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There is a snake in the yard Thursday, January 3, 2002 • read strip Viewing 55 comments:

Did the snake deserve to die?

Yes, he ate Little Freddie.

A comment left by _cheesekayke was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by MrMojoRisin, Overmedicated, BPMead, novacaine, Audhumla, joamiq)

Anyone eating up Todd like squirrels gets a whiskey in my book.

Say what you will about Todd - the dude's up on his cautionary folk fables.

Todd has mad racism against animals like snakes and dogs.

animalism.

Yes

T-t-t-take that, snake.

I never thought snakes were such wusses

Do not speak ill of the dead!

Dear i_love_kate:

I have chubbied you more than anyone else, ever.

PS- This is probably thanks in part to your avatar. It always makes me want to settle down on the couch with Futurama and a pineapple.

No, seriously, it dies after getting straight up blown in half. With that lack of fortitude he can say whatever he wants about it.

He was just trying to bullshit them.

i have mixed feelings about the outcome of this strip.

Don't, it's awesome.

Also, thank you kahrytes

Kahrytes, what news from the North?

M-m-m-m-mostly I just made a dead snake happen.

Man I just love this joke so much.

AHHHHHHH

oOoOoooOOOOo little sssnaaaake

Doesn't Todd just fucking know about snakes?

Is this the first strip with alt text?

No, but this year was.

"Jeez, what month is it?"
We have all been there.

All the squirrel voices are read in my head as a sort of Chipmunks-ized falsetto. Little Freddie is significantly more high-pitched than Todd. Blister, I think, is Patrick Warburton run through a Chipmunks filter.

Funny, I always read Nice Pete like that.

nice pete? what the fuck? nice pete has a deep voice with a west virginian accent. i do the same thing with the squirrels though.

The snake is obliterated by the tiny handgun. It must have rat-shot.

Snake-shot?


A snake in the wintertime
Its skin so beady
The air so cold

A humble request
A sentimental cry
A squirrel with a luger

Ohhhhhh shiiiiiit.

Chubbied, however from the profile, it looks more like a Browning Hi-Power or a 1911 with a compensator...

Luger certainly fits the meter of the poem better.

It's a riff on the old story of the girl who finds a dying snake, so she takes him in and nurses him back to health, whereupon he bites her. As she's dying, she asks him "Why?" and he says, "You knew what I was when you took me in."

Oooh, I heard that one in the form of a frog swimming a scorpion across a river, and both drowning because the scorpion stings the frog.

Alt text: Squirrels and snakes are natural enemies; Todd finds that he has done a doubly good deed.

cats with squirrel friends even thinking of inviting a snake to live with them = dinosaurs with human friends even thinking of inviting a crocodile to live with them.

The snake can talk; dogs cannot. What does it all mean.

ahem

Todd T
Blister
Scamper
Banjo
Tommy G

the under represented squirrel population of achewood.

Don't forget Downtown Danny!

...and the Man In the Snake, Little Freddy :p

Ricky Nihoha.

good call, good call. this is sort of becoming an achewood squirrel-name wiki, here.

This is a good thing you are doing here.

It is probably safe to assume that Fat Slimmy, whose tires were in need of rotation, is a squirrel.

[i]erf[/]

Well fuck. I couldn't have done that worse if I'd written HEY GUYS LOOK IT SAYS ERF I LIKE ERF THATS A GOOD ONE YEAH

Where's the roller skate?

I find it highly amusing that Todd's packing . . . and yet I'm not surprised.

Does this mean that Teodor and Mr. Bear are both parselmouths?

Todd scores one for Gryffindor!

Chubbied for your unabashed nerdiness. (in a good way)

I love the singular, vector graphics nature of the snake. Just one solid object.


I don't know if anyone else pointed this out but I always assumed the little snake was in a snake skin.

I always thought this was Little Freddie pulling a con, pretending to be a snake. Alt text set me straight on this!

I like Todd's squirrel-sized pistol.

I'm ... a ... snaaaaaaaake!