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Somehow I only just now found out we had an Achewood thread, anyways I think this one is my favorite strip;
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extreme dildo nun posted:I haven't been here in years (coma). Could someone give me the rundown on what happened to Chris Onstad? I hope it's not as bad as Lotax. If you're telling the truth about being in a coma, my condolences both for the coma and the world situation you've awoken too
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Jul 3, 2020 02:04
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Roast Beef's biological family is always so depressing, it's a good thing the surrogate one he's managed to build with his friends is a good one(well outside of a distressingly high probability of getting shot)
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Jul 5, 2020 20:53
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Javid posted:Ray is 60% of her patreon income He would be like the best and worst patron of all time, like he'd give people a ton of money with his patronage, but he'd probably also make the weirdest demands as part and parcel of the arrangement Also slightly off topic, but the fact that there isn't a good mobile app to read Achewood with is downright criminal
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Jul 10, 2020 21:47
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Anyone made an edit of that early comic asking about why did someone gently caress a monkey in relation to aids into one about why did someone make soup out of a bat for COVID, cause it seems like a pretty obvious one to me
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Jul 12, 2020 05:09
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reached the Subway arc in my reread and it's just some good poo poo that's become funnier over time;
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Jul 13, 2020 04:01
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Just got to the series of strips where Lyle gives Philippe a copy of the Anarchists Cookbook and it's just so wholesome
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Jul 13, 2020 22:44
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Moe_Rahn posted:Don't thank me, thank anarchy! Pat getting electrocuted made it even better
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Jul 13, 2020 23:43
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Now at the Ray's Toilet Party arc, and man I just really dislike Ultra Peanut, she's just a huge rear end in a top hat that isn't particularly funny either and honestly her whole speech gimmick just kinda feels racist in a rather uncomfortable way that feels really out of place for Achewood
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Jul 14, 2020 09:55
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The Voice of Labor posted:man, sorry, the best expectation/reality joke...just so quick That was like the one funny joke with her and that had less to do with her and more with Philippe's overactive imagination than anything
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Jul 14, 2020 11:04
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Ola posted:You can choose to read "wipe my rear end" as "let's grow old together". Considering how she acts in her later appearances I highly doubt that
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Jul 14, 2020 11:17
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Without the accent she could have been a good anti-Phillipe. He’s the kindness of childhood naïveté, she’s the part where you do rear end in a top hat things because you don’t know better and your sense of empathy hasn’t developed yet. I think part of the problem is she doesn't get any comeuppance for being an rear end in a top hat either(at least part of this being that she gets hit by Onstad's tendency to drop storylines or characters harder than basically anyone else in the comic), like what makes Pat work is the fact that karma often smacks him hard for how much of an rear end in a top hat he is(like how his horrid attempt at "chocolate covered cherries" directly leads into him getting shanked by Todd in the ankle), and this usually applies to most of the other characters too
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Jul 14, 2020 20:20
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probably my favorite of the "gently caress You Friday" comics, Cornelius's "gently caress along, now" might just be the greatest way of telling someone to gently caress off I've ever seen
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Jul 16, 2020 02:01
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Daktar posted:The best Pat moment was when he discovered he was gay, had a genuine opportunity to reflect on himself, and still continued to be an rear end in a top hat. Yup, though I do think he actually did become slightly less of one than he was before, or at least he stopped doing stuff that would send him to jail Ugly In The Morning posted:A lot of Pat’s stuff is vegan/health alternatives that do the “trying to be a direct substitute” for something, and those are nearly universally awful. There’s good vegan food, but it’s never the type of stuff that’s like “I can’t believe it’s not pork”. My sister recently became Vegan(at literally the worst time in the world to do so) and honestly most of the fake meat she's bought has been actually pretty decent
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Jul 17, 2020 21:35
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Zereth posted:Pat was doing this poo poo like.... 15+ years ago, I think things have advanced since then. My point exactly in both regards
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Jul 18, 2020 02:19
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Well reached the end again on my current read through, shame that the comic kinda went on a decline for the last five or so years of it's run(especially since in that period it probably had like maybe 3 months worth of the content that would have come out back at the height of the comic), like it was still pretty good overall, but you could see the cracks forming once you get to the arc where Ray goes to Wales to find his nephew and onward Still would be nice if it could come back again
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Jul 19, 2020 12:12
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Necronomicon posted:I just finished reading the arc about Philippe going back home to live with his mother and it’s giving me some Big Feelings. For context, I moved away from the state I grew up in five years ago to start a new career, and I’m back home on a long trip this week. Whenever I come back, I think a lot about moving back to where things are the way they used to be, but it’s just never gonna happen. Onstad has a habit of articulating things better than I ever could, and once again this rings true: “Home, she is...the grand illusion. She’s a time, not a place, and your time here is over. Pack your bag and go home to this life you already have. Your maman, she will cry, but that is what a maman must do. Life is cruel...but at least it is life, at least for a while.” Yeah not a fan of either of those arcs
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Jul 29, 2020 20:21
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Feels like it needed Nice Pete going back to jail or something at the end though, last time he got all attempted murderous on one or more of the main cast he ended up hoisted by his own petard, or rather stabbed in the brains and rear end a bunch by a really stupid invention of his
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Aug 2, 2020 05:55
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One of my favorite later Ray moments is how he handles the whole situation with an internet pervert planning on doing things to Philippe
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Aug 4, 2020 00:45
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Happy Hippo posted:*ahem* drrockso20 fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Aug 7, 2020 |
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Aug 7, 2020 23:14
