Oxxidation posted:imagine the outcome of showbiz exchanging words with ramses
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# ? Feb 5, 2022 00:01 |
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# ? May 23, 2024 05:11 |
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Hole in Showbiz's head the exact girth of a Tequiza
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# ? Feb 5, 2022 00:07 |
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Zefiel posted:Hole in Showbiz's head the exact girth of a Tequiza Scientists still trying to figure it out
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# ? Feb 5, 2022 00:42 |
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Just want to say the first three posts on this page made me almost wake up the house with laughter. It's the kind of thing I want to show to people but I can't because it requires knowledge of the metaplot of a 20 year old webcomic.
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# ? Feb 9, 2022 19:32 |
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https://twitter.com/achewood/status/1493453255220756480 Never noticed the date before
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# ? Feb 15, 2022 15:21 |
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Holy poo poo how did I miss that after all these years of poring over this strip
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# ? Feb 15, 2022 16:26 |
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That seems like exactly the way that Ramses would spend his ideal February 14.
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# ? Feb 15, 2022 23:36 |
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That would fit with Mrs. Smuckles' statement about getting taken to 'low dives' etc.
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# ? Feb 15, 2022 23:59 |
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On the subject, am I right that there has never been any specific explanation for Ray's childhood wealth, strip or blog or whatever? I don't mean it's a plot hole or anything, it's just not important, it's of a piece with Ray just effortlessly stumbling into money all the time as an adult, and you're left to assume whatever you want, like it was from Sondra's family. I can imagine Ramses meeting some standard of checks arriving on time even if he wasn't around but it's never really implied to be his money.
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# ? Feb 16, 2022 00:07 |
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It's implied his mom is from old money. I always thought Ramses and her split up because they were from different social classes.
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# ? Feb 16, 2022 00:17 |
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Ramses and Ray's mom were always going to split up, the way Ramses has "RAY (SONDRA)" as his caller ID for Ray plus that Dornheim dude establishes Ramses has many kids out there, a dude like that you can't tie down anymore that you can leash a cyclone, though his latest girlfriend tried. Must've been a formidable lady.
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# ? Feb 16, 2022 00:20 |
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I never caught that the implication is that he has another son named Ray from another lady. Or maybe that he just has so many kids/bastards out there by so many women that he needs a reminder.
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# ? Feb 16, 2022 01:12 |
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I don't think it's to prevent confusion over having multiple sons named ray, I think it's just so he has some sort of index for who ray is, the child sired upon sondra
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# ? Feb 16, 2022 01:29 |
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:On the subject, am I right that there has never been any specific explanation for Ray's childhood wealth, strip or blog or whatever? I don't mean it's a plot hole or anything, it's just not important, it's of a piece with Ray just effortlessly stumbling into money all the time as an adult, and you're left to assume whatever you want, like it was from Sondra's family. I can imagine Ramses meeting some standard of checks arriving on time even if he wasn't around but it's never really implied to be his money. Ramses just glared at bankers until they nervously put money in his account. "the hell that interest not gonna be compound, boy" he'd grumble.
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# ? Feb 16, 2022 03:10 |
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Ray is from old Southern money on his mom's side. Otherwise he'd never have a dandified uncle like Marion Culpepper.
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# ? Feb 16, 2022 05:41 |
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Was there a strip where Ray talked about using taint cream for a "dreamy, drop-a-dime" (bounce?) taint tone, or something? I can't find it via ohnorobot but I have this very specific memory. It's about like, nobody will touch his saggy balls when he is eighty? Help me thread you're my only hope.
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# ? Feb 16, 2022 18:15 |
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'Tis my taint cream: https://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=03252016
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# ? Feb 16, 2022 18:20 |
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:https://twitter.com/achewood/status/1493453255220756480 I have two of these hanging up near my computer and it's wild when they come up online, I've become used to these being fairly personal images
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# ? Feb 16, 2022 18:23 |
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theironjef posted:'Tis my taint cream: https://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=03252016
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# ? Feb 16, 2022 18:30 |
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Can anyone link me to the strip with “we found beef’s strain” and beef is all giggly I thought it was close to the Cheers strip but I guess not
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# ? Feb 16, 2022 18:52 |
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Sockser posted:Can anyone link me to the strip with “we found beef’s strain” and beef is all giggly it's like three from the end https://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=11182016 also when i see the font in the taint strip, i know i am in for a Bad Time (on the achewood scale)
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# ? Feb 16, 2022 18:58 |
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grunchy posted://-a-r-e-a-s-o-n-a-b-l-e-m-a-n-w-r-o-t-e-
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# ? Feb 16, 2022 20:48 |
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Good for Roast Beef. He deserves it! I mean, he already literally died like, twice
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# ? Feb 16, 2022 21:03 |
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I don't know if that was intended to be the final entry of Achewood, but it definitely works as one
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# ? Feb 16, 2022 21:06 |
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If you take Achewood as a situation comedy, and consider that a traditional sitcom's ending is about the final dismantling of that specific situation, then Beef coming to terms with some part or form of his depression would be a key ingredient of a proper Achewood finale. It'd be something like that, Ray and Tina make another honest attempt (doomed), Cornelius ascends to circumstances that do not involve being at the boarding house any longer (writes a better book, heads out with Polly, possibly passes away in an incredibly wise and touching manner), Lyle's situation somehow stabilizes into a more boring framework (i.e. the earlier theory in this thread that a middle-aged Lyle marries someone half his age and goes to trade school), Philippe suddenly ages, Showbiz is likely beaten to death by a man only known as Audio Pete the Final Debt Collector, etc.
