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Penultimate-ish. Monday, April 26, 2010 • read strip Viewing 517 comments:

Damn. Steve really is the best in the business.

Steve's car belies that opinion. Steve is merely capable. If he were the best, he wouldn't have needed clues from Teodor.

Plus he has to toss up smokescreen words like "cumulo-papist" to hide the fact that he can't read.

If nobody tells me what cumulo-papist means, I can continue to imagine a man, half-Catholic, half-cloud. Maybe he fights crime?

catholicism in the cloud

I read Columbo-Papist first time through. Peter Falk would make a great Pope. He could take out his glass eye at parties. And during transubstantiation

Excuse me sir ... I couldn't help but notice your hat ...

Just...one more thing.

Man, Columbo would be an awful client if you were a prostitute.

Hey, I'm just sayin' what everyone's thinkin'.

except me. I was not thinking that at all.

I was thinking about a bizarre alternate universe where Columbo is the CEO of Apple and Steve Jobs solves mysteries.

The the iPhone would be made in France, housed in battered gray metal, and sleeved in ratty canvas. Apple would be so bankrupt.

You pay for catholicism's cloud services using Papal PayPal.

Pi in the sky, where pi is an irrational number.

Pi in Communist Russia, where Pi is an integer.

I'm not going to rain on your confirmation, johnnyrocker.

Pope would be cumulo-papal, would it not? Perhaps it is cloud-potato-related?

"Papal" refers to the Pope himself. The term "Papist" is used to pejoratively describe an adherent of the Pope.

That's some good papal bull.

A papal smear, if you will.

It took me 1.5 seconds to get the joke. Then I lol'd.

A pa(pa)lp-able pause?

Haha, yeah! And then, if he ate Cheese-Nips, they would be... uhhh... Papal...Nips. I got nothing.


Being the best means knowing when you need help. Steve has no pride at stake here, he just wants to get the job done.

Even Sherlock Holmes can't solve a mystery without clues.

The fact he got so much out of Teodor's comments which most definitely weren't attempts at clues shows how good Steve is.

Roast Beef missed his calling. He would've made a GREAT animal transport specialist, IMO.

He brings a special boy!

hey deus i gave you a chubby for regurgitating a line from an earlier strip but giving it a tenuous and unfunny connection to this one, nice job dude

And I gave you a chubby because I found your comment hilarious.

And I gave you a chubby because I like the drink in your avatar.

I have to be brutally honest with you....

I have NO idea why im giving you a chubby.

I chubby for HONESTY!

And I chub for drugged-out otter eyes.

I'M! NOT GIVING YOU SQUAT UNTIL YOU TELL ME WHO YOUR AVATAR IS SUPPOSE TO BE!

could it be him? i hear legends about the great hand-face orgy of assetbar. Verily, his hand is touching his face.

His avatar is unrelated to the Great Handface Weekend.

Quote:
the Great Handface Weekend.


Holy hell, I remember that thing.

Yeah the Handface Weekend was great. Everyone just gave each other compliments the whole time.

Well, rowboat, I actually chose the Chicago poet's pic BECAUSE of the handface pose, so there's a relationship to that weekend.

Well, OK. I just meant that you had a different one (of your own hand on your own face) when it actually went down.

True that -- I feel more comfortable not using my own visage in such a free-for-all forum, 'specially after all those underage-stalker accusations.

Yeah, those underaged stalkers are pretty scary. With their tiny hands and evil little toothy smiles...

I got your own visage right here, Sandy old boy. Now, who's under 17?

Eurgh, I can't STAND hand-face photos.

That is Carl Sandburg. Will you give the pre-arranged squat to me?

yes



Prepare to be tea-bagged until your eyes water.

The squat's all yours, 'bot.

He changed his avatar to a football helmet...does....does that mean i should lame him?!

givin you a chubby for givin him a chubby!

chubby for tacky lower class redneck avatar that makes me want to kill you

Chubby for brutality

I chubby this man as his father!

Here comes a special chubby!

Correct! I want a chubby.

THESE CHUBBIES!

NOT THAT SHIT AGAIN.

Sorry, I'm all out.

you're the hugest douche on the internet.

Huge slam on a huge douche outta nowhere!

Repetition: nul points

Whatever. I think it's pretty dope.

Rowboat you used to be so avant garde, how could you sink so low intellectually with your avatar? I don't even know you anymore, peasant.

(Go Vikings!)

Huh? What's that? I'm sorry, but I can't hear you through my congenital class deficit....

i couldn't decide... go with the 'Niners to keep with the NFL theme or my home team.

Either way, go fuck yourself AIU.

My hometown team is so low-class it doesn't even have a fucking logo (then again, considering my hometown...)

Damnit I'm from Akron, lived for a while in Minneapolis, now reside in St. Louis, but you fuckers have claimed all three of my possible NFL teams.

I now have absolutely no idea who anyone is or what their avatars represent. I am entirely out of my element.

Did we ever really know?

You're like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie.....What's your point?

Oddly enough, I currently reside in Minneapolis. We should all be Potty Pals (unfortunately I do not have a thousand dollars)

What the hell, was Cleveland too warm for you?

Cleveland is surprisingly warm.
At least during the winters. I prefer the nice brisk temperatures where it doesn't matter whether you're using Fahrenheit or Celsius...
(translation: move was edjamacation-related)

Suck it you loser by the lake!

Cleveland's warm, huh? So warm that sometimes it steams ?

So warm that the river catches on fire.

So Cleveland's got a river, huh? A river so wet that it could rust, say, a metal instrument? Like a trombone?

