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921 Elden Wednesday, September 21, 2005 • read strip Viewing 36 comments:

Even though it's just an interstitial strip getting Ray from one place to another, the art is still amazing.

Going to the next strip with both first panels in view produces a really cool effect, like a 2-page flip book.

Oh, awesome. The clouds even move a little to the left relative to everything else, apparently due to the wind. Lovely.

Seriously. It's haunting, like music from another age. Or a ghost.

Or Cartilage Head.

Achewood night scenes are so very very creepy... possibly best exemplified by this one: https://achewood.com/index.php?date=06142004

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Not a B horror flick. From the beginning, this arc has been pure Lynch.

yes! i kept being reminded of 'mulholland drive' when they go to the theater.
and that top frame is really beautiful.

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Chuggita chuggita chuggita...

Tee hee. Oh tee hee!

chuggita chuggita tsssss

Do cars like that exist? Can I get one?

That car is every car from the early 1900's.

Gimme one, and some of Ray's fashion.

It most closely resembles a 1907 Ford Model N (also known as the Model R or Model S, which are basically what we would call trim packages today). This particular car is odd, as it seems to have elements from all three.
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If I saw his wallet there on the seat, I wouldn't do what it told me.

Beautiful.

It's the art in this storyarc that does it for me the most. It what kept me reading when I would otherwise be too creeped out to continue.

I don't know about you guys, but I most definately would not have continued to 921 Elden. Hell I'd probably just skip the car and run into the night in a blind panic.

I would take the car home I think, that is a pretty sweet car.

i would take the car and burn it when i got out of town. i do not want evidence. i do not want evidence.

if you... are thinking... of going into that house...

DON'T.

OH hooray! High five 8 months removed for a Grindhouse reference

I like how the alt-texts in the non-humorous story arcs act as sound tracks.

Ray has the desire to root through the wallet left in the stolen car of the man he just watched die.

Today's Blogs

Roast Beef: Yeah so what if I went to the dildo store
Onstad: I'm thinking about moving.

In which Beef is "Sorry to get all Pat."

Has anyone noticed that the address of the house is the same as the date of this particular gem?

I can just imagine some Italian accordion playing, like the theme of 'Twelve Monkeys', the car sputtering into the monochrome silence as the night stalks past every desolate mile. 921 Elden waiting like a black tomb with white-bone windows. Watching you.

Astor Piazolla would totally rock this out. Although I think it might be a bit too light, it's just creeeepay enough to pull it off.

I ain't find Tom Waits too entertaining of usual, but if he did for this sequence of strips what he did for Twelve Monkeys with Earth Died Screaming I would offer him my nubile teenage daughter at such a point that I would have a nubile teenage daughter.

And I'm guessing he would be pretty old by that point, so he should probably be thankful.

He's pretty old already, so you'd better get to work on making that nubile teenage daughter.

Nothing like the promise of a nubile teenage girl to keep a guy clinging to the bars of his deathbed.

this supposes that Tom Waits will one day die.

i maintain that if you look hard enough you will find grainy pictures of Tom Waits in history books.

All fighting for the north and the south.

Shooting Franz Ferdinand with a sandwich in his hand.

Shakin' hands with Tesla.

Dare I say it? C.H. has GREAT taste in automobiles.