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Roomba Cinema: Star Wars Friday, July 15, 2005 • read strip Viewing 82 comments:

...200 credits we don't have because we had to buy two economy-size cases of damn almonds!

A comment left by juancarlos was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by Vondicus, PohlHoud, Saint, wehavemagnums)

You have made an error, Cornelius is Obi Wan or at the very least C3PO

Dude, Cornelius is Yoda. Badass to the core . Pat should be Vader.

pat should be dead.

Only if Pat is young, annoying Vader, instead of impressive, James Earl Jones Vader. This is in no small part due to matters of voice.

Pat IS Vader.
... And by Vader I mean Anakin Skywalker in that he starts sorta innocent, develops into an evil arsehole... and turns gay at the end.

... NOT that he turns out to be Roast Beef's father.

Are you people mad? Pat is completely C-3PO. The closest thing Achewood has to a villain like Vader is Bensington Butters. Then again, Nice Pete would make a pretty intimidating Sith Lord...

I object. Pat is about as polite as fire ants on one's honey-glazed nuts. Arthur is definitely C3P0. Blister is Greedo. Nice Pete would make a good Luke Skywalker in a Willem DaFoe in Last Temptation of Christ' way. Ray with his lion mane on is Chewbacca hell of such as meow. Onstad is Obi-Wan. Onstad has to be Obi-Wan, c'mon.

speaking of him...

Willem DaFoe versus Gary Busey.

who wins?

Everybody. Everybody wins.

Nice Pete is Boba Fett.

Are you sayin' that Pat was married to Roast Beef's mom before his dad was

Cause that is a hella weird thing for a friend to say

Lie Bot is Vader. He's more man than machine now...

all blowing up planets, making young otters cry.

If anyone is Yoda, it's Ramses.

"Rap mush, do not do with me."

thee ancient hander of one's asses.

If we just must travel down this road, Vlad is Vader.

Vlad did to Pat what my cat does to my shoes when I leave for a weekend and forget to turn on his water faucet.

Messing with Vlad is detrimental to any future one would prefer.

His water faucet? Your cat has a water faucet of his own?

I cannot even begin to comprehend this idea.

Nice Pete is actually Boba Fett.

Nonsense. Lyle is Boba Fett.

Oh... and Nice Pete is Palpatine to Pat's Vader.

I could definitely see Pat killing the younglings.

... And Onstad himself is Wedge.
He features infrequently, yet persists against all odds.

Chubby for sheer geeky-ness!

Ray is Han Solo (Oh, like you gonna go all pro-ice and shoot Greedo first?); Beef is Chewie (If only because the difference in how the character is portrayed would be hilarious); Nice Pete is Vader; Cornelius is Obi-Wan; Rod Huggins is C-3PO; R2D2 is Pat (You know that little droid was spittin' out hell of cusses and just generally being a dick to Threepio); Teodor is Luke; Lyle is Jabba the Hutt; Todd is the little laughing muppet Jabba keeps on the chain; Vlad is Lando, all Andy trailing behind him with the droid half-headband; I'm having trouble with Boba Fett. It would either be Touble Man and No-No teaming up or just cold Ramses Luther, I can't decide.

Anyway, that's my casting call.

P.S. The Tenmen as the Max Rebo band.

Immediate revision: Beef as Han and Ray as Chewie. Those two gotta be those two, and Beef as Han means Molly can be Leia. Ford Galaxie as the Millenium Falcon also seems very pleasing to me.

Immediate revision: Beef as Han and Ray as Chewie. Those two gotta be those two, and Beef as Han means Molly can be Leia. Ford Galaxie as the Millenium Falcon also seems very pleasing to me.

Molly CAN be Leia? Star Wars and Achewood have one thing in common: they've each got ONE GODDAMN GIRL. Who the hell else is going to be Leia? Rod Huggins?

Wait. I kinda like that more. Rod Huggins for Achewood Leia!