I understand Cleveland packs a punch... a punch that could be described as "donkey."

....or that people named Carl get hot?

would it be different if his avatar was of some classier sports icon, like pete maravich?

I always hated you for your avatar, but eventually I came to grips with it.

ladies and gentlemen, the hugest douche on the internet.

your avatar is some sports writer, right?

its a cunt. a biiiig stiiinking cunt. self-portrait.

how original. just like your avatar. your avatar exudes originality. if I could hold your avatar in my hands and squeeze it, I would have originality oozing out between my fingers. if your avatar was enriched uranium, it would go critical with originality.

is your avatar an original drawing? does he have a name and a persona that you made up just for him, super-douche?

my avatar doesn't give a fuck about professional sports teams logos

I always thought it was a character from Trudeau's Doonesbury . A slightly more appropo avatar for this sort of venue than miscellaneous sports teams. (Said the slap-dueling pikachu clones)

in this duel, my money is on the right pikachu. It has just been feeding the other one devastating head shots for hours.

if you stare long enough and have a smart enough brain, you can make it look like the left pikachu is the one delivering the blows.

ALSO: how is Pikachu not in my spell checker's dictionary by now?

The one on the left is taking it, though, Rope-a-dope on a platter

Pikachu uses Hundred Hand Slap. It's....uh....it doesn't really seem to be that effective, actually.

At first glance, no. What you don't know is that the Pikachu on the left has been dead for years.

How is he opening and closing his eyes, then?

Because of a problem?

That's how hard he is being slapped.

That's the problem with using old .gifs.

it is. he's just being a cunt about it.

i'm not being a cunt. you're just being jealous because I'm more evolved than you are. that's right I said it. I'm more evolved, sentient, and ultimately, I'm more human than you are. there are dogs with more humanity than you. there are retarded dogs with more self awareness than you.

lighten up, francis.

(read: i'm a cunt, and i'm sorry)

For your consideration:
AIU and dacapn, two lonely souls wandering in a webcomic comment forum having a tailgate party on the tailgate of a 1982 Subaru Brat. Each one is pretty sure the other one sucks and is in hell.
In the Twilight Zone

They're the same person and this is just another attempt by AIU to get attention.

An intelligent assetbarbarian would have to agree with you, but I'm a fuckin' idiot and I think yer fulla shit.

he sounds real tough and awesome.

chubby cause i am

Actually, though I think it has been obscured by responses, I think pmbarret's comment was directed at Old .Gifs.

what kind of drink is it

That is a Mojito.


One of the nicest evenings i had last summer was when i just hung out with girlfriend and her mom, making mojitos for the first time, and grilling up some tasty eats on the barbecue. We'd just got back from a day at the beach with friends - hungry, thirsty, and tired. Sipping on summery cocktails, sitting out on her patio, and chatting about nothing memorable.

That's what mojitos make me think of.

and then.. boning?

why yes. yes indeed.

Both of them? :-|

i-is that allowed, Pope Bendict XVI?

Pope-with-guitar declares that this rocks.

I feel like this is the exact kind of thing Roast Beef would facepalm over, thanks to Ray's influence.

Everyones doing it, i just wanted to be popular.

(but yeah this horse is dead, beaten, raped, desecrated and got involved in various internet fetishes)

Your mom has a tenuous and unfunny connection to my comment. No seriously, it's awkward for everyone involved. I really feel the need to apologize, you have to understand, I was born an asshole.

Insert random unrelated Achewood joke here, maybe some clip art of Ray, then ship it.

-=AssetBar Away=-

Your avatar just took me WAAAAAAAY back to my childhood.

WAAAAAAAY back in 2008.

It SEEMED like a long time ago. My comment is kinda like a time-release capsule. Just come back and check it in like 5 years.

Wait, no, you bastard! It was 2001!https://zelda.wikia.com/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Oracle_of_Seasons

But I chubbied you for making me second-guess myself.

I was actually making a joke about your tender age. But no matter - good-natured chubbs all around.

Those Subrosians sure can dance.

GUYS I THINK IT'S ORCO FROM HE-MAN

Your avatar just took me back to that 'Bitches' AMV.

I don't think I've seen 'Bitches'. Link?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyFdwtaOIKg

Haha! That was actually decently well done. It holds the distinction of being an AMV that I might actually rewatch at some point.

about as old as AMV. I'm pretty sure I remember seeing this in 2002 or so, and my more ultra-otaku friends already thought it was old news.

There is just nothing I don't hate about that.

i am is glad phireep come homme

im glad i get to look at the raiders logo again

I'm glad i8orrex biggest fan.

what team of douches chubbied this?

omg, would you please just fuck off and die? no one asked you to come over here and shit on my avatar you fuckin loser.

So you're saying that just because there's something on this message board posted over and over that offends my sensibilities, I shouldn't have a cow about it, I should get over it? You know I sort of tend to agree with you on that one. Only difference being that while you think it should only apply to me, I think it should only apply to you.

Ratacattt is rubber and dacapn is glue. Whatever dacapn says bounces JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

lol

Really, if ratacattt and dacapn want to get a room somewhere, please, feel free. You shouldn't flirt in front of young otters or their unnaturally old mothers.

i think what he's saying is you're an enormous douche and we all hate you and please go away and also that while everyone else's avatar sucks yours is really sweet and we agree with you that sports and big men are scary.

can i come and visit you what city do you live in can i sleep over

quite yes, i think you should fuck off my avatar, eat a dick and ::hopefully:: die

too late. even if I die today, from now until the rest of time you're trapped with this avatar. (Or at least this general kind of retarded avatar) The moment you change it, I win! Because this makes you unable to change your avatar, I've already won!

no, i win. simply because i LIKE the raiders. and you, obviously, cannot like anything as you are a hate mongering, idiotic shit-stirrer, who's logic isnt even sound; because why would i change my avatar, i like it and dont want to, so i WIN.


ps, you're a douche.

