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A Complication Involving Sheep. Thursday, June 4, 2009 • read strip Viewing 559 comments:

Is that Megan Fox?

Does this mean the Nagel model is reborn or something?

And in the beggining of the second age, the dark lord too learnt the art of ring crafting...

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Didn't Onstad say he'd never draw animals people could get off to.

Er, uh, I mean some uninspired direct Achewood quote that has little to no relevance to this strip.

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Onstad should know that there is no such thing as a cartoon animal which someone on the internet cannot get off to.

a cartoon animal anything

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Site link here .

This looks just like the real one (um, or so I've heard).

No one cares what you herd.

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That's why I only fuck bears (the human variety).

Looks like we're gearing up for a nice furry-board-type discussion. Lets all get chan-like here in Assetland.

YIFF IN HELL

I am become death, destroyer of worlds.

Everyt"Everything You Ever wanted Woody Allen To Teach You About Sex: The Movie" -- see the infamous "Woolite" scene with Gene Wilder

Shame on ewe!

These baaad puns are making me quite unwool.

Bleat it, you crazy kids!

I lamb shear ewe wool mouflon ovinetually.

...Mouflon?

Wild sheep.
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I guess I should subtitle and wikipedia link my puns :( (I am sure you will move on eventually)

That thing knows it's better than me. I can tell.

Don't be surprised; most things know that they're better than you.

Flock you man. Cows herd.

Damn, doppelganger, you got some wicked sack on you!

Also, '"shaved" sheep' totally makes this.

I actually opened a free account there so I can't respond to or send messages but others can read your listing.

The listing I put was (inspired by Phillipe)
"Straight, very encouraging, hugs a specialty"
I've had over 200 responses. This is hilarious.

Hey... anyone seen interracialchildsheepfinder.com?
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(NSFW)

Love avatar.

When I saw yours I just had to copy WHOA WAAAAIT A MINUTE...

u guys

Bing Bong Brothers

Chuckle

(Brothers)

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Its like the Brady Bunch from Hell

I don't really like that song.

Naughty Shearlings For Walter?

you wot you wot?

Do they also handle goats as well? I.. erm, ask for a friend. Not even a very good friend. In fact, what in the hell is this sick deviant doing in my home! Away with ye!

Disgusting! He likes to look at kids, doesn't he?

Let's just be thankful he's not looking at me or ewe.

lamed for referencing LOTR, oh snapple

Assetbarbarians are harsh

Fuck you and your mother

being a cock to a stranger - check

has anyone noticed the corporate spin speak on Assetbar. Not cool chris, not cool.

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Hi and welcome to our community.

That's probably enough comments so far. We want to give other members time to react to what you've said, and if you're not a hater or a troll, then tomorrow you can write some more.

In the meantime, we hope you'll continue to browse, rate and particpate in the community.

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this would be cool:
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A Fox in sheep's clothing?

The only animal in this world more terrifying to Ray than a Magreaux dog is the Nagel sheep.

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Turning your Nagle's Algorithm off reduces lag in online gaming.

Or a Yoda makeover.

Judging from that abomination's face, I think Onstad meant to use quotation marks rather than asterisks around sexier.

WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE?!

This is NOT science.

THIS is science.

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and this is a neat gun

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For the sheeple who are still alive

ich bin müde
der Schaf

"i am tired
the Sheep"?

What HATH science WROUGHT. C'mon.

We need more of it..

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Desmosomes.

AS A MATERIALS SCIENTIST AND CURENTLY UNDERGOING EXAMS I CAN SAFELY SAY, FUCK YOU AND YOU MICROGRAPH YOU WHOREFUCKINGCUNTSHIT.

As a chemist, i agree with hbaranov. I fart in your general direction!

I'm sorry

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It's funny because it's hex anal .

Six! Six assholes! Ah! Ah!

More anal than the count has ever encountered! Ah! Ah!

It is the sexiest of aldehydes.

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More anal than the count has ever encountered! Ah! Ah!


You forgot that weekend at Bert & Ernie's beach house on Fire Island.

What? Did someone say Weekend at Bernie's?

LOVE IS ONLY A FEELING

Reminds me of the time my research advisor misspoke and called phthalic acid "phallic acid".
Only I laughed because all of the graduate students in his lab do not speak English as a first language.

My Human Geography professor once went to write "desert" on the whiteboard but accidentally wrote "dessert." I giggled hysterically and no one knew why.

Hey, would you be my girlfriend attractive Hindi lady?

Okay. However, I must point out I could easily be Muslim or Christian or ANYTHING ELSE. But yeaaaah you got the ethnicity right.

I mean, I relate Hindi to the language and as a race. I would've said Hindu had i thought you are Hindu.

But are you agreeing to be my girlfriend? ha

But are you agreeing to be my girlfriend?

This... this is the saddest thing.

Because I want an attractive and intelligent girlfriend?

You are the jerkest thing.

INTERNET

LEAVE THE ROOM
DEN RAUM VERLASSEN
QUITTER LA SALLE

Quittez, else it's only the action

I hate google. She fails me.

Quitter la salle, c'est la chose la plus triste.

Not so sure about my grammar there.


No faulty grammar here

You know, this is the second time I've been asked to be someone's girlfriend on assetbar. I'll tell you the same thing I told him:

God didn't make the little green apples/ and it don't rain in Indianapolis in the summertime

that's a lie. Its raining right now. And sure its not official summer, but it is raining.

I am not sure if you knw I was from Indianapolis. If not isn't that a weird coincidence?

So, Do you mean that just being with you is love?

I don't get the full context.

I think she is hinting that if you want to be her boyfriend, you will need to send me about 50 dollars as a down payment, and we will work the rest out as we go.

Subject 93402x is becoming aware of our surveillance!

What I'm saying is, "apolis" and "apples" do not rhyme. If you would change this fact, then get with child a mandrake root!

So, I have to make those two words rhyme and get you a mandrake root before we can go out.

