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Simon calls Pat for coffee Wednesday, August 9, 2006 • read strip Viewing 82 comments:

This forever changed how I leave apologetic messages.

I know I will forever apologize by verbally signing all satements of apology.

Don't forget to pause a beat after 'From', to indicate the comma.

I think instead of "From," I will use "By," and then pause. As if I had just allowed the recipient of my apology to hear an interesting story of my creation.

It also works with marriage proposals.

This is why the strip is a 5

This whole arc is a 5. The Mexican Realism RV, Raising Your Hands Day, Flashing the Sunflower, Ray's apology, Pat's face ballooning... I'm going through the archive and this is good stuff

I know, dude. I always say 2005 is the best year, but it just kept on being awesome. This strip has me in cramps!

YOU CAN'T JUST COMMENT! TODAY IS A RAISING YOUR HAND DAY! THAT'S JUST THE WAY IT IS! >8o<

I want an illustration of what Ray says in the last panel.

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It's somehow funnier when left to the imagination.

This whole strip is just, so...well written.

baloonin, but smilin...

Big shiny dollar signs for eyes, all going "Cha-ching!" over and over again...

i wanna a picture of Pat's face as he's running. it would be classic achewood

The picture Onstad has created in your mind is far greater than any drawing any man could ever make would be.

i love how nice pete is in some ways controlled by pat, as evidenced here. after all there is a Complicated Power Dynamic in that house

Yeah, I'd really like to see more of the Nice Pete/Pat thing.

Nice Pete's got some issues.

Nice Pete has a subscription .

A chubby for you, sir!

Bra vo .

im surprised nice pete isnt walking around in pats skin.

"BA-DUMP BUMP! Rim shot! Heyo!"

Damn, but I just would've hung up on Ray at that point - so damn obnoxious. :)

It's hard to hang up on someone when they are leaving a message.

I love the idea of there being a Raising Your Hand day. You can't just talk, that's just the way it is that day.

And who calls anybody anymore? Who does that?

I might like a funny-ass

WHY FIND OUT

BOO TO THAT

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I like the long strips. Several jokes per strip = good.

This is like when people complain that a restaurant's portions are too big. If that's how you feel just read half the strip now, then save the other half for later.

The murderer cat is submissive to the vegan cat.

Except that the vegan cat is a murderer cat.

Wait..Pat's never fully iced someone has he? I mean, he's shot a couple of guys before yeah...but totally on accident dude! They got better!

He was going after Vlad with murderous intent when he shot Mr. Bear

He was trying to protect himself from Roast Beef . He was going after Vlad when he shot Beef.

so, he ended up getting his man, anyway!

He's kindof an accomplice by harboring mr. Cropes.

Kindof, haha

I like to think that the reason Ray doesn't apologize is that he genuinely thinks he's done nothing wrong. Ever.

I disagree, Ray is mad-humble when he screws up. It's just that he's too proud and gets embarrassed to do it, like the time he apologized for saying *him* and Teodor should loose some weight.

or in this strip .

Ray doesn't apologise because he realises a six hundo is a much classier salve.

Alt Text: Nice Pete wasn't being sarcastic. There is a complicated power dynamic in that house.

This is possibly my favorite alt text in Achewood.

I like how Ray treats voice messages like written letters in the third-to-last panel. That's so, well, Ray.

Ray's final comment raises this one to 4.

After panel one, this strip could have been eleven panels of scans from Good Housekeeping and it still would've been worth a straight five. Pat's assholitude has (for the moment, at least) taken alpha status over Pete's homicidalness. One beautiful, crazy dynamic in that house.

i gave this one a 5 mostly for nice pete raising his hand when the phone rings.

His face is priceless.

"From, Ray Smuckles"

My dad is sort of technology-illiterate. So when he is talking to me on msn he has this weird thing where he thinks we're writing letters to each other with each sentence:

Father says:
I've got to go now and start making supper. So i'll see you tomorrow.

Father says:
Love, Dad.

this is so touching

Tuesday Blogs

Ray: Don't huff!

Today's Blogs

Mr. Bear: Pub name correction from Ray.
Onstad: A brief statement on the position that golf occupies in my life.

I like the golf-biography blog posts. Hopefully Onstad will be able to get a few rounds in up in Portland and thus be inspired to write funny things.

God dammit, these are all pure gold. As something of a natural man of golf, I particularly enjoyed Onstad's, but holy hell. Quality right here. Hey-o!

The blogs basically need a discussion board.

nobody likes someone who is funny

That is easily the best defiant hand-raise in history. I dare anyone to come up with a better one.

How about this:
[IMGS OFF]

I think you met the challenge, and are the victor.

You win. This time.

Victory is sweet. Sticking it to the Man is even sweeter.

I only now realized that the only plausible reason for the two of them raising different hands is that they're wearing one glove each from the same pair..

Nothing wrong with being thrifty while sticking it to the Man.

Hm. Much easier to buy a pair of gloves than two singleton lefties (or righties), I suppose.

Yeah. Who calls anybody anymore?!

This is the first time I've noticed that Pat wears shoes. The random nature of clothing and accessories in Achewood pleases me tremendously.

Any ideas on why Nice Pete hasn't KILLED Pat yet?

Maybe Nice Pete has gone tame amongst the general population?

I love how Ray thinks that donkey milk would be fine with vegans.

Fucking excellent.

Great strip

dear nice pete,

please eat pats liver with fava beans and a nice chianti. i will pay you the sum of $1,759.00

signed,
me

The way pat looks, all not wearing any clothes except those black shoes; it's pants-crappingly hilarious.

Pat looks freaking hilarious in panel six, all cat-naked with people shoes. Why is pat naked, yet he has no junk? And yet just a few panels back he was very junkified?
'Tis a secret.

wow. Lame. I totally already said that first part. Lame for me.

Last panel shows why details are important

The BEST best part of this strip is that Ray and Simon are drinking martinis and seem to have been lying about the coffee machine entirely.

I really do like the dynamic between Pete and Pat. It's almost as though Pat fuels Pete's rage so much that it actually makes Pete feel good.

Donkey milk is made from soy, on account a vegan donkeys eatin' so much of it.