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Tiene Mas Pompas Monday, May 31, 2010 • read strip Viewing 271 comments:

Nice Pete does not think highly of women.

yep, i shouldn't have checked achewood before bed.

the nightmares... they just never stop

yep, i shouldn't have checked achewood at work.

the rereading... it just never stops

does her mouth look like an anus

am i the only one who noticed this

oh i'm not i just looked further down

You usually have to to get a good look at an anus.

Only a telescope would convince me to take a look at your anus and its nebulous gases.

How low did you sink?

I'm going deeper underground.

there's too much panic in this town

*Godzilla slips and steps on Jay Kay*

I'm pretty sure Nice Pete was the first to mentally substitute her mouth for this smellier bodily orifice.

A comment left by gothfae was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by divot, semi_retarded, Mizzip)

I remember this one time... when I was fifteen and still referenced Rejected Cartoons like it would make me cool and funny.

yeah but now its a hipster- ironic reference, so its still makes him cool and funny. or uncool and unfunny, so as to avoid the mainstream. whatever a hipster wants

I just did the same thing, which makes me twice as wrong! So don't feel too bad.

Man, I don't know... but I see breasts in her opening dialogue. I'm probably far worse than you.

I am afraid to comment; this strip seems to contain more than one hidden Rorschach.
But yes, it has that "balloon knot" appearance.
Now I am creeped out by my time dating a much older woman, who was a psychologist, from the Jung school.
Now I will go to bed and just accept the mommy dreams.

Did she call you her "Jung 'un"?

I was her "special boy."

I have the same problems figuring that out with those women who wear black or brown lip liner. Actually, wait...who still does that?

The nightmares don't stop til Pete walks in.

Don't talk
really stop
or I'll make your head pop tonight
you're a blight that I'm happy to right
Your blood's hot and won't clot
but soon it will stop like
AAAAAAAUGH
AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!

The original 'beat' poet..?

Nice Pete does NOT wake up in the morning feeling like P Diddy.

Not even Diddy feels like Diddy in the morning.

interestingly, sometimes 50 Cent does feel like P Diddy in the morning.

That's because women are clear, like a horrible toy with no color in the plastic.

And when they talk, it is like the sound of glass breaking or birds being burned in a shoebox.*

*may not be exact quote.

"A woman's voice is a crime and siren in one"

the sound of women talking is like wind in the trees,
pleasant to the ears,
but without meaning...

I don't think Denny's employees even dress that well anymore. I'd venture to say Nice Pete is staring at the most professional of waitresses.

Even Pete is not totally immune to a woman's charms....
I think he is secretly wondering what if she gets naked with him there in Denny's.
Can she be the One?

I mean, c'mon, isn't that how we all look for Ms. Right?

i don't think that's what's happening in this comic

But....what if it is what's happening in this comic? Are all the characters so boringly predictable that Pete can't get off on a waitress?

Or am I just recycling Cornelius and Polly?

I don't know

Whatever happened to Polly anyway?

I wish someone had answered this question for you, as I've been wondering that myself.

Also, hows Phillippe? We haven't seen him come home yet. I fear they'll just introduce this twenty-something dude and it'll be him after his heart finally grew and became jaded by his little adventure home.

Nice Pete can definitely get off on a waitress. It's just... the waitress will not be alive afterwards.

Or, maybe, during?

I very much doubt that Nice Pete lets himself "get off" at all. Far more likely that he represses that side of himself until it is expressed while he is asleep... then ensues the self-harm and pent-up agression.

Do you think it would have been different if it were such a man as Denny's can provide at 3 in the morning?

I don't believe he thinks highly of humanity as a whole.

Nice Pete thinks very highly of humanity, higher than you can imagine; that is why he is so "Nice".

It is people that are the problem; they live down, so far down below his expectations of them. They crawl with the vermin and they become the vermin... though on this night, Teodor has at last shown promise.

Virtual Chubby delivered directly from Experimental Psychology.

Gotcha covered.

You have suddenly explained the mind of most free speech activists that for some reason or another browse the comment sections of online tabloids.

No indeed. Is it intentional that his concept of her looks like a puckered anus with a face?