Make one pregnant. You know, maybe we should just make out for a bit then call it quits.

you know, i am fine with that option.

But I think out of the sense of rarity, we should have a child. half-Indian, half-Caucasian? I don;t see it much.

It is a more common mixture than many. But I see now that you only want me for the babies we could make.

nah baby. i want you for your big sexy brain. also your cute nose.

I totally look like a hawk in profile.

I think you look very pretty.

also, you like whiskey and cola?

Together? Yes.

hey but seriously. can you direct me to your facebook?

it be notoriously difficult to find. I think I put some sort of cloaking spell upon it. why don't you direct me to yourses?

alright i will! Be prepared, I'm not Carnage!

facebook.com/tragicone

I want you for your dowry. You will be a burden upon my household, true, but your family shall do the best they are able to help offset this onus.

My dowry, such as it is, probably kind of sucks at this point. And many would argue that the cultural significance of the dowry's a bit more complex than you're portraying it. They'd bring in women's ownership of property and point to the Western exchange of wedding gifts, etc.

I know basically nothing, but wouldn't "desi" have been the proper term? Well, for a slang term.

Desi would have worked.

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Desmosomes, what news from the North?

pre-emptive chubby

I don't think preemptive means what you think it means.

A preemptive chubby works just like a preemptive strike. We are repelling the inevitable lames for LOTR references by chubbying before the threat arrives


But chubbies do not counteract lames.

Nonsense!

Everyone knows the Chubby of prosperity, good will, and good vibes counteracts the bad vibes and malaise of Lame.

I heard you start to pee blood if you get more than fifty lames on one of your posts

Then i'd hate see Dr_Manflesh's (wrong apostrophe?) toilet. Also Asherdans.

i'm sure Asherdan's head starts to rotate and he spits up pea soup while screaming obscenities against the Christian God, if he allows himself to even see Assetbar.

He thinks it's fast on-set diabetes giving him a heart attack.

the hog shall lay with the prawn

What do you pee if you get more than fifty chubbies? I find I can't pee at all if I even have one chubby.

i dunno but this one time i got ten chubbies and I got all tingly down there and some white stuff came out

Ectoplasm, from my phantom cock.

Gold. You pee gold.

I've pee'd gold. Go back and find one of my old fantastic photoshops. I may get back into that game... it still seems... fun!

Your avatar goes with everything .

i want to chubby this but i cant

Reese... Reese I am a porahahahstitute?

I'll lick your baaa baaa baaalllss

baaaaa means no

Baa ram ewe

fuck ewe

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...Oh no...

Dad?

daidai i am angry that you are being unfunny on the internet

i am telling you this because it is clearly my business and i am the self-styled master of all that is Teh Funnay on the Interwub, therefore my opinion > your opinion

just kidding, have this chubby

I came here to kick ass and figure you out and I'm all out of figure you out.

ALLOW ME TO EXPLAIN THE JOKE, THEN

I was making fun of the people who get tremendously pissed off at Assetbaristas who mess up their jokes or use the same shtick over and over again, like they're the Blackshirts of all that is comedic. The Fascists of Funny. The Captains of Comedy.

Daidai in particular earned the wroth of one such fellow, and seeing as how he didn't post here I decided to take up his mantle(all in parody, of course)and then pull out a surprise chubby

oh shit it saw us! quick, pk fire!

Excellent.

chris is utilizing onomatopoeia in full force here.

BAAA-A-A?!

whoa

chubs for alizée

And flowers for Algernon.

Como agua para Chocolat (1988, dir. Claire Denis)

Aqua de Beber - Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66.

Oh, I asked her for water, she brought me gasoline.
Oh, I asked her for water, she brought me gasoline.
That's the troublingest woman ... that I ever seen.

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Hey, I was just listening to this!

Seems to me like there's evil going on. If there's somebody in my home, maybe they should tell me instead of eavesdropping on my all night boogie (all night long)

My very favoritest bluesman, without a doubt.

Well I ain't superstitious, black cat just crossed my trail.
Well I ain't superstitious, but a black cat just crossed my trail.
Don't sweep me with no broom, I might get put in jaaaiiilll.

Wouldn't be her first

Ok fine internet I'd fuck that sheep

Try what I did, only $10,000

condoms were originally made from sheep's intestine. using one of those bad boys whilst rogering a sheep might just be ironic enough to tear a hole in the fabric of space and time.

or, like, feel really, really good.

Who knew some bizarre gutsplay act (fuckin' while covered in sheep guts) would lead to one of the easiest forms of contraception around!

Please assure me that there really is no such thing as gutsplay .

Young Welshmen are oft hardened to the sight of Gore by learning to double-dutch with any part of the Sheep, rendered into fibrous lengths of the most putrid Rope.

I'm...I'm sorry, Doppelganger...but I have some bad news.

There Is Such A Thing As Gutsplay.

would lame but ran out, post deserves not even grammar.

i had to break the news to him man i had to break the news

ABLOOBLABLOOOBLOO

Pics or it didn't happen (Google doesn't support your theory).

PLEASE don't make me have to do that

i beg you

please don't

https://encyclopediadramatica.com/Image:GuroBaby.jpg

If the name of the url doesn't drive you off, then God help you.

I'm not impressed. That could be wayyyy more offensive.

Once you've mastered the Pain series, nothing else really affect you

I misread that as "GuruBaby."

It was pretty much what I expected.

Gross, yes, but I do not feel particularly sullied by seeing it. I do really want a Pedobear Plush, however!

You don't want to know how i got diabetes.

I've often done that, but with people. Nothing really puts an exclamation point on your climax like knowing you are firing into a person-skin condom.

Well, they still make lambskin condoms for people allergic to latex.

Such as my ex-fiance. I do not like lambskin condoms and am glad I probably won't have to use them again.

The best breakup excuse, ever.

If I want stick my schlong in a sheep's intestine, I'll do it the old fashion way.

