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Beef Gets a Shirt from Molly Wednesday, February 18, 2004 • read strip Viewing 144 comments:

A comment left by andyk was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by wharfrat, michellemarie, the_dingle, luckypyjamas, thedudeabides85, Shinkicka)

he also chews his nails. what you would expect. onstad doesn't miss the little things.

Oh GOD I didn't even notice that. I never knew there could be a little detail that little.

Apparently neither do you. A chubby my good man.

Poor Beef... He doesn't even realize that Teodor only wears the shirt that Penny made for him , and Philippe has never accosted him for his arrogance.

Stupid depression.

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This one's an easy five. Never fails to crack me up.

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Were they new shoes?

You are so ARROGANT!

Here comes an arrogant girl!

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What about the "ENORMOUS By Ray Smuckles" shirt? That's about as arrogant as shirts come.

Poor Beef. This is what depression is like.

everyone on assetbar understands?

Right now, Roast Beef totally reminds me of myself. I guess just about everyone thinks that, though. That's what makes him such a good character.

I've put together a really neat looking outfit at the store and just hung all the clothes back up and left the store because I know I wouldn't like right in nice things.

Onstand MUST have had depression. There's no way someone without could understand this sort of rediculousnss

I typed part of a response before deleting it, full of shame for my arrogant self thinking I could write up a comment to an Achewood strip.

So basically my original comment was that it might be a terrible thing when you get where Beef's coming from.

It is the saddest thing.

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oh, poor beef.

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you are so ARROGANT

Molly takes all the internet detectives to school. Tracking down someone while you're in heaven is COMPLETELY RAW .

Also, The contradiction between Philippe's character and what he says in beef's mind is delightful.

Yes! If it were anyone but Philippe you would imagine them saying 'You are so ARROGANT!' in a kind of angry sassy voice, but because it is him I imagine him sounding just sort of hurt and let down. I am disappointed , his little raised otter arms seem to say. I thought that Roast Beef was a good man, a man (cat?) who knew the value of humility.

Teodor's reproach is similarly entertaining. This time. Teodor has reprimanded Beef in his head before.

(Also, ain't no way I am going to try typing an accented 'e' in this messed-up bbcode thing . What's wrong with html, eh?)

I hear Philippe almost chearing him on, because I doubt that lil otter knows the meaning of the word.

It's all about hubris, and DEFINITELY not having hubris.

Is that pi on the back of the shirt? Because that would make it even more awesome, 'specially for Beef.

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I had the same problem a few years back with Dilbert's shirt. Your assesment is correct.

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I *read* Dilbert *a few years back*

You got a chubby for "silly cockchops"

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You're gonna get a lame for laming 'silly cockchops'

you get a lame for laming someone who lamed for chubbying 'silly cockchops'

I like cheese!
There. Chain broken. Let's move along.

Dilbert is hella terrible.

It was not always thus.

No, that's true. Once...it was...OKAY.

"blammed"?

twenty five XP for "cockchops"

wow do NOT mention back pleats on assetbar.

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pleat?

I am thoroughly digging the combination of your avatar and comment.

Beef looks so excited about a pleat that he can't even believe it.

chubbied for pointing this out, thank you! It made me do a face like in my own avatar.

What an endearing grin!

I always do this when I go shopping in stores. I end up getting clothes from Goodwill so no one will think I am pompous.

Then they just think you're being pretentious/ironic instead. There ain't no winning.

This is why I can't wear my awesome eraserhead shirt.

If somebody lays into your Eraserhead shirt, start just basically acting like Nice Pete. Tilt your head and let out a really long shriek. Perhaps start pushing the nearest object with your face.

Works even better with men-size 13 purple pumps.

BUT THOSE MAKE YOU LOOK CHEAP, MISTER DRACULA!

YOU KNOW I NEED SPECIAL PUMPS TO BE OUT IN SOCIETY

Poor Beef. I have owned, and worn, many shirts that were far worse than that one.

man, even phillipe rags on beef in his imagination! who hasn't been there? people with genuine self-esteem i guess

Lyle isn't there, because Beef is afraid of what his paranoid depression would turn the already harsh Lyle into. That's my guess, at least.

I don't remember writing this. Oh, I didn't.

Man, I always get you guys with your Nice Pete murder icon avatars mixed up. How many of you are there?

i think three.

I changed!

Zebedee!

I own this color strip, it hangs on my wall, because it pretty much defines my teen years. Also, my lady bought it for me, because she knows this, which is also rad.

Who do you think you are, putting on such airs!

This strip should be on a shirt.

Truly, all of Beef's depression strips are right on. The one where he can't go to the grocery store is achingly brilliant.

*you get points for using the word "achingly"*

Poor Beef, his crippling anxieties and depressions even pursuade him that Phillipe would say such a thing.

Beef's shirt is from Pier I

It looks like Beefs a nailbiter as well.

That the only logical conclusion is that he bury the shirt makes the strip. A quintessential Roast Beef moment.