You'll pardon me if I ask you to kiss my pucker.

Oh TV and your silly little edits!

I'm feeling kind of sorry for the guy now, if this is the kind of thing he sees all the time. it's like having your own personal Silent Hill to lug around.

Except that all the dead, deformed things fear him .

The waitress is a clear space that will scream.

with a large middle where the smells come from.

Nice Pete is not a well man.

I was more worried about the woman with stuff coming out of her facehole.

I am going to call people a 'facehole' now

like when someone cuts me off on the freeway
I'm gonna wave my middle finger at them and scream "FACE HOOOOOOOOOLE" at them

This facehole that I... boned?


Oh God what mental image have I wrought

One that I've already had before.

In all fairness it was the scene in American Psycho where Patrick uses a hole saw bit in a cordless drill to expand a woman's mouth out so he can better face-fuck her.

You know I hear all these 'indie' and 'counter-culture' people talking about that movie like it's a brilliant piece of literature and film and you tell me the main character face fucked a woman he had recently committed dental trauma with a power tool on and I just don't see why the fuck they like it.

Eh, the book was a lot better.

It takes the correct viewpoint to appreciate, but it really is an excellent satire that doesn't pull punches. It doesn't demure to "then I brutally tortured and raped her for the rest of the evening" in any sense. It describes everything and increasingly gets more depraved. This is actually rather essential and makes sense in context as an escalation of psychosis (regardless of which interpretation you subscribe to). It is a work that is willing to "go there". It's not a sanitized work like Dexter that loses the power and brutality that should be kept in precisely because these are terrible acts and we best not forget that.

I'm not trying to edgier or anything, but if you have a weak stomach for that sort of thing, well, you're just not going to appreciate it. It doesn't mean there's anything wrong with you. I don't much care for nature. Not my scene. The only thing that would make someone a philistine is refusing to acknowledge that it might actually have legitimate depth and meaning. You can't take things out of context.

Belgand likes his chuckles rough.

Alt-text is near and dear to my heart, as I have to run a gauntlet of Greenpeace clipboard kids on my way to class every day.

I prefer to imagine polar bears casually removing their faces, though.

Chubby for casually .

... you called?

Today's alt text is further evidence that, at some point, Onstad had a HORRIFYING experience with grocery store petitioners.

It's okay Chris, you can make a comic making fun of it directly. We're here for you.

Also: https://achewood.com/index.php?date=09212007

Onstad really hates people with clipboards.

Hot dumbasses.

Me too, but the Greenpeace kids have got to be the worst. Not that I have a beef with Greenpeace (sorry, but I don't). In fact, it's partly because I feel bad about blowing them off (whereas hot dumbasses touting cellphone plans are easy to shine on). But the GP'ers . . . I cannot BELIEVE those people. They want you to give them your fucking credit card information. Right there. On the fucking street. As if in a million years anyone with half a brain would do that.

In fact, it always makes me think they're just scam artists. The streetcorner equivalent to all those crazily optimistic Nigerian emailers who can't even come close to writing American English but claim to be Mary Thomas from Iowa, or a GI serving in Iraq who found millions in a garbage can behind one of Saddam's palace. They don't even get the salutations right. And they're sending out more email all the time.

palaces, I mean.

And the stories. My colleague is doing a field survey in Nigeria and isn't allowed to pay Fedex the $150 it takes to deliver the $800,000 in a package to me, though he's begged them to? Damn, I forgot ALL ABOUT that colleague! Thanks for reminding me!

exactly. It's not the fact that they're trying to scam you that's so annoying. What's annoying is that they suck so bad at it. You'd think that they could, over time, develop a better awareness of both the language and the culture. If you have internet access, then you should be able to dig up enough examples of writing and interaction to where you'd figure out those salutations, to where you'd figure out that in common American culture, every other sentence isn't bless you this and love of God that. But no, they can't figure it out. They're perpetually stuck in their own alternate reality.

On a related subject, evangelical Christianity is huge in Nigeria. Coincidence?

yea their pitch is that they're human.

i once got "hey what's up? you look busy, but talk to me for a second?"
"sorry, maybe next time"
"it's cool, rock on dude."

how can you not love them?

