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Dominion posted:Needs to be the other way around. Recasting Batman's grim angst as Roast Beef's depression would work out, and Ray makes a better Robin than Beef does. I personally was thinking Lyle as Azrael, and Nice Pete as some new villain that never gets caught because not even Batman can make sense of his thought process.
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Feb 16, 2012 23:23
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You mean Nice Pete is the Joker? Fitting.
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Feb 17, 2012 00:06
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Pat as the Riddler, throws gigantic tantrums when people don't give a poo poo about his riddles. THESE RIDDLES WERE FEATURED IN MOBY MAGAZINE!!!
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Feb 17, 2012 02:37
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Keeping with the passing the mantle theme, it'd be neat if Achewood's plot started moving towards the timeline comics that Onstad made in like 07 or 08 that wordlessly showed how the character's lives would supposedly progress. Then six months later he can reboot it back to Achewood Year One and screw up all of the established continuity. Infinite The Dude Has Got No Mercy.
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Feb 17, 2012 03:23
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In the end, all the characters find themselves in a Unitarian Church. They step into the white light and discover that heaven is an empty room with a drum machine. Is there an instruction manual for it? Yes there is... but Philippe is standing on it. 
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Oh um hey hi Molly Oh sorry right Oracle Yes I've eaten today thank you so much for asking again Listen I um was wondering if you could run a license plate for me Yes I know you're not the DMV No I'm not taking you for granted Well the driver just hit a kid, that's why Okay actually he just cut Ray off in traffic But the dude straight up didn't give a care and that ain't right Vengeance gotta be served Listen I already said I wasn't taking you for granted Howard Beale fucked around with this message at 08:07 on Feb 17, 2012 |
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Feb 17, 2012 08:03
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homeless poster posted:I think that's the biggest issue - the glacial pace at which the current story is progressing makes the whole thing just seem disjointed and meaningless. It'd be like if you read a novel by selecting one paragraph off of one page at random each day, and tried to keep a mental tally of what the hell was going on. Yeah this pretty much. I know I've been ripping on the guy quite a bit (pig analogy etc.), but you're pretty much saying WHY probably a lot of us are disappointed with the current progress, even if others aren't aware of it. IMHO Chris should've completed at least 3/4 of the arc before beginning to post it, that way he could've kept up a nice pace with a strip each or each other week, without being tempted to make promises he goddamn well knows he can't keep (it's not the first time he's announced things to only delay way over a week, and that was while the comic was at its best). Then he can go back into hibernation until he has another brilliant idea for all I care. Also, more dark horse prints!
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Feb 17, 2012 09:27
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kombatMedik posted:I ordered A Home for Scared People off of Amazon, since I didn't know it was even out. I really enjoyed the prose extras that were put in, along with the sentence or two of extra stuff for each comic. I'd love to see the whole thing in print form, but I can't help but suspect he's not keen on doing more of them. I recently re-read my copy of Scared People and I was struck by how utterly disgusted he seemed to feel about some of the strips. I mean, jeez, dude. So you didn't have an exact bead on a character in the early years of your work. That isn't a crime against literature.
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Feb 17, 2012 11:47
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Howard Beale posted:Oh um hey hi Molly
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Feb 17, 2012 12:38
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:I recently re-read my copy of Scared People and I was struck by how utterly disgusted he seemed to feel about some of the strips. I mean, jeez, dude. So you didn't have an exact bead on a character in the early years of your work. That isn't a crime against literature. I went back and read through Gunshow this past week, and was happily surprised that KC Green had put commentary on the site for his older scripts, and its pretty much the same sort of vibe. My guess is that it is their drive to continually improve on their work. I do enjoy reading it though, even if its somewhat brutal.
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Feb 17, 2012 19:33
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Nah, beef would be the one freaking out about possibly taking Molly for granted, while she's just trying to reassure him that he's not. He doesn't actually treat her badly, his depression just keeps telling him he does. alt="To be fair, Ray keeps putting him up to this.">
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:I'd love to see the whole thing in print form, but I can't help but suspect he's not keen on doing more of them. I recently re-read my copy of Scared People and I was struck by how utterly disgusted he seemed to feel about some of the strips. I mean, jeez, dude. So you didn't have an exact bead on a character in the early years of your work. That isn't a crime against literature. I'm binging through all three after buying them on the internet. Seriously, Onstad feels like he has a self-hatred problem from some of these comments.
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Update! Those of you who desire gag strips may be somewhat in luck. In other news I don't think Ray is ever getting out of rehab. Rehab is Ray's van. A laser printer is the giant schlong he is forced to suck, indefinitely.
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Feb 21, 2012 06:39
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If you don't know what the Busted papers are, you're really missing out.
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Feb 21, 2012 07:04
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Feb 21, 2012 08:44
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This is nice; I like this strip. Onstad, I apologize to you. From, Cobweb Heart.
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Feb 21, 2012 09:11
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Oh man that was satisfying. RIP 'Taters.
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Blue Raider posted:If you don't know what the Busted papers are, you're really missing out. Please expand on this. This is one of those references that mostly certainly a non-American wouldn't get.
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Feb 21, 2012 14:14
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If Onstad is referring to what I think he is, Busted papers are basically weekly publications that are nothing but mugshots for everyone arrested in a city or small area. They're sold in gas stations for one dollar, and they are absolutely hilarious. Edit: GIS "busted papers," and you'll get the gist. Blue Raider fucked around with this message at 17:23 on Feb 21, 2012 |
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Feb 21, 2012 17:21
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Around here, there are newspapers sold by homeless people as a fundraising thing for some shelter/organization. I think that is more likely to be what Onstad is referring to, because it's exactly the same thing.
