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Maturation. Friday, January 22, 2010 • read strip Viewing 391 comments:

That idiotic old bear.

I don't know, but I've been told
never slow down, never get trencherman flatulence.

After a nerve-wracking three minute coughing fit, during which I was alternately hovering ineffectually with a glass of water and sizing up which of the paintings I would lay claim to when we were divvying up her belongings, my grandmother looked at me and said 'Don't ever get old'. I said 'Don't worry. I'm a pretty heavy smoker and drinker, and I eat about a pound of good west country cheddar a week. I'll be lucky to reach forty.' She wasn't listening to me (she can barely hear a word anyone says anymore), she was just gazing grimly out the window at the snow covered fields and hills which stretched down to the grey sea.

live fast, die young, leave a hideous, distended corpse.

It's "Die Young, Stay Pretty", you homeopathic blowjob.

BEHOLD

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That was a mean thing to call him, you big hot tranny mess.

Who wants to be a pretty corpse?

I realise that my question could be taken as a rather horrible way of threatening murder and possibly necrophiliac interference. I didn't mean it that way.

Can't it...can't it be both?

Ah, but I do. Who wants to be a pretty corpse!

Othello wanted his wife to have a pretty corpse.

J. Howard Marshall wanted his corpse to have a pretty wife.

I don't want every necrophiliac in town scrambling for access to my pretty corpse, so not me

that is way selfish.

Hey, if its really messed up, there can only be more holes.

Is it possible to both chubby AND lame a comment?

Apparently not. I will substitute my lame, then, for a written description of my disapproval for your comment, gunsofray.

You made me laugh, and then, upon reflecting further upon your comment, made me feel disturbed and somewhat nauseated. Go and think about what you've done.

You are a noble man, indeed! Just for you, i shall no longer stab people with slippers and fornicate inside their slip-holes.

Six months ago, I was a very strange person.

Since I have kids, I picture any question of that form as being asked by an enthusiastic Mom (and sometimes Dad) who's trying to make a baby laugh: "Who wants to be a pretty corpse? You do! Yes you do you cute, chubby little corpse! Who's the cutest most precious little corpsey-worpsey around? Little Mr. Count Yumptious Kissyface von McCorpsypants, that's who! [trails off into smoochy baby-talk noises]".

Parenthood: it destroys the brain.

P.S.-As proof of this, I spent a few seconds deciding what names went best with "McCorpsypants".

Sounds like Mr. Corpsypants needs The Viagra Talk.
Even if he is a baby. And possibly female.

Wait, MR. Corpsypants cannot be female. I'm a little slow.
Or is it sexist that only males can be titled "Misterr" ?

It's sexist, unless you think it is, in which case it's not. Whatever you think is best is best. I'm just here to support you, gunsofray.

That should be "It's sexist, unless you *don't* think it is, in which case it's not."

mister is probably a variant of master. the female form of master is mistress. i dont think giving women thier own similar title is sexist.

women are sexist

Women are sexiest.

agreed

'stentorian' is the word for flatulence of that resonance.

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Tommy the Tummy died today because someone he thought was his friend called him Jagoff. He was six.

Grumpy guts is the kind of character who is sitting by your side when, after pouring over the section in the anatomy of a Human Body book, you realize for the first time that the penis goes INSIDE the vagina. The moment when we realize what is being implied by all that movement in bedroom scenes in rated R movies. It is in these wondrous and terrifying moments that Grumpy Guts is there.

Staring.

And then you also notice from the anatomy book that your guts should be sitting in front of you rather than at your side.
And Grumpy suddenly doesn't seem so friendly.

Poring.

It never reins but it pores.

Personally, I'm holding out for Catholic Strategy Guts

I assume the mouth works like the rubber-band knee in the real Operation

I have not played this game. Is it like Monopoly?

yes.

in that you will utterly despise yourself and those around you by it's end

check out this jerk with poor reading comprehension

Operation is the game that you can play by yourself, but everyone can still hear you fail.

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I'd hit it

Lemon Party Outtakes

I still marvel at the capacity of the sex industry to identify a niche.

In all fairness that's entirely what they're about.

Not just finding a niche, but filling it.

Eh, life's a niche.

So many holes. For the Area Man in all of us.

look at those scabs - tis the pox!

If Teodor had moved his hands, the mouth might have been used to represent the homeopathic BJ. But now it fits into the gaping, tattered hole where his rectum used to be.
(You have to flip the game up on one side to play this piece--it's kind of like the 'Snitch' of Maturation.)

At least Tacodor's cranberry-like jewels are OK. He should count his tiny blessings.

You call your balls blessings? That must make you sound very arrogant in the bedroom.

Also, what exactly do you call the "main event"?

Crying time?

The main event is also called the Lightning Round.

We rubbed against each other for hours and all I got was static electricity.

'We rubbed against each other for hours and all I got was static electricity'

Could've been worse - it might have been a nasty discharge.

I'm saying with all that's wrong with Tacodor none of his man-parts were described. And don't say something like "Onstand would never talk in detail about a bear's penis" because you know he has and would.

Hal, are your balls falling off like Quentin Tarantino in Planet Terror? No? Than count that as a blessing. I feel blessed every single time I take my pants off and my balls are not performing that scene from Planet Terror.

It's here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5sZBylTeuc around 6 or 7 minutes in.

two.

A homeopathic blow job is where a woman touches your bell-end momentarily with the tip of her tongue, and you then feel very turned off.

