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Seat Z-1. Monday, August 17, 2009 • read strip Viewing 675 comments:

Jesus Christ.

Congratulations Jesus Christ

You are

The Horrified Exclamation of the Week

Never fear, our hero is not greatly harmed

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Wow

a human's head inside a cat's cranium... i've seen it all!

A skull inside a skull?

Achewood, bringing you a more multilayered skullfuck.

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Ray is a homunculus who double sized himself for Halloween, found he liked it, worked in a cat theme, and settled in California without ever telling his friends or lovers about his secret identity. He's going to be in the best episode of Jerry Springer ever.

I appreciate that everyone's trying to make it not horrible as fuck, but seriously, fuuuuuuck

That word there.

That perfectly illustrates how horrible it is.

Jerry Springer? That's two...

I'm just glad this is Achewood, where most characters have already died several times and survived. It's traumatizing enough when I know that this probably just means another surreal trip to some sort of heaven or hell or something. If this happened in some sort of realistic movie or something, I'd be really, really freaked out right now, as opposed to just extremely surprised and slightly disturbed.

Have you heard of the film Stuck

No, and I'm not sure if this context makes me any more eager to hear about it.

A nursing assistant gets fucked up on something (I don't remember what.) She runs over a bum who gets stuck in her windshield and then she tries to hide the fact rather than going to the cops. HE'S STILL ALIVE.

By cops I mean emergency services.

By film I mean it was based on a true story . Also, it was directed by Stuart Gordon ( Reanimator ). I missed seeing it at a festival a few years back and I keep meaning to get around to it.

Some pretty horrible things happen.

so i hit this white man once..

Or Creepshow 2 if you're cool....
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Thanks for the ride, lady!

I'm pretty uncool.

Well, cut it out. Get cool now.

Maybe I'll get cool with yo momma.

Oh, no you dit-int...

rowboat's participation in this thread has made me ignore him/her.

Somehow, he'll/she'll find a way to cope....

Perhaps by making a string of "this comment by rowboat has been ignored" comments. I prefer motorboats.

Should I take this to mean that you wanna hook up?

I'm not sure what being rowboated would even entail!

But it would have to be an improvement over the cat-action scenario.

Gently down the stream....merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily....

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To stunned to say anything is good to.

actually if you check the source code the above post by the good Dr. manflesch consists of the following image:
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https://www.psittacine.com/images/BAMFight.jpg
which for some reason isn't being rendered by some/all browsers.

Thank you. That explains why a post from Dr m received chubbies normally reserved for harpo.

okay I think I might have it here...
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Google Chrome works with exactly nothing.

Truer words were never spoken, my son.

Remember how Zaphod Beeblebrox had sunglasses that automatically turned opaque whenever he was in danger, preventing him from seeing something he didn't need to see because it would frighten him?

I have a Firefox add-on that does the same thing for Dr. Manflesh posts.

HOLY FUCK!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9KyBdPeKHg

This is freaking creepy, how did a storyline go from erotic novels to this!?

This is getting out of hand!

And the first two people to comment on the strip about it (within two minutes of each other) have the same fish in their avatars.

Even creepier!

especially if you read them in the voice of Albert Brooks

which, if you did, means that you must post in this thread or possibly lost the game

A lot of alliterations from anxious assetbarians placed in powerful posts!

which witless workaday would wonder what witticisms were warranted when some sagacious sucker should suggest stringing the same several sounds successively in a sequence of sentences?

...serially!

Seriously, surprisingly successfully.

awkward alliterations are awesome amirite?

NO! No no no no no no no.

aw shucks

this comment is adorable.

YOU'RE adorable

If blood was gushing out of Philippe's head he'd look like a penis.

if yours does that, you should probably seek medical attention. (MEDICAL ATTENTION)

Or Laurence Olivier.

Great Outdoor Fight went from cellphone testicles to beating the shit out of people, so it's not exactly unprecedented.

Good point fellow fish, but it still dazzles me!

Hey, stop talking to yoursel-

Oh.

Hey clownfish , where's your mother? OH THAT'S RIGHT SHE'S DEAD.

Kinda uncalled for, she hasn't been flushed yet :(

Cellphones Testicles! What news from the North?

My sword!

My Bow.

My cock.

AND MY AXE.

And THESE KNIVES.

telescreen there are knives i think now is a good time to renege on that 'cock' thing

I'm sorry, you have cock cancer.

And my Axe!

OH FOR FUCKS SAKE

AND HIS AXE.

I guess this is the wrong time to ask if anyone can let me borrow a hatchet?

So thats one sword, one bow, a cock and TWO axes! All for the low, low price of $89.99! Can this deal get any better? I don't think so. In fact this deal is so hot, I think we're going to have to put a clock on it. Don't miss out call our regular number now to order yours today!

I will buy five of these units, but I must ask this first:

Does the grease cost extra?

What kind of clock is it? And how many zombies can it kill?

YOU CANNOT CARRY ANY MORE AXES.

YOU REQUIRE ADDITIONAL PYLONS

THE PRINCESS IS IN ANOTHER CASTLE

YOU HAVE DIED OF CHOLERA.

THE MISCARRIAGE WAS IN YOU ALL ALONG.

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Meanwhile...

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AND THIS BANGING DONK

Friggin' hell. I'm wondering how much further down it can go. This got visceral pretty quick.

Consider the fact that neither Teodor or Ray appears to be wearing a seat belt, it might be on the express elevator to hell.

Good for them. Beef appears to be taking the freight elevator.

Story of his life.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the skull cavity is not considered to be visceral.

Dick, terms, etc.

PUDENDAL ARTERY

PUNJAB TRIBUTARY

Wait, why is Punjab mentioned here?

BECAUSE THAT IS HALF OF ME.

OOOOOH SHIT

I am two of you!

That doesn't make sense. I'm sorry. I am not sober.

...my other two siblings? (If we were triplets? I'm sorry, this isn't working out well. I hate myself for even trying).

Triplets? Damn that's hot.

Don't mind me, I'm drunk again. (And have failed to get a little bitta bitta action AGAIN.)

Urgh yet agiain sorry. (I'm at the stage of drunkeness where I'd thank a guy six times just for a simple door opening).

There's no new strip tonight, it was a ploy. We need to talk, edd36. About your problem.

Don't wory, I have a short term cure for my problem: THE INTERNET! (where all your dreams come true. And your nightmares. And things you couldn't even imagine. And things you didn't think possible. And things you don't even believe even after seeing pictures.)

Alos, by my problem do you mean my apparant alcoholism (I don't actuially drink alot, i just post alot after drinking) or my rampant, unsatisfied libido? (Regardless of which, the internet does indeed provide a short term cure for both).

look at him. he just keeps going .

I kid. I love you, edd36. Incidentally, I saw a dodo skeleton this weekend at the museum. Shit was werider than all hell.

"Huh. That thing is dead forever now."

PULL. YOURSELF. TOGETHER. MAN.

I'm sorry but as a british person seeing someone being this candid on the internet has a GENETIC effect on me.

Yeah, but where does being British get you? Candor might not get you anywhere but at least you can breathe free and unburdened with secrets.

Got a point there, The british empire only spread so far because men called reginald were super frustrated about never telling women called Julia how they felt about them on that one morning after the Micklemass service, that they chanelled all their energy into building railways and shooting angry lads in distant lands.

That's my theory anyway. Niall Ferguson can go swivel.

Being from England it may be not be my place to attempt to sum up my own nation, but I think AA Gill had a point when he described the English as a fundamentally angry people. He said something along these lines: the English value fair play over victory in sport because to them the very act of walking home from a sporting event without their opponent's teeth in their pockets is a victory.