Why would anyone use lambskin condoms? Polyurethane is just as absent of latex; plus it isn't porous.

indeed woot etc?

curiosity

So that you can chant this:

Babylamb please hold my spunk
you gave your life
prevent new life


It is a good chant.

Tt is a horrible chant. It is truly a goblin chant.
Go to your room.

So that I can bone dudes without conceiving new life within my woooomb?

You don't have to do a chant for that.

stop foowing awound and go to your womb

Always gotta stock up on vittles before making a game plan.

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Are you kidding? That sheep is making the best. face. ever.

sigh. haters.

"haters"? What, because we don't gush unwavering praise on every single strip?

There's good strips and there's bad strips. This one... I don't know what the hell to make of it.

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You're a real asshole hbaranov! It is one thing to take someone else's art once for humorous effect (we all do that). But by repeating - without attribution - my art numerous times ON THE SAME PAGE, you prove yourself to be a uncreative douchenozzle.

Lest you think of trying to take credit for someone else's work, note that comments are numbered.

Also, you are very unfunny. Troll elsewhere.

Comment 104

I don't know if this rant is serious or facetious. I guess I havent been paying attention.

Go hug dinosaurs Antimatter - anything on assetbar is free public matter. I will abuse it as I see fit.

There is a significant difference between saying that a strip is bad and saying that the comic has jumped the shark. You are welcomed to not like a strip, even a series of strips. But it is asinine to say that something has jumped the shark when most everyone else still considers it good. Jumping the shark is holistic.

How dare you express an opinion about an entertainment product that you believe has reached its peak and is now never likely to be quite as good again! Other people may disagree. If someone disagrees with you it is rude to have an opposing opinion.

Seriously, even though it's a matter of opinions we could have a reasonable discussion about this. Don't be a dick and say that it's not acceptable to have opinions.

The world would be a nice place without opinions (that's a fact :p)

well, that's just, like, your opinion man

Sorry, that's just my opinion I guess!

yeah basically.

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The least funny final panel that I can remember Onstad producing, ever?


Maybe, but the alt text more than makes up for it.

Can we please let it see where it goes before the solitary image of a sheep with lipstick makes you think he's jumped the shark after eight years of talking cats beating the shit out of each other and Robert Johnson's ocular shenanigans and at least half a dozen returns from the dead?

If you look back on the archives, I think you'll find that most strips put the punchline in places other than the last panel. Dick.

This arc has definitely worn out its welcome. It's gotten strained, like Onstad is sick of it too and just trying to get it over with. But I laughed my ass off at the Nagel sheep and I don't know why.

It's because of [url="https://m.assetbar.com/achewood/uua2XJp80"]the past[/url]

"The word "jump," and also the word "shark"?"

Don't use that David Spade syntax with us.

[i]Fuck you pop culture, fuck you[i] (and it;s friday so fuck you too)

AND FUCK YOU BBCODE ALCOHOL

hbaranov is so mad right now

hbaranov is so ignored right now.

This makes me sooooo mad

Feedback loop!

*head pops off, vanishes into sky all a little twinnkle a la Team Rocket*

A rare '1'. It fails to significantly advance the arc and finally relieve us of our torment (I think most will agree that the last three arcs or so felt interminable) and while the sheep idea is kind of interesting it takes up 2/3 of the strip to produce a small joke that is not worthy of the build-up.

Onstad sometimes needs an editor to help reign these more bloated and unfocused strips in. This is one of those times.

I just feel nothing. I feel nothing for this sheep.

And this is when the arc starts to pay off. Take that, doubters. Take red, full sheep lips.

As long as the arc doesn't turn into some sort of bad "Take On Me" video, with the sheep and Ray's serape doing battle in some sort of magical, alternate reality.

Oh, who am I kidding? I'd read that.

Baaa-ha!

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One of my favorite Norwegian synth-pop bands.

[i]I'm bleating away
I don't know what's on me, hey,
I'm confused anyway
Today I only wanted to eat food
Flying away
All I did was eat this tag, okay???

Print on sheep
Print sheep on
Nagel's on
For a day(???) or twooooooooo...[i]

Italics fail. Fail fail fail.

F.T.F.F

I gave you a chubby for effort.

That's fallacious. It's the Scotts' that love sheep, mainly.

Oh! And the New Zealanders. And any other small country that raises sheep.

And any region of a larger country in which sheep are farmed.

Yorkshire

you're pudding me on

I toad you in the hole.

Basically, people who do not live near to sheep assume that people who do live near to sheep are shagging them. This is because, as everyone knows, sheep are sexy, and logic tells us that if there were sexy sheep just roaming the landscape, you'd inevitable end up having it away with them.

i mean, probably.

Plus, they're just the right size.
Or, so it is said...

sometimes they are a little low to the ground, not that confortable.

Err, i mean that is probably what i woul think if i really was intimate with some sheeps.

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Still not clever.

you are supposed to be a scientist , why don't you wait till most of the comment are made and then rate them. Would work better that way.

I'm a fun scientist. And you have to change the mix of elements duing alloying or you can get problems later on because you forgot to top up with Vanadium!

well, D'UH

This is the equivalent.

I thought the Zealanders mostly banged orcs. I read that somewhere.

Zealand != New Zealand. That's like saying York is the same as New York.

The original is usually the best. Why get The New Yorker when I can subscribe to The Yorkshireman? True, the cartoons are mainly about coal, the decline of the textile industry, and the sort of more general plight that is living in Sheffield, but I prefer it that way.

York , so good they named it.

Alas poor York, belgand would know you well.

Hey, man. Hey.

...Okay, I'll let you have that one.

Not sure if Nova Scotia > Scotland, but I can confirm that New Zealand is a damn sight better than Zeeland.
And as for the original South Wales ... let's just say the sheep are significantly less traumatised (due to their greater willingness to party) in New South Wales.

You know why the Scots wear kilts?

Because the sheep learned to recognize the sound of a zipper!

