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Goodbye, Showbiz. Wednesday, November 23, 2005 • read strip Viewing 41 comments:

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we shoud

can we have whoper

and Get Slightly Stoned

My brother sends me instant and text messages that say this pretty frequently but he does not read Achewood.

It is kind of depressing.

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Showbiz's writing (and, I gather, overall grasp of English) is terrible, but his signature is immaculate.

Gotta say that if my name were Showbiz, I'd have a pretty sweet signature myself. Plus he's had a lot of practice signing all those checks and whatnot to Rockford Fosgate.

But I thought the problem was that he WASN'T writing checks to Rockford Fosgate.

Maybe. Showbiz seems like the kind of guy who would think, "Writing a check on this defunct account will buy me some time..."

Is so sad.

Why would he sign them showbiz isn't he called such as Michael

Dude takes any excuse he can to sign his name "Showbiz." So long as the checks clear (or more likely in his case, don't), he's happy.

That is one of the most swank signatures. I envy it now.

The stationery is very Roast Beef: header all in Cooper Black and with the title "a reasonable man."

Man, it looks like he stole that stationery from Pat.

I don't think Pat has anything that anyone would want to steal, though.

Unless you really want to go to the moon.

From the desk of a dick

I don't think they sell "FROM THE DESK OF: a guy who sucks" stationery.

all with a "plus he got depression" paperweight

alt text: Molly's not fooling anyone, she's going to throw that $13 bar of soap away.

Do you think maybe Onstad has a crummy brother somewhere? This strip makes me think so.

It's an interesting point but I think that might be a bit too obvious. I'd go for a former close friend who's become a jerk in later years.

I've left notes like this to my roomate. He didn't think much of them. So I don't live with him anymore and he now lives with my ex-girlfriend.

Go on.

They shoud party.

Oh, I'm sure they do.

Bow wow chicka wow

Seems like a pretty fair exchange, I guess.

I love this strip with a passion. I have a lot of sympathy for Showbiz, he's just an attention-seeking simpleton, the opposite end of the scale of someone from circumstances. The spelling mistake, falling in love with every sound system in the catalogue, it's all so very personal and for some reason I find it really sweet.

And yet he is from the same circumstances as Beef.

Whereas Beef internalized all of those circumstances, taking every thing that happened to heart, Showbiz responded by simply vacating, mentally and physically. In all of the 'child' strips of Beef and Ray, there is nothing of Showbiz. So while Beef's father shows up and asks about his twins, it is Beef who is there to bear witness to the result. You get the impression that while Beef sat there, getting screamed at by Grandma K, Showbiz just left. Circumstances have left him incapable of dealing with anything resembling consequences, and thus, he just floats on a fake cloud of things he can't afford, parties he won't ever attend, and women he will never score with. Beef spends his time thinking no woman would ever want him, Showbiz thinks that mustache gets ladies creamy. Yin and yang, despite their identical childhoods.

I could use some stationary that hails from the desk of a reasonable man.

I've just realised that Molly's face is extremely flat, kind of reminiscent of Meg White.

Your search for MOLLY SANDERS COME ON SHOW ME HER NAKED did not return any results.

I used to think it was funny when people on this board would talk about how hot that cartoon cat is. But now it's happening to me. Oh god.

There is no fantasy about why Molly asks Roast Beef to do away with the hair in question. That is a raw way to use an expensive soap bar.

13 goddamn bucks for SOAP?

I didn't know they even did that.