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Fauntleroy Brown, the other BOC Friday, February 24, 2006 • read strip Viewing 98 comments:

So wicked

RUUUUUUUUUUDDDE!

I am confused as to why there are neither chubbies nor lames on this first post.

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The actions of Achewood's characters are so well conveyed

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I just want to say thank you for telling the truth. Thank you, even though you get lamed for it.

The art is overly simplistic at time, but it's often arresting and occasionally beautiful. See: Cartilidge Head, "Ray gets sort of stoned"

She's talking about Something Positive, not Achewood.

I wonder how many of her 27 Lames were from people thinking she was dissing Achewood?

I knew she was dissing SP and lamed her for it.
Unlike some folk around, I like more than one webcomic, and that one is on my list.

Boyeh, yew won't draw no water on this'eh'heer forum talkin' like that.

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Someone who finds his criticism of Something Positive unjustified and unconstructive?
Or maybe someone who feels that you do not need to tear something down to justify your love for something else.
Achewood is awesome on its own merits. No need to be putting everyone else down.

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man there is one guy out there...one hardcore fan of something positive..... and he is laming you guys something fierce

all with a furious picture of a ding dong next to the lame

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You seem like the hardcore type all right.

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You familiar with the adage "Those who talk about it the most do it the least"...?

Rememeber that this is the internet you're talking into!

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Your mother.

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Question 8: Reason for parent's death?
Got in my way.

lucky her

Aye. Totally.

I have... nothing positive... to say about Something Positive.

Achewood never goes out-of-character for a laugh, nor does anything that it fails to deal with again later.

That's not true. Achewood has left several things unresolved. Philipe being possessed by Billy Idol was never given closure. The storyline where Pat was being dragged away by the demonic violin was dropped.

Certain other plot points haven't been looked back on. We haven't seen any potential cultural effects of Ray's meeting with Mark Twain. Wheldon has not been seen in quite awhile, despite being an important turning point in Beef's character.

Achewood is good, it's very good. It's consistent more often than not. But even it has its lapses.

Note: This message was posted for the purpose of correction, not criticism.

I'll give you Weldon, but the others seem justifiable for the sake of being one-off jokes. I'm sure some of the finer points can be argued, but mainly what I'm getting at is that Achewood more than any other webcomic is not in the business of controverting itself just for a laugh. If it's something that should count in the long run, it will.

(And while it would be nice to see Weldon again to confirm that Beef still keeps him around, his main purpose was to help get Beef through a rough transition period, which saw closure once he moved out of the trailer and got back together with Molly.)

I'm sorry, I need closure to the banjo arc.

The banjo arch is really the only thing that bugs me. Maybe I just like seeing Pat get tormented, but it didn't feel like an arch that should've just been dropped.

I don't particularly care about Wheldon, but his disappearance is very odd. To my knowledge, we haven't seen any thing from him since the arch he was introduced in. No apperances, no mentions in the blogs, nothing.

For the sake of reference, one other thing that wasn't completely resolved was the business shoe arch, and what happened to the shoes. Given the nature of the shoes though, I imagine it'd be difficult to do that in a meaningful way. There's also the effects of Beef's various surgeries early in Achewood's run, like Dr. Andretti saying he would crash every now and then and need to be restarted, but that'd probably get old fast.

I apologize for my pedantry, but it's story "arc", as in describing the path of a line. I'll admit they have the same root, because an arch is arc shaped, but it's still an architectural feature.

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Better than dropping the child, by all accounts.

Aye. If you've gone to the trouble of making such a thing, might as well see it through to the end.

Yeah, we never see Beef using his wireless internet. I suspect it would be awkward to use that in the current style of the strip.

Roast Beef may still have Weldon, he just hasn't been in any strips lately.

Achewood is not a complete chronicle of the lives of its characters; some things are going to be left out.

To anyone who can't see hexjumper's comment because it has three lames: up your lame threshold. The comment has about 60 chubbies.

I wish a certain number of chubbies would negate lames.

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I'll have to take this back on account of wanting to spot my own comments from time to time.
Awkward.
Screw you lame-givers! Fuck you!

yeah, i always thought that the "hide lames" thing should be ignored if there are more chubbies than lames on the comment, or something like that.

Hexjumper's comment was OK, but the fact that it now has 124 chubbies is all you need to see to know that assetbar was once a very different sort of place. It'd be lucky to pull in six or seven in today's market.

They're tight since old times

Ray actually hates the Tenmen.

Probably because there aren't actually ten of them.

