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Grumio posted:It really is, and I love it. I don't have the media criticism vocabulary to articulate it, but there's just something about the language in Achewood and the unique voices of the characters that sticks with me. There's nothing quite like it. I think Onstad's main thing is almost every main character is an aspect of his psyche. He can't or doesn't write Molly well because Molly is his inner femininity that he's either coming to terms with or trying to ignore. But I suppose it falls apart when he can totally write pricks like Pat and Cormac McCarthy characters like Nice Pete. Men had a hard time writing women or about women in the early 2000's. We still do, and it's never brought down the strip for me.
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Well, you're in luck, here's some more Val & Isaac!
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Kill Six Billion Demons Forgive me for this post I am about to inflict quote:Prim and the Mendicant Knight quote:CITY ORDINANCE 335999 The protagonist of Necropolis is somewhere in that crowd… Kit Walker has a new favorite as of 01:27 on Dec 9, 2022 |
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I have to stop reading this thread on my phone its not bad with whomp but k6bd needs a full screen to enjoy
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# ? Dec 6, 2022 17:34 |
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Tiberius Christ posted:I have to stop reading this thread on my phone its not bad with whomp but k6bd needs a full screen to enjoy Yeah trying to read k6BD is killing my eyeballs when I'm on my phone
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# ? Dec 6, 2022 17:39 |
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Tall Tale Teller posted:I think Onstad's main thing is almost every main character is an aspect of his psyche. "How do you write women so well? I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability." And somehow Jack Nicholson's character got with Helen Hunt's? Fiction is dumb
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# ? Dec 6, 2022 18:05 |
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While there's definitely Dark Souls inspiration, the whole 'God is dead and their various rotting bits are running rampant' is also a pretty drat good setup for a world of fantasy adventure.
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# ? Dec 6, 2022 18:34 |
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I feel that Achewood is a comic almost entirely about masculinity and the characters interactions with the social concept of it through different points in their lives and different angles of approach.
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# ? Dec 6, 2022 18:35 |
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Listen to brain tape! It's a podcast about Achewood, where two people (one of which knows nothing about Achewood and the other one knows far too much) go through the Great Outdoor Fight. They have opinions and it's great. One of their theses is that the GOF is very much about masculinity, and a sort of dirtbag, "reject modernity embrace tradition" masculinity no less.
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# ? Dec 6, 2022 18:45 |
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Philippe posted:Listen to brain tape! It's a podcast about Achewood, where two people (one of which knows nothing about Achewood and the other one knows far too much) go through the Great Outdoor Fight. They have opinions and it's great. I will not re-read the GOF until it is posted here. I'm taking it slowly and enjoying the experience. I have a friend whose cat is named Peanut and he has signed Onstad prints on his walls and I really enjoy sharing a random one with him. I binged it way too fast before but really enjoy re-reading it with y'all.
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# ? Dec 6, 2022 18:48 |
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Tiberius Christ posted:I have to stop reading this thread on my phone its not bad with whomp but k6bd needs a full screen to enjoy marshmallow creep posted:Yeah trying to read k6BD is killing my eyeballs when I'm on my phone It's weird, I would've sworn that when I caught up on the strip a few years back I used a phone without any trouble, but a lot of it seems super tiny now. I was on a work trip then so I know I wouldn't have read it on my work laptop. Maybe my eyes are just increasingly old and tired.
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# ? Dec 6, 2022 18:49 |
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Woebin posted:I believe the sprite comic is How To Make A Sprite Comic In 8 Easy Bits. Technically the main character is a Maniac Mansion sprite with its colors changed, but in-universe he decides to make a sprite comic and runs auditions for the protagonist role. Initially he hires Prince Myer from the terrible game Deadly Towers, but eventually replaces him with what's-his-name from Crystalis. The comic sometimes had hand-drawn guest art by thread favorite KC Green! Sorry, this wasn't it. There wasn't any meta-textual author element in the one I saw, pretty much just a straightforward fantasy adventure but with gamer jokes and characters/locations from different series mashed together. And no Maniac Mansion as far as I remember. Actually, now that I look at it I'm realizing Maniac Mansion's art style has more than a passing resemblance to many of the aesthetic choices Thorsby makes in his comics. Coincidence?
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Tiberius Christ posted:I have to stop reading this thread on my phone its not bad with whomp but k6bd needs a full screen to enjoy I’ve been traveling a lot lately and haven’t had access to a proper computer for a while so I’ve been reading and posting everything from my phone. I just zoom in as much as I need and that’s good enough for me, but it is definitely a comic you can best appreciate on a larger screen
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# ? Dec 6, 2022 19:42 |
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Fyadophobic posted:Actually, now that I look at it I'm realizing Maniac Mansion's art style has more than a passing resemblance to many of the aesthetic choices Thorsby makes in his comics. Coincidence? Probably not.
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Philippe posted:Listen to brain tape! It's a podcast about Achewood, where two people (one of which knows nothing about Achewood and the other one knows far too much) go through the Great Outdoor Fight. They have opinions and it's great. Brain Tape is great. Sometimes the opinions are absolutely wrong but I love them anyways. It's 100% worth a listen, especially for OG Achewood heads like me.
