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Two strips today! Both with Vlad. Wednesday, July 17, 2002 • read strip Viewing 55 comments:

The James Joyce of Achewood strips.

This one doesn't really make me laugh anymore but I rated it 5 for services to the english language

Like most services involving the English language these days, this service's provider was outsourced (to Vlad).

This strip taught me an important lesson, and going forward I'm hoping there will be less women who hate me

Give me my rad chilies goddamit!

How does a Russian robot have such a way with the English language?

Is such movink target!

Ask Nabokov...

The concept of a guitar being described as ugliest is great.

I have used this phrase on several occasions.

I have been Ray in panel 5 many times.

I understand the words you are saying, but not how they should represent a problem to me.

"She's mad that I didn't call her for a long time? But I'm calling her now, so she should be happy! Right?"

Royal advice from the King of Make-outs.

I can't get over his little smile as he says it.

That's how Vlad always looks.

holy shit, is that a smile or the bottom of his lip/chin?

It occasionally changes shape, yet nonetheless I still assume the latter. Also, in the "Tasty Dudes" picture, his beard frames it. It's his mouth, but I don't believe it.

I can only see it as his chin. I always thought his mouth was under his mustache. Could be wrong. These little confusions over what part is what on various characters' faces is pretty common among the posters here. The craziest one I read was someone who thought that the top line of Teodor's muzzle was a big frown. They thought his whole snout was a big chin. Now that's fucked up.

I always thought it was the bottom of his lip...

I think that it's the lower edge of his lip.

Lower lip, but it's one of those weird shift-of perspective things once you notice it. It can easily be seen as a smile, and now I keep seeing lowerlip/smile/lowerlip.

Kind of like ancient Funky Winkerbean cartoons where the noses looked like smiles, and once you saw them that way, it was hard not to see them that way every time.

the rad chillies version was actually a lot better

I'm sorry, I just can't agree: it loses too much without the worst song/ugliest guitar phrase.

But here it is, for ease of comparison.

This one works better as a strip, but "rad chilies" is godlike. Achewood is so good, even the rejected strips contain nuggets of genius.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears the link does not point anymore to the "rad chilies" version.
Can any oldschooler please tell me in which ways it differed from the above?

try here:
https://achewood.com/rsrc/img/07172002_orig.gif

My sincere thanks, catt!

heres a link you can click on

I forgot that rad chilies originated there... I can't believe there's a hot sauce named after a strip that wasn't officially released.

As I first began to read Achewood, it was like Vlad was the center of all comedy, and no other.

coldest insult of all time

How are you all seeing the alternate version?

I linked it just a few posts upscreen.

Did the alternate version have an alt-text?

Vlad really was one of the strongest players in Ye Olde Achewood days.

Goddamn it, I said that already like three months ago, and now I just said it again. What the fuck.

5 for Vlad


Bring him back!

The contrast on this is awful...and look at the weird dithering on the "LATER" bar in panel five. Oh look here I am bitching about image quality in a comic with minimalist art oh damn.

It's in Vlad's hair too

OH GOD IT'S EVERYWHERE

ITS ON THE FOOD

Some even got on the mayor!


I imagine this one is just to represent you standing there with a look of shock and aghast self-loathing on your face with a hand cupped over your mouth.

This is the only forum on the internet in which a blank post garners mixed reactions and any form of critical discussion.

completely false



"draw them curtains" = sick!

I am uncertain as to the intended meaning of this phrase. Clearly the cat wishes to have sexual relations with the lady to whom he is talking, but does it mean that they would be drawing the curtains across the windows so as to prevent passers-by from viewing them as they conjugate or would this be a vulgar phrasing intended to refer to the opening of her lady-parts in such a manner as to imply her desire for penetration and the beginning of congress.

Drawing the, "Beef Curtains", I would suppose

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Vlad is like the robotic Russian casanova from hell.