I usually give them a "you're destroying my planet" scowl and keep moving

I've got to get to class. Any class.

Nice Pete thinks women are just faceless things with bleeding holes to stick things in. Conclusion: Nice Pete is male.

Rough chuckles, those.

That was blood?

Blood or shit, we need to determine exactly what it is.

NO

my very first thought: rough chuckles. oh mercy.

And now we know. What is on the inside.

1. Are you misspelling "Eddard Stark", or is the similarity purely coincidental?

2. God dammit, I don't recognize any of these posters anymore.

3. I understand that the mouth is an ever-expanding/contracting anus, but what the hell is that thing on top of her head?

It looks like he kind of perceives the details of her actual head, so there's some nubs where the ears are and little hairs in the middle where her hair parts. It's probably like how if you have a dream while half awake the imagery of the dream will sometimes partially incorporate stuff that's actually around you. For example the sun breaking over a tall cliff in the distance might look exactly like the light coming over the rippled top of your bedroom curtain. Schizophrenic hallucinations are said to be similar dreams, in that they are subconscious imagery that one cannot tell apart from reality, so it is a realistic assumption that details might translate in the same way. He has sort of transformed her hair to look like the trail of hair that might run down a mans back.

Goddamn, son.

We're still here. Now that AIU is now a regular, non-horriblyoffensive commenter, we're all trying to be trolls to make up for that hole in our lives.

He is reformed? I never see him comment.


Wait a minute...

Although I understand you don't need it pointed out because of all the sarcasm on you, I shall anyway:

rattacat.

that bastard Alex probably still has me blocked on facebook. That's how he deals with any perspective which diverges from his own. He finds it on facebook, and he blocks it.

you can do that?

could I block, say, Randism?

But Randi's Amazing.

Come, my friends. It's time to troll.

Cast off your past, act out new roles.

... Oh, I? Perchance I'll choose to be

"dr_rostov_desires_anal_play_eventually"

virtualchubby for your patience.

My name is Plumrowboat and I am an enormous asshole

No, no, no. The idea is to pretend to be someone you're not.

Yeah, that's what I'm doing.

I'm just a common, garden jerkass. But Rowboat is a full-blown Asshole. He gets mad chubs for being one, too.

ROWBOAT ASS!!!!

BOO TO THAT!!!

God DAMNIT I have the perfect hastily photoshopped buggery idea but IMGS OFF is kicking my ASS.

Link that shit, doggie.

Wait.

Scratch that idea.

see this is exactly why images need to stay off. Images encourage laziness on the part of the poster and the reader. Being forced to link to images, the posted must now go to the effort of explaining to the audience why they should click on the link. Apparently most posters either can't be bothered, or aren't articulate enough to pull this off. And most readers can't be bothered to click on a link. And that's fine. Let's not make reading assetbar any more of a lazy-ass experience than it already is. People who are exceptionally drunk or stoned are boring, and a bunch of people in TV-watching zombie mode pretty much fits that bill. We don't need to turn assetbar into a TV. We don't need pictures popping up in front of our face. We can survive without this.

Wait, what's this about images being off?

... what?!

I just went back to look at some of those perfect old Edwell posts and they are gone, as are mine. The buggery! It is gone! A significant portion of my childhood has been forcibly taken from me, my friends.

the thing about images being off is that the images are off. You see what happened is that the images all got off ... on your mother...

that was not nice of me :-(

Welcome to the only game in town.

AIU decided that the best way to demonstrate a security vulnerability in image posts was to hijack everybody's user titles, give himself millions of chubbies, and permanently break the comic rating system.

What a guy.

Get fucked you cunt.

How was that? How did I go?

These lyrics fit perfectly to "hell" by The squirrel nut zippers.

If I should join the flaming crowd
And cast my lot with the Achewood maggots
Give to me a sweeping name
To give the reader warning:
Call me "Shelby_davis_hates_the_faggots
babies_seals_and_global_warming".

You hate global warming too! Awesome.

