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Last night, I had a dream that Achewood updated. Today, there were a bunch of new posts in this thread and the Achewood twitter had a post. This has to mean something.
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Mar 15, 2015 01:43
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Pakled posted:This has to mean something. It's time to buy craft soda?
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Mar 15, 2015 01:49
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February 6th he has a post about his "last day of work." Did he seriously lose his job at that advertising place already?
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Mar 15, 2015 02:17
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choobs posted:If you had plans, they were made by an incorrect life you no longer maintain. I am embarrassed I had forgotten about the gossipy hot dog chef archetype.
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Mar 15, 2015 02:31
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This reminds me of how poor-quality some of the art for the 2013-2014 strips was; I wonder if it's the matter of Onstad redrawing over existing vector assets with a raster editor for the sake of saving time or something. A shameful Achewood strip all around. Leroy Dennui fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Mar 15, 2015 |
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Mar 15, 2015 03:00
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Jerusalem posted:Welp, better cancel my plans, time to reread the entire Great Outdoor Fight arc again. This was me tonight. What an amazing run this was. I'm now convinced that humanity as a whole has a peak creative period of about a decade, afterwhich we just stop being able to come up with new, entertaining material. The use of "sobriquet" alone in one of the GOF strips should have been a sign that Onstad would become a lifetime iconic author, but he's just completely burned out less than a decade ever.
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Mar 15, 2015 03:54
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*pouf*
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Mar 15, 2015 07:33
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erebus workin' some rough chuckles these days
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Mar 17, 2015 16:11
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http://achewood.com/index.php?date=10232008 On the wikipedia page for what_happened they gonna show Cornelius leavin this club with that dancer right now. no disambiguation.
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Mar 23, 2015 03:34
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prezbuluskey posted:http://achewood.com/index.php?date=10232008 YOU'RE GOOD, RIGHT? NOT BETRAYED?
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Mar 23, 2015 05:53
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Android Blues posted:YOU'RE GOOD, RIGHT? NOT BETRAYED? How good of you to call and "open up a can of dumbass"
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Mar 23, 2015 17:55
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I am happy to have been alive while Achewood existed
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Mar 24, 2015 17:49
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Calaveron posted:I am happy to have been alive while Achewood existed agreed, it was good
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Mar 24, 2015 18:01
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I have to admit, I was not aware of that fact about chickens.
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Mar 25, 2015 00:21
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Every day as I put on shoes I look at the framed & signed print of Ray Gets Sort of Stoned I have on my wall. Today it made me nostalgic for the masterpiece that was Achewood, but instead of getting all bloo-lidded and binging through the archives, I went and read all the strips that had been put up since I stopped reading it altogether, picking up around March 2012. It didn't take me long to catch up. I also dug up this post, all the way from July 2011: MizuZero posted:I remember being seventeen and on High School March Break, refreshing the gently caress out of the site during the daily updates of the Great Outdoor Fight's climax. I remember when the alt text for one strip was Onstad caps-yelling at people for ruining his bandwidth, and I was happy it was so popular. I remember wondering the site crash was due to an influx of new readers (!!who wouldn't -get- why the GOF was so cool, because they didn't know the characters at all!!), or solely because of the sore-wristed adulation of the established fans. 
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Mar 25, 2015 01:14
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I had the privilege of getting the chance to read the GOF while it was being posted. I had only leaped on board in October of the previous year before the Fight storyline; I was 13 at the time.
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Mar 25, 2015 05:46
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Leroy Dennui posted:I had the privilege of getting the chance to read the GOF while it was being posted. I had only leaped on board in October of the previous year before the Fight storyline; I was 13 at the time. God, it blows my mind how long I've been reading achewood for when you put it like that. I remember reading it on a CRT monitor in my sixth-form college library when I must have been about 17.
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Mar 25, 2015 21:55
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To Onstadt's credit, all great comic strips tend to burn out after ten years or so. Bloom County, Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes... Their creators all realized that it was time to end it. (Ok, Berke Breathed tried to pull a couple of Onstadt's when he ran out of dough.) It's the lovely comics that continue forever (Garfield, etc.). Onstadt's biggest failure is that he neither ran this poo poo into the ground by churning out utter garbage like clockwork for years, nor ended it with a clean and definite break. And so people hold him up for contempt and mockery instead of celebrating a successful and brilliant run that left the party before it got drunk and puked down the front of the hostess's dress. The End. No moral.
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Mar 26, 2015 00:30
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High Lord Elbow posted:To Onstadt's credit, all great comic strips tend to burn out after ten years or so. Bloom County, Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes... Their creators all realized that it was time to end it. (Ok, Berke Breathed tried to pull a couple of Onstadt's when he ran out of dough.) This would've been the perfect end of the strip, since one of the major themes of Achewood I feel is that while life might sometimes be a shitshow, it is still life and we must learn to enjoy it, and Téodor coming to terms with that makes perfect sense as a closing.
