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Bible Advertising Thursday, July 7, 2005 • read strip Viewing 82 comments:

Vlad is just a master businessman. He has good ideas, and that extending arm doesn't hurt either.

:ZOOT:

is SO good!
Hearing his accent almost comes naturally with the way he's written. Beautiful.

I have a Ukranian friend whose family is from Russian and served in the Soviet army. He's hilariously optimistic about everything and his accent just makes it all the more endearing. For example the other day he told me, "Dude... Have you heard of this place? Woodrow's? It is a place of great steaks, on Wednesday. Only get it choosh, choosh , cooked thirty seconds on each side. Are you goink with us? Are you comink?" I said yeah and suddenly he became terribly grave, saying, "Okay, if you are sure... But there is no goink back. No backing out of this. Not at all."

I wasn't sure if I was going to eat a steak or kill a guy. Eh, I didn't have anything planned, either way.

You will be doink both. Did he ever say what the source of the steaks was? I am thinkink not. This is manliest of activities. Designed to bond yous forever. To be killink man and then eating steaks are both most manly. Especially steaks made from him.

In the distant future when we meet up and become best friends/marry, can you please introduce me to this guy.

Duly noted.

If you have a boy...please name him Vlad

Heck, if we have a girl, we'll name her Vlad. Vladina or something.

Also, my original comment received two chubbies in the two weeks since it was posted. Apparently people like the hecci/Norman pairing.

I, for one, am a huge fan of the Stephen Fry/Lesbian combo.

I believe they have that at McDonalds.

Fuck, let's get that shit up to three and make her green

It has to be six for me.

25 chubbies make a green for me. Weeds out all the comments that have been chubbied too hastily.

Also, yay you're back!

Who, me? I was never gone!

Then welcome back to never leaving.

Done.

Just so you know, I bought a rabbit...and named it Vlad.


This is the only reason I bought the rabbit.

Fo' real?

100% true.
[IMGS OFF]



Fanfiction ahoy! Come on people, work with me here.

I'm a man (just about), I have needs.

You're mistype (or intentional mistake) "from Russian" made it sound a little like Vlad was telling this story about a friend.

I am not judging, but "You're mistype" is pretty classic

Unless, of course, it was an intentional mistake

Ah, revenge is sweet.

Nice comment/avatar synergy.

[Alt Text]: The British television presenter/comedian thought he was going to get dinner, but he ended up joining the Russian mob. He had a good evening, all things considered.

Naughty, evil, wicked Zoot!

I wonder if he's into spankings...and the oral sex.

I'm trying to decide what kind of horrible human being would lame this comment.

Someone who has been overexposed to repeated Holy Grail quotes, especially by people who were under the impression that Grail was the only thing Python ever did, let alone the best.

Boiling down my policies as to not look like a hypocrite:

Replying to something unrelated to the film with an uncommon reference to (Holy Grail, The Simpsons, Star Wars): OK

Replying to that reference with a much more recognizable quote from the same scene: not OK

For a minute there I thought we were talking about that weird spinoff of The Tribe (The New Tomorrow with all the little kids) and then I saw this.
It is the saddest thing because I have seen Holy Grail and I did not hear of any 'Zoot'.
Chubbied for teaching me something.

Zoot! Is perfect bible salesman, Da?

Somehow ZOOT is the perfect onomatopoeia for Vlad's extending arm.

go go gadget arm!

What's with Teodor's getup?

prototype uniform for the circus penis army DUH

And there was me thinking Vlad had turned up during the shooting of "Ben Whore".

Vlad even has a Jesus fish on his bag.

So is the phone number anything? Has anyone tried it?

doesn't exist

A chubby for trying!

I was hoping to reach at least a recorded message from Vlad.

"Hello, you are reachink Vlad voicemail. Vlad is out with the ladies achievink the makeouts. Please to be leavink message and wait for return call."

A comment left by tinhand was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by Thorfinn, goocifer, hcaz, _cheesekayke, milkpants, Art-Vader, godfatherofsouls, RogueCheddar, rachel, Direhaggis, STUART)

People hate you for saying that.

Yeah, dogg. Eight lames? I don't think that was necessary.

I choose to believe that it's actually just because he mispelled "relevant."

Zing!

It kinda freaks me out seeing Teodor partially outside the sixth panel. Like Achewood only exists in the z=0 plane and Teodor has stepped out along the z axis, towards reality.