Everybody hates global warming, but some of us wrote a letter. Or a sort of poem.

I'm not actually certain that I hate global warming. Anything that gets us closer to living in temperature-controlled domed cities is kind of a plus in my book.

At the same time my apartment is rent-controlled and will be very underwater so that's a definite problem.

do gas-cloud speech bubbles coming out of an anus-mouth mean Nice Pete hears women talking as farts?

From anyone else, it seems a bit childish. only Pete makes potty humour so terrifying

That bubble isn't gas, it's a tumorous lump of pulsing corruption. A woman's words are cancer.

One is forced to wonder what the waitress' expression is in the 23rd panel, and how it changes in the 24th. New dimensions are to be found here.

I'm imagining a blend of whirling confusion with a tinge of terrified arousal in pane 23, followed by raw, unbridled befuddlement in 24. Oh, Onstad, your dimensions undrawn.

Ugh. You just made me imagine what it would be like to look at Nice Pete and feel arousal . You dick.

Never before have I regretted my loss of ability to rate strips this much.

Yeah, what is up with that stuff anyway? Is anyone at all able to now? What did I miss?

I'm wondering the same. I've been on a long trawl through the archives but I took a few month break. Now that I came back, images are disabled in the comments and I can't rate strips. This saddens me. I keep clicking the 5 in vain.

First Teodor, now this?

Nice Pete brings out the asshole in everybody

somehow that face made me glad that Nice Pete's ass was readily available as a diversion

You considered Nice Pete with his eyes fully widened less terrifying than something?

i consider it a bit less terrifying than his normal expression

I was recently told (on Assetbar) that Electric Six makes good background music for Achewood. I was playing "Danger: High Voltage" while reading this...

...wow.

try again, but with "Gay Bar" this time

Naw, that one's reserved for the Circus Penis strips.

Somewhere, Rod Huggins is weeping into a cup of chamomile

" I've got something to put in you "

"...cupcake bosom."

I think some Wisconsin Achewood fans were listening, took a dare from Nice Pete, and hacked this sign ...

Hilarious!

also unless "pompas" is being used as a euphemism for "cojones" then i have no idea what the title of this strip is about

I assumed then verified that it means both "Bubbles" and "Pomp/splendor" etc., so it's a glorious pun, hopefully.

I assume, as I mentioned later on here, that Onstad is referencing the use of 'Pompas' as slang for butt.

Darn me for not reading all the way through.

I think Nice Pete should have played the Michael Ironside role in Scanners.

i wanna fuck that mouth

This has Meaning for you.

Pete does not take no for an answer. You heard it here today.

Pete vs Ramses.

Who wins..?

Ramses is a coward who abandons his various sons. Pete is someone who is good at non-honourable killing. I'm putting my money on Pete.

Ooh yes. A fair fist fight comes to draw.

Shaking of hands.
Parties walk away.

One puts a knife into the other's back.


"You son of a bitch."

I really like the show Deadliest Warrior but sometimes i feel like they really don't take into account all the factors they need to.

yeah right a ninja loses to a spartan... six pack abs don't count when you are killed before you even know the ninja's there

But what about his phalanx?

phalanxes SUCK

YOU TAKE THAT BACK

I was very much thinking of Nice Pete as a shitty mid-western redneck Ninja. Except for the whole "he's not really an assassin getting paid by anyone" thing.

Wow - rows 3 to 5 are really fucked up. Onstad, you are scaring me.


And I kinda like it.

fuuuuuuuuuuuuck

And there was I thinking up to panel 20 that Nice Pete had acquired Jedi mind powers.
Oh well, we just need to wait for Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer to come in and rob the place, except in this scenario, Nice Pete doesn't have a soul on his person.

I think this is one of like three achewood comics that have legitimately disturbed me.

If not for the alt-text I would've counted this comic as an overall negative impact on my psyche

Seeing the world through Nice Pete's eyes is weird. Does EVERYONE look like an assface to him?

just women

a woman is just a screaming clear area with a wig on and a large middle where the smells come from.

