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Don't Want Today? Then Flip the Switch Negative on Today. Saturday, September 12, 2009 • read strip Viewing 623 comments:

awesome!
wait... i don't get it
still
awesome!

Beef rules because he has the wherewithal to assess that leaky, bendy poseur in the appropriate manner:
"Man fuck that guy".

All setting up elaborate performance stings that try to justify their shitty on-stage antics through over-reliance on 'atmosphere' and the hope that the audience will be too embarrassed to point out the poor production values for fear of being labeled philistines. And it's all just a set-up in the end.

Cartilage Head is just a drippy Ashton Kutcher.

Man, yes. I didn't see this coming, but Beef just totally burned Cartilage Head. I'm loving this arc.

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Uh.... okay.

Sometimes, you shouldn't show a cock to a stranger.

GUY'S A DOUCHE

DOUCHE A GUY
(do NOT douche a guy.)

Don't douche a lady either. 'Tis not healthy.

those commercials got it all wrong then, huh.

Heh, not from where I'M standin'!

But out of curiosity what commercials.

Which is only tangentially related to a man-douche, the proper execution of which may be seen here.

I was going to click on that link, but seeing as all I wanted to see when it opened was a YouTube video of Matthew McConaughey being shot in the back of the head, I knew I'd be disappointed.

No, he's a douche-y man-child. And apparently related to a co-worker. Austin's a weird town.

Cartilage Head must hand those pictures out like the photographs at the end of amusement park log flumes and roller coasters:

[IMGS OFF]

shoot that tiger!

that is NOT a Magic mountain.

dude look at how face his red is

i mean how red his face is

i know i hate it when i word my mix.

Look at how the guys behind him have their mouths wide agape

MAYBE THE VOMIT WILL GO INTO THEIR OPEN MOUTHS AND THEY WILL THEN VOMIT IT BACK UP

AN ENDLESS CIRCLE OF VOMIT


just row after row of puke-catching.

sounds like a po'no.

"16 guys, 1 coaster"

BLEHHberos

no, i think you mean

FEATURING THE 'BLEAGH-BROS'!

No I think YOU mean pooHEADASS!

I PROVED MYSELF A COWARD WHO WOULD DESERT A PUKING MAN.


Kinda hard to desert the puking man when you're bolted in right behind him...

even if you wanted to, you couldn't.

man, if Cartilage Head ever wanted to KEEP someone near the Dying Man, that'd be the way to do it.

all on the Fiery Fist O' Pain or something.

OH MY GOD HE'S VOMITING AND SHITTING HIMSELF AND PISSING HIS PANTS ALL AT THE SAME TIME AS HE GOES INTO CARDIAC ARREST OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD

this is so... ruuuuuuude

Wellll.....you'd need a Cartilage Head Get Out of Roller Coaster Trolley Free card, woont you.

oh, woont I.


Stand by me.

The avatar-comment synergy here is just...

Comical, to say the least.

Suddenly the idea of deserting a dying man doesn't sound so bad.

I also don't get this. So Beef wasn't in some afterlife? The Karma Machine? Wh- Wh--

I am also feeling a little mindfucked. I didn't even notice the dying man he supposedly abandoned.

I must practice noticing dying men. Such a skill could be advantageous.

Do people still get gold teeth?

The dying man Beef deserted was himself thought, wasn't it?

*THOUGH

Beef choose not to go through the door leading to Ray and T in the flaming Escalade. He went back to Molly, instead. CH is some kind of vigilante of courage, calling out feeb behavior. I'd like to see him pull his act on, say, Nice Pete. I think Mr Cropes would find a whole new shape for the Head.

Ha! I didn't get it either. I just assumed he looked and thought, "Oh, GODDAMN it, Ray," and went back to bed. Because he's see this nonsense before, and Ray always gets out of it.

Quote:
Cartilage Head is just a drippy Ashton Kutcher.

Woah! Huge slam on Cartilage Head outta nowhere!

Beef just EXISTENTIAL PUNKED.

are we going to use this memetic construction every time someone insults something on this board

are we going to uthe thith memetic conthructhion every time thomeone...

-Must.Control.Huge.Slam.of.Death....-

that was at least mildly original. chubby

You call that a memetic construction? THIS is a memetic construction. proffers axe

Did someone say "drippy Ashton Kutcher?"

[IMGS OFF]

I'd hit it

[IMGS OFF]

"oh yeah, hey guys how's it going? i am well. yes, thank you. that month in Carl's closet did me a world of good."

poor roast beef, he escaped death only to live on in hell

I can't really see how Beef's life could be considering hell. He's happily married, he lives in the luxuriously appointed poolhouse of his ludicrously rich best friend and he has a tight circle of close friends around all the time.

I'd live in that hell any day.

Plus he got depression

But that's because you don't see things from Beef's perspective. In Beef's world he doesn't notice any of these things. He notices all the small crappy things and then make them into huge fucking problems that depresses him to the point where he can't even eat a piece of toast.

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you're doing it wrong.

and if cpnglxynchos says you're doing it wrong, you been pwned.

Yeah, I know, old people corrupting the slang of the youth, etc. But YOU DOIN' IT WRONG.

epic win

Agreed. His face was nowhere near cry cry enough.

when did you see his face? Cos when I saw it, it was cry cry to the MAX

Correcto mundo, alphabet-crunch-named-guy. May I quote: NOBODY GIVES A SHIT ABOT UR CRY CRY FACE

May I quote the Dickies to a stranger?
Quote:

No-no-no-no-no-no-da-no-no-no
No-no-no-no-no-no
Nobody can do the SHAKE
like I do
nobody can do the TWIST
like i do
Nobody can do the BOOGALOO
like I do


I once knew all them there dances, sonny.

Yeah, well, you know, that's just like, your opinion, man.

yeah man

Ugh, me too. The only good thing about this strip is the attention paid to Roast Beef's facial expressions.

While this arc did seem like it could go to much more interesting places than Beef climbing back into bed and getting a Coward Plaque, I do kind of like this strip in particular. It's interesting to see the contrast between Beef and Ray's reactions. Ray, who normally just kind of shrugs of anything, was dismayed when he got the card from Cartilage Head. Beef, who would ordinarily find a way to get depressed by an honest and enthusiastic comment, gets Cartilage Head's card and decides that it's Cartilage Head's problem, not his, and goes back to sleep.

It's like the strips where Beef moved out of Grandma K's house or the fluff my hog strip, another example of how, despite how hard on himself he tends to be, Beef will eventually stand up for himself when you push him too hard.

I definitely wasn't a huge fan of this arc (primarily because it lasted all fucking Summer ), but this is a nice little wrap-up. It almost makes me feel bad for being so blase toward most of what preceded it. These last few have been pretty damn beautiful. I'm sure if in a year or so from now I go back a reread it in an hour it'll look just fine. It was just the day after day after day after day that kind of got me down.

Anyway, I'm extremely excited for something new. Preferably not immediately another three-month-long arc.

It's not over. I speculate that Beef will get revenge. That would make this worth the long wait?

I like the way you think.

Onstad has pulled this more than once--a slightly weak opening, with a sudden reversal that seems truly excellent, and ends in a disappointment--only to become a seriously good & lengthy arc. Let's cross our fingers.

the best revenge is slow-acting revenge.

The best revenge is giving someone the lash of thanatos

speaking of 'the lash', i think we've heard about it before ...

Chubbied for truth :)

Oh man, you saw "Man fuck that guy" and instantly 5'd it just like I did.

I completely agree though, man.

Also chubbied for truth.

