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Cornelius wins the badass games Wednesday, June 21, 2006 • read strip Viewing 90 comments:

I love Beef's "that's so hardcore" expression in the last panel.

Yeah, especially considering how pleased he is in panel 7. Even he was awed by the badassery displayed today.

This is the same expression Olympic judges have when a gymnast flips off a bar and just crashes through the roof of the stadium and never comes back down.
Cornelius' finale is equivalent.

This deserves far more chubbies than it has.

Did my part

Chubbed.

And one for you, pointer-outer of harsh injustice.

Beef has no lines in this strip.

who needs em, with emotions like that?

the idea of somebody being so old school they drive a medieval school bus just completely rocks my face off.

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I actually tried to lame this comment, and failed, resulting in a chubby.

I apologize to all involved.

We can only hope that this is what also happened to the four other people who chubbied it. Surely they didn't mean to.

Relax, dude. He's just practicing his Knuckle Headz language so he can sound like Little Vinnie.

It's da PDF dat most kids got!

In NZ, in your high school exams, you're allowed to use text language, so he probably excelled in NCEA.

Wait, you're allowed to do that? What the hell, people

NO KIDDING.

Hell, I've had teachers that docked me points for using an AMPERSAND (&) instead of writing out "and."

I even draw/write it correctly. None of that plus sign bullshit.

Sheesh, I've lost marks for using "they"/"their" in place of a singular-non-gender-specific-pronoun, even though there isn't one .

I regret not living in New Zealand.

Correct english practice would be to use "him" or "his", although "they" and "their" are also technically correct.

I'm doubting this is helpful after a year, but just sayin'.

Wow, Saint. Fuck you.

No, FUCKYOU!

This is a a comic that makes frequent use of hella, dogg, "we doin' this," and various other linguistic anomalies.

You just kirked out over 1/3 of Tap Dat Ass.

Pick your battles, Saint.

Saint, I don't know if that last sentence is meant to be a 300 reference, but if so, you have no business going off on anybody for the way they speak.

God, what a douche. Am I right?

hint: I am

Man, Lyle is a great loser. He accepts defeat with grace and composure, knowing that within 75 minutes he will be in the middle of a furious blackout.

It is kind of curious, I have to admit - perhaps every reprobate has one area in which he's unfailingly noble, and for Lyle, that's in losing graciously when he knows that it was his own fault.

75? You're being generous.

You're forgetting Cornelius' verbose missive yet to be read.

Some frumpy speech is going to stop Lyle getting his slant on? I think not.

When one "wins" the sort of contests that Lyle does, they are, more often than not, considered Losers.

Except for the football thing. It's not like these things happen by not caring.

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the fuck you say that for?

I just realized Cornelius isn't wearing an apron, he's wearing a wife beater over his formal attire. Badass as all hell.

Transit strikes can be a blessing.

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"you folded with a focus and intensity normally seen only in successes" makes this a 5 for me.

the yellow bus with gothic arch windows didn't hurt either.

i use that line every chance i get.

As do I.

I have had no chance yet. I wait. Like a cat.

"you've been to prison more times than the neck tattoo fairy."

so simple, so offhand, and yet there's more funny in that one tiny remark than in twenty year's worth of Garfield. THIS is why Achewood is incredible.

The dude prepared remarks.

THE MAN IS SO OLD SCHOOL HE HAS A LUNCHBOX WITH A SCENE FROM HIS FAVORITE MOLIERE PLAY ON IT

THE MAN IS SO OLD SCHOOL HE DOES ALL HIS HOMEWORK IN LIBRETTOS!

THE MAN IS SO OLD SCHOOL HIS LOCKER COMBINATION IS XVII-IX-XXI!

THE MAN IS SO OLD SCHOOL HIS YEARBOOK PICTURE IS A REGENCY WOODCUT.

THE MAN IS SO OLD SCHOOL HE SAT BEHIND JESUS IN THE THIRD GRADE AND SAW HIM CHEAT OFF JUDAS'S TEST!

THE MAN IS SO OLD SCHOOL HIS HOMEROOM TEACHER WAS THOMAS AQUINAS!

THE MAN IS SO OLD SCHOOL HE CARVED THE ROSETTA STONE TO CHEAT ON HIS GREEK FINAL!

THE MAN IS SO OLD SCHOOL HE USED A GRAPHING ABACUS IN ALGEBRA CLASS!