Jesus Christ

I breathed a naive sigh of relief when it seemed like Nice Pete had "snapped out of it" in panel 20, only to re-inhale sharply when the pucker-face returned on the next one. You can't snap out of being Nice Pete. Nor can you read a pucker-face.

Can't read my, can't read my, pucker-faaaaace!


Ugh, you have my permission to kill me now.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUU

See this owp? You made gladi8orrex so ashamed to be a man that he cast himself into a chasm, screaming your curses with his last breath. What a rotten application of one's self.

FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

ragin' b/tard.

This is the only message board you need.

Tonight Nice Pete is going to be

the winner

...

Whoever has the screaming Philippe avatar, we need you now more than ever.

yall n ur moving horsehsit. y caunt yall jus stan still?

ad-d mother fuckers

Awwwwww shit, nigga!

Fuckin five star asset!

By now, we can only hope that Teodor has taken the van and made a run to the border.

I mean the Mexican border, not Taco Bell.

The border cannot save him.

Nice Pete has no jurisdiction to leave.

Pete will find him and make him squeal .

Now I can't help but think of "a run to the border" as some sort of coprocentric sex act.

Now that you've had sex.

puttin' on such airs now dat she gettin' tapped more often den jeremy horn

welcome to my world

...the world of Red Bull?

Is the title is referring to Nice Pete's butt? Or the buttface serving him? Or both...

This time Nice Pete wins at creeper w/ head tilting right tic-tac-toe viz. panels 8, 11 and 15.

I...I need to go reread some of the more life-affirming Phillipe-based comics. Excuse me.

wanna kiss? now or later. idc

i kinda have teh same back n buttock shape as nice pete lik i turn round naked b4 ma shower n inspected n dang if it aint exact.

fun fact about me. i was watch tell-tale other day n if u've ever seen it you know the dude stomps a dudes head hella ed horton style--but lik on his face n jus on ground on curb--anyways, i laughed. outloud. i was alone n if u know anythin u know its hard to outburst wit laugh alone, mostly is chuckle or smile but was str8 laugh, not gut laugh, jus like 'ha-ha HAHA : he...' but den i got queezy win his heart would beat fast, lik the hospital scene when cox was show teh pix n dudes rate got to like 184 MY heart got to lik 184. as a dude wit arithmia heart shit gimmes teh jibblies.

anyways dats dat hope we can kiss later

Horton Curb-Stomps a Hoo

Based on the facial expression in panel 19, I'm just glad we were spared the full-body shot. The one with not-so-Nice Pete.

Man when Nice Pete does naked lunch he really does mean Naked Lunch

See, you can't wear clothes at Denny's, 'cause to wear clothes at Denny's is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow and the rhythm, the tumbling out of the flesh, is a betrayal, and it's a sin, Tacodor, it's a sin.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102511/quotes?qt0543805

Fucking beat me to it.

This is up there with the Cynthia strip in terms of freaking me the hell out through its use of horrible, eyeless things with uncalled-for placement of orifices. God damn.

I like that the title is, "Do you have more bubbles?"

It is not posed as a question, though. It is prolly "he has more(much?) pomp"

Actually: "He/She has more bubbles." 'Pompas,' used by some, is slang for butt. The rest is self-explanatory.

Not he/she. It.

If only Spanish had a neuter like German, then yes. Technically it does, but not when used with a verb.

The woman has no features. The woman has no eyes nor nose nor hair nor soul.
The woman is glass and plastic and all the falsity of a hand whose sole purpose is to mock the Creator with his vile works.
You do not gaze upon it nor speak to it nor interact in any meaningful way; such approaches are futile, they are impossible, there is no way to respond as all they shall spit is the blubbering black bile that incenses buffoonery and nonsense and all such acts of the fool and the ass and the damned.

If she's a smart lady, she will ask one of the male prep cooks to take the order.

There's two comics in the archive I have a genuinely hard time looking at, not out of spite, but because they gross me out. The maggots on the stove is one, and Teodor's dream where he pops off part of his face is the other. Welcome to an elite club, #3!

Yeah, this one is up there with the "Ray? Ray, I'm a prostitute" one in terms of things I'm not sure I can look at again.

the ray one was tame. Roast beef's dream, on the other hand...