Bell-end?

for the sake of all guys, don't call it "your bell-end"

appropriate terms include: head, little head, purple head, mushroom

Control Center, The Part That Matters, Main Brain, The Dictator

For the sake of Pete, don't call it a "mushroom". "Glans" is an appropriate term when you need to refer to it as distinct from the rest of the penis--which is far less often than you'd think.

For christing fuck's, don't call it a "glans." I just don't like the sound of that word. Like "snatch," for the ladies.

Subtract an apostrophe, but you have to pick the right one.

DONT! Did I win?

You win my undying disappointment.

~my father

Just fucking kidding, folks, my dad loves me and I like him as a friend.

eh too technical for me. I read "glans" and had no idea what it was but that it might be kinda similar to a gland? its pretty unmistakable and effective to say "oh shit i just got shot with a paintball on the mushroom of my dick"

cause then you can make mushroom cap puns

**based on real events

except you sound like a six year old who just discovered that his dick is not something you wave about in front of family. "mushroom"? are you fucking serious?

head is fine. it's unambiguous, easy to say and understand, and isn't some kind of food related metaphor (this one is important).

i thought by the context (paintball mishap) that it was obvious it was a term only for hanging out with a bunch of dudes. "mushroom" is perfect for that marginally over-the-line grossness that is appropriate with a bunch of guys

cock. dick. shaft. there are lots of ways to be vulgar without sounding like a retard.

UH OH 3RR IN SIGHT QUICK ABORT ABORT ABORT

see the only thing i disagree with here is that cock and dick aren't specific enough and shaft is the wrong location entirely. i stand by my position.

also i dunno what a 3RR is so sorry if i didn't abort. or something.

the google tells me that 3RR is short hand for some wikipedia thing that wikipedia people get all angry about (edit wars)

also if your dick got mushrooms I think that probably just comes down to personal hygiene

"Bell end" has a long and proud history in UK parlance.

Wow, just discovered it's a searchable term on wikipedia!

Glans penis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Bell end)
The glans penis (or simply glans) is the sensitive bulbous structure at the distal end of the penis. It is also commonly referred to as the 'head of the penis'. Slang terms include "helmet", "nob" (or "knob"), and "bell end", and all refer to its distinctive shape.

It's also a village in Worcestershire.

Sort of related, I'm finding "ball bag" to be a quite enjoyable UK slang term presently, here in Glasgow.

I think you mean 'bawbag'

Well dur.

"Rob, Rob, bob my knob."

A cousin of mine used to chant this at me when we were both very young. It occurs to me for the first time only at this very moment that maybe I should report this to my shrink.

But don't forget, there's a vas deferens between the penis and the testicles.

what is it with dudes with dudes with moustaches for their avatars and puns?

Whoa, I spent too much time in school spell-checking, I have taken on the mind of the microsoft word spell-checker, leading me to automatically notice and consider it a mistake when you repeated "with dudes," until I was able to read it with my human brain and make it make sense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_End

Men who have a fetish for women touching their tongues to the village of Bell End must be rare indeed

though I imagine that demographic increases exponentially the closer you are to Bell End.

And you can't even imagine how hard it can be for us to find good porno.

they say it takes a village to raise one....

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This article is about the village in Worcestershire. For the slang term, see glans penis.

This sort of confusions happens too often to me AM I RIGHT FELLAS

Yeah man I am all about getting down with some hott clent .

Stroke-on-Thigh OOOOHHH YA MAKE ME SO HOT

It's all about Scunthorpe.

This is the best thing I learned today:

In 1996 there was controversy when AOL's obscenity filter (among others) refused to accept the name of the town due to its inclusion of the substring cunt, which the filter rejected as obscene. Some online forums such as Ultimate Guitar forums (which has recently been resolved) display the name as S****horpe, while Fark.com would display it as Scoonthorpe. This situation is known in the computing world as the Scunthorpe problem and is still an issue to Scunthorpe-based internet users.

Hey! Ultimate-guitar! I was totally a Pit Monkey for like three years there! Ah, good times, cutting my internet teeth.

littlenice: hey guys you ever played a c

fripp68: ya its one of my favs. you ever try a d

littlenice: no hows it go

Nooope.

littlenice: hey guys you ever played a *

Exactly dude.

I hate to defend it because it's full of wieners now, but UG had a pretty big "Talk about non-guitar stuff" section that attracted horrible people from far and wide, being the only tab site after a certain point that was actually reliable. We had some fun, usually non-guitar related times. I don't regret it. I keep having to say that, sheesh.

I do like the "littlenice" tag though. When I'm Pogo-like, will I be "aged-water?"

More like "can't_hold_water"

Nicely aged with only a touch of chloramines in the nose.

maybe you could combine with fine_oak_stucture.

hot damn

it might surprise you, it might not, but "fineoakstructure" was actually a full-on free-word association. I didn't even drink when I first came up with this, years ago. The fact that it, by chance, came to work with one of my favorite scotches is pure serendipity.

If you must drink your single malt with water, scottish listers may wish to cover their eyes, it should be the same age as the scotch. Nice-on is 20 according to his profile so might be a little mature for the younger FOs. What say we wait 10 years and broach him with a 30 year bottle. New year's eve 2019/20?

Does it help that I'm actually in Scotland right now?

OHMYGODREALLY? I'm not. What a coincidence!

