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The top panel isn't very Onstad-y. It's cool though.

All the stuff under it makes me feel weird.

Teodor's going to get a break, eventually.

But not anytime soon.

Nathan is probably going to die. That is my feeling.

And yet it would be breaking character. Nice Pete may be a cold hard killah, but Andy Larson is a high school student of as-yet-undescribed attributes.

Andy Larson also allows strange, desperate men to cup his manberries in the wee hours of the morning at the local Denny's. I don't think a typical high schooler would ever- wait, no, I remember doing the same thing in senior year. It was a Dairy Queen, but damn it all if it's all coming back to me.

It was a Dairy Queen you say?

...to shreds, you say?

....a banana split with a cherry you say?

June 24th new episodes - can't wait.


Okay okay I chubbied stop pointing at me I can't DEAL with this pressure ABLOOBLOOOBLOOBLOOOOOBLOOOBLOO

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Don't make him go upside your head.

Freddie, honey, we love you!

Either you fucked up that idiom or you're noting with unusual verve your failure to remember.

Figs to you! Go sit on a fig! You'll wish you didn't!

FIVE STARS.

Just for the well-written/drawn creepiness of it all.

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Andy Larson is a high school student of as-yet-undescribed attributes.

Paging Dr. Manflesh.
Paging Dr. Manflesh.

My dear doctor...

DESCRIBE


THOSE


ATTRIBUTES!

Calling Doctor Howard, Doctor Manflesh, Doctor Howard.

Nathan is about to play a game of Hoop.

Actually he is about to be disappointed when he sees how Teadore is hung. He will be bummed and high school will be ruined.

When a man gets to be that age, he knows that it isn't the penis on the outside that matters, but the size of the penis in your heart.

A penis in a heart is an anatomical impossibility I would not put entirely beyond Nice Pete to achieve, somehow, at this point.

perhaps as a means of murder?

I meant murder.

Meat is Murder

Soylent Green is Murder

Carrot Juice is Murder.

actually, it's not murder so much as it is torture.
https://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/meat/index.html

I'm sure there is a horror movie somewhere that uses this.

Cock through the heart, and you're to blame !!
You give love a bad name !!

There's a hole in my heart
that can only be filled by youuuuu
And this hole in my heart
Can't be filled with the things i dooooo
Hole hearted....

gives a whole new meaning to Extreme

Jesus christ, guro thread on the asset bar, I've seen it all.

All threads happen here, but they happen in a different way. A special way. That being that we mostly make joke about perversions and horrible fads, though it does occasionally lure in someone who actually is serious about it. That's when we all run off and hide and giggle at them like the munchkins in the beginning of The Wizard of Oz

In West Philidelphia born and raised
With a cock-heart is how I spent most of my days.
Chillin' out, maxin, relaxin all cruel
and murdering people, outside of the school.
Then a couple at Denny's were questionable characters
Started drawin' each other's naked charicatures.
They fondled one little nutsack and my mom started cussin'
Said "You're gunna take a dare from Andy Larson"
dun dadadaaah dun
I whistled for the van and when it came near
Football practicin' in the back was a weepy bloody bear.
I could see like anything that this wasn't good
but I yelled at Larson "yo ho, to achewood!"

I rolled up to the house just about broke apart
but I yelled to the Larson "Get yo' cock out my heart"
I looked at my bruises, I would fullfill my dare,
to get my self naked for my medical care.

If you stop trying to figure out how to interrupt it, the weirdness subsides substantially.

I get the feeling Onstad has been reading Dhalgren. This entire arc has that same sort of feel. If I'm right, it will be looking itself square in the face at least once or twice before it "ends." Much like high school, actually.

Freakin' Samuel R. Delany. He was my gateway drug to postmodern bullshit. I've hated everything in that genre ever after.

I'm still giving it a Pro, though.

Pretty sweet first name...why he got two middle names?

Because some people get off the COUCH and EARN that PRETTY SWEET FIRST NAME.

...by writing books that scare and scar me.

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Let's say Onstad keeps going with the homo sex. The next strip involves group homo anal sex with only a tiny bit of storyline, strip after that involves eating poop with the arc's context basically totally abandoned in exchange for homo sex.

how long would you keep checking the new strips out?

more frequently

I almost reflex-lamed you, because your icon looks SO SIMILAR to Retardo's and he always makes the "COME OUT OF THE CLOSET ONSTAD" comments. Just letting you know how close you came.

neonfreon is TERRIFIED!

As he should be, lames are serious business (srs bsnss?).

'm srry.

There was lots of homo sex in old-timey Achewood.

Remember Rod Huggins? And Pat?

A dude is rocking my can!

AL...

-QAEEEDA

it's kind of bill watterson-y

Or anyone that ever had to work with a throwaway panel.