I'd recommend Orwell's essay "The Lion and the Unicorn" for summing up english character, it's patriotic, but manages to avoid the jingoistic exceptionalism of the bulldogs and battleships view that's so ubiquitous. The characterisation of britain as a "Familly with the wrong members in charge" is something as relevant today as it was during the Blitz when it was written.

The fact that I am British myself should blow your mind then. *grins*

who the hell do you think you are, comrade? Underoath..?

Perhaps you'd get more action if you didn't get quite so drunk?

either that or he needs to get more drunk or do some E or something

Yes, the secret is to get THEM drunk, did you not know this?

Hmmm, this sounds like good advice. I'm going to attribute at least some of my failure to living on a landmass under 400 square km in size though. (if you think that sounds big, you can walk across it, if not with ease, at least with no special effort.)

I know I'm going to get lamed for saying I don't like certain behaviors, but I don't like casual sex. I just don't get the appeal.

I'm a dude and I'm not the biggest fan of it myself. If it worked the way it should work, "no strings attached, we're adults and can act as such tomorrow" it'd be fine.

But I've yet to have THAT experience.

Clearly, thegoblins was saying the problem is when her sexual partner actually likes her and wants to have anything else to do with her.

For the longest time I felt the same way to be honest.

What changed? Please don't tell me you're one of those jaded dudes who will be a cock to women forevermore.

Nah, there's nothing I hate worse than when I'm being a cock to someone. Not being in a relationship for a very long time is all that's really changed. Seriously, I'd take relationship sex over no strings casual sex any time, but that option doesn't seem immediately available currently.

Although it is worrying that I'm already becoming jaded by the age of 21.

Yeah, seriously, I'm just getting started! Though honestly there are times I feel that way. What is it with this age?

A bad casual sex review can ruin a playa in this town.

"Wanted to cuddle and called me again after a few days. Will not be mindlessly fucking again."

so. true. (so i'm told.)

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THERE ARE FOUR OF ME.

Now touch a damn dick.

Gross anatomy 101?

When I was five I thought that when people said gross anatomy it was more along the lines of, "Oh, anatomy. GROSS. That is some gross anatomy." I figured they were talking about peepees or something.

Congratulations, peepee! You are the gross anatomy of the body!

So Grey's Anatomy was what happened when someone had accidentally left your cadaver out on the slab over a long weekend?

It would dry out, which would make it waaaay less gross but would totally eff up everything.

So are these cadavers formalised? Otherwis it would be more like green furry anatomy.

I would watch a show called green furry anatomy. I would watch the hell out of that show.

Guys I'm starting a rumour that zaer got strange cares

There's something wrong with his teeth?

But.. your avatar is"how to weep the weepy-weep way."

Cares can't get stranger than that, even if you get stoned!

Don't worry. They are fixed.

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pics or it didn't happen

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goodbye forever, erections.

you blew it. Capisce?

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oh Dae-Su.

That's what I thought at first, but apparently not. Guess that makes us both racialists.

Can 15 years of imaginary training prepare you to properly distinguish between two separate individuals? Apparently not.

Pass the dumplings.

No thanks, I filled up on sannakji.

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Yeah okay looking back at this comment of mine, it was pretty much snide and baseless. I mean, I didn't like the erotic novel arc. But this comment here... well... I might as well have just called him 'Stad and completed the picture.

... And you don't find this erotic?

Poor Ray. Something tells me this will be a damn sight more than just blood out the ears and an inability to distinguish pomaceous fruits from rude booty.

The motherfucker always gets brainal problems. How is he not fucking fucked.

Fuck.

heh. "brainial"

Today, we have learned a new terminology common to doctors.

Hang on a second - what happened to terminal velocity? This is a book, after all, and a small one at that, weighing perhaps 1kg and dimensions approximately A5 - even with an extremely low drag coefficient, which it's not going to have because its paper will be flapping all over the joint - even with that, it's only going to reach about 60 mph. That's not enough to bifurcate your skull.

but it's powered by fate. it's like quantum physics, sometimes basic laws of the universe need not be applied.

It's Mexican Magical Murderous.

Now how the hell did Dr. Killinger get in here?

Ray's skull may be made of saltwater taffy. This is a theory.

He's got his bases covered for these sorts of things, in any case. https://achewood.com/index.php?date=05032007

Chubbied for "pomaceous"

Honestly I have no idea whether the humble peach is pomaceous or not. I just love the word too much to let the opportunity of using it slip by.

Owing to my experience with the apple snail Pomacea bridgesii , I want to say that it is Latin for either apple, apple-shaped, or pertaining to an apple, cognate to the latter-day pomme in French. I will now look it up.
::internets::
Yay! Hugs for all!

"Daaayum baby, but that ass be hella pomaceous !"

pommes oder brot

splut oder pote

apples odor broth?

Applesauce!

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Well, at least Team Beef got the book back.

Team Ray just got its brain bifurcated. Ray One is tumbling in a wrecked Escalade, Ray Two is sitting in a theater.

Well at least he won't have epileptic seizures any more.

I'm guessing he still would have preferred a bottle in front of him.

A chubby for the Tom Waits reference.

I believe you mean Dorothy Parker.

I think you're confused. It was referencing Frank L. Baum's much later Oz novel "A Return to Modesty and Marital Virtue: Dorothy Waits".

They're still in the Escalade when the rollover happens. The chairs are the same.

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A chubby for my web developing bros.

A bug? In My Assetbarrista?

It's more likely than you think.

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Hahaha He spooked you!

https://img200.imageshack.us/img200/5859/1250704357753.jpg


CHRIST'S FAT COCK

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The "assetbarista" account is an impostor, folks.

Had him on ignore after reading his second message.

Hey featureless, I just had my preview hang after clicking post. It posted OK, but I almost got suckered into double-posting. Just thought you'd like to know.

Thanks for the update. I'll take a look at the code to see if I can figure out what might make it do that.

Ray is going to hell... again

It's kinda hard to abandon the dying man when Fate doesn't allow you to get to him in the first place.

Somehow I get the feeling Cartilage Head is wearing a cowboy hat to watch Beef die.

The body looks too chubby. Like Ray's dad.

Actually, it looks more like Beef's inner self that showed up in the pictures taken by the Mexican magical realism camera. Aw yeah, now we're gettin metaphysical!

damnit, that is EXACTLY what i was going to post! good eyes, westsider8

Beef's final remarks will be to diss on his fanfiction.

...or will they

What would happen if you took a photo of a Nagel poncho with a Mexican camera? Answers on a postcard.

What if Cartilage Head and Ramses Smuckles were betting on whether Ray would desert a dying Beef?

I don't think that Onstad would do a Job thing with Beef.

Yeah, Ramses was my first thought, too.

Damn, is it just me, or is Onstad back?

It's not just you, man. We can all start fucking BREATHING again.

Do you guys really think Ramses is the kind of person to just watch a man die?

No, he would take an active role in the process.

Johnny Cash shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die. He got that idea from Ramses Luther.

But Ramses does not wear a cowboy hat. These are the facts, people.

to clarify, note the bifurcation in that hat, then go look at Ramses's clearly flat-top hat.

Ramses clearly wears a pork-pie hat, to say anything else is blasphemous.

this is what i wanted to say, but for some reason i felt it was wrong. was i wrong to think it was wrong?

also, https://m.assetbar.com/achewood/uua1wPrLX shows Teodor in a certain style hat, not that this is a likely outcome

I had imagined the figure in the shadows to be a rich Texan with perverse wants.

