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Beef/Molly cold feet Wednesday, October 20, 2004 • read strip Viewing 55 comments:

I keep toggling my brightness and contrast up and down and as near as I can tell they are driving through some kind of totemic nightmare world.

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It's an Escalade, fool!

I kinda thought it was a recently slept on pillow. The only reason I can think of for this establishing and closing shot is to show that they are on a narrow mountain road going into a tunnel, the first to symbolize a path on which one cannot turn around and the second a transition with an unclear view of what lies ahead. Ray's escalade is like Calvin's sled.

It's good, the mountainside looks like shrink-wrapped scallops.

I-I-I saw a nightmarish mangled pig face.

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Those......are....Roast Beef's......anxieties.

Dead breasts gets chubbies and the comment above this one doesn't? For Shame.

Is that what that is?
I thought it was a silhouette cast upon a tent's side, featuring a violent brawl between a shoe, a rooster, and an oyster made of hands.

I saw a prehistoric rabbit, possibly mutated, fighting a tiki diety, personally. In the background, a triffid watches. Perhaps it is touching itself.

These are just examples. It could also be something much better.

I see the angry rabbit, but I think it is more stylized than prehistoric. And it is fighting a dog what has raised a paw to defend itself from the rabbit's attack but it does not see the elephant sneaking up behind it.

Whatever it is you are smoking, I want some.

Roast Beef looks out for Molly in his own way.

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Rate strips relative to each other! The rating system isn't there to prove how much everyone here loves Achewood.

It's there so the strips can be ranked from most to least popular, and that works better if the entire scale is used. If you like a strip but still think it's worse than most of the archive, you should give it a low score.

um also maybe you just made a joke and now I look like an idiot. THIS IS POSSIBLE

yes i was joking. a chubbie for your magnaminity

Ratings of 1 are reserved for guest strips, in the main. Just to remind people that there can only be one authist here.

Hot shovels are useless. You'd maybe think they can soften up some types of soil or something but that's actually rather ineffective and takes too long besides.

be great for snow-covered driveways though.

i thought he meant 'hot' as in, stolen...

panel three looks like they're being carried away by robots

Those are some rude seats.

Perhaps only one of them has that shamrock that covers the guy's penis.

Ray drives like it's on autopilot.

I'm not going to say that Chris Onstad is bad at drawing the background during night (or hell) driving scenes, but he definitely produces some effects which were probably not intended.

Like that one where the rock face was a morbidly obese man's nipples.

Chris: if you meant to draw a towering fat man's boobies in the background please email me.

What do you need to say to him about that?

Presumably, not to do it again.

If you only knew...

I could definetely see Onstad as a sox fan

This strip was posted on the day of Game 7 of the 2004 ALCS, where the Boston Red Sox rallied to beat the New York Yankees for the American League title.

They went on to sweep the St. Louis Cardinals in 4 games and win their first World Series title in 86 years.

https://mlb.mlb.com/bos/history/championship04.jsp

You forgot to mention how much it sucked.

oh jesus the Cards won in 2006 what are you cryin about

But we didn't win that one.

you startin to sound like a yankees fan

you startin to sound like a reds fan

SCREW YOU MAN WE CATCHING UP

yeah catchin up to the pirates maybe

ooh daaaaaamn

r e d l e g s

A lot has happened since this thread began. I'll give you that. But we all know how this is going to end.

Let me have my fun.

Vote for Votto

Get his Canuck ass behind the plate and I might.

OK. It's two ugly, ugly months later and I'm here to man up and admit defeat. Have fun watching some October ball for once. Kick some Yankee ass if you get that far. In the meantime, I'm adopting the Braves for the rest of the season.

It ain't over 'til etc. etc. The Reds ain't exactly lightin' it up over the past week.

You obviously haven't been watching the Cardinals. The vultures are circling. And thickly.

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The cat named Cassandra is afraid of commitment, but he is more afraid of his girl being cheated by an unscrupulous landlord. That's love!

God damn his expression in panel 5 is so genuine and emotive.

I like how this is the first situation that comes to his mind. Not Molly being homeless, or in danger by herself, or lonely and sad. No. Beef is first worried about her being quoted false terms on a new rental.

This is one of those days when I've had enough of Beef's purile whining and paranoid musings. VROOOM indeed.

I do like the fact that as thematic punctuation, Onstad put in the last panel. Beef all entering a "dark tunnel".

I'm sure Ray plots all of his routes to include driving through tunnels. Jus' sayin'.

who else sees the evil 3-eared lobsterabbit in the mountainside detail

Me (I do).(I wish I didn't).