syrinx
+19 -0
The most important thing about this strip is it finally brings to attention the phenomenon of late middle-aged women becoming real estate agents. I suppose it's so they can have access to all those houses they wish they could have been rich enough to buy when THEY were an eager young newlywed couple.
The most important thing about this strip is it finally brings to attention the phenomenon of late middle-aged women becoming real estate agents. I suppose it's so they can have access to all those houses they wish they could have been rich enough to buy when THEY were an eager young newlywed couple.
chaesar
+0 -0
A comment left by chaesar was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by riotdejaneiro, Ananke, sevenarts, dj, morbo)
A comment left by chaesar was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by riotdejaneiro, Ananke, sevenarts, dj, morbo)
tagrineth
+14 -0
Chasing the dragon... through a magical forest... while shooting up heroin
Chasing the dragon... through a magical forest... while shooting up heroin
soticoto
+6 -0
And the Cleric is all out of Cure Condition spells.
And the Cleric is all out of Cure Condition spells.
cracker
+10 -1
To cure the condition of having run out of eggs.
To cure the condition of having run out of eggs.
7th_shot
+3 -2
No
No
shakey
+2 -0
Smoking not shooting.
Chasing the dragon refers to inhaling the smoke from heated morphine, heroin or opium that has been placed on a piece of foil. The 'chasing' occurs as the user gingerly keeps the liquid moving in order to keep it from coalescing into a single, unmanageable mass.
Smoking not shooting.
Chasing the dragon refers to inhaling the smoke from heated morphine, heroin or opium that has been placed on a piece of foil. The 'chasing' occurs as the user gingerly keeps the liquid moving in order to keep it from coalescing into a single, unmanageable mass.
gitarooman
+0 -0
Actually the term 'chasing the dragon' generally refers to someone trying to chase that first high. However I never really understood that because it seems like the first time someone does heroin it's just like "that's it?". Trust me on this one, i'm a recovering addict. You did nail the etymology of it though.
p.s. only nerds 'smoke' heroin
Actually the term 'chasing the dragon' generally refers to someone trying to chase that first high. However I never really understood that because it seems like the first time someone does heroin it's just like "that's it?". Trust me on this one, i'm a recovering addict. You did nail the etymology of it though.
p.s. only nerds 'smoke' heroin
pohlhoud
+0 -0
A comment left by pohlhoud was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by Overmedicated, Axhoola, Zem)
A comment left by pohlhoud was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by Overmedicated, Axhoola, Zem)
norsef
+2 -1
For some reason that line really makes me think of The Watchmen. I guess its Rorschach's joke about the depressive going to see a psychologist. I won't say it here just in case someone hasn't read it. Shame on you hypothetical comic reader!
Anyway, that line is a real stone cold classic.
For some reason that line really makes me think of The Watchmen. I guess its Rorschach's joke about the depressive going to see a psychologist. I won't say it here just in case someone hasn't read it. Shame on you hypothetical comic reader!
Anyway, that line is a real stone cold classic.
boredom_man
+1 -1
The depressed clown joke? Alan Moore didn't write that joke, it's in the first chapter, and it's not actually supposed to be funny . I'd spoil it, but Doctor, I am Pagliacci.
The depressed clown joke? Alan Moore didn't write that joke, it's in the first chapter, and it's not actually supposed to be funny . I'd spoil it, but Doctor, I am Pagliacci.
smowton
+1 -0
I think you're remembering Rorschach's comment that the Comedian was lonely because "nobody else got the joke".
I think you're remembering Rorschach's comment that the Comedian was lonely because "nobody else got the joke".
paperboy_2000
+3 -0
"Everything save the commemorative plastic cup and game piece" and "The scent of spade-work lingers in his olfactory bulbs" are great lines. Far more poetic than the ketchup slurper deserves.
"Everything save the commemorative plastic cup and game piece" and "The scent of spade-work lingers in his olfactory bulbs" are great lines. Far more poetic than the ketchup slurper deserves.
jackparsons
+2 -0
The scent of spade-work is strong there is no need for Flemen's Smile; the veromonasal organ may rest unmolested.
