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Guest Strip by Jeff Rowland / Wigu.com Tuesday, December 30, 2003 • read strip Viewing 38 comments:

And damn, this one too. Ray is on the money.

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fair enough

it was hard to pass up though

I chubbied because

Probably my favorite guest strip, photo finish with "You are payink for all eternities!"

"It's already ringing" killed me for five minutes straight back in the day.

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he looks like a little koala.

The best part is the beginnings of the 'stach in panel 6. Also, Lyle has apparently owned that skull shirt for most of his life.

Jeffrey Rowland is also one of my Top Five Webcomics Dudes.

Who are the other three?

John Allison, Jerry Holkins, and Aaron Diaz.

Good choices. But no Ryan North?

It's hard to make the top 5.

Ryan North is in my top 10, though.

Who are the other four?

I can't believe I gave a 5 to a guest strip, but this one is great. Still, it's tough having all of these guest strips in the middle of one of the best story arcs.

Tiny hairlip lyle is adorable.

Jeffery Rowland, Ryan North, and Chris Onstand have probably saved webcomics, quality-wise.

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It's about as much a word as "dammit" is.

If by that you mean they are both in the dictionary and are technically correct...

The problem is with "damnit", "dammit" is perfectly alright.

I remember this strip vaguely. I actually thought it was by Onstad himself.

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Are you saying this hsould or should not be a five?

As professorhazard would say, It is unclear.

Achewood is my first webcomic and my only. Some others that I've seen seem ridiculous. But based on the fact that Jeff Rowland did two of the tightest guest strips, I'll have to find out who he is. I realize that this may be a slippery slope.

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panel 5, top part: the gorilla has a kind of angus young thing goin' on...

I want to give this strip less than 5 because overcompensating annoys me so, but it just goes to show how amazingly fucking funny j.r. can be when he's not being painfully sophomoric.

this strip is amazing, best guest strip most def

BRILLIANT! Simply Brilliant

5-er

OH MAN I THOUGHT TO MYSELF "THIS SHIT SEEMS LIKE SOMETHING ROWLAND WOULD DO/LOVE" Then I saw the alt-text and was happy as all get-out.

People... Hating on guest strips is like hating on Miles Davis' version of 'Round Midnight by Thelonious Monk, or the Beatles' version of Twist and Shout .

I don't know why, but the way the gorilla is picking through his wallet instead of, I don't know, walking off with a fistful of milk money really makes this strip for me.

Rowland's Phillipe is the cutest freking thing. The little details in Lyle's (coiled matress, scattered CDs) really make this one for me.

This is my favourite guest strip - Philippe's eyes in the first panel, "Gorillas are nice animals that are like people", Young Lyle's teeth and something about Ray's stance in the last panel. These things.