The tenmen are basicaly three cats

I was reading the entirely informative Great Outdoor Fight wikipedia page , and the description of this scene is mind-blowing and explains the 3 cats = Tenmen thing:

"Originally outcasts from a small Hasidic community in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, their name is derived from Genesis 18:32 and God's search for 10 righteous men in Sodom and Gomorrah. Unable to find 10 men themselves, these 3 cats perform solely on Rickenbacker instruments (including the limited edition snare) and prefer to dress in 80's new wave outfits with a look inspired by The Gothic Vacuum Repairmen. For their performance at the 2006 Fight, The Tenmen wore black outfits, in an understated tribute to Johnny Cash's 1968 concert at Folsom Prison. (They may have also known that Cash and his band, the Highwaymen, were scheduled to play the 1984 Fight, only to be interrupted by Fauntleroy Brown's Dutch fugue).

Sometimes compared to the Swedish Je Ne Sais Quoi 7, their sound is hauntingly beautiful and often reminiscient of the old Howard Wolfstetter trio who also practiced in their bathtub."

Hell I was only going to reference their playing in cramped spaces before a la the bathtub. I couldn't find any place to chubby the comment, so here is a Post Chubby. Virtual Chubby. One of those.

There are... in Trinary notation.

(Base 3)

It's interesting; he probably respects their precision, but they lack a certain arrogant, Magazine-cover panache that Ray probably likes.

"he's fine...he has stuff for his album"

There is no fugue rawer than a Dutch fugue.

seriously. have you ever heard anyone speak Dutch? It's rawer than German.

I concur. If ever you feel blue, go to Amsterdam, crack a beer or some, and listen to train station announcements over the PA while the sun goes down.

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Whoops. Meant to chubby that. I went and begrudgingly chubbied two of your earlier comments to atone, sir.

I'm starting to spot where people first encountered me. Generally cos it starts positive, then all goes downhill thereafter.
Oh well. I guess you laming me became a habit, for better or worse... as did my disliking you for it.
Habits can be dropped.

What about Rock 'n' Roll Shit Fugue ?

The Man With The Blood On His Hands.

and the question remains: how were the Tenmen?

They were amazing, especially when you consider they didn't have visible amps or mikes.

I wonder if Beef needs the goggles to be Badass Beef.

It's like The Red Shoes.

In Christ Our Fight Is Won

The description of Travis eating "heavily sauced pastas" is much more nauseating to me than the actual act of his face getting ripped off.

I too thought this was Beef's most hilarious/horrific statement in this strip. Such aplomb!

Whiskeys will make the blood fade faster.

(The Tenmen walk in)

"...chicken wire?"

I wouldn't do it without bank teller glass.


I have made too obscure a Blues Brothers reference

Not at all! A chubby for you to go with a rousing rendition of Rawhide...

It's just a shame you couldn't remember the words to "The Wreck of the Old '97"

"Country AND Western."

There is no such thing.

We're the Good Old Boys!

A country dude who sells CDs to Kmart people? It's a shame Ray didn't kill him.

He comes across like Toby Keith. Ford Trucks probably hired some other GOFers to watch his back

Wow, I thought Onstad made up this "fugue" buisness but I guess not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugue_state

i like how the tenmen are so raw they dont even need speakers or amps. just a cage. to keep them in

Does anyone else find it odd/awesome that the Tenmen's percussion section is a single snare drum?

It sort of gels just right with how I imagine the Tenmen to sound.

In my head they are the Kraftwerk of cats

it's probably just playing straight, un-accented quarter notes too.

A deathbrawl with its own music festival. Bravo, Onstad. Bravo.

Just like Woodstock '99!

Roast Beef in this arc reminds me Shogo Kawada from Battle Royale.

Who would that make Ray then?
I take him for a Kiriyama after that face-rip maneuvre.

If Beef is Shogo, Ray is Shuya. Plain and simple.

Too true. Too true.

I can see why you might compare the plots, but Ray ain't no Shuuya.

BR2.
It hurts me to recommend it... but Shuya takes a few levels in badass... Ray has done similar.

Snare Drum. Guitar. Bass.

Beef can believe he's missing a Tenmen show.

Ray is...
The Man With The Blood On His Hands' Flesh And Blood With Blood On His Hands!

This strip marks the point withing the GOF story arc in which the soundtrack I had previously imagined for it (Circle Takes the Square and Dillinger Escape Plan mostly) gives way to utter silence.

I'm serious about this, I can imagine no more than absolute silence while Beef rolls those epiphany-inducing nuggets of wisdom off his tongue.

DUDE! Shit was raw!

CDs to "Kmart People" hah