Before you assign anyone to Han Solo, bear in mind that he was envisioned contemporary to the success of 'Convoy' (song, film) and during the CB radio craze (three-syllable handles traditional).

Han Solo and his good buddy Chewbacca are space truckers.

That is all.

ya'll some nerds

I'm not gonna lie - I'm a little upset that Google considers this to be the most important assetbar-related use of this phrase. That's just pride fuckin' with me.

It's second now if that makes you feel any better.

Nothing could make me feel better or worse about anything because nothing could possibly matter, ever. But thanks.

Beef is sassy as Luke. Philippe's little grape-stained face and the melting Grapesicle on the sofa is CLASSIC. I love it.

R2 has ruined so much of my living room furniture

why is Teodor talking through a megaphone

Or possibly it is a comment on how loud Harrison Ford talked in that role. Hella loud.

because he is darth vader

I don't know why or how, but Teodor is definitely Han Solo.

You fool. To project his voice with an echo such as a recently-returned-to-the-Force Obi-Wan Kenobi speaking inside of LUKE'S MIND.

I assumed it was to sound like he was coming through the ship's communicator thing or whatever. But perhaps this is foolish.

Oh, fuck. Try reading the comment that is literally directly below where you're posting next time. I am a toilet seat that smokes a cigar.

forever that is what you are...

My guess is that so his talking sounds like an announcement over an intercom system.

Beef is the perfect Luke.

Luke was from Circumstances.

Phillipe needs to be R2 for Halloween sometime.

Lyle is Chewbacca. This should be obvious.

The fact that they're carrying the roomba is such a revolutionary way to think about vacuuming

I'm not sure Beef's Roomba has ever been or ever WILL be used to vacuum something.

Not on purpose, anyway.

Teodor is committed to staying in character.

the last panel alone, between phillipes' expression and the use of the word "grapesicle", earns a five all by itself.

Episode 8: Who Stole My Fucking Almonds

I laughed at the alt text.

A comment left by hcaz was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by tekende, fosters, rowboat, Ceres, Ebessan, Zem, harry)

I'm in a band a Band A BAND BAAAAAAAND
I make music, pay attention to me!

Fuck you if this is sincere, but not fuck you if not.

phillipe is assigned the character of r2-d2 because they are shaped the same.

phillipe ends up serving drinks in jabba the hutt's sail barge.

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"naked time mats"?

Could be bath/shower/sex mats.

The mats you put on your furniture when you want to have general-purpose Naked Time, but don't want to contaminate your couch or divan with residual butt particles. I guess not everyone does this.

I don't even know what to say...that last panel just blindsides me every time. Classic.

"more space gas" is a five, haha

But uh I was going to Toshi Station to pick some dang old power converters I mean I was going to meet my friends there and everything

'that fucking guy' is something i wish i had the balls to say more often.

also, it's my favorite part of this strip.

Are you 9 and afraid of your mother? C'mon man, it ain't that tough, just say that fucking guy .

As soon as i saw this first panel i knew it ws going to be a case of checking the overall rating to know if it was funny to Star Wars followers, those nuts can't help but inflict their criticisms. I then read the strip and got the R2 joke immediately, so..ahem...4?

Onstad has a very suspicious way of involving the couch in every five star rating i've ever given him. Lyle - "Not on the couch fellas" and now this...the couch is comic prop gold.

I'm always so surprised when Teodor is anything other than a paragon of virtue, which, yeah, is usually the case. I think it's the turtleneck and the pantaloons.

I'm such a pantaloonist. I hate myself.

As I read this strip for the first time, I am unknowingly downing a handful of delicious almonds.

you fucking guy.

THAT FUCKING GUY.

Unknowingly?

Beef seems shocked to see a grapesicle on the couch.


granted, this is the internet; but still too much of this is talking about Star Wars.

onstad needs to talk with the folks at roomba and get a deal going. get these anthropomorphic critters to make more money for him.

Are they standing on Roombas whilst holding Roombas because that would be very silly.