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Volvo of Despair part Two Monday, May 16, 2005 • read strip Viewing 66 comments:

That's the most angry stop-at-a-stop-sign ever.

Roast Beef just furiously looks in both directions to make sure no cars are coming.

He needs to be 100% sure.

LOOK LEFT
LOOK RIGHT
OKAY GO

that's DAMNIT! NO CARS ON MY LEFT. DAMNIT! NO CARS ON THE RIGHT! FUCK YOU! GO!

Ironically he looks right then left, both of you are charged 5 awesome points for not understanding perspective. But I can't stay mad at saint.

You are charged 5 awesome points for not understanding irony but win it all back in the awesome avatar race and get the girl in the end.

That got me in an accident when some dumb teen girl on her cell phone came roaring around the corner (up a hill) at 60 MPH from my left. I looked left first, that was my mistake.

Also, when inside the Volvo of despair, Ray assumes the same style of speech as Beef, as denoted by smaller font and lack of punctuation

The font of despair.

Inside the fount of despair.

Tapping straight into the well of circumstances.

A comment left by nsrdude was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by enough_talk, Ariamaki, Boxus, PoodleLucy, aperson)

I think the personality modifier of choice in Acheworld is definitely a crispy J.

Who needs visuals when the market is flooded with Mexican magical realism?

what is this J? I know what salvia is. but a wikipedia search for "J" did not help

A J is a joint, good sir. :)

I hope people googled saliva instead of salvia.

you had to do a wikipedia search for a drug reference. I see what you did there.

I would argue that it is booze, actually.

Oooh. A bad trip on sally D would be... Bad. That shit's intense.

A good trip on sally D can be pretty bad. That shit is really intense.

really? everyone i know who has tried it has been less than impressed

You gotta use at least 20x extract, a large bong, and one of the torch lighters. Burn it all in one huge hit and hold for 30 seconds.

And then you end up looking like your icon?

True facts.

With this method, though, there is no such thing as a good trip. there is only, "OMFG HOW DID I BECOME A KITTEN WITH FKS? NOOOOOOOOO."

Synergy-chub.

I've had a salvia downturn. Otherwise innocuous experiences gave way to a howling journey into the abyss, culminating in a birds-eye view of a post-apocalyptic nightmare world. A mountainside coated in bones, and the flensed metal of naked skyscrapers rising like shattered fingerbones into the sky. The golden sun beamed down merrily upon the wreckage of all man's works.

I have decided to try and paint this.

I'm confused: is this an argument for or against?

Both!

I've enjoyed some salvia in my time, and I've never gotten angry on it. My roommate, however, was transported to a viking longship one time. Apparently, while in the grip of his vision he saw me at the prow in full Viking apparel, bellowing at the storm.

Dude, my friend thought he was a lamb. For like, two days. Something was wrong in his head, the drug was like, long gone out of his system, and yet, still, a lamp he was.

Wait, was he a Lamb or a Lamp?? Inquiring minds need to know!

A mystery that with all our science we may never know.

But yeah, a lamp.

There is really no excuse, the B and P keys are like, polar opposites.

One time, my dogg smoked salvia and he was utterly convinced that he was a one-celled organism trapped in a two dimensional plane for the rest of his life .

When I tried it five months later, I just thought things were purple and tried to claw at rocks.

WHY FIND OUT

one of the best story arcs... i give it 5 just for being a part of it.

Agreed. That = truth.

AWESOME ARC. One of the best strips of this arc, except where ray throws up in his mouth just looking at roast beef.......

this arc really captures the logic of bad trips

covered in hope, and vaseline / still cannot fix this broken machine

That Volvo really did a number on those two. NO GETTING AROUND THAT

NO GETTING AROUND THAT

really

A BLAA BLOOO BAHHH WE MISSED THE ENTRANCE BLOO BLAH

A blubberin' chubby for you sir.

This strip is so right I mean there's no getting around that THERE'S NO GETTING AROUND THAT

This was the strip that hooked me

Weekend Blogs

Mr. Bear: Trial run of the cooking program.

Today's Blogs

Ray: Did I get a job at Taco Bell? Yes.
Teodor: Cooking show playalong

I love how Teodor and Cornelius' accounts of the incident clash ever so slightly.

In a weird, self-projection kind of way, I feel kind of happy for Beef in panel 4. It seems like kind of a marker in his character development, though more subdued than the "I am the LAW and I am the LASH" moment.
Like there's a progression from thinking, "this is Just How Things Are" to "it's My Fault" to "My parents did a number on me."

Dialogue bubble on right side of face: sad, sad times
Dialogue bubble on left side of face: mad as hell

Onstad has a way of making fast food signs look really creepy.

[IMGS OFF]

One of my favorites, one chubby for you sir!

man, being seen crying in a car is always hell of embarrassing. it's a really private moment, like masturbating or eating an extra long cheese coney from sonic's without any napkins.

Sitting in the Volvo of Despair makes Ray talk in a smaller font.

oh my god this whole strip is constantly fucking funny.

Only thing that could make this better is a panel of Ray with nothin' but "A BLOO BLOO BLOO!"

RIP Nine Inch Nails

I had hell of love for your tunes.

you do know that trent reznor is not dead and has gone on hiatus from making music before, right?

This is not a Volvo 244 by the way, the last figure in the model number of old volvos denotes the amount of doors. This is a 242. (The station wagon is called 245.)

i noticed this as well.

I was going to make this exact comment. Chubby for you

guendis

I love how even in the volvo of despair, Roast Beef still stops and looks both ways at a stop sign.

It is sad that this comic basically encapsulates how 90% of my past girlfriends dealt with problems. All "I CAN'T HANDLE YOU BEING MAD AT ME" and "I'M HAVING A PANIC ATTACK" and then "I CAN'T TALK ABOUT IT BECAUSE I AM TOO SAD ABOUT IT."