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french fry - new pants Thursday, February 7, 2002 • read strip Viewing 52 comments:

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Like Icarus, who flew too high...

The best laid plans of mice and fried potato slices...

A chubby for you sir!

Weebl's standards of education have informed me that it became what it is by making this sort of mistake in the first place.

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Alt text: "It was just a simple backside air." What the HELL, people?

"Backside air" is the name of a skateboard "manouver." Essentially, it means turning in the direction that your toes are pointing (or, your back is facing the forward direction). Also, in this case, we learn from the motion in the strip that french fry appears to be regular-footed, not goofy.

"manoeuvre"

or, apparently, maneuver.

Look man, I know , don't you think I know? I die inside just a little bit every time I see this comment again. Man, I ain't wanna become known on AssetBar as the guy who's always posting two replies under his own comments fixing the same spelling mistake twice. Do you know how many times I've done that?

Hey wait you just did that.

Are you suggesting I'm known on Assetbar?

swoon

Oh defintely! Wait, are you the guy who lamed people for posting the alt text without knowing that alt text wasn't available on assetbar in the early days? Or was that rowboat? I always get you mixed up with rowboat.

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!


Goddammit everyone had forgotten!

I apologised everywhere I did it.

Goddamn it.

Well, if I'm known as an ass, an ass I shall be!

Man, you should've just said that it was rowboat.

Don't worry, I think of you as an assetbar regular, and in the "good regular" category.

Rowboat trawls these old pages too. I'd be scuppered!

it could me worse.

...ah that works too.

Did anyone else laugh at "Backside air" and then immediately feel a deep, inexplicable shame?

I wouldn't call it inexplicable.

No, and yes.

backside air=a fart. haha!

God, haven't you played ANY of the Tony Hawk franchise?

You know, I haven't played any skating video game since Skate or Die on a PSII...and I mean the old IBM machine, not a playstation.

I knew it by actually skateboarding.

As if you think that's any less embarrassing.

Skateboarding is awesome and you'd be a damn fool if you didn't reconsider your position.

I guess I better recognise.

Word.

And they say fast-food is killing children?

Someone needs to think about the fast-food!

Philippe, the Equalizer.

When pulling illegal air down at your local bath tub, please, PLEASE watch out for the faucet.

i just think it's cute that the french fry with the shoe is saying 'I look just like a skater!'

I have to say for all the demises I imagined during this arc....I did not call backside air.

This is right up there with Calvin and the baby raccoon.

That was a fantastic story line! Onstad is definitely of Wattersonian calliber. well played.

Humor me.

This strip makes me imagine an Achewood Ragnarok in which Philippe destroys the Red Skate in such a way that makes some kind of allegorical statement.

PARGON PARGON PARGON

I only just noticed for the first time that French Fry is skating in a bathtub.

Are we entirely certain it's not a sink?

I am getting flashbacks to freshman year...so much grindage...

*tugging on collar, fanning self*

French fry . . . NOOOOO!!!

The french fry is standing on a little box, just like he was visiting a real tailor!

He shoulda hadda double stitch!

Atsa some-a strong-a steetch, you bet!

Now why would I want double-stitch? To pad your account, that's why. No, single-stitch will be fine.

What the heck, he such a nice man. I'm going to give him a double-stitch anyway.

I've always hated the tap end of the bath. Sod the taps man!

The french fry can make a good model, being all tall and skinny...

The french fry can make a good model, being all tall and skinny...

You're frightened of not being heard, aren't you?

In the most recent book, under this strip, Onstad's annotation describes what I think is supposed to be the true saddest thing.

"Charlie Brown finally kicks that football, only instead of a football, its the Little Red-Haired Girl's severed head, and right before the kick, she's about to say "I'll always love you."