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God, the flowcharts. So much of what makes Achewood great is in the pacing -- all Todd all the time would get old, all flowcharts would get old, even all Nice Pete would get old. But Onstad just measures them out like a goddamn wizard of humor titration, pipetting out nanolitres of le mot juste into our expectant veins. There comes a time when words fail and only the wadding up and hurling of currency will suffice. Off to the Achewood Store I go.
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King Nothing posted:You're one of those picks-up-the-mouse-between-pushes types, aren't you. He's right though. Nothing's nose looks like a 1025 in a box.
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Nov 7, 2009 00:55
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McGravin posted:That's as cool as my friend's kid who, at age 5, knew the correct answer to "Who is the best Green Lantern?" (Hal Jordan) That's the worst typo for 'John Stewart' I've ever seen. edit: late for the derail, going to the BN thread now
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Nov 20, 2009 20:25
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Guys did you know there is a  new strip
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Jan 4, 2010 21:52
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McGravin posted:"Butt pee". "Sinner's rear end," to use an Achewood-introduced term.
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Jan 9, 2010 03:58
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I will proffer the merest taste from the fanflow update, because this fragmentary amuse-bouche has thoroughly earned the money I've spent on the subscription: BEEF: The world is a system of narrowly-avoided truths. It never stops being true: Celebration of the loving English language.
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Mar 20, 2010 06:28
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Sigma-X posted:(these are all american dates gently caress you british backwards folks) You know you can defend the many areas in which the US is superior but I can't back you on calling a date order where the time periods are in order by size, instead of month THEN day THEN year, 'backward'. It's like a clock that reads 54:03pm and then the seconds. It is dumb as hell.
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Mar 23, 2010 06:40
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Actually sorry but both date systems are beyond fuckin' lame. YYYY-MM-DD 4 lyfe As long as the time periods are sorted by size, I got no beef with your heterodox ways, even if it obviously makes sense to put the most time-sensitive information first (PROTIP: The year changes a lot less often than the day, google it). We can all agree that putting the month first, then the day, then the year, is the act of a mind unbalanced by febrile monsoon-breezes.
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Mar 23, 2010 16:06
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ManiacClown posted:Do we know why Philippe lives with the original Achewood crew instead of his mother? This is addressed to some extent in Achewood Book 2's text sections.
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Mar 27, 2010 01:41
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New Strip  Onstad why do you hate the obviously superior cola beverage edit: my desire to upbraid the authorial diktat has led to being beaten  :
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Mar 31, 2010 04:49
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Cats can be assholes in the same ways and for the same reasons people can be assholes: one part natural inclination, four parts bad upbringing.
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Apr 4, 2010 00:04
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Thicker, stronger elastic.
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Apr 6, 2010 18:28
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Technique posted:Am i the only one who finds this entire story arc to just feel really forced and melodramatic? To be honest, i don't think any of the "drama" arcs have been very good, though. But i just don't see how this is so darn depressing. You might just not like drama in general.
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Apr 23, 2010 22:09
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Expiration Date posted:rse off in California they have no Waffle House, or Steak N Shake. The only options are loving godawful Jack in the Box or Dennys I think. I've found it best to just go home when it's late and forget trying to find anything worth going to when you're drunk. There's Carrows, which is sort of like Denny's non-union Mexican equivalent, to steal a phrase. But if you're ordering anything at Jack in the Box that isn't the real-ice cream Oreo shakes, something has gone terribly awry. Actually, if you order that thing something has already gone terribly awry with your weight management, or you're Rod Huggins and there's a shoot coming up.
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Jun 5, 2010 05:03
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Dove from Above posted:What arrived with my grilled cheese was so off-target it's hard to describe. You know how crinkle-cut fries have ridges running latitudinally across the width of each fry? These had longitudinal ridges, running along their length. (Yes that was redundant, I am just trying to be clear.) Otherwise they were completely ordinary and somewhat dry fries/hot chips. This is the new Saddest Thing. It is in every way an antipodean replica of the Mickey Mouse pancake Teodor makes for Philippe. 
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Jun 5, 2010 05:37
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Nice Pete is like an ogre from a fairy tale, terrifying and invincible but with sudden, unexpected weaknesses from weird angles.
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Jun 18, 2010 19:15
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Food Chain! Get used to it!