Is nice illustrator's device. Onstad's years at Stanford pay off big here.

A comment left by havenless was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by tekende, Connellingus, Art-Vader)

A comment left by deancain29 was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by Daemon, tekende, Mangtastic, Deusoma, Connellingus, pitseleh, Art-Vader, lux)

teodor's gesticulation in panels 4-5 is superb, like somebody's trying to hand him a freshly dirtied tissue or a diseased raccoon.

and... did vlad make up that dilbert advertisement on his own? just... just because he likes the strip? i don't remember vlad being this crazy.

Is craziest he is ever beink.

i meant 3-4, not 4-5. counting isn't my thing today.

Mark 13, for the curious.

Mark 13. Huh. Well, I am a curious special boy, so I tried to look the verses up in a Bible, and realized that we didn't know exactly WHICH version fo the Bible Onstad used for this strip! So, being the masochist I am, I decided to waste an hour of my life researching it, for the benefit of no one in particular.

I learned that NONE of the following Bibles have our strip's exact wording:

New International Version
New International Version (UK)
Today's New International Version
Revised Standard Version
New Revised Standard Version
American Standard Version
New American Standard
New American Standard (Update)
King James Version
New King James Version
21st Century King James Version
The Message
Amplified Bible
New Living Translation
English Standard Version
Contemporary English Version
New Century Version
Young's Literal Translation
Darby Translation
Holman Christian Standard Bible
New International Reader's Version
Wycliffe New Testament
Worldwide English (New Testament)
Bible in Basic English
Webster's Bible Translation
God's Word
Holman Christian Standard
Third Millennium Bible
Gideon Bible
Good News Translation
Douay-Rheims
The Complete Jewish
World English Bible
Weymouth New Testament

WTF?

A quick Google shows that the verses were actually taken from MATTHEW 24:1-6, not Mark 13. Oy.

The full text, unclipped and unhidden reads as follows:

1 Jesus left the temple and was walking away when his disciples came up to him to call his attention to its buildings.

2 %u201CDo you see all these things?%u201D he asked. %u201CI tell you the truth, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.%u201D

3 As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. %u201CTell us,%u201D they said, %u201Cwhen will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?%u201D

4 Jesus answered: %u201CWatch out that no one deceives you.

5 For many will come in my name, claiming, %u2018I am the Christ%u2019 and will deceive many.

6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.

Bible 2.5.77

Yeah this versioning scheme could have been thought out better.

2.005.07.07 would handle the "decimal sort" better.

I tried to get one of my friends to read Achewood, he said it "looked too much like Dilbert" so he didn't want to read it.

We are now enemies.

You should send him this strip, nailed to the long-dead heart of his girlfriend.

Is SO good.

Is SO funny.

what is amazing is that the makers of bible havent tried this yet. this seems a good revenue stream.

Not all periodicals carry predominantly house ads - in fact, the newspaper I work for had a little side publication we did that started nearly full of ads.. A couple years later, though, it has sunk to almost exclusively house ads.

Joys of working in the advertising industry. I spent more time designing house ads for that little thing than regular ads (it was a 24 page tab, weekly).

-WFL

Ads in the Bible is nothing new. Major alterations started with the generous sponsorship of Loaves'N'Fishes Inc. in 87 AD.

Today's Blogs

Ray: I'M throwin' the party this week!
Roast Beef: Oh man I can get a Swiss army knife now
Pat: Poem Four, you moron.

Oh I so want to do this! Brilliant concept.

i love how vlad write all the advertisements himself

He probably runs customer-composed advertisements through Babel-fish a couple of time.s

There needs to be a Babelfish translator for Vlad.

Vlad is needink a translator for his sweet words. Is SO needed

That's just freaking hilarious!

GO ACHEWOOD GO!

apparently Onstad rather dislikes Dilbert

Jesus just HATES it when rocks are on top of other rocks.

I'm taking this long-belated opportunity to tell you, coldfrog, that not only is your comment astute and hilarious, but your avatar makes me want to marry you like maybe three times.

You just let me know when you'd like that to happen, man. Just let me know.

So many good things.

Take.
>ZOOT<
TIMES OF NEED?

Take. Take take. You take.

I have to confess that "X. X X X. You X. X X." has become an occasional feature of my speech.

most people's reactions are pretty much like T's.

Bible is read by EVERYONE, EVERY DAY!