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The Other Walk of Shame. Monday, May 24, 2010 • read strip Viewing 203 comments:

Finally, Nice Pete gets what he believes to be a normal adolescence.

and now there will be blood.

And tears.. oh lord, don't forget the tears.

Yours is the best avatar.

He's smiling! I've never known Nice Pete to shed blood when he's smilin.

Well, I'd never known Nice Pete to SMILE!


You've never seen him shed blood, either. How do you know that is not his blood-shedding face?

We seen him shed his own blood, though his "being naked around children" face probably overpowered any bloodshedding face that might have sprung up.

Okay. I think of "shedding blood" as shedding someone else's blood, but technically he did shed blood then. My bad.

Any minors in the restaurant "Denny's" after midnight already know what the nakedness of adult looks like.

OK, lets call it...blood shed mode, BSM.

And basically what i get at, is that Nice Pete is in constantly, BSM.

god help us all when he gets into BDSM mode

Big Dick Sucking Mode

he's gonna kill me isn't he. i will not sleep near windows for the next few days

It was nice knowing you, mockereo.

GOD HELP US! If he gets into BSD mode!

BSD users, dont blame me on this, you guise got Theo De Radt...then again we got Hans Reiser.

this probably is the first achewood strip where we've seen nice pete smile for real

Good thing they serve milkshakes/visual metaphors at Denny's!

A maniac will beat nine people to death with a steel dildo. A crazy person will beat nine people to death with a steel dildo, but he'll be naked at Denny's while he does it. (Apologies George Carlin)

(Apologies Bugs Bunny)

Dear Bugs,

I can't expwess how sowwy i am that i shot at you so often. Even though it was wabbit season, i feel like i weally invaded youw pwivacy, and mewcilessly hunted you despite no wwongdoing on youw pawt. please accept my apowogy, i do hope we can move past this tewwible attack on you.

Sincewely,
E. Fudd

This is not normal?

and he is the winner

T is full of moo-frog nonsense. A couple of my friends got served at Denny's while wearing nothing but garbage bags with head and arm-holes punched out. It is not a picky establishment.

off-topic: Un Chein Andalou?

Indeed. An Andalusian dog.

A cow.
An eye.
A moon .

The stones on Taco!

Finally!

Oh, Darren, dare you for once think before you speak?

Think of what your words will have caused for such a wholesome establisment as Danny's.


And for Christ's sake, don't order the sausage.

oh god what is Nice Pete doing with his mouth in the last panel

I'm pretty sure Nice Pete thinks he's smiling even though it's quite clear he is mimicing a frog.

It is psychotic joy. There's really nothing like it.

oh there are many things like it

though they all look the same

Here are some of their hands!

It is a gorilla-esque type of smile, I believe

Hey hey we're the monkeys, and people say we monkey around.

And we have cut our bodies.

we're making everybody frown!

[i]All around town[i] ...?

WOW FUCK ME RIGHT

ima fuck you WRONG white boy

FUCK YOU ASSHOLE I'M 1/8TH MEXICAN WHAT NOW DICKFACE

CAN I SEE SOME PAPERS,PLEASE?

papers

Gerd Faltings

WBAGNFARB

NO HABLO INGLES Y I'M QUITE OFFENDED YOU THOUGHT I WOULD

MAYBE JU AND ME ARE AMIGOS
DO YOU LIKE MY UNIFORM AND GUN

I don't need no uniform and I don't have to show you any stinkin' papers.

WHAT IS THIS ARIZONA

A STATE WHOSE NAME IS SPANISH

IS THAT WHAT THIS IS



HEY HEY HEY WAS THAT YOU TOOK A CRAP ON THAT GUY'S LAWN
THAT WAS GREAT THEY BURNED DOWN THE WHOLE NEIGHBORHOOD HA HA HA HA
BEST THING I EVER DID WAS PEE ON A SUNBATHER ONE TIME

Don't say that to the man, Glad, now he's going to take a dump in the taco!

I should get a chubby for set up, or a lame for this plea for chubbies.

I gave you a lame for not setting up a joke that flowed on enough to garner my own response more Chubbies. Please feel free to lame THIS in order to balance the books.

It's a Phillippe moment.

As vast as Nice Pete's "imagination" is, what can he possibly do to a Denny's employee that life hasn't already done to them.