I always thought your avicon was of a floor wax.

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DDDD'OOHHHHHHHHH...

G..Grandpa?

presumably this really confused the inhabitants of Shitethorpe.

The blowjob is homeopathic because it treats the fact that life sucks.

It's a much quicker and more direct cure for an erection than a real blowjob

Got it in one.

https://m.assetbar.com/achewood/uuabvwXTW
Achewood is now and forever a comic about talking stomachs.

Téodor might as well not bother covering up, we've all seen it

he doesn't need both hands.

Poor self-absorbed bear. It's a shame all this bad shit happens to us and we can't complain about it lest we seem whiny, even though it happens to literally everyone. I think that's bullshit and I'm only twenty.

Where does the mushrooms go?

WHERE DOES THE FUCKING PSYCHEDELIC MUSHROOMS GO!!!!!!!!!!

It goes with the bad grammar. ::folds arms, smirks to no one in particular::

at my work the double vodka red bull would come to like... 12 or 13 bucks. If its grey goose 16. Eight's a steal!

Anybody who mixes a high-end vodka with Red Bull deserves to lose more than $16.

True story i sold 6 double goose red bull's tonight. The guy buying them was a douche nozzle that tipped poorly

A chubby for your sad tale.

Nothing worse than getting a douche nozzle's bad tip.

whats worse is getting a chubby from a douche nozzle's bad tip

The most I've ever spent on a drink was a double Hendricks on the rocks at a fancy rooftop bar overlooking the Mall in DC. $32, pre-tip. Luckily, though I was paying, it wasn't my money, ultimately (best left unsaid).

Of course, I can get a fifth of Hendricks for that exact same price where I live. But still, when in Rome.

I also footed the bill ("at the time") for 5 other drinks for my compadres. The bartender, an attractive girl, later found me and gave me a free drink; I think it was some kind of high-end tequila sunrise. I gave it to one of the girls I was with.

I think that bartender was kind of into me, for more reasons than the free drink. I probably should've done something with that.

Because I'm drinking some bourbon right now, I will speak of this time a few weeks ago when I was at a packed bar, and this girl I was standing next to at the time said we should combine our efforts and put in a joint drink order for whoever got a bartender's attention first. Naturally, she won that battle (despite the fact that I was much taller than her), and put in the order. For her kindness and acute use of her physical wiles, I bought her drink. She told me to meet her at the bar in a little while so she could return the favor (she was about to get up on stage and sing the Nico part of "Femme Fatale" with the Velvet Underground temporary cover band playing that night). I saw her waiting at the bar later, but didn't approach. I think she noticed me noticing her. It just seemed kind of cliched, you know?

Assetbar, tonight I'm using you like a hole carved in a tree on top of a hill, later to be covered with mud. Tonight I am Tony Leung from In the Mood for Love .

I think I might be in love with a married woman.

None of this might be considered actual.

Oh.

I tipped pretty well, by the way.

chubby for good etiquette

Love is simple. It's life that complicates shit all up ins.

You can't cover assetbar with mud later.

It is already covered with mud always.

You just fucked Maggie Cheung? Great job man! Details?!

Belgand was not being entirely clear. He really wants details on what it was like filming Police Story 3 and whether Michelle Yeoh and Jackie Chan are actually nice people in person.

Belgand, you are forgetting a pretty important part of In the Mood for Love : they did not fuck.

It's kind of the main thing of that movie.

Of course, in the original idea for the movie (as is shown in the deleted scenes), they got BUCK WILD.

Oh, I didn't forget that. I just chose to ignore it.

Actually, that durian scene could be taken as a metaphor in a lot of ways if we really want to go there.

That was an excellent story.

The saddest bit was the bit where you didn't meet the girl at the bar because your brain said it was too cliched. Please see me at my offices on Monday. Sessions run for 50 minutes and are nominally charged.

You know, wt, I might take you up on that. I have the straightcash to fly out to the netherlands and, as much as I hate to admit it, I could probably use some professional advice.

It's odd, of course, that I find a regular pickup routine to be cliched, yet I insist a girl pick the most expensive wine on the list, my treat, in front of her husband , because of

whatever

That last sentence could have been the description of a normal night out and you were being nice to a friend's wife. Now I see it as problematic because "whatever".

I am not in the Netherlands.

Not even a little?

I think it's the wooden teeth thing. In the Netherlands they knock out boys' teeth at pre school and replace them with removable wooden ones. This saves their thumbs if they come across any leaky dykes. (No pun intended)

It was just another way of saying Down Under. Sorry. I think I thought it was clever at the time? It wasn't.

The indulgence of thinking we're geniuses because we're lazy drunk.

You're drunk! I can forgive a drunk anything.

Except a highball glass in the face.

The Netherlands... The Neverneverlands, the nether regions? Not sure which pun you were stretching for, please advise.

I think he thinks you're from oz.

I am not from the Anti-Kansas, but I am from Australia. Oh, and I loved you in that martial arts movie you did.

Thank you. At my age I just keep doing the same things. The only difference is the slow motion sequences are real time and the rest is speaded up.

speeded!

sped?

learning support?

Dental plan?

Lisa needs braces!

Pogo and I say Thanks for the shoutout, Onstad.We're.....honored?

...and don't forget baseball-sized prostate syndrome.

Yeah, you can tell Big O ain't be old yet, or he'd have prostrate nightmares constantly.