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Jul 29, 2010 15:48
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King Nothing posted:Was the writer drunk while typing that? There's so many typos and also: Journalism is dead, the typos are just gas escaping the corpse.
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Jul 29, 2010 16:49
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Those are Sicilians.
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Aug 24, 2010 01:47
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Sigma-X posted:alt text is great, especially because I love the gently caress out of Citizen Kane and that bugged the poo poo out of me the second it happened in the strip. Someone actually liked Citizen Kane? Why? I watched it just for cultural literacy's sake at home one day and was just bored for 3 hours. "An rear end in a top hat lives, is an rear end in a top hat, dies." Please explain what I was missing?
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Happy Hippo posted:A film that appeared like lightning out of a clear blue sky that created many technical and structural devices that are still in common use today. Yeah, I can definitely appreciate the technological innovations of it, and for a serious film-nerd I can see it being of great historical interest. But it wasn't very interesting as a story, is what I'm saying. The Jim Corrigan comics have wild visual flair and fascinating games with layout are played, but the stories all boil down to 'a guy is depressed and then bad things happen,' which is why all the technical innovation doesn't create a lasting interest -- it's more the equivalent of a tech demo than an actual game, to draw a videogame analogy.
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Aug 24, 2010 16:35
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GigaPeon posted:So it was basically Avatar? "An impressive suite of new techniques in the service of a crappy story" applies pretty well to both, so yes.
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Sep 1, 2010 16:00
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This reminds me that 'placid afternoons of unhurried buggery' was my 'I am not at work but available to chat' IM status for quite a while. Might be time to take it out for another spin.
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Sep 22, 2010 03:31
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Dodgeball posted:It also forces your refrigerator to work overtime to return the internal temperature to normal, causing a waste of electricity. "Making things cold" is exactly the job I want my refrigerator to do, though, so it's about as much a 'waste' of electricity as running my microwave to heat something up is. 420 put hot things in the fridge every day, I need the drat counter space
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Sep 24, 2010 19:14
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YOU GUYS
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Nov 11, 2010 06:19
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drat you, Seat Safety Switch. So, is this sequence of side-story strips more or less officially saying 'I'm not finishing off the story arc'? Because I can make my peace with that if I have to, I just feel uncomfortable every time there's a new strip and it affords no closure, replacing narrative continuity with a series of narrative continuances, if you will.
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Nov 19, 2010 01:51
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That was actually John Turturro in Barton Fink
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Feb 7, 2011 06:18
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Dark Chicken posted:I thought it was called wifebeater for the same reason why certain shirts are called wifebeater: A Streetcar Named Desire. You're presuming a lot more literacy from chavs than I think is actually present.
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Mar 10, 2011 19:23
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hypocrite lecteur posted:Yeah let's not talk about breaking copyright owned by a guy who literally took the money and ran maybe he'll come after us in internet court Do what you like, guy, it's your :tenbux:
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May 20, 2011 23:28
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:No, and you should do this. I already did this.
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Jun 20, 2011 21:09
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Dodgeball posted:You're supposed to use chicken stock to deglaze the pan and to provide a base for the sauce that you pour onto the steak once you cook some mushrooms in it. I don't think anyone is shocked at that, only at the idea that dilute Worcestershire is in any way a substitute for chicken stock.
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Oct 22, 2011 23:30
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People pre-ordered Achewood Cookbook II. Such a creature has yet to appear. The money has not been returned.
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Dec 2, 2011 02:35
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I'm a little vague on how 'here is a cock, you can suck it if you want' is rape, as opposed to a gross and heavy-handed invitation, but I'm willing to be educated.
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Jan 7, 2012 08:07
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Dodgeball posted:Out of curiosity, does anyone know what Beef is doing with the Scrabble board in the first few panels? Is it another language, or just gibberish? Um, neither? Those are all real English words and legit Scrabble plays.
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Jan 8, 2012 23:03
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Feedly is a thing that exists.
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Jet Jaguar posted:Japan Man same as Santa Claus, but one small difference: he stop at nothing to kill you. "Support euthanasia for dudes who have been brought to the yarn shop" is a phrase in common currency in my household.
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Previa_fun posted:To be honest on my first read of the new comic I had confused Penny with Polly and wondered what had made her fall so far. It wasn't until I saw posts about Teodor and the Party Arc that I remembered Penny at all; I too was thinking of Polly.
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