Beef is the kind of guy even someone like Ramses could learn to have a healthy respect for.

The problem is that Beef doesn't have respect for himself.

It's odd to have such emotional solidarity with a cartoon cat on the Internet.

agreed... there but for the lack of one more indifferent childhood molestation go I.

That emoticon kind of looks like Cartilage Head to me. Seriously. Look at it. AHHHH!

On the bright side, at least he doesn't look fat in the picture

daaaaaamn, nice catch.
also, bon nom. i want to chubby it, except there is no rad avatar of holmes falling from the ionosphozone.

Why would he? Cartilage Head ain't no Mexican.

Though he does lean like a cholo .

It wasn't the Mexican camera that made Beef fat, it's his family curse that all the fat in their bodies gets pulled towards the camera as it flashes a picture.

Incorrect.

Whoever lamed this really hated the shit out of Lonis.

Fuck THAT arc.

Incorrect.

I don't know, the idea of Hunt's ketchup revealing the exact time, date, location, and perhaps wind speed during the moment of death to thousands of mouth breathing midwesterners was just delightful.

Personally it's my favorite arc behind the Phillipe Kidnapped? arc, but to each their own.

Woah, Shit! I didn't remember that Ray got his Cartilage Head ticket from Beef. You think Cartilage Head was planning this years ago and just decided to punk out Ray instead because he's the one who showed up?

apparently so, Beef.
apparently so.

but think about it,
he's the one who gave his ticket to Ray all (almost-four of) those years ago .

CH finally got his man..? discuss. it is sleep time in the 303.

daaaaamn......... i hadnt thought of that.

OH SHIIIIIIIIIIT

Congratulations Beef, you deserve it. At least he learned the lesson prior to anyone else pointing it out to him. Gotta say though, the happy endings are starting to get a bit tedious.

Don't you like happy endings? I guess it's all in the build-up anyway.

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glitch in the matrix

I need that on a T.

You know what, RB is right. Cartilage Head IS being a jerk. He's done nothing but make inaccessible performance art and weep a viscous goo. I'm surprised the package didn't arrive on some ivory palanquin driven by... I don't know... scarabs that had seen their brood mothers scandalized by entomologists. Cartilage head has just wasted our boys' time.

And correct me if I'm wrong, but in Ray's case, didn't he leave because the cops showed up right after CH died? If someone dies and you leave without calling anyone, that's bad, but if someone suddenly dies and the police show up and you're the only person in the room, I can see why a person's initial reaction would be to split.

The cops didn't arrive. Ray just bugged out.

I can't really blame him though. After watching the performance, then having to eat dinner with CH and drink his inverse wine I would have been at the door before he even hit the floor

Truth. And how does one desert one's own dying Self?

I think Beef deserted Ray and Taedor. I think. It was never terribly clear.

I don't think Roast Beef would choose to go to bed rather than save Ray's life. I doubt he saw the wreck.

I am your courage.
I follow you here in Magicant.

No, that was himself in the death hat. And he did desert that self- he poked around in a big clock that was having technical difficulties, and then blew off the whole scene. He did literally desert the elaborate scenario presented to him as his own death.

Of course, Ray was pictured some way from the scene of his "crime" on his little certificate, so we have no guarantee from the picture that Beef is the Dying Man. Still, I'm inclined to agree with you.

Word. Cartilage Head just thought he could take advantage of Roast Beef's history of Circumstances. CH thought he had an easy mark to exploit for his "art"; force a Kevorkian on a guy. When CH sent out that used-up message to Beef, it was a weak attempt to make Beef feel that he'd fucked up, not able to admit HE, CH, was the one who had played a foul hand.

It's not Onstad who has grown stale, as some ingrates might posit, but Onstad has merely made the once-respected-niche-auteur-who-has-now-overplayed-his-game character arc a part of his strip.

Or maybe I just want to love this arc.

Cartilage Head always exposes people's illusions about themselves. For Ray, that was his heroic, egoistic nature. For Beef, the illusion was that his despair truly ruled him. He deserted his deathwish.

CH was being a dick to call Beef a coward for that, though.

You just put the sauce on the table as soon as you got to this party. Chubb.

It's a pity, because the first Cartilage Head arc was rich and strange and one of the things that got me into Achewood at all. But there's a strange harmony to the fact that nothing can faze Ray but Cartilage Head, and everything fazes Beef BUT Cartilage Head.

When the abyss looks into you, another guy's epic guilt and angst performances don't shake you, and the more elaborate they are, the more you tune them out.

One of depression's superpowers, if only people knew it.

OK, but who was the shadowy figure in the audience who told Beef to hurry up and die? Beef needs to have it out with that guy.

Read Seat Z1 again, its all internal monologue.

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oh who are we kidding Beef always has nightmares anyway

Beef stays up nights wondering if he can get swine flu from viewing the 'sneezing' entry on wikipedia.

C.H. can take a number.

KILL IT NOW

It's still better than the letter that says "Congratulations on your new sexually transmitted infection."

WIth a mark on it saying "Important: Postmaster FIND THIS MAN"

But where the hell did Beef desert a dying man? Did he desert Ray and Teodor? How? Or himself seeing as he was *supposed* to go through that Karma machine? This is either really far-fetched and a complete mess or I AM MISSING SOMETHING.

If only we had seen more development of this arc, which had the potential to be much more intense and deep. Then we would not feel it so lacking.

Very true. I suspect this was build-up, though.

Yeah I'm finding this a bit of a stretch myself.

I guess you could kind of put it together that after Beef found out he had the Lash of Thanatos, his subsequent actions up to and including him drinking the paper/vinegar mix could be seen as abandoning himself. That's all I've got.

By that rationale, Cartilage Head could find a way to say that any Achewood character is "Abandoning a Dying Man" if they found themselves in similar (small "c") circumstances.

Especially if it's Nice Pete, after he's stuck a shiv in CH's ribs and left him to weepily ooze in silence, blood pattering on the floor and staining the rug.

I do not think that that man contains blood.

But how he thrashes in the cold cold waters of Texture Creek.

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rigor comes easily to the cartilage sort.

Cartilage Head is filled with that clear fluid that leaks out of blisters when you break them.

Serum

I have learned something today, damn your eyes.

Too late.

I have a feeling he might be weeping that awful interstitial fluid .

Now I really want to see Cartilage Head try to fuck with Nice Pete. Get what's coming to him for what he did to Beef.

All I have to go on is that one frame while RB is looking back through the door. Showing the burning Escalade there suggests Beef knew about it somehow

I don't understand why he couldn't just jam the machine again before leaving.

Also, the arc isn't over, we still haven't found out who the mystery guy in the audience was.

*sigh* yes, yes we have.

No, showing the burning Escalade is just a quick cut to what was happening there. Picture it like a jump cut in the middle of a scene in a movie.

Roast Beef and Ray should trick Cartilage Head into deserting a dying man. That would teach him for being such an emo dick.

i don't know...he seems more like a he-finds-you type of dude.

I can envision such an arc:
Beef sees Ray within a week, still fuming (in a lesser sense such that Beef fumes) over Cartilage Head's gall, and it surfaces over the course of their conversings. Ray is too ashamed to admit his own run-in, but cannot stand to see his friend so wronged. Always one for over-the-top ventures, he and Beef concoct a scheme, possibly enlisting the help of others such as Cornelius, Todd, or Lyle, in no particular order.

On a note unrelated directly to this strip, am I the only one who doesn't picture Molly with orange hair like in her blog? In a black and white strip, I don't think black should be used to represent orange.

well it provides visual constrast to beef at least, who is completely white...

