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Blue Nun Widemouths Wednesday, January 29, 2003 • read strip Viewing 42 comments:

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"The Wine So Bad it Made the News" would be the best advertising slogan ever devised by man, machine, or god.

Strip should be a five, y'all jerks is tasteless.

Especially because their current slogan is "Just you, me, and a bottle of Blue Nun"

holy shit, I had no idea, i thought it was an achewood invention.

The design of the site is utterly fitting for a wine that god-awful.

i like how the frontpage talks about how well it's been selling because the only people that look at that website are stockholders and, uh, achewood readers

I just went to that link, and it actually says: Yust you, me and a bottle of Blue Nun.

Oh man, Blue Nun. Where can you even get that these days?

My hometown is in Northeast PA and the State Stores there still sell it. btw, I feel a bit of a need to defend Blue Nun. It's not that bad! It's no Opus One but for a cheap, sweet wine it beats some ratty White Zin such like Gallo.

Another low budget, damn delicious wine is Smoking Loon Chardonnay

man i am sitting here about to open a bottle of Smoking Loon Chardonnay, wondering if it will be delicious. Achewood is good for everything.

what a coincidence, I'm sitting here drinking a glass of Kool-Aid and cheap vodka and it is grand!

What you need is some fresca.

Don't ever say that again that is disgusting

dogg, ain't nothin' better than a bottle of 2-buck chuck.

All sippin chiraz out of a dixie cup

smokin a grape swisher

mild delusions of grandeur and class.

You lost me at grape swisher.

you had me at grape swisher.

you had me.

you.


apparently, Here and Here

I have got to find me some Blue Nun sometime.

"oh yes hello?" how roast beef

The cigarette (?) in the electrical outlet slays me.

yeah, you gotta love the props reaction shot

Achewood's excellent mis-en-scene is second only to the beautiful prose in building my appreciation for Onstad.

You know a wine is bad when your local neighbourhood ghettomart has it on sale. Naturally at 2$ a bottle you jump and by six bottles. The sad thing is that the winery is trying to make Blue Nun more "up market." This makes me fear that that charming bistro down the street will offer me Nighttrain or Thunderbird with my meal.

Does anyone else have a thang for Boone's Farms?

i have spent many nights at campfire with a bottle of watermelon boone's farm wrapped in a hankerchief. it's a beautiful thing.

So, how is life amongst the hobos?

Alt text: "This strip was written to Toy Dolls Banjo Fight"

...I assume he means "The Devil Went Down to Scunthorpe"

I live in Scunthorpe. I don't think he's left yet.

ugh....toy dolls....bad memories....so numerous and varied....i'll take yanni....the screams of fifty children as a school bus flies off a bridge....anything....

I like the little background detail of Ray retreating beneath the covers. That "I don't want to hear any sound ever again" hangover sensation.

Or maybe he was shitting the bed.

This reminds me of Charles Shaw, the infamous "Two Buck Chuck." The resulting hangover from that stuff is exactly how Beef describes it.

It may be just the beard, but... I seriously think that there is something horrendously wrong with Beef's expression in the last two panels.

I feel the 'heh heh' adds a certain je ne sais quoi, an apologetic and somewhat self-depreactaing overtone to the shameful bouquet of Blue Nun.

This may be a stupid question, but did Blue Nun ever make the news?

Coming up, it's Star Wars right here at home! Or, at least, this is really terrible.

Shit.

" This wine," it should say.

Shit, they should refer to Manechevitz as the wine so bad it made the news. That stuff makes Night Train almost palatable.

That first panel is so funny. I love it when Onstad shows off, it looks like it would be in a McSweeney's strip or something