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Camping Friday, December 13, 2002 • read strip Viewing 52 comments:

It is platonic spooning in fairness to them

I don't care what you say, there is no such thing as platonic spooning from a man wearing a thong.

Roast Beef and I feel the same way about camping.

this was one of the set of strips my brother showed me to get me into achewood. it was a good choice.

This is one of the strips I show my brother to get myself out of camping.

Ok, 6 months later I find this comment and it freaks me out.

Because I have no brother, I never have. What the fuck.

Hahaha you're a weirdo.

(Chubby.)

Glitch in the Matrix?

You funny riazm! You a real super-size homo jackass!

Special. Chubby.

Shadow People got him?

Hey man, you wanna go camping?

This is the razor edge I mentally walk every time I think about going camping.

I have the same feelings as Beef on camping

The way Beef talks in panel 4 is classic- starts out with an idea and just goes into more (funnier) detail. Whenever I try this technique in real life I sound like a dork :(

You can talk Roast Beef is talking from experiance.

Ugh.

experience.

I love how you have no chubbies for the observation but someone gave you one for correcting your spelling.

(Well, okay, I just went back and gave you one for the first comment, but it wasn't like that when I found it.)

I really, really wish we could edit comments. There was a night when I got high and went on just this posting rampage, and almost every single one had some glaring typo. I feel like... I feel like I'm going to get a reputation, you know?

i know you! You're that jesler who sucks at spelling.

nooooo

tell?

never tell the truth whilst camping

Man how can you not dig on camping it's the ultimate expression of habitation

All laughin' and tellin' lies!

Man, ain't nothin' better than laughin' and tellin' lies!

Just look at all those apostrophes

Just look at them

It is so nice

it's the crux of the biscuit, you see

I feel like Roast Beef's image of their camping is much more accurate than that of Ray's.

nobody meets ladies when you go camping

you don't meet ladies when you go camping

there are no ladies camping

the ladies are smarter and are just at their friend's house somewhere on the countryside. there they have heat and better food that will probably not get burnt by a fire that would take seven to fifty years to make because Ray and Beef forgot what rains does to wood.

Or because your dumbass friends (Boy Scouts, incidentally) thought that you could start a fire by wrapping toilet paper around logs.

Fuckers.

hah, or that.

Actually, my ex started dating a girl he met while hiking. She does not shave anywhere at all and is not big on washing her hair, except sometimes with Dr. Bronner's.

Lesson: You can totally meet ladies while camping. But you will not meet the kind of ladies who have proper hygiene and smell acceptable.

I feel the same way as Beef about camping, except I mark those things as positives (aside from the tarantulas).

Sometimes your food always being cooked right gets boring.

I get enough failure in my day-to-day life that I rarely feel the need to travel for to experience new varieties of the same.

This strip is the perfect expression of Ray and Beef's optimist/pessimist dynamic.

I'm pretty new to achewood, so I haven't really thought about that before. I tried switching up the pros/cons just to see how it worked out

I apologize up front for not getting the exact fonts, sometimes I've less patience with fonts than perhaps I should.

Excellent! Beef's dejected expression in panel 3 works so well. That boy could see a rainbow turning out badly.

Roast Beef and I should open a home for people scared of spiders.

Let me get in on the ground floor.

I also want to move into this house! I can bring nachos! And a couch!

I would totally sabotage that place. Always leaving a window open, maybe just catching spiders all day and throwin' them in there. Oh ho ho, I would laugh.

My dad thought camping was a vacation. I thought it was a nightmare. This conversation speaks to me on a father-son level I cannot even put into words. Made me call home after I read it. However, there was no spooning.

I went camping once. It was in tents. (say aloud. please. for me?)

I cannot speak for anyone else, sir or madame, but I loled.

Oh, terrible!

Guy goes to the doctor and says, "I don't know what's happening to me! Sometimes I think I'm a wigwam, and sometimes I think I'm a teepee! You gotta help out me, Doc."

Doctor gets a thoughtful expression on his face. "I know what your problem is," he says. "You're two tents."

It's worth a 5 for panel 6 alone.

camping is what you make it, and who you're with. It can be as Ray describes, or as Beef tells it/

This one made me lough out loud like I was drunk again

I could totally see Ray drunk passed out and spooning anyone that happened to be near by.