Is Nolan on CH's mailing list?

well, that sure narrows it down...

My first thought was of the guy from the Chris Ware homage comics. Spatchcock, all that.

Fuck.

Holy shit.

And neither of them are wearing seat belts.

Damn man. Turn of events, meet Achewood.

Yes we're well acquainted. Hello again.

This is totally like that movie the cops used to show us during assembly in grammar school both to encourage to wear seat belts and to prevent us from tossing cinder blocks off of overpasses. I guess that's what I get for growing up in New Jersey.

and that's not a four-poster!

Unwittingly, my french fry folly foretold an onomatopoetic doom for Ray's dome.

KHOPP indeed, sir. KHOPP in deed .

Incidentally, I think he could have made a better job of an onomatopoeia for a book shattering a car's windscreen (which it presumably did) than "POTE".

No no no... listen to it. The implosion of glass at extremely high speed. No SMASH... just pote!

Pote = The sound of sandwich tempered windshield being compromised.

Pote = The last sound Ray will ever hear.

You never hear the airborne pamphlet that kills you.

A small hardback book lodged in the brain is bad enough, but a small hardback book lodged in the brain, in a pirouetting SUV, with no seat belt? Sheeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiii

Geee Eye Joeeee!

holy cow i'm totally going so fas-AW FUCK

I'm going to find the person who made those and marry him/ her.

that strange low budget animation probably caused a 100 fold increase in the rate of autism of an entire generation

The gentleman's name is Eric Fensler . He doesn't host the G.I. Joe PSAs at his Web site, presumably to avoid getting hassled by the Man.

I do not know if he is marriageable.

he is hiding behind tulips. I do not know what to make of that.

He might have reliable access to weed and hookers?

he's totally TRS-80! double sweet!

yeeeeeet?

correct.

Chris Onstad, why you gotta do a thing.

btw, that is a HUGE pillow.

He'll be cryin' himself to sleep tonight, on his huuge pillah.
Heeed! Paper! Now!


Also, I understand the alt-question is rhetorical, but that is no four-poster.

I like this film the most of all Mike Myers films. Mostly because of the Anthony Lapaglia/ Alan Arkin relationship.


...also because of John "Vicky" Johnson, may he rest in piece.

Onstad seems to be on a big David Lynch trip. I love the one-off laugh riot strips, don't get me wrong, but I do love a serious story as well.

And I have to say that this arc will keep us guessing until the very end.

It's like Lynch and Cronenberg are doing a Kindergarten Cop

It isn't yet Cronenberg as we have not had any sort of body horror. Sexual body horror.

A book through the head isn't really his style. Not unless someone gets turned on by the wound and skull-fucks Ray in the crashed Escalade. Of course, that would largely just be ripping off Crash.

Pedantic film reference analysis follows:

I was thinking this arc might have more parallels in the Donnie Darko vein, what with the significance of the crazy animal costume and the arrival of the convenient primer of the occult/paranormal that moves the story along...

"Ray, what is it? I'm watching America's Got Talent with my mother."
"Doctah Ahndretti! There's sahmthing wrong with my head!"
"Yes, it does sound like you're suffering from some mild brain damage. Is there any evidence of a tumour?"
"IT'S NODDA TUMAH."

So I was just trawling through the archive, and I found this . Doesn't the elephant teddy that Ray is holding look familiar?

you have solved the mystery. points.

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realistically, how can you even know that? youre no stephen hawkings, so shut up.

What with the turbulence caused by its shape, and its relatively low density, I suspect that a book's terminal velocity is pretty slow. Factor in its overall small mass and I personally doubt it would even break the skin. I am certainly no Stephen Hawking, however, and the only real way to prove this is by experiment. Gehan_sie_weg can provide an aeroplane and pilot, greenkoolayd can put his skull on the line for science, and I will provide the pamphlet on palmistry. Let's meet up next week and sort this out once and for all.

I will video this thing, complete with laugh tracks and sound effects.

I have already reserved the Alameda Naval Air Station as it is the customary place for such ventures to occur.

All that is left to alert next-of-kin of all involved, and wait on the sidelines with sombre faces.

I read this as "with sombrero faces."

Chubbied for mentioning the Alameda Naval Air Station which I know and love.

It's where they keep the nuclear wessels.

Nuclear weasels? Only need five of 'em to power my whole house.

As opposed to the Horst Wessel - a 1939-45 German chart success for Herman's helmets.

Y'all not some nerds up in here. What happened to this place?

You know, some researchers at Oxford actually created a form of transparent aluminum recently. Except they called it "aluminium."

I think aluminum oxide has always been transparent. That's why aluminum doesn't visibly rust.

One day we will take back the British Empire and we will reinstate "correct" spelling across the globe. (All preceding and following spelling mistakes done by me were intentional for comedic reasons.)

You see, what gets me about this is the timing. How is Beef already in bed by the time the book hits Ray? We're left to assume that a) Cartilage Head just teleported Beef into the bed in mid-flight, for whatever reason, or that b) the book was extra-magical and vindictive and hung out in the air until drove by.

the little snippets of the actuion arent happening chronologically.

To ask the question is to know the answer

my hair would dampen the shock of the impact upon my head. the results would be tainted...

Maybe the paperback was just fitted with a razor-edged spine from the beginning. Cartilage Head is a shrewd operator, and also totally freaky.

It FELL through that windshield, man.

Where are the Mythbusters when we need them?

1268 Missouri St

I think my head's explodin'! THESE PALMISTRY PAMPHLETS!

wouldnt have had this problem if beef had gotten his tarot reading, instead. he couldve called ms. cleo and circumvented this whole damn thing. unless a tarot card reading guide-type book is just as heavy as a palmistry guide-type book.

Stupid electromatter.

This pretty much sounds like what people in my school have in mind when they meet up for study groups.

Nuh Uh. This one kid from my cousin's school threw a copy of "pioneers of the old west" at this other kid so hard that the other kid's hed exploded, and they had to bury the body in a nickel coffin cause that's the LAW!

I know this because I know my Theatrics. Law of Awesome (also known as Rule of Cool). If it can explode, it must explode.

see also: KOODGE!

he ain't no steven king, neither

It's Stephen , you philistine, and the moment I proclaim myself to be a writer on par with or greater than King himself you may shoot me in the cranium, for then I will truly be experiencing illusions of grandeur.

delusions of grandeur? on my assetbar?

It's more likely than us not repeating a meme that started with an anime picture of a WOMAN WITH CENTIPEDES CRAWLING OUT OF HER VAGINA.

but less likely than some dumb honky crying about stupid shit on the internet.

Could this be the END OF ACHEWOOD?????

I've been thinking the same thing, kill em all off and call it a day (or 8 years)

i have also been thinking the same thing

i'm really worried about phillipe's safety

The end. The Saddest Thing, with theme tune played on broken piano.

Teodor is going to have to run all the way to the auditorium, to the beat of some German Techno song.
p.s. is that roast beef's dad in the auditorium, are we about to have a tearful reunion...?

I know he was shot in all, but this comic isn't always too final with the whole "death" thing.

Run Teodor Run!

Excrement just got actualisex, yo.

Actualised! Noooooooo

Dammit, now I want to know what actualisex means. And I never will.

Means Fuckin' shit, yo.

that's Coprophilia...

Amazing avatar/comment synergy!