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Mar 26, 2015 00:38
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Life ees cruel… But at least eet is life, at least for a while. That's where it should've ended. Everything that came afterwards just wasn't the same.
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Mar 26, 2015 00:46
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MMAgCh posted:Life ees cruel… But at least eet is life, at least for a while. That's where it should've ended. Everything that came afterwards just wasn't the same. On the one hand I agree, on the other that means we never would have gotten the illegal chinchilla farm, and can we really live in a world where that is the case?
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Mar 26, 2015 00:53
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Jerusalem posted:On the one hand I agree, on the other that means we never would have gotten the illegal chinchilla farm, and can we really live in a world where that is the case? The chinchilla farm and its proprietors was the exact moment I started to realize Achewood was losing me, so please, please let me have this beautiful world where it never happened.
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Mar 26, 2015 01:18
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Calaveron posted:This would've been the perfect end of the strip, since one of the major themes of Achewood I feel is that while life might sometimes be a shitshow, it is still life and we must learn to enjoy it, and Téodor coming to terms with that makes perfect sense as a closing. Wouldve been good to end on, but instead we get the last strip of WEIRD IDEAS ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MAN.
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Mar 26, 2015 01:27
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Better that than ending on gay rape in the back of a van!
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Mar 26, 2015 01:28
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Jerusalem posted:On the one hand I agree, on the other that means we never would have gotten the illegal chinchilla farm, and can we really live in a world where that is the case?
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Mar 26, 2015 03:06
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MMAgCh posted:Life ees cruel… But at least eet is life, at least for a while. That's where it should've ended. Everything that came afterwards just wasn't the same. Yeah drat the marriage awfulness unto death one's a little too uncomfortably introspective which has been a problem with the strips for a few years now, same with Ray's abrupt and weird rehab arc. When I first read Phillipe's going home arc I honestly suspected he'd just end it after that, and it would have been perfect for the universe. A very kind and small sendoff, very Chris Ware-like (which Onstad has named as an influence and has done a few homages to) with the surrealist element gently intact.
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Mar 26, 2015 03:24
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Mar 26, 2015 03:30
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Roast Beef took pills to turn into Molly.
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Mar 26, 2015 11:37
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I feel cheated that none of the 2012 stuff happened.
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Mar 26, 2015 13:25
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How old do you think Ray/Beef/Teodor are in the strip?
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Mar 26, 2015 17:50
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Johnny Aztec posted:How old do you think Ray/Beef/Teodor are in the strip? Ray and Beef were both children for at least part of the '80s.
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Mar 26, 2015 17:55
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They're probably all mid-30s or so. Beef's awkward teen years took place over the '90s, plus it is an established fact he wanted to kiss Molly Ringwald on the titties.
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Mar 26, 2015 18:01
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Ray and Beef's senior class in high school was the class of 1993 so if they were 17/18 then that'd make them 39/40 now.
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Mar 26, 2015 18:06
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Pakled posted:Ray and Beef's senior class in high school was the class of 1993 so if they were 17/18 then that'd make them 39/40 now. God, I've used Emotions Hair so often in the ensuing decade and it never fails to make me smile.
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Mar 26, 2015 18:57
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Pakled posted:Ray and Beef's senior class in high school was the class of 1993 so if they were 17/18 then that'd make them 39/40 now. Uh.. poo poo yes we um, we all turned 40 this year.
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Mar 27, 2015 12:29
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Erebus posted:They're probably all mid-30s or so. Beef's awkward teen years took place over the '90s, plus it is an established fact he wanted to kiss Molly Ringwald on the titties. Dead Kennedys shirts were more of a late-'80s thing. 
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Mar 27, 2015 12:30
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prefect posted:Dead Kennedys shirts were more of a late-'80s thing. Yeah, but the photo says it was taken in '93. I'm sure Beef is not one to quickly catch on to new trends. Of course, this is the same '93 that he's supposed to be graduating and having Emotions Hair, so Onstad probably fiddled with the ages a bit in the six years between those strips because they're cartoon cats and no one cares.
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Mar 27, 2015 17:19
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I teach at a high school. Teens still wear Dead Kennedys shirts. Everything dies, except brands.
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Mar 27, 2015 18:33
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Van Dis posted:I teach at a high school. Teens still wear Dead Kennedys shirts. Everything dies, except brands. When I was a kid I thought that logo was just some clothing brand, despite also being aware of and liking Dead Kennedys music.
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Mar 27, 2015 19:15
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My great-grandfather wore a Dead Kennedys shirt when he lay with his future beloved Eunice for the first time after the Great War.
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