Achewood Thread 12: Hey, Look! We're Back! What Happened?!

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BENGHAZI 2: Oct 13, 2007; by Cyrano4747

Prosthetic feces is the kicker here. Prosthetic feces.

# ¿ Jul 25, 2010 14:54

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# ¿ May 20, 2024 19:08

BENGHAZI 2: Oct 13, 2007; by Cyrano4747

Dear Chris Onstad,

I am sorry you were sad. I hope you feel better. Thank you for another cartoon about talking cats and stuffed animals. It made me smile.

Love, Dick Eye.

# ¿ Feb 20, 2011 16:38

BENGHAZI 2: Oct 13, 2007; by Cyrano4747

I think it's time to read through the archives again.

I should be done about the time another update goes up badum-pssh.

But really, it's time to do another read through, I haven't done it since before Cornelius fell in love with a stripper.

# ¿ Feb 21, 2011 19:16

BENGHAZI 2: Oct 13, 2007; by Cyrano4747

bigstupidjellyfish posted:

Personally I think the last Phillipe storyline would have been a great place to finish the series. Phillipe was one of the first characters introduced and that storyline wraps up his character arc nicely, while also serving as an uncharacteristically sweet moment for the series.

And it just ties the whole thing up nicely.

# ¿ Mar 8, 2011 15:09

BENGHAZI 2: Oct 13, 2007; by Cyrano4747

Ray will lose his ears and get new robotic ones.

Despite trying his hardest, Beef will die surrounded by the people who love him, and Pat.

Pat will continue being a jerk.

Phillipe will still be five.

Todd will do a bunch of cocaine, although not at Phillipe.

# ¿ Apr 13, 2011 04:32

BENGHAZI 2: Oct 13, 2007; by Cyrano4747

Deathlove posted:

It doesn't matter how the Phillipe story ended. Onstad told us that story so he could tell us the story of the Keith Moon head.

I tried typing "What's the best thing you got" into eBay once. Major disappointment.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2011 19:04

BENGHAZI 2: Oct 13, 2007; by Cyrano4747

http://achewood.com/index.php?date=01232008

This. This is the pinnacle of Ray.

# ¿ Apr 21, 2011 00:47

BENGHAZI 2: Oct 13, 2007; by Cyrano4747

Jerusalem posted:

God I love the "developing...." at the bottom of that headline. Also Ray is so, so right, all people really want is to eat some loving dinner and have some loving money.

rear end in a top hat.

"You can do whatever you want in life" is my new desktop background. I love it.

e: Also, the number of times a week where I say someone's name and follow it up with "Real name Brian Wheat, as has been proven" is astounding.

BENGHAZI 2 fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Apr 21, 2011

# ¿ Apr 21, 2011 20:09

BENGHAZI 2: Oct 13, 2007; by Cyrano4747

Zefiel posted:

Someone mentioned it earlier, the cop out of the Williams-Sonoma arc with Cartilage Head, while interesting, was kind of the same thing all over again, down to the picture of 'I proved myself a coward' at the end. I think it does stand on its own, but maybe not against the astringent standards of originality Achewood set in the past (The Lonis Edison arc, for example, I mean, Ray walking back from Mexico)... wait, that arc abused the poo poo out of magical Mexican realism, which already had been abused. (Nephew in Wales).

Lonis Edison was way before Little Nephew in Wales, though.

# ¿ Jul 8, 2011 19:38

BENGHAZI 2: Oct 13, 2007; by Cyrano4747

Jerusalem posted:

At no point did I ever feel the quality of the comic was going down, he just start updating less and less regularly. Every new strip still had that old magic for me though, there were just far too few of them.

The random page took me to the Rey gives Todd his own television show mini-arc, culminating in the absolutely amazing Quimarello strip - I love the punchline/alt text combo for this one so much.

My favorite part of the Todd Show is "Let's drown this baby up a notch!" It's magical.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2011 23:11

BENGHAZI 2: Oct 13, 2007; by Cyrano4747

Beef's died like..three times. He went to heaven twice and hell once after vomiting into an electrical outlet (he called the Butterball hotline to find out if it would kill him).

