this and now i don't.
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Dodgeball posted:Here's something fun: It's gotta be Ray. gently caress, I miss this comic.
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Oct 13, 2011 04:51
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rotinaj posted:It's gotta be Ray. Nah, Ray and Roast Beef weren't around in the beginning. It's gotta be Philippe, Cornelius, or Teodor.
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Oct 13, 2011 06:42
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Well then I'll say Pat. (And I thought Roast Beef was always around, he just didn't have a name at first.)
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Oct 13, 2011 07:21
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Pretty sure it's Teodor in the weird one with the photo background.
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Oct 13, 2011 07:28
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Howard Beale posted:Well then I'll say Pat. I thought Beef and Ray showed up at the same time.
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Oct 13, 2011 16:08
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Dominion posted:I thought Beef and Ray showed up at the same time. They did. Beef, Ray and Pat all appeared in the same strip which was many months after the strip debuted with Connie, Lyle, Phillippe and T as the stars.
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Oct 13, 2011 16:20
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I don't know if they were the stars so much as they lived at Onstad's house during a period when he was figuring out what and who his comic would be about  I do love that it's his house, and that he figures very rarely into the story.
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glug posted:I don't know if they were the stars so much as they lived at Onstad's house during a period when he was figuring out what and who his comic would be about I've never quite grasped how the world of Achewood works in terms of apparently being the actual Onstad's house and the characters being his stuffed toys and cats, but also a world scaled down to them at the same time. Is this something that gets explained in the subscription material I can't be bothered paying for?
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ChuckDHead posted:I've never quite grasped how the world of Achewood works in terms of apparently being the actual Onstad's house and the characters being his stuffed toys and cats, but also a world scaled down to them at the same time. Is this something that gets explained in the subscription material I can't be bothered paying for? No, that whole conceit sort of just fell away after a while. Connie/Lyle/Phillipe/Teodor are stuffed animals and live in Onstad's house, but Ray and Roast Beef are actual cats, who drive Escalades and release multiplatinum albums and shop for wedding gifts at Sears. Also Phillipe has a mother who mails him care packages. Is she also a stuffed animal?
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Oct 13, 2011 18:15
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Stuffed animals don't have children so I doubt it.
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Oct 13, 2011 18:58
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That stuff was sort of addressed in the actual comic but like Dominion said it sort of fell away over time.
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Oct 13, 2011 19:27
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Onstad first explains the Underground, where the cats hang out, in 2003. He mapped it out in 2005 with two special strips. Philippe drove his car down once to sit session with the dirtiest dudes in town. Basically the animals live above ground in Achewood and hide from the human world (there's a few early strips where Beef goes out driving and wears a really creepy person suit.) But the Underground is their own city with businesses and restaurants and stuff. It's where everybody's Subways are. I know that doesn't address the stuffed animal issue, but I don't think it has anything to do with the stuffed animals. Howard Beale fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Oct 13, 2011 |
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Oct 13, 2011 21:15
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Howard Beale posted:Onstad first explains the Underground, where the cats hang out, in 2003. He mapped it out in 2005 with two special strips. Philippe drove his car down once to sit session with the dirtiest dudes in town. Yeah, but Ray rides around in Airwolf. I assume that means he's in the "real world" skies, unless the Underground is meant to be a parallel dimension or something rather than just literally underground. E: of course, the actual answer is that Onstad just stopped caring about that detail and wanted to write strips about a cat flying a helicopter, cosmology be damned, which I wholeheartedly support. JoshTheStampede fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Oct 13, 2011 |
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Oct 13, 2011 21:20
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Dominion posted:E: of course, the actual answer is that Onstad just stopped caring about that detail and wanted to write strips about a cat flying a helicopter, cosmology be damned, which I wholeheartedly support. Exactly! 
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Oct 13, 2011 21:35
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Basically it depends on which part of the archive you're reading.
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Oct 13, 2011 23:04
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To answer the trivia question: This strip was the earliest use of alt text that I could find. The answer lies within...