Your mouth, is an anus. When you talk, your mouth is a moving anus.

Sounds a little less like Baby Birds burning in a shoebox and a little more like "Sinner's Coffee" percolating in a sewer pipe.

something to be said about the waitress in all but the last three strips, her chest is flat and her nametag is missing
only identifiable as an anus with an agenda that does not meet his own

Nice Pete makes the world much more simple for us

I thought that the fancy grocery was only for rich people, until I realized that a person on food stamps can very well shop there and eat like a king.

kings dont eat they regal

I read this comment as though you had said: "...and eat, like, a king"- as though kings were not only desirable foods but also could be purchased with foodstamps in the right fancy grocery stores.

yeah, she's checking out his ass in the next to last panel

EXACTLY like high school.

Nice Pete's thought bubble looks like an asshole!!!!!!

your av- nevermind

This is the first time a comic strip has ever made me nauseous. I don't know whether to pat Onstad on the back or have a seizure on his lawn. I'll stick with the patting for now.

... I know where you live :)

and I'm going to kill you

:3

Is this guy Onstad?

oh shit dude
you figured him out
he's totally gonna kill you now
oh fuck you're gonna be in the back of his van OHHHHHHHHHHHH SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!


NEW! AT THE ACHEWOOD STORE!
Get killed personally by Onstand!

when gladi8orrex first surfaced I guessed he was onstad, but actually I guess he's some guy who lives in New York.

Who is a poet.
An listens to a lot of BBC World Radio.

Gladi8orrex is like a box of Wheaties with Dr. House on the front. I don't understand the reason for it, I don't particularly like it, but it makes me laugh.

You can seizure on call?! Awesome party trick!

GOD

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN

Mississippi

Probably somebody else already noticed this, but why doesn't she have eyes until the last row of panels...?

I don't like how Onstrad is drawing Nice Pete's mouth, from the side. It's too human looking, and kinda dopey looking too. It also coveys a much different sort of facial expression than when Nice Pete's face is viewed facing you, which is problematic as we see different views of Pete in the same context. It's like there are three different versions of Nice Pete in today's strip. I bet that Onstrad came up with the side view after he gave the matter too much conscious thought.

Now the waitress on the other hand - this could be the first time that he's drawn a female without it seeming like he was having trouble and falling short of meeting the challenge in some way. Looks like it was drawn with ease, and it's a good quality drawing. I'm talking about the last three panels anyway. I have no idea what the fuck is up with the rest of the strip.

I believe the effect is meant to disturb us, how human Nice Pete looks sometimes.

Or O could just be drinking a little too hard when he hits the sketchpad. It could go either way. It could go either way.

like a bisexual

HUGE slam on people of alternative lifestyles outta nowhere from Wazza!

it's not so much an alternative lifestyle as a lifestyle with alternatives

With alternatives... that I boned ?

more than likely.

I think the profile view is meant to illustrate the creepy, degenerate leer he employs while finding himself in such a wacky high school situation with sphincter-face.
Possibly!

this is an awesome strip but the alt-text is kind of fucked. I don't get whats funny about imagining the death of Greenpeace kids, they just want to help the environment. What does Chris do to help the environment? Nothing.

I'm pretty sure anyone who actually uses this trance sequence for anything has larger Troubles than the environment.

He publishes his webcomic primarily online instead of in print. He rescues trees one panel at a time.

Greenpeace doesn't help the environment. Greenpeace blocks the distribution of life-saving crops.

Greenpeace is anti-nuclear. They aren't very supportive of real solutions.

Building nuclear power plants to alleviate energy shortage is like building more roads to alleviate congestion; It doesn't work. The only real solution is not not use so much energy, is for everyone to stop driving everywhere. You charge your electric car off the nuclear powered grid, then you get in your car to drive to walmart. If Green Peace is against that lifestyle, then more power to them.

I mean seriously, what a poor application of a megawatt, to burn it up driving to walmart and taco bell.

Target and Hardee's? Better?

we should be self sufficient. We are like so many natives buying shiny beads from the white people without realizing that it's destroying our culture and we'll be in bondage for the rest of our lives to pay for this shit.