Quote:
Yeah, you can tell Big O ain't be old yet, or he'd have prostrate nightmares constantly.


Oh, is that what we're calling it now?

Is that what you... kids are calling it thes days?

prostrate is the new prostate pass it on

pass

it

out

It's funny because Bender is pointing in his avitardicon.

[quick]prostrate[/quote]
An attempt at a joke? Like using the "ain't be" from Achewood patois? Or just a dump typo ... you be the judge!

Shit! I can't get anything right this weekend! "dump" indeed

I can think of at least 3 places I need to pull hair from that I used to not have to pull hair from that shaving just doesn't cut it. But that's just my version.

It took me a few tries to realize the title was Maturation, not Masturbation. I kept closing my browser, then reloading, then realized the guy who sits behind me isn't here yet.

I thought the same thing.

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Shaving doesn't help it look longer. It helps it look like a baby otter.

this.

My penis is five.

I just imagined Phillipe as somebody's penis. Thanks.
Please, somebody shop this right NOW.

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I am so upset by this

It's gelter's fault really. I do want to lame them both, but how can I?

Sorry folks--sometimes the p'shop skills are a double-edged sword.
I wept as I posted that.

Your post has engorged enraged me.

It was fantastic, you should feel proud of yourself


you have hurt me inside. i chubbied you for this.

When your legs are four inches long, this can only be a bad thing.

I gabe u a chuppy b/c ur pic gabe me one

Shaving it twice helps even less.

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That's when you shave it once, twice makes it into a not so Harry Otter... Or is that a circumcision?

I scraped a razor across the head of my penis at your suggestion.

Oh fun! Now do women!

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Demise, Self-Worth..............100%

2 questions: what colour is taco colour? and is that really 150% more likely than Naked Hysterics in Empty Tub?

*50% more likely, or 150% as likely B-)

Believe me, I've been trying.

-rimshot-

...
well, at this point i'd be happy with some kind of half-hearted homeopathic blowjob so let's not shoot for the moon, okay

get it
rimshot

I understood your joke.

maybe if you had cooler facebook friends instead of pushing them away, alec

don't you think you should maybe give me a second try, alec? After all, it's been over a year. I'm sure your warped perception of reality has changed since then, who knows, you might even like me!

Let the fresh-mint-based fellatio guide you towards the homeopathic enlightenment! (Seriously though, you guys should try it...)

Do not attempt this with Frisk mints. I know a dude whose cock turned purple.

I lost my darling to Gardener's Knee, and a terrible rot of the foot, singing whack-fol-the-diddle etc.

honesty. it dose no gute ib peeps fink u lyin anyways its like u tells dem 'y would i lie abot dis' n dey fink jus cuz it sonds 2 good 2 b true dat 'must' be a lie n im like 'w/e. fuck you then thas no lie' n we may end up fighting but since im workin out more n more i can sorta bench-press a bus fulla hippos while all other peeps i hang out wit would be lucky to beat a woman at armwrestlin so its like.

i need stronger friends. i mean, y not increase phys strength? even a lil bit i aint twokin brock lesner jus lik hugh jackman str. it aint much rly n it helps all manner o conditions ( i bet if theododre would work out he'd hab better time o it)

anyways yall jus fink abot startin w8 lift dont neglect lowerbody lik so many assholes who is has tiny legs do squats too bros n especial for women u REALLY needa work on upper-body arm strength. like really . u weak as fuck n u know it do some pullups

CHING CHANG WING WONG

You just got Ching Chubby Wing Wonged, sir.

Oh so delicious.

I can do 15 push-ups.

Me too. But by the eighth one, the ice cream man tells me to let the children have a chance to order.

I only do tequiza push-ups.

I have a feeling this is very bad form but I can't help posting this.

I was asked the other week why Phillipe is staying with Teodor, rather than with his mother. From memory I can't recall a reason ever being given. I did have a cute idea though.

As Phillipe is always five, I had this cute idea of Teodor and Phillipe meeting as children. Maybe even with Phillipe as the older, more mature friend originally. Subsequently, Teodor ages whilst Phillipe stays the same age, until eventually Teodor is of sufficient age to take Phillipe on as his ward. It's a bit like a backwards Flowers for Algernon thing.

radioelectric is your job blowing minds

Really though I think this is sort of a cute idea. I'm pretty sure the reason Phillipe isn't with his mom is because she's in pretty deep with the mob, though.

"Lie Bot, what is the saddest thing?"
"That they just broke your mothers legs and now her house is on fire."
Although if Lie Bot said it..
(Lie Bot did not actually say this.)

In the Dark Horse anthology "Worst Song Played on Ugliest Guitar," Teodor rents a room from the Onstads and Philippe arrives somewhat later, accidentally mailed by his mother either with or in place of a lamp, I don't remember and I don't have the book with me. The airfare/shipping is too much to send him home, so his mother asks/Chris' wife suggests Philippe stay with them. However this is most likely (I hope I'm using this correctly) retconned, as in the beginning I don't even think Philippe was meant to be a child, and like you and everyone else, I get the impression that he is Teodor's responsibility.

Sorry-- it's in the "origin" stories in the beginning, before the comics. Worth a read.

excellent. i was just about to tell that dude to read the book. you went the extra mile and gave him the cliffs notes. chubby for you.

The real deal, baby

>B)

In the first Cookbook, Phillipe says that he is with the Onstads because his father is dead and they no longer live in France.