Relax chief. Best use the ignore button.......unless, of course, if you are enjoying this as much as he.

Sorry for redundant if.

R A I D E R S
in TOYOTA font.
On the back of a Toyota pickup.

Unfortunately, we are about to learn that Steve's business is Ottawa Modified Death. As Ray revived his microbrew line with oddly specific food pairing recommendations for the sake of the catalog war with Phillipe, demand grew for euthanized meat. It remains to be seen if Steve is filling an order for bear or otter though.

Fortunately for us, the target in this case is Philippe's mother.

Self-salting meat. You know it would sell.

she don't pee

kidney failure's gonna get ya, roast beef the cat!

Steve drives a Magic Bus

Too much.

I want it I want it I want it I want it

We really should do this.

Okay! You can have the magic bus...for ONE HUNDRED...English pounds.

Press REPLY to continue!
Press LAME to explore other options!

OPEN MAILBOX

...

Someone has clearly never played Zork.

Back to the topic at hand (95?) I think we really need to find a way to get the Beatles to do a show with the Who. Think about it. The surviving members of each perfectly mirror each other (keeping in mind that Roger is also a guitarist) and while John can't exactly be replaced at least we have one of the primary songwriters from each band. This must be made to happen. It is so fucking obvious!

Clearly.

I've heard this before. My friend told me it would be the best band ever and they would be/should be called Who Are The Beatles, but while they "mirror" each other, they wouldn't complement each others' talents.

Fuck your sarcasm, we takin' this seriously.

This reminds me of my idea where the remaining members of Led Zeppelin merge with the remaining members of Def Leppard to make something.... beyond music.

They merge to make "shit," as the kids say.

Velvet shit, motherfucker.

From an ass.

Velvet shit from an ass.

Motherfucker.

But how did DeNeuve know about Phillippe's dad?

Arithmetic!

Para-Science!

'Pataphysics!

Pere-apsychology.

Philippe told him earlier.

And then arithmetic!

The arithmetic was for telling when he'd need to show up again to bring Philippe home.

Duh.

Not everybody else is playing at our level.

i was at that level ages ago

but i used the warp flutes so its not as authentic as you guys.

You ass.

Warped flute? Sounds like you're gripping it too hard.

Sounds like a Horse the Band song reference.

Chubby for Horse the Band.

Is that different than Band of Horses?

In the MOST important way.
Nintendocore

Good call, sir. I find myself thinking that we could have easily seen that at the time, but I can't be certain I'm not saying it out of jealousy and hindsight. Regardless, a job well done and hearty congratulations!

No, and then HUUUGS!

Steve asked Philippe, but knew some information when he asked the question.

he PAID ATTENTION.

Your avatar kind of looks like DeNeuve.

This strip made me do a little bit of cry. Heck, this whole arc has had me leaking tears.

Home is where the heart is, Phillippe. Never grow up, please.

That's not much of a cry-cry face.

But, I echo your sentiments.

How can you echo tears,missbee?
How can you paint a cry-cry face?

The answer mah fren,
Is blowin' in th' win'
The answer is blowin' in th' win'.

Tears ain't a sentiment. They're a fact.

yeah, you have to weep the weepy-weep way.

But all jokes aside, this made me feel warm and fuzzy inside, like a small bunny had accidentally made its way down my esophagus somehow while I was asleep and was trapped in my stomach, desperately looking for a way out.

Steve's Party?
OH MY GOD

I came.

Yeah... I mean, what the fuck Onstad? How dare you bring out a really good arc that actually goes someplace and comes out on time? Who do you think you are? Big man with a goddamn time machine or something!?!?

Belgand didn't technically cry, but he did have Emotions.

Agreed. I was worried when yet another business was getting started, but this arc turned out to be a gem. Some primo Achewood here.

Belgand's Emotions began to get the best of him. Belgand wrapped his arms around Belgand and kissed him softly on the cheek. "Hey," Belgand whispered, "it's gonna be okay, Belgand."
Belgand looked up into Belgand's rugged but sensitive face and kissed him back passionately.

Oh yes.

This isn't the first time I've been involved in clone sex* and I doubt it's going to be the last.

*The link would go here if I could be bothered to find it, but I can't think of any way to format a search to find that sort of thing.

A gay friend of mine has a surprisingly strong interest in fucking a clone of himself. So there's certainly a market for that sort of thing.

This is true. However, it is a chronological certainty that the first time you are involved in time travel sex will not be the last.

Unless it is necrophilia.

Here and up.

Man, that still gets me hard.

actually if you wanted to be not fucking annoying you would say "this strip made me cry"

Why is the person who is complaining about stylized language writing things as awkward as "if you wanted to be not fucking annoying?"

The Dogs told him to write that.

*as awkwardly. lmbo

Nah, I stand by what I wrote. I'm not describing the action of writing awkward things, I'm describing the awkward thing itself. Therefore, "awkward," not "awkwardly."

>:I succumb to my syntax

Correct. I wanna succumb.

listen why does anyone do anything

here? street cred.

A desperate need for attention.

There is no street cred on the Internet.

Electronic highway cred?