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KICK BAMA KICK posted:I think Nolan knew it was a kid: Today's Main Perverts would be an excellent band name Ok Comboomer posted:Totally forgot that panel. On the other hand Achewood makes it pretty clear over the course of the comic that the local cops are both corrupt and incompetent, and the closest they ever get to beig depicted in a positive way is that they're used to keep Roast Beef's toxic family members away from his wedding by jailing them for their awful disruptive behaviors I mean the comic uses the phrase "no longer afraid of the police" as a descriptor of being drunk, and that was in like one of the first 20 or so strips(and became a recurring thing)
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Aug 10, 2020 17:41
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Schwarzwald posted:everyone boo this person I wouldn't call it the worst but I do agree that it's not very good
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Aug 11, 2020 23:25
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WeedlordGoku69 posted:I think Ray's still fairly easy to like, for two reasons. Yeah pretty much the only time he's ever intentionally malicious to someone who didn't deserve it was that weird thing with Philippe, and that was due to Ray thinking he was teaching him an important lesson about life
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Aug 21, 2020 09:01
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Shibawanko posted:he called the cops on a guy whose only crime was to have a bunch of rotating animatronic josephs Honestly don't blame him there, and I say that as someone who's fairly religious in nature and also loves Christmas Also on the topic of how wealthy Ray was before either Devil Piano Skills or Ancient Pornography, as someone who has both a rich parent and a poor parent(and lives with the latter), I'd say Ray was definitely rich growing up, but what I call "lowercase rich" which is where they definitely have a lot of money and normally don't have to worry too much about non business related financial stuff on a day to day basis(assuming no one in the family has a drug/gambling/shopping/plastic surgery addiction), but it's not quite to the point where it becomes "gently caress You Money" and they can just completely ignore the way our society is supposed to work
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Aug 21, 2020 18:35
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Shibawanko posted:"where's yours beef" re: the laser sculpted model car that he knew his friend couldn't afford No we saw Roast Beef try and make one and gently caress it up and throw it away, it wasn't supposed to be a money thing really
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Aug 21, 2020 21:11
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Safety Dance posted:Dude still dropped 150 bones on a two-beer breakfast and some books, in 2003 money. He might sleep on a grody mattress in Grandma K's trailer or in Ray's pool house, but he has some cash Ray probably pays him an excessive amount of money to handle his tech support needs
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Aug 22, 2020 20:24
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Phy posted:I think Cornelius and Teodor both figured this out at some point. I remember Connie explicitly mentioning in his blog that he felt a little bad about fleecing Ray at pool all the time, but, what's one to do? Also that's really expensive underwear at 3 bucks a pair, if he was just buying Hanes or Fruit of The Loom he could have gotten a year's supply for like a fifth of what he paid there
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Aug 23, 2020 20:39
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disaster pastor posted:I go back and forth about Teodor on this. He's clearly benefited from the Ray ATM at times (baseball cards, etc.), but he's the main cast member who's always broke and scrounging for rent money. So I'm not sure if he's making the Ray Orbit money but still living beyond his means, or if he's usually telling himself, "nah, I'm better than them, I don't need to mooch off Ray, I can work for my money," and then just... not doing that. Because in my head, Teodor is definitely the kind of character who would believe that kind of thing about himself despite the empirical evidence otherwise. I figure it's a combination of being bad with money and not having consistent work
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Aug 23, 2020 21:43
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Johnny Aztec posted:Maglites were only popular with guards/Police because it was hefty enough to use as a weapon.* The novel version of The Godfather has what's probably the greatest example of this concept, when one of the characters caves in a man's skull with one
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Aug 24, 2020 06:28
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What's all this about cookbooks?
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Aug 28, 2020 03:44
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I still have no idea what this cookbook drama is
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Sep 6, 2020 03:52
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How Wonderful! posted:There was a recipe for roasted goon ding-dong, that ruffled a lot of feathers around here. If that is the actual reason and not just you making a goofy joke that is A) Amazing, B) Depressing, and C) Amazingly Depressing
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Sep 6, 2020 03:58
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Saoshyant posted:No teenage boy has ever done anything wise near a lake. Better safe than sorry. The way Ray says that makes it clear he's speaking from personal experience
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Sep 8, 2020 01:57
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So apparently Robert Smith of The Cure fame is collaborating with The Gorillaz on a song, which immediately had me thinking of all the times this strip has made jokes about that band*(well that and a joke Strong Bad once made claiming that someone dressed up as Strong Sad for one of the Homestar Runner^ Halloween videos was in fact a "dumpy Robert Smith action figure") *The Cure to be specific ^So I get hit with nostalgia for two dead or mostly dead artifacts of early 2000's Internet Pop Culture
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Sep 9, 2020 11:12
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Halloween Jack posted:Apparently he's also into Robert Fripp. He'd be the kind of person who thinks Temporary Secretary by Paul McCartney is a good song and even Nice Pete would find that frightening
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Sep 17, 2020 23:06
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Just Offscreen posted:What does coelacanth taste like. Supposedly Coelacanth tastes pretty nasty
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Sep 19, 2020 05:42
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World War Mammories posted:even though they're not related, I strongly associate "GET GROSS, BEAUTIFUL! IT'S TODAY!" with demi adejuyigbe's annual celebration of september 21st I forget what strip is the thread title from anyways?
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Sep 21, 2020 22:51
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Just watched the old animation test reel, and honestly I can see why no one was interested in it, it was honestly really bland
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Sep 24, 2020 04:56
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Once again I am astonished at how much Roast Beef spends on underwear, I could probably get a year's supply at Wal-Mart for under a hundred bucks
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Nov 7, 2020 05:38
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This is like my third or fourth run through Achewood and I still do not understand the Cartilage Head strips, and not in the good way horror stuff can do, I mean more that it's some weird douchey artsy fartsy pretentiousness that just feels downright obnoxious to read
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Nov 10, 2020 10:13
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