He can give them the sweet release of death, I guess...

Tip.

So, death?

Just the tip.

Or the world's tiniest violin.

Tip them and treat them like a person?

Oh I see you meant *mean* things.

"The act's the thing/
wherein we will trap the conscience of a burger king"

I first mistook the tree in panels 4-6 to be some sort of monster reaching out to grab Teodor, and somehow that didn't seem out of place. This arc has unsettled me.

Although it intrigued him as he ran by, it was nearly a week before Teodor returned to "Wang's House of Strategically-Placed Banzai".

Bonsai?

or was it a strategically placed ten thousand years?

Quote:
Wang's House of Strategically-Placed Banzai


Banzai's glory hole -- a house of strategically-placed wangs.

What is strategically placed about it? You can definitely see his wang, such as it is.

he actually has two wangs...

Nobody said it was a good strategy

After all of the Lost-themed comics all over the tweet machine last night I assumed it was the god damned smoke monster. Good thing I never watched an episode of that show, otherwise I'd understand what I was talking about.

The smoke monster is a meta-character who looks like dead people (and is played by the same actor), to explain why they showed up in scenes after their death.

Why did that statue only have four toes?

The people who made the statue were presumably completely irrelevant.

Not everything is an essential mystery, it turns out.

What was the secret behind their getting people to not only want to watch basically an improv team picking random phrases out of a hat and acting out what's on them for seven years straight, but want to tell me about it at length with no provocation all the goddamn time

Ryan Stiles was the secret, I am quite certain.

After concluding the amazingly shitty journey I apparently signed up for when I told my TiVo to record the pilot for some new show called "Lost" I'm more insistent than ever before on discussing why/how did they totally fuck up The X-Files?

If you want to watch a show that both fucks up the X-Files and is made by J.J. Abrams, I recommend Fringe. John Noble is hilarious in certain episodes!

Andy Larson smiles, for Nice Pete can not.

Oh Teodor. First you head towards the van, and then you think you finally understand the rules here.

Unfortunately for you, the rules were written in a different language by a man who was not paying that much attention as they were dictated to him

Really, this adventure ain't all that different from my High School Days.
I did have some weird friends, though.

Nice Pete is the explanation for everyone who eats at Denny's when the sun is down.

there are a lot of people that are using substances and want chili cheese fries.

but also plenty of psychopaths yes. serial rapists too

I am going to count the Denny's stories and post a tally here after the next strip is up. This seems like a community of Denny's stories kind of people. Perhaps we can rate the top three.

I went to Denny's once and was hungover and the food sucked.

"It's not that we are not ready for Denny's; Denny's is not ready for us."
One bagel is cut in half, perflectly cream cheesed, untouched, in front of a horrified young man with all pupils for eyes. Another bagel is cut in half, perfectly cream cheesed, one bite is taken and neatly placed back upon the plate, in front of another horrified young man with all pupils for eyes.
The waitress stares at the one that has taken a bite as she pours the water, full, then overflowing. "I just wanted to see what you would do."
"Check, please."

At the small town Denny's I frequented when I was a teenager, there was a guy who worked in the kitchen who loved the band Suicidal Tendencies. He always wore a ball cap with the bill flipped up so you could see that the word "SUICIDAL" had been screen printed there. On his arm was tattooed the creed "SUICIDAL FOR LIFE." He also spoke those words regularly.

I went back to that small town last Summer and visited that old haunt for the first time in a decade. The place was unrecognizable. The brown and yellow walls were now bright white and the enormous piece of yarn art had been taken down from its place over what had been "our" booth. But he was still there wearing his funny hat. "Suicidal for life," he said.

One night when I was probably about 22, I was really fucking wrecked and I went to my local Denny's establishment. There was a wait, because there's not much to do at 2am on a Saturday night in New Hampshire other than go to Denny's. At the table closest to the line, there were two boys who were probably about 18. They started talking to my friend and I, and we eventually sat down. They bought us Denny's foods and coffees and we sat and laughed and giggled and flirted and had a grand old time. Then those boys left and I never saw them again.

I mean, I don't think I ever saw them again. I was drunk as fuck and I don't remember that night at all. My friend told me about it the next morning while I was puking in her bathroom.

