If you appreciate Achewood, please support Chris Onstad (shop; gallery art.)
It's a...Judas Priest Friday Friday, August 20, 2004 • read strip Viewing 75 comments:

be careful

Thank you, I will.

I haven't left the house on a Friday since 2004, just in case. Which explains why I'm here, at 11:30 on a Friday, continuing on through the archive.

Help, yes, which Friday is Judas Priest Friday? on which Friday should I be special careful of ordering a Dominos?

Every Friday is a Judas Priest Friday. Or not. But you'll never know... until it's too late.

Beware...

Always be careful of ordering Domino's.

I should cut a pizza like this today and see what happe

I'll tell you what will happen, someone will want the fat ass pieces and everyone will fight over it and then someone will eat the middle and it'll just be a mess.

I get the feeling you speak from experience.

Perhaps.

Come on. This one's just fun.

When I worked at a Domino's, I cut a pizza like this for a delivery on a Friday the 13th. The pizza actually ended up going to a heavily religious family, who sent a priest over to the Domino's for some sort of exorcism.

That is wonderful.
Did you find out that it was you, and if so, did you keep your job?

They did, but apparently the first exorcist visit only merits a warning.

That is even more wonderful.

If you had stopped with the first sentence, I probably would have believed you. But the second sentence was too absurd.

It's not just getting a pair of knives shoved into your ears - it's the fact that you burst into flame directly afterwards that makes it Judas Priest Friday. The three-story fall is just icing on the cake.

Yes, but it is not a cake that ladies be mashin with their bottoms.

But if it were, that would definitely make up for everything in Ray's book.

This is exactly what should happen to someone who orders pizza from Domino's more than once. Actually, it would have been more proper for a player to die of shame, but short of that, this is the correct death. Good on Judas Priest.

I GET THE PENTAGON SLICE!

it's maybe as big as the arms of the star, and a lot smaller than the parts outside the star

I may be wrong here, but I think geometry (which is extremely awesome) says that the parts outside the star are bigger than the arms of the star. The pentagon slice is the biggest piece.

A comment left by stevegt500 was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by pityparty, kylank, Darthemed)

A comment left by chaesar was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by prolefeed5, kylank, twohundredninety, StagnantDisplay, ih8jonmayr, cathaoir, eRiUukFJk)

Agh lame me, why can't I read sentences.

The pieces outside look bigger, but the pentagon has no crust, so its all about what you look for in pizza.

also the center of a pentagram is to focus point, thus he would be basically be eating Ray's soul.

This discussion is what the internets are for.

Scroll wheels were invented because these conversations happen on the internets.

The pentagon has no crust? Damn politicians and their crust-cutting ways, that's no way to enjoy pizza!

But it is a way to enjoy a PB&J sandwich if you are a child of small stature.

man ive been meaning to learn a bit of geometry

I love you, man. I love you because you are stoned.

man, no crust, no way

And so, since this comic, I have always wished people a awesome Judas Priest Friday. Little known fact: Somebody has made a 3D animated version on YouTube. Look it up.

it would seem that you are in fact correct . thanks for the heads up!

however, despite the sincere homage, since the video lacks any discernable 'splut's i only give it a 3/5.

And the voice of Ray is God-awful.

i worry every friday :(

alt-text: I Stood By For Exciter in '89
/alt-text

I saw Megadeth, Anthrax & Slayer in '91, at Pine Knob Amphitheatre. FWIW.


I was at that show at Pine Knob too! I had to lie to my mother, she thought I was at a friend's house spending the night.

But you were at a friend's house...

that friend's name was SATAN

This is what Ray gets for ordering a pizza from Domino's. It is silly to eat at Domino's Ray. It is very bad!

Domino's makes terrible pizza because they are terrible people.

that is why i always order from dominion pizza.

i have to cut a pizza like that sometime...but first, to make a pizza!

Pretty sure this is the first "Friday" strip.

Ray is Dead.

Long live Ray.

I saw that animated version. It had hella poor comic timing.

And that is so not Ray's voice.

I emailed the link to that video to Onstad and this is what he had to say about it:

Yeah, the guy emailed me when he posted it up there. Pretty cool, isn%u2019t it. I definitely wouldn%u2019t have voiced Ray as a white animation student, though.


Best,

/C

To be fair, I think Ray's voice is one of the hardest to pin down.

We may have to wait until the baby is college age and Chris decides Achewood: The Animated Series would be a good way to pay for that.

THEN we'll see who he taps for voice actors!

I dread that day. As tempting as it may seem, I'm very skeptical about comics becoming animated. My trepidation comes from the results of that happening to Maakies. A brilliant series of comics turned into a thoroughly underwhelming series of animated shorts. The voice acting is the scariest part. It's just way too easy to fuck up.

I liked what I saw of the Maakies shorts, and was aware of, but never really got into, the comics. But I understand what you mean, especially with voice acting. Sometimes it seems like the entirety of Modern American Cartoondom has about three total professional voice actors. Who all suck very much.

Any comic turned into a cartoon will not have the voices you imagined. That is something you will have to prepare for.

I would also like to invite those who complained about the video's comic timing or voice acting to make a better one.

I liked it.

I was pretty much goona write exactly that, but since you already went ahead and did it, I'll just agree with you.

Goona. Jesus.

If your typo is still fun to say, it is slightly less appalling to have typo'd.

But it is still appalling. You should be ashamed.

I want to get a job at a pizza place just so I can do this to people's pizzas

I think it would be cool if pizzas came that way sometimes.

I don't get it.

Fall to your knees and repent, if you please (blistering KK Downing solo).

Today's Blogs

Ray: Operation HOT S.A.U.C.E.
Lyle: I ain't gonna speak at no AVN awards
Molly: Who's Hot Stuff? I am.

-Onstad-
Full English Breakfast
Thank you everybody

Man Onstad must be hella old.

GUYS. OH MY GOD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbUdU8Q0nAo

WHAT.

Note that the balcony has a sliding door, that is in fact closed before Ray jumps out of it. Being a Judas Priest Friday, it probably opened by itself to facilitate Ray's fall.

I doesn't make sense.

It totally makes sense.

I love it.

the fear comes from the fact that if Ray tried to roll over and quell the flames, the knives would be driven into his brain

Do I have to say something intelligent, or can I just say that I had to sign-up and login just so I could give this one a 5 vote?

this is the strip I use to convince people that achewood is better than most other things

The outside view of the house before Ray falls off the balcony is... platinum?

Also, the guy he ordered the pizza with must be freaking out something awful.

Heard about Judas Priest Thursday? Just... just don't order chinese...

Fortune Cookie Say: Splut-Splut

FALL TO YOUR KNEES AND REPENT, IF YOU PLEASE [RAYMOND Q. SMUCKLES]!

I love this one so much, I don't know why I hadn't 5ed it before, but now it seems can't.
I used to know a bartender who would put a little pentagram on my Guiness, and it was awesome. Never lead to me being stabbed in the ears, spontaniously catching fire, and falling off a balcony, though.