Ah yes the aforemention TI-XCV

THE MAN IS SO OLD SCHOOL HIS SCIENCE PROJECT WAS INVENTING THE WHEEL!

THE MAN IS SO OLD SCHOOL HE BROUGHT A BRONTOSAURUS TO SHOW AND TELL!

I enjoyed this comments thread a lot. Good work, Acheworld.

I mean: THIS MAN IS SO OLD SCHOOL, HE DISCOVERED CHINA AS GEOGRAPHY HOMEWORK.

THE MAN IS SO OLD SCHOOL, HE HELPED DESIGN MOUNT EVEREST.

THE MAN IS SO OLD SCHOOL, I SAW HIM SETTING UP THE AUDITORIUM FOR THE OPENING CEREMONIES OF HIS 50 YEAR CLASS REUNION WHEN I DROPPED YOU OFF IN THE CAR OF PAIN.

THE MAN IS SO OLD SCHOOL, HE PLAYS TENNIS.

oh, that one wasn't very good at all.

i am not seeink where you haf the right attitude philippe. try use bigger adjectiffs. MAN IS SO OLD SCHOOL, HE MASTERBATED TO MARTHA WASHINGTON FEVERISHLY. is so goot

THE MAN IS SO OLD SCHOOL, HE DID NOT HAVE HISTORY CLASS!

THE MAN IS SO OLD SCHOOL, HE WAS HISTORY CLASS!

MAN IS BEINK SO OLD SCHOOL, HE IS STILL RUNNINK ON VACUUM TUBES

THE MAN IS SO OLD SCHOOL, HE PROOF-READ THE BOOK OF GENESIS!

THE MAN IS SO OLD SCHOOL THE EOCENE THERMAL MAXIMUM WAS HIS SUMMER BREAK!

Listen, you're showing up in my inbox a lot. You need to stop responding to me; I don't want people to get the idea that I have anything at all to do with you, you know?

Then you shouldn't post so much. The solution is just staring you in the face.

Besides... THIS was one of the worse places you could have chosen to mention that.

THE MAN IS SO OLD SCHOOL HE SAW THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED!

this owns

Cornelius is so badass, he doesn't rub it in other people's faces. They rub it in their own faces for him.

everytime i read this strip i want to listen to RATM's 'the ghost of tom joad'.

All driving down the street at the posted speed limit, playing Wagner at a high yet reasonable volume.

Cornelius would know to play Gregorian Chants or Madrigals. Nobody knows what they sounded like, but he does.

It is fortunate for Cornelius's rivals that none of them truly contested for the win: dead heats are settled with a martial challenge , and I think it is clear who would have nonetheless prevailed.

I read that as "marital challenge" for a moment and wasn't sure what you were getting at.

Indeed I considered carefully whether to link the article above or to the similarly titled "Self-defence with a Walking-stick: The Different Methods of Defending Oneself with a Walking-Stick or Umbrella when Affianced under Unequal Conditions (PartI)"

Vlad and the Weinermobile had a falling out.

someone needs to photoshop that schoolbus.

I did this and hacked it into the next strip
you're welcome

Wow man, that must be like the leetest hack ever attempted.

As has been noted, the last panel is fantastic.

I love how Ray yells that at them.
He and Beef are so amazed by just how badass Mr. Bear is, that it makes them angry.

Nice avatar
Oh, wait!
Mine's cooler
OH SNAP!
I AM YOUR MOTHER AND I TOOK YOU TO SCHOOL IN THE CAR OF PAIN!

I'm sorry.
That was uncalled for.

To clarify for y'all, this is back when I had the Ultra Peanut version of his avicon. Anyhoo, proceed

I have never laughed so hard this week.

Panel 2's dialogue is not a bad one to bust on an employee or something in order to tell them they fucked up without hurting their feelings.

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Pat: Car ride idiot

Beef was so overwhelmed by Cornelius' success he cold pulled his shorts down.

The expression on his face in the last panel is precipitated by the cool breeze on his R.H.C.C.

Well, Sparhawk, that certainly is a very personal expression

DID YOU HEAR THAT?! THE DUDE PREPARED REMARKS!

Beef doesn't know what face to make, so he makes that one.

This is it, boys. This is the strip that started the tired, unfunny, Chuck Norris Fact-style joke that every single thing Cornelius Bear does has something to do with his being a badass. Putting that aside, I have to admit it's a good strip, I just wish it didn't lead to such lameness.

SILENCE!