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Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

WE ARE SMART

Silhouette posted:

I just noticed that the addition of hair as he ages means that Beef shaves his head.

It seems strange that Beef would put on such airs as to do anything with his hair other than such as basic combing and trimming.

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Javid
Oct 21, 2004

:jpmf:
Just buzzing it is the minimum socially acceptable effort approach to hair care, with "gently caress it, crazy mullet" coming in at no effort whatsoever for a man who no longer gives a poo poo.

Darth Windu
Mar 17, 2009

by Smythe

ryonguy posted:

This has not been a good arc for achewood, and I posit that the longer story arcs have rarely been as good as the shorter stories/one offs. I don't think Onstad has ever really been that great at long form stuff. His Chris Ware-esque ramblings aren't really up to the same level.

I tend to agree, but I will note that one of the few exceptions to this is the Lazarus, Loafer to the Greatest Business Minds arc. That one was fairly funny and had an amazing payoff.

Pope Guilty
Nov 6, 2006

The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.

Ugly In The Morning
Jul 1, 2010
Pillbug

Darth Windu posted:

I tend to agree, but I will note that one of the few exceptions to this is the Lazarus, Loafer to the Greatest Business Minds arc. That one was fairly funny and had an amazing payoff.

Any one of those strips would have stood on their own, though. It still kept to a good setup and punchline for each strip. His weaker arcs are ones like the Roast Beef Dies one where it's all cliffhangers and drama and you can't enjoy the strip out of context.

Loving Life Partner
Apr 17, 2003
I thought the original Cartilage Head arc had an awesome payoff and great build the whole way, i know that's not a universal opinion though.

Pope Guilty
Nov 6, 2006

The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.
Phillipe is finally ready for that Ice Cream Headache tat.

boo_radley
Dec 30, 2005

Politeness costs nothing

It is the angriest an otter can be, to do this.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?


Hug the gently caress out of 'em, Philippe!

Pope Guilty
Nov 6, 2006

The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.

Jerusalem posted:

Hug the gently caress out of 'em, Philippe!

Here comes a special boy, motherfucker!

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually
You'd best believe that otter has wicked sack.

glug
Mar 12, 2004

JON JONES APOLOGIST #1

Pope Guilty posted:

Here comes a special boy, motherfucker!

That's fantastic.

ryonguy
Jun 27, 2013
This is a bad week for gators/crocs getting their poo poo handed to them by supposedly lesser creatures.

edit: oh uh a gator being eaten by a python so watch out if that's a thing

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

ryonguy posted:

edit: oh uh a gator being eaten by a python so watch out if that's a thing

If a guy called Nolan sends you an e-mail offering you money, turn him down :ohdear:

Pope Guilty
Nov 6, 2006

The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty.

Jerusalem posted:

If a guy called Nolan sends you an e-mail offering you money, turn him down :ohdear:

What if you have a friend who will hire people to have a relationship with him?

Loving Life Partner
Apr 17, 2003
Don't worry they're not so fast on land.. oh my gosh they're so fast!

ryonguy
Jun 27, 2013

Jerusalem posted:

If a guy called Nolan sends you an e-mail offering you money, turn him down :ohdear:

Why, I'm not a preteen?

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

ryonguy posted:

Why, I'm not a preteen?

Yeah but just being around him will have the cops confiscating your computer and opening it virtually through an FBI remote drive containing nothing but great weeping banks of child pornography.

Gann Jerrod
Sep 9, 2005

A gun isn't a gun unless it shoots Magic.

Jerusalem posted:

Yeah but just being around him will have the cops confiscating your computer and opening it virtually through an FBI remote drive containing nothing but great weeping banks of child pornography.

Ok, Let's say Al Qaeda needed a little video to give its troops a boost, and you were one of like six U.S. hostages. The terrorists are like "Look, our guys haven't had a good chuckle in days. We'll let you go if you stand in front of this American flag and accept money from Nolan." You salute your men, about-face, and open the email. Orlando Bloom plays you in the movie.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Gann Jerrod posted:

Ok, Let's say Al Qaeda

flyingkiwi
Jun 1, 2012

Wowzers!
Where's the comic, Chris? CHRIS? WHY ISN'T THE BABY BREATHING?!

100 degrees Calcium
Jan 23, 2011



Ooh now you've done it. You all said too many mean things about Chris and now he's double-divorced and suicided and there won't be any more comics for at least a year.

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

Also he charges you again for the cookbooks.

Dodgeball
Sep 24, 2003

Oh no! Dodgeball is really scary!
Hey, that craft soda isn't going to bottle itself. :colbert:

juggalo baby coffin
Dec 2, 2007

How would the dog wear goggles and even more than that, who makes the goggles?


is that the last achewood? Its a wrap folks. Shut it down. Shut it all down.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

It's actually the first Achewood. Teodor decides to throw a party to celebrate his new relationship and invites everybody around, Penny goes home to pick up some stuff and promises she'll be there later, then this happens.

Onstad just isn't going to make the update till March 12, sorry if I spoiled it.

Pakled
Aug 6, 2011

WE ARE SMART

Jerusalem posted:

It's actually the first Achewood. Teodor decides to throw a party to celebrate his new relationship and invites everybody around, Penny goes home to pick up some stuff and promises she'll be there later, then this happens.

Onstad just isn't going to make the update till March 12, sorry if I spoiled it.

Where does "Phillipe is standing on it" fit into all this?

Bongo Bill
Jan 17, 2012

Pakled posted:

Where does "Phillipe is standing on it" fit into all this?

Underneath Phillipe.

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Pakled posted:

Where does "Phillipe is standing on it" fit into all this?

That happens on Philippe's fifth birthday.

Cosmik Slop
Oct 9, 2007

What's a hole doing in my TARDIS?


Evil Sagan posted:

Ooh now you've done it. You all said too many mean things about Chris and now he's double-divorced and suicided and there won't be any more comics for at least a year.

Evil Sagan did you ever maybe think that these crummy new strips are my way of reaching out for help dammit

King of Gulps
Sep 4, 2003

Weird Teodor has been topless for three months

Py-O-My
Jan 12, 2001

100 degrees Calcium
Jan 23, 2011



Laputanmachine
Oct 31, 2010

by Smythe
You forgot the pineapple slice.

I mean this is a top-drawer failure by any measure in the book

Jerusalem
May 20, 2004

Would you be my new best friends?

Eh, eees no so bad, oui?

BizarroAzrael
Apr 6, 2006

"That must weigh heavily on your soul. Let me purge it for you."

Now is there more to the Mickey Mouse Pancake than a head and two ears? Because one way or another you've got eyes, nose and smile in there.

Shibawanko
Feb 13, 2013


Operation successful; the patient has died.

us vs also us
Jul 8, 2007

Hello! I hope you are having a nice day!
Is... is this it, guys? Is Achewood over?

Bismack Billabongo
Oct 9, 2012

New Love Glow
It's been a week and a half. This most recent batch of comics followed an unannounced yearlong hiatus. It sucks that onstad isn't communicating but hardly time to write an obituary.

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SacrificialGoat
Oct 8, 2003

Catjaw is a hero of the people
All that's missin is the retired comic artist with the self-inflicted gunshot wound

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