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Beef in the Fight Tuesday, February 7, 2006 • read strip Viewing 73 comments:

A comment left by flipper_the_dolphin_bitch was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by ohmygooses, speth, scraggg)

Yeah...this will be my only comment on this arc. I know now that I'm just going to have to let it seep in slowly. So it begins....(for me)...

Same; I've heard so much about this arc. The suspense is killing me.

same.

Fvck yeah!?

Little-known quote from Cicero on the occasion of his election to Consul.

I ruined it with my old habit of vowel-substitution, didn't I?

*facepalm*

Two of Beef's best lines ever in a single strip.

I've never seen Beef so badass in all of achewood.

Beef is raw here in ways that Ray can scarcely comprehend, much less emulate.

Yeah, and I just realized that Beef probably did this so that the fight organizers wouldn't realize that there were 3001 men inside the Acres. Dang, I've read this arc like thirty times and I never realized until now that he did that for reasons other than building a brand.

This was an excellent thing to notice.

I love the Nate Small callback.

Nate Small: One Tough Man - "Trouble on Snake Island"

Make 'em tall and ice cold, just like yours truly.

100% BAD ASS.

I'm willing to bet that, before the year is out, Wikipedia will attribute the founding of Coca-Cola to Frederick H. Coca-Cola.

as has been proven

He's one of the greats, right up there with Jack Chevrolet and Bill Pontiac.

Ryan IKEA.

Sven IKEA, dude. Everybody knows its Swedish.

Wow. Most badass beef line ever.

I thought I knew what Beef was capable of, until I saw this strip.

Beef is totally raw.

Beef basically has wicked sack.

I like a good Polish.

A comment left by paco was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by divot, srmeowmeow, Jesler729, _cheesekayke, Semiquaver, scraggg, valrus)

having now read through the engagement arc, i see that onstad set out early to make a man of beef. or at least a Grown Cat.

probably a good idea to dust off a couple polish before the bigh fight.

*big

pouf

What's up with those dudes in the background of the penultimate panel?

I believe you mean antepenultimate

... yes

They are there to illustrate that Beef, while not being Frederick H. Coca-Cola, does know something about building a brand.

Pouf. The sound of a badass

towel, you truly are everywhere...how many profiles do you have on Achewood?

I love that this goes from cold snapping a dude's leg to state-fair..
A polish, maybe some funnel cake. Chickens brukking in the background.

sheer unadulterated badassery

This coming from a man named after auspicious sleepwear whose avatar is a dinosaur with a skateboard. Clearly an authority on the subject of badassery.

Damn... I forgot... No one should be a cock to a stranger, ever... Sorry about that.

And actually, a dinosaur with a skateboard IS pretty badass.

God, don't let me become towl...

lucky pyjamas is actually the name of my fantasy racehorse

an underdog with a lot of spirit

lucky pyjamas won all the races, and more importantly, the hearts of millions

someday

That sounds like the name of a racehorse I would bet on. And I have never been to a horse race in my life.

i'm hoping to attract a cult following and eventually a film deal

such as seabiscuit did

When I go to horse races, I choose my bets by the creativity by which the steeds are named. That is why I do not win. However, my grandfather can bet on his age and multiply his money like nobody's business. Is this fair? I think not.

this same principle led me to bet on a horse named "backseat rhythm"

he sounded like a winner

I've never understood horse names. Why are they always so weird? I saw this one racehorse named No Kelp Weed one time. I mean, what the hell?

That said, if I had a racehorse I would probably scour the novels of Thomas Pynchon until I could find a sentence that contains at least three wonderful words and makes no sense out of context, and then my horse would be named.

That or, like, Patton.

Racehorses should be named after [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ships_%28The_Culture%29]Culture ships[/i].

sigh .

and here's prosthetic conscience overtaking irregular apocalypse, but wait, wait! lucky pyjamas pulls ahead for the victory! ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner!

lucky pyjamas is the dark horse, if you will


a thousand pardons

that was uncalled for

You're barely giving any gravitas at all to these horses you're naming.

how much gravitas do they deserve?

Quote:
MattB242
Somebody once told me that the ships 'Very Little Gravitas Indeed' and 'Zero Gravitas' were a response to a scathing review. Is this true?

IainMBanks
Yes. But it was a scathing review of Culture ship-naming policy delivered by another Involved civilisation. They suggested that such enormously powerful and intellectually refined entities ought to have names with a little more gravitas, to reflect their near-god-like status; the immediate and sustained reaction of one of the Culture's ship manufacturies was to name all its subsequent vessels things like: Stood Far Back When The Gravitas Was Handed Out; Gravitas, What Gravitas?; Gravitas... Gravitas... No, Don't Help Me, I'll Get It In A Moment; Gravitas Free Zone; Low Gravitas Warning Signal, etc etc (including the Zen-like Absolutely No You-No-What). I am so sad I have a separate list of the Gravitas ships at home. It currently runs to about 20, I think.

I thought it was the Idirans... But maybe that was a fabrication on my part.

Them poor horse owners. Naming is constrained kinds like actors in SAG -- you can't have a name any other horse has ever had. Some stables will have a 'brand' name, like Skyview Desert Wind, Skyview Daddy's Luck, etc. Racehorse owners/breeders are also hella superstitious, so names are sometimes tied up in their personal voodoo. There my be other more arcane rules I'm too lazy to research.

The perversity of the universe tends to a maximum.
(The 1st corollary to Murphy's Law)

Ahh, okay. Well, that makes slightly more sense. Thanks.

My grandfather's racehorses are named by combining the names or parts of the names of the parents. It can make for some odd combinations.

Every indie rock band is named after a race horse.

this is undeniably true

Man, Beef cold mowed that man down. Given the awesome conclusion of the Fight, it would really suck to be the guy who didn't even get into the yard.

I want to give this comic a 6, and a massive chubby.

All innuendo explicitly implied.

6 would be a massive chubby...for a cat.
that kind of innuendo?

Beef kicked a man in the groin with a motorbike.

That's OK, that part of the leg heals quickly.

Dusting off a couple of Polish lets people know whos in charge.

Polish is what a man destroys before a fight. And Beef is most certainly proving to be that.

The guys in the background of the third-to-last panel look pretty awesome.

beef's mad depression has nothing on his badassery.

They go hand in hand. His high will make his next low so much lower. It is science, of the brain.

You can't hack a furious Nazi from San Bernardino you gotta put your fists up...

Truer words were never spoken

Hell yeah. I've been to San Bernardino, and you don't want to cross their massive furlous Nazis.

In three and a half years I've still never figured out the physics necessary to sneak up on a previously-unseen man and run a wheel underneath only the leg which was resting below his other leg. I'm not sayin' Beef can't do it, I'm only sayin'.

This is why Roast Beef is the greatest in the animal kingdom.