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Our Sixth Anniversary. Monday, October 1, 2007 • read strip Viewing 139 comments:

Congratulations!

Seconded by another skydiver!

I see you jumping past and high-fiving him on the way down.

Yay!

Nothing's changed.

Good.

Also, EVERYONE should rate this a 5, just on damn principles.

Oh, necessarily.

Moved and seconded. Any objections?

Five, Yay, and Wow.

A comment left by zapatos was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by Shinkusan, Vondicus, katethegreat, Sleaw, mystkmanat, Appers)

How...how could you?

Nothing's changed? Whatchoo talkin' 'bout? Teodor's ear's got shorter and attached to his head, his forehead got bigger, his middle became less rotund, and everybody got eyebrows. It's like an entirely different comic now! Except in any way that matters.

Here's to six more years and a day.

Here here!

And everyone's noses have migrated closer to their eyes! Except Téodor.

and Lyle got a mouth and Pat came out of the closet and Beef got a lady and......

where's Cornelius at on there?!

for real. Mr. Bear is secretly my favorite character. Hard to say why. Maybe 'cause he outclasses the rest of the cast combined. Ray probably makes me laugh the most, but in my heart... Connie.

Now everybody knows your secret.
And by now I mean 7 months ago.

This made me feel good. Achewood's settling in for the long haul.

Congrats for doing the comic!!
Tomorrow's recipe is chicken.

A comment left by daniel was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by mania3, El_Connor, Jesus)

But pretend I didn't mess that up horribly.

Theodor? THEODOR?

Theodore, even?

Messed up horribly!

He's a tugboat, and a friendly tugboat too.

Well done. Please keep up the obscure references to southern culture and depressing Germans.

its a pretty bizarre world and i love all six years of it

It's difficult to pinpoint exactly when Ray's nipples were added from these pictures.

Dang, man. I never counted those cats' nipples. Shadwell would kick me out of the Witchfinder Army for sure.

Any reference to "Good Omens" means a chubby in my book. Can't argue with the rules!

All these years, I thought I was alone...

I often wonder if Mr. Pratchett or Mr. Gaiman have ever read Achewood. It seems like they should.

I'm firmly convinced that either Pratchett reads Onstad, or Onstad reads Pratchett. They both amuse me far too much for there not to be some kind of a link.

Onstad reads Pratchett.

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Uh man the truth ain't exactly hidden.

Dude, it must be a sad world you live in where you can't enjoy even the simple pleasures found in a classic like Nation - there are complex treasures too, but since you've somehow managed to link Terry's gently sardonic but embracing world view to a festering hate-filled diatribe that's not worth the paper it's printed on, I can only assume you're a little touched...

check out the alt text on this one , then.

chubby for pulling that from the archive from what i can imagine is memory alone. you continue to surprise, manflesh.

And yet Ray's nipples appeared at least two days prior to that strip: here .

Ray had nipples in 2004, but, even by 2005, Beef was still un-milkable.

A comment left by bobodante was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by straw, mortshire, le_chien_manquee, SPECTRE)

Why are people laming this, it's meant to look like a telegram, he's not REALLY telling Onstad to stop ok SHEESH

Thank you, sir. At least a few people got the arcane reference to the original old school note...

Well aside from being really weak, it was also really easy to see where the 'gag' was going. One could say that the joke was telegraphed, if one had a penchant for abominable puns.

Notice: announcing that you have just made a pun does not make the pun cleverer

come to think... ray is the only one that ever GETS nipples. except maybe teodor had nipples like... ONCE.

not on the sofa boys

Six years later and Philippe is still standing on it...

It's been glued to his shoes.

Because of a problem?

One minute!

That's his therapy for something that happened to him as a pup.

how?

This is such a nice little retrospective thing.

Congratulations Chris. 24 more years until you can be as crotchety about your fantastic art as R. Crumb!

Huzzah! Also, this would make a kickin' poster.

Phillipe's pants got gradually less ridiculous.

Well, as we age, raves become less and less appealing.

and that is the saddest thing. i'd rather have a fine single malt to accompany a ramon allones specially selected on the lawn than spend ten minutes in a club shoving expensive blends of ground up ecstasy and glucose up my nose and shouting 'WHAT!' at chicks. fucking adulthood.

Congratulations on six years Achewood! A nice retrospective of previous years too. I wish Lyle had been featured today with his own row of photos.

Somehow, I doubt Lyle has had a strip in which he is featured every year. His appearances have been scarce as of late, and it wouldn't make much sense to post a row of photos with 3 x... Exes? X's?
Same goes with Tina and Molly. Probably even Todd

I like the old drawings, I think they're conducive to the humour of the older strips. Phillipe used to be even cuter.

Teodor's eyes got closer to his nose, and Beef's forehead expanded noticeably.

Here's to another six years!

Along similar lines, is this the only time that we have seen Ray's eyes

He sold them. C'mon now. Everybody.

It was stated that he sold them here , on 7/15/02.

They were seen here , on 12/5/03.

I assume that in the interval between the two, Dr. Andretti provided Ray with the latest medical marvel from Japan, the SANRYOBUKI! all the time wonderful medicine replacement eyes.

And they looked fucked the hell up.

Philippe 2003.

BINGO!!

Am I the only one who quietly sang the theme from "Family Ties" as they looked through each frame?
"What would we do baby, without us? Sha-la-la-la."

I hear the Cannibal Corpse version of that

Happy Birthday!! HUUUUUUUUUUGS!!!

Congrats Onstad!

keep em coming! congrats!

This is like getting drunk and looking at old baby pictures. Keep up the good work Onstad!