Netcred, or mostly, net crud!

Netcred! What news from the North?

Who the fuck is stonecrab?

GET HIM!

(s)He's the guy who invented Comic Sans!

Rowboat! Again? NOOOOOOOO!!!!

Rosemary and shrimp just sounds like a recipe for disaster.

My Gawd this statement is so false.

I have mild experience with rosemary, mostly involving lamb, so I must concede. Addendum: i really don't even like shrimp.

This statement is also false. There's no fucking way you don't like shrimp.

i'm not really wild about shellfish in general. scallops? okay. shrimp? if i must. Clam chowder? palatable. Crab/lobster waaaay overrated. Mussels/oysters? fuck no.

chubby for solidarity

Quit lyin'.

More for me!

basically I like my meat to have 0, 2, or 4 legs.

anything else freaks me out while tasting worse than my 0-2-4 animals

Nonsense! Three-legged dog is the tastiest meat in the world.

The fact that I am Asian has nothing to do with this comment

Maryanne and the crabs was definitely a disaster.

Crab-crack dance! Crab-crack dance!

Ifyaknowhatimeanandithinkyoudo

Phillip Seymour Hoffman saves the day.

Trying to think of a Phillip Seymour Hoffman movie where this happens but I'm coming up blank.

Magnolia, sort of.

I think this refers to an earlier comment by yours truly unless I set up lolsworth's account in my sleep to make it look like two people thought Steve looked like the estimable PSH.

I know someone made the comparison

Doubt.

mostly he just has the day fall apart around him

State and Main?

Phillipe Seymour Hoffman?
(come on photoshop people don't make me do this in MSPaint)

It might be even funnier/ more awesome done in MSPaint, somehow.

Phillipe asleep in a breadbox is cute enough even to make a two-dicked lumberjack smile.

Being able to double fist makes any man smile.

Even a lumberjack who has been double-punched on the erection?

"Phillipe asleep in a breadbox is cute enough even to make a two-dicked lumberjack smile."

Quoted for truth.

Thanks for the image of a two-dicked lumberjack smiling at a sleeping Phillipe. :|

make it so that Phillipe is in place of the penis possessed by the lumberjack.

A lumberjacks double-penis alseep in a breadbox is cut enough even to make a two-Phillipe'd lumberjack smile."

dude you don't have to MAKE a two-dicked lumberjack smile

health and safety inspectors would have a fit if they saw that bed that phillippe is sleeping in. if steve desires the title of animal transport specialist he needs to consider the dangers of emergency breaking and consequentially, otter brain on the window and a very well held down box

Steve is a box transport specialist. The otter will die in an auto accident. The box will be unscathed.

you can't see it in any of the panels, but inside the box Philippe is firmly set in a cocoon of quick-drying caulking foam.

In my mind I have now replaced Steve with Sandra Bullock.

Belgand refuses to comment on whether he is fantasizing about having virtual sex with him/her.

I'll be the first to admit:
I have a huge crush on Sandra Bullock.

You will not be the first to admit that.

The first straight man to admit it, maybe.

Heyo!

How is that possible though?

This is a surprisingly happy resolution to all of this.

Don't count on Teodor just yet--remember what happened last time he had to cook a special meal on a deadline.

DeNeuve: I hope the marinade isn't as disappointing as those cranberries of yours. Put some shorts on, and check that grill temperature!

Happiness is mandatory.

So almost everyone in Achewood is rich now?

Philippe was returning home because he's made enough money. Teodor is due his massive settlement from Onstar.

I demand to see some MTV-style cribbery in the 2010 strips.

I dunno, I can imagine Steve's services to be prettttty expensive.

It's just so Ray doesn't look like such a douche for not helping his bros out more. I mean, remember the yard sale Teodor threw together at like four in the morning to pay the rent? Meanwhile your friend is living in a gold-plated mansion. It'd put a bad taste in my mouth, I tell you that.

Communist.

Yet when Phillipe started his little business, he found 600$ in the microwave
who puts money in a microwave?

Ray was going to bang a lady on a pile of money and wanted to warm it up a bit first to make the experience more pleasurable.

The $600 in the microwave was just a test batch that didn't turn out very well and he forgot to take it out.

Spread currency in a single layer on a half-sheet pan and place in a 275 degree oven for 45 minutes on the lower-middle rack, remove and rotate then go for another 45 minutes.

275 celsius or fahrenheit? CELSIUS OR FAHRENHEIT?

275 Kelvins. The oven must be set to 35.5 degrees Farenheit.

The dude has got no mercy.

but that... that means it will be very much colder than room or body temperature. Basically the exact temperature of a fridge, except it must be created in an oven. Interesting...

Don't have judgment.

It muft be set to fizzle.

fet

Ray was microwavin' some money for later. Don't judge.

Yea, why are you having judgement? Don't have judgement. It is not a thing for friends to have.

S'what Jesus said.
Thou shalt not have judgement. That, is my dad's job.
Now check this out--WINE, MY BRETHREN!!

He wasn't that enthusiastic about it. More--
" Mooomm seriously, really, now?"
"Josh, I swear, if my glass does not fill back up with some merlot--"
"It's not even time yet! I still haven't even moved out of the house! Besides, I think everyone's had eno--"
"Merlot. Now. Or I will tell your Father."
" Fine. Wine, my brethren!"

Yeah. That's how it really went down!
I was just mixing stories for Purposes. (not Porpoises)

Tuberculosis, hantavirus, you know the drill.