Like I said, the retconning is all over the place. I would assume some combination of all the possible stories is most likely. But of course the artiste would probably say "Oh well it doesn't matter." I hate when people do that. Obviously it doesn't matter, but obsessive fans need continuity and for this imagined world to be as realistic as possible. That always made me mad when Bill Watterson said it doesn't matter if Hobbes is real or not. Clearly, but damn it I want to know if it's a magical world or an imaginative world, Hobbes ol' buddy.

Yeah, but it doesn't matter.

Fuck yoooouuu

icon synergy. Chubbied.

I don't imagine that detailed concern about what the obsessive fans might like is conducive worthwhile art.

*to worthwhile art.

Probably not but it's not hard to say after the fact "It was Todd who ate Ray's nachos" (which, to his credit, he said in an interview, after some prodding)(and persuasion too).

L'Chaim!

Skol!

Do you really think Achewood or Calvin and Hobbes require a Tolkienesque level of internal consistency?

"The only permanent rule in Calvinball is that you can't play it the same way twice!"

That was another thing that bothered me, but only when I first started reading (when I was like six) because I REALLY wanted to play Calvinball. But then my cousin helped me understand that, truly, there are no rules. So we played. It's not as fun if you're not Calvin or Hobbes, though. It ends quickly.

more like tokinesque amirite

Not nearly that much but if I see Onstad walking down the street and go "Hey, uhh why is Philippe living with T and the crew?" and he goes "SIIIIGH does it really matter? ," there's no guarantee I wouldn't 1) be a little miffed 2) punch him in the face for giving me that mouth full of sass.

Because his father is dead, his mother is an Alcoholic and mistook her son for a lamp.
Because they no longer live in France, this is okay.

Ah yes, one of the French Alcoholics, that proud and prodigious stock.

Ou... (hic) ...Oui.

Y'know, that is quite brilliant. And it makes one think about Phillipe's mom and how old she looks. She looks almost as old as Ray's mom. I never thought about how much Achewood would take into account Phillipe's lack of aging, even from the get-go.
Anyway, that would totally make sense.

Off topic, but I'm gonna adopt "backwards Flowers for Algernon thing" for the next time someone asks me what whippets are like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whippet
"care should be taken with whippets on the street as it is difficult to instill any sort of traffic sense into them"

YOU KNOW I GOT NO SENSE OF TRAFFIC!

This is not the first time I have been in a computer lab and felt weird about reading this strip in public. Teodor naked and covering his junk is a strange thing to have to explain to people.

Computer Lab User: OMFG, he's naked!
daidai: Oh, don't worry, it's just a webcomic about anthropomorphic stuffed animals.
Computer Lab User: Yes, I'm familiar with Achewood; I WAS TALKING ABOUT YOU!

A classic gag nicely executed. A chubby for your old school style jeffspaulding.

That's my wife!

What do I get?

homeopathic blowjobs

Awesome.

they are from faits though

is that sexxy tho

Most kids my age only know how to do about three things on a computer (see: the previous strip), and most adults are thwarted by such as checking their email. Accordingly when on a public computer whether you're reading webcomics, writing up forum posts, or drowning yourself in alternative pornography, people will have a lot of questions to ask you if they see you.

Fortunately, I don't care so much as a tad, so when I have free computer time at school I usually alternate between trolling Yahoo! answers and mashing the random button on Hark! a Vagrant.

H!aV is ooooooooooh, oh, the sweetest thing

<3

I didn't know anyone else read that! Kate Beaton makes my day, every day.

Kate Beaton is the source of all the history I will ever study.

I like Kate Beaton because all her characters are so damn pretty. She has a way of drawing everyone to look ravishing. Also she makes jokes about Kierkegaard. That is pretty rad. So all in all I give two thumbs up to Hark a Vagrant .

When I found Hark! I did the same thing I did when I found Achewood, I started reading a LOT of webcomics hoping to find another good one "just like that one". It's a stupid habit, there are really only two good webcomics.

(Please prove me wrong with links)

Few things can bring such quick and horrible retribution upon an internet person as admitting which other webcomics they enjoy.....

I stand by (now defunct?) Lucid TV as a quality comic. A Softer World , Dinosaur Comics , and Daisy Owl are also generally reliable depending on your taste. I'm fairly sure the guys who do Lucid TV and Daisy Owl post on assetbar or at least have in the past. I wouldn't say any of these can compete with Achewood or Hark! but they're worth reading when you have the time.

Scary Go Round has become Bad Machinery and it's good.

Surely everyone likes Overcompensating to some degree?

https://nedroid.com/

This.

Also Dr. McNinja is silly, silly fun.

www.Wondermark.com

Maybe more toward the Dinosaur Comics end of the spectrum rather than Achewood or ASW, but still good. (that is, good for a silly chuckle and thought-provoking quasi-editorials, not for surrealism or evocative language)

I'll second the recommendations of Dinosaur Comics and Wondermark. White Ninja often gives me stupid laughs. Subnormality is beautifully drawn, if you can put up with the occasional outburst of undergraduate style Bush bashing.

Subnormality is more like some guy's blog with pictures on it. I guess there's an appeal there though.

okay, so two good webcomics. thanks

It makes me ashamed of assetbar that I'm the first person to mention Perry Bible Fellowship . The only thing that keeps me from holding it in higher esteem than Achewood is the fact that there only, like, fifty strips total.