COPROPHILIA. NOUN. MEANS KISSING ON THE ANUS.

wouldn't it be rad if stereo did this on every message board? think about it, it's 2006 and some one mentions "goatse" at some point. funny word, so you go to google...

our psyches would be more intact if stereo went to bat like this more often.

chubby.

Shlomo claims to have performed Acutalisex with a girl of a similar age in the field behind Karl Maedzer's barn.

I think this is a fancifull boast. Shlomo drinks too much Löwenbräu.

You only need "actual" there, champ.

Unless he wishes to indicate that shit has ascended to the peak of Maslow's hierarchy...

Quite.


The shit was previously only potential. It was made actual by a process (book into head), thus, it became actualised. Legit word use.

Perhaps it is Cody Travis, finally recovered from Ray ripping his jaw off.

Oh please god let BBCode not fail please oh please

No no, you're good. And a chubby for your efforts. I didn't even remember that guy.

You know it's bad when the headlights start pointing in different directions. Will all of Beef's friends die before him? Is that the true horror of The Lash?

Why are there six cars in the last panel? I can understand the top row of three or the bottom row of three illustrating the axial rotation of the vehicle, but the Doppelgänger row is confusing.

Massive ricochet?

The bottom row shows the crash as it happened. The top row shows how Ray perceives it after the sudden rearrangement of his frontal lobes (in real life that effect would most likely be caused by damage to the visual cortex, located in the occipital lobes at the back of the head).

Oh wait. The bottom car is another car. The Escalade hit it and flipped and the other one rolled. Now I get it.

T and Ray are fucked.

Dang.
I hope they didn't hit a Khopp car.

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The bottom row shows the crash as it happened. The top row shows how Ray perceives it after the sudden rearrangement of his frontal lobes

I was thinking the bottom car, which is outlined in black with gray windows, is the real car, rolling along on the ground. The top car, outlined in gray with black windows, is the metaphysical car, flipping through the ether. "KHOPP" is the sound of the dissociation of the real and the astral selves. The real car will come to a stop near the crash site, while the astral one will continue in the direction of Alberquist Hall, landing in the audience or on the stage. It doesn't matter which, really, as the audience is part of the performance where Cartilage Head is concerned. That's my guess, anyway.

Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Alberquist Hall.

Ray just got a hella corpus callosotomy.

I am interested in the new Ray who no longer has proper control of his emotional fluctuations.

"Mr. G. got up and vomited; the effort of vomiting pressed out about half a teacupful of the brain, which fell upon the floor."

Ray 'bout to get all Phineas Gage up in here. Dude was buried here so it makes all the sense in the world that it should happen again in these parts.

Ray Smuckles: a Pheline Phineas Gage?

That would make a dynamite story arc!

I look forward to penetrating exposition of the feline mind.

if not explosion

It would be like Ray to aspire to have his skull on display in the Smithsonian for withstanding great freakish physical damage.

JUST LIKE OLD TIMES

Blast and damnation! I should have known someone would get to it before myself.

It'll take a lot more than that to kill someone with BOC

Bone Head, meet Cartilage Head.

Ow ow ow, papercut!

Holy shit! Holy fucking shit!

Exactly my sentiment.

Nice hat Beef.

Reminds me of the sort Chico Marx used to model.

Hey, have you guys seen that film, Misery ?

I swear to god you are some kind of psychic fuck. I was just about to post how I bet Onstad is updating from some mountain lodge up where roads get all trecherous because some hambeast MUST HAVE HER STORIES (and this is why the arc is a pure brain fuck). Poor Onstad, I hope she doesn't hobble you.

Also, maybe now that Ray's hemispheres are no longer connected, he'll contract Strangelove syndrome!
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_hand_syndrome)

Mein Fuehrer! I can walk!

Weeee'll meet agaaain...don't know where...don't know wheeen...

Oh God the hobbling scene was the worst in the book. Phantom pains. Edge of my chair, dude, edge of my chair.

Stephen King is, and has always been, the master.

A comment left by implode was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by Absurdist, re5urgam, Stonecrab, Jorus, what42)

hahaha

i like where this is going

man those gas lamps seem like a bad thing to keep near a bed, let alone build into it

Forget that. What if this was the last thing you saw while waiting for "death"...

[IMGS OFF]

Man, they had some crazy ideas about how big iPods would be in the 1960s.

Apple decides to stop inferring and flat out tell you that the iPod influences evolution.

By 2004 we predict the Ipod will be able to store fifty albums or three recipe books and will take up aproximately 8 killometres sqaured. One will belong to the Soviet union and the other will be under the jurisdiction of the British Iranian petroleum company.

One will belong to PanAm which will totally still exist.

And one of the albums will be of Strauss waltzes.

Klaus Nomi will do our ad jingles.

"Every house wants an iPod it can play to the very end..."

...or at least the last four songs

All Don Draper talking about man's innate desire to preserve the past for future generations...

and having sex with them

That wallpaper pattern is... well, enormous. 10-foot rolls, yo.

WORD, MUTHAFUCKAZ BE ROLLIN' TEN DEEP.

The cat is cat-sized. The bed could be a twin. The wallpaper may be a standard width.

CH doesn't believe in wallpaper. That is hand stenciled using a paint that is really an amalgam of blood, arsenic, and gold dust.

Is Beef wearing the helmet of a Halbardier?

If there's anything that freaks me out, it is a [b]halberd[b\]!

Dammit.

This is why you use comb binding. This right here.

The most perfect binding to use, ever!

Technically Belgand prefers RepKover.

Oh god, is this ... is this the end of Achewood? Did Onstad wake up and say, "IT'S GONE TO FAR. IT MUST BE STOPPED"?

...where is far? is it a fun place?

No. It is where dreams go to die.

Colma?

No, that's where the dead go to dream.

No. It is where dreams go too die.

Nah, t'dai, cobber

By the end of the strip, I was all "Oh my god..oh my god...ohmygodohmygodohmygod!" Onstad, you have me hooked like back in the day. Jolly good show.

wtf...a lame? really?

Pull up a rocker son, today's the day your old man tells you about heartbreak.

i didnt lame you

fly away lesbian seagull

Mmm yeah no. Not a lesbian. Sorry to break your heart or ruin your wet dreams.

but are you *sure* you're not a lesbian?

and can we go back to our wet dreams?

No, I'm not. But for you and a couple hundo, I could be anything you want. *cheesy wink*

Fuck. I really need to lay off the crying jags and poor self-esteem before I get on here and type. "No, I am not a lesbian." There.

Sorry...just found out that was a quote from somewhere. I totally deserve a lame for my unfunny life or friends.

the worst of insults are made light by the knowledge that they are merely second rate pop culture references.

second rate pop culture or second rate reference?

second rate reference, first class pop culture

hooray!

Will that man in seat Z-1 be invited to see the usher with the robin's egg gloves?

This character looks more likely to accept their doing a Thing.

as if roast beef didnt have enough shit on his mind, now he has to live with dropping that book in between rays braincheeks and possibly killing him.......

AND teodor

Well, he didn't so much drop it as he had it torn from his hands by a gust of wind. I mean, yeah, he'll feel guilty, but it wasn't really his fault.

"Oh man oh hell I'm sorry Ray I mean if only I'd held onto the book a little harder oh hell why couldn't I have just held on a little longer?! "

He'll feel guilty regardless of whether he kills his friends.

The other day I said this storyline wasn't quite vintage Achewood. Comment retracted; the book lodged in Mr Smuckles' skull has taken this to the next level.

I haven't seen a book do that much damage to a brain since Atlas Shrugged.

on the train the other day, there was a row of random people facing me and it went like this:

Twilight, Twilight, Atlas Shrugged, Twilight, Atlas, Atlas.

