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Nice Pete's Flowchart Thursday, August 30, 2007 • read strip Viewing 156 comments:

This has been too long in coming.

This should be made into a zork-style adventure game.

>look at mouse
It is a small, grey Parson's mouse.
>take mouse
Taken.
>open mouse
You open the mouse. Inside of the mouse you see a brain, a heart, a kidney, a kidney, a liver, a set of lungs, and a stomach.
>take all
Taken. Your hands begin to shake and dance.
>place entrails on pie.
As you place the entrails on the pie, the effects of the Chemus Witch's magic fade. She will no longer have control of your mind or cause you chiblains. Congratulations! Play again? (Y/N)

I got the Babel fish!!!!!!!

> you're not holding the babel fish

>Take ego
Ego has been taken
>Look at ego
You look at your ego and it appears to be broken. Your arcane reference has been one-upped resulting in several hairline cracks.

This is my favourite comment on Achewood as of December 24th, 2009.

I consider it an early Christmas present.

Is this a chubby record?

Nope. There's at least one with over 100.

Now this comment has been made redundant. Please disregard.

I think "Cod-fearing man" from one of the Philippe-Old Couch strips has the all-time record.

Either that or the dude talking about how he now introduces himself to all new roommates in the manner of Nice Pete. Just a moment, I'll go check (because I have NOTHING BETTER TO DO)

NYU: Nice Pete Introductions-333
catachresis: Cod Fearing man-340

Huh, I'll be damned

Idle curiosity, which strips are those comments under?

I'm pretty sure you just won Acheworld.

Yes!

No.

you won those disciples of Acheworld who have enough time to check these forums regularly, but more importantly those of us who would be excited enough to Chubby such nerdesque reference.

king of the Achenerds. *bows*

Just for the purpose of anal retentive record keeping, I'll say that if this was a record at the time, it has been shot all to hell by now. However, it may be the most chubbied text-only comment. I guess that should count for something.

By the way, ya'll some furious nerds.

The other one has like, 300, right?
This is the one with the higest chubby/lame ration though, probably.

The "Other One"? What is this of which you speak?

I can't believe I still remember.
Their was a comment involving the word "cod" towards the end of the homeless people/dump arch. I think that had over 300.

I did not think it would be possible to map Nice Pete's thoughts. This is an achievement.

Or, as Nice Pete might say, an Achievement.

This was a triumph!

i'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.

You guys eat too much cake.

=( ...

... Go ahead and leave me.
I think I prefer to stay inside.

I would have liked a random, terrible thought here and there, unconnected to anything this world has ever known


Still pretty good.

I did not notice a lack of random, terrible thoughts in this.

Seriously, which begs the question, what's wrong with zefiel?

It would be hell of hard to match every single person's expectations on Pete's thoughts, since such an alien mindset to the rest of people will always be interpreted differently each way, regardless of this, In the current strip Chris Onstad has managed to capture the unique alien qualities and homeliness both found in the average serial killer's mind, a feat actually quite impressive for a web comic based on Adobe Illustrator.


Okay, I expanded it for you guys. Have fun.

I didn't really think it'd be like this. I always thought Nice Pete's brain was filled with a great, dull hunger and barren lands that stretch to cracked horizons while distant thunderheads rear quivering against the crimsondust sky and mutter with the voices of nameless things that have danced and died in the bones of old stars.

You know, that sorta shit.

Dancing and dying in the bones of old stars.

Although I love the poetry of that it is also the Best emo-band album title ever.

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead co-frontman Jason Reece just woke up with a name for his solo side project. He does not know where it came from but he is so glad he has it.

Started off McCarthy, then it went Lovecraft.

A delightful combination. Anyway, I'm sure we can agree that no great distance exists between Blood Meridian and At the Mountains of Madness .

of fuck. winner.

Please accept this chubby from me, Mr. spinynorman sir, for your exemplary wordslinging.

Keep it close to your heart, always.

To be fair to Nice Pete, your average CVS worker doesn't know shit about Chemus Witch remedies.

I sure as hell don't. I'd probably just send him to the back aisle with assurances that I just stocked it yesterday, then run and take my break.

are you implying that you are an average CVS worker?

Not anymore, now that I am armed with the knowledge of what to do in the clutches of a Chemus witch.

Oh damn and pity. Every time I walk into a CVS I think, "I am so glad I don't work here."

Every pie must be considered.

GOD DAMN IT! GOD DAMN YOU !

I don't know, I think someone with Nice Pete's upbringing has a lot of Cares.

Yes, he is from Circumstances

He is Circumstances.

he is from considerations

My favourite touch is how this is just a bit of Nice Pete . All the other flow charts seem to encompass their characters completely whilst Nice Pete is far too erratic too be pinned down in a few word-boxes.

I agree, but the Alt-text suggests that a mor comprehensive chart would "mostly" be about phantom pies.