That's simply beastly!

Fuck the *arc* - it's the alt text that brings the chuckle on this go. Decent.

"I'm too sexy for my sheep."

I've met uglier women than that sheep, but it's a close shave.

Also, I've just noticed that alleged Welshman has the jaw of an Eastern European.

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I've met uglier women than that sheep, but it's a close shave.

Don't you mean close shear ?

Take the sheer shear test,
shaved sheep's best!

Now wait a minute, Doc. Are you trying to tell me we have to eat haggis to get home?

Heavy.

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Is this relevant to Achewood?

man why you got to lable eerything? fuck

Glad tends to be forgiven all due to his wonderful, innovative and Mexican magical use of the English language.

SILL A DICK

i hatevyou caps

i blame the booze

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he is so angry

He rape my screen, he rape my opinion.

But do I cry? No.

It's okay. We need hbaranov. He humbles the fingernails of our ego with his bamboo shoots of criticism.

Until you are so Heinrich Himmler.

Hbaranov has been around for ages, and only started terrorising us like this when he changed his avicon from a picture of a callow youth to that of some sort of Communonazi.

He was only following orders.

There is nothing communist about my Nazi. ( Lothar Rendulic )

[url=wikipedia.org/communonazi]Communonazi[/url] is a well established term for guys who are possibly either communists or nazis but are too small to make out.

hmm.

I pity your lack of finesse ...

the effect is spoiled by your bbcode fuckup early on in the page, chump

Yeah, hbaranov. Not bad I suppose. But I bet you couldn't put a Fruit Pastille in your mouth without chewing it.

I doubt you ever met a guy who you thought was too small to make out.

That's what she said.

("Sorry, I don't follow you" I replied).

swing and a miss

I'll respond to aperson, because plummet irritates me. Cunt. Anyway I am an individualist anarchist. I also am operating on vast amounts of absinthe. The exams are OVER, bitches!

That's..... "cute"

The Green Faerie lives in my head, the green faerie sleeps in my bed, the green faerie dances at night, the green faerie floats high as a kite.

Sometimes my urine louches. And then I have to go to the doctor.

i love you too, man

Took me about a day to notice 'make out' has more than one meaning. Mind you, if it had been hedonismbot that had posted that instead of you rowboat, I'd have been over it with a fine-toothed innuendo-comb.

aperson thinks that rowboat is a virgin oh snap

I would guess he has had relations with a lady, but he is a fine upstanding individual who probably restricts himself to missionary. I wasn't expecting that kind of smut from the man.

BURRRRRNNNNNNNNN......

It's not a 'leak' if it's your performance and you're posting a link to it.

But it is a "leak" if it is piss poor quality.

So.... the tag, not the actual object, is the thing that creates MMR. How... you know what. I'm just going to stop. Why don't I trust you by now, Onstad? Just... let the magical sheep be, xi.

Well the eyes of the model have been closed since he ripped the tag off, so yes.

Yes, I had noticed that also Mr. Smarmy. I just didn't notice a Made in Mexico tag on my copy of Pedro Paramo so it doesn't make a lick of sense.

I'm not being smarmy, Ms. Conclusionjumpins. I was trying to answer your question BUT I GUESS I FUCKED UP SHIT.

You did WHAT WERE YOU THINKING

FAACK.

The "BAAA-A-A?!" Really makes it for me. Just sayin' guys.

At climax time, or when? Be more specific please, Mr. stubob.
Grade: Incomplete

The sheep is saying "oh no you di'int, sugar".

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this from the guy who posts links to youtube vids of his rap performances in some barely legible form of pidgin english?

I don't think you "get" glad.

Of course, as my art history professor once told the class, "look, just because you don't get it doesn't mean it's not crap ."

Don't get glad, get mad.

Glad is one of my favorite comedians.

wat did yll fink of dat anyway speakin' o ma perfomancane

Tite.

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People who don't tend to post a lot, but like to read the comments now and again for humorous purposes, and pitch in to lame the obvious worthless comments when they find them. The invisible janitors of the internet... it's really a thankless job.

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I...I couldn't help myself at laming you.

OH THE INDIGNATION

touched about ten nerves there, buddy

negus

vagus

Lakers?

v chub

CURSE MY FRIENDLINESS

Seriously though, I don't think I've been able to lame anyone since sometime in 2008. What gives?

I think it's based on ratings. I think you earn them that way.

it would really be terrible if it was based on the similarity of your ratings with other's ratings; e.g. if a strip is rated a 3, but you give it a 5, then no lamer power for you, because you are, essentially lame. Of course, this would promote group-thinkism.

Yes because a man who designed a website so technically shit it butchers plus symbols would really invest the time to create such an algorithm

That seems possible, but not entirely likely. I rarely lame things, but I've rated almost every strip and I am perhaps able to give out one lame every once in a very rare while and then I no longer have that ability.

I might dispense one lame every two weeks or so and I rate every strip. This does not seem entirely reasonable. Nor does this make it seem like it is based on accruing them 1 per strip or daily or such. I never had this problem until one day when I used them up for the first time.

I wish someone would finally just explain what causes the amount of lames and chubbies available, but it certainly seems that once you use them up the first time they refresh very slowly.

I haven't checked lately but it used to be that you had to rate ... I forget.. somewhere between 6 and 12 strips before you had any lames. Of course, it could be that once you use them up, then maybe they accrue much more slowly... e.g. maybe each time you 'earn' a lame, the number of lames you earn is proportional to the number of lames you still have.

I believe it also has to do with the amount of chubbies and lames which you, yourself, have garnered. That might matter.

Our ratios are not terribly dissimilar (approximately 7:1 for you, 5:1 for me) with roughly the same number of comments. I would be interested in how this works out for you.

I have similar chubbies & half the lames of belgand, and like I said, I haven't been able to lame anyone for a long time. I don't rate strips, though. So maybe that's it.