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# ? Feb 16, 2022 22:44 |
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"the final dismantling of that specific situation" is pretty much Philippe going home to mom (for a moment).
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# ? Feb 16, 2022 23:05 |
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I do think Beef's post makes a touching finale. I think a "true" finale would have to involve Cornelius' dying and Felipe actually becoming an adult. Maybe Teodor gets his poo poo together and maybe Lyle reverses the downward trajectory of his life, maybe not. I also see Beef having to deal with the death of either Corliss or Showbiz being part of the equation. (This raises weird questions, though. Maybe Dead Showbiz goes to Welsh Heaven and, finally free from the existence of car stereos, finds he has a knack for masonry or shipbuilding.)
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# ? Feb 16, 2022 23:14 |
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Excellent! Are these new (okay 2016 is not new but) ones just not up on ohnorobot or something? Thank you so much. Yeah I think the search engine only covers up to like 2013 or something. The Random Comic button is powered by the same tool, so it doesn't select later comics because it doesn't know about them.
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# ? Feb 16, 2022 23:38 |
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I bet No-No sizes Showbiz up for murder the moment he sees him
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# ? Feb 16, 2022 23:46 |
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He'd commission it, too. Death might be the only way to get Rockford-Fosgate off your back.
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# ? Feb 17, 2022 00:17 |
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Halloween Jack posted:(This raises weird questions, though. Maybe Dead Showbiz goes to Welsh Heaven and, finally free from the existence of car stereos, finds he has a knack for masonry or shipbuilding.) This actually reminded me of the Lyle blog story about him getting trapped in that girl's school(?) with no liquor, and his writing got clearer and better structured as he lamented his inability to get drunk or high. The entry following him detailing his planned escape being utter drunken gibberish was loving amazing. I am locked in a Girls' School Pizza at tea A minor theft I experienced a minor setback A position in the kitchen Flavorful sandwiches A careful progress Carefully ensconced elsewhere fffffffffffd rays
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# ? Feb 17, 2022 01:14 |
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Schwarzwald posted:"the final dismantling of that specific situation" is pretty much Philippe going home to mom (for a moment). God drat, that strip came out like right as I graduated college and it’s always been this guy punch for me to read. I never was “home” again.
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# ? Feb 17, 2022 06:28 |
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the Philippe goes home arc was bad but that blogpost is good Todd getting so high he literally starts levitating is some of that old school Achewood
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# ? Feb 17, 2022 12:41 |
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Jerusalem posted:This actually reminded me of the Lyle blog story about him getting trapped in that girl's school(?) with no liquor, and his writing got clearer and better structured as he lamented his inability to get drunk or high. The entry following him detailing his planned escape being utter drunken gibberish was loving amazing. It's a good thing the Hawaiian place is on the other side of town and they're usually sold out by the time I get there. I could kill myself eating Spam musubi.
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# ? Feb 17, 2022 17:12 |
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Oxxidation posted:the Philippe goes home arc was bad the gently caress
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# ? Feb 17, 2022 18:46 |
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It was sad. But it was also... rad?
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# ? Feb 17, 2022 18:49 |
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:the gently caress probably one of the worst in the series. better than Fast Times at Achewood High but worse than Return of Cartilage Head. it’s overwrought. it’s artless. it’s instigated by an act of “competitive” cruelty by Ray that’s so witless that it’s barely in-character and ended by Steve DeNeuve, an ostensibly benevolent character who instead comes off as the creepiest bastard in the neighborhood not named Cropes. the “moral” is some of the comic’s clumsiest, chintziest writing delivered in bad French e: reading back through this thread I see that I have said this before almost verbatim (still true) and was also regrettably reminded of the Penny arc, which may be the comic’s actual nadir Oxxidation fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Feb 17, 2022 |
# ? Feb 17, 2022 18:49 |
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Imagine Lyle working during the pandemic. Just catching, and eventually becoming immune to every strain of COVID by eating leftovers.
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# ? Feb 17, 2022 18:55 |
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My favorite detail about Lyle's girls' school experience is how he becomes tremendously fixated on numerical measurements the second he is sober. I have remembered this.
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# ? Feb 17, 2022 19:28 |
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# ? May 23, 2024 05:11 |
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Oxxidation posted:probably one of the worst in the series. better than Fast Times at Achewood High but worse than Return of Cartilage Head. it’s overwrought. it’s artless. it’s instigated by an act of “competitive” cruelty by Ray that’s so witless that it’s barely in-character and ended by Steve DeNeuve, an ostensibly benevolent character who instead comes off as the creepiest bastard in the neighborhood not named Cropes. the “moral” is some of the comic’s clumsiest, chintziest writing delivered in bad French
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# ? Feb 18, 2022 01:52 |