# ¿ Nov 24, 2011 04:47

BENGHAZI 2: Oct 13, 2007; by Cyrano4747

"Students peel seven hundred pounds of potatoes to gangster rap about burning down zoos and hitting women with golf clubs" never fails to make me laugh until I cry.

# ¿ Nov 30, 2011 23:30

BENGHAZI 2: Oct 13, 2007; by Cyrano4747

Android Blues posted:

I think much of the humour comes from how brutally the tone of his character clashes with the more light-hearted main cast. I mean, Pat rooms with a Silence of the Lambs-style serial killer and does reedy yells at him for not picking up his shoes or whatever. That's hilarious.

Like the man said, there's a complicated power dynamic in that house.

H.P. Shivcraft posted:

I like a lot of bits about that arc, but I think the general gripe was that Achewood always had what was essentially magical realism -- the Volvo of Despair, Ray's dancing shoes -- but it never called it that. By extending the Mexican magical realism joke as a plot device, it felt like Onstad was using it as a kind of crutch to tell the story he wanted to tell, which was a text adventure about Todd and Kim Jong Il attempting to live out a classic children's novel.

Also re: Nice Pete chat, to be a total pedant about it, he's also incredibly palatable if you read him as a grotesque Faulkner pastiche.

Ray's dancing shoes weren't magical realism at all, they were just sentient shoes.

# ¿ Dec 11, 2011 07:51

BENGHAZI 2: Oct 13, 2007; by Cyrano4747

Rev. Bleech_ posted:

This is something I've been saying to people for months whenever they ask an asinine or inconsequential question. It's either this or "yep, that's whatever you're talking about for ya." I'm neither proud nor ashamed.

What is this from?

Dominion posted:

Don't think so, I think they all moved to the fanflow.

No, they're on blogspot still. And they're rarely related to the comic, other guy, so don't worry about it. Just read them when you know the characters. Pat's is best.

Pat's is best.

# ¿ Dec 28, 2011 05:01

BENGHAZI 2: Oct 13, 2007; by Cyrano4747

Sigma-X posted:

I liked everything about it except for the two Nathan/Teodor panels. It felt really unnecessary and really stretched out for a comic that does not play out awkward sexual encounters for 30 panels and two comics.

Nearly every other time the comic involves sex or cocks or whatever is short and/or consensual, and this was a really creepy coercion.

I think saying people who didn't like it are homophobes is really awkward, too, because in my opinion, if anything, it's playing up homosexuality as a scary/weird thing.

If Nice Pete's Highschool as an arc is read quickly and those pages are dropped (or perhaps truncated to a few) and you aren't staring at the same comic for literal weeks on end, then I think it's pretty solid still. But the whole way achewood petered out and died on that arc was really, really unfortunate.

It's more that it's playing Teodor's questionable sexuality and his first gay experience against the incredible hosed up situation that they're in that makes it funny.

That and the idea that the whole sequence in the back of the van might just be Nice Pete's imagination. The crazy cat likes imagining the old gay cat and the bear having sex.

And also the phrase "You do what you want to, but do what you need to, too." Such a nice way to say "Y'know, if you wanted to blow me, that'd be alright."

BENGHAZI 2 fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Jan 6, 2012

# ¿ Jan 6, 2012 21:07

BENGHAZI 2: Oct 13, 2007; by Cyrano4747

Mr. Flunchy posted:

Got it in one my friend. My dislike of a strip where Teodor is threatened with rape in the back of a filthy van is indeed entirely rooted in my cherished and deeply held homophobia.

Pretty sure you're supposed to read it as Teodor finally giving in and doing it with a guy when he thinks he's about to die, after his sexuality has been hinted at for ages, not as rape.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2012 05:22

BENGHAZI 2: Oct 13, 2007; by Cyrano4747

Lurdiak posted:

Sex under duress is generally not regarded as consensual.

Nathan wasn't the one putting him under duress.