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Blue Raider posted:If Onstad is referring to what I think he is, Busted papers are basically weekly publications that are nothing but mugshots for everyone arrested in a city or small area. They're sold in gas stations for one dollar, and they are absolutely hilarious. The covers alone rule. One of our local ones would show the charge under the mugshots on the cover and it broke down as follows: MURDER / 2ND DEGREE RAPE / ARMED ROBBERY / GRAND LARCENY / FISHING WITHOUT A LICENSE
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Feb 21, 2012 18:39
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Around here, there are newspapers sold by homeless people as a fundraising thing for some shelter/organization. I think that is more likely to be what Onstad is referring to, because it's exactly the same thing. Yeah, he's definitely referencing publications along the lines of Streetwise in Chicago, and whatever parallels exist in other big cities. And whaddaya know, it's a good gag strip. I hope this break from unrelenting, disorienting surrealism persists for a little while.
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Ubik posted:Yeah, he's definitely referencing publications along the lines of Streetwise in Chicago, and whatever parallels exist in other big cities. And whaddaya know, it's a good gag strip. I'm fine if he goes back to it next strip, even. Just throwing in one funny strip every 3 or so breaks it up enough for me.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Around here, there are newspapers sold by homeless people as a fundraising thing for some shelter/organization. I think that is more likely to be what Onstad is referring to, because it's exactly the same thing. That is exactly what he's referring to. So basically, in some cities where it's allowed to do it, instead of panhandling for money for nothing a lot of the people who stay in shelters have to work, and part of the work is basically Bum Journalism. They print up a bunch of 4-page newspapers and write "articles" and sell them on the street for a dollar to anyone they can find to buy them. You're welcome to pay more for a dollar, that's just the suggested value. If they raise enough money, that's their service for living in whatever long-term shelter they're in. And pretty much everyone is like Roast Beef, they avoid the hell out of the dude on the street holding up the paper, but at least you're getting something for giving a dude a dollar basically.
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That was definitely the type of Achewood strip I enjoy seeing. I have been thinking on 'Taters often today.
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Feb 21, 2012 23:24
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I didn't get the reference to Busted papers but Roast Beef imagining "Draw Snoopy from BEHIND" is the kind of thing I like to see. Good strip.
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Feb 21, 2012 23:38
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Oh man, that was worth sticking around for! I had just basically stopped caring a couple days ago, but decided to check for old times sake, and- WHAMMO- he hits me with a pretty funny one off and now I'm back in. I could do with three or four more like that, even if they were just 3-4 panels each, if they give him time to figure out where he's going with the rehab arc. Snoopy from behind was the best thing about this. He just looks so... so confident, so sexual. I'm intimidated by that Snoopy, and yet, I'm also drawn to him.
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mysterious frankie posted:Snoopy from behind was the best thing about this. He just looks so... so confident, so sexual. I'm intimidated by that Snoopy, and yet, I'm also drawn to him. Snoopy is a straight up sexual being.
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If Snoopy is a straight up sexual being, does that mean in the Achewood-verse his cousin Spike is a crack dealer who once ran over a kid while escaping the fuzz?
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That strip was just what I needed, fantastic. "This is dong and piss at once I mean what is that thing even like"
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:If Snoopy is a straight up sexual being, does that mean in the Achewood-verse his cousin Spike is a crack dealer who once ran over a kid while escaping the fuzz? 
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:If Snoopy is a straight up sexual being, does that mean in the Achewood-verse his cousin Spike is a crack dealer who once ran over a kid while escaping the fuzz? That's actually what he was in the Peanuts-verse, they just didn't really want to make a big deal out of it.
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Feb 22, 2012 06:36
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Doc Faustus posted:Awesome, I'm in that strip twice.
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glug posted:Awesome, I'm in that strip twice. Three times! My favourite part of this strip is definitely "Draw Muhammad Yunus, from behind". The idea of a respectable publication offering advice on how to draw porn of an economist is the funniest thing.
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Telex posted:That is exactly what he's referring to. I usually go out of my way to buy them for a dollar. Some of them are extremely well-written advocacy papers, some of them are completely insane rantings with no oversight and then there's a happy middle. For a buck it's usually a safe bet for entertainment or learning and it helps someone who needs it, whether it goes to a charity, a shelter, a cause, or themselves regardless of whether they use it for food or drugs or foodrugs.
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say no to bats posted:I usually go out of my way to buy them for a dollar. Some of them are extremely well-written advocacy papers, some of them are completely insane rantings with no oversight and then there's a happy middle. For a buck it's usually a safe bet for entertainment or learning and it helps someone who needs it, whether it goes to a charity, a shelter, a cause, or themselves regardless of whether they use it for food or drugs or foodrugs. Unfortunately I cannot buy one until I am asked,"You got a dollar liddle man or you got a dollar your mommy gabe you?" first 
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say no to bats posted:I usually go out of my way to buy them for a dollar. Some of them are extremely well-written advocacy papers, some of them are completely insane rantings with no oversight and then there's a happy middle. For a buck it's usually a safe bet for entertainment or learning and it helps someone who needs it, whether it goes to a charity, a shelter, a cause, or themselves regardless of whether they use it for food or drugs or foodrugs. Yeah, I love those things. It makes me sad to see Beef so prejudiced against them.
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Pardon my ignorance, but has there ever been a strip featuring young Beef and Showbiz? I'd have thought we would have seen them as kids at some point.
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