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Beef's Microsoft Word Ad Monday, August 11, 2003 • read strip Viewing 52 comments:

A comment left by saint was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by divot, Overmedicated, Wolfslice, Madoushi)

"Faux-hawk". There's meaning to the portmanteau.

my bad...my bad. let's go get a beer and forget the whole thing ever happened...maybe discuss making a Microsoft Word ad or something...

To beef, the whole world is one big Microsoft Word analogy. And thats the saddest thing ever.

a faux-hawking stupid haircut

i see what you did there.

From glancing at the AV Club Interview, the new Beef looks a hell of a lot like... Onstad.

Self-mockery, perhaps?

The photo in question for the chronically confused:

[IMGS OFF]

Judge not and all, I look like a choirboy, except less fierce, and will do so until my face rots.

The guy who looks like the lead singer of 100 bands that he hates is not judging. Personally, I think Onstad is a pretty handsome dude with some cool shoes. Though I might also be projecting my opinions on his extreme talent to come to that conclusion.

ohhh chris suck my ugly cock!!!!!

I dunno; Beef's hair seems a little more sticking up/gel'd, while Onstad's hair seems more slicked back (at least, that's how I've always seen them both, I could defintely be wrong considering the lack of clarity in both strip and picture). Also, looks like Beef's got normal glasses on, while Onstad's wearing shades.

Anyways, I think we all know the kind of person that Ray is trying to make Beef into. We've seen them in cafes. We've seen them at the back of the club during the indie rock or alt-country show, probably with their disinterested wife of 2 years but who is trying to show some enthusiasm. We've saw them order mojitos with feigned reluctance a few years back. We saw Jason Bateman play one in Juno. We might work with them. We might be them.

I look at that picture of Onstad, and I don't see that guy.

Except for maybe the shoes.

I Google image'd him, and he has this kind of cute chubby-ish face. Like, the kind of face that smiles easily. He has a kind of open expression in every picture I see of him. I like that.

I have a no-hawk. This means that I have a haircut that is not a mohawk.

Instant classic for hating on the exact right kind of person

A little bit Brad Pitt, a little bit David Schwimmer.

A comment left by achewoodno1fan was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by divot, stanshall, wittyname, thunderbat, the_dingle, mystkmanat, yingkaixing, Audhumla, Mastronaut)

this strip is hilarious to me because Beef looks exactly like my lesbian step-mom

Seattle, where I live, has about seven million of made-over Beef. You wouldn't think that many people would want to emulate Jeff Goldblum, but there it is.

I often wonder how many people like made-over Beef we really have versus the number of people we have bitching about people who look like made-over Beef.

I actually had a graphic design teacher who looked just like that. He also tried teaching web design, but relied solely on Dreamweaver, telling us HTML wasn't important. As I recall, outside of teaching, dude actually did choose fonts for a living.

Oh jeez, I didn't know who Jeff Goldblum is but I did a google images and you are exactly right. Seattle has like an infestation of those guys.

*guilty*

For his makeover, Beef got hair.

The next level would have been "music hair."

for when you are trying to attract gay mexican cars.

He isn't smiling in that last frame like he says he would be.

He replaced the smiling part of his brain with "word count"

even in his imagination, beef doesn't smile

Bookman Old Style FTW!

That map of the brain also looks kind of like South America.

A comment left by boyd was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by goro, Scorpio_nadir, gnjdfsgk)

Why am I chubbying this?

Because Africa's activities are being accurately conveyed.

Too soon.

But... but he said South America. There was never any mention of Africa.

I didn't think South America had like a crazy amount of AIDS. Am I wrong?

More AIDS than us!

the North American claimed cheerfully.

America's new slogan for attracting tourists:
'AMERICA - less AIDS than anyone else.'

less aids, more pricks: come to america

I assume they have a terrible amount of AIDS. Not as bad as Africa, which just really went to town on the whole worst-possible-shit-you-can-do-to-promote-the-spread-of-AIDS, but still worse than, y'know, regular continents.

(Apesadumbrado and pesaroso to all my achewood peeps in Suramérica/Ámérica do Sul, but admit it, you guys are just nuts for getting kidnapped and shit. I've seen that Russell Crowe movie.)

Not cool dudes, not cool.

There's probably just as much AIDS at the Martin Luther King drive closest to you, than at the worst part of any southamerican city (ok Brazil does have a lot of AIDS, their women are too damn hot and they love to fuck). And you really shouldn't make assumptions based on shitty movies.

Truth is doggs, there's great things here, and it's no more dangerous than New Jersey.

It's OK goro, most of these people live in the USA or the UK. Both of those places ain't no picnic.

Not to mention that South America and Africa are not countries .

Because your brain flinched violently, and it was a protection device. Mine did not, therefore I lamed.

Man, it's always disturbing when something comes up in the strip that's specific to the characters being animals. I mean, they're always treated as humans, but that diagram in the last panel is of a cat brain, which Roast Beef would logically have.

when is the last time you saw an ad for Word?

You want the real answer or something that won't destroy your sanity?

The truth will set us free.

The surprisingly not-that-many faces of CLIK.

I thought he looked like Jeff Goldblum at first. and that is NOT a good thing. Bbut then in the last pannel I noticed the extra pocket in front, and Jeff Goldblum would never wear pants like that. I guess what I'm saying is, I'm basically glad that Roast Beef didn't get tricked into looking like Jeff Goldblum.

cave?

"All smiling"