I went to Denny's once and the waitress admitted she was a felon. Then she asked us if we had any liquor. We did not, mostly because we are bad at being teenagers.

Too bad. Your chances for reckless abandon diminish exponentially with each additional year.

At 18 getting drunk with a felonious Denny's waitress is the fodder for a lifetime of wistful remembrance. At 35, you're just pathetic.

(Mine's not that good. Sorry.)

When I was 17 years old and a softhearted vegetarian, I went to Denny's with my mother and a family friend. I ordered some sort of chicken-salad that had things other than chicken in it. All I said was, "________ salad with no chicken please!"

When the food was put upon the table, all there was was a bunch of greens. When the waitress got back to refill drinks/check up on the quality of the food, I shyly-and-politely informed her that there were OTHER things in that salad, all I requested was that the meat be removed.

Her retort? "Well, who can you remember what you vegetarians will eat anyways?" To this day I can't figure out if she did it on purpose because of some weird-ass vendetta against diets other than omnivorism, or if she fucked up and tried to blame it on the oh-so-confusing concept of not eating meat.

It's freakin' Minnesota man, and not even a farm-community type place. A suburb, just a dozen minutes from the Twin Cities. Vegetarianism was not a new fuckin' concept.

Anyways, that's my only Denny's story. Haven't chilled out there since. Turns out there's food out there that doesn't taste like shit.


i count five
i win

Panel five- visible cranberry dong.

I feel vindicated.

man that is just why you read this comic isn't it admit ADMIT IT.

It's not the only reason, but when an arc features Nude Teodor (as distinct from normal Teodor) as a consumer i'm well within my rights to expect some dong.

Plus points if it's so angrilly drawn it has fury lines emanating from it.

that thing goes almost to his knee - give the man some credit

So does his belly. What you see there is foreshortening of his left thigh.

You know, I think we could sell that operation

That went to kind of a weird place.

well if you think south america, with its lax medical standards, is weird, then yes. The operation did go to south america.

Am I the only one who saw a giant anteater reaching ominously across the sidewalk in panels 4-6? Yes? Okay, thankyou for your time.

This is the first thing I saw.

Not to be out done by Teodor's 'Anteater' in panel 5.

I think the kid has a better understanding of high school than most kids who lived through all four years.

Ew Darren didn't wipe before sitting bare-assed on the seat of Nice Pete's van.

Nice Pete is more than okay with that.

Nice Pete just wants you to wipe with some honest cornbread so that he can more fully experience a High School Night.

(by eating said cornbread. just to be clear.)

I was specifically hoping that that was not what you meant.

People! He is Andy Larson when you need to refer to him!

Next time on Achewood: Eating Nude at Denny's, OR Moons Over My Hammy.

Fucking chubby for reminding me that I should watch Rocky and Bullwinkle right now.

"Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my reeker"

haha I remember that episode

What kind of noob goes back into the van??

The kind with an injured 'reekor' from dropping a deuce on the unkempt lawn of some post-acid tripping, Appalachia-bred, mouth breathing chernchilla smugglers?

Or perhaps he was just chilly. He IS streaking down the sidewalk bare ass.

When you get into a van with nice pete, escape is not an option.

He WILL find you.

In a way, don't we all continue to "get in the van" and return to that place that - although dark and dangerous - we can't resist?


me neither

If by "the van" you mean "your mother," then yes.

That would explain the mileage.

Many jokes happening here. Many levels. High level internet useage.

Usage!

Walk of Shamage!

Mr Scorpion we must now learn about your origins. Who are you? Where are you from? What makes such a great man tick?

Mi nombre no es nadie.
Vengo de en ninguna parte.

cue theme from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

I cant think of pime
my head is full of spins
i draw a blank each time
i pick up (one'a'ma) pens
I cants see the joy in life
when i am not engaged in spins
nor can i ever again.
society doesnt hab a lens,
and on my death bed i will dream,
of my youth and how id spend--
spinning
OH how how many spins.
and i will smile
as ma life ends

dat pome called Spin Boy. hoped yall liked is first 1 i writ in while i feel lik atrophied muscles so to speak. brain jus like everything else you gotta train body AND mind. never neglect one for teh other then you turn into heck of dork or fit-idiot. gotta strives to be like teh X-man beast. his body strong as ox, can lift hella brick n morter but the dude spends his time at the comptuers inside the lab most the time. thas my hero.

i wanna be like beast


I like this one.

