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Chris Onstad posted:Let the artist explore his sadder feelings, people. 
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Apr 26, 2010 09:51
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in which case, here's a box of tissues and the keys to my Dodge, go ahead and take twenty. I'm parked behind the Starbucks and I left my phone in there; I have a really great data plan so go ahead and use that if you need to. Just leave everything in the back seat when you're done, though; I'm planning to encase the used tissues in handsome laminate blocks and make a killing on Etsy (hopefully it sells better than the Beneath The Convention Chairs of Ryan North Collection)
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Apr 26, 2010 09:59
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where da fux lyle —Fan of Lyle
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May 15, 2010 09:04
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perhaps you would be interested in a link to the blog where I keep my Yamahata/Honikker slash fiction???
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May 15, 2010 10:08
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if it's not mine, then what do I have to be ashamed of?
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Jun 2, 2010 08:55
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Very rarely does Nice Pete's anger get the better of him, unless he feels looked down upon by soft men raised on paved surfaces. The last time we saw him attempt The Act out of passion, he was stabbed repeatedly in the forehead and butt-cheek. As this arc has demonstrated, he's -much- better at causing trauma when there is no malice in his actions. Or maybe he should just stick to the van. The only driver that needs is Pete, and that's how you really rack up the hands.
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Jun 19, 2010 07:05
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I was at a party on Saturday and two guys in their underwear ended up fighting in the pool behind me. I turned back to the group conversation I was having and said, "Well, you can do whatever you want in life." Everyone laughed, no one got the reference, thanks for the line Onstad That said, I'm uncomfortable with the blatant anti-homosexual sentiment exhibited in that strip; it's implying that the two men who touch naked in a hot tub are both inherently belligerent and disagreeable. Why couldn't it have been two -girl- cats, instead???
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Jul 14, 2010 17:55
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Happy Hippo posted:MizuZero just expects more from gay porn plots than most folks do, I guess. real gay porn has two chiseled Adonises jackhammering in the jacuzzi, hard hats and steel-toes arranged tastefully nearby. The Hot Tub Brawls series is the Double Deuce to real gay porn's Rick's Café Américain.
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Jul 15, 2010 09:22
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the last time I got into a van with a nude mustache, he ate my cheeseburger
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Aug 5, 2010 09:42
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are we doing ACHEWOOD: A RETROSPECTIVE now? because Lyle's brief dalliance in the gonzo porn industry's one of my favorite thingsquote:Jimmy crapped in my yard! Followed shortly afterwards by his lucid tenure as cook at a Scottish all-girls school. What makes Lyle the best character is that he's a natural businessman; if he had Ray's luck he'd be Microsoft rich
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Oct 17, 2010 07:59
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I remember being seventeen and on High School March Break, refreshing the gently caress out of the site during the daily updates of the Great Outdoor Fight's climax. I remember when the alt text for one strip was Onstad caps-yelling at people for ruining his bandwidth, and I was happy it was so popular. I remember wondering the site crash was due to an influx of new readers (!!who wouldn't -get- why the GOF was so cool, because they didn't know the characters at all!!), or solely because of the sore-wristed adulation of the established fans. That arc demonstrated how good of a writer Onstad is when he's motivated. It was both funny and badass, while seemingly eschewing all of the tropes and cliches that works saddled by those adjectives use as crutches. It provided relevant characterization while establishing a continuity. Best of all, it was daily, with the occasional couple-day break taken between the storyline's big beats, the author possessing complete understanding of Joe Internet's ephemeral attention span. It's sad to see such an exemplary webcomic go out like this; the store non-functioning, updates sporadic, and storylines discarded. It's worse than the final months of Perry Bible Fellowship, because not only was that strip gag-a-day, it provided a satisfying and appropriate conclusion. Not to say that there's a dearth of funny comics on the Internet, but they all seem so limited in comparison to Achewood. Wacky skull-and-nerd related non-sequitur? Historical figures behaving in contemporary fashion? Flowcharts and cock jokes? Achewood did it, and then moved on a few weeks later. It should just end. Like an aging, bigoted celebrity, every year it continues to exist tarnishes the brilliance it demonstrated earlier in its lifespan. Here's to ten years of Achewood. *grabs dicksack*
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Jan 4, 2011 22:45
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Jerusalem posted:But it's still just as good as it ever was, there are just less strips at the moment. The quality hasn't diminished in the slightest (in my opinion, obviously). I was a little hyperbolic. It hasn't declined in quality; the art is nice, and every once in a while there is a turn of phrase that really sticks to the consciousness (For example, the other day I woke up thinking "Restroom Eyes gets his way"), but it has reduced in both frequency and originality (though the latter is subjective). Earlier, I praised Achewood for its effortless shifts in tone and composition, with each sequence of strips either contributing to continuity, developing a character, or just being hilariously crass. Lately, it seems as if the strip has stagnated. I know that it's difficult for a work to remain innovative over a decade, but I've felt as if I've laughed at the exact same gently caress you Friday or Roomba Theatre or Depressed Beef jokes before, while the direct David Lynch cameo came off as contrived. There -was- one engaging storyline last year, but it was summarily abandoned. All of this is made worse by the infrequency of the updates. If Achewood hadn't been excellent before, I wouldn't hold it to such a high artistic standard now. As it is, the current state of affairs undermines the legacy of the comic. Onstad should end the strip, and whenever he's got new material, he should blog it or get it published effortlessly in any number of venues. Right now, everything just comes off as lazy.