Well, the whole comic is fairly Watterson-y in it's design. A very non-traditional panel layout still trying to fit in a Sunday strip format... and the throwaway panel I must admit makes this especially eerie considering how much I associate Calvin & Hobbes with my childhood.

I see it now. But I have to say the feeling Achewood gives me, for better or worse, is more like Krazy Kat than C&H (my favorite print comics). C&H was wide-eyed wonder; KK and Achewood are more like...unsettlingly wonderful, and hilariously eerie. Even though George Herriman probably never intended that.

Since we're talking about non-traditional layouts.

The C&H comparison is something I hear over and over, but I've never gotten it. And it's not as if hours on end of Watterson anthologies are not stamped indelibly in my earliest memories of reading.

Could Assetbar just spell it out for a noob? Wherein, exactly, does the resonance lie?

I think it's an easy comparison. I prefer the Krazy Kat link myself, even though C&H remains today my favorite comic ever in any medium.

I would say most of the resonance lies in two things: one, a tendency for the strip to vary widely in tone from genuinely philosophical moments to crazy antics; and two, the insertion of panels of silence where detailed scenery or very expressive faces do the talking. For contrast, think of almost any other print comic, like Pearls Before Swine or (god forbid) the Wizard of ID. The tone never really changes, and the art can barely support the dialogue, let alone stand by itself.

Of course these are things that Krazy Kat does too (Watterson cited that comic as a primary influence), but I think for most people C&H is much more familiar.

Agreed. P.S. PBS isn't the best comic ever but please don't lump it with Wizard of Id.

... Garfield. yeah yeah we all know.

Just like chow mein, not a big deal.

Got the flavor of a water chestnut.
It's not too crazy and it's not the best but...


We're not streaking Denny's just out of boredom...

The whole album, actually, fits pretty well in Pete's idea of high school recapitulation.

Who the hell listens to Relient K AND reads Achewood...besides-- besides us cool cats.

-dap for coolness-

I think I still know the gibberish song by heart.

I just bought their First Three Gears compilation set.
Definitely like Two Lefts the most of them.

Dude, there are Methodists on this board. That's what really gets me.

Like who?

I think... granularsilica? Or scorpio nadir? One of the old folks.

That's not funny.

That's what they always say.

yeah cause old people have no sense of humour.

Wow, scorpio must be sooooo old.

Dagnab you kids!
Shakes fist.

Looks at back of hand, sees age spots.

<Sobs>

Am I wrong for getting a major case of the jibblies?

His Momma had an eye that just would not stop weeping.

She had to die.

Had to.

His Momma didn't raise him to not defend vans.

... and yet your Momma is directly involved with my vas deferens.

Co-incidence!?!

Sorry, that was a stretch, but on skimming I entirely mis-read "defend vans".

chubby, I did exactly the same!

No, definitely jibblies inducing.

Ah-jibbly-jibbly!

You have made an old Achewood fan very uncomfortable...

Its kinda the way the entire thing was played out...that is not beating around the bush.
Us Achewood fans have become to addicted to euphemisms, Onstad is trying to ween us off.

Unless this is Nice Pete's take on euphemistic point-making. I sure hope Téodor is paying attention.

This has all the makings of a transcendental story arc.

Nathan didn't beat around the bush, he went straight for the root.

He went straight for the cock.

The root was metaphorical in this case, not the literal roots of his pubes that caused his father to want to kill him. We speak of the same thing.

This is no time for metaphors.

But that's what he met-em-for.

yall so funny. im down on all phors

Really? I'd watch your back around here.

Oh god I meant to hit chubby but accidentally hit lame whilst reading this on my iPod. I hope knowing that I straightaway went "nooooooooooo!" let's you know you were not lamed in earnest

I hate to be the one to point out an unnecessary apostrophe, but...

AHHHHH IT'S THERE

OHHHH GOD IT'S RIGHT THERE

OH GOD

IT CANNOT BE UNSEEN

who teh fuck lamed me

You were lamed on a iPod. Is worst lame played on violin that basically has AIDS.

i dont care who i offedn steve jabs is fuckin cunt

Damned apple heads.



Totally happened to me on someone else's comment.

Are you also amazed your iPod can handle assetbar?

My droid loves it.

Well guess who due to Conditions CAN'T HAVE A DROID???

Me. (I can't.)

I agree with the statement made by deus. Because it is probably right.

Anything IS possible, in a nice enough van.

I love you, Onstad.

sweet action

Is that Cartilage Head's cat?!

Dat is tite noticin

Is this Nice Pete coming to grips with sexuality, after an upbringing of shame from even getting pubics?

Or is it an impulsively-laid murder-trap for an old homosexual? Goddammit Pete, you're supposed to be in High School tonight.

Nobody said that Nice Pete's days in high school didn't involve murdering a homosexual he met at Denny's. That actually seems pretty par for the course.