I guess that little Manflesh redux ended up being more or less equal chubbies and lames, yet you post one relevant to the discussion picture of a tiger cock....

Speaking of which, it would be nice if there was a way to balance chubbies and lames without trying to manually adjust everything all the time. Perhaps if something has more chubbies than lames it ought to be shown or similar.

It seems that having to rate at least six or possibly more strips is the issue. It could take close to a month to get enough new strips to rate in order to lame once.

I think this is probably common knowledge at this point, but rating strips definitely matters. I seem to get about two lames per board, but if I really need more (and lately I've needed all I can get) I can usually cast around in the archives for the odd strip that I forgot to rate for one reason or another and that will immediately give me another lame to use.

The next question: how many other factors are there?

The real question: how could any of this possibly matter, ever?

A lot.

As far as I can remember, I've never lamed anyone. That's how I avoid giving a shit about this particular enigma.

And if I can't chubby? Oh well, someone most likely will.

For those concerned about lame access, simply visit the sidebar sections stating (These Highest Rated you've not seen yet) or whatever. Easy pickings! I tend to have about 9 or 10 chubbies to give per comic, but usually only 1 lame if I'm lucky btw.

If more people shared your opinion, marriages would be much more interesting.

I would love it if Panel 9 was in full color, all rainbow lines like those old TV "Feature Presentation" spots.

and also if it was my desktop background.

Yeah, it would be super if Onstad would occasionally release larger versions of some key panels for desktop background usage. Colored, even.

Racist

WELL TOO BAD FOR YOU IT IS NOT AND CAN NEVER BE

(FUCK YOU)

Now this is just too damn much.

So, let me think . . . the magic realism is actually just in the "Heche in Mexico" tag, not the whole garment. OK. So, Ray wants to get home when he finds Charley. "Koodge" is probably not a good strategy here. Todd is not currently dead, so Ray has no guide to get him out of Hell, where he would surely find himself. The Magic Realism is in the sheep, who now has the 'tude of a Nagel model. I'm thinking Ray will have to kill her and make a new serape out of her hide. OK, kill the sheep, don't forget the mint sauce. Who stitches the serape? Did Ray bring his deer-killing automatic, or will he have to go all GOF and turn the sheep into Nagel sauce? Ray could really use Roast Beef right about now. In fact, this is the worst crisis Ray has ever faced without his "Best Mate" beside him.

You have no damn clue on how you use a sheep, do you?

Insert flayed bozack and complete one clockwise revolution.

You also need to get it going at least 88 miles an hour to get home.

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Whoa, French Mythbusters!

Sadly Mythbuster in french is badly dubbed by 2 nobodies. also the name is translated to the idiotic "Les Stupéfiants" wich is also a synonim for drugs.

Sheep are the most user-friendly of all animals! After the mouse, of course.

What about bucks? They come with handles.

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Popups are completely blocked with Sepia bandensis 09!

What the fuck.

Panels 8-14: Mexican magical realism = LSD?

have you ever taken lsd?

Alice-dee? I hardly knew 'er!

The alt text made this one for me.

I kind of wish we could vote on the individual panels. I don't think I'm alone here.

I'm going to need confirmation of that.

I think it would be cool too, so there you go.

Noted!

I disagree with the sheep metamorphosis panels. Seems a little...off, somehow. And I'd much rather see Ray procuring vittles, anyhow. "Put butter on what I said!" was a much better use of Mexican Magical Realism.

lol this may be the best alt text yet

onstad, you are a liar and a thief, but this is an ok strip, so i grant you gentleman status.

when I read the name of this strip I thought it was something potentially bad. When I read the alt text I found I'm correct.

THE REFLEX
is a lonely sheep
just grazing in the field

I'm on a ride and I want to get off
But they won't slow down the roundabout
I sold the Nagel and the TV set
Don't want to be around when this gets out

Whyyyyy
don't you use it?
Tryyyyy
not to bruise it...
Baaaaaaa
time don't lose it...

I thought about using that set of lyrics, but "I'm on a ride and I want to get off" was just too hard to resist.


In regards on to how he's going to get home, I'm seeing a bit of https://achewood.com/index.php?date=09272008]this going on.

Fuck...damn assetbar

This

*splut*

dang i aint exactly seeing the connection; can you expound a bit, kind madame?

The act of the commodore, from what we surmise so far it might be, is how Ray tends to get him and Charley home. Although, that would be a bit too nasty for Little Nephew to have to um, view that. Although, I'm not exactly sure who would do the commodoring...Ray or the Sheep.

Oh fuck it I just made no sense.

Girl you be trippin down a side-alley no one wants to go.

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Karnak:"shish boom bah"


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Ed:shish boom bah


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Karnak:(opens envelope) The sound of a sheep exploding.

That is a mighty fine hat

And his homies agree he really looks good in black.

Fool.

Karnak

well that was unexpected

I'm rarely driven to comment, but "one of these things is not like the other" and it's this strip. Panel 9 is off the scale. That's a t-shirt in and of itself.

I'm told Mexican Magical Realism does incredible things for your bowels.


or was it to your bowels...?

Nagel sheep has the same expression Ray had when we looked in on him dropping a deuce.

It wasn't my idea to look in on him. I blame Onstad.

I guess it's supposed to look like lipstick on a pouty mouth, or something, but it just looks like a dopey grin...

He will never take off the serape. It is too damned cold in sixteenth century Wales and the cat is used to California.

Nothern California gets damn cold at times.

California is not just Southern California with beaches where you can actually go swimming and such. The current state high is 86F and the current low is 32F. Freezing cold mountains and scorching desert, we've got just about everything.

But yeah, Palo Alto is pretty decent a lot of the year. SF tends to be pretty cold, but when you move away from the ocean like that you get some nice warm summers rather than chilly year-round 60F weather.

Personally? SF ruuuules. Why? Because it's the scene of the book Virtual Light. All other consideations may be disposed of (same for Poole, Dorset for Pattern Recognition, and any spacestation full of jamaican weed smokers due to Neuromancer)

What about Chiba, or BAMA (Boston-Atlanta).