I'd never longed for an engine fire before.

Next stop, Willoughby.

That's... terrible. Really terrible. Jeesh.

Next stop, the convention for Emo-teenage-objectivists.
No cosplaying of rape scenes please.

after Bioshock, I remember saying to a friend, "Maybe I'll read some Ayn Rand to like, flesh out the experience of this game."

And he said, "Maybe we'll stop hanging out."

your friend god standars, i like that.

"WHO IS ROBERT PATTINSON?"

"AHND WHAT DOES HE DO?!"

Okay I'll stop now.

Too soon man.....too soon.

I feel an opportunity for the "Splut" sound effect was squandered here.

For shame Christopher.
For Shame

Thonk?

SFFFFFUNK was in my head. Pun intended.

What? A "Pote" isn't good enough for you?
Dumm-khopp.

I stand by my position, "Splut"'s glorious lineage should be apparent to even the most cursory neophyte of ache-lore, a simple search on the dialogue-combobulator will testify to its importance and vindicate me before the pitiable assemblage of the depraved and the wretched we call the "online community".

I lob a Hmph your way.

Pfah!

Now yer cookin' with anger!

Came here to say this.

YES

when reading the caption I honestly thought to myself: "what does wom mean?"

Bezus, this is getting to be like the last episode of Twin Peaks.

At this rate, if I have to wait more than a day and a half for new installments, I'm gonna shit myself and destroy my house. Just sayin'.

that's quite a powerful shit.

You should see the one I just took.

No nice-on-water. I do not want to see the shit you just took, and neither does mawk. How many times do we need to have this conversation?

But what exactly does this have to do with viewing shit?

...

Oh, never mind.

URGH!!! Shitty memes! All the time, shitty fucking memes! I hate shitty fucking memes! And I hate shitty fucking message boards cuz shitty fucking message boards means more shitty fucking memes! Shit! Fuck! Fucking shit gaaaaaaaaa-

What the fuck are you doing.

He's a fish how would he know

Not surprised this crowd wouldn't get the reference. For my sake it's probably for the best.

i feel like i've heard it before. hm..

I don't apologize for not knowing it though, just in case you were waiting for that you crappy fish bastard.

"OMG WHAT A HORRIBLY UNCOUTH THING TO SAY LAME LAME LAME"

I hope you have the special insurance carrier for that.

Subscribe to it with a feed reader and chillax.

I am relatively certain that a booklet smashing through a windshield does not go "potz!" and two carscolliding at enough speed for one cart to totally do a flip does not go "khopp"

the underlying theme of this arc is "fun with onomatopoeia."

That's "pote," friend.

I'm worried for Molly at this point, is Beef going to go have a visit in Wales with LN?

HEY yeah wait, where IS Molly? Shouldn't Beef have called home?

Shut up , rabbit ears. Why you always talking?

Those cars are just furiously tumbling. The Cobra 11 boys would be proud.

For the love of God and all that is holy, your anus is bleeding.

I really want this to be what happens to Ray as a result of this. It would make sense, honestly:

https://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2007/10/whats_it_like_to_have_your_bra.php

I don't mean to nitpick, but isn't that a two-poster?

I was waiting for someone else to nitpick on that one. Also, "whom" in the alt-text is not grammatically correct, a rare slip-up for Onstad. But this is electronic, so he could just change the alt-text, and it'd be like it never happened.

But...but I already mentioned that, hours ago!

Wait, but now I'm mentioning it again...making me the...

FOURTH POSTER!

Would that I had a chubby to give you, noble hamscout.

On your behalf I have chubbied the Ham.

Ray is dead, dead, dead.

Say 'hello' to Robert Johnson for me, Ray.

Well that's not exactly what I wanted to wake up to this morning.

i knew that was going to happen.

Jesus, man. Don't act like I've never heard of stuff that isn't good before.

Brilliant! This is getting interesting.

But. BUT! (butt) What is with these filler panels lately? Beef in a room. Pan out. The door cracks open. That's just way too little material to spread out over three panels.

Silent, atmospheric panels were a staple of the last Cartilage Head arc. Besides, the strip is massive anyway,so I don't feel anything's been cut.

Oh, shush.

It wasn't like Ray not to spring for the optional book-proof windshield.

They were deleted from the Cadillac Escalade option list as most of the owners are illiterate.

Seat 1 of row Z.
Z: End.
1: Beginning.
The beginning of the end?
Judging from this strip's subject matter, I can't see this being a coincidence.

Gosh.

Also it's probably the seat that guy's in. Maybe just that.

It is a reference to the second strip in the Cartilage Head story arc.

https://achewood.com/index.php?date=09142005


ohhhhh sssshhhhit

I've been going through the Archive again lately and I just got to that strip. Had the same reaction and hit current hoping to be the one to post this revelation, only to find myself defeated before the game even started.

Awesome job though Juggler, I only stumbled upon it by chance.

I think Chris has been watching too much David Lynch lately.

The door opens at an impossible angle, just like the door of the non-Euclidean temple in Call of Cthulhu!

I really like that room. And Roast Beef's hat.

's called perspective fool, ain't nothing Rlyeh about that.

well, it's like no perspective I've ever seen before... check out the angle of the top of the door frame and then re-evaluate your statement.

It's just slightly crummy drawing of a door opening man, nothing lovecraftian there, nothing wrong with it, I'll buy a hat and then eat it if theres any sort of Cthuloid significance to that door.

Yeah, my first post was kind of a joke. I doubt he's *actually* making the reference. What we're arguing about is whether the persective on that door is crazy as hell. We seem to agree that it is.

Sorry, I'm a cartoonist myself, these things just get to me. That door is insane!

No worries, however what with "artist/cartoonists/bohemian types" being more succeptable to psychic warnings from Cthulu and his sunken city, you can understand a fellow's alarm. As any nordic sea captain will tell you Cthulu ain't something a guy just jokes about!

I went back and checked and there is nothing wrong with the damn drawing of the door.

this is what my dad would sound like if he posted on Assetbar.

The first drawing is in pretty decent perspective, the second is really wacky. The angle of the top of the doorframe changes hugely, and the way the door itself is drawn it isn't so much opening as floating off its hinges.

To be honest though, I've always found these kind of issues in Achewood to be part of its charm. Chris Onstad's art is interesting. He's got a background in graphic design, so some things are really slick and professional, like the vehicles. But a lot of things look kind of awkward, and I like that. If he drew everything really fluidly and correctly it would look all wrong (see some of the guest strips)

joestork, go to your room.

i'm with aperson on this one.

joestork, you bring up a valid point but consider the option that in the second shot there, someone is opening the door? Probably CH, about to do something weird.

I don't read achewood for it's realism or accuracy, i read it for the crossword and the pictures of girls getting their A Level results.

Actually thats why I read the daily telegraph but the point still stands.

Oh proclaim on the Telegraph crossword.

moist A level results

Tommorow's going to be awfull, i guarantee the telegraph's front page will be a leering photo the upper sixth of saint hilda's girls college in summer dresses crowding round their results.

In the commentary section Simon Heffer will be complaining about pornography and black people.

Correct! chubbied for powers of prophecy.
What's on tomorrow's front page?

So if I were to mention, say, the anatomical skill and sense of perspective of Rob Liefeld being uniformly excellent this would cause some sort of hemorrhage, no?

It's quite acceptable, in cases where he steals borrows entire panels from elsewhere.

[IMGS OFF]

He still can't draw feet and chooses awkward poses and staging (or, as you aptly showed, ripping off existing photos that get around it) in order to avoid ever drawing them.

