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Frankenstein Wednesday, March 17, 2004 • read strip Viewing 56 comments:

What did Todd want to know? We may never.

Oh my god. So chubbied. So hilarious.

It is the prime example of comedy that cannot be planned

I'm pretty sure it had something to do with the next day's comic, starring Captain Todd.

The nutrition factor of water, pretty much.

Volume of the average stinker?

I'm feeling pretty thick here for not understanding a comment with 201 chubbies, anyone feel like explaining it to me?

"Todd called. We had a good chat. He wanted to know if..."

The joke is that the comment about the cut-off line is in itself, a cut-off line.

If .

Ray is a multimillionaire, yet is still reduced to drawing on himself to pass the time? So much for the American Dream, I guess.

You can be rich and still have strange cares.

It's usually the easiest way, really.

If certain things no longer offer entertainment, you must re-evaluate your life. You've become jaded.

Like cake-sitting.

or coprophilia, in the case of chuck berry

That IS the American Dream.

Especially if it's a Mr. Sniff marker. ( Especially a grape one.

Pretend I closed those parentheses, OK? Thanks.

I am pretending so hard right now.

until they are so closed .

)

Ray does a great Roast Beef.

That's my favorite part of this strip, the fact that it actually sounds like Ray trying to talk like Roast Beef.

"Studied a microscope" pretty much gives it away.

I love how Beef doesn't want to trouble anyone, even after death.

Spending hours imagining all of the places he might be found dead and then listing them so no one has to look too hard. No one is as considerate as Beef.

my god i remember this strip word for word even from 2004. THIS is the one that made me fall in love with achewood.

Carryin' on in a way such as a fool does.

I love the contrast between Ray's entry and Beef's

I want to know more about the good chat Beef had with Todd.

I think it is symbolic that Ray is not blogging with his crown at this time.

i kinda like the idea that he only wears the crown after fucking a girl with a peeking thong.

It's because he didn't get Mad Rutty.

First Achewood strip. God, the dots around the arm always crack me up.

studied a microscope!

I have nothing funny to say about that, I can only laugh.

It is very sad that Ray keeps his arm held out for three full panels, hoping for Beef's approval of his arm dots.

for this reason, I 5'd this strip

Now I have 5'd three strips in a row, chronologically. They all made me laugh so much. It feels STRANGE.

Panel 4:
gives up
puts arm down

I love how Beef's journal goes from something as extreme as getting scalded in a hot water heater explosion to his good chat with Todd.

Funny that Roast Beef actually uses proper punctuation in his journal, after Ray mimics him as having none in the frame before.

I guess his particular mode of speech is really just his nervous anti-social behavior showing itself.

Note also that Ray makes the common mistake that Frankenstein was the name of the monster, not its creator. Beef, being Beef, gets it right.

Yes! That is a slightly irksome mistake a lot of people make. The monster ain't gotta name, guys, 'cause there was never anyone to nurture him.

He did have a name, it's just no one cared to hear it. :0(

It was Trey.

actually he's also wrong

Frankenstein was a student but he never finished, so he's not actually a Dr.

This happens to me all the time, mostly with my roommate. I'll have some great-but-mostly-silly idea, such as "I would be a really great ice chopper for boats in the arctic" or something, and he just has to puke all over it.

(I realize this vergest on GAB,YAW but was wondering if anyone had this happen to them, a friend nit-picking their fanciful ideas for no reason other than to be a dick)

This describes my relationship with pretty much everything in my life.

" Hey guys, it'd be kind of cool to be able to hold your breath underwater for upwards of ten minutes ."
"FUCK YOU POLAR BEARS CAN DO IT"
"yeah seriously why are you so IGNORANT"
" I'm just sayin' is all "
"SHUT UP SHUT UP WOOF WOOF"

rad = 5

Also - Ray: Times New Roman, Beef: Courier New.
Speaks volumes.

Same planet, different worlds. This is the exact thing I imagine happening whenever I talk to anyone, only going on in the grey matter instead of written down. I am usually Beef.

It was Colonel Mustard with the rope in the breakfast nook. (read the alt text)

Looking back through the archive, I realized that this strip is one of the more succint accounts of Ray and Roast Beef's relationship, what with both with Ray's R.B. impression and the presentation of both sides of the story.

Beef posts with the lights off

This could be my favourite comic

It's hard to say what is more stupid: Ray thinking that him drawing the dots on his arm was worth showing to someone, or Roast Beef for being a pedantic asshole