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Pat Reynolds Friday, October 4, 2002 • read strip Viewing 56 comments:

Pat starts to become a Dick.

I think he started down on that path when he started wearing the pork-pie hat.

As we know, anyone who wears a pork pie hat is a dick.

Except David Cross.

And Ramses.

Yes.

And Tom Waits.

i bet he's a dick in real life but it would just be charming so it's cool

And Lester Young.

Size 2 5/8 for god's sake. that is so fucking droll. A cat's head size. That may be the funniest thing I've ever seen on achewood.
Internet, hear me howl with laughter.

He is returning the pork pie hat because secretly Ray and Roast Beef's remarks hurt him deeply.

And he had a sandwich thrown at his head

/hat

Pat has no respect to himself but does not know this. He is a shame.

In Pat's defense, it cold sucks to have a sandwich thrown at your head

a large sandwich especially.

Unless you are dexterous enough to catch said large sandwich. Then it is awesome to have a sandwich thrown at your head.

I can't imagine that the sandwich would not fall apart during its trajectory. Unless it was something like peanut butter and jelly.

and even if it did, and even assuming i didn't manage to catch, WHY could i not still EAT the SANDWICH? this is a win-win situation.

have you ever tried eating a thrown sandwich that you DIDN'T catch? That is not good eating.

I will reference the previous strip and Roast Beef's poster, which says, and I quote, "Don't throw things at me"

Maybe Beef's poster was a letter from Pat concerning the sandwich incident, which Pat delivered in person and insisted that Beef tape to his wall.

Beef acquiesced but was inwardly peeved by Pat's ill-mannered demand, and that is why he hung up on Ray in the previous strip.

This is the best solution.

/hat

Pat finds that writing angry letters helps let off the angryness.

I too have suffered Pat's indignity. It was a roast beef sandwich. I took it as a fond omen.

If I was gay, I would date Pat

I would definitely, definitely not.

I have. I wouldn't do it again.

you would date a cat
why would you do that though
why would you do that

Tekende:
Your poetry shows promise but your work ethic is lacking.
Please ignore my desire to relay this information to you as if I were typing with a lisp.

I am a big fan of ad copy...I get a lot of pleasure from reading it and imagining how many lies are contained within. Pat clearly has not yet developed this cynicism.

Pat is ridiculous, this is great.

I like to see a man in a "Handsome Pork Pie Hat"

the alt-text says "fashionablemale.com". there you will find links to a picture of a male in a pork pie hat. the picture is nothing special, the homepage is very funny.

Some dudes pull it off okay.

Tom Waits is indeed a very special boy.

I suspect that the ability to pull off a pork pie hat is strongly correlated with the ability to pull off a soul patch. Ideally these will be combined to maximum effect.

But is that really a porkpie hat? It's hard to tell. It might be a fedora.

If it is touching Tome Waits' head, it is a pork pie. A bird tried to get him one time, but it turned into a pork pie.

I want to eat a pork pie that actually looks like that hat

A dude must be hell of pressure condensed into a glittering gem of hard times and low blows to pull off a porkpie hat.

<3! A man so devilish, even his eyebrows are pointy.

<3! A man so devilish, even his eyebrows are pointy.

From Wikipedia, I have learned the following:

J. Robert Oppenheimer often wore a pork pie hat.
The pork pie hat experienced a resurgence in popularity after the release of the movie "The French Connection."
In Jamaica, pork pie hats were popularized by the 1960's "rude boy" subculture.

That is all.

Are you saying that Rude Boys wear pork pies ?

I dont see any how any other conclusion can be considered actual, here.

I think what shutup_shutup meant was "Shut up. Shut up."



I'd like to see someone try to throw a sandwich at Popeye fuckin' Doyle.

Wasn't that basically what that chase scene was about?

Agreed.

Is this the only time that Onstad plays with the traditional panel lay-out, I'm sure it isn't but I can't think of where else it happens.

head/hat

I really like the two panels with the pork pie hat in question looming in the extreme foreground.

All watching Pat with remorse. Rad.

That seems like a lot of money for a bolo tie ring.

pat's a sucker for crappy attire

get some fucking self respect, pat! why be on your high horse all the damn time if you care so much about what people think of you?! ya cockhead!

phew! now i feel better.