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Ray's SuperWoofer Monday, June 5, 2006 • read strip Viewing 61 comments:

Mr. Wheels!

Considering the fairly frequent interplay between hip hop culture and comic books I find this revelation quite surprising.

As do I. Ray thinks comic books are childish, but toy trucks are not?

Ray thinks comic books are childish, but naming a cart "Mr. Wheels" is not?

Look at him stand in his ROOM!

A comment left by hollis was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by unquotable, Creepwood, Darthemed)

I love the way the line "oh dang I ain't seen Mr. Wheels in basically forever" says so much.

so much history

Haha teodor has passed out in the last pannel due to the immense shock rendered onto his testes upon impact with the door. Though i'm sure it was lessenend by the fact he is hung like a cranberry

Scree! Scree! Scree! - the all mighty Mr. wheels.

This is a perfect... strip!

That business in the last three panels would happen to Showbiz even without a magnet involved.

Damn, you insightful. Chubbied.

just what in hell do you mean by that?

Showbiz is sexually attracted to stereo equipment

"Oh dang I ain't seen Mr. Wheels in basically forever" is gold. I love pauses in ongoing plots for beautiful turns of dialog like this.

Ah yes. When you think about it, don't we ALL have a Mr Wheels we haven't seen in basically forever?

I see you're a Superdickery reader.

i personally enjoy beef peeking through the door at the end

I'm loving "fetch it and get back here snappity"...

a 22" speaker would sound like straight elephant farts

what size would a gay one's be?

not that theres anything wrong with that

Heeee-eeeyy!

I think that last panel is the sort of thing people dream of drawing when they first dip their toe into the world of art.

When I was little we had a pool cleaning device thing that all skimmed across the top of the water and cleaned the sides of the pool and also had tentacles that cleaned the bottom and his name was Oscar

I am saying like everyone has a mr wheels in their life you know

My Grandparents' pool clean-y device was named Ambrose.

Now I want to know how it got that name... I'll make a phone call tomorrow.

Will that phone call be to today?

My parent's pool cleaner was named Manuel. He glistened.

The only pool I had access to when I was a child, had a pool cleaner named Mr. Spitter. He had a tail that spat water as his propulsion device, and he'd go around the pool cleaning up. When he reached the top, he'd turn over and go back under, but his tail would poke up and spit water into the air.

Wow, that's not interesting at all.

Growing up, I named the pool sweep thingy "Charlie" and the floating chlorine dispenser was "Bob"... I'm not certain why the names were necessary, or why this disclosure of my 'naming inanimate pool care devices' history was either, oh well, such is the nature of the interweb.

When I was growing up I didn't have a pool because my parents were working class.

True story.

When I was growing up, I didn't have a bath because my mother couldn't afford a house with anything better than a malfunctioning shower... and all the other goth kids would laugh at me.

That certainly explains a lot. When I was growing up, I was crazy, so people left me alone after they found out teasing me immediately led to violence.

the only way i had to clean out the hot tub was a sand bucket. was terrible when all the pine needles were falling into it.

i would read the krunkman kronicles

In the past nine months, have you done so?

Someone would have to write, draw, and publish it first.

Man I would be all over reading some Krunkman Kronicles

In the past eight months, have you figured out that they were Real?

What? Really?

I'ma go check wikipedai. Be right back.

You lie. Wikipedia returns nothing. A Google search returns about twelve results, all related to this strip.

I... don't think I hallucinated it? Please hold while I attempt to determine if this comic book happened or if I at one time believed that it happened.

Well? It's been two months.

Maybe boredom_man was thinking of "Bluntman and Chronic", which bears a passing audial semblance to "Krunkman Kronicles". I only know of it tangentially, and I believe it is a Kevin Smith thing. I'm not sure Ray would be into that.

I think I either straight-up hallucinated it or it was a throwaway joke in Zap that I hallucinated into a series. Sorry.

I would like to buy your hallucinations, please. In comic form.

I can't draw, but I will come to your house and scream descriptions of horrible visions at you for a reasonable price.

Wait... i know you. You came into the bookshop i work at just a couple of days ago.

The first time is free. (It is like cocaine.)

For some reason, I'm convinced you are thinking of American Splendor, which is basically real, and where one of the main illustrators' name is Crumb...?

No chance, but whatever I was thinking of [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zap_Comix]might have been illustrated by Crumb[/i]. Or I might have completely hallucinated it. Really, the Oracle I'm not.

See? Would the Oracle BBFail like that?

notice how ray becomes distinctively unenlightened with the removal of the cup of mega-water?
comic book references and all that.

Ha Ray considers comicbooks childish!! That's rea;;y saying something!!

The 22" speaker coming up to shoulder level on Ray is one of those little things that reminds the reader every so often that the characters are in fact animals.

And that they watch too much Pimp my Ride on MTV...

I think Ray made Krunkman Kronicles up.

re: the alt text: ray considers comic books childish, yet he will play with a toy truck, just for the hell of it. im sensing a double standard....

My feelings on this strip are just so Pro. Gotta be one of my all time faves.