Also, there are a lot of pretty mediocre ones. Don't get me wrong, I like PBF (it's one of the very few webcomics I've read), but on my 3rd or 4th time through the archive, I realized a lot of them don't hold up that well after the first read. I guess you start to see the formula a little more clearly.

Still, Guntron made me cry with laughter the first time I saw it...and again, the second time, after I had completely forgotten about it and read it again.

Oh, and though it's now defunct A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage Is Irreversible is still one of the best things on internet.

mspaintadventures.com
picturesforsadchildren.com

HOLY SHIT! AXECOP! WWW.AXECOP.COM!!!!!

you_love_kate?

lol

d2bad

no personal judgments but trolling yahoo! answers is probably the most useless thing to do ever

The only way to find out for sure whether that is true is to ask Yahoo Answers what the most useless thing to do ever is.

be reprublican lol 7

Oh I'm sorry assetbar, is a plus sign too complex for your programming? Was I asking too much in hoping to make a simple "plus seven" joke with an implied little thumbs up sign? I'm sorry Assetbar, I know how weak you are.

fucking worthless piece of boy milt

I mean for fuck's sake it probably took MORE WORK to make a program that DIDN'T understand plus signs that it would have taken to just upload all of the keyboard keys! How much effort did these programmers expend on making sure that the plus sign couldn't be read or understood? Is there any possible reason to make that part of the program?

I mean I have NEVER SEEN a computer program that wouldn't publish a plus sign. Even Zork would publish your plus signs, even if it didn't understand them. This is the most asinine chat program EVER INVENTED. Why not just use HTML? Who was the genius who decided he could improve on HTML by taking useful functions away from that program and replacing them with his own Mac-using feces?

jesus fucking christ i swear to fuck this shit is a joke

"Hey I have an idea FFLLLAAAAARRRPPPPP (sound of taking a dump) Yeah guys this is way better than existing programs hold on a second FFLLAAAAARRRRRRPPPPP haha oh I almost left the plus sign as an available function NOW WE COULDN'T LET THAT HAPPEN COULD WE HAHAHAHAHAHA"

That was a virtuoso performance.

Talk about a program which basically has AIDS.

The most useless thing to do, ever? Complaining about Assetbar.

or voting for Nader

Is this what they call...stream of consciousness writing?

If only he was conscious! We've been working on him for days.

It's a little too coherent to be the kind of stream-of-consciousness writing that was in vogue in the '70s. God I suppose that will come back now, too.

Pat?

I mean did a fucking barber drop some of his unpaid child support checks into the programming?

I'm sorry.

Now you should update the Achewood article on wikipedia to note that your question on Yahoo! answers is, in fact, a reference to an Acheworld discussion thread. Be sure to footnote it.

lordparadise's shame should be well-documented.

I would agree save that I have also spent multiple hours playing Hit Machine.

I suppose it just gives me a thrill to stand in judgment of those who actually think that asking questions on that site is a good idea.

I have that wrist thing. It sucks.

eyebrow dandruff is stupid thing to bitch about. hasnt he ever heard of moisturizer? or get some infusium 23 and leave it on the brows for some minutes...

I've noticed dandruff in my facial hair just recently. And it's weird

matterbation
mass castration
alienation
i'll bash your face in

Which one does not belong?

matterbation is not a word!

says who?

I m kinda deflated 2day cuz its lik... i hab always wanted certang things across teh board soz 2 speak n nah alla sum sudden is ass eaf i cannit fine it nowmo. i mena i luked n louked eerywheres thes pasdgt day n is nahwheres. i jus... i cannit fine it

my call o duty 2 CD

losing shit sucks, dude. i hate when that happens because its something you can live without, but you REALLY FUCKING WANT IT. whats worse is when you finally find it and it was somewhere you already looked.

that would never happen to me. i am theraux

Sarkozy, I'm thinking about going Berlusconi. We could have a schtick. Just saying.

youre SO thorough that you lost your damn game. just shut the fuck up.

I think he meant Thoreau. As in Henry David.

I was going to make a joke about Paul Theroux. I'm glad I let you get in there first.

He's so thorough he's Thoreau.

did u lok undr teh philipe lol

I think it's pretty uncool to call Teodor old when hey look at Mr. Cornelius Bear, the old guy .

When one considers how a chap takes a running jump at life in the A.M. it is quite apparent that Cornelius has more of the young stuff in his little pinky than Theodor has in his whole body.

Theodor is old from anticipating age. Cornelius dates strippers and is officially the baddest dude in the neighbourhood.

In the spirit of the Pulp Fiction reference below:

SPELL IT WITH A "H." SPELL IT WITH A "H" AGAIN. I DARE YOU. I DOUBLE DARE YOU MOTHERFUCKER.

Note that he also spelled "neighborhood" the British way. He probably just has a condition and can't help it

No, he just likes to spell proper

Daaaamn

teodor isnt aging as gracefully as mr bear has. teodor is a puss.

Teodor ages like beer, Cornelius ages like uh... whiskey.

Marsellus Wallace perks up, then looks disappointed, grumbles and turns away.