I picture her with black hair, as the picture I see indicates. I also don't picture Molly as a cat; I have to make an effort to acknowledge her ears.

Yes. To me, Molly has black hair, everywhere but Wikipedia. I am not a bloggy-type.

Oh, man - you're missing out. The blogs are amazing.

totally. like the one i wrote just yesterday? about my fan fiction where Hurley from Lost gets together with Nina from Just Shoot Me and they just go on all kinds of adventures and they befriend like a ghost and they kinda freak out at first but it's really okay 'cos it's actually Mr. T and he gives them a piggy-back ride back to--

what have i just done.

I don't know, but I got a boner.

You don't know you got a boner?

So. Hard. What?

I think I would like to be a man for, say, five minutes, just to see what it feels like to have a boner.

Honestly it feels pretty great.

that's what she--

sigh

Can't feel greater than being able to have an orgasm as many times as we want. So, ha.

Until you, y'know. Die.

I am definitely not giving up my femaleness.

Eh, the refractory period is not that bad. I can get 4 in an hour.

Yeah, but you're a bitch. (so says your profile note, anyway.)

yeah, but you can't hang a towel off a orgasm, no matter how many you have .

And an orgasm won't stop you rolling out of bed.

Imagine one-third of your blood supply being trapped in a throbbing tube. You're light-headed and want to penetrate something, anything.

Holy hannah, I'm not sure that sounds good at all. (does double-take) wait, you have a 1/3 of your entire blood supply capacity in your tube? WHOA.

Hee-hee, rough estimate, didn't mean to brag. Just something I recalled from physiology, that digestion for instance, takes a lot of the bloof supply, so you feel sleepy, etc. There's only so much blood to go around, so if the tube gets gorged, and you start thrashing about, using your musculature, there's little left for the brain. Conclusion: horny guys ain't thinkin' clearly.

Hungry horny guys may not think at all...

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh


what?

(alternatively: this is exactly why teenage boys do the stupidest thing possible every SINGLE SECOND OF THE GOD DAMNED DAY.)

next time your clit is hard imagine if it was substantially larger, etc.....

I picture her with black hair too.

I think the issue is that Onstad colors his characters mainly with just black and white, instead of shading them to a shade of gray that corresponds to their actual color. It works fine on its own, because it's probably easier for him and makes the strip easier to look at in a way, but it does make it kind of disorienting when you see the characters in color because it's so easy to just always imagine them being black or white.

Alt text explains everything!!!!!

Kaffee, Erdbeere, Banane, Traube, Zimt. Kaffee, Erdbeere, Banane, Traube, Zimt. Kaffee, Erdbeere, Banane, Traube, Zimt. Auch Apfel.

More like "I proved myself a coward who would desert a living wife", but whatever.

he didnt desert his wife, you douchenozzle.

He returned when given an unexpected second chance, but when he drank the vinegar/paper mixture he thought he was leaving for good.

Who the fuck does Cartilage Head think he is anyway?

He is Cartilage Head

That wasnt what i... OH !!!...*GRRR*

BAH......

You win this round!


Ok...so...who did Beef abandon?

i'm so sorry but i never got that part.

Cartilage Head convinced Roast Beef to be part of his death art.

The art was set up so Roast Beef would get a chance to see his wife.

Roast Beef abandoned the death art piece to return home. (As Cartilage Head planned)

Cartilage Head gets to mock Roast Beef's "failure", which is his real art form. (Somebody pays Cartilage Head for this?)

The man(?) has certainly acquired capital. Sopwith Camels and Model T's don't grow on trees. Possibly he is the victim of a sizable inheritance?

Given the inverse wine bottle and ghastly anatomy, he could also be a Lich King.

Oh, completely. And last I heard, Litch Kings have something like 2D4 X 1000 GP and a random magic weapon in their treasure hoards.

it is entirely at the discretion of the DM, but using the stock template from the Monster Manual for an Eladrin Wizard Lich in a standard encounter, the treasure parcel assigned should be worth approximately 300000 gp

Feh! Lich Inflation! Why, back in my day, we had to use paper and pencil to have these sorts of discussions. Does anyone even roll dice anymore? Why I oughtta ... ( shakes fist angrily )

that's a level 24 lich, of course, with several minions adding up to a level 24 encounter.

Why, what level was your lich?

dude, i live with some gamers, and they totally still roll...dice. seriously looking at a D10 right now. they play stuff that is completely foreign to my understanding like Living Forgotten Realms and some standard 3.5 stuff..one of them wanted to start up a D20 Star Wars game but he's too busy playing FFXI and dealing with MUD drama to bother coming up with a campaign story like he was supposed to two weeks ago. sorry. i just have nobody else to talk to who'd understand this shay.

Ya'll some fish in a barrel.

Magic: the Softening

We should take over the lowest rated strip's Assetblarg and make a campaign. I'd be totally down for that.

i'd probably be down if i had the first inkling of what that would entail. if you're ever at Enchanted Grounds, maybe i'll see you there.

Neither do I...but it's an idea. A bad idea, but an idea.

I just got into Front Range, on my way to Mines, so I may have to do a stop-in one day. If you're ever at or near Fitzsimons campus, give me a buzz.

no way! Mines?
congrats! that's rad.

3.5 or 4.0? I only have the core rulebooks for 4.0, and I think someone mentioned that they would rather set their own eyelids on fire than trade in 3.5 for the vastly simplified new system.

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just what in the hell


do you think you are doing


.

Sorry, windows 3.1 taught me to click twice.

You can't blame all your failings on Microsoft.

I CAN AND WILL!

How can you blame Microsoft for you being such a bitchy-bitch bitch man?

OH YEAH! well, have you ever considered the fact that you are OVERWEIGHT!?

Also; Your Mother!

Someone obviusly havent read https://m.assetbar.com/achewood/uua53RvJw



Lame me for complaining that someone should lame someone for making a lame comment which wasnt....

I am laming you right now for being the only commenter in my current window space that is four comments deus what the fuck are you doing man fuck you

THEN GET A TALLER MONITOR!

AND THEN GET A WIDER ONE

keep goin' dude, that sounds like Shakespeare.

man, fuck that guy.

Roast Beef's mouth in panel seven put me in mind of how Jim Davis used to draw Jon Arbuckle's mouth to suggest irritation or annoyance.

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This...is just not cool.

ONSTAD TAKIN LESSONS FROM A REAL CARTOONIST

[img]https://garfieldminusgarfield.net/post/172064403

now, i look, and i see what you're trying to do..and...it hurts..somehow.

In the original strip where Cartilage Head sends a card to Ray about being a coward who would desert a dying man, I noted that Cartilage Head was an asshole.

Now I'd like to upgrade that assessment to _mega-asshole._

Cartilage Head is by far the most bizarre character in the Achewood universe. Willing to bet Onstad thought him up whilst experimenting with hallucinogens in his tender college days.

No-one ever uses their imagination except when on narcotics.

after the age of five, at least.

It is highly discouraged.

If it's any consolation, I'm really old and I used my imagination today. Oops, it doesn't count -- narcotics (sorry).

...mom.
...dad.
...College.

...free association?

no, is reference to alt-text from BONE, BONE, BONE comic.

you mean the alt-text that I...

Oh god, oh god I can't do this I CAN'T DO THIS I'm such a fraud, I've never Boned anything! Not even an alt-text!

You mean teh alt-text that I...

...Boned?

Aw. fuck.

I hate you. I hate you to hell.

You just hate me 'cause you love me.