In fact he wasn't being forced to have sex by anyone, it was more "gently caress if I'm gonna die I may as well try it".

Jesus Christ, people.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2012 19:39

BENGHAZI 2: Oct 13, 2007; by Cyrano4747

I just realized that in the arc where Pat comes out, the Mexican camera shows him eating meat.

Pat really is a freegan just to be a righteous rear end in a top hat. Pat is the best character.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2012 08:07

BENGHAZI 2: Oct 13, 2007; by Cyrano4747

I've been reading Pat's blog, because it's the best blog, and I'm noticing a trend.

Pat has a Thing about recumbent bicycles and gravity-sensible skitter-carts. Anytime he mentiosn transportation, those come up.

Just the little touches, that let us know how consistent he is with being a smug dick.

Also, if you don't think the phrase "Gravity-sensible skitter-carts" is funny you suuuuuuck.

edit: Pat on the Dude and Catastrophe:

quote:

It comes down to this: there is not a single item at this public house which I can consume or enjoy, either physically, artistically, or intellectually. I am quite simply not welcome, as nothing is offered for me. It's as though the whole place was designed to keep me, and specifically me, out.

Weird~

BENGHAZI 2 fucked around with this message at 07:53 on Jan 12, 2012

# ¿ Jan 12, 2012 07:47

BENGHAZI 2: Oct 13, 2007; by Cyrano4747

withak posted:

Today in Oakland I saw a guy on what had to be a gravity-sensible skitter-cart pulling into a Whole Foods parking lot.

Pat's blog is one of the funniest things I've ever read.

Music Pat has downloaded, legally and for free:

Merryweather Spitbugs
Preston Cloche
Fingerstyle guitar

Party of Rain
Spencer Westwood
Fingerstyle guitar

Bodicea's Lair
Imagination
Fingerstyle guitar

# ¿ Nov 4, 2012 01:38

BENGHAZI 2: Oct 13, 2007; by Cyrano4747

Deathlove posted:

A guy I know on the Internet got married a few months back and got an enlarged photo of the wedding strip from Onstad to use as his Card People Sign At The Wedding: http://chattypics.com/files/droidUpload_cxqjik0pfx.jpg

Find the one person who got the reference for a no-prize!

HI

YES

# ¿ Nov 15, 2012 16:13

BENGHAZI 2: Oct 13, 2007; by Cyrano4747

Dodgeball posted:

For anyone who likes the blogs:

[url=https://twitter.com/achewood/status/271119609275486210]

I really want a Pat collection. I'd read it every day.

edit;

That Douche[/quote posted:

Okay, so what Pat wanted was to tell me that he just got
his driver's license renewed and wants to take me along
with him to the DMV headquarters in Sacramento so that
he can lodge a formal complaint about something in
person. Talk about your five hour round trips in Pat's
hinge old Mustang that he thinks is so precious. Plus, I
would never want to do that. I don't know why he thought
that would be a treat for me. I told him I had a late
afternoon tee time down at Seven Pines, and he said we
could go tomorrow, and I said that I had standing tee
times at all golf courses for as long as he was mad at the
DMV. He managed to turn my comment into a
two-minute blister about how the state is going down the
tubes because guys like me sit around in robes and
accept the status quo. Then he left. That was nice of
him.,

I miss you Ray Smuckles.

BENGHAZI 2 fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Nov 22, 2012

# ¿ Nov 22, 2012 04:39

BENGHAZI 2: Oct 13, 2007; by Cyrano4747

What's the one where Ray and Beef keep ripping on Pat's hat? Because that's the best one.

# ¿ Dec 29, 2012 03:17

BENGHAZI 2: Oct 13, 2007; by Cyrano4747

Let me know when I can get a shirt that tells everyone I meet that I am, in fact, the dude who sucks.

Plus, I got depression.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2013 20:33

BENGHAZI 2: Oct 13, 2007; by Cyrano4747

THe best part of that is the "Sorry, mom." Of course Ray's talking about how sharp helicopter blades should be with his mom. It's probably Chablis o'clock.

# ¿ May 25, 2013 05:20