LOL

They aren't even remotely going to Taco Bell and never were.

Andy Larson is a liar. A DAMN, FILTHY liar.


HA! Well played Teodor! WELL PLAYER!

played...............


somebody kill me.

SEE NOW THIS INTERESTIN BECAUSE I ALWAYS DID WONDER WHAT DID HAPPEN TO THAT DOODYBOY. IF'N I GET HIS ADDRESS WE WILL SUE HIS LITTLE WEENUS OFF FOR THE LOSS OF MY CHERNCHILLAS, I GOT A COUSIN WHO LAWYERS. HE GOT MY NEPHEW OFF CHARGES OF METH.

Oh this looks like fun.

I say fake. Your spelling is just too correct.

She misspelled Chernchilla correctly and used a lot of apostrophes. I'm goign with it.

according to middle school rumor-based anatomy, the weenus is the web of skin connecting the index finger to the thumb.

this has been me, with that.

my middle school taught me it was the skin on your elbow that doesn't have like any feeling. and is stretchy in some people. Thus, the size of your weenus indicates the size of your penis. Makes sense to me.

Is that kind of how like the part from your finger tip to your elbow is the exact length of your elbow to your shoulders or some-such-sciencey-shit?

Ah-Ha! It seems the tables have turned Mr. Larson.

"Do you expect me to talk?"

"No, Mr Larson, I expect you to go to Denny's naked."

'Darren, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful
relationship.'

"I remember every detail. Andy wore white. Darren wore black and blue."

Nice Pete smiling reminds me of the special olympics

did you win any medals while you were there?

Here comes a Special Olympian!

there goes a special Olympian!

The very definition of "turn of events."

okay, the last panel is adorable. I know this doesn't suit Nice Pete, but that smile is goddamn heartwarming.

You can tell he's actually super happy for probably one of the few times in his life. It's too bad it'll all come crashing down in a burning mess of body parts when the Denny's wait staff won't let Andy Larson into the restraunt without pants on.

Nonsense! He has fun every time he [kills someone]*

*plays basketball

I dunno, I think he has a good shot at the dare anyway. Teodor didn't say the dinner had to be eaten around living people.

There's not much Nice Pete can do at that Denny's that hasn't already been done there. No, not much at all.

he could receive and enjoy eating a meal prepared with such passion that it really tastes better than you expected

Fearful anticipation is replaced by uppity defiance.

Records were not meant to stand, Andy. You must understand that.

A stray branch cover's the naked bear's twig.

god, now that you mention it.. i don't think it quite covers it.. at least, there is definitely something teodor colored and penis shaped between the branch and his leg, and i'm not sure what else it could be.

There is always a price for reading Achewood.

to say nothing of the price for reading assetbar

I read this strip, and the first thing I thought was that people would be analyzing that particular frame as if it were the Zapruder film. Assetbar does not disappoint.

I think the whole first part of the strip is setup just to show off his dong

Achewood is the place where people come to scrutinize what might be half a pixel of bear dong

What does it mean

It means that there are furries in our midst, Mr. Ryder.

Release the hounds.

The sexy hounds?

Oh god.

Oh god no.

Please, not now.

MOO-FROG NONSENSE

The new single from Primus.

i don't like it when bassists play chords. i think it sounds bad.

And then Nice Pete crushed Teodor with a barrel and devoured Pauline.

What a proper tree branch.

why did he get back in the van dear god why would one do such a thing

Nice Pete is initially shocked that anyone would have the temerity to challenge him...then he recalls the rules of the night. Adolescents secretly crave structure, after all.

Quote:
Adolescents secretly crave structure


Good, 'cause I got a couple locked up in a structure as we speak.

SIR, MY SPELLING IS CORRECT BECAUSE I AIN'T IGNORANT. I WENT TO SCHOOL ALL THE WAY THROUGH 8TH GRADE WHEN I GOT KNOCKED UP WITH CODY AND CIARA, THE TWINS. THATS AS MUCH SCHOOLING AS YOU NEED. I AM HOMESCHOOLING THE TWINS AND ALSO THE YOUNGER ONES WHO ARE CAMMIE, CAYDEN, AND CAYENNE. YOU NEED ME TO SCHOOL YOU TOO?

wtf is this horse shit

glad checks out the competition

This is possibly the third bravest Téodor has ever been

Oh how we will take up such wild dares.

