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Pat: Trials of Honour Tuesday, July 19, 2005 • read strip Viewing 95 comments:

It sounds like a sweet show kind of and why then is Pat of all people watcing it?

Kind of? I would totally watch it. The names could use some work though - I'm not at all sure that Cymuion sounds at all medieval. Sounds more like some kind of foreign soup.

I imagine Trials of Honour to be like the Barchester Chronicles only with the ever present possibility of somone cutting off someone else's head. That show would appeal to me.

Cymulon sounds like a tertiary character from "All My Circuits."

Futurama chubby, I just found out comedy central made a deal for 2 new seasons

Actually that is a show that assholes watch and it is proven.

Pete don't care. He is so friendy. Notice he says TEEvee like it's supposed to be said in Appalachia.

A comment left by radishes was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by KilroyWasHere, mrpedro, chuwie)

Panels four and seven

Panels three and five.

Panels one and nine.

I really gotta go with eight and ten.

i'll say fourteen, Stan!

SOLD.

That's Panelwang!

Part of the reason why I love Pat's assholishness so much is because he gets worked up over the craziest stuff.

I love picturing that falcon alighting on the handshake. Would the knights be cool with that? Personally I would consider freaking out a bit. It had got to be awkward, a falcon all flying onto your damn arm. I imagine that you and the other guy share an embarassed look.

are you kidding me? the falcon represents strength and honor, and the knights know that.

Well, I think a Lion represents strength and honor, but if one jumped out from behind the couch every time I met someone's dad I would not be totally prepared.

The knights are like, "Is this your falcon? "Mine? no..." "Well, one of us has to take it home."

falcons are sort of a pain

Hey, falcons were worth a heap of money back in the day. A Falconer could very well lose his head if he lost one of his falcons.

Shit, this ten-month-old thread is just full of gold .

Agreed

the most awkward game of rock-paper-scissors ever.

Sorry! I meant to chubby you - not lame you!

I just had to sign up to give this comment my first ever chubby and reply. Now, every time I meet someone's father, I will keep a fearful eye on the nearest couch.

try what I did. only $10k up front.

Of course they would. Falcons only alight on good, dealcloser handshakes.

Because good, dealcloser handshakes look like plump, delicious rabbits.

I think that a good, dealcloser handshake looks like two fleshy amputee spiders bumping uglies

last panel - great artwork

I have a sneaking suspicion it's modified clipart.

Or a blown-up clip from some Prince Valiant strip.

GET OUT OF HERE WITH THAT..THAT [B] SHIT [B]!

i done it up in lights this time.

sorry.

what was i thinking.

we cool?

Pat refers to the show as "intelligent".

Pat is a dick.

it MUST be intelligent if pat is watching it

"Such intelligent programming" is one of the biggest dick lines there is

Onstad, please contact me for handshake lessons. I'll give you hands like a blacksmith .

Like... Hiram, the Blacksmith?

No.

I am a blacksmith.

not kidding.

When shaking hands with other blacksmiths do your hands look like plump delicious amputee rabbitspiders making love?

Nooooooo... Onstad is local (San Francisco bay area)

does that warrant a 'nooooooo'?

3.9 is a crime against humanity.

Last line made me wet myself.

The Manshake: When two men shake hands on a mountaintop, a falcon alights on their grip while lightning flashes in the background.

or a concoction that happens when Nice Pete and a blender are in a room for too long together.

Here are some of their Hands!

Ha, never noticed that the channel's callsign is KQED.

KQED is an actual PBS affiliate in California. The choice of callsign was deliberate , too.

that's a rad article! the soundproofing secret especially.

Yes sir

Well Mr Onstad, I'd pay almost fifty bucks to have a good falcon alight on my hand during a good, dealcloser handshake.

How much would you pay for a bad falcon to do the same?

Tekende's rearing program was not altogether a success.

we know this

It took me a few seconds to make sure I understood this, but this is a damn good comment.

One of my favourites. Underappreciated. Look at the genius - blah blah blah...

those are some seriously well rendered hands.

Pat is the kind of guy who would feel the need to state that it is a falcon , thank you very much.

Fucking Pat and his fucking teevee shows.

i..don't really see any fucking going on, there.

Panel 6: a thumb ring makes for stone cold handshakes such as gripping fast tight.

a thumb ring is the manliest of hand jewelry choices for a man.

greenkoolayd and his friends have this argument all the time.

i state facts. those that argue are wrong. i am male accessory fashion judge, male accessory fashion jury, and male accessory fashion executioner.

I hesitate to ask how you execute on Prince Alfreds.

i dont know who they are......

Please don't Googe Image "Prince Alfred" then.

I have to second this. It is a Mistake.

i thought that was called a prince albert...

It... It is. Wow. OK. You know what... this whole thing hasn't gone so well and I was hoping we could just delete the entire thread. Oh... wait.

naw, its cool. normally, im the one in your place. thanks for giving me a different perspective.

w'all gotta admit, gives new perspective to Prince Albert in a can...

yikes. picture a disposable, one-use piercing gun.......

So, Manshake, guys?

*raaaaaarrrk, raaaaaaarrrk*

Sounds like it, yeah. Although I still have talon scars...

I would totally watch this show, even if it's the sort of thing Pat likes

I think we might soon get something very similar, if the gods be good .

Damn it, TV needs to stop giving me excellent reasons to not leave the house! I am fat enough.

Hilarious titles!

A Game of THRONES
A Clash of KINGS
A Storm of SWORDS
A Feast for CROWS
A Dance with DRAGONS


Brilliant.


Give the Wheel of Time series a try.

(Except don't. Unless you like your mentions of medieval female underwear fast and frequent.

Also bondage, occasionally.)

Who wouldn't like their mentions of medieval female underwear fast and frequent? It is such intelligent programming.

The more mentions of medieval female underwear I hear, the faster and more frequent I get.

A Tryst with LADIES
A Lay with DUDES

A tangle of TRANNIES.
A fete of FURRIES.

Man. I once spent several centuries stuck in a pub listening to the bloke at the next table pitching his ideas for a proposed trilogy of high fantasy novels to his hapless female companion. He was planning to call it 'Dragon Sword, Raven Crown'.

I think, had I beaten him to death with his Magners bottle, I would automatically have been in the running for at least two major literary awards.

Unfortunately, that title would probably be completely acceptable to most fantasy publishers.

I imagine an alternative universe where a highly regarded literary publisher asks that their authors murder at least one (1) terrible popular fiction writer for credibility's/dedication's sake.

The lady in question might've bought you a drink if you had.

Man I grew up watching KQED but all I remember is like Reading Rainbow, etc.

LeVar (is that seriously his name?? i thought it was Lamar..why'd they even change his name in The Next Generation...seriously--) was super cool. i don't care what anybody says.

I'm glad that Onstad recognizes the importance of a good handshake. A handshake tells you a lot about a dude. Last guy I met with a good handshake? A stand-up fellow who owns a slightly divey Irish pub. Last guy I met with a crappy handshake? Got arrested a month later for kiddie porn.

Both of these are true.