It is my hope is that this is not the conclusion of the current arc, but the end of an elaborate introduction. CH is due for a healthy dose of justice, and I know RB is down to give it to him.

How did Beef even know that Ray was dying? He never saw any of it.

What happened to the sapphic erotica? Did any get published? What about the combined cookbook? I demand answers!

i think the whole sapphic erotica thing was just a setup to this arc. just like todd's cellphone with a ballsack before the GOF. that never came up again.

Copyright issues with Uniball. They had him killed. It's the Japanese way of doing business.

You can't start the machine without three men. The Japanese.

i'll be very disappointed if this is the end of the arc.

Onstad's gonna do a Return of the king on this mother, all final scene after final scene after final scene after final scene...

That's how the movie contact felt. Contact sucked.

the movie, not the book, of course.

Contact (video game) was pretty bad too.

Boo to this.

I'm pretty sure Roast Beef deserted himself . And by doing so, avoided his own impending death. Of all the people participating in the arc, he was the only one who was supposed to be a dying man (cat). I mean, we learn later that the Escalade didn't even have Ray and Teodor in it when it was burning.

Maybe CH is just pissed Roast Beef didn't play through the rest of his game. Maybe there was more show after the Karma Wheel, but we'll just never know what it was.

It feels entirely appropriate that the Wheel of Karma is somehow broken.

I'm convinced that wasn't an accident.

I also think this. It may be inherent in the Lash, hence CH's haste in procuring Beef to "use his death" to interrupt the Wheel.

I don't think CH is pissed -- I think it's just what CH does. And his shtick is getting old.

Yeah, if you think about it at all, the only time CH would not send that card if someone (either CH or the subject) did not survive one of his performances.

Well that's what he gets for putting a convenient "Exit" door in the same room as a karma wheel. A broken karma wheel at that!

I want to know if the book was saved in the accident and Roast Beef can finish reading it now.

Beef sleeps the way that I sleep when envisioning towering biological machinery dwarfing the countryside, consuming all that lives to make more of itself, motion filled with terrible purpose save for the tiny tiny human beings servicing its every need.

I agree Beef. Fuck that guy.

I agree with jar: fuck that guy.

I agree with the huge sassy black lady.

And I rolled a gutter ball.

i also rolled a gutter ball. (we need eleven more of you to join us)

I rolled a gutter ball, as well.

I just rolled a gutter ball.

I always roll gutter balls. Which is why I don't bowl.

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I galled a butter roll. Sorry.

And a hot plate!

I balled in a gutter once.

Hee!

Sorry, I tried to roll a gutterball but the lanes are set up for "bumper bowling".

Well, so in the end, CH set up the Karma Machine malfunction so that Beef would have the opportunity to desert a dying man, just like he set Ray up. That makes sense right? I mean it follows a logical sequence, not it actually makes sense, because it doesn't.

I still want to know what the cure for the Lash was. FRESH BARK OF WHAT

Fresh bark of a basset dog born on Friday the thirteenth, come on a Wednesday.

Classic Tom.

And besides, Beef didn't abandon his own death -- he abandoned his own reincarnation .

I's is gettin' a grumpy...

Cartilage head is only a big deal if you think he's a big deal.

[IMGS OFF]

pretty good.

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[IMGS OFF]

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Siiiigh. Does anyone have spammydiddling priviledges?

you tire of me.
it is obvious.

My reputation, it is tarnished.

now, see, i had a feeling this was going to happen, and it was my mistake for not hitting 'ignore' when i saw that account get made. but i'm not sure you can do that when they haven't made any comments yet?

i am sorry this happened, gobs.
i am sorry.

It's okay. I'm going to ignore the abomination and pretend it doesn't exist! Also I'm going to build myself a robot boyfriend, but that's a different story for another day.

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I just imagined thegoblins with a shotgun and a determined expression. Someone call Dr Worveston, I need the antidote.

*waves sign*

DO NOT FEED.

*eh hem* My robot boyfriend will be around six foot tall and have a deep voice. I'm still divided on the facial hair issue, but I'm definitely thinking dark hair on this one. He will always be warm like a gigantic hot water bottle.

make him more like this .

(Freezepop, this is Achewood. Oh! You've met before?!)

My heart is melting!

(exploding?)

should I be worried that my physical characteristics are those thegoblins desires for her robot?

am I about to be killed in a tragic car "accident" and rebuilt as the ultimate crime-fighting machine?

no! no-no-no-no-no ...no.

yes, but only if you or she has a spare AIBO for parts.

I'm not some kinda necrophiliac!

Well, in that case, seeing as I'm... alive right now...

You should grow your beard out and trim it into delightful topiary, seeing as you're alive right now.

I think that the beard which would suit me best is a sort of... mane...

Why so elliptical?

I am often afflicted with ellipses

You don't wish to be transparent!

permanent 5 o'clock shadow

I am ashamed to have not realized that wasn't you, thegoblins...especially since he used a smiley in the post. Ah well, you and cpnglxynchos should still get married.

But we're so young. We're still supposed to be throwing corn chips at trains and drinking too much tequila and such.

almost had too much tequila.
almost with jager, too.

yeah right.

but it's not like you can't do that stuff with a shiny rock on your finger.

I had too much of various liquors last week, but too much for me is not much :(. My tummy was all like "Too much fun for you. We're reversing the pipes on this one so you can spend twelve hours in agonizing pain and nausea." My point is I think I'm getting oooold.

you're the same age as me, and I can get so drunk I don't even remember drinking a bottle of beer someone photographed me with. You're not getting old.

means you a lightweight.
we can fix that.

i mean, possibly. you seem a bit on the low-body-mass side of things, so it is a little chancy ([IMGS OFF]!). (as both your avatars contest.)

WHAT THE FUCK ASSETBAR.

man, it is just not cool to swear. knock it off, me, also let others say something once in a while. also stop typing to yourself.

I'm not a large person, no.

About six ounces, by the look of it.

about a pound

it's because you're in love with a furry pussy.

You should get married.

i don't know...i'd be expected to make her breakfast ..

what if she earned it, though? it could be worth your time to cook a fine meal for your lady.

i'd cook any lady that i was with a classy breakfast. in fact, i've done it a few times already. aww, yeah .

All I read (present tense) in this comment is "I'd cook any lady."

or, i'd cook any lady that i was
with a classy breakfast.
meaning, i'd cook myself into a classy breakfast.

I AM THE DAWN SOUND
AND I HAVE FRIED MY BOTTY.

My response to you is Roast Beef's posture in the fourth panel.

yeah, that would be pretty gross.
lucky for everyone it means nothing.

who wants sausage?

sure, i'll have some of yours.

TASTE MY GIGANTIC SAUSAGE JOY-DUMPLING

what does it taste like?

why must everybody laugh at my mighty sword?
(3:02 on)

That said, dang, I never noticed how great Onstad's lettering was on those cards until now :)

cartilage head reminds me of a less faggy cris angel...

AUTO-FUCKING-CHUB, good man.

I don't know why, but I always get him confused with Buck Angel.

I don't know what's worse: the fact that you know who Buck Angel is, or the fact that I know who Buck Angel is.

that makes me glad i dont know who he is...

Google him. You will not be pleased by what you see.

im afraid to...

I think he's hot, honestly. I'd hit that.

yikes... thats the equivalent of being attracted to baloney.

Everyone is is talking about the ramifications of Beef's decision or the motivations of Cartilage Head. Me, I got just one question.

Who won the New Kings of Sapphic Erotica contest?