YOU PUT THAT FUCKING DOLLAR SIGN IN FRONT OF THAT NUMBER OR I'LL RIP YOUR GODDAMN THROAT OUT.

That much money flowing into the underground causes massive inflation, bankrupts everyone except Ray who has converted his cash to fine art and platinum.

and by fine art he means movie memorabilia with questionable authencity from ebay

Given the kind of weird stuff Philippe routinely receives from his octogenarian mother, I imagine his fortune might be whittled away on totally random junk in a very short time indeed...

Steve, you sly devil.

Ultimately this feels a little forced. But I think it's reading a new comic every couple of days. Maybe I ought to take a year off and then come back and read a huge backlog of strips. It'd be like when I discovered it all over again.

I agree. I was at first skeptical of this arc, but then I realized it was very jimmy corrigan-esque (is that a word now dawg?) and I enjoyed it. I think the problem really is the pacing/format. If I could read it all at once it'd be a lot more meaningful for me. Now that it's lunch time maybe I'll do just that.

This is wonderful. You are wonderful.

All's well that ends with garlic.

Prediction: Teodor is going to get out of bed and Todd is going to run in and punch him right on the erection.

Damn it, you KNOW T's got the fat morning thingy!

We're wrapping up quite a sentimental arc and all you can think about is Teo's tallywhacker?

It's always on my mind.

I believe in some circles that's known as a 'Norman Helmet'

D'oh!

No, he's hung like a cranberry!

...detachable?

He damn well BETTER.

I was promised 'punches on the erection' in the next strip. Failure.

Deliver, Onstad. DELIVER.

Tomorrow's recipe: chicken.

Tomorrow's recipe: Coq-punch.

coq-au-poing

f o w l f i s t i c u f f s ;

coq-aux-nuts?

Huge slam on roosters ...

This calls for Canard à l'Orange (Or duck Al Orange)

"Duck Al Orange"? Did someone throw something at him?

Johnny Lemoni sez Al's a fruit.

A cock punch, he'd better duck pretty low.

Might as well jump.

If you are listening to "Panama" it is a party, regardless of what else is occurring at the moment. This is a fact that has been confirmed by Science.

I'm not much of a VH fan these days, but I would have to submit "Hot for Teacher" to the insta-party theory as well.

If you are dancing to "Hot for Teacher" there is a very strong chance that you are a teacher-themed stripper. If the song did not already exist they would have warped the universe so as to create one where it already existed. It is a necessity.

It also has a great video.

Starring a non-dead Phil Hartmas as Waldo's voice, apparently!

Aw maa, ya know I'm not like other guys. I'm nervous and my socks are too loose.

Or Hartman, whichever.

I brought my penciiiillll...
GIMME SOMETHIN TO WRITE ON

Will this story arc end with Steve smiling wryly, murmuring to himself "My work here is done" and wandering a ways down the pavement before staring at the sky? Only Philippe breaking away from the celebratory shrimp grill long enough to see him be encapsulated by a bright, shining light from above, and disappear with a friendly wave?

Philippe collapsing to his knees, eyes wide as dinner plates, and shrieking uninterrupted for twenty panels?

Steve smiles, unfurls his umbrella, and floats away on the west wind.

the piano music from The Incredible Hulk tv series playing softly in the background as he wafts to the horizon

"LOST" appears on the screen and credits roll (also it is may 23)

did you miss me?

I still trust Steve DeNeuve about as much as I'd trust a 'Jewish-when-its-convenient' acquaintance of mine around bacon.

I maintain somethin' ain't right with our 'pal' Steve. And WTH does he need a Bluetooth? Not like he's driving.


He needs a Bluetooth headset because he is a PROFESSIONAL. Never mind whether his hands are full or not.

He knows that a fist raised above the waist completely ruins the trust-lines in his shirt. And he's not willing to do that to Philippe.

The world truly would be a better place if there were more shirts with 'trust-lines.'

He needs Bluetooth because he is using his hands, possibly to do arithmetic. In Steve DeNeuve's line of business, you really can't afford to let the arithmetic rest for long.

I don't know why you say that like it's a bad thing. As far as I'm concerned, that's when religions are the most tolerable.
(When they are not taken seriously.)

"seem" in panel six should come after "you"

idem indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus

Arse Poetica

Daaaaamn! Check who's being a dick about syntax!

this is a thing I have never understood: the average person does not reliably say things which are grammatically correct in all ways. why do we expect such precision from fictional characters?

I expect such precision from all people and find myself deeply upset when reality fails to live up to such reasonable standards. I also hate myself more or less constantly for my own failure in this respect.

You should make this into a t-shirt for yourself, Belgand.

Outside: Belgand- The Man's Got Standards!

Teodor's shrimp skewers need to marinate for SEVENTEEN TO TWENTY-THREE HOURS.

And they'll be the best goddamn shrimp skewers that Philippe has ever put in his mouth.

Nobody would ever marinate shrimp for that long. It would be terrible.

the shrimp are alive in the marinade for the first few hours or so. he likes to give them a good meal first before they return the favour.

And flavor.

I wonder if that would work... also, if they can't breath marinade wouldn't you effectively be suffocating shrimp and thus be abusing animals? All for the sake of shrimp skewers?

Teador was not sold on the whole Modified Death notion.

teodor

V-chub for reminding me of Ottawa Modified Death!

I knew Deneuve was gonna make good. I KNEW it.

Steve DeNeuve was played by [url=https://www.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&gbv=2&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=timothy spall&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&start=0]Timothy Spall[/url]

Alright bbcode, whatever. I meant to say Timothy Spall.