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Oct 13, 2011 23:21
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Going back through the archives, god these Oasis strips are loving brilliant.
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ChuckDHead posted:I've never quite grasped how the world of Achewood works in terms of apparently being the actual Onstad's house and the characters being his stuffed toys and cats, but also a world scaled down to them at the same time. Is this something that gets explained in the subscription material I can't be bothered paying for? "It's just a comic, I should really just relax."
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DocFrance posted:"It's just a comic, I should really just relax." "Teodor! Phillipe! Cor-ne-li-us! Lyyyyyyyyyllllle!"
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Oct 14, 2011 08:35
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Just came upon the creepy Nolan arc ("Nolan from the Internet? Ray Smuckles, not of the internet.), which was followed by Cornelius freaking out about his Star Wars tattoo and hitting himself with the most painful part of the loafer I miss Achewood.
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Oct 17, 2011 05:58
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In case you haven't seen it yet: Alt-text: I always wanted to impress them with how well I could hear, didn't you? And this was written by none other than... the guy from XKCD, of all comics. I miss Achewood.
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Oct 17, 2011 06:21
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Wow, that's pretty good for Randal, though dang Beef serves Ray pretty hard there. I'm so glad Philippe gets to go to Hogwarts!
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Oct 17, 2011 07:44
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I can't believe that loving Randall has written the best Achewood strip of the year. Roast Beef's "Subtlety is your middle name" bit is really, really funny and a really perfect Roast Beef line.
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ChuckDHead posted:I can't believe that loving Randall has written the best Achewood strip of the year. That's not too difficult when Onstad has only written... what, two? Three?!
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Oct 17, 2011 14:46
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If it helps that comic originally appeared on XKCD during its parody week in 2006. ....No matter where we go: archives.
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Oct 17, 2011 14:58
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Not to be hypercritical but the first panel in that Randall Munroe comic, minus the Hogwarts part, is totally a Jerry Seinfeld bit. Still, "These words you got are crazy" is a valid original contribution to American letters as far as I know.
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Oct 17, 2011 15:16
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Roast Beef talking in the same font size as Ray? He's getting ideas above his station.
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Boi Hole posted:Roast Beef talking in the same font size as Ray? He's getting ideas above his station. You were saying...?
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Dodgeball posted:You were saying...? Hey thanks for linking to one of my favourite arcs ever. Time to start re-reading Achewood!
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Oct 20, 2011 19:30
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I want to thank achewood for informing me that the correct way to talk on the phone is while wearing a jacket and sipping a vodka martini.
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Incidentally, I used Téodor's "Ray Steak" recipe today (although, I didn't have chicken stock, so I used watered down worcestershire sauce). Aside from all the smoke in my house after searing a steak for 10 minutes, it was pretty goddamn good.
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Dodgeball posted:I didn't have chicken stock, so I used watered down worcestershire sauce Is this actually in the recipe, or are you just a crazy person?
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Doc Faustus posted:Is this actually in the recipe, or are you just a crazy person? You're supposed to use chicken stock to deglaze the pan and to provide a base for the sauce that you pour onto the steak once you cook some mushrooms in it.
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Dodgeball posted:You're supposed to use chicken stock to deglaze the pan and to provide a base for the sauce that you pour onto the steak once you cook some mushrooms in it. I don't think anyone is shocked at that, only at the idea that dilute Worcestershire is in any way a substitute for chicken stock.
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Gomi posted:I don't think anyone is shocked at that, only at the idea that dilute Worcestershire is in any way a substitute for chicken stock. I worked with what I had and it turned out great.
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Gomi posted:I don't think anyone is shocked at that, only at the idea that dilute Worcestershire is in any way a substitute for chicken stock. Substituting worcestershire sauce for chicken stock is kinda like the state of achewood right now. hella crazy.
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bitmap posted:Substituting worcestershire sauce for chicken stock is kinda like the state of achewood right now. Actually a more apt metaphor would be substituting it for nothing
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So has Onstad lost his house yet?
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 Poor Onstad's daughter. 
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