I think Onstad was just doing us a favor by not exposing us to it all at once... it would be too fast of a decent into madness.

I feel like Nice Pete's inner monologue has this weird similarity with Beef's.

Well, they do both come from Circumstances

Yes - I recognized myself in the church doors with the wedding registry gift of mortal humiliation. It felt very Beefy.

The classiest crazy man I know of.

I like how this flowchart produces a possible infinite cycle of Pete finding a cherry pie, discovering that there is a Chemus witch nearby, retching the cake, drowning the nearist druggist, and then finding another cherry pie etc. What's great about that is that I can definitely see him stuck in that cycle, endlessly finding pies and drowning pharmacists.

Rasmus Cake

Jennywater


The Rasmus Cake is so terrifying

Oh my god is the lead guy on the rasmus cake holding his cock?

He sure is.

More likely it is a sword, hewn from pure hatred, forged in the demon fires of Malabog.

I am relieved to see that I was not the only one to immediately google jennywater and rasmus cake.

For the first time in my life...google had no good answers for me. Bless you Onstad, for stumping Google.

do you think Google can really provide any insight to the cognitive processes of Nice Pete? They can't even design a decent logo!

The poor gal in the Jennywater picture, now in terror as to why that picture should now have orders of magnitudes of hits beyond the others in the series. Her mind produces only horrifying explanations, because this is the Internet.

If we could only convince her to act out all Achewood ideas.

Perhaps she is relieved that it got more hits than the "ihatejenny" pic.

The only way it could be worse is if a bunch of misguided but good intentioned Acheworlders try to explain it away and she ends up at a fucking weird site where some perverted Tiger is dildoeing a coffee.

Mom-Mom Weeps because you do not appreciate her pies, Nice Pete.

I love the fact that there actually is some perverse logic to his thoughts, as with his rapid anti-witch scheme. I don't normally like Nice Pete, but the weirdness of this made me chuckle.

A fool in his tuxedo of shame, standing at the church doors holding his wedding registry gift of mortal humiliation. GOD DAMN IT!

Is no one else profoundly disturbed by the prospect of Nice Pete standing outside the wedding, chagrined, in a tuxedo, WITH A GIFT FROM THE REGISTRY? He's going to kill EVERYONE inside. When's this wedding happening, again?

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[IMGS OFF]

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In late-stage capitalist America, Mortal Humiliation buys you

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I think you are entirely mistaken

You think he is of low mind.

I can't tell you how terrified I am that your status is "philosophy major." I suppose it's preferable to "med school," though.

"A fool in his tuxedo of shame". Beautiful. The less I know about his background the more my imagination fills in the gaps of why he is so mad dog insane. His dad's head shrinking every year, shooting the family dog every time dad is out of work... reminds me of a hillbilly Edward Gorey strip, if such a thing ever existed.

Am I the only one who assumed that he had substituted a pie in his mind where there was actually some poor unsuspecting hiker? It was the "Why is this pie out alone in the forest, anyhow" and the "pick the pie apart with a hunting knife" that lead me to believe so.

Yeah, Onstad sure seems to have studied his DSM-IV.

Yep, except I thought the cherry pie was a woman that Pete found appealing, and then realized that he was comparing her to his mother. Nice Pete is of low mind and draws his Oedipal imagery from Poison songs.

by Poison you mean Warrant.

No, Poison. I'm saying that Nice Pete is "Nobody's Fool", the song from Poison's Out Of The Cellar album. It had the video with Tawny Kitaen rolling around on the hood of that Jaguar, remember?

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Chubby for spelling her "name" right.

There is no such song on Out of the Cellar. It is indeed a Cinderella song. You are of low mind.

A woman well moistened with natural juices , no less.

I would say it really was a pie, or a figment of Pete's imagination. The only thing Pete really has a real grip on is murder. If he had Taken someone in the woods, he would not run to the druggist after. He would put the body in his van.

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I hate to be that guy (actually, not really), but https://achewood.com/index.php?date=03192007.

But yeah, pretty much all the frequent characters save Cornelius, Lie Bot, Molly, and Little Nephew seem to have their charts now.

Pat's had a flowchart.
Don't worry though, it's an easy mistake to make considering that Pat's a dick.

Mea culpa.

- Your former fact-checker, who thinks this tuxedo of shame is not very well-tailored for a garment that is to last for all time.

Man, Cornelius' flowchart would be badass .

Words like "Chemus Witch" and "Shiver-Salt" and "jennywater" fill me with great, terrible imaginings.

I'm pretty glad I don't live down by Texture Creek.

I lived near a "Mosquito Control Road" once.

Texture Creek. Population 104. The place where sanity goes to die.

And druggists.

I wonder how the water feels in Texture Creek?Shuddery.

A fool in his tuxedo of shame is the worst a dude can be.

like roast beef, nice pete considers himself to be of low ways.