I think it's clear it ended in chaos and no one won but the lesbians. I'd like to see some closure on that, though.

I think T won, in a last-man-standing sort of way.

well, the first CH arc was really very clever.

what if there's TWO?

and the new one just sucks.

i did not see 'arc'.
this was decent, i mean, what ELSE are you going to do with something that's too weird to live but too rare to die.

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Gonzo journalism, of course.

we were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold...

seriously, that is probably my new favorite movie.

Justifiedly!

I grew up reading that book (and did enough years of living like that to have used that life right up all at once) but I would never have believed you could make a movie that did it justice.

Trust Gilliam. Dayum.

I grew up reading that book (and did enough years of living like that to have used that life right up all at once) but I would never have believed you could make a movie that did it justice.

Trust Gilliam. Dayum.

trust jinxtigr to post twice.
dang.

What do you mean? It it looks looks fine fine to me.

I think this strip makes up for the last one actually! Beef realizing that the mysterious omnipotent performance artist is just an asshole is pretty sweet

Don't sleep on this one Beef. Get up and fuck that guy.

Wouldn't Molly be the more appropriate recipient of such an action?

no.
[IMGS OFF]

My money's on Pete.

you said you wanted to change your default avatar, i will help:
[IMGS OFF]

Comment left by theg0blins ignored.

if you wanted to see a fahrkee, shoulda told me.

It's not easy being in a figure-ground relationship with green.

it's really not.

Now you've changed the scansion of that song for me for EVER

My pleasure

[IMGS OFF]

CH better mail out Pete's "proved" card before that event, cause I don't think he'll be doing much afterwards.

or Pete could make his own for CH:

"You proved yourself a coward and became a dying man."

Yep! Or how about "You let a coward prove that you were a dying man."

What do you think? Despite the fact that he gives CH a van ride, would Pete admit he's a coward.

Comment left by theg0blins ignored.

a good fucking can fix that and really make a playa in this town.

yes, that is Ray's philosophy.

"He fucked all of my holes rather well and got rid of all the scary doppelgangers crowding around my FACE!"

I like to think Lyle is still screaming on the phone.

Hurrah to this.

You deserve a chubby for two reasons.

1)This was funny
2)You are (probably) not bono.

meanwhile, Bono cackled wildly as he prepared to write his second comment as "notbono"

I go through chubbying things, constantly in fear that I will run out of chubbies and not give a more deserving comment towards the bottom a chubby.

Comment left by theg0blins ignored.

Once again, we have fallen into his intricate trap

Now what of the man in seat Z-1? Is he the photographer? QUESTIONSSSS

I think he may just be an ordinary guest. Or at least, he believes himself to be. He may find himself invited backstage soon to learn a lesson of what it means to trivialize death.

Cartilage head is basically just bitter because his television show "America's cowardliest animals" didn't get picked up, thats basically the end result of his whole shtick.

So I'm confused. Did Beef abandon himself or abandon T and Ray? I don't see how he could have known what was up with those two and being a person who has all ready died and your wife is actually from Wales heaven you can't really desert yourself.

i figure CH would've put 'men' if he was referring to them guys.

I think those photo mats are pre-printed.

i think CH is MAGIC and would be able to make it say whatever he wanted it to.

which is why it doesn't say 'wo-man', either.

Of course, there are precious few wo-mans in the Acheworld.

and each of them is special.
special .

This special wo-man here is bored and horny. A new strip would alleviate at least one of those conditions.

Ruby Tuesday, next Saturday. Nine. Closest table.

God damn, man, there are at least SIX HUNDO of those. *sigh* I'll be at the first one.

Can greenkoolayd come too?

only if he buys his own damn airfare.
shipping you around is pricey in and of itself, but completely worth every brilliant moment spent in your wonderful company.

I have not yet received the copy of my itinerary. Also, thank yew!

back up off my lady.

are you two a Thing..?
if so, yes, i will.
if not, heck no, homz.

no, but im going to fight you, anyway.

Ahem...I still have received no itinerary. Shall I be expecting a private plane, or first-class tickets on a commercial jetliner?

resume squaring off

Yes.

No. I was wrong.

heh... youve got an "ache"... and you want "wood"... [[snicker]]

Please see my previous post for answers.

what i the arse but also dang!
did he pull the same shenangens on beef as he did on a mr smuckles? damn you cartledge and your prickish ways!

And I woke up my husband in most the same manner today. "Here is some english muffins, a piece of meat wrapped around a cheese stick, and the gallon of milk. Now wake up and clean your paint brushes out of the sink so I can make you proper breakfast! Until then I'm on the internet."

dang , you are rad .

i hope i can do that for my future wife someday.
and vice versa.

Comment left by theg0blins ignored.

I grew up and then realized there is no time for breakfast. Even with two of us.

you two too busy f-f-f-...french moulding the guest room?

...that's hilarious.

Yes. Yes we are. All morning long.

I'm not even going to get married, you cunt-waffle!

mmmmmm, waffles.

Mmmmmmm, cunt

taste the love!

Dammit, 10 minutes ago, with your previous avatar, that was an arousing comment. Now it's just confusing.

you don't find pussy arousing?

It's much more appealing when a pretty Desi woman professes a hunger for cunt.

Thank you, thegoblins. Also for the drippy Kutcher pic.

Go marry yourself! In Hell! Swivel on it!

Wait, who is that fake you.

I dunno :(

aiu, duh.

American Intercontinental University

Why have you not been lamed SO HARD yet?

ah shit, drunk sorry. Checked the reference.

You know you'd be good at it!

So I just Febrezed my husband for air pollution crimes in our bedroom. He told me I must add this to assetbar. And said to make it relevant that he saw an On*Star commercial where police following a vehicle have On*Star turn the car off and lock the car jackers inside.

i'm sure he won't feel that way tomorrow.

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it's posts like this that make it very difficult for me to tell if you are a troll or just odd.

hurr hurr hurr. Well you're an ethnocentric ass. I mean seriously, fuck you.

No, no, that was wrong of me. I'm sorry. However exactly my viewpoint and/or worldview and/or cultural perspective conflicts with your own, it's wrong of me, and I'm wrong, and you're right. Obviously!

Being quick to anger is also bad for you. It's probably about like huffing 6 cans of febreze.

I get exasperated with people who obsess about the adverse health effects of everyday objects. The truth is that everything will give you cancer if you use it the right (wrong?) way. We as a species are living longer, healthier lives now than we ever have before, and there's ample reason to believe we will continue making significant medical advances or at least maintaining our current overall lifespans and levels of health. We are not going to get to a point when we are never exposed to any harmful materials ever.

That doesn't mean we should totally give up trying to limit our exposure, but obliquely accusing someone of giving their kids leukemia is at best odd, trollish at worst.

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and I'm gonna take a wild guess and guess that your society that you refer to has one of the highest infant mortality rates of any 1st world country in the world...

he's the kinda guy who types things like that but does exactly what he warns against.

there is no need.

1) Find an insurance agent who's on the inside. You know what I mean.

2) Make a list of everything that's likely to kill you, in descending order. Make the list as long as you'd like.

3) Crumple that list and toss it in the trash can.

4)Go buck wild.

[IMGS OFF]

Sweet christ what is it

WHY FIND OUT.

this was somewhere near the bottom of my list

Slow down there, sport. My original snide remark was mostly inspired by the way you presented your information, not so much what you said. I do think it is a bit much to jump from "anecdote about married life" to "you are murdering your own children and are probably stupid enough to shoot up clorox if the company tells you to".