Chiba yes. The Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Area (aka The Sprawl), I'm not certain on whether it's fully developed yet, but I'll give it a tentative yes.

I think we all should take a moment to appreciate the very delicate historical and aesthetic arrangement that would allow for the very particular fuckedupness of this strip. thanks, universe.

onstad is the doubletalking big brother of web comics. i find it disturbing that he is using 'mexican magical realism ' as an escape from reality in this story.

Panel 10 suggests of
the snack food/sexual object
"popcorn sheep"
I claim all rights and trademark.

havn't really enjoyed this storyline

perhaps I just need more Roast Beef?

this is a web comic about cats so maybe y'all can help out here. My cat is having trouble it seems with coughing up a hairball and doesn't want to eat for 2 days now, seems kinda like he's gagging on it all the time, kinda hoarse and laboured sounding breathing, so I'm a take him to the vet tomorrow, but any suggestions? I been trying to get him to eat some soya lecithin which is a sorta liquid gel. I kinda dab it on his tongue. it helps with the digestion of the fat in hairballs, but I dunno how fast it works, and he don't wanna eat anything anyway. so he hasn't gotten enough of the stuff for it to be effective yet.


Sorry, I have a cat, but she never gets sick. Thats her giving me a hand face BTW. I hope he gets well soon!

My cat just came home after being missing for 3 weeks. This isn't the first time. Fuck knows where she goes, the little slut.

She doesn't get far ;) ((do cats do it on thei back?))

I think they do it doggy-style.

The irony

I don't know about soy lecithin, as it's an oil, right? But I was told by an eminent vet not to ever feed soy products to dogs or cats as they can't digest it, and it will fuck up their digestive system over time. The manufacturers do not care about that as soy is a cheap, "nutritious", protein-laden filler.
So every dogfood/catfood product in the supermarket listing soy- stay away from it.

yes soy lecithin looks like an oil. is emulsifier helps digestion of fat. I will see if vet says same thing. Am taking cat to vet shortly.

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Mexican magical realism thread:

There is this subdivision of Christianity that believes in I guess you call it Christian Magical Realism... If you speak it, it becomes real, is the belief. So if you speak negative thoughts ("I'm a gonna get sick") then you become sick, but if you speak good thoughts ("I'm a not have this cancer no more") then you become cancer free.

i call these Touched in the head"

If i could i would put a link to Creationist say the dardnest thing, but for some reason my computer is against that. and he's not designed by anybody intelligent.

ZAM!

The Grammar of I'ma not gonna have cancer no more, means actually, you're going to have more cancer, hooray. Teaches you something for believing so stupid.

hbaranov, you need this more than I do:

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Also, huuugs!

that's a misuse of a cute cat to use it to express such snarkicity. I concur with hbaranov. fuck them stupid christians fuck them all in the ass they should die and go to hell and die again.

There was a total absence of snark in that cat. I meant it whole-heartedly. hbaranov appears to be angry about many things, and has Exams as well. Perhaps a cat will help!

But yeah, I do think people should just take their medicine and shaddap.

Not...not that I'm saying cancer patients should shaddap OH GOD WHY DO I ALWAYS SAY THE WRONG THING

No more exams from tomorrow...

no. that was total snark. maybe you don't understand what snark means. You are hindi after all. They speak british english..

Okaaaay you win

And thus, thegoblins learned for ever more how to recognize the troll. It is a fine lesson for us all.

thegoblins radiates earnestness and bonhomie. The parlor game is to see how long it will take before she is as cynical and jaded as the rest of us.

I would prefer that she quit now and save herself for a position as my third wife.

It seems I have come down in this world and I am now third wife material. I knew I shouldn't have rejected that proposal to become someone's second wife.

Would "trophy wife" be more fitting?

As long as I get 1/2 cup of rice a day and my bath on Saturdays, I don't care what you call me.

I would be happy to marry you if you were looking for US citizenship, but actually, I'm looking to get the hell out of this country, so I have to keep my options open, and while India would be a step up in some respects, I'm hoping more for a chick from Canada or something like that. I prefer the cooler climes.

...I'm a U.S. citizen

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save herself for a position

And pray tell, what position did you have in mind? The grundy overboard? Ah, how about the twisted windrope?

Twisted windrope? Was that Carradine's favorite?

Why hate the pitiful creatures? Pity them - they are almost all victims of child abuse. Pity them, that is, right up until they start to get pushy. Then they are told to shut the fuck up. Or shut up by force, if nec.

That's funny... I've always thought the only way Christianity could work is if it completely disavowed magic.

Poor Thomas Jefferson.

I just had to pay $1900 for my cat to have surgery, because she was throwing up trying to cough up what I thought was a hairball. Once she started puking up orangey stomach acid, we decided to take her to the vet, and it turns out she had eaten almost an entire basketful of easter grass.

Pics or it didn't happen? Okay:

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Catilage Head?

hella crass i hope your cat feels better soon

Oh, don't worry. She is perfectly well now. Sometimes I think that when I sleep, she stands over me and flips me off with her little paw, laughing at how she has completely healed and there is no sign that there was ever a problem other than a faint scar beneath her fur and my measly bank account.

aw hell scarred bank accounts are like the worst

surgery for easter grass. man what the hell. you'd think they could have a remote claw grabber thingy that they could send down the cats throat to pull the stuff out.
I hope it's not surgery required because I have no $1900. My vet said to give my cat some lubricant to help him pass/vomit the presumed hairball. Take the cat back for a hella expensive $300 ultrasound in a few days if it's not better by then. geeeze.

Awww, I chubbied this because I felt sorry for the cat, then I realized that was actually an inappropriate response, but by then it was too late to take it back, but then I also realized that this x-ray pleases me on some level, which makes me think maybe I'm some kinda pervert.