If we're talking about ripping off your sources from porn though we need to be talking about Greg Land.

Feet, knees, and crotches. Oh god. Liefeld.

Also, is this an erotic (or at least mildly provocative) comic about regular expressions? I don't know whether to cry out of beauty and longing or cry because Liefeld drew and tainted such a pure and wonderful thing.

I don't know, all the google results for "RE:GEX" just give me information about reg ex.

I did find this page but it doesn't say a whole lot. That's the first issue's cover up there.

Maybe it was an open letter in response to the game Gex. After all, mediocrity loves company.

What did you bastards do to Dana Gould!?

Rob Liefeld, the man who draws all facial expressions on his characters like they have chronic constipation.
And also committed the CRIMINAL act of drawing Captain America with boobs..!

On an unrelated note:

Any of you jerkwads seen Zardoz?

The gun is good. The penis is evil.

I gazed in the mirror, and all I saw was my own perplexity.

I have never seen a worse film. It will be with me until the end of my days at which point the stone head will come for me.

No wasting away in a cave for Belgand.

You will be shot in the head by a mutant Sean Connery for failing to toil in the muck.

You should've mailed it to the Marx Brothers.

I highly doubt that, Belgand. What, there's not some other travesty you've forgotten to mention?

Well, I've been meaning to see The Room for a while now. We'll need to reevaluate after that.

holy shit ray dies?

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Did anyone else see the book colliding with Ray's car and think "Oh, cool, so I guess it'll just be conveniently spread open on the windshield on the correct page and the guys will be able to suss what's going on and then quickly procure the much-needed "fresh bark" and then rush it to Beef to apply it to his... forehead, or whatever, just before death strikes him, a countdown illustrated by a huge, ornate hourglass filled with black sand.

If anyone else did think this, did they also then get to the last row of panels and go "Aw man what."

Cap that last paragraph with a closing quotation mark and a question mark, please.

Where was my promised preview function?

It has collided most unfortunately with your flying car and has been delayed slightly. Please bear with us and enjoy the following light music while holding the line.

Come on, come on, I've got a lasagne in the oven!

Which reminds me - is Lyle still on hold?

Worse, he's now on Holst . Things are about to get bombastic in here.

Or maybe it was the only way to get the book's contents into Ray's brain.

That completely and accurately described my thought process.

I thought something had exploded out of the windshield, myself.

I thought they hit a bird or something.

i thought he got sniped by a member of the elite four

by the beard of Galifiniakis! Could it be?!

...Lorelei?

Sorry mate. We lived together for a time, but I lost track of her after that.

Beef indirectly killed Ray


I think Ray might actually be ok; the manual seems to have just lodged itself between his brain-cheeks. The crash, however, may prove to be more damaging.

Listen. Let me tell you something. When you have a slim and modest volume nestled between your brain-cheeks, you are not OK. You are pretty fucking far from OK actually.

It's okay; that volume is immodest. It goes up to 11.

Oh shiiiiiiit...

[IMGS OFF]

sorry, busy playing catch-up for the last few weeks (compy outta commission) and if it was explained, i have not seen it,
but who in junk is this guy?

He's the guy who makes the perfect face in response to tired cliches.

well, yeah, but what's his name and jazz?

SPAGHETT!

I guess Cartilage Head's place is the Grand Guignol of Achewood

Ramses is there to confirm what no-one would have trouble believing: That he is actually Beef's father.

Talk about having a splitting headache

your avatar is mesmerizing. it's like a GIF made specifically to make me flash back to my childhood.

To Ren & Stimpy.

Not that time my head was slapped repeatedly by a man's ass.

I was in trouble like three words into that.

>
Not that time my head was slapped repeatedly by a man's ass.


I think you just described what posting on Assetbar is like

this ah this forum is getting out of hand it's like assetbar has changed. the trolls are losing

What a shame .

The fact that people actually talk about trolls nowadays is proof that assetbar has changed

i remember when there was a Gentleman's Agreement not to cry troll

I don't remember that. Please check your forehead for embedded booklets.

*shlop*

See, here it is. Paragraph 83, appendix 2, addendum C." A gentleman shall not cry troll. That is horrible."

I remember when you had to write posts out in semaphore, and no-body was allowed to be a cock to a stranger,

I remember when we had to get posts up on the messageboard by carrier pidgeon.

The pidgeon would fly aaaaall the way to a little house in rural Austria and deliver it to a smelly little man. He smelled of pickled beats and regret .

I remember when people could spell pigeon.

I remember when the word 'pigeon' didn't look really weird (about 30 seconds ago).

You remember that too?

And 'beets'. Unless the guy is talking about pickled beatniks.


One thing led to another, specifically to %u201Cthe world%u2019s greatest driver, who could roll a joint while backing a 1937 Packard onto the lip of the Grand Canyon.%u201D This was Neal Cassady, hero of Jack Kerouac%u2019s %u201COn the Road,%u201D famed for his supernatural skills at the wheel, driving flat out through rush-hour traffic and impregnating a librarian or two as he did so.

Cassady performed what Stone calls %u201Can uncanny reverse homage%u201D to %u201COn the Road%u201D by traveling east on Eisenhower%u2019s new Interstate system to attend the 1964 New York World%u2019s Fair. The vehicle was %u201CFurthur,%u201D a day-glo painted school bus that carried Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters into all kinds of craziness. %u201CA Vote for Barry [Goldwater] Is a Vote for Fun%u201D went the banner on its side.

At this point in his life and times, Neal Cassady considered it %u201Cliberating to restrict his diet to methamphetamine,%u201D reports Stone. %u201CHe never ate, never slept, never shut up, nor did his parrot, Rubiaco.%u201D (The parrot would outlive Cassady by 25 years, startling Bob and Janice and Kesey and Faye by spouting pure Cassady one fine morning in Oregon: %u201CGrand theft auto! I tell them that ain%u2019t my beef!%u201D


That.Ain't.My.Beef.

Ohhh Shiitttttt!

C. Roast Beef Kazantzakis
1982-2009

R.I.P.

Ray is Dean Moriaty, Teodor is a flabbier Sal paradise.

The Preceeding sentence: Profound or facile....

DECISION TIME

Pat is Bull Lee, except he didn't write a book after he shot the bitch.

Uhm... Ray is Ginsberg I suppose but he didn't write about jerking off into the sun or whatever it is that Allen wrote about after 1972.

"Oh These Dorito Doldrums!"

Cornelius is Steinbeck. He has trod the path already and come back wiser for it watching the youngsters playing about as if everything is new.

The only difference is that I don't loathe Cornelius with a deep, seething passion.

i always thought beef was older than me....... at least 3 years older...

Yeah...if we assume he was 18 in his senior yearbook picture , we can extrapolate that he was born around 1975.

fucking fine whatever he's dead just sandblast the monument

take a chill pill, bill.

no need to be coy, roy

Get off my back, Jack.

too soon, baboon.

Who names their kids 'Baboon'? What are you, Dutch?

i live in or near pennsylvania dutch country, but i myself am not. also, baboon could be a nickname.

I live in and near Pennsylvania Dutch country and I myself am. We should date.

lancaster county?

(for all you non-pennsylvanians, thats pronounced LANK-uh-ster, not LAN-caster)

A bit northeast of Lancaster. I am glad you explained the proper pronunciation of that town's name.

My wife is Pennsylvania Dutch. We went on a date.

are you amish?

No, I am a mishter.

well played, sir.

I'll give it a whirl, Earl.

