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Your teeth seem sharp Monday, June 3, 2002 • read strip Viewing 60 comments:

Again, the last panel floors me. Poor Roast Beef, he is not a happy cat :(

The man can get Hosed, even while getting Hosed.

The "AS YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED..." tells me that there was more to the tape before the part we see. I would have liked to know what exactly took place before Ray makes this admission.

Probably Ray singing Pumps n' a Bump .

It was when he said "Dear Roast Beef."

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Someone should make a profile and, on all the strips, post a comment saying what you just did.

Someone should? I think half a dozen have.

THAT'S THE JOOOOOOOOKE

Excellent avatar/post sychronicity.

The last panel is a masterpeice.

God, this strip deserves all sorts of medals.

Ray's gotta do what he's gotta do, but he don't gotta like it.

You get the sense that, while "Circumastances" are responsible for Beef's major problem, Ray is responsible for most of his subtle neuroses

I AM SORRY ABOUT THIS ROAST BEEF.

It is ALL the last panel fuck I love this one.

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Beef's Mother killed his father.

There is nothing more that needs to be said about The Last Panel besides that it is the best panel ever paneled.

This strip just makes you want to walk into your screen and give Beef a hug. I mean just look at that expression.

ray had to repeat himself from yesterday's strip.
beef knew what was coming, he just didnt want it to end, yet. just another moment in the office. just another moment away from the trailer park where he wears those headphones that are no where remotely near his ears.

He couldn't figure out how to record cds onto a tape.
Ray is so maddeningly dumb sometimes. Poor Beef.

The headphones and the shirt and tie bring it all together

Alt text: "I was like, now maybe I can get a small dog or puppy?"

I don't understand the alt text here but it is sort of funny in a "what the hell?" kind of way.

The alt text is Onstad revealing his own thoughts. "No job; get a dog!" It's a common reaction to being let go. Next time your in the city, checkout the number of jobless types you see sitting on the curb with dogs. The number is big. Most people don't realize it, but a layoff-dog purchase is the first step on the staircase out of your house, the staircase to homelessness.

I have no idea whether you're kidding or not.

I really don't think he is.

Seems to check out.

when is the white paper release?

this may be my favorite strip of all time

Top ten last panel.

He cold gave him the tape anyways.

I like to think there is a pause:
I AM SORRY ABOUT THIS.... ROAST BEEF.

Actually I realized that I'm thinking of a full stop:

I AM SORRY ABOUT THIS. ROAST BEEF.

who knew you could still be best friends with the man who had you fired

You are leaving the company. Thats like saying to somebody that they've been volunteered

This was the strip that did it for me. Now I'm checking this webpage every dang day.

I half-imagine that perhaps Ray became distracted making the tape, walked away with it still running and filled it with idle white noise. And then I can easily imagine Roast Beef sitting there listening to the noise until the harsh CLICK ends it and snaps him back to his senses.

Keep on pavin' that road to Hell, Ray.

Achewood is the only comic that can pull off two punchlines.

It's a bizarre train of thought: he tries to make a mixtape but can't figure out how. Upon realizing this, rather than just not doing it, he decides to record a message saying that there is no tape, and then give Beef the tape. It is beyond my ability to comprehend. A normal person would have just not made the tape and not mentioned it at all.

But this is Ray Smuckles we're talking about, and he gets things done, even if they're not done the correct way.

Worst severance ever.

Onstad made it sound like his severance package included doubloons and four ounces of pure uncut heroin. I think he did a little better.

Transplendent. Just fucking transplendent.

so fucking good. definitely one of my fave all-time achewoods.

I love how Ray doesn't let on when he gives him it, still acting like he managed to make a real mix tape.

This is one of the few strips that causes me to laugh in hysterics every time I read it.

I AM SORRY ABOUT THIS ROAST BEEF

he maybe noticed it's not a mix tape while listening

I like that Beef in the last panel became the basis of the "What We Need More of is Science" shirt design. That is a good design, and I have it. (But it is on a hooded jumper)

Roast Beef is most saddened by the fact that he would have helped Ray make the tape, knowing full well that it is his severance.

Story of the dude's life...

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I tried, dude.

It was so unfunny that assetbar rejected it.

This is my absolute favourite. I can say no more on the topic without gushing embarrassingly.

Man, between this and what he does to Phillipe later on when they're business partners..you'd better have your own lawyer before drafting a business agreement with Ray! He's a shark!

The number of punchlines in this strip boggle the mind. Beef is volunteered to leave the company, his severance is a tape of Ray apologizing for there not actually being a mix tape, and the company is left in the hands of the cat of such incompetence as to not know how to make a mix tape .