Oh how we will feast on hot eggs, the juices dripping down our lithe, sweating frames as greasy coffee fuels our high school brains.

If each issue of Detective Comics ended like each installment of this latest Achewood arc, the comic book industry wouldn't be in the shitter.

See, Nice Pete is happy now, but T also has to sit with him, naked, at a Denny's at some ungodly hour of the morning. It's kind of a lose lose.

When Darren goes off to the State University this will be his favorite story to tell.

Shit, man, shit - I'm barely coping with Nice Pete's take on high school. Remember his love of dorm showers from his dead blog? His take on College will be Wrong.

This has nothing to do with the strip, and I don't wanna turn assetbar into my own personal blog or something, but I need to share.

A friend is coming over in ten minutes with a copy of CSA and a bottle of Early Times. I think this is the closest I will ever come to drinking Ancient Shenanigan and/or telling people that I'll be at Duane's. For some strange reason I wanted you all to know that. I hope your night is as fun as I expect mine to be.

P.S. Assetbar please let me not have fucked up that link.

It means a lot to me, as a pubescent high schooler you've never met, that you've shared this with me.

Thank you.

Assetbarbarians are the Armchair Intellectual Alcoholics. This is why you felt the desire.

Our webcomic is way more artsy-fartsy and hipster than anything you will ever read, NERD

are you going to put it in your friend's anal or vice versa?

Dearest Rat,

Please be advised that "anal" is an adjective. You probably mean "anus." Better yet, consider using the term "rectum."

Yours truly,

Mensch

Rectum? It nearly killed 'em.

Are you AIU's good twin?

did you guys do it or what?

Andy Larson will accept this high school dare. He will in fact eat his dinner at Denny's naked, all the while taking little pains to hide his raging erection.

This is a certainty.

But... Denny's is a f-family establishment...

Crap! CRAP!

stop right tere, scum bags

Oh, come on. Who actually thinks Nice Pete wouldn't attempt to order dinner nekkid at Denny's? No one working at a Denny's wants to die for working at Denny's. They'll both sit naked in the corner and drink milkshakes and if the manager reports them, they'll have a new friend to add to the van.

maybe this will end up like that bit at the end of Hannibal where he gets her to eat parts of that guy's brain and they end up travelling the world together committing murders and attending high culture events.

Next he's going to pick up Pat and tell him that it is high school and his name is Amy McMillan, the backup cheerleader that barely made the cut.

They didn't want to take her, but they needed one more girl to complete the basket toss safely, and Amy had a sturdy build.

THIS STORY REMINDS ME ABOUT HOW ONE TIME I GOT THROWED OUT OF BLACK ANGUS STEAKHOUSE FOR DIRTY DANCIN' WITH NO PANTIES ON AT THE BAR BUT THAT WAS BEFORE THE LORD SHOWED ME THAT MY WAYS WERE SINFUL AND ALSO, RIGHT BEFORE I GOT BUSTED FOR THE METH THAT ONE TIME. IT WEREN'T EVEN GOOD STUFF, JUST SOME CRYSTAL ALL CUT WITH AJAX OR BARKEEPER'S FRIEND OR SOME SHIT THAT I GOT OFF MY JACKASS BROTHERINLAW.

frist rpely

WE SHOULD LIKE THSI GUY

So, naked bear and a naked cat with a gleeful expression on his face walk into a Denny's.
The waitress asks them
"hey, what happened to all of your clothes? You can't just walk in here buck naked!"
So, everyone at the restaurant is just staring at them slack-jawed in shock.
The bear subtly holds up his paws in a 'stop' kind of gesture, widens his eyes at them and mouths the word "seriously" through his teeth while pointing at the cat with his eyes swiftly and then looking back at them.
One of the customers nervously laughs, and the cat swiftly flicks his head toward the bear, catching his attempted message to the people. The bear quickly puts on a goofy smile and acts like he was doing jazz hands in an attempt to cover it. The cat's grin goes flat and his eyes widen to enormous black voids as he slowly turns his head back toward the interior of the restaurant.
Here are some of their hands.

the ending's been done.