I only brought up the "everything kills you" angle in an admittedly ham-handed attempt to point out that you are not quite so high on the health pedestal as you seem to think you are.

You are correct though, just because we can't eliminate all risk factors doesn't mean we shouldn't try to eliminate the ones we can identify and control.

I wasn't referring to any specific society; I did indeed mean the entire human species as a whole. That certain society to which you are alluding, though, may very well have the highest infant mortality rate relative to other modern 1st world nations, but it has an extremely low infant mortality rate (and child mortality rate, and adolescent mortality rate, etc) relative to almost any society preceding it. Again, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to improve the situation, just that it is not inappropriate to keep in mind how far we've come already.

we should grind you up and make gerbil food out of you. premium gerbil food. We couldn't make dog or cat food out of you because you might show up in some of the contamination tests they run since that contaminated dog food came in from China.

8 went from serene Buddhist guru to grade-A prick in only a few strips. It makes me sad...

Why are you sad, Grasshopper?


(for the hard of reading)

To be honest, I did think he was a bit of a prick to start with, but at least it was subtle.

My guess? 8 is yet another AIU alias.

Whoops, shoulda read down a few to i_l_k's comment.

Come on now. You sound insane.

"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME?" she screamed, wild eyes rolling, foam gathering at the corners of her twisted, grimacing lips.

some people should not post until they have had coffee.
some people should not post at all.
some people are squirrel-handed. Gregor is a weird name.

The US has an artificially inflated infant mortality rate due to the fact that we count premature births, as well as any live birth no matter how briefly it survives, as an infant. No other nation does this. Many do not count an infant no matter how long it survives if it dies before leaving the hospital. This fudges both our infant mortality rate and our statistics on life expectancy. The WHO and other Usual Suspects do not adjust for these differences in standards when making their little who's-who lists.

PS- "8" wins the Bronze. Only the third poster so asinine that my hand was forced to Ignore User.

ha! the other two were probably me also!

Seriously guys how haven't you worked this out yet.

Every troll on AssetBar (And possibly elsewhere) is AIU.

Different physical bodies of course. He Moves between them.

He's more a sort of universal truth.

Im going to take a wild guess and say you are about 12 years old. Grow up.

My favorite thing is artificial sweeteners. I cannot drink even Capri Sun because I get agonizing migranes from it. So as a kid I stopped drinking them.

Then I was getting some coffee with some girls in a biology class and they were aghast that I ordered whole milk, whipped topping, extra caramel, and used sugar in the raw. I was also in a health/nutrition course that was talking about the artificial sweeteners like aspartame that haven't been fully tested by the FDA.

"I'd rather be fat than have cancer, I can exercise to not be fat, I can't do that to not have cancer."

wait, capri sun has arisweets in it?

Or you could cut back on the number of foods you drink, and not be fat or cancerous. It's not like the daily required amount of milk and sugar are zero.

Everyone says aspartame is like, cancer juice , and I stopped drinking some things for a while because of it. But later I looked into it and couldn't actually find much/any evidence of that. So, fuck those guys.

There is considerable evidence that it makes stuff taste like crap though, which is why I avoid it.

Are you suggesting unsubstantiated mass panic is not a valid reason to change your life choices?! For shame

Aspartame has a methyl group in it. It's bad for your eyes just like methanol.

Quick. Somebody peer-review that comment.

OH GOD NOT CARBON AND THREE HYDROGENS
(it is extremely difficult for a methyl to become a radical in physiological pH. Methanol is bad for your eyes for an entirely different reasons.)

(thankyou)

aspartame WILL make you fat, though. There are considerable studies showing that.

If aspartame hadn't been fully tested by the FDA , then it wouldn't be on the market. period.

However, I'd rather be fat too...

funny, because if it was a homeopathic "medicine", they wouldn't need to get it tested.

That guy in that article might well be right, but he mainly cites a meta study done by a bunch of scientists working for the company that makes nutrasweet, published in a journal that may or may not be a drug company shill... he doesn't say... and then he ends his article with a scientifically useless anecdotal argument, so he's propagating the very type of reasoning that his article is trying to debunk.

It's also been fully tested & shown to make you fat. High fructrose will make you fat, too, but why consume something that tastes awful?

More to the point is how bad artificial sweeteners taste and what the fuck is high fructose corn syrup? How can Coke taste worse in its country of origin than any other country (I've been to) on earth?

high fructose corn syrup is an acquired taste... err.. addiction.. it fits with the American monochromatic palette.

i have no wish to acquire the taste of processed mediocrity. Although, then at least I could enjoy Two and a Half Men with my parents.

drink it from the glass bottles. it makes HUUUUGE differences.

also, did you know the green tint of those bottles is copywritten?

Teee-Eeem-Whyyy-Kaaaaaayyyyy

Copyrighted, my usually grammatically careful friend.

oops. my bad.
sorry not-college.

Oh, also, stock up on kosher Coke if your grocery store carries it at Passover. Mmmm, pure raw cane sugar, the way Mother Nature and Moses intended. (I'm probably a jerk to keep it from deserving Jews.)

We must all make sure the Jews get what they deserve...

...wait, nevermind.

I am blessed to live close to the Mexican border where I can go get a "Glass Coke" with my burrito whenever I please. :d

cali or tejas?

High fructose corn syrup is diabetes medicine. I mean that in the same sense that PCP is crazy medicine. I am a borderline diabetic, and if I drink more than one US type Coke in any two week period, the second one fucks me all up. (Once I realized this I entirely eliminated HFCS from my diet and no longer have diabetes symptoms.) I can drink "real" (Mexican) cokes all day long. You gotta watch those fucking assholes though. Now if you see a half liter Mexican Coke, check the label. That's right HFCS right there in the ingredients. The smaller ones are still good. Fuck!

I'm aghast that you still refer to this as coffee!
I'm so glad I live in a city that respects the bean.

The bean does not deserve our respect.

No, but bean flickers do.

oh, the man-in-the-canoe bean deserves mad props .

I was talking about coffee.

My mom has been saying that for years. No Glade Fresh Plug-ins or anything. I have the old bottle of febreze from the apartment days of our larger friend came over and got drunk and proceeded to fall asleep on our couch. Sweating all night. So I had to get SOMETHING to try and save the couch. (Note: I made my roommate take the couch when we moved out)

I try to use herbs and potpourri I make myself as an air freshener. Or sometimes a candle or incense. I have pretty extreme asthma myself that wasn't diagnosed until I was an adult.

My older sister is an OCD neat freak and she got some plug in air fresheners and made me and both of her asthmatic children sick and I threw them away when I went over there. She wasn't mad, just surprised that it was her apple cinnamon fresher and not the new kittens making everyone cough more than usual.

Strangely, my lungs implode over certain cat litter scents or ORANGE air freshener scents. But I can drink all the orange juice I want...

oh yeah, also, that's kinda creepy to know that a mindless bureaucracy can remotely disable my vehicle and lock me inside. but fuck, why the hell not. mindless bureaucracies control just about everything else in our lives. Except for linux.

NOT UNIX ..!

perhaps CH is the (perpetually) dying man ...both RB & ray bailed on him

We all drownin'. Some of us just wave our arms different.

Yo!

What a great reaction from Roast Beef. Priceless, simply priceless.

Oh, while waiting for the new strip I finally finished reading all the backlog of comics over again, and rating every one that involved Roast Beef 5 stars.

What a rotten application of oneself.

seriously. that's why he secretized the ratings.
or made them exclusive to subscribers.
or whatever he did to them.
WHAT DID YOU DO.