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Jan 4, 2011 23:49
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H.P. Shivcraft posted:A clean exit makes for less baggage, indeed. I forgot that this arc was last year. I agree with this post 100% edit: except for the sappy personal poo poo, grow a pair you janey
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Jan 5, 2011 23:40
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I agree with the guy; I don't know why you dudes were so quick to leap on his dissenting opinion with Hyperbolic Strawmen (come see us play Tuesdays at the Trash Veranda). I thought Achewood prided itself on not being dated— check out this strip's equivalent from last year. It's ostensibly topical, except not at all, and as a result doesn't come off as contrived. Meanwhile, this one is all over the place, making references to bad Food Network shows, Justin Bieber, Glenn Beck, Somali pirates, and the Zune, then playing free word association with them, and writing that off as comedy. Seriously, what is this,
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Jan 6, 2011 21:33
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oh, yeah, phuck autotune btw
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Jan 6, 2011 21:37
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The difference is that no-plot one-off Achewood used to be Klaus Nomi homages, illustrations of Emeril and George Michael, a clipart motorcycle clearing Mount Everest, or two men fighting nude in a jacuzzi.Deathlove posted:Lyle's calligraphy is well-known and respected. stupid ugly retard posted:The really ridiculous part is the idea that Ray never sent an all caps comic sans email. Pardon me for interrupting in a manner befitting Kanye West, a man who Forbes will soon refer to as "a rapper with more ego than decorum", but you two wouldn't be saying these things were if these characters were just differently-drawn mouthpieces for the same brand of low-hanging ball jokes too hackneyed to conceal beneath the Dixie cup of verbosity, as well as the KY-Jellylike topical humor currently on spread. I'm just waiting for #Achewood to trend after the tortellini-fueled centaurs on MTV's Jersey Shore t-shirt time into "Here Comes a Special Boy" ringers.
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Jan 7, 2011 09:35
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The saddest thing.
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Feb 5, 2011 07:06
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Yeah sometimes I still wear my brown GoF tour '08 ringer about town. AA, so hugs the moobs real nice. Once in a blue I get someone asking me if I read Achewood. I tell him, yeah used to. Then I cross my arms and cock my hips and though my mouth's busy shaping a downwards dimpler he knows I don't anymore.
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May 4, 2012 13:16
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Every day as I put on shoes I look at the framed & signed print of Ray Gets Sort of Stoned I have on my wall. Today it made me nostalgic for the masterpiece that was Achewood, but instead of getting all bloo-lidded and binging through the archives, I went and read all the strips that had been put up since I stopped reading it altogether, picking up around March 2012. It didn't take me long to catch up. I also dug up this post, all the way from July 2011: MizuZero posted:I remember being seventeen and on High School March Break, refreshing the gently caress out of the site during the daily updates of the Great Outdoor Fight's climax. I remember when the alt text for one strip was Onstad caps-yelling at people for ruining his bandwidth, and I was happy it was so popular. I remember wondering the site crash was due to an influx of new readers (!!who wouldn't -get- why the GOF was so cool, because they didn't know the characters at all!!), or solely because of the sore-wristed adulation of the established fans. 
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Mar 25, 2015 01:14
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my last post in this thread was five years ago and prior to that, nine years ago and boy was I disappointed at the state of achewood 2011 It’s mostly out of nostalgia but I did enjoy the latter hundred strips the last time I did a reread, last year Despite all, it’s still a work that left a lasting impression on me and so, I got ray  with all caveats and reservations regarding monuments to the living heard and respected. Here’s hoping onstad’s got fewer skeletons in his closet than his house does
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Jul 29, 2020 22:05
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is nice pete bottomless during the basketball game?
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Jul 1, 2021 08:51
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The Voice of Labor posted:dilbert hole'ing achewood seems, not exactly redundant, but superfluous to the source material do you use dilbert hole’ing as a hypernym for any comic edit
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Jul 2, 2021 13:59
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ok cool, I was confused and thought you were alluding to a twenty-year-old set of gay rape jokes to bolster your perspective that the text of a webcomic that hasn’t updated since 2016 is sacrosanct
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Jul 5, 2021 03:47
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love all the blogs but I think my favourite arc is Sober Lyle Abroad
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Aug 10, 2021 15:46
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googling up the FARE THEE NOT WELL panel led me to this: Trials of Honor Wiki - Cymulon Tenebron who’s responsible?
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Jul 14, 2022 18:50
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I didn’t think that chubby cats could cure their diabetes but here we are at the tail end of 2022 and onstad is making whole on decade-old reneges  . I now wonder if the dark horse stuff might actually come out
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Dec 10, 2022 00:16
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teodor fleecing todd of his male escort money lead to one of the best arcs of mid-period achewood, the north korean magical realism text adventure
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Dec 15, 2022 07:16
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disagree with teodor and molly. they have an extensive rapport after molly and beef move in together which mostly consists of teodor acting exactly how you’d expect him to
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Feb 12, 2023 20:54
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did oni’s downfall come because they published genderqueer because the timeline appears to align
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Feb 17, 2023 17:40
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I was poised to joke about the scott pilgrim money running dry but the real circumstances seem to be less funny
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Feb 17, 2023 18:28
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your av says it all
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Feb 24, 2023 16:57
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The Voice of Labor posted:I've bought three here comes a special girl t-shirts. one for the girlfriend who left, one for the wife who didn't and one for the child who hopefully will someday 
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Feb 28, 2023 22:43
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mashing f5 daily during the great outdoor fight
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Mar 19, 2023 06:15
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receiving the news of revived achewood with the same good-for-them nonchalance as learning that sunny day real estate is touring again or that clone high is doing a new season
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May 9, 2023 20:15
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haha yeah. gotta make sure ray is hale so he can invite envelopé, milklin, and uncle george to gin ocean redux: the dude has got no mercy. because you can do whatever you want in life.
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