That picture reminds me of this far superior picture.
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wh...what is it?

it's a cat snake.

I'm not entirely certain what this is, but it's inspiring subtle feelings of nausea.

It's a snake with a cat inside it, apparently. You can also see the snake's head.

Oh god

I see it now

Aghhhhh

Here is a similar picture. It is of an elephant inside a snake.
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The most important unasked question...

Upon reappearance, WHEN is the sheep?

If that's grass underneath the sheep in the silhouette, I would guess the sheep reappears shortly after disappearing.

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That is...vaguely disturbing.

Actually, no, it's not. It's extremely disturbing.

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and the sheep's head infinitely regresses...

The real terror lies in that sheep, now become a "Nagelcora", not only possesses a head which is in fact sexually attractive , but that it also now commands the cunning and wiles of that most dangerous of creatures, a fine lady with a cocaine habit .

Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand...

His name is Dio, and he dances in the band...

His name is Leo, and he's a fuckin lion, okay? Begone.

His name is Neo and he took the red pill from my hand?

It's Neo Geo and you can't afford it, man.

He plays with Brio and his trains travel the land.

His name is Eno and he's hard to understand

more sheep than creep

Oh Solo Mio is the best song in the land.

Her name is Clio and she reads the palm of your hand

Hace frio! Are the furnaces manned?

Dios mio! These frijoles are all canned!

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His name is Leo and he made Bartlett The Man.

His name is Theo and he breaks Bill Cosby's command

Sorry, this one doesn't scan right.

"Cosby's Co-" is a triplet, man, you know I'd put in the note values if I could.

Holy Diver Batman!

CHUPPY DEH FUCK AUTTA THIS GUY. APB

if you dont shut the fuck up at some point im going to find out who you are and end your posting streak

i will come down on you like a ton of bricks you mother fucker. if you think you're man enough come and get some. i'll be waiting to tear the skin off your face

u dont no me, you dont no what i'm capable of

i'll see you in the octagon mother fucker

i'll be there, asshole. you better not pussy-out, my bitch

where the fuck were you? i was there, and i was in the octagon, and i was all alone

there was no other player

i took a nap and you still weren't there

i had to go home

what gives

so ur actually gonna lie abot shit? ur gonna log into the internet an' lie abot what u did? ok asshole

I dunno, I don't think that neonfreon would take back something he said on the Internet.

Neonfreon is reputed to have mad respect for the internet.

[glad] Sike! [/glad]

The Gladi8orrex project was part of a battery of secret Pentagon experiments to develop psychosomatic weapons. While it produced initially promising results, the experiment had to be abandoned when it was discovered that all scientists assigned to this project would slowly go irrevocably mad. By this time it was too late to stop him; he escaped, and no army can resit his powerful Weird ing Voice.

The subject's last known coordinates place him in a tenement somewhere on the south side of Camden where he worked part time at a local chain pizza shop. The locals were apparently immune to his Voice and he generally kept to himself. His employment was terminated however after the proprietor complained

"That suma bitch ain't get me no tax credit like the social service person said they was gonna. He fuck up all them order AND piss off da inspector and all he ever say to me 'sorry sorry sorry' which don't pay tha bills so you damn straight I fired his ass!"

The Gladi8orrex project was last seen by locals pushing a shopping cart the wrong way down Audubon Avenue while chewing on a burrito from a mysterious taco stand that no one had seen before nor has seen since. It is said that once he reached the end of the street he simply vanished in a spontaneous cloud of pink smoke and silver glitter. His wifi-enabled laptop was quickly stolen and after a series of pawn transactions came to be in the care of one Taneka-Nicole Darcey-Smith who although completely computer illiterate "keep the thing plug alla time in my baby crib so he don cry at night or when I have company. It hav a funny game on it what make some crazy animal sounds like a pig or a horse or sometime I can't tell what..."

Gladdi... is... is that you Gladdi?[IMGS OFF]

a lolcat with no lames - I salute you, sir

Ha!

Now that was just provocation. It is a good lolcat.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A GOOD LOLCAT

You're out of your league, donny.

I had to specifically go and rate old strips to get that lame you know.

That sheep, is a omen of things to come!

I disagree, it seems more likely to be a harbinger to me.

Nay, it is a ward.

:(

Your icon...it's so horrifying, yet so cute...

A comment left by neonfreon was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by Jar, TheGoodwillGirl, old_chap, hardelicious)

I just un-ignored you just so I could lame you.

ha ha suck on that goodsuckgirl! I rated some strips just so i could lame you! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

and then I had sex with your mom

on purpose !

:(

It's like, how much more sad could this be ?

None. None more sad.

It is not the saddest thing.

Good show, jeffspaulding

HUGGGS{{{daedala_x}}}SGGGUH

I agree with this palindromic gentleman. Huuuugs.

And the circle continues.

That's okay, it would be rad if you died.

Something happened last night that you might get upset about
But hear me out
I didn't mean nothing by it, I'ma make this quick
I gave your mama this dick

I don't know how it happened
I just know my nuts and her itch were slapping
I was over there mowing the grass
And I could feel her eyes all up on my ass
And then, I went inside to make a phone call
And there she was with her titty hanging out her bra
One thing just led to another
Next thing you know, I'm butt-fucking your mother

Your mom's ass look like oatmeal yo
It's bumpy and grainy, I like the feel though
And I ain't trying to diss her either
I'm only saying that I'd wish she'd trim her beaver some
Every hair is like a foot long
Bitch looks like a werewolf wearing a thong sometimes

please don' let me catch you rhymin'
shit b my turf
ur shit ain't got any worth
take u back 2 shop for zero $$ store credit
ur ass b belchin' shit over fist
cuz i str8 force-fed it
my howlin' member

ur butt so putrid, so diseased
i stick ma dick ya shit-slide with mega-ease
puss-filled sax str8 exploden
actin' like s'lubrication for the ovehloadin'
ma 6 inch fore-skin scrappin' ur bowl-wall
its good im fuckin' ur butt so i don't c ur yelo teeth at all

each thrust jammin' shit crumbs n2 ma urinary tract
it's neither good nor bad. it's simply a fact
by the time im finsihed ur sphincter wont ever retract
ass perma-open, fart sounds like breeze blow
so take ur weak-ass rhyms and str8 up go!

that was hot

The joke here is that my mother has a hairy vagina.