It's okay. I am a paying subscriber and I cannot see the ratings anymore myself.

from the mouth of babes.

i mean...falseprophet.

and you believe him?

i have great faith in my falseprophet.
(haw haw)

Aww..but I genuinely enjoy Roast Beef. Anyhow I miss being able to see the ratings.

Also, I mainly did it so I could find my favorite Roast Beef strips in the highest rated section of my profile.

Man. I hope this is not like truly the end of this arc.
I hope there will one more strip.
Like a recap explanation conversation between Beef and Ray and some closure on the Sapphic Erotica Contest.

Why everbody get all boned up for "closure" all the time? Ain't no closure down here -- shit just is .

Testify!

it's right outside your door.

Emma kills herself and the story keeps going...

Kaffee, Erdbeere, Banane, Traube, Zimt. Kaffee, Erdbeere, Banane, Traube, Zimt. Kaffee, Erdbeere, Banane, Traube, Zimt. Auch Apfel.

thanks for those german fruit words.

Yes...so you said.

Yes this is perfect. So sayeth me. Amen.

I like the emphasis on "regard". "Does he think I need assistance in that REGARD"

It's a fuck you Saturday!

All right guys it looks like a lot of you are still confused about the nature of the ending of this arc. Now, normally I am not one to bring information and ideas from the Paid Subscriber Assetbar to the Free Shantytown Assetbar (because I hella hate a government bailout argh argh argh) but I would be a hypocrite because I got a fine education from public schools so I guess socialism ain't all bad.

Plus this isn't technically information from the Paid Subscriber area, but that's how I got to it. Someone went to Something Awful and saw some posts made by a forum dude claiming to be Chris Onstad to clear all this stuff up. Now why Onstad would go to some other random board discussing his comic rather than go to the boards he created with his own two hands is a mystery that some other gumshoe will have to solve, but assuming these posts are legit, they will at least allow those literary critics among us who do not subscribe to reader-response theory to have some closure on their interpretation through Onstad's words. Here you go:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2711107&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=123#post365535718

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2711107&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=124#post365541044

even if that's not him, his explanation makes better sense than anything I could come up with

he probably was just hanging out on that message board and the subject came up so he commented on it. He probably doesn't visit this message board that often. I mean, he commissioned it's creation, but, that doesn't mean he has to like it.

well, he gets the crap lamed out of him every time he shows up, basically. that's why he doesn't drop by hardly ever.

Not necessarily. I believe he has two usernames on here - one is achewood and the other is onstad. I think for a while people thought achewood was someone's attempt at pretending to be him. If you try to find those users and go to the page where you can see all their comments you'll see that overall they get mad chubbies just for being modes of Onstad.

Upon further review, I think the achewood account is probably fake. My bad.

his is the only onstad. and he is the only one whose level is 'onstad'.

so, yeah, you were wrong, but no rough ridges.

s'up, jbrazeal? way to be user 15000! there is no prize.

Cartilage Head is a jerk.

Quite.

CH is rubber
and you is glue
You diss the rubber man
It just stick to you.


Seriously how can I wash this crap off, I don't want to smell like rubber

what if there is a GOF 2 and cartilage head shows up

what if there is a new Achewood to read soon and I am in a much better mood

then maybe we all win.

What if God was one of us? Just a slob like one of us?

Omigod - what if He was the guy who invented Comic Sans? Oh man we in big trouble now.

think about what you just said.

God only does good, and That Font Which Shall Not Be Named, is not good.

it's good for posting all the crazy letters you get on your blog, a la PZ Myers...

i would /love/ to be part of a zine-around club

flicking the lightswitch off with the plaque was a nice little detail.

what is it to 'ebb'?
because i already know
wat it is to 'flow'

i had another question
but i forget it now
my car broke at gas station.
an' it needed a tow

i played games wit ma doggs
dis past evening
we played well together
like well positioned coggs

i hav faith in ma powers
dat if need ever arose
i could battle 4 hours
an be celebrated in prose
but i am getting on in years
my physical strength sours
but i do not drink 2 many beer
or get wit loose women

dis is and personal pome
i pen 4 u now
tho soft 2 you like foam
it cuts me a deeper blow
an altho outward m seem so sturdy
i m not beyond destruction. lik rome
an so's i pen 4 u here
a most personal pome

essay coming as soon as i figure out if my personal user on my lappy is completely screwed up forever or not.

man no need 4 dat
jus let it b mang
just let it hitchu
wit a loud 'thap'

likewise, monsignor.

shitty rhymes, dude. like that dude from linkin park...

OK, here's my theory: I think that somehow it was clear to Beef that if he stayed with the Karma Klock, he could do something about the burning Escalade, Ray's Escalade. On fire. But to stay there also meant to abandon what might well be his last chance to escape the wheel and return to his wife.

I had to think this one through. Tough call, but it's not like Molly was dying, she was just sleeping. So, she would end up sleeping alone. For a while. You don't desert a dying bro.

Still, and all, I don't see Beef's act as an act of cowardice. Sorry O, but despite CH's best machinations, successful in Ray's case, he failed to push Beef to a craven state. At least Beef gets it - that's why he rebels.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we are missing an important detail here.

"I'll ping you about lunch."

Molly, we all love you. Please quit being a prop for Roast Beef.

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Let me put it this way: there has always been a certain slipperyness to Achewood plot lines. Continuity and all is maintained but not to any sort of obsessive degree. Fair enough. I noticed and that is a weakness, but, hey, the rest of the magnificent goodness more than made up. More than! Way more than made up. But this is going too far. Sure it's touching that Beef had the backbone to stand up, (well, OK, lie down), for himself, but he had nothing to overcome. CH didn't prove shit, this time. Oh well.

SOOOOOOORTA dont give a shit. jus read it up an interperet ur own shit it aint gotta b esplained. so wat u cried durin' CJ7, lotsa peeps did but prob 4 diff reasons so jus take it all in n b haps wit dat i guezz. ostrad aint needa splain his shit im sayin u shuld b able 2 do dat ya own self

ok?

I SAID, I'LL HAVE A HAMBURGER AND A BANANA MILKSHAKE.

Honestly, these foreigners don't have the common decency to speak English.

AND A LARGE, ARNGE, DRINK

And crispy fries?

https://www.goats.com/archive/980204.html

no, that's not what i was thinking of.
since i got gyrate's obscure reference, i was hoping he'd get mine. but maybe he just hasn't seen my reply yet yeah that must be it.

My reference is so obscure even I didn't get it.

Because that's how I roll .

It was so obscure it wasn't even a reference. Hey guys! Someone actually made a JOKE!!!

OH MAN WHAT WHO WOULD HAVE THE CO-JONES TO DO A THING LIKE THAT HERE I MEAN SERIOUSLY

I like to read that as "koh-johnz." Like a really grating way to refer to Messrs. Connery & Ford in "Last Crusade."

hah. that is a funny way to say it. a chubbu.

the..love of chair one.

What - remember something I said earlier? Do you think I'm made of money?

You're such a nuoc man.

Yeah, thanks to a quit Assetbar shout-out last comic, I'm going back and re-reading them all again. It kinda hurts, but in a good way.

fuck you

Hi Gladi8orex. Please don't take offense at this but I joined Assetbar just to comment that this video is sooo gay. not that there's anything wrong with that. Except that in this case there totally is.

That's all I have to say. Oh yeah, hi everyone. ya'll are some kinda strange. I always enjoy reading your comments when I can keep up with 'em. Especially Gladi8orrex.

eerybody's a fuckin critic gota gib they opinons on eerythin an den label shit. luckily idc. dunno hows u peeps live lik u do, lil sign ove' they bed sayin 'bed'. rediculose

Coherence of communication is a tool of The Man to keep the masses under control.

