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Party For Ray Friday, November 22, 2002 • read strip Viewing 70 comments:

this is the first one I read. the arc after this is great also. cus I live quite close to mojave. (in ridgecrest)

you live in Ridgecrest? I lived in Apple Valley, and Burroughs High School was in our tennis league.

Even though you dudes are in another county.

Eagle River?

I don't know if what you're saying means anything. I don't know what Eagle River is.

It's an obscure Hot Shots reference.

And it was hilarious .

we are technically in two counties... we are that far into the nothing that is inyo/kern

Doctor Kisses

Slow-lane

Bite-Bite

True, fellas. All true.

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was this comment more popular because of the name or the avatar? i think it's the avatar.

It's clearly the avatar. Beatniks got nothin on the wu.

Aaaaahahahah that one was my favorite as well.

Check up on Dr. Kisses' lung why don't you.

I have seen your icon...dozens of times, and I just realized that his ear pops out. I always just thought he was winking, which was awesome enough.

Wow...I never noticed until I read YOUR comment

I prefer to have an icon with multiple layers of meaning that unfold over multiple readings.

I'M SO SORRY

I had to chubby for the avatar, even though I hate it when people leave comments like this one I'm leaving right now

best assortment of pet names ever compiled, ever.

seconded with vigour.

next time I name a pet I will name it dr. kisses

Dr. Kisses is the name of my son.

Dr. Kisses Attack? I don't know, man, that sounds like the kind of doctor that parents studiously avoid.

i promise you infinite chubbies and infinite girlfriends

One year later, and this was always to be an empty promise.

It is definitely not tasteful to make promises that you cannot keep. I'm sorry for the infinite number of losses this situation has caused you, i_love_kate.

You going to NAME him "Doctor" or will you force them to earn a doctorate? Either way big ups.

I also enjoyed 'Bite-Bite'

agreed.

Naming all of the 34 robotic dogs awarded him is the essence of Ray.

My two favourite pet names for just about anyone (animal or human) are Bite-Bite and Doctor Kisses. Also, I occasionally proclaim to my boyfriend that I have a doctorate in kisses.

Is it plausible that your name is a Joanna Newsom reference? I think it is.

Note that the two AIBOs that will play a part in later storylines are the last two Ray mentions. When will we next hear from Slow-Lane?

Statistically speaking, how long will Achewood have to continue before we have revisited all of the AIBOs named in this strip?

Judging by how many times individual AIBOs have come up since then? About four million years.

My podiatrists name is Dr. Kisses. Dr. Herbert Kisses.

I REALLY want to believe that.

But I don't. Believe it, that is.

Xena, Bessie, Creepy, Spore, Nug, Evangeline, Axegrinder, SlowDance, Teetertot, Nancy Drew, Penguin, DanceMaster and Reginald.

Axegrinder

Why would you think of that though
Why would you think of that

Why WOULDN'T you?

Thats an amazing track suit

You just KNOW that he's still wearing just a thong on his bottoms.

Wait... Does he actually kill Doctor Kisses? He found it decidedly hard, whichever way he went.

He must have, as Roast Beef did get robotic AIBO organs.

As to the Leonard Cohen reference in the alt text, it's anyone's guess. Onstad must have been listening to Beef's workout tape, in which case he must have heard this line about fourteen times in the last hour.

Except that the alt text is from 'Hey, that's no way to say goodbye', and Beef's workout tape is 'Suzanne' repeated.

This reminds me of the myth of Acthaeon where all of his dogs are named before they rip him to shreds.

Teodor is not so sure he wants to be pegged as the kind of guy who throws "Aibo Parties"

But Teodor is pretty sure he wants to be pegged, someday.

c'mon..that many aibos is just ridiculous. which is the whole point.

Unless the whole point is actually why the hell you would come up with 34 specific names for each individual identical AIBO and, having done so, how exactly you would plan to tell them apart.

The way Ray cuts Teodor off is really the best thing about this strip. He is just running conversational circles around the man.

yes, i was going to say. "I have 34 AIBOs." he is not sugarcoating the situation at all

I hear this strip as if it has a lot of energy, the characters are shouting, perhaps there is music in the background, and then Ray deadpans, " I have 34 AIBOs. "

I WILL LOVE YOU FOREVER, DR. KISSES.

How would he tell Fingers from Doctor Kisses, for example? Name Tags? I guess what I'm getting at is, was there any reason for naming an AIBO Fingers? Other than it being RAW?.

I'm guessing he would differentiate between the robot dogs by a series of small novelty hats.

I prefer to imagine that he is able to tell them apart quite easily due to his intense ability to PAY ATTENTION.

Doctor kisses passes away for Beef.

I changed the name of my dog to Melon...he is so confused.

before I knew what achewood was I asked my friend what a good name would be for a puppy. his answers were:

schmookums
faggot
and... melon farmer

3 weeks later i now remember that it was scrumpkins, not schmookums. i feel like scrumpkins is better in the way that it is way worse.

In this comic, Téodor falsely assumes that once you get rich and famous you get a stable of women, all of which birth your children.

i almost got named my dog dr. kisses, however the girlfriend had different intentions

I love how little-girlish half the names are, while the rest are generic Parents of your childhood friends names".

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screw you, me. Fuck you! (me.)

Sweet Spot can ejaculate.