Musta been a plus sign in there.


Thanks, Jay.

no Bob is the silent one, not Jay.

Steve DeNeuve: HE GETS THINGS DONE!

We get it Onstad, Teodor is hung like a cranberry.

STEVE DENEUVE

THIS DUDE IS AWWWWWWWWWWWWWESOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME

Best new character in a while, man. This guy is legit. Like, he's Nightlife Mingus levels of cool.

Why does Steve's bluetooth connection click when he hangs up? Unless it is someone impersonating Steve from a landline?

probably him saying 'klik'

Does he also then say 'dialtooooooooooone?'

Just like Homestar.

Eh, Steve!

Eh, mockereo!

I'M GONNA GET YOU EH STEVE, IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DOOOO!

- SAID WITH BUBS'S VOICE

All I can see is KORN - thanks to whichever asshole pointed that out

Strip: good
Smarmy pontifications concerning the logic of the strip (bluetooth, klick noise, otter transport, if steve is actually a professional, etc etc ad nauseum): not good

Seriously wtf is with you people. You can dislike an individual strip/etc but I die a little each time you complain about the klik noise or the bluetooth or the... you get the idea. Stop injecting stupid continuity and real-world logic into the strip & just enjoy it.

Face facts. If you read the klik and thought, "OMG MY ENJOYMENT WAS JUST RUINED BY THIS LACK OF REALISM" you deserve a dick punch more than anyone I have ever met.

tl;dr: STOP WHINING ABOUT LOGIC IN A STRIP ABOUT STUFFED ANIMALS THAT LIVE IN A FANTASY UNDERGROUND

Without trying to be a dick, I find that those kind of comments I just skim over and don't get wound up over them. I think you might be assuming that when someone writes about little realism errors that they care greatly.

Considering the continuity-related minutiae that people constantly pull up it's probably logical for some of us more obsessive types to expect that Onstad has similar attention to all detail.

Well put, the details were obviously put there for one reason or another. Maybe there's a codex we haven't cracked yet (except Manflech and hedon-butt -- they're been in all the cracks).

you really think that the sound a phone hanging up makes is going to be relevant?

really?

No, but continuity-related minutiae and non-continuity-related minutiae are of the same outer makeup, even if they do not have the same purpose.

THEY ARE BOTH MINUTIAE
WHY YOU GOTTA HATE

I appreciate you not being a dick. Ah, it's just that I read this thread & enjoy funny jokes & relevant observations but my immersion is ruined by smarmy know it alls who bitch about the onomatopoeia.

Being pulled out of a really good thing (snigger) is always aggravating. Agreed.

richard grant wants title of his movie back

Who said anything about enjoyment being ruined? It was just an observation of the strip. Don't be the person who thinks they can decide what is an isn't appropriate subject matter for posts. You could be so much more.

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Don't be the person who thinks they can decide what is an isn't appropriate subject matter for posts.


Sir, may I be that person, Sir?

Your application has been accepted. Your first assignment is to venture two strips back and and write a three-page response to every comment that references directly or indirectly the third comment on the page explaining why the authors have crossed the bounds of general decency.
Then you will have reached level 2.

I am already so much more.
[IMGS OFF]

...
that totally ruined the drama
Just click this, jerks:
https://www.currybet.net/images/articles/2009/2001/47_starchild2.jpg

when it was CURRYbet.net i assumed it would be a delicious, East Indian dish.

unless they eat fetuses in India with a curry sauce.

When I was a kid, I assumed that all people in other countries just ate grubworms and bark and shit and that all non-American women had flat, lifelessly hanging breasts. I assumed this because my mom signed me up for a subscription for National Geographic and that's what they always showed me.

In short, National Geographic made me a racist. Thanks a fucking lot.

If it had shown the Indian Sex Temple do you think your mom would have let you read it?

She saved that for Take Your Son To Work Day.

When was the day you learned that American women also have flat, lifelessly hanging breasts? Was it already too late?

You fucking take that back, bro. American titties are round and fatt.

The RUDEST!

Where are the slide whistles?

Where are the erections?!

Both where you'd least expect them to be.

I am glad that I am still able to give chubbies, at least for now.

Jesus. Considering how long it's been since I saw one... that's literally anywhere.

Just think: a boner could be glaring at me from its cover, waiting to spring when I least expect it!

And when the boner springs it makes a slide whistle noise.

Genaro' erection nah fo' ser...sev-r-reral...
few mo' monts!

Where the hell are the slide whistles and men being punched on the erection?

fuck, beaten by 35 minutes. time to lame myself

fuck, i can't lame myself. time for some form of assetbar ritual suicide

Assetbarakiri?

no he dies from embarrassment by replying to himself twice to form a "three strikes string" of comments.

Strippuku?

Hm Jumbo Shrimp sounds like an excellent meal for the day. Thank you.

I H8 phillippe.

FUCK YOU MONDAY!

huh.. just thot of something. what would an interaction between Steve and Ray be like? I'd like to see some subtle with Ray using pseudo-intellectual reparte, Steve recognizing this but playing along. He thinks he has Ray cornered, but Ray baffles him some 'player logic' that Steve ain't get. But Steve doesn't react.. just that stone cold delivery.

and phillippe is dead.

subtle CONVERSATION.

WITH some

shit. maybe i s/proof read

this is exactly the phenomenon i just mentioned above. you know you just suicided right?

Desert_donkey was born suicided.

are you saying that there is a way to be even lamer than posting stupid comments on a cartoon website? like someone can be "more stupider"? and that outing stupid posts is not stupid?

this all seems so .. stupid.