I am 20. I have had a rather distinct patch of black hair upon my upper arms for a while now. I understand that I am to blame my maternal grandfather for this genetic insult.

thats kinda personal stuff bro, anyways...

my frothy piss this mornin' left teh froth in teh shape of a nine. teh hole was where my urine entered den (the froth) swirled erond teh bowl but lept a fink of a thing on teh bottom soz nah is perfect of a nine. dunno wat it menas lol

We had such potential. Such promise. But we squandered our gifts. And so, 9, I am creating you. Our world is ending. Life must go on.

it means you should pay for sex less often.

good tipping is a matter of self respect

Last night I had a dream that Onstad had a viewing party in his living room. Many of you were there. He showed several strips that none of us had seen before, and we discussed the pros and cons of each as he listened attentively. We laughed a lot, and we had a grand old time. Also, at the end, he gave me a board game called "Yard Sale." You guys, how come dreams can't be real?

***$2.99/month***

Well last night I dreamed that I was being hunted through caverns by morlocks, so I'm pretty glad dreams aren't real.

I just kind of had this dream with you as I read. Maybe in a small way that makes it real.

Best Dream '10.

Is that what you were dreaming? You kept wiggling around and mumbling all night. Maybe get something more comfy to sleep in?

Sorry Hedo, did I keep you up? Just kick me next time.

Caffeine enema? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFgnSvLdB1E

Happy Australia Day everyone.

c'mon, all together now.

Horse try uns or lettuce rejoice
Four we are young un free
Mumble mumble mumble mum
Our land is girt by sea.......

Sorry but I can't forgive them for rolling over during the Anschluss.

i knew an austrailian. he worked at KFC. nice guy.

Probably an I.A. taking a job away from some american and bread (or a left-over happy meal)out of his/her childrens' mouths.

But he tickled us so nicely

Hey, it was in the past, maaaaaaaaaaaan! You know how Americans are all affable and dismissive about offering African-Americans reparations for the eras of segregation and slavery? We can be like that about that little incident, 'cause it was in the past! That makes it awwwwwwww-right.

I'll girt you one HOOOOO BOY.

It's also Burns Night in Scotland. So should auld acquaintance be forgot, la da daaa daa auld lange syyyne, should auld acquaintance beee forgot la da daaa la auld lange syyne.

aah Rabbie. He's the sort of person you'd like to contribute to your gene pool.

Come to think of it; if you're scottish, he probably did.

Rabbie got around, is the word 'round Embro.

And I think technically he contributed greatly to the New Zealand gene pool. Wasn't his son one of those leader-settler guys?

In conclusion, this comic is not very good.

It is not very bad.

Goddammit, I dropped a bowl onto my Achewood 8th anniversay pint glass this morning and chipped the fuck out of it. Fuck.

I guess I'll use it as a plant-pot for something that like waterlogged roots...

If that wasn't bad enough, I can't find my Dude and Catastrophe hoodie, and my Bierdeksel one was lost by this one girl.

I'm not sure if I'm meant to own any Achemerch.

materialism is overrated

the achewood is inside of you

Wow, the conversation sure dwindles on a not-very-controversial strip after six days, don't it?

Maybe I can start a fight. Hey how's-the-water guy, flaming oak casket sez yo momma goes down for a nickel.

Nah, you're doing it wrong, bro.

Watch this.

QUESTIONABLE CONTENT SUCKS!

It does, though. No one currently here will argue that. I hope.

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[...]could take notes XKCD on timeliness, not necessarily/at all humor.

Jeph could and should, but a good XKCD is rarely as funny as an off-Achewood.

ya, y dont ostrad turn into sum dood wit no self respect wholl pump shit out on a schedule 4 teh sake o teh schedule an not is artform. ya, thas somethin to aspire to

yall act lik der aint other shit to do until he gets around to updatin' suntines i wish yall'd jus be lil more patient i cant abide this shit

Haha! Oh Gladi!

Gladi8orrex was filmed before a live studio audience.

HERE COMES THE LAME TRAIN, bitch

there aren't so many lames nowadays

i guess this is one of those comments that invites lames :<

I think my little project where I dumped all the lames on the assetbar_admin account has a lot to do with it.

I went through some of the more recent QC strips a few months ago. I've read bits of it in the past as well. My main feeling about the comic is that it has hell of extraneous detail. The art is incredibly finicky, without being very good, and the are always four or five punchlines in the last panel, none of which quite hit home. It's like trying to have sex while watching Die Hard: there's just too much going on and pretty soon you loose both your erection and your interest in the film, and you go off to smoke and read the Guardian in the kitchen. Your girlfriend is watching the film next door, but even though you can only see the back of her head you know she's really pissed off. When the film finishes she turns the television off and goes to bed without saying good night. You know you should follow her to the bedroom and try to make up, but fuck it, why should you make all the effort? So you just let yourself out and take the night bus home.

i dont understand certain human interactions and consequences. it makes no sense to me w/e.

how come people are mean to me in my own house how can they do it. i just dont get it

this bothers me the more I think about it

have I...have I become socially retarded ?

Smarter people than we have tried without success to understand human social behaviour.

Ask them why they are behaving in this way; if they don't have an acceptable reason don't let them in again.

Could be difficult, of course, if it's their house too. In that case you would have to fall back on thallium in their coffee.

maybe youre being overly sensitive.

It goes like this:
Petty issue taken too seriously
Discussion
18 stupid nerdy/ironic-hipster hyperbolic jokes coming from discussion
And someone at some point will have an expression that the guy will talk about in the bottom info thing: "Panel 4 took me a lot longer than I though but when I was done I laughed out loud!!!"

I have read a lot of QC, and hated 99% of it.