An easy five. This one is really, really, really good. It is good that someone made a comic like this.

When I finally get a signed copy of a strip, it will be this one.

This happens to me except I picked out the shirt and already paid for it and already lost the receipt.

I always laugh at this one but at the same time I feel really really bad for Roast Beef.

It says as much about Roast Beefs character when he buttons the top button on a polo as the castigation does.

Look at you in that new shirt! Hahaha the best part.

I totally understand this, Someone buys you clothes because they think you will look good in them, but you think they are different from you. so you are scared people will notice that and cast aspersions...

My Mother gifts me with ROOTS clothing, usually with a plethora of maple leaves and beavers. I wear them when we have family gatherings, which I believe misleads her into buying more. Damn.

We don't want to know about your mom's beavers.

Speak for yourself. I got beaver fever!

I think that can be easily cleared up with some of the more popular antibiotics these days. Please do not resort to utilizing a fumigation of mercury. While it will doubtless fill the rest of us with amusement it will likely not ameliorate your condition.

My mom shaves anyhow.

What?

I implied that fineoakstructure had contracted syphilis from having relations with one of yours. I advised him not to seek a no longer popular treatment for this illness as it is largely curable by other methods.

No I understood your point. The comment was for FOS.

I am so like this sometimes. All imagining my own angry accusations coming out of the mouths of my friends.

I would so be like this. All imagining my own angry accusations coming out of the mouths of my friends... If I had friends.

i've actually had this feeling on several occasions...same with his grocery store problem

I've never empathized with a character as much as this.

This strip elicits from me tears of empathy and self-recognition.

he could have used it as sort of a make-shift nervousness blanket

Again I am confused. Does the degree to which I ache for Beef indicate that I must give the strip a five? Despite the pain it evokes? Because of the pain? Oh man I don't know about this

Look at you in that new 5!
How could you BE so cocky?!

She really blew it this time!

It takes a unique lady to love a fellow who buries her presents in the yard

Especially because he's a cat and not a dog.

This is how I feel when buying new clothes 90% of the time

dang I meant to make that comment pro

no beef no WEAR IT OUT LOUD

I mean, besides the obvious hilarity of Beef burying a shirt, Philipe's imagined anger is what really gets me.

That actually happened to me once. But I didn't let it get me down. Just took ma pills and went on ma way.

even phillipe can see the arrogance of owning a new shirt!

One of my personal favorites. This is exactly how I feel when I get new clothes. There must be something wrong with us (Beef and I) if we can't wear new clothes without feeling like douche bags.

I second that crippling, dehumanizing emotion.

aw poor beef

This is the most disheartening thing I have ever read.

Only Beef could imagine Philippe angry.

Roast Beef is the guy who sucks.

Plus he got depression.

Does Roast Beef bite his nails too? He never mentions this, but I guess it would be like mentioning you left a gaseous ghost on the elevator.

This is of course what I do with all of my arrogant clothes.

This is basically what goes on in my life.

i WISH it were pi on the back of his shirt. i think i'll go make me one. yarp.

I wonder if Roast Beef has ever been asked by Molly since they moved in with each other 'Where is that nice shirt I sent you?'

"Oh uh it must have gotten lost in the mail you know those postal workers ain't too good at getting things to a place

No they ain't too good at all"

this got a 4, mainly because of Lil P's " You are so ARROGANT! "

Only a four???

I brought cake and lemonade for the party, but no one else came, so I cried.

The end.

I'm here. We are so lame.

thank god i'm not the only one...

Hey guys!

I brought balloons!
They have Elmo on them!

Blow me ... I mean, I'll blow up one of those Elmo balloons.

Pogo! You made it! How was the traffic? Here, have some delicious lemonade!

[IMGS OFF]

A scene from Pogo's youth inthe '50s.

He's second from the left, in the purple

Second from the left is in white.

I'd post a picture of a left and right hand held up so that the thumb and forefinger of the left hand form an "L", but I can't find one with Google Image Search.

Listen: do you know how drunk I am most times I post on here?

The answer is: sorta, some of the time. Let's just assume this was one of those times.

Word up, we are from the future, 10/8/08 or so, a lame weekend stuck with a strip for days, so someone, maybe I_hate_kate, said let's party back in 2/18/04.

And then he blew off his own party!

pssht. whatev!

he's missing pogo's sexy youth

I stopped reading Achewood for a while after this strip. It made me sad that Beef never seemed to be allowed any happiness.
2004 was an odd year.

I kind of hear their voices as Roast Beef imitating how I usually hear their voices. His Phillipe probably the best.

Who sends a shirt with a symbol of pie on the back of it?

I mean, REALLY.

Molly Ringwald does. She knows Beef well.

I felt like this in high school.

He reall blew it that time!

Wearing a shirt is hard when you are from Circumstances.

'member, guys:

we. are. all. rad.

I have this experience whenever I try to wear a buttoned shirt on a non-special occasion.

Molly, Molly, Molly... Hmmm. Ain't she dead?

Read more.

No, Charlie Brown is dead.