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Magnus Intactus Monday, June 19, 2006 • read strip Viewing 80 comments:

A comment left by jamers was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by joeyramoney, atom, EM2, Orskasm, ravindra108)

yes. it's almost as if the dog is saying, 'is this good enough, mr bear? is it?'

I thought he was saying awrrr?

he's saying "awrrr".

Ooops! Several months later, I realize it is indeed, awrr? Ah well.

Cornelius has a storied past. Cornelius is IT man.

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What's bullshit is that Lyle got it right. He'd rather push a Chevy than drive a Ford, after all.

You are a man more concerned with the wrapping than the present.

If you want a car that will take over your life yeah that's good. But this is a badass car, not a car to compensate because you aren't a badass.

Panel 5 - all other characters show looks of dismay, and the lines near their heads indicate a startled movement.

Except Cornelius.

He keeps it tall and frosty

TEODOR:kill...LYLE:kill...VLAD:kill...pat:(kill, presumably)...

CORNELIUS: serve coffee

Does anyone have a theory about Pat's name being the only one in lowercase? Maybe because he was that much more cowardly?

I think that's probably accurate. He squealed like a girl, and has proven himself unworthy of masculine capital letters.

His name was added to the database at a different time. The original list of participants did not include the name "pat".

In my native language "pat" (as a noun) means tit.

I don't think it says pat:kill. This might very well be Pat's Magreaux dog, here because he's going gay. It is not fatal, so it isn't trying to stand or anything, but it is acting like a total dick just like Pat.
I think it says:

pat:present intactness. coy howling.

His hands rest in his apron pockets.

He knows they will not be needed.

In that moment they have all already lost

Cornelius is SO badass.

Choosing C is so out of character for Mr. Bear. He would have gone with the Bugatti. I assume he was making an astute tactical decision, playing by the rules but also playing the rules.

Any badass knows that you DO NOT drive a car that carries the words "L'Oreal" and "Awareness" in its title, no matter how awesome it would normally be. IT IS NOT DONE.

Definitely. And Cornelius would know that the Eliminator would be only two afternoons' work away from being the sort of car in which one could bounce together in the rumble seat with a favored member of an appropriate sex, and another afternoon's from being the sort of car in which one could casually flip off the police, of whom Cornelius knows no fear .

I just noticed that cornelius is wearing his official badass games wife beater OVER his regular clothes. Awesome.

I thought it was his apron all along, but upon further inspection that is indeed a wifre beater.

I believe it has pockets in the fifth panel.

Or maybe he has tiny breadroll hands.

It appears they were told to arrive wearing sleeveless shirts - or maybe Pat just came late and was unable to obtain a real wife beater.

The dog is called Magnus Intactus because he still has his sack.

And what a sack it is!

Yeah dang unless it is a really hot day that thing has got some gravity on it.

A comment left by senseihollywood was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by Cyberbob, _cheesekayke, Zem, cailetshadow)

Biggus Dickus?

Broadicus Dickus

Incontinentia...

Magnus was the baddest pit bull in the yard. He wasn't clipped, so he looked like a brown watermelon with nuts. Did the chick dog want him? Yeah, they wanted him. But he had some men to judge. Fancy-ass men from the suburbs. Magnus paused; he turned a little and looked at his nuts in the mirror. "Now that's what I'M talkin 'bout," he said.

What better to symbolize Father's Day than a needed plural nowhere to be found

Incontinentia Buttocks.

TWO YEARS someone left that joke hangin'? People, please.

ohthankfuck... I thought I was going to explode with anticipation. No wonder they call you the pleasr .

He does have [b]wicked sack[/b[

wicked sack!!!

"intact" is sometimes used as a euphemisn for "uncircumcised," but have it your way i guess...

Why would they circumcise a dog?
Is that even possible ?

This is something I choose not to investigate further into. Nothing good will come of it.

The fact that he still has his boys makes him intact, even though he's missing his LEFT HIND LEG!

Pats reaction to Magnus freaking kills me.

you can see a tear pour out of his eye, there.

It's like he's collapsing in on himself

pat's not afraid of magnus, he respects him

Man, Pat becomes a contortionist when he's terrified

i believe he's taking the liberty of reminding us all of pat's muscles witht that pose

That is mega nasty.

that is dog shit

I love that Achewood is all about talking cats and stuffed animals, yet dogs are still portrayed as being creatures of low mind. So true.

There is nothing low mind about being a chump-detector/coffee machine. Magnus is an adept and noble multi-tasker.

I am amazed that nobody has questioned where roast beef got his cup of coffee.

Hint: probably by being a badass.

Beef probably went to Starbucks to buy a coffee for the dog to offer to the true badass (you can see it outside of his cage in panel four) and picked himself up a "plain cuppa joe I guess black and no fuss please" while he was there.

I only noticed the coffee outside the dog's cage today. 1 year after you did. This says something about the differences between you and I.

He's drinking it so angrily you can see the movement lines as he jerks it and crushes the cup to spray hot burning coffee into his throat, causing a terrible burn, but he's too much of a badass to cry so he just squints.

Come on guys, this one is hardly fair, a bunch of cats vs a dog?

I know, my cat is 14 and tiny and she kicks the shit out of our 4 year old husky on a weekly basis.

Pat's melty pose makes it

Panel 8 is the best portrayal of pure terror i have ever seen.

Panel 9; you can gussy it up all you like, but that my friends is a derivative POST-IT note! And the name Pat isn't even in the right font. Son of a bitch!

Can any one else think of another all-text panel?

Found one myself.

Pat's name is written differently because he is a dick.

I gave this strip a 5 for Pat's reaction alone. He really is afraid of animals. Which is kinda ironic since he's a talking cat.

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Pat the amazing crumpling cat.

all intact dogs have espresso machines in the their little cages.
fact.

"Awrr?" - That's genius. That sums a dog up.

woah pat looks freaky

Damn, son, look at the church bells on Magnus! It would take more than a sudden breeze to set those things a-swingin'.

I'm sure it's been mentioned and I just didn't notice, but Cornelius' wife-beater-over-suit-and-tie combo is pretty great.

actually, dear lady, 'tis an apron...

i take that back. go ahead and shoot me in the face.

"awrr?"
So cute.

There's a definite Dwightishness to the goofy serious tone of the ninth panel.

In panel five I love how everyone has itty bitty motion lines and/or a horrified expression about the canine.