I fucked your mom, Tom.

Don't mind if you do, Magoo.

...wait, No wait a minute! STOP! WAIIIIIIIIIIIIT!

Eat a dick, Dick.

This strip , though a dream, would also appear to indicate that he was born in '75. Even in a nightmare I doubt Beef would get his own year of birth incorrect.

oh god oh man oh god

https://m.assetbar.com/achewood/uua2vZbJk

I check this strip from time to time to see if any of the panels have come true. Ray's grievous head and arm injury in 2012 may be a separate incident, but maybe...

The alt text speaks of four posts and yet i see but two

look again, but with your imagination

OH MY GOD I SEE IT

goddamnit! i read all these posts then created an account soley to point out this fact, and you had to ruin it changuitotuerto, and at the very end no less. you are my mortal enemy!

Making mortal enemies in your first post: Bad Form.

But ballsy.

Daring, I'll give him that.

I'm predicting a Monarch-Dr. Thaddeus Venture type relationship here, wherein you consider me your mortal enemy but I fail to reciprocate your aggression, instead choosing to smoke reefer and respond to your threats with big words. This strays a bit from how things are on the show. I am sorry about this nephilium

i predict this will be the last time you two ever interact.

dont feel to bad about it, it happend to me to.

A comment left by planks was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by ifergott, stalkertuesday, chivalress, Stonecrab, deus, puguglypress)

it is what it is, we are what we are. if it displeases you, i suggest you take your he-man dolls and go home.

die, ray, die

LIVE, RAY, LIVE!

Die, Deus, die.

Die Bart, die!

the beard, the?

No one who speaks German could be an evil man.

Die, [IMGS OFF], die.

"The, Deus, The?"
"The, Deus, Whom?"


I'm sorry you got the grammar all wrong.

Whoa, mindfuck.

I love the word "bifurcate", but I'm impelled to point out that it's more accurate to say that Ray's brain has been partially bisected. Can't imagine that it'll slow him down much. He'll probably come crawling out of the 'Lade in a few minutes and ask for a martini.

BUM BUM BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHUUUUUUUUUUUUM-M-M-M-M-M

Shut up , rabbi...
Meh, I really only should do this once a strip.

That is exactly what they said to Jesus, he didn't listen and look where it got him.

Don't get all like weird and make a Thing about our Thing. Our souls have shared a cheese sandwich more than twice and I say fuck putting regulations on it.

I am a bit confused about the chain of events that is the car crash?

Shit went bad, son.

Yes, but...that car crash seems to defy physics, unless its actually two cars.

Definitely 2 cars. The KHOPP sound is the collision.

No its the onomatopoeia of a collision,

chubbied for the correction

Guys. Roast Beef is doing this to HIMSELF!
[IMGS OFF]

The...the disease is inside of you?

The deer in you has got to get us through.

Helped by the beer in you

Thank you! I've been waiting for someone to say this.

So...I haven't been checking up on this whole story too regularly and I kinda forgot what the hell is even going on and can't even bring myself to care much at this time, but has it been discussed at any point here on the 'Bar that it kinda of looks like Onstad may be trying to wrap this whole thing up real soon? I mean, Achewood as a whole? Anybody else getting that vibe from all this?

I agree that, extrapolating the existing story line, he might be exercising The Samson Option. But to be honest, it seems unlikely that he'd destroy Achewood just because of a bit of criticism from me .

dont sell yourself short, bro. aim for the stars.

/*_-=-:[*Rrrrrrmmmmrrrurrrrmmm*]:-=-_*\

Yes.

damn right!

HOLY SHIT!! HOLY SHIT

[IMGS OFF]

[IMGS OFF]

OH MY GOD OF COURSE

little Jack-Jack is the bird at the helm.

Not the Escalade!!!!!

Oh horrors!

Well, at least Theodore will finally get a chance to do something right: grab the blood spattered book, read the relevant passage, and save Beef's life.

Ray? Ray is talking to Robert.

oh fuck me, Teodor. Christ. Theodore? Where's Simon? And Alvin?

Alvin? ... ... ... ALLLLVIIIIIN!

[IMGS OFF]

I get it! These are LOAN SHARKS!!

Chubby to the first man who photoshops the escalade cartwheeling over mount everest.

I've realised the above sentence is rather chauvinistic. But to be honest women usually have better ways to spend their time than photoshop-ing for the amusement of strangers.

[IMGS OFF]

wake me when it's over because Chris Onstad is keeping it too real

really though in a week i hope to see an arc beginning that i can legitimately follow, because I cannot find the top or tail of this one. :_(

AND here is a sad thing: the arcs are no longer being updated on the main Achewood page, in the dropdown menu that allows you to choose and begin an arc. I guess it's been awhile, maybe since The Wedding.

in conclusion:
i likes the comics what have lots of jokes in em, without so many meddlesome words

I, too, am laying low until whatever this is blows over. There have been some interesting looking panels in this arc, but that's about it and that's not really what I care about in Achewood anyway.

Funny, Six-panel one-offs. Give me them.

Yes. I want some of THAT. None of these...endless arc patterns that lack such goodness as a five-year-old otter eating a little bite out of a Chap-stick.

Stonecrab? Who the fuck is stonecrab? Get off my jock, bitch.

Nah, I think I'll just stay on. So, who the fuck is rowboat? ;)
Ain't trying to make a thing man, I just happen to be a person who loves/lives for Achewood. Why you all gettin' your feelings hurt over one little lame?

My feelings, like my jock, are brittle and sore.

So how's it feel to be my new best friend?

Well, after looking more closely at your avatar, I think I should pass!

Clever girl...

Early July I think. From when Ray asks Connie how the porn is going, basically.

Beef in the bed has reverted to stuffed toy cat form. There is noone in the second vehicle. The Escalade is still in the air somersaulting and has not hit the ground yet. Much remains unknown. Time travel?

Beef, Ray and Pat are real gone cats. On the other hand both those vehicles, the solid one and the "ghost" one are Escalades. If I look long enough at the final panel I can see reality diverging with a KHOPP sound.

Ray has something on his mind

In the seat: Showbiz. Still pissed about his reception at the reception.

Nah. Couldn't be.

he would have sold that ticket to his homey for more 'green' if you know what i mean.

so what the fuck is up with firefox? I've noticed that images that people post on assetbar only render 50% of the time... but if I wiggle the mouse pointer in the bottom right corner of the page, then the images magically appear.

also I am disappointed that no one commented on my graphical comment in my post a few posts up

does everyone have me on ignore or something? what the fuck!

by the way that guy who makes the assetbarista there is a bug every time you reply, your reply gets stuck as a preview up in the root-level post form

okay not every time just some times

What happened to your rabbit ears?

shut up

that answers that question.

Quote:
does everyone have me on ignore or something?

Not yet, but keep whining.

I did not comment on it because it did not make sense to me. I feel bad now.

Maybe because people are tired of the old jumped the shark argument with Achewood. Particularly with this arc as it seems to be a return to form for the rambling arcs that were loved back in the day eg. cross country trip, mexican magical realism, and GOF although that one is not one of mine. Also just because I'm ignoring you, doesn't mean you are on ignore.

are you running Assetbarista, holmes? It aids the script that firefox butchers so abhorrently.

I'm playing on Chrome right now but when I run Firefox, my biggest issue is always alt texts hovering. Scrolling through Assetbar becomes a death sentence if my mouse isn't docked in the corner of my monitor.

Assetbarista is gnarly as hell, check it out if you're not already running it.

You can take all your time to read alt texts in the Properties window of the image (right click Properties).

