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Rodney Leonard Stubbs Friday, January 27, 2006 • read strip Viewing 51 comments:

the following post will be understood by people who live - or have lived - in Brisbane, Australia:

Don't you think with that hat on Ray's dad looks like he goes to BBC? (except no one from BBC could ever actually win a fight)

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Did....did you just insult the hat of The Man with the Blood on his Hands? That is NOT a thing, dude. That is not even CLOSE to a thing.

I hear you.

Yes, yes this is true for the neck up. Someone from BBC would never jeans and a singlet, that is commoners clothing.

(BTW: Go Brisbane! In any kind of way!)

Brisbane! Choice bro!

True!

True dat.

I ride with Rodney. Awesome.

How is it that Rodney's fake name is more normal-sounding than his real name?

I wonder how much weight Ray is benching there. I mean, he's a cat, so it's probably, what, like 14 pounds or something?

My money was on the Toronto Man Machine.

How does one come up with a name like that anyhow?

Mayhap he was a cyber-organic individual from the capital of Ontario.

Perchance he was a modern day John Henry from the home of the CN Tower.

Could be he was a member of The Village People.

I think he was an early robot, living back in a time when the animal and stuffed animal populace scarcely understood what "automaton" meant. Hence the archaic monniker "Man Machine".

There is a factory in North Ontario
With dream comfort memory to spare,
And in my mind I still need a place to go,
All my changes were there.

Blue, blue windows behind the stars,
Yellow moon on the rise,
Big birds flying across the sky,
Throwing shadows on our eyes.
Leave us

Helpless, helpless, helpless


OHHH SHIIIIIIIIIT

I like Rodney's quote- "I just beat the asses of three thousand men. The hell you leave me alone."

The way that we know that our world is not awesome is that there are no opportunities to use that phrase in everyday life.

Ramses Luther Smuckles is probably the only person who could present a real challenge for Cornelius Bear at the Badass Games. I don't know if there could be a winner.

They'd just stare each other down and make a silent gentleman's agreement to never tell anyone that they were equals in badassery.

Samson performed a beatdown of Biblical proportions, he took out 1000 men with an ass's jawbone and then killed several thousand more by pushing over a building with his bare hands .

If he were alive, he may have been the only other man qualified to use it.

Agreed. But... but... wouldn't it be two thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine men? Or did he get himself accidentally in the process?

Because he knew he was going to win, Ray's dad made the judges add another contestant so he could beat an even three thousand.

The dude so raw he beat down himself.

It is possible he is allowed, after cracking skulls and breaking necks, he was allowed to over-exaggerate and round up one contestant. I know the Smuckles are a proud and precise family, but this is my supposition.

you and everybody else in the world

You can tell Rodney is Ray's dad because they wear the same glasses.

And they have the same medallion!

how do you google stuff on e-bay? is that a joke or is it logical but i am too dense too realize it?

I think the joke is that google is such a normal word now that it can be understood to mean "retrieved" even in an arena in which Google, the company, does not operate. It's like when my mom is looking over my shoulder and sees that the name of a website is Facebook and still asks if I'm looking at my Myspace. To be a successful website is to be mistaken for every other successful website.

This is probably not untrue, but I find it more likely that Ray just doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.

Ray's only confirmed Internet skill is the ability to buy things. It may be that he can't find any information online except by buying up a whole bunch of primary sources and waiting for them to be shipped to his house: in this case, an old newspaper clipping, a commemorative pin, and a spectators' ticket from the '73 GOF. If you have Ray's kind of money and can afford to ship things Same Day Airwolf, this might actually be a more reliable way of getting information than simply Googling things up on Wikipedia.

I like to think he actually just thinks that anytime you search for anything anywhere on the internet it's called "googling" and ebay is the only website that ray understands to he just searches for everything there and calls it googling.

I think the word for that is "antonomasia", according to the dictionary. Because wikipedia hella sucks.

Teodor's lookin' pretty slim here.

Thursday Blogs

Pat: Shopping cart incident.
Teodor: TEODOR'S PHOTOSHOP PHRIDAY
Little Nephew: i B moless'ted by mah Thought$$

"I may Lett her explo' tha Science of mah Nature."

In which Pat shoves a salami down a shopper's pants.

I absolutely wish when I went to the gym that there was a guy there benching, and going "AGH, PFFF, AGHHH, PFF" as he does it.
For some reason this sounds just great to me.

Ramses fought in '73 out of San Francisco! Awesome, SF reprasent!

[IMGS OFF]

Sweet, that GOF bulletin was written on my birthday. I feel unworthy..

the GOF bulletin was written by my friend's dad. He also plays the harmonica.

"the man with the blood on his hands" is easily one of the most bad-ass nicknames I've ever heard, fictional or otherwise.

he says "check it" like ali g. that's all i need to 5 this.

Mad attention to detail Herr Onstat: the scratched into the photographic emulsion signature of R.L. Stubbs 1973. That's so 1920. Kudos.

I spend much of my time googling stuff up on eBay.

Ray's Dad anticipated the rise of Versace glasses, but not cat thongs. Still, pretty impressive.

I personally love this story arc the most. IT. IS. SO. EPIC.

I just noticed that Teodor looks suspiciously skinny in this strip. how come?