The scent of spade-work is strong there is no need for Flemen's Smile; the veromonasal organ may rest unmolested.
honesttom
+2 -0
I like Ray's expression in the final panel. Part regretful, part evil satisfaction.
I like Ray's expression in the final panel. Part regretful, part evil satisfaction.
echidnaboy
+0 -0
Mostly the latter.
When I grow up I want to be just like Ray.
Mostly the latter.
When I grow up I want to be just like Ray.
i_love_kate
+3 -0
Alt Text: "Reprogramming Bensington sounds like a great '80s sitcom about a low-class rapper who moves to an affluent neighbourhood."
Is it wrong to up a strip's score based on its alt text?
Alt Text: "Reprogramming Bensington sounds like a great '80s sitcom about a low-class rapper who moves to an affluent neighbourhood."
Is it wrong to up a strip's score based on its alt text?
falseprophet
+4 -0
If it's wrong, no one else on assetbar wants to be right.
If it's wrong, no one else on assetbar wants to be right.
hyetal
+1 -0
The alt text is as much a part of the creative work as the illustration, dialogue, blogs, characters' histories, the comic's file name... you like it, you rate it the hell up.
The alt text is as much a part of the creative work as the illustration, dialogue, blogs, characters' histories, the comic's file name... you like it, you rate it the hell up.
dybrar
+0 -0
uua41rLJJ.gif definitely speaks to me on several levels.
uua41rLJJ.gif definitely speaks to me on several levels.
hypoluxa
+0 -0
I've done it a WHOLE lot.
I've done it a WHOLE lot.
nigelchaos
+6 -0
NOW this is a story all about how my life got flipped turned upside down...
NOW this is a story all about how my life got flipped turned upside down...
tropicana
+3 -0
Does anyone else think that the last panel implies that Ray is also appearing the dreams of chubby, menopausal, female real estate agents?
Does anyone else think that the last panel implies that Ray is also appearing the dreams of chubby, menopausal, female real estate agents?
semiquaver
+0 -0
You noticed, too?
You noticed, too?
stormagnet
+0 -0
"Zounds!"
Was that a Spaceman Spiff shout-out there, or do mine eyes deceive?
"Zounds!"
Was that a Spaceman Spiff shout-out there, or do mine eyes deceive?
karljw
+3 -0
Might be a shout-out (it's highly probable Onstad is a C&H enthusiast, as there are several strips that could be interpreted as allusions or homages), but "zounds" is actually a mild oath from olden times, a contraction of "God's wounds" coined by Shakespeare.
THE MORE YOU KNOW
Might be a shout-out (it's highly probable Onstad is a C&H enthusiast, as there are several strips that could be interpreted as allusions or homages), but "zounds" is actually a mild oath from olden times, a contraction of "God's wounds" coined by Shakespeare.
THE MORE YOU KNOW
terribleman
+0 -0
So it should be pronounced "zoonds"?
So it should be pronounced "zoonds"?
deusoma
+7 -0
The line "He knows his own punchline, and that ruins the joke" is one of the very best in all of Achewood.
The line "He knows his own punchline, and that ruins the joke" is one of the very best in all of Achewood.
wozzeck
+0 -0
It was kind of ruined for me by having already read "The joke is we all have the same punchline."
It was kind of ruined for me by having already read "The joke is we all have the same punchline."
thedice
+0 -0
So true.
So true.
wrmeade
+1 -0
Reprogramming Benjamin? That was my favorite show of the mid-to-late 80s!
Reprogramming Benjamin? That was my favorite show of the mid-to-late 80s!
epoc_jones
+1 -0
i know!!
the show's theme all Kraftwerk's Computer Love...
protagonist all lookin' like tom selleck after a 12-day bender..
i know!!
the show's theme all Kraftwerk's Computer Love...
protagonist all lookin' like tom selleck after a 12-day bender..
terribleman
+0 -0
Just like Tom Selleck!
Just like Tom Selleck!
Ray's eyebrows make this strip for me