Jeez, we all already know that, don't worry

It's to hide the me-tattoo under the foliage.

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my mother has a hairy vagina

While I realize the inexactitude of the language, especially in reference to the private bits, I doubt that hair actually grows in a vagina, per se. Crotch, yes. My mother also had a hairy crotch.

Anyone else?

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va%u22C5gi%u22C5na %u2013noun
1. Anatomy, a. the passage leading from the uterus to the vulva in certain female mammals.


Accordingly, you are unlikely to see a vagina upon casual observation and it certainly is not the part that has the hair. That is likely the mons pubis and/or labia majora .

I think people use vagina to relate the entire area.

Synecdoche -- the part denotes the whole/hole.

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Synecdoche -- ... denotes the whole/hole.

Synec-douche -- debrides the hole.

I am too friendly to give you a chubby. Curse my impotence!

Welcome to the ladder theory.

Cynic-douche - derides the hole

Is that what it's based on? How many strips you've rated?

the ways of the eigenvector are a mystery

im way too insensitive to give a shit

nagelsheep!

Wow, I'm in Paris a couple of weeks, which is great, and then get to come home to a magic-realism arc of triumph. Really like the Naegel serape.

Nagel.

"New strip Monday eventing!"

Alright! I guess there'll be a new strip this Thursday, then!

Mexican magical realism makes it seem like Monday to Onstad.

Notice he didn't specify which Monday.

He didn't even specify whether he's using the Julian calendar!

china girl

don't steal my lines.

is it still tuesday afternoon somewhere?

Oh, you've forgotten - we're on the Daylight Saving Week now. It'll be Tuesday Afternoon until early Friday or so.

If there's a doublewide a comin', I want cake under it.

That's eighty-five ninety for the two sheet cakes, Mr. Smuckles! Thanks for choosing room service!

Was I the only one who found that to be an obscene price to pay for two sheet cakes? I mean, expected with room service, but still terrible.

that sheep looks like Sonia Sotomayor

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get off my boards you racist scum

Time to leave the room.

lol al sharpton is agin' badly

https://m.assetbar.com/uua7k3C6z.gif

laze.

This good for nothing, no account Onstad bastard. POST ALREADY. JESUS.

What the fuck you ragging about. Not getting your money's worth???

I mean relax already. It'll happen when it happens. Try to enjoy the free thing in a stress free state, yo.

Just sayin'.

OMSTAD YOU BASTARD
WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE PLAYING AT
I DEMAND MY FREE ENTERTAINMENT RIGHT NOW GODDAMMIT

i see both sides. probably it would be best if Onstad would either post a strip when he says he will, or better yet, do it when he gets around to it but not promise his loyal fans (who keep him in business) something he can't deliver on.

Also, probably best if people don't bitch about it.

The best thing is to not look at the achewood.com page EVER , and just read the strips when they pop up in your RSS reader.

You'll never get frist pots with that attitude.

I'd prefer no promises to posting certain days, if I had my druthers. But I don't so I complain facetiously and people interpret it as genuine and start a whole goldang thread under it.

I do this every comic that lasts more than two days. It's Sort Of A Joke.

It's okay, we understand.
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m...more terrifying than I meant it to be

holy crap a Hindi cat!

Sick_cat I am mad at you

If you strain that much you could give yourself an aneurysm. Just relax and it'll usually come out on it's own.

See above.

I think its wonderful that not only do the comics suck now, they're consistently 3 days late.

The word "triplewide" is more what's daunting me. Achewood is a great strip, when Onstad doesn't let rambling take him for 20 panels. Then it just gets... mushy.

He's too worried about monetizing his comic through the myspace crap, the darkhorse crap, the collection crap and worst of all the freaking subscriber area crap.

well, bellies need feeding and children need college educations that have no relation to what they end up doing in life. So you can't blame the dude for trying to survive.

How much worried would be just right, lucidz? Maybe you can tell us.

Every time it slips another day, he'll make it another 1x wider... So it'll be like "Okay, this time for real: this coming Monday Afternoon (PST) I'll have an octowide strip for everybody." Then it'll slip a few more days and be dropped in favor of Friday Facts.

You know it's bad when a man starts describing his product like a trailer home in Pinellas County, FL:

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Guys im considering producing my own electronic graphic novel titled "Onstad". It will be about Chris Onstad, and every arc will revolve around Onstad's constant struggle to post strips on time and stay honest with his fan base. It will start out really light and humorous and people will think "oh that Onstad, he's a busy guy" and over the years will evolve into a dark, tragic account of one man's struggle with and ultimate defeat by his heroin as his once loyal fan base rallies against him and exposes his flaws for the world to see.

if you'd like to see this strip, please pledge a donation. I'll produce the strip once I get enough donations to replace two years of my salary/benefits after inflation.

Only if you have a Premium Fanflow.

If you have a premium flow you'll have to use the larger tampons.

Or walk around with only one sock.

toxic sock syndrome

(I died a little on the inside)

Best one yet, you're hitting your stride, whoever you are.

Don't apologise. Making an outrageous pun is the linguistic equivalent of smoking a cigar in a church. If anyone tries to remonstrate with you then you flick a V and grab your crotch.

Is that a V with the palm facing out or showing the back of the hand?

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And besides, anyone remonstrating anyone else don't belong in no church.

She's not apologizing, fool. She's nailing the pun like thunder.

Good lord! You're right. A thousand pardons thegoblins.

An effort worthy of reverence. We should keep this thread alive in honor of the Grace of her Pun.

i lol'd.