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

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Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Hah, he's a 'listener'. How utterly horrifying would hiring Todd as a male escort be.

# ¿ Sep 29, 2009 21:29

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 18:56

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Teodor, put a shirt on :mad:

# ¿ Oct 6, 2009 01:34

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Nope!

McGravin posted:

Spillane, if you don't like Achewood, maybe you should, I don't know, stop reading Achewood?

Is this a hard concept to figure out?

Hey, I'm a huge fan too, and own more than one Achewood book, but this is such a bad, tired argument that could be applied to anything and doesn't really deflect criticism so much as ignore it.

There are things I could bring up about Achewood that I dislike, but I've noticed a trend that whenever it seems like the strip is starting to sag suddenly it turns around with some excellent standalones/storyarc, so I'm far from ready to start bashing it. Still, just because Onstad posts here doesn't mean this is the Achewood Appreciation Station, and I'm sure there's quite enough of that going on at his own forums.

We're all big boys here, legitimate criticism shouldn't be met with calling people trolls or saying "shut the gently caress up unless you're posting about how you love it." Of course, Spillane was getting pretty defensive but he still made some good points brosephs!

# ¿ Oct 16, 2009 09:08

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

pseudosavior posted:

I, too, want to get mad about things that are free on the internet.

If something is free its also free of any and all criticism, awesome :hfive:

# ¿ Oct 17, 2009 05:00

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Finally got book 2 from amazon, and it is a treat. The prologue and history of Achewood chapters almost make it worth the purchase price alone. My one complaint is that it seems sparse on actual comics, but that's probably because he had to pack all those pre-cats comics in the back which I only skimmed through.

I liked Lyle's origin best.

# ¿ Oct 27, 2009 04:54

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

This is Achewood, and that little bear just saw his squirrel friend break through a puddle of North Korean Magical Realism piss.

# ¿ Nov 8, 2009 17:28

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Vitriol posted:

is Todd anyone's friend? other than blister, of course.

Although I thought the North Korean bit dragged on too long (the offline week not helping) I thought this strip made up for it, not only in humor but in making Todd something other than a drug-addicted little poo poo.

He wanted to save his new friend Lee

# ¿ Nov 9, 2009 07:59

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

The others are incredibly depressing (even Beef's) but Lyle's just seems like par for the course, look how resigned he is :shobon:

# ¿ Nov 15, 2009 12:45

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Onstad do you think you're going to get in trouble when your daughter learns how to use the internet and finds out you make a living drawing rock-hard cat dicks all day

# ¿ Nov 20, 2009 08:24

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

It seems like there's a pretty high-level of "here's a list of humorous things" strips lately rather than straight-up comix.

Which I enjoy from time to time, but so many in close proximity kind of lessens the impact.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2010 12:14

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Fillerbunny posted:

NEW STRIP

I almost hate to emblazon it like that... Ray is right, but he doesn't have to be such a dick.

"THANK YOU JAYDEN!"

Still got it.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2010 01:37

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Bown posted:

Just popping in to say that this is the best Achewood strip in over a year, and that it is absolutely beautiful. Very well done, Onstad.

This. I shouldn't feel depressed over a strip about cartoon otters. Goddammit.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2010 18:30

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

I loved that one blog where Nice Pete goes to kill Rachael Ray, but her husband's life is so bad he doesn't.

# ¿ May 14, 2010 05:44

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Copernic posted:

Here is their CEO:

He is 64. (61 in the photo).

He looks like he's wearing someone else's skin over his face.

# ¿ Jul 20, 2010 08:02

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Revol posted:

All wearing one size too small button up white work shirt, even on Casual Fridays

Wearing a pocket protector with pens every single day

Hair all super wet-looking, always combed down

Never bothering to shave, because why bother, but never letting get too bushy, so it's groomed to perpetual 9-o'clock shadow

This is a depressingly accurate depiction of my workday appearance :smith:

# ¿ Aug 2, 2010 06:00

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

I give the Dresden Codak guy a lot of poo poo for updating at the pace of a snail, but as hypocritical as this may sound, I understand Achewood stalling a lot more.

Sure, its a tiny little black-and-white strip, but the writing is gold. You can't force something like "MY WHOLE LIFE I BEEN SOCIETY'S STARED-AT MAN"

# ¿ Oct 16, 2010 12:27

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Dove from Above posted:

Also, they look like they've been knuckleheads since small times. I agree, I would love to see a childhood strip that includes Pat. The existing childhood strips show that Ray and Beef's personalities have been pretty much the same all their lives. It would be interesting to see if the same is true for Pat, or if his dickishness evolved gradually.

We know that he only became a vegetarian after a traumatic experience with a duck, but it never stipulated that he wasn't already a huge dick.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2010 23:38

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Man, I wish I had Chris Onstad's problems (running a successful business that consists of me getting awards for and writing comics). Hell, I would even do it without begging for money during the months-at-a-time I couldn't be bothered!

My heart truly goes out to him

# ¿ Apr 4, 2011 09:01

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# ¿ Apr 27, 2024 18:56

Wolfsheim: Dec 23, 2003; "Ah," Ratz had said, at last, "the artiste."

Calaveron posted:

There's no ads on the website itself, so Onstad gets no money off of more people visiting it. Merchandise also has a ridiculously small profit margin, so his increase in income would be negligible.
Also, I feel the influx of more people visiting his website while he barely updates would have an effect similar to this on his psyche:

He's free to do whatever he wants, and I don't buy into the "the artist has an obligation to the audience" bullshit either, that's dumb and any artist anywhere has the right to gently caress off whenever he pleases. If he can't handle being lauded as Time's best comic series of the year or whatever, its understandable to collapse under that sort of immense pressure and slink off.

But to do that while putting up a "Hey, sorry no new comics in months, please donate!" message as literally the first thing you see when you visit the site? Who is he, Aaron Diaz*?

^{*Diaz at least has the excuse that creating one page of his comic takes probably something like 50 hours, and even at his worst he was still putting up like one new page a month}

# ¿ Apr 6, 2011 04:03

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