But we're not allowed to do anything else! If we don't consume and adhere to fashion while conforming with everyone else, we won't be like the IT people on TV, and we won't get laid, and we'll be big stinky nerds, and...


i have problems with needing validation

That....is the plan, Mr. Anderson. Did you somehow think you had anything better to do with the rest of your life?

I fail to see how the problem of the environment is best addressed by regressing to the 17th century. The problem with forcing people to become self-sufficient is that sooner or later a bunch of people work out that it's more efficient for them to take other people's food through force of arms than grow their own.

Helllllllllloooooooooooooooooo Feudalism.

Hey, man. If you call what we have culture, then by all means, let it die. Maybe it'll take our apparent "greed is good" lifestyle with it.

but if you don't drive there, they're just wasting power lighting and cooling the places

that's why we burn the places down. metaphorically speaking that is. We wouldn't want to contribute to global warming. A better use for Target would be to house homeless people or as a paintball arena. Or both...

"What a very rotten application of one's megawatt." Seriously, I would love to see Mr. Bear do PSAs on energy conservation.

I'd rather see megawatt porn.

giga- WATT???

One point twenty one gigawatts!

Mesmerized by the avatar, I chubbied.

Giga-watt news from the north?

I don't know, man, but any of these here gigawatts be from wind turbines, the blades better be SHARP AS HELL.

You're right ratacatt. We should just go live in the jungle and live a Hobbesian existence instead.

Or we could accept that people want creature comforts and that the only way to come close to maintaining that quality of life(but probebly not meeting it) is to go nuke. Nuke nuke nukes.

God I love nukes.

Come on there is a sophisticated or creative solution that falls somewhere inbetween the polar extremes of consuming infinite energy and consuming no energy. The problem is that our society is neither sophisticated nor creative.

so I guess I'm for the nuke nuke nuke solution. As in, let God sort 'em out.

are you serious?

'cause I know a guy.

God DAMN IT I do not want to see how Nice Pete thinks. That is nightmare fuel and a complimentary match.

I think you all are missing what is REALLY awful about Nice Pete in this strip. Which is: he is openly defying the "Please wait to be seated" sign.

He is so defyingk it until it is as defied as it is ever becomingk!

[IMGS OFF]

Don't you fucking know anything?

IMGS OFF!!!

chill
out
bro.

Some day, IMGS ON, and then this might be the best post yet

Unfortunately, when that day comes, we will have given out all our chubbies to lame-ass comments done in Vlad's voice.

HUGE slam on Scorpio out of nowhere

[IMGS OF DENNIS HOPPER WEARING EYEPATCH OFF]

LAME HIM! LAMMMMME HIMMMM!

I used all my lames in the GAF.

For the record I just finished reading all of the Achewood strips from Oct2001 to now. I feel accomplished

who chup'd dis shit. so fucking what you did wat u did, ok?

no gloves, no pads, no rules, lamed .

Gladi's just mad cause he missed a strip.

Also, I'm out of lames. Wish I had been less frivolous with laming people in my misguided assetbar youth.

i can still lame cuz im not an asshole

You've cut me deep, man.

chupp'd

Glad feels that is is a horrible application of one's self to brag about how many strips you have viewed

this deserves a chuppy

What?

This is another strip where the simple, tiny changes of eyebrows speak volumes. The last two panels are incredible. Her eyebrows seem to convey, "Oh my god. This is now my problem." It is a problem that neither the bureaucracy, nor the salary of Denny's is designed to handle.

Onstad moved to Oregeon to teach a community college class on eyebrowing

HER ACTIONS ARE SO WELL CONVEYED

The police. I learned a while ago that when you don't want to deal with something, when you have no idea how to handle a situation that is who is forced to deal with it.

Cleaning up other people's shit and possibly getting shot. Sounds like a great job.

I've only just remembered that Nice Pete is a character of questionable integrity.

No. Nice Pete is a man who will always keep his word. His integrity is probably greater than any other character in Achewood. He simply has a different values system aside from that. But being a man of integrity is perhaps the thing he holds most dear.