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 My critique/complaint is pretty much that it's just taking too long between strips. I think I'd have enjoyed this strip's dark mood far more if it hadn't taken over two weeks to get it up, and if I thought I was likely to see a new strip faster than a couple of weeks from now. I wish Onstad had built up a little backlog of strips first, I can't get any sense of flow out of this story with such large gaps between them.
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Jesus christ, Chris.
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Telex posted:Terrible. Yeah. What's with the weird stilted language in this one?
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kreayshawns talent posted:Yeah. If you mean Doc Andretti, that's how he always talks. Ray's language seems pretty usual to me.
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Apr 2, 2012 14:02
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April Fools! *busts out a 25 page arc that brings all the character threads together, sealing the past 10 years of quality comics into a perfectly preserved present*
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gwaaargh posted:April Fools! I would wet myself.
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Ugh, this just keeps getting worse. Just stop it, Chris. It's okay, you can let it die now. 
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Apr 2, 2012 15:57
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Does anyone read Spin? Is the issue with his comic out yet? It's it's a three panel jobber with a solid punchline I am gonna be sooooo cross.
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I actually like the latest strip a lot, it evokes a sense of bleak depression really well. On the other hand I'm not sure I want to go where Chris is taking the strip as a whole. It sounds trite, but Ray's idiotic cheerfulness is the counterpoint to Roast Beef's angst. Tearing him down to a mentally unstable alchoholic burnout is a major bummer. We already have Lyle and Todd for that. Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 16:18 on Apr 2, 2012 |
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Fruits of the sea posted:I actually like the latest strip a lot, it evokes a sense of bleak depression really well. Yeah. It really does. If it were coming out faster, this would be a really good arc. As it is, I'm still enjoying it. Just... Y'know. Faster would be nice.
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mysterious frankie posted:Does anyone read Spin? I picked the issue up just so I could read the comic. It accompanies an article about how comics are available on tablets, etc. now, even though the article didn't really mention achewood. I'm paraphrasing a bit, but it's got Beef sitting at his computer wondering how he's going to make money now that the internet is a thing. Then he starts a website called something like "Things are not so great.com". We see a t-shirt with the site's logo on it (it seems to be a recycled panel of one of Beef's terrible novelty shirts with new words). We then see what appears to be recycled art of Ray in Germany, leaning against a wall and drinking sodas all day, except now he's wearing the shirt from the website. Finally, the last panels are an age-progression thing with Beef where he's sitting next to the "Things are not so great" poster, and as he and the poster age he looks more and more miserable. So yeah, it was kinda depressing and kinda confusing.
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feetnotes posted:I picked the issue up just so I could read the comic. It accompanies an article about how comics are available on tablets, etc. now, even though the article didn't really mention achewood. Okay, now I'm jumping on the "Chris has depression and needs help" bandwagon.
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feetnotes posted:Finally, the last panels are an age-progression thing with Beef where he's sitting next to the "Things are not so great" poster, and as he and the poster age he looks more and more miserable. It's like a metaphor for the comic. (Okay, maybe worry a little about his mental health )
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It seems to me that, more than anything, the man needs easy money.
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I still enjoy reading Achewood and look forward to the next strip.
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Wandering Knitter posted:Okay, now I'm jumping on the "Chris has depression and needs help" bandwagon. I have no doubt he does. I don't see how a person who hasn't experienced depression could write this: http://achewood.com/index.php?date=02022007 I mean gently caress, that's just it. Perfectly encapsulated. If I have to explain to somebody what depression's like, I show them this comic. I hope you're ok, Chis. 
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Moscow Mule posted:I have no doubt he does. I don't see how a person who hasn't experienced depression could write this: Let me rephrase that: Chris either needs to get help for his depression or get his medication changed or something. The magazine comic is equal parts "I have issues" and "I'm half assing this because I just don't care anymore". I know what it's like, Chris. 
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GeneralZod posted:
This worked so much better, because I read the last one yesterday and not half a month ago. I didn't have to flip back five pages to reacquaint myself with the increeeeeeedibly slow story AND it feels like this is wrapping up. My optimistic hope/theory is that this is one big cathartic purge.