Dudette, firefox is so last year. SRWare Iron is the shizzy. Like 5 times faster.

I don't know why I laugh at Ray getting RB's salvation embedded in his brain-pan. I know only that I laugh.

I wish Onstadt would not make promises he cannot keep

It's all clear now. He's winding up Achewood to take up a career in politics.

Bitchin' policies that never materialize.

Someone in the boards a few days ago explained "Onstad Time". Highly accurate...

Don't blame me, I voted for Goldwater.

i woke up this morning and it felt like christmas, i was so excited to go see the new strip.

i forgot onstad is into hurting his readers

And mean old Lucy pulled the football away again!

Exactly.

AAUGH!

the video is great. maked me cry at end

i hab 0 follahs n twitteh. i ben make 100 updates 2 only mtself. i am real sorta depressed nah

[IMGS OFF]

what's your username in twitter glad I will be glad to follow you

Refrain [Karen Carpenter]:
Forever young, forever young, their lives,
You have to remember the good times
Because nothing is forever
Forever young, forever young, their lives,
You have to remember the good times
Because nothing is forever

1. Stanza [Bushido]:
You crap on that talk sense
Because you remain a man of action
Hard-working grad
The whole goddamn days
You feel old and weak
You feel drained
And the pig of Chef in you can get out of bad temper
What a Pausenclown
10 years of blood and sweat
You look in the mirror
This look says, "Enough, enough!"
If your wife is radio silence, mourning
Is it going stranger?
Do you really still force to ambush the dog?
The children ha'm lied to you too
Whether smoking party, booze, drugs
So you have your blood drawn does not
Everyone thinks of himself, but who thinks of you?
Previously college jackets, now the suit
You do not know you!
This life is just stop cold and heavy
And each year now come for a few more wrinkles
Say how much you would now fly free like an eagle
No 'idea of wasting more, some are in the coffin.

Refrain [Karen Carpenter]:
Forever young, forever young, their lives,
You have to remember the good times
Because nothing is forever
Forever young, forever young, their lives,
You have to remember the good times
Because nothing is forever


2.Stanza [Bushido]:
Your parents are now old and sick
And this is like a bad movie
And now you pray to God: "Please to stop him!"
It comes to you like only yesterday
You were grade 9
Your first goal
People are proud when you get a happy Father
He was your coach
Kicked in the front of the house
Today, the man running with bent 'nem crutch into the house
You're sad, this man who was daily with you outside
Seated alone at the kitchen table and now has a cataract
He is sick, sick because he lacks the kidney
The stick with him when he goes for a walk today
You are worse off than him, but no 'cares
The doctor gives her most recent appointment
Who can not turn back time here?
Who gives you back this power?
She is weak, look,
You can geh'n to crouch
And you do this is just your memory
Everything is impermanent,
but we would like to be forever young, forever young

Refrain [Karen Carpenter]:
Forever young, forever young, their lives,
You have to remember the good times
Because nothing is forever
Forever young, forever young, their lives,
You have to remember the good times
Because nothing is forever


3. Stanza [Bushido]:
How much I would say now
"Hope dies last"
What did I do?
Why did God punish me with this bad luck?
When I realize that nothing is here forever?
All this eventually breaks
And then I sit in the rubble '
Enjoy the moment, if you're with your friends
This moment with your mother because she is looking forward
Eventually, she will geh'n, enjoy the moment
Whom you just share with you, everything else does not need them
And this fucking habit, each thinks of himself
Children under stress of her father, until it just breaks
Until he simply can not
And also do not want to talk more
Because he wants to be young again
And also want to live
Nothing is forever
We would be happy forever young
Let the time that remains
Simply spending only and
Remember, a day set the hard job
Print 'now the Ray Ban, the Blue Jeans
Sing to them, Karel Gott!

Refrain [Karen Carpenter]:
Forever young, forever young, their lives,
You have to remember the good times
Because nothing is forever
Forever young, forever young, their lives,
I'll just give everything
A lifetime forever young
I'll just give everything
For ever in life
Forever, forever ... FOREVER YOUNG!

you can't translate dis via mechanical online shit. rbots can't recognise the full sense. must be able to actually speak the beautiful language to fully grasp. robots can't translate anything mor than "hello, i need use bathroom"

tu me fais chier, tu m'entends!?

Sie können nicht übersetzt werden dis über mechanische online shit. rbots nicht erkennen kann im vollen Sinne. muss eigentlich die schöne Sprache vollständig erfasst zu sprechen. Roboter können nicht alles übersetzen mor als "Hallo, ich brauche Verwendung Bad"

okay you might have a point Glad. I took your pile of crap and I fed it through the Google translator about a dozen or so times, from one language to another to another to another and finally back to English. It didn't work out so well. here's the end result:


Mechanical conversion can not throw trash. I, Rbot, literally do not understand. Speaking remain beautiful language, I understand. All robot "Hello, I have to sing" can not be converted in Africa

hey check it out
Karel Gott - Für immer jung

it's interesting how the cinematography in this video matches up with the current Achewood strip.

so what symbolism is there in this video?

Bushido is sitting in the 12th seat. does that mean anything?

Karel Gott's chauffeur is shown to signal, perhaps this is symbolic of the futility of prudence?

Towards the end of the video Gott puts on a pair of Ray Bans, representative of his desire and advice to hang on to the memories of youth.

As the two cars pass each other, snow flakes spontaneously fall about them, then Bushido is shown with a setting sun angling towards his rear view mirror, symbolic of his waning youth.

At the beginning of the video, Gott appears, still, in darnkess. (the spot light initially disappears when Gott appears.) In this manner Gott represents the stillness and darkness of old age.

The end of the video features an image from the camera chasing Bushdio's car down a long winding path ultimately obscured by trees. This image coincides with the lyrics "Nichts ist fur immer." Slightly later, the last scene of the video is this scene reversed, the camera this time keeping even pace with Bushido's car, shooting looking towards the front of the car. The oncoming path is not shown, and the car is rounding an extended bend in the road, so the path just traveled is not visible either.

i ain't one 2 knock anybodies hustle but damn bro u is some kinda fucked up

is gladi8orrex really 19 years old? Or is he 79?

Gladi is the corporeal manifestation of one of a group of pan dimensional beings who visit earth at critical times to nudge us gently back onto the right path. He is always 19 and communicates in the patois of the young as they are most malliable. He does not waste his time on older people except if they display infantile behaviour like discussing casual sex, obtuse videos, or comic strips with complete strangers.
He is often ridiculed by those who most need his help, but he persists without rancour because his mission is pure.

u tink u no him? hll fuck u uplol

Sorry to be a dick about terms, but this is a big pet peeve of mine.

I think you mean "abstruse", not "obtuse". It's an incredibly common mistake that people make all the time. That doesn't make it acceptable, though.

I didn't mean difficult to understand, I meant stupid and dull. I guess I should said that, less chance of being misunderstood.

Belgand is being an obtuse dick about terms.
That is the worst kind.

Fucking shit eating seagulls I hate them.
Hey man, don't be a dick about terns.

Hmm... can "obtuse" really be used in such a capacity? I thought it was really only capable of being used to describe a person or the actions of a person. I can see what you're getting at, but... hmm... we need a linguist.

A ...a cunning one?

A good, cunning linguist.

dag.

and oh yeah, you preachin to the choir. let me tell you buddy, you ain't know the 100%-6sigma of it.

pote?

For some reason the wallpaper the gas light bed the door slightly opening just creeps me the fuck out.

I really want that wallpaper.