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Brookside Lounge, Best Western, Hell Thursday, December 4, 2003 • read strip Viewing 37 comments:

This is a really "experimental" phase in the Achewood history, with a lot of silent panels and atmospherics. It's really this kind of stuff, even more than the humor, that elevates the strip above what I laughingly call its peers.

and the chubby award goes to YOU

seconded

A comment left by killerlimpet was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by boatshow, Sweetlips, Boyd)

Achewood is by far the place with the highest concentration of Bill Hicks fans. He's even an example of a comedian in the profile window, for Pete's sake. Your avatar makes me feel like, when I'm reading the archives, old Bill himself is looking down on us from Arizona Bay. Thank you, ford.

Thanks to this comment i am currently re-listening to "Arizona Bay." Thank YOU, idsyen.

Has anyone ever looked at the back side of Led Zeppelin 3 and thought Jimmy Page looked a LOT like Bill Hicks? His eyes and mouth, especially.

another dead hero.

Whoever lamed it... well, I won't go there.
CHUBBY'D.

i honestly did not see robert johnson in the last panel, and when I did, I jumped a little myself.

You did not...

See

[IMGS OFF]

oh hee hee, oh heee heee heeee

Achewood has no peers. It is the Beatles of webcomics.

This one is so excellent. The Robert Johnson storyline could have been so great, but it fizzled out. Too bad.

Why are so few of these strips rated highly

People are just naturally going to react more to a witty catch phrase than a subtly crafted composition. At the end of the day, this is really more of a hilarious comic than a melancholy contemplation.

This is my absolute favorite strip. Got this one framed.

Hey me too! I think this is the silent pinnacle of achewood.

Who stole the G?

Why couldn't this story arc have been longer, I loved it so ;_;

I love Ray's hat!! Anyone else?

It is extremely smart, I will admit...

What is it? It looks like an alpini cap, but I don't know why Ray would have one.

But Ray does have a crown for wearing after getting mad rutty, so I could probably see it.

Panel One: In hell there is no G.

Except in "Lounge". They are merely low on G's in hell.

..."They are low on g's in hell." would make a great gangsta rap song about the afterlife and the choices we make to be hustla's and g's here.

I am also thinking hell without gravity would be kind of novel.
Zero G's in Hell!

The alt text of these past few straight kill me.

In Hell, Robert Johnson is sentenced to an eternity of playing at the Brookside Lounge at Best Western. Sisyphus looks at him and smiles.

I don't think anybody has mentioned that this is an excellent punishment for selling your soul in exchange for musical talent.

An eternity of bookings at an out of the way motel, but it's closed, and you never get to play again...

e p i c

Trawling through the archives, and *this* is the one that made me join up just so I could say...

I love this strip.

Your avatar is EXACTLY what i drew in my grade 9 science book on the diagram of a vagina. Oh the laughs for generations.

It's a hell of angry vagina, that's for sure.

We had second hand texts that the school gave us to use - this was in one of them... still makes me laugh! I like to think this is how ovaries look most of the time. Angry and possibly homicidal.

dang maybe you had my book hahaha

Robert Johnson: Sold his soul for the 32-20 blues. Ray: sold his soul for "dance like there's ass in your pants"

This scene is so fucking rad. I want to go to hell.