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# ? Dec 6, 2022 20:11 |
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Yeah I like Thorsby as much as anyone but I don't think he retroactively inspired Maniac Mansion, possibly with cross dimensional shenanigans.
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Kit Walker posted:Kill Six Billion Demons Not being really (at all) familiar with Dark Souls lore I always found a strong Hindu myth influence in K6BD. And seven hours of lovemaking seems terribly unimpressive for grand, cosmic deities. I mean, Enkidu and Shamhat pulled seven days, and none of them was even a god..
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# ? Dec 6, 2022 20:35 |
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RedSnapper posted:Not being really (at all) familiar with Dark Souls lore I always found a strong Hindu myth influence in K6BD. 100%. The comic draws from almost as many sources of inspiration as Durga has arms
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# ? Dec 6, 2022 21:04 |
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IIRC, one specific video game whose deep lore was cited as an influence on K6BD was Elder Scrolls, particularly the religious texts from Morrowind
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# ? Dec 6, 2022 21:19 |
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I see the sword from Necropolis but not the girl.
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PiratePrentice posted:I feel that Achewood is a comic almost entirely about masculinity and the characters interactions with the social concept of it through different points in their lives and different angles of approach. Yeah. It's all of that, but in the form of an accidental bildungsroman for a type of workaday averse, often overeducated and middle class, American male attempting to cash in on the implied promise of the late 90s/early 00s End of History, transcending class and becoming men of leisure by finding the right hustle, and ultimately ending up with fewer options and working harder at gigs than if they had just gotten a 9-5.
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# ? Dec 6, 2022 21:33 |
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Found him!
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Shageletic posted:I see the sword from Necropolis but not the girl. Just to the right of the structure in the middle if I’m not mistaken I think saving the pages on my phone and uploading it to imgur is causing the quality to drop a bit. Fortunately I’m back with my computer so hopefully the rest will look cleaner? Or I could just directly link them I guess
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# ? Dec 6, 2022 21:42 |
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im just not really connecting with funny online animals, and i usually like kcg's cynical works
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# ? Dec 6, 2022 21:44 |
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same. it just glances off. none of the searing power of anime club
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CrocodileKingSaysNO posted:LAST TIME ON BACK i love back, yall
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Technocrat posted:Well, you're in luck, here's some more Val & Isaac! I vibe way too hard with this creator
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12 - B0N3D00D and pLaTeDeWd Meet Again
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# ? Dec 6, 2022 23:54 |
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Achewood is about masculinity all right but it's a fool opinion to say that it's advocating for any particular version of it. The characters are so strong, especially Ray/beef, so that it's easy to assume the author must be speaking through them, but keep your eye out shortly after the great outdoor fight for the arc where ray and beef hold a literal masculinity contest for their friends, and see what happens there.
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Fagtastic posted:Achewood is about masculinity all right but it's a fool opinion to say that it's advocating for any particular version of it. The characters are so strong, especially Ray/beef, so that it's easy to assume the author must be speaking through them, but keep your eye out shortly after the great outdoor fight for the arc where ray and beef hold a literal masculinity contest for their friends, and see what happens there. I am so looking forward to the great outdoor fight again. As I said previously I read it too fast binging it up but seeing other people experience it and hopefully make fun of it or laugh at it or disregard will be wonderful.
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Fyadophobic posted:Sorry, this wasn't it. There wasn't any meta-textual author element in the one I saw, pretty much just a straightforward fantasy adventure but with gamer jokes and characters/locations from different series mashed together. And no Maniac Mansion as far as I remember. And yeah I think Thorsby probably played Maniac Mansion.
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# ? Dec 7, 2022 00:11 |
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The Great Outdoor Fight followed by The Badass Games are truly the pinnacle of Achewood, and maybe all webcomics. Sorry there hasn’t been a Hark update in awhile. The next couple comics are extremely tall and I gotta manually split them up. Which is easy for me because I’m a graphic designer but difficult for me because I’m very lazy.
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# ? Dec 7, 2022 00:15 |
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Penultimate Quest Mighty Star usual warning, you know the one
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fritz posted:Mighty Star This is not how I remembered the story of Johnny Appleseed going
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Captain Hygiene posted:It's weird, I would've sworn that when I caught up on the strip a few years back I used a phone without any trouble, but a lot of it seems super tiny now. I was on a work trip then so I know I wouldn't have read it on my work laptop. Maybe my eyes are just increasingly old and tired. I agree, I don't recall having trouble seeing poo poo when I was reading it on site. I think imgur is automatically doing some resizing BS, even when clicked through
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Today: The making of our short-run Robert Johnson silkscreened prints. I'm on vacation, but are you? Chris Onstad is America's premier combiner of things found on his hard drive
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hazardousmouse posted:I agree, I don't recall having trouble seeing poo poo when I was reading it on site. I think imgur is automatically doing some resizing BS, even when clicked through It's definitely imgur doing resizing bullshit, even if you click through in a browser. They're trying to get people to use their app, which doesn't have that issue
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Yeah, that large final image even at its maximum size is almost unreadable on desktop as well. Imgur AI compression is pretty bad!
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