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Halloween Jack posted:I've made Mr. Bear's Scotch Eggs many times; they are excellent. I'm also a fan of the Oven Fries (basically baked potato wedges) and Nice Pete's fried chicken. Having peeked at the other posts, Jon Bois is a national treasure, and I've been following him since the Progressive Boink days of MLB AOL chats. JI JIM THOME
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CannonFodder posted:I am quoting this post because I have done the same and I agree that they are excellent. A good way to root out the old-school SASers. Thank you, Internet Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20040829010533/https://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/sweeney/1.htm (inaudible)
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"Invented by the dudes from ABBA, the Isosceles Lock has revolutionized..."
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Very next strip: "Dude you don't LIKE Gusano Rojo. What you LIKE is that you're holding something the police will wrestle you for." 
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Picasso didn't ask people for critical feedback, but if he had, he might not have churned out such weird crap!
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I'm watching Mindhunter and man do I just keep getting reminded of Nice Pete
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Phy posted:I'm watching Mindhunter and man do I just keep getting reminded of Nice Pete Then I just clenched my fists and SCREAMED as I stared straight into her eyes I got in a good eight second scream That may not sound like much but try it sometime
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Pakled posted:Jon Bois is my favorite sports journalist. yes, same, he's part of the reason I got back into watching baseball (the 2014/2015 Royals seasons being the other part, lol) I really don't like football, but he's the only person to tell football narratives in a way that makes me get why people like it
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JethroMcB posted:Then I just clenched my fists and SCREAMED as I stared straight into her eyes 
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Little Nephew goes to Ancient Wales is by far my favorite storyline I think. Funnier than the Great Outdoor Fight stuff.
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Shibawanko posted:Little Nephew goes to Ancient Wales is by far my favorite storyline I think. Funnier than the Great Outdoor Fight stuff. Just the nacho stuff is funnier than most anything else.
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This Day In History: Keep an eye out for the new Ray Smuckles song, I LOVE YOU
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prefect posted:Just the nacho stuff is funnier than most anything else. The dude passed out on the toilet with his bagpipes still cracks me up. Just Iorwerth's face as he stands at the window glaring at him
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For some reason every time I go to a place where I have to speak Tibetan instead of English, I find myself reading Achewood in my private moments. Probably as a celebration of my native language. This time I started at the GOF and it is remarkable how jarring and noticeable the change you get after the Philippe Returns Home arc. Just all the voices are very noticeably trying way too hard. It really never recovers from that and then there are of course the two abandoned arcs and just welp. Going to bounce back around to the very first strips and see how long it took for the voices to settle initially. GOF is a highwater mark but there are other amazing arcs (Little Nephew in Wales is definitely one, Volvo of Despair, Transfer Station, Leon Sumbitches, ...). I think GOF just stands out because it's a classic tale. Also every time I read it I somehow forget it begins with ChatSackz.
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For me, Phillipe Goes Home was one of Achewood's highlights, which makes the followup of the highschool van thing even worse
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Yeah. Philippe Goes Home is a strong "emotional" arc and works nicely and then it just dives off immediately. The high school van arc still has the characters' voices correct, like I am never looking at that going "oh man what even happened." It's definitely weak and I could see an argument for it being the first sign of the decline but the characters are "in character." Right after that though you start getting Cornelius talking like a Latin professor's thesaurus had a stroke and fell into a blender, Roast Beef starts ranting like Alex Jones, and so on. Edit: Actually I think Cornelius gets hosed up at the end of the high school van thing? Edit2: No, it's the aborted Ray in Rehab arc where you can definitively say "all the voices are lost and it's become bad." 