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YOU'RE ALL A BUNCHA GODDAM PHONIES

JD SALINGER DIED HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS AAAH

Damn. What are we going to read now? I was always at the bookshop, eagerly waiting for his next book. Well, I must admit, after 30 years i cut it down to every second day.

Actually now his estate is probably going to publish a lot of his work. He had this intricate filing system that said what was to be published after his death and when, etc. Look out for "Ocean Full of Bowling Balls" to finally hit shelves Jan. 27th, 2060!

Quote:
He started telling us how he was never ashamed, when he was in some kind of trouble or something, to get right down on his knees and pray to God. He told us we should always pray to God - talk to Him and all - whenever we were. He told us we ought to think of Jesus as our buddy and all. He said he talked to Jesus all the time. Even when he was driving in his car. That killed me. I can just see the big phony bastard shifting into first gear and asking Jesus to send him a few more stiffs.



I haven't read this author either. man i am not so literate. gotta get Catcher and the Rye read too

Catcher, you can hold off on, but you must read "Nine Stories" and "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters/Seymour." "Franny and Zooey" too, but those two first. The words mind-blowing come to my blown mind.

Never mind Salinger, guys. Achewood is now no longer even weekly. So, again, the question: what am I going to read?

I wasn't going to bring this up a second time, but since you're asking: Try out MY comic! A lot of people here seemed to enjoy it, and it's drawn by someone who loves Achewood (though I try to avoid overt homage, and am just as inspired by stuff like PBF, Calvin and Hobbes and R. Crumb)....

www.classof99comics.com

I have to say, I actually don't hate this. Specifically Game Show. Well done.

Yes! I'm not one predisposed to like things, but Game Show actually threatens to break into the pantheon of my favorite stand-alone strips. It has a very early-Achewood quality to it. Good job.

pantheon? really?

Thanks for reminding me. Soft chuckles rather than laugh till the mucus comes out your nose, but top marks.


Some of the chuckles are soft, but some are rough

Thank you for the Van Morrison reference today. Gonna check this thang out.

R. Crumb is God -- and even older than me. Have you checked out his latest -- Genesis?

Have tried flipping through it at Powell's a few different times and been unable to get into it.

I don't know, it's like Bob Dylan's lingerie ad. Meh

I've been to Powell's! My son lives in Portland, teaches art.

That guy looks alot like Charlie the Australopithecine. Charlie's a guy who deserves his own comic.

Of course, I also think Onstad's Monkeyboy does too, so it shows what i think.

Some good chuckles indeed. "Oh, right... I guess technically you don't" Bravo!!

I also like Subnormality. https://viruscomix.com/subnormality.html

I love you for Holiday Vampire Romance.

"something brown" is kind of the perfect achewood homage. everything else is pretty great too.

how does it feel to have all this PRESSURE on you now that all of assetbar will be watching your every move? does this... excite you?

Yes

All of assetbar? His every move? Not so fast there, missy.

P.S. Though I feel that a few more actual punchlines would help your work (not every comic artist needs them, but I think you do), I have to admit that I smirked in spite of myself at the rapist/saxophone tie pin situation.

P.P.S. Regardless of how I feel about the actual work (not too good or bad), I must say that I'm hugely impressed that you seem to have come out unscathed after pitching your comic not once but twice here. In the assetbar of two years ago, you'd be dead in the ground by now. Maggots in your eyes and all. Maybe this is the long awaited era of peace.

it is the era of Significantly Lowered Expectations

this grape has gone from mature to rotting on the vine

hello jason

I think it would be a good idea if CO apprised his readers of his current projects or whatever has slowed production

He informed us quite explicitly when he became a dad.

Seasoned webcomic readers know that is code for "don't expect anything from me ever again."

But that was like 3 years ago, and we get stuff...sometimes.

that's why i only get into things on that are done by absentee fathers, so it's only their children who get hurt...so neglected...left in this world, a single leaf riding the wind...

I think I would be more likely to have a little more understanding when I clicked through to Achewood and saw the same comic that was there over a week ago if I knew there were other Onstad things on the horizon

you know after reading achewood for so many years I think we have a subliminal link to Onstad and even if he doesn't come out and say what's going on, we have a sense of it, even if we can't articulate it.

I think Onstad is having crisis or something. crisis of the Achewood.

look, it's going to happen sooner or later. At some point. This isn't Shultz who draw peanuts until day he dies..

this is Achewood. Achewood, if we realized it or not, was always a product of Onstad's state of mind, it was a work in progress, it was the progression of Onstad's exploration of the world combined with his exploration of Achewood.

conclusion: It can't go on forever. It has to have crisis at some point

I bet you fifty dollar he's working on new characters already for something new, or, maybe he's just mired in writer's block of some sort.

either way, Achewood , I think we have to admit, is in crisis, and this crisis is only going to get worse.

to quote lawbot
YES

he's using the tshirt money to buy cocaine

On the contrary, 2010 has seen a very strong upswing here. The delays are inevitable. All I look for is quality and this time last year was not nearly as promising. The best we can hope for is that he stays away from the over-long arcs this year. As long as he's a little more careful on that front, I don't care if it turns into a weekly comic.

Am I the only one who didn't hate the Wheel of Karma arc?

I didn't hate it. It had its moments. The arcs just never compare to the one- or two-offs for me. That's how I've always felt.

NYYYEEEAAAAAA....
I'm caught up :-(

NYYYEEEAAAAAA....
I'm don't give a fuck :-(