It seems that Nice Pete has some confidence issues.

The dude is from Circumstances, after all.

Roast Beef still takes the cake when it comes to being from Circumstances.

this strip concerns honest pies, not low cakes

There is absolutely no time for pie when there are cares about.
"Is that some [your flavor here] pie? Aw fuck, no time. I got cares and shit. God damn it ."

GOD DAMN YOU

I was enjoying some orange drink when I came across this comment, and in all seriousness nearly choked to death from the ensuing laughter. Bravo!

Pete is mentally reliving a backwoods role playing game where the dungeon master leaves out pies in the woods for his twelve year old players that are magically trapped or infested with rot grub worms.

It was this very same role-playing game in which, once, a lord was boiled with his beef.

he didn't put on those special socks for the murderin' though.

i think he keeps the socks on all the time. All he has to do is drop his pants and he's good to go.

someone made the statement that, like Beef, Nice Pete considers himself of low ways. I would disagree, more to say that Nice Pete considers himself a disgrace of honest ways, a man lowed away from honesty once known by his own low being.

What the fuck is your avatar?

Cave Story.

wow. somebody actually got it... chubbie for you.

the psychotic cat ingests an emetic regularly as a result of his delusion.

So long as they are filled with delicious angst and lack of guilt.

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Nice Pete is the scariest kind of crazy.

Correction: Nice Pete is the awesomest kind of crazy.

i really hope he is invited to the wedding.

costco-size bo of shiver-salts? best wedding present ever


*box

Man, now I'm going to spend all Labor Day weekend thinking about what Nice Pete might bring as a wedding present. First thoughts? A homemade Kermit the Frog doll with the mouth sewn shut and half-burned down candles on the eyes, wax running down the green felt. Honest craftsmanship.

Pete buys from the registry. He is practical that way.

He shall bring a large wrapped box. When the wrapping paper is torn off, the receiver shall behold a box where the children will die.

In my head Nice Pete sounds a lot like E.B. Farnum (William Sanderson) on the show Deadwood.

Hmmm... but slightly tougher, his voice slightly deeper, and more of a drawl, I think. And not nearly so... sycophantic. On paper, I'm like "what the hell? He's nothing like E.B.", and yet... my mind can see how such a comparison makes some sense. I just can't put my finger on how.

The rambling way E.B. talked to himself when he was alone. Specifically, the rambling way E.B. disparaged himself when he was alone.

Hell, I think he sounds like Sanderson as Sebastian in Blade Runner. Although it is possible that Fight For Your Life may hold some clues.

Holy fucking shit.

This strip.

This strip.

Those knives!

I THINK MY HEART'S EXPLODIN, THESE KNIVES!

I was never a particularly big fan of Nice Pete, but after this strip and "I am the father of modern death!" I'm provoked to rethink my position.

Only his mother calls him Nice Peter.

He kills anyone else that calls him that.

Nice Pete has mommy issues.

Why doesn't he ever use his full name?

Nice Peter

That sounds so very wrong.

God damn I never did think of that don't you know

I fell to pondering why Pete would be buying a tux for a wedding when he doesn't know if he's invited. I think he means Beef's wedding.

We should go out to the woods with Pete more often: the cold gray woods with the pale sunlight and the half-seen things moving about on the edges of your vision. The moist cherry pie is indecent; a wicked blandishment; it must needs be dressed with the six entrails. Flow-charts are perfect for the mind of a ritual killer; the cycling, meticulous delusions and obscure compulsions. I am haunted by this strip.

asherdan and i first-based while listening to tangerine dream.

Roast Beef now has yet another reason to be afraid of creeks.

i skipped this one and decided to come back later, it was too early for nice pete. glad i did.

When I think of a 'cherry pie on that stone there', I think of a human head beaten against a rock in the humid midday afternoon by a creek, the little dancing trickles of blood glistening like the red slice of a rainbow was taken out by itself.

Dashed heads and their (former) contents really look nothing like the innards of a cherry pie. Don't fall for Hollywood's lies.

Well, it would be a fresh kill. Pete would have some sort of prison method for doing it to get the maximum amount of blood out, to make an honest man proud of the work involved

The pie is as lie

Sry :(

Chemus Witch and Jennywater. I would like to officially register my extreme respect for Onstads ability to conjure an entire image and history for fictional objects by merely NAMING them well (e.g. Margreaux Dog). Possibly one of his greatest talents.

I, too, went on a Google frenzy after reading this strip.

The only thing that actually came up with a legitimate result was "chilblains".

Is Pete actually making a "Some of your blood" reference there?

This is the first strip I ever saw. What does it say about me that I chose to keep reading?

That you enjoy things that are good.

asherdan and i made out while watching "red dawn".

I have never seen Nice Pete look so disappointed as when he sins in thought against his mother