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The Lonesomest Car in Hell Tuesday, December 2, 2003 • read strip Viewing 66 comments:

Best depiction of Hell since Dante.

I especially like the roads. Reminds me of the various tunnels and motorways in the city.

I bet getting around Hell is really hard. All one-way roads, improperly signposted.

wherever you're going, that's right where you are...
and nobody knows it but me.

I imagine it is like driving in the cambridge area for the first time.

like the damned ol' indian reservations in arizona(etc).

like the damned ol' indian reservations in arizona(etc).

Serious, with the last arc and this one a whole new dimension of gnarly creepy artwork is added to Achewood. Fucking great, this.

always suspected the Colonel was one of Satan's minions...

You rang?

He does put an addictive chemical in his chicken...

They say that MSG stands for "Makes Stuff Good."

This should be a lot closer to 5.

In Hell, the KFC is always open.

And is adjacent to Taco Bell.

There would be a Long John Silvers there too, but there only in the first circle of hell, not the seventh...

I mean "they're". Dammit, I'm one of those people...

I am imagining that Ray bought one of those feed-trough 'bowls.' Only he probably ordered extra gravy and topped it off with an entire chicken breast.

Crap. Make that a bucket with a side of gravy in which to dip the chicken.
I'm the one who suuucks.

I bet the KFC in hell is where the double down was created.

This would have to be my favourite speech-free strip.

This strip reminds me of university :D

i like the idea of a kfc in hell, but i don't know why.

Me too. I like imagining that it's really expensive though, and there's no chicken fried steak meals on Wednesdays.

And they always leave out your fucking biscuit.

And they have livers and gizzards like in Arkansas.

I always thought it would be free, but the place is empty, and only static greets you at the ordering speaker. All the lights are on, and the stoves and fryers are on too, but you see no food and there is no there. When you sit in a booth you feel the overwhelming feeling of being watched by something your mind is incapable of imagaining. When you go to the bathroom you are so overcome with fear you cry. If the lights turn out they won't turn on again.

I'm not entirely sure why, but that last sentence terrified me.

The rocky outcropping in panel 2 looks like a fat man's gnarled nipples.

Oh God, I see it too now.

May this relieve you: the rocky outcropping above Ray's car in panel 1 looks like part of a nude woman's body.

I'm trying to work out if it's the front or back

Front, from below the ribcage to above the knee.... I thought maybe I should have been more specific.

Onstad did it deliberately y'know.
Hell is closed vadge and many moobs.

Fuck you.

Dammit dammit dammit it's taken this strip somewhere it shouldn't.

hehehehehe

Look how classy Ray is.

He drives through hell, all smooth and calm. Not a single sign of fear in his face, nor excitement. He looks left, looks forward... interested, yes. Dignified curiosity behind his Versace glasses.

This is Ray. Ray is classy.

except he's eating KFC

Hell is apparently a pretty casual place where you can just drop in, hang out, do what you need and then leave

The kicker is when you try to order anything you actually want, they're all out . The worst part of it all is....all the biscuits are STALE. Or is it the Pepsi? Man, I fucking hate Pepsi.

lol you're picture goes so well with this i can imagine philippe getting so pissed off about stale biscuits and pepsi instead of the real stuff in hell i bet philippe went to hell for killing bambis mother (see don't even need to name it! pepsi will never be good enough for the real stuff) lol

Last 2 times I had KFC I sat on the toilet all night with the Jimmy Smits. Never again.

Sure they weren't pimp skitters?

I wonder if it costs money at the KFC? How do businesses in Hell operate, I wonder?

I imagine hell has excellent buy-on-credit opportunities. The passenger seat of that Brat was just littered with pre-approved Discover cards and such.

You get it on credit
But you have no way of making any money, ever

And every day the creditors call you
they ask when you will make a payment
this happens every day

And you can't make that payment

That actually sounds about right.

And you can't commit suicide, because you're in Hell.

And down in the ground
you grow horns and a tail
and you carry a fork
and mold away!

*burn away

man i'm so jonesing for some fried chicken.

Hell actually looks manageable.

So I guess Ray isn't vegetarian for this arc after all?

Who's going to bother after they're dead?

I mean, besides Pat.

This is definitely a Hell I'd be curious to check out.

Going vegan helped get Ray down to Hell that much quicker, so he has no problem grabbing a bucket of Colonel and a pint of dippin' gravy.

Joke's on Ray. This is actually Kentucky Fried Cacodemon.

Everyone says hell would be bad! But you get a car to drive around in, a spiffy hat and there is a KFC

I'm not sure why they gave Ray a car. I mean, whenever I drive in my car I have this strange sense of "protected-ness" like it's made out of tank armour or something and nothing outside can hurt me. You'd think they wouldn't want that feeling in Hell.

it's so when something horrible does happen to you, it's unexpected

this strip is perfect achewood

Hell isn't so bad, apparently. A lot better than my town.

Two excellent things about Onstad's vision of hell:

1. Drive through KFCs.
2. Hell reminds me of the Underworlds in Super Mario Bros.

Ray ain't concerned.

I imagine the sound of yodeling reverberating around the hellish chasms as Ray blithely cruises around. Because his hat smacks of Cliffhanger from The Price is Right.

who wouldnt?