BORN suicided I tells ya!

"you'll ask, won't you? about the rad chilies?"

Being originally from Ohio, I can tell you that if it takes somebody 17-23 hours to drive from anywhere in Ohio to the Bay Area, they're lying. (I think I did Cleveland to Tahoe once in about 34 hours over a few days, and GMaps says 38-41 depending on where you start.) How long exactly did Steve wait to call Teodor? Did he WANT Teodor to be sleeping when the message was relayed? Why does Steve want Teodor to feed Philippe between the hours of 11pm and 5am? Doesn't he know that's the worst thing you can do to a growing kid? Is this the arithmetic Steve was talking about?
*head asplosion for no good reason*

easy. he is the best in the business.

hell yes you call at 6 am. that's how things get done.
'oh, you was sleeping? out here in the world of otter transport we are not sleepy men, plus we can drive to ANYWHERE from ANYWHERE in 17 to 23 hours including stops for Svenhard's and special Wednesday cakes (that we can get any fuckin' day we want) cause we pay attention!'

I thought about that myself. Driving from Kansas to SF took me about three days of driving for 10-12 hours a day.

Then I thought about it for a second and realized that he only called when they were 17-23 hours out. It was not indicated that they had just left.

Still, 17-23 hours puts their arrival during the dead of night. Unless Steve is keeping Philippe on a feeding schedule that may be halfway to getting Social Services involved, there is no reason that he should be at all hungry, least of all for something as aromatic as garlic rosemary shrimp, at 11 at night, let alone 3 or 4 in the morning.

Home is where a hot, fresh-cooked meal is waiting for you when you arrive after your trip, no matter the time of night or day. And even if you ate an hour ago, you still can eat again, because the First Meal Home satisfies a different kind of hunger than any other food.

Kind of like how you want to bang when you get home from a week at your parent's house even though you already had some road head in the car.

Except with more rosemary and slightly less olive oil.

And there are non-imaginary people involved.

YAYE! Oh, the cockles of my heart, they are a-warming.

I like to think that when I am awoken but not yet awake, my eyes resemble those of Teodor in the sixth panel.

backseat; Phillipe rests
leaves home and leaves home again
returning, he smiles

The Captain's Sleeper Van is still undergoing repairs?

Isn't it still in California?

self emgiplovingyed handjobs?

global.

u cant go wrong,
wit simple messages.
so sing a song,
wit pleasing passages.

teh truth is rare,
and to speak it ever,
without a care?
tis'a noble endeaver.

like hoffman said,
aboard that plane with Tom.
was his wife dead?
i canst remember. his mom?
it do'ts matter
he said
"im going to hurt her"



I don't know what to think of you, really.

col du tormalet n me hab alot in commin n dis respec

Yay! YAY! Just fucking YAAAAAY!

I feel like Philippe's favorite dish having jumbo shrimp is a little like my favorite dish having....I don't know, maybe tarsiers? Lemurs? Zoologists, help me out.

From teh wiki: "For most otters, fish is the primary staple of their diet. This is often supplemented by frogs, crayfish and crabs. Some otters are expert at opening shellfish, and others will feed on available small mammals or birds."
So perhaps venison.

C'mon T, you can make the little man happy.

(Keifer Sutherland for the film representation of Steve DeNeuve.)

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm really tired of seeing Téodor's moobs.

your cat is fat. shut your mouth.

See the fat cat on the mat see 'im splat oh yeeah

... gladi?

Daddy?

Tranny?

Mess.
Ommmmmmmm......

What a beautiful working-class avatar.

he wears blue overalls

He gits -r- done.

Steve did not have a question. He had many statements, but not a single question.

Pro tip: questions end with a question mark.

But I do have a question. What is a nosebag?

It is a bag filled with food, which you strap onto your head, so you do not have to do anything but stand and chew.

that way i can sneak up behind an PLUG EM IN THE BUTT

Not on the sofa, fellas.

A way to feed a horse.

a bag of cocaine

He figured it all out for himself with arithmetic. That's right, he can reduce complex emotional, legal and logistical issues using only arithmetic. Arithmetic doesn't ask questions, leave that to algebra with its variables, they only complicate things and are for people who don't know what they're doing from the beginning.

Who knew he could quantify ghosts?

Dr. Egon Spengler

Print is dead.

I didn't realize Egon was considered a literary figure.

*DAMN YOU ONSTAD* /me sheds manly tear ...

Penultimate strip of the storyline or of Achewood?

Tune in and find out. Only 10,000 up front!

Call 36 8 976-218-3355 to hear the rest of the story! (Tad is awaiting your call)

Home used to be the only place I could shit but a lot has changed since I had explosive diarrhoea one day at work and had little choice. Now I shit on demand.

Pavlovian Defecation?

That's....interesting.

Quote:
Now I shit on demand.


Become an anarchist and shit on de man!

Become a columnist and scrit on Ayn Rand!

I rand out of scrit.

I append a postscript.

The Asylum presents a Steve Leon film: A Handful of Scrip

and we're running out of sand as well

Become Brer Rabbit in India and shit on dem 'ands

The German film industry called.

Rah Rah, Scheiss Boom Bah!

Sounds like a rather shitty film.

Steve is a pro of Wayne Jarvis caliber.

Oh well, there goes Teodor's plans to convert Philippe's room into a walk-in humidor. Or meat smoker if you're Vince McMahon.

smoked philippe?

