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Slow pitch softball Monday, April 23, 2007 • read strip Viewing 86 comments:

At the 7th inning stretch, guess what Davide does.

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Gets the mad munchies?

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You're just not the same since you changed icons.

But Milkman Dan is the shit.

Just sayin.

Gets grilled and eaten with some risotto and some crispy stellas by the rest of the team. There's probably enough of him for everyone.

He's a pigeon. He does what they all do in ballparks.

WHY FIND OUT?

he fixes the cable?

Stoned Lightning is an excellent slow pitch softball team name. It's like a beer league with a better chance of someone getting nailed in the face by a softball but feeling good about it.

I need to find a decent beer league. This is the only way i can see myself playing sports, if i get to be all Arty Lange about it.

This comment was prophecy and you didn't even know it.

I'm assuming this comment was made the day this strip came out, right? I'm not one such as a historian on assetbar.

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Hilarious! Nightlife Mingus could be the manager.

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The pic is also very similar to the 4th panel in [url="https://m.assetbar.com/achewood/uuaftZZMW"]this strip[/url]. Credit to you for pointing out the reference, but "got to reuse"? Do people say Coppola "got to reuse" Pacino in Godfather II?

good one. though i kind of feel like that by number 3.

No, but people say that sitcoms "got to reuse" flashback footage in their clip shows of later seasons.

True enough. So we'll go with thanks for pointing out the reference. I would have otherwise missed it.

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"This is hideous !"; I submit that this replace such distasteful slang such as "this is WICKED!"

Gooooo Nugs!

This is hideous!!
i love everything ray says!

charcoal grill AND a beer cooler at each base.

I love the attention paid to the process of getting stoned. Lesser writers would have gone straight from bong to "Slow pitch softball!"

i feel like i'm right there with him, making that decision based on those circumstances

I am tremendously excited about the baseball ringer t that will surely come out of this strip.

dang straight. i'm prayin' this logo gets the t-shirt treatment.

I concur.

if it doesn't i might have to make a bootleg copy of my own. i have technology, don't push me, onstad.

This is going to go swimmingly until the match against the Coked-Up Hurricane.

Classic Ray.

good ol ray

Teodor's ramble in panel 6 is my favorite thing about this strip. I've comitted it to memory.

How long before we see Stoned Lightning shirts in the store?

I MUST HAVE A STONED LIGHTNING T-SHIRT PLEASE.

I AM NAMED DAVIDE AND I AM STONED AND I AM LIGHTNING.

AND WE ARE ALL TOGETHER

There is absolutely no other appropriate name for such a mascot.

Stoned Lightning sounds like a sweet band.

I can clearly hear a guy yelling it all in a screechy 80's hair metal voice.

You sure you're not imagining John Travolta screaming "why it's GREASED LIGHTNING! "?

Maybe, but that's more like zealous singing, not really that 'metal I'm gonna smash some guitars after I finish this verse yell' you know?

I have been known to design the odd logo for pay. Every night I get on my knees and pray to God that someone will come and ask me to design something like that.

Tedore is a lucky bastard.

Ray saying "i want to play with that little psycho and learn his name" makes me extremely uncomfortable

Honestly know, if Onstad made this a shirt, how many of us would buy enough to start our own sports teams?

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Perhaps you opinion was lame? Just going out on a limb here.

Oh, the dawning realization of slow pitch softball.

i get pretty excited imagining ray going coming up to me, stoned as all, and whispering into my ear gently, softly:"DAH-vi-day."

I can't say that my first reaction to a little psycho is to play with him. But Davide is not your normal little psycho - he's got the look of a thrilled Snowball snack cake.

This gets a "5" just for "we can do whatever in hell we want! This is LIFE!" I think people should have this tattoo instead of a jaguar ripping the skin.

YES! this is LIFE! was the true gem in that strip. It is just further proof that Ray is the true spirit of Tao in the modern age.

And maybe under the text is a little image of a Tonka dumptruck, just completely tipping over into a sinkhole.

[IMGS OFF]

Or a goddamn swallow.

I swear to god, I see more swallows flitting across kids' skin than under an overpass over a goddamn river

How come you kids are so GOD DAMNED stupid and just the stupidest thing every SINGLE SECOND OF THE GOD DAMNED DAY

It was and still is trendy to subjugate things into one's own culture, and the swallow tattoos are but one of many examples.

I believe the swallow tattoos were originally things of sailors (as were pea coats, another hiply subjugated item). I guess nautical stuff is cool to copy? The next hip items that all the kids will be into: scurvy, gay sex (for the men), mal de debarquement, and being isolated with the same group of people for weeks/months at a time.

But yeah, rad strip, rad

Imagine what that chick in your class who has a different colour of glasses every couple of weeks is going to say when she sees you in the form-fitting T that is sure to come from this.

"That shirt looks good on his body"?


Oh my god! Slow pitch softball!

Why did Ray sound out the name? Surely he pronounced it right the first time?

this strip makes me soooo..... happy.

Nah, the Acid Rangers are known to rule the diamond. Dock Ellis is their patron saint.

AWESOME reference! Everyone who doesn't know Dock Ellis should look him up and then bow down to Jackparsons!

Baseball is very important to baseball players.

haha.. I'd like to see *you* pitch a no hitter on acid.

OH HELL AND DAMN YES!!

[IMGS OFF]

The man's my hero.

I can barely articulate how awesome this is. Maybe if I had more rum...

For some reason this seems to go well with the Beastie Boys' Intergalactic, which is on the radio right now .

that is awesome, rowboat.

Ray has to sound out DAH-vi-day because "Davide" came out of his mouth as text in a little speech bubble.

For our benefit. Or maybe just because he's stoned.


All games begin at 4:20.

Or not.

Asthmatics encouraged to sit in the back of the bleachers.

Cannabis is a bronchiodilatory. Not to advocate inhaling burning plantatyer for asthma, but I know a fellow who gets asthma relief from his vaporizer (which is far healthier anyways).

Every panel is brilliant.

If only there were teams like when I was a kid, maybe I wouldn't of turned out this way.

It's always a great feeling when you find out a friend was getting simultaneously high as you.

I know it's the most common type of comment in all acheworld to talk about how you've adopted some mannerism of the strip into your day-to-day life. It is now my turn to continue this dubious tradition. I am on a softball team called Stoned Lightning. We suck, and the other achewood fan on my team is the only one who doesn't hate the name.

I'm proud of that. Talking in front of your non-AW friends about AW usually excludes them and makes you(me) feel like a loner.

Wow. Now I know the chronological mechanism on this site is fucked. That was way more than "1 years ago."

Anyway, we are no longer called Stoned Lightning and now we kick much ass. It's just a coincidence. I still think that was the coolest possible team name.

Do you think that Onstad thinks it's lame that we remember Roast beef's birthday? (It was yesterday.)

I'm impressed that Teodor could design that logo and mascot while high. Whenever I try to draw while stoned, I inevitably forget what I was drawing halfway through and then turn the drawing into a picture of David Bowie.