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^^^^ figures I'd mention nobody noticing a new strip and someone posting about it simulatenously.GeneralZod posted:
Uh, I don't think anyone noticed the new strip. I mean, it came the day right afterward, so it would be hard to believe there's a new strip, but it's there.
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Saoshyant posted:^^^^ figures I'd mention nobody noticing a new strip and someone posting about it simulatenously. I didn't even bother reading it, because I wanted to be the first to drat it with faint praise.
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I was amused by the alt-text and Ray's state of mind. I feel temporarily way better about Achewood.  this totally does work so much better all taken in over a short period of time, which sucks! It seems like short-form humor is he only thing Onstad will be able to do well with this release schedule...
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If only he'd DO short form humor, I'd love some. But every time anyone asks him about it, he just mutters something about not wanting to turn into Garfield.
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Nick at Nite posted:If only he'd DO short form humor, I'd love some. Maybe he doesn't have to do Achewood in short form anymore, but goddamn it's clear at this point that the short form humor was GOOD, and this stuff is objectively something other than good most of the time. At least the humor was coherent. There's an idea that successful people know when to admit something is a mistake, shitcan it and move on to something new. I think it would be better overall if he'd do something that was previously regarded as brilliant, even if it means "garfield" or whatever the gently caress nonsense is involved in being universally successful and having a steady income and the love of millions of people around the world. At least if you do it in your own voice and with your own thing, it seems like a quality idea that about a million or so artists would love to have gathered the audience to make it happen.
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I don't know, turning into garfield might not be so bad at this point. EDIT: drat, I wish I still had that Achewood Garfield image on my webspace that I made a while back.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:I don't know, turning into garfield might not be so bad at this point. dang ray you know me and mondays got issues.
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Apr 3, 2012 22:53
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I really like this arc, honestly. It's just been hard to tell because updates have been so sparse.
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Apr 3, 2012 22:59
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Onstad already tried that. It didn't work.
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Really enjoyed that, as I said before (and others have as well), with less time between strips the story flows a lot better. The final panel text is great, and I love the alt-text. "I fell in love, and we found out I had a baby inside me."
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FactsAreUseless posted:Onstad already tried that. It didn't work. I'm laughing my rear end off at that. Everything about it is so lame and just like the newspaper. Then I'm looking at the last panel closely.
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glug posted:I'm laughing my rear end off at that. Everything about it is so lame and just like the newspaper. Then I'm looking at the last panel closely.
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I read The Hunger Games last night and even though it's plenty dark and such I couldn't take it seriously because so much of it kept reminding me of The Great Outdoor Fight. A lot of it was just the normal cliches that would come up with this sort of story, like dividing into teams etc, but when everyone got invited to a feast I had to put the book down due to laughing so hard. yes, battle royale, etc, i'm well aware. Also, there were no side dishes. As far as this current arc goes, I'm enjoying reading the strips, but I don't know that it's very different from a lot of the "hallucinatory/surreal for the sake of it" arcs that Achewood has had the past few years. Still, Onstad does it well.
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Bown posted:I read The Hunger Games last night and even though it's plenty dark and such I couldn't take it seriously because so much of it kept reminding me of The Great Outdoor Fight. A lot of it was just the normal cliches that would come up with this sort of story, like dividing into teams etc, but when everyone got invited to a feast I had to put the book down due to laughing so hard. Ah, I'm glad I wasn't the only one expecting them to bring out the jeeps at the climax of the film.
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Dr Snofeld posted:Ah, I'm glad I wasn't the only one expecting them to bring out the jeeps at the climax of the film. the dogs were the jeeps. just work it out in your mind.
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Ray and Roast Beef would gently caress Katniss and Peeta up.
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New strip! http://achewood.com/index.php?date=04132012
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tripwood posted:New strip! Hahaha holy poo poo, that bottom left panel. Hardest I've laughed in a while.
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I combed through every panel like I was Ray staring at the space between his own fingers, that was fantastic. I really think this story-arc would have been excellent if it hadn't had such gaps between new comics, this strip throws the entire thing into a new absurdist light. "I...I need to keep this sheet, it has some pretty amazing laser sex maths on it."
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This seemed a bit closer to Achewood Classic. I snickered, yes. And the best part is that this whole thing has only taken ten days. 
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