Cumulo: mass or pile
papist: of the Pope/ dispariging remark ref. Catholicism

so..he refers to lame Catholic fictions.
(Seperate from the bible..?)

Jesus heard a knock at the door, and glanced over at Eve, still fast asleep after the previous day's events. He got up from the bed, grabbed his casual garments, and opened the door to see Pope Clement III, VERY celibate and happy to see Jesus in more ways than one...

lame

pretty stoked that teodore's genital wasn't depicted.

Nor was his naked.


(adjectives are not nouns)

Don't do the impossible, or move from the general to the particular. The strong will always oppress the weak when faced with the unfamiliar. Where the stupid chose the obscure, the Dutch prefer the obvious.

game, set, match--hatstand_mcq

Mr. Spaulding, I couldn't really choose just one of your comments to leave this in response to, so I guess this one is as good as any other. You are really wonderful. You do that avatar of yours great justice, and there have even been moments in the real world where I have made a comment of some wit, then thought to myself, "Jeff would have enjoyed that one." Thank you for making Assetbar a better place.

Thank you.

Your comment may provide cold comfort to my clients who remain under-serviced due to my Achewood habit.

So basically you are in general saying you pretty much wish his naked genitalia was depicted.

me = no still despite your written admonishment.

Steve is the man. Notice that he doesn't ask questions, even when he does. He makes statements: 'I have a question for you. His favourite food that you guys make there at home'

I read Columbo-Papist first time through. Peter Falk would make a great Pope. He could take out his glass eye at parties. And during ccnp transubstantiation

Steve's car belies that opinion. Steve is merely capable. If he were the best,[url=https://www.ccnpquestions.com]ccnp[/url he wouldn't have needed clues from Teodor.

Damn. Steve really is the best in the business.


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ccnp

did you add a signature to your post?

the link leads to a CCNP test questions subscription site.

what the fuck?

i think this is what the "Mark as Spam" link is for

He's not actually bringing Philippe back, just his severed head...

It was all worthwhile since it resulted in the loss of his Ray regalia.


(Shit. I'm gonna have "Peaches in Regalia" playing in my head for the rest of the day)

Peaches in Raygalia

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Ray in peach-gaylia?

It's more common than you think.

Impeach Ray Gaylia!

rad.

I signed up for assetbar after years of reading achewood, just so I could share my feelings of frustration that Philippe's mother appears to be in her sixties, if not older, and yet Philippe is what, five? The only way this is not an impossibility is if the punchline of this strip is going to be that Steve deNeuve's "arithmetic" has led him to calculate that this old lady cannot possibly be Philippe's real mother.

Interesting theory. Here's the problem with it:

Phillipe is five. Always.

This is a question of logic, not arithmetic, so it's safe to assume Steve's reasoning didn't look anything like that, but since you're new to Assetbar, I'll show you how we do comical analysis up in here.

Let's use predicate logic to formalize this.

Let P(a,b) mean a is b years old. let p be Phillipe, m be his mother.

Quote:

Forall x (x > 5) ( P(p,5) & P(m,x) )


Since the conjunction of two true propositions is also true, the statement is a tautology and therefore Phillipe's mother being in her 60's can't be a contradiction and your theory is incorrect.

So you're saying Philippe's mother isn't just in her sixties, but in fact she is all different ages greater than five, simultaneously? P(m,6) is true, P(m,2000) is true, etc.?

there is a reason you don't ask a woman her age

woh! truth-chubby

Phillipe has his own time stasis bubble. For him, this is groundhog day 1 and re-counting.

LISTEN

I wanan take dis time to let yall know sum facts abot chicken

1: chicklen needs be good--but [b]GOOD{/b]
b; chickln is a whites meat
2: chicken corn form lightless bird
a: uncookd chickn verdi dangerous 2 health

(3;?) vegetarians can eat chickn cuz they shit smells so bad? idk

chicken corn. yum!

It's taking forever to become Saturday night (neW strip?)

It's Sunday, Central Daylight Time -- maybe the West Coast is a day earlier?

I'm a little disappointed in what feels like a cheesy penultimate-ish near-resolution of a great arc.

The execution somehow isn't up to the intensity of the rest of the story. But I'm having a bad day, and everyone has bad days.

What war did P's dad come back from, I wonder.

Fuck you, Pat

it's Sunday

FUCK YOU MONDAY!

though every day is a "Fuck you, Pat" ____day, come to think of it. Maybe Philippe's dad was in the French Foreign Legion. Not that you need to be French. Maybe Phillipe is 50, and his mom's 70, and his dad fought in WWII. Or Algeria. Or was at Dien Bien Phu. Indochine!

Dude looks to be in his 60s or 70s, speaks with a french accent, went to war at the age of 15, come on man, piece it together! Clearly he's a veteran of the 100 Years War!

massive finale stuff

I know, right?

This is what we need more of: "Twitter-proofing"

Please tell me he's not thinking of winding down the whole strip...

I, personally, do not give one shit about your cry-cry face.
We been sayin' it for years.
Get over an arc finale already.

THESE SHRIMP!

of course i wanted this pic to go with above post.
drat you assetbar!

no no no...maybe i should try to link? nah, i should go get a sandwich or sumthin to drink...

fuck you, Chris. Like I care about your jackass foodie tweeting more than I care about your creation. Oh wait.

So, the next strip's up and I can't comment. (got all excited for a moment)

Figures. ::broods::

who broke it?

BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH. BLAH BLAH BLAH! BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH.

BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH, BLAH BLAH. BLAH BLAH?

BLAH BLAH!

NEONFREON!

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