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Philippe Goes Deaf Friday, February 16, 2007 • read strip Viewing 65 comments:

poor little phillipe

Not to mention poor little Philippe.

Why not?

Not to mention the poor little turtle.

Deafness immediately causes wrap-around Picard baldness and a math teacher mustache.

I believe that hairstyle is referred to as the "fornander".

A comment left by soticoto was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by pwb, 7th_shot, Bobothebum, puguglypress)

uh...what? fornander is my ex's last name, and he once sported that style. how patrick stewart came across this information is beyond me.

I think your ex owes Patrick Stewart an apology.

Everyone owes Patrick Stewart an apology on some level.
I can't even play Oblivion (TESIV) without getting hella remorse that I let Patrick Stewart's character die in the intro... and always end up committing seppuku in-game.

I had never before realized that was him, Soticoto. Now I have to play it AGAIN, damnit.

How could anyone ever not recognize Patrick Stewart's voice?
I mean, I recognize every member of the TNG cast instantly (Mass Effect. Marina Sirtis. Awesome.), but I assumed everyone could recognize Patrick Stewart in a similar amount of time.

It got him his knighthood.

Did you ever watch gargoyles? It was like they went to the closeout sale for the end of TNG and just bought up all the spare actors.

dude, you are 24, and you dated a guy that bald?

it wasn't natural hair loss. he's my age, he shaved his hair that way.

that is crazy.

crazy AWESOME

No, just regular type

men who bald prematurely should be denied sexual lovin'?

Have you seen how young Patrick Stewart's girlfriend is? The dude likes love.

He's a charming guy, but with that voice alone a man could be a box with wheels and still win him some tang on the regular.

Someone lamed you because of a problem.

first mention of phillipe's father?

No, earlier on they say his dad died.

Phillipe looks amazing here.

Yup https://achewood.com/index.php?date=01292002

Might even be one before that, this was the first one that came to mind.

Phillipe's expression in the first panel breaks my heart every time.

Totally. You would have to have a heart made of stone to not feel just a little bit sad by a hurting Philippe... especially if you're a Freezepop fan.

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Lyle isn't Sodom, yo.

...boned?

I wonder if Phillipe's father is bald, as the little otter always imagines himself as such in the far future.

When I am having a bad day I find there's nothing better than seeing someone run over a turtle with a car.

I'm pretty sure me and Lyle know the same guy. Drinks nothing but bargain gin. I like him, even though he's a little racist, but you know, what can you do.

I guess I'm a little racist
but what's a guy to do-
I like to judge people based on their ethnic background,
I'm glad I judged you.

Not enough chubbies in the world for this.

Not enough chubblies in the world, period.

I love how Beef spaces out in the third panel as his fantasy runs away with him.

how important is it that lyle knows a guy? how hard is it to drive to the pet store to get a turtle, but not allow the turtle into the car when it's time to drive out of the parking lot?

and i'm in the pool with dudes who have declared that phillipe is really well-drawn here.

That makes me sad for turtles. heh heh.

My guess is "harder for stuffed animals than for humans."

For Philippe, baldness requires growing more hair.

An aged Phillipe always seems to have more hair. It's a thing.


It's like on humans, how your ears and nose don't stop growing.

I like how accurate Phillipe's subconscious/imaginary Lyle is to the real one.

Phillippe's deafness keeps Lyle from aging, apparently.

I find it strange that I'm the first one to mention this, but for some reason I feel that Beef is stoned out of his mind in panel three.
After all, he's done cocaine once!

Philippe makes a very cute elderly otter.

This one reminds me of Ralphie's going-blind fantasy from A Christmas Story.

I told you not to use LifeBuoy!

Whoa, MY father once knew a man too.
Freaky.

Don't feel so special. Everyone's father has known at least one man.
And perhaps a lady.

This was actually the first strip I read. I had no idea what the hell was going on .

the first time i read this i thought that those grey patches were ear covers so his cochlea wouldn't eject out and break a large sheet of glass that two guys in overalls were carrying across a street.

So did I, but then I thought, "Why would he bandage his upper lip / grow a mustache suddenly?" And realized he must be old.

The alt text adds a whole new perspective to the strip!

Philippe ain't five

HE IS FIVE!

Bitchslap Pikachu DOES NOT APPROVE

A great thing: a hair had fallen on my laptop's screen on panel 3, and the way it was placed gave the motion-lined appearance that Beef's head was actually spinning around.

Lyle's Decision-Making Flowchart: Phillipe's Head Edition

How is today? -----> Pretty sweet
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|->[ SUCKS ] [ imbibe ]
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[ Run over a turtle with a car ]


pretend the italics match each other.

I'd rather pretend the down arrows are bare ascii tang.

My father also knew a man, Philippe.

Beef is totally some thing else in panel three.