Wake up, sheeple!

fuck you

well welcome to the show avienieu. In case you're a total newbie and didn't know it yet, you probably already do: You can't make multiple posts until your account matures. here's a workaround

I agree Glad. Really, I was hell of surprised that he did that, the explaining that is, on that other website. I'm not 100% convinced that the poster in question is really our esteemed C. O., but whoever he is, he certainly can compose a mean take down of any fool who whines about the "schedule."

Still, like I said, it never bothered me that plot lines sort of wiggled and slithered. I guess I need to expand my horizons and/or make sure not bother reading some so-called official explanation. After all the best stories tell themselves, and sometimes it is all the story teller can do to just be the conduit, much less understand it him or herself.

hey man you got a triangle on your chin. If it is a birthmark or something i am sorry for pointing it out.

The dying man Roast Beef abandoned was himself. That's why the picture is him in the bed. He discovered he had the Lash of Thanatos, and his response to CH asking him to put his death on display was to simply give in, instead of fighting for his life.

Roast Beef betrayed himself - until the end. But that ain't enough for CH.

Or maybe I'm wrong. I just want more Lie Bot.

I'm still not clear on it. What was he supposed to do sit in the karma tube? Die? How is not dying deserting himself? I don't get it.

What I'm saying is that the moment he resigned himself to his death, that's when CH viewed him as a coward. I think he did indeed die; he mustered the courage to save himself. With the views of Heaven that we've seen in Achewood, this view of karma doesn't seem too off-base. I think Beef really was about to reincarnated. Heaven burned down; Hell has a revolving door; the Wheel of Karma busted a bolt. This is the playful metaphysics of Achewood. Ain't no real depth to it, it's all for fun.

But in this arc, Beef gave into self-pity and, neglecting the feelings of his wife and friends, decided to become part of CH's Sartrean Sideshow.

Once again, I may be wrong. This wasn't A list stuff from Onstad, but that's okay. It's free.

I was pretty confused with this strip, too. Even though I don't think I'm with you 100%, your explanation makes a hell of a lot more sense then mine.

Specifically, mine was, "The karma box is broken! If RB don't fix it, some talkin' stuffed animals is gonna die!"

One little quibble. I don't think he died. I think beef was on the way to his death, and the broken karma clock stopped. In fixing the karma clock, he saw the "man behind the curtain", saw that he had a choice and took it. He stepped back from his self-pity and gave CH the big two fingers.

I disliked the big change from Sapphic Poetry to Deathscene. Too ... schematic, too much like Onstad playing the Master Of The Universe, even if it is his universe. We know Beef et al are puppets, but I don't think it should be too obvious.

Eh? Sapphic Poetry was just a Thing they were doing. CH could have gotten Beef anywhere .

I think in CH's view, bailing on the process was the cowardly act -- Beef did not ride the thing out to its unknown conclusion. (I do not agree with CH's assessment if it is as such)

I think that you are correct despite the fact that this is totally out of sync with Ray's CH party, where the dying man was CH, but the picture on the Proved Card was of Ray. I think this is simply an instance where Onstad was too busy creating to look up some obscure fact in a previous strip and went with the flow.

Ah, but the picture was of Ray, who was abandoning CH. Likewise, Roast Beef got a picture of himself, resigned to his death in bed.

ol' Cartilage Head he a damn dick hole .

does anyone else feel like onstad has said to us...

"so you didn't like the recent arcs?
i could kill achewood at any time. at any time. except you know that i won't"

I miss SpinyNorman - but I see he has a book coming out in January:
https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Shivers-Robert-Jackson-Bennett/dp/0316054682/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252972391&sr=8-1

hot damn! tite noticing.

Quote:
MR SHIVERS - Nobody can Beat Death


Did he just steal Cartilage Head and give him his own lead role?
Dang, I knew CH had been bitching to Onstad about more camera time, but sheeit, mayn!

Molly's use of the word 'ping' does not sit well with Beef.

no, he's reacting to having le package dropped on 'im.

i know i've reacted similarly.

opinions are like assholes...

They tend to prolapse if used incorrectly?

Full of grapes?

There's a lot of them on Assetbar?

Wait... stuntman is an opinion?

i was going to try to allude to something like that, but couldn't word it properly.

Asshole. (Just my opinion.)


This is not my opinion.

I stand brutally corrected.

why don't you just stand there and do philosophy, Brick.

Sorry (nchos) it wasn't a personal affront, I was just speculating, but it looks like the majority rules in your favor.

naw, dude, we cool.

I think I'm gonna make a bunch of CH-style placards with "I Proved Myself A Coward" phrases on them, add my friend's pictures and mail them out for Christmas. Maybe this year they'll leave me the hell alone about that damn party.

you gonna get a whole lot of worried calls when those start trickling in to your friends.

I can only hope.

ouch.

The new strip--which is not yet in assetbar--is not what I was hoping for.

I kind of get the impression Onstad is taking the piss. (Which, considering how much we've bitched about, recontextualized, and gnawed on this arc in the last couple weeks, is understandable.)

It's a very stylish pisstake, as always...

I noticed that achewood.com strips don't link to assetbar at the moment.

Hey, I could swear the walls are kinda closing in in this place. Can anyone else smell nerve-gas?

I think it's safe to say that anyone who "frist pots!" on this page in anticipation of the new strip posting would STILL be considered a dick.

I expect an excellent first post for the new strip. Everyone should be honing their words in anticipation.

picture uploaded and tagged? yes.
words before that tagged pic? double-yes.
madd-refreshing skills? uh-huh.
translation: incomplete.

Mihi ignosce. Cum homine de cane debeo congredi.

Excuse me. I've got to see a man about a dog.

i got the pardon me part..ah well, rad, good on you for knowing thing.

I do know THIS.

Pff, who needs to know things when Google makes being lazy so easy.

no wonder they're number

Then why come did some upstart get 50-plus chubs on the next strip, for pointing out what I already had here, before the posting began? *pout*

Translate this: Primoris stipes!

"REM is number one!"

I feel bad for all the people who are currently refreshing Assetbar hoping for a new strip instead of checking the main page.

I feel bad for all the people who still go to websites and manually refresh them, instead of just subscribing to them with a feed reader.

UNRELIABLE!!

alternatively...
some people have minds like concrete; all mixed up and permanently set.

I feel bad for people who still use monitors, instead of having the information beamed directly into their optical nerve.

i feel bad.

https://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/09/ar-contact-lens

I've already let Google know I would appreciate being the first human to be directly wired into their search function. Thus far, they have ignored me.

you would be the go-to-lady for knowledge. and porn.

That would be no different than now. BWAH HAH

I knew who Buck Angel was

maybe tomorrow you'll share!

excellent. next time im looking for some hot sex movies, ill look you up.

I feel bad for people who are trying to be a dick on assetbar, but failing because the new comic's not up yet.

I feel confused that I just saw a strip answering many of our trivia questions, but now I'm here at this old strip. Must retrace steps.

Same. It seems I can't access the comments for it. Maybe it cannot be commented on? It is, as it were, ineffable?

I feel like calling bullshit on that tostada.

What happens when Cartilage Head finds the guy who Proves Himself a Hero Who Would Not Desert a Dying Man?

Does that guy inherit the chocolate factory?

The (jankity) Karma Machine, maybe.

maybe .

Roast Beef wins the game.