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Approaching Moon Friday, June 21, 2002 • read strip Viewing 60 comments:

I hope to use the last sentence in this strip in a conversation someday

I hope you do too.

It would mean good things for everyone, really.

You can see Hawaii!

Pat has been in the anger class for a few years and so far it does not seem to have done him much good.

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why?

WHY?

Yeah, sometimes all therapy does is teach you how to talk like your therapist.

And how does that make you feel?

In panel 4 the cat is talking to the moon.

This is the strip that makes me think that a sadder-sounding Mitch Hedberg would have been the perfect voice talent for Roast Beef.

Huh. I'd just been thinking that a slightly more energetic Mitch Hedberg would have clicked as the voice of Ray.

The obvious solution is to reanimate Mitch Hedberg and have him do all the voices. Except maybe Cornelius. And Molly.

Cornelius would be voiced by Dana Carvey as the post-sex Garth from Wayne's World 2

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Yes. You got it right on the head with that one, I think.

I was watching The Life Aquatic and now I think Michael Gambon would be a better, more wizened fit.

(And also I think he's a better fit for Dumbledore after reading Book 7)

Gambon over Grammar anyday, everyday. They both have correct voices for the part, but only one doesn't make me want to shoot someone, then myself.

On a 'Life Aquatic' theme, next time you watch it, try and view Steve in the same light as Ray - there are remarkable stylistic similarities.

I would almost sort of agree with you, but man, Bill Murray voiced Garfield. I want to make it clear that I have bottomless respect for the man, but he just can't do both. The world would fold in on itself, or something.

Yeah, Steve is who Ray will (hopefully) one day become.

See, I always thought of Ray as sounding like someone doing a mediocre Samuel L jackson impression.

Despite the strip and its fans assuring me that Ray is supposed to sound like Isaac Hayes or something, I always read him in my head as sounding like The Dude from The Big Lebowski .

Ray is way too conceited to sound like the Dude.

The Dude has his un-Dude moments.

But the Dude abides, man. And I don't know about you, but I take a little comfort in that.

I only mention it because sometimes there's a man... I won't say a hero, 'cause what's a hero? But sometimes, there's a man %u2013 and I'm talkin' about the Dude here %u2013 sometimes, there's a man... well, he's the man, for his time and place. He fits right in there. And that's the Dude. In Los Angeles. And even if he's a lazy man %u2013 and the Dude was most certainly that; quite possibly the laziest in Los Angeles County, which would place him high in the runnin' for laziest worldwide %u2013 sometimes there's a man...

Sometimes, there's a man.

Ah, I lost my train of thought here. But... aw, hell. I done introduced him enough.

Screw you, AssetBar. Fuck you.

That's funny, because I always pictured Ray sounding exactly like Walter Sobchak. I actually can't imagine "Become the ruling body, dude!" being shouted in any other voice.

Think of it in the Dude's "She's gotta feed the monkey" or "They pissed on my fucking rug" voice.

The Dude is just too soft-spoken to be Ray, even at his roughest.

I'M AFRAID WE MUST AGREE TO DISAGREE, LASERBLADE. PEWPEWPEW.

See, I could almost more hear Pat as Walter, with the irrelevant 'Nam freakouts. This may more to do with later Pat though and his habit of putting bullet holes in people over stupid things - "MARK IT ZERO!"

NO HE CAN'T STOP YELLING! THAT'S HOW HE TALKS!

For once I'm seeing a perfect avatar/comment combination that doesn't result from it looking like the avatar is saying the thing. It looks more like someone is yelling that AT Philippe as he reels backwards in shock at all the yelling.

I am now going to imagine Ray sounding like the "MESSAGE!" guy from Don't Be a Menace. Because I always thought that guy was like, Leroy Jackson or something...Samuel L's younger brother.

This thought has ruined Ray for me. Or , I mean, it would, except for Don't Be a Menace is the best movie.

I'm pretty sure the "MESSAGE!" guy is Keenen Ivory Wayans. He was the producer.

What carrier does Ray have? I have issues while on the planet, let alone in space.

The Deep Space Network.

At least Pat is calm enough to specifify why he's made at Roast Beef: For taking the rocket, not the the Altoids in the rocket.

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Alt text: "check in from ground control"

Ground control to Major Beef

Roast Beef is floating in a most peculiar way.

Somebody needs to form a committee to award David Bowie the "Best Pronunciation of the Word 'Peculiar'" award.
Astro_Zombie, will you help me build this committee.

What's so special about it? It's just the word peculiar in a British accent.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhSYbRiYwTY
--1 minute and 50 seconds.

He sets it up with an extra syllable and a half on "Most" and essentially turns "Most peculiar" into a five and a half syllable stallion of linguistics.

I cry every time.

Huh. "most-a-pu-culiar way." That is something, indeed.

Oh that is good. I'm glad that I bothered getting out my headphones and searching for the headphone jack on this uni computer for like two minutes.

If real space missions were like this, NASA would have no trouble getting funding for that Mars thing.

NASA usually checks to see if a spaceship is at the "pretty decent" level WAY before takeoff...

OK! I'm freaking out here. Your avatar is blinking occasionally right? RIGHT!!!

AAHH!

Here I come dogg

oh altoids that is excellent

This is one of the first strips where we see Beef's slang tongue

I think Pat and Beef's characters really started to come together in this arc.

I get some pretty sweet Tintin vibes from this strip. Not that that is reasonable or anything

Beef makes me think of Boomhauer in panel 2

That is some wicked reception to get a phone call near the moon!