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The Party: Day IX Friday, March 22, 2002 • read strip Viewing 68 comments:

You better not make Johnny Cash mad. That dude is hardcore.

Why is Ray biting Beef?

Because he's delicious

those are luv knibbles.

I'm doing this to my friends next time I get drunk

Grrr! Roas' beef! Mmmmmm!

Even in this early show of affection, one can see the intense friendship between these two cats.

Man everybody does this when they get drunk.


...right?

One of my friends did that to another and gave him a staph infection on his chest.

He's pretty deranged though... come to think of it they might not have been drunk at the time.

Well remember they're both cats.

Because he is a cat.

What else is referred to as Roast Beef. THINK CAREFULLY.

It a thing such as cats do for fun under the circumstance of being clopsy.

He's thinkin' Arby's.

About two minutes ago i read this very comment, by you, somewhere else in the archives from 2 months ago. I'm not sure what the term for this is but surely the French know it

Really? Weird.

i thought he was just nuzzling him in a friendly way, maybe blowing a raspberry on his shoulder, in the way too enthusiastic of a way an uncle will sometimes ruffle your hair.

I think he's actually gruffling him.

PROBABLY ITALIAN.

but in his head he says it "eye-tallian"

eye-raqi

ay-rab

'Round here we don't take to words and names that begin and end with vowels.

"and"
"and"
"end"

d is not a vowel.

Neither is b, which arab ends in.

Now I don't know what to believe in.

Johnny Cash would have a black computer. Onstad got this correct.

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Man, that is beautiful.

I really like how what he's typing is not fully seen, you just have to imagine the rest

having a body of text that is cut off by the edge of the frame is one of my favorite achewood tropes. another is romance novels

also i like that he presupposes that johnny cash is reading achewood in the first place

Imagine being Johnny Cash and reading this strip. That'd be a real trip.

Sorry, I never presume to imagine I'm Johnny Cash. Maybe someday I'll allow myself that pleasure.

TWO TODDS

I thought the other squirrel might be Banjo, but he was eaten by a dog three months earlier. Then again, that's how long it usually takes Todd to come back.

Correction: It's Little Freddie .

Come off it dude it's Blister.

the second Todd is the Inverse of Ray!

Is this the first occasion of "writing so mad the words are off the screen"?

Alt text: "Turn off that alarm clock, Roast Beef's scream will awaken us from all dreams."

Hang on, is Ray wearing his shades there?

I think he's just bent over at an angle where all you can see is his eyebrows

and now he'd dead for real ! :0

Some of best alt text in this one.

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Is it a...Duck You Friday?


(Oh God I am so sorry....)

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i could eat you either way

This reminds me of something out of Family Guy. Nonetheless, it's ridiculous and I love it. I think Johnny Cash all hunched over his computer typing furiously in the last panel is what does it. And yes, as has been said, cutting off the text is like the cherry on top.

I do this when I'm drunk. This is what I do, I understand exactly the motivation for doing this. You love your friends so much that you have to kinda eat them a little.

so who can fill in the blanks on the last panel? i want to write this email and send it to everyone i know.

I'm pretty confident the phrase 'big hot bottle of my piss' is involved

i've done this while drunk.
but i've also locked another drunk girl in a closet for annoying me by acting like a baby.

i should never have children.

I should never be around you when you're drunk.

i am so much like ray sometimes. i too like to take bites out of the shoulders of my buddies during a time of just standing around.

In a strange turn of events, this strip was posted exactly 539 days before the actual death of Johnny Cash.


539CE was the year that Wacho, King of the Lombards, was killed by has little nephew, Waltari.


Coincidence??

Out of all the people who died that year, you, sir, have chosen the winner. Please take this big hot bottle...

Man, the Lombards were lame, they had a specific ammount of money you were fined if you cut of a dudes lips.

That just says it all for their society.

The strip in which one cat is so drunk, he nibbles on his food named friend. Just a coupl'a knuckleheads from the days.

Said Prison Mike.

This strip is gold i tell you! High 5!

Mercy!

Chubb'd for recursion

i love how he starts off just nibbling but in the third panel he seems to be starting to really tear

What the fuck is going on with Beefs' hand? That little line is coming out of it on all three frames. Is he Wolverine? Is he supposed to be flipping him off with a claw or something?

It is a cigarette

i want a shirt with this alt text. it's so goddamn legendary

I like how Lie Bot clears his throat, as if to direct the focus of the strip to him, as he proceeds to lie.

I'd like to share my favorite Johnny Cash quote. The Man in Black knew he was dying, and he did an interview with Larry King. With his usual throwaway softball style, Larry King asked Mr. Cash, "Are you afraid of dying?"

To which Johnny Cash smiled and replied, "No, I'm thrilled to death with life."

So simple, yet so meaningful. So dark, but so positive.