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prefect posted:Just the nacho stuff is funnier than most anything else. DISGRACE THAT CHAIR NO LONGER, NACHO JUDAS! is the line I will remember from this comic. That's the high water mark right there. Paramemetic posted:Yeah. Philippe Goes Home is a strong "emotional" arc and works nicely and then it just dives off immediately. The high school van arc still has the characters' voices correct, like I am never looking at that going "oh man what even happened." It's definitely weak and I could see an argument for it being the first sign of the decline but the characters are "in character." What I noticed is that characters start being snarky for no reason. Cornelius wouldn't call Todd a sarcastic name like that, but it starts showing up all the time after that point. Shibawanko fucked around with this message at 16:30 on Nov 3, 2017 |
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I take your point, but "I would get... the good grade!" Is still hilarious
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 Some of the best advice I ever got. (Granted, police shirts rarely look good because the sleeves aren't fitted. I wore a grey plaid suit.)
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Paramemetic posted:Yeah. Philippe Goes Home is a strong "emotional" arc and works nicely and then it just dives off immediately. The high school van arc still has the characters' voices correct, like I am never looking at that going "oh man what even happened." It's definitely weak and I could see an argument for it being the first sign of the decline but the characters are "in character."
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Less "hair of the dog" and more "what is a dog" is pretty funny though yeah
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The Philippe Goes Home storyline was ongoing when I visited my mom for the first time in her new retirement community. It wasn't nearly as disillusioning, no pork chops trauma at least, but drat if Papa's speech wasn't especially poignant.
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Watching Achewood die was kind of like watching your awesome cussin-and-fighting grandpa slowly succumb to dementia until eventually he stops showing up at holidays.
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Howard Beale posted:The Philippe Goes Home storyline was ongoing when I visited my mom for the first time in her new retirement community. It wasn't nearly as disillusioning, no pork chops trauma at least, but drat if Papa's speech wasn't especially poignant.
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"Sometimes love is wondering if you trapped an innocent person" hits the hardest out of any line in Achewood for me. Years ago I kind of stumbled out of a bad relationship into a relationship with the woman I would eventually marry, and that is just the perfect expression of the guilt you feel as a depressed person in a relationship with someone awesome who deserves better than what you're emotionally capable of giving. 
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Had forgotten this one but "My mother knew that I would die one day" has now joined the kind of Achewood phrases you're all mentioning that get permanently lodged in your psyche. He's so happy when he says it! The pre-Ray's Party run really is full of great poo poo that probably gets neglected even if the characters aren't quite fully-formed yet.
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:Had forgotten this one but "My mother knew that I would die one day" has now joined the kind of Achewood phrases you're all mentioning that get permanently lodged in your psyche. Holy poo poo, that's a hell of a lot more dark with what we learned about his mother and father.
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:The pre-Ray's Party run really is full of great poo poo that probably gets neglected even if the characters aren't quite fully-formed yet. There's no alt-text and it's driving me insane 
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I don't like the early comics that much because they're just too simple. Achewood is best when it's about exploring a weird concept like Why Can't Men Send Each Other Cards
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Can anyone spot the 1st alt-text so I can save myself hours of fruitless ambient cursor hovering on my upcoming read through?
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November 12, 2001, technically. January 2, 2002 is when they get going for real.
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Schwarzwald posted:Holy poo poo, that's a hell of a lot more dark with what we learned about his mother and father. What do we know about Philippe's father? Was it in the blogs since I don't remember anything in the comics?
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Rollersnake posted:"Sometimes love is wondering if you trapped an innocent person" hits the hardest out of any line in Achewood for me. Years ago I kind of stumbled out of a bad relationship into a relationship with the woman I would eventually marry, and that is just the perfect expression of the guilt you feel as a depressed person in a relationship with someone awesome who deserves better than what you're emotionally capable of giving. 
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Halloween Jack posted:I'll see you and raise haha, I think about this line a lot
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MikeCrotch posted:why does Teodor wear those big landschnekt trousers, what's the deal with that he is a teddy bear wearing a silly teddy bear outfit. the strip kinda meanders its way from the original premise to something totally different but there are holdovers like that
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