I am drunk and I agree

Woo! Today is my birthday too! Congrats Achewood!

Happy Six Years!

I like how the strip makes it look like for all of 2005 Ray looked like Einstein and carried around fried eggs. And Teodor was dead for all of 2006.

If you have pissed away six years, then we've gladly drunk your urine all this time.


Yay! My birthday was on Saturday. I got a kick-ass blender, went to a Laurie Anderson show and drank a ridiculous amount.

I thought that said, "I got a kick-ass boner."

I felt really sorry for you...

Some people are easily surprised, I guess.

Why would any guy feel sorry for a guy who got a kick-ass boner. Don't you like your erection? Or is this some lame sodomy joke?

At first, I was kinda pissed that this strip didn't really have a joke, but then I realized it was Achewood's birthday.

Sorry for being an ass on your birthday, Achewood.

This is from History.

all this nostalgia is making me woozy

Happy birthday Achewood! Teodor looks much less confusing!

this is my favorite anniversary strip ever!

[b]Libra]/b]. A balanced constellation. As one can see!

... you look like a monkey, and you smell like one too.

The older he gets, the smaller Teodor's ears become. I predict that he will have lost the ability to hear by 2015.

Congrats Onstad, thanks for all the laughs. Keep up the good work.

I wonder if anyone posted this fan strip here yet.

Just wondering while I was browsing the archives today.

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Dang, that's not what I intended. Those %u2019s are meant to be apostrophes.

Also, I made this joke four days ago

Sure enough. With real apostrophes and everything. That's what I get for not reading the comments.

man, you can really see the evolution of the art style there.

Congratulations man

Six "dog years" - thats more than forty "human years".

we're dealing with cats here.. dog years need not apply.

A comment left by taiiga was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by silver_lake, qleblat, loneal, BillyLK, TTAGXAMM, anitrophaeron)

Look, nothing personal, but I feel I should tell you that I will henceforward lame any instance of the phrase "jumping the shark." It's not that I expect folks to like every strip, but if you're gonna be negative I expect more than such lazy, lackluster shorthand.

The hell you talkin' about? This is the first time I find such a construction of phrase and i found it pretty Hilarious. I mean, it'd been said SO MUCH that i bet even taiiga wasn't serious when posting it.

I'm just weary of the phrase being tossed about, Chicken Little style, as if the sky were falling and sun snuffed out like a candle every time it rained. If you meant to satirize those few on Acheworld who, whenever they don't like a strip or an arc, seem convinced that Achewood will never be good again, then I apologize Taiiga. I done you wrong. Otherwise, it's just fair warning.

i was pretty much kidding, and i respect that the phrase has been thrown around too much. achewood truly jumped the shark around the time of beef's marriage proposal

(is he joking? ahh who cares i already am like the worst poster on here, commence laming)

I am still too shamed by my glimpse into the featureless void to lame you, but do you honestly dislike the proposal arc that much? Or are you honestly just trying to ruffle the already chafed and rumpled feathers of the internet? I ask in all, er, honesty.

i'm not sure what you mean exactly but i do have a fetish involving dismembering birds, does that count as ruffling feathers?

Bruno rolled over lazily and gazed at the blurry glow. Slowly the red light sharpened into numbers. 9:05. An icy wave of adrenaline crashed through his body, breaking on the rocky shore of his consciousness. Second time this week. The boss is gonna kill me. Bruno leapt out of bed, his dorsal fin trembling. It's okay. Everything is gonna be okay.

Sprinting, his blood aching, Bruno sprinted to the surface of the tank. Might as well make the best of it. He burst out of the water, mouth wide open, razor-sharp teeth bared defiantly. Oh no I forgot to brush.

As the spray settled onto the surface of the water and the waves subsided, Bruno felt an unnerving sensation. Calm. He hooked a fin over the edge of the tank and pulled himself up to see. Too calm. The workers were disassembling the ramp. The motorcycle sat idle. The spectators had gone home. The cat, helmet in hand, glanced at Bruno and lowered his head, finally turning and walking away. There would be no jump today.

Oh hell. That was well and craftily done. I guess I'll eat my words, and like it.

Six years already? I don't care what you think or who you thought you knew you were, it feels like only last week that Ray destroyed that car Lil' Nephew drove into the lake.

Oh man that was awesome. He REAMED that car. Just REAMED it.

It would be wicked cool if the picture in every little square were a link to the strip it originally came from. Maybe I'll do a catalog, unless someone beats me to it.

You've had a year. How's it going?

epiiiiiiic faaaaaail~

Kind of sad to me that Cornelius, Lyle and Pat aren't on here. They're the ones that really have changed over time!

CLIP SHOW!

Six years of gold .

With small diamonds encrusted into it's lustrous goldenrod surface. Congrats Onstad!

I knew there had been reason changes to Teodor I just could not place them

I wanna see ray without his film school glasses on one day.....

You have.
Robert Johnson Ocular Shenanigans

The dirtiest dudes in town.

What strip is Roast Beef v.2006 from?

https://achewood.com/index.php?date=08312006

The Rhoomba version of Eraserhead.

Who's going to get that "6" shirt? It is bitchin'.

definitely just dropped two-hundo at the shop.

Achewood is the best gift ever.

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lol phillipe ends up alright in the end

Rated 5 on damn principles.

Phillipe hasn't changed much in seven years because Phillipe was born perfect. Immaculate, if you will.

Phillipe is a special boy.

This is a happy strip.

Heyyyy why don't the cats smoke anymore?

Yes! Good!


ever notice beef n ray r the only ones who dont change, art-wise?