Ah, but he didn't have high school days. He's living out a fantasy here. Repeating his own everyday thing would ruin the fun.

Or, he's expanding on a tried-and-true formula. A death formula.

Isn't it established that Pete is at least sort of or formerly homosexual? Him and Pat shacked up didn't they? Or was that just one of those silly "friendships that are like marriages" things, involving a dickish gay vegan and serial killer?

No, I think it's thoroughly established that Nice Pete is very much homosexual. One could argue that his galloping misogyny suggests some sort of "closet heterosexuality," but I don't see any reason to think he's planning on killing Nathan (though he might wind up killing him due to "confused signals)." Presumably the lulz here are about Teodor's discomfort.

I guess he's that kind of macho gay that doesn't seem gay, to be totally unrepentantly ill-versed on homosexual social roles. And yes to that second part.

do you think it is bad to be totally unrepentantly ill-versed on homosexual social roles? or do you agree that it is okay?

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I-I don't know.

Just say you think it's bad and we'll get some cover up going in the papers tommorow. Looks like we'll be up late tonight.

If you have to presume about where the lulz are coming from, odds are good that they aren't happening to you. That is not how lulz work.

Probably the whole notion of sex with a live being he finds confusing and disconcerting

...I misread that as 'whole live being'

...heh

Man I don't know how you're reading that into it, it's pretty clearly Nathan coming to grips with Nice Pete's sexuality

That's not all he's gripping.

i don't think you got the joke :V

[/mortified]

Nice Pete likes me a lot. Trust me.

Vote Nice Pete: a candidate who cares about old homosexuals

Can we skip to the next storyline and just ... Leave this one unfinished?

We're gonna get back to Philippe eventually, right guys?

Philippe no longer exists, to us.

Philippe may still be in transit.

Steve's car may meet Pete's van at a crossroads in the night and such a party those five fine fellows shall have.

Steve's Party!

OHHHH SHIIIIT

Oh, Philippe better NOT be headed to Steve's Party.

Ohmygosh! Front row seat at the Olympics!

Are they wrestling?

In Ancient Egypt*, the Olympics were held 100% naked.

* I don't know history, ok

It was actually Ancient Greece, but you're spot on with the rest, they DID participate naked.

Even the female athletes. Good thing they don't do that anymore, or I'd be jizzing all over the place at the Olympiad.

There were no female athletes allowed to participate in Ancient Greek Olympics, not even the Amazons.

Nono, it's Batman! Having a... mediocre day!

That's actually better than most days for Batman, because all Batman ever does is have bad days.

Think about it.

1. A mad clown wants to kill him.
2. His parents are DEEEEEEEEEAD
3. His sidekick is a little gay boy
4. he has no superpowers in a world full of superpeople.
5. Did I mention that HIS PARENTS ARE DEAAAAAAAAAAAD?

yeah but when you think about it, a LOT of people's parents are dead, yet they can still have good days. Like most people over the age of 50.

numbers 1 3 & 4 though. huge bummer.

Yes, but in a way that's hard to care about.

Nooooo! Philippe!

AGH!
AAAAGGHHH!

That would be rather unsatisfying, much like the half-hearted handjob Nathan seems to be giving Nice Pete. We have to let Onstad finish, and hopefully there will be a happy ending.

I'm not sure my fragile mind could take watching Pete get a 'Happy Ending'

Well someone's gotta take something in the end before this wraps up.

Manflesh, can you help this brother out?

There's nothing playful about what I desire.

Don't typecast poor Manflesh alright. He didn't ask his mother to use all those underscores.

Obviously you've never gotten a hand job from an old person! That's not half hearted, that's just arthritis.

"That's not half hearted, that's just arthritis." That sounds like a great general purpose punchline.

That is the saddest thing.

Oh fuck. I didn't mean to lame you, elbow!!

My silly cursor slipped. Which is what I told her.
And you, now. Sry, pro

Never before have I felt this much like a Denny's waitress

That's what she said.

during sex.


It kinda threw me off my game to be honest

there's a "Grand Slam" joke in there somewhere

ultimately unsatisfying, but only $5... and sometimes you get one for free!

drawings of yourself on Nice Pete's stomach

Moons-over-my-hammy?

"It's Nannerpuss!

That poor waitress will be remembering that scene until the end of her days

Filthy. But genuinely arousing...

Loved the strip, but I'm a little confused about what the server is doing in the middle two panels. Did she notice Teodor? Is she just uncomfortable? Is she communicating with the reader?

She sees Nathan the old homosexual touching Andy Larson the high school student's naked penis and turns away as is Denny's server protocol.

She's not the one getting tipped tonight.


Tonight, tonight, it's Nathan's turn tonight.
Tonight there will be homecoming queens....

Taco's gonna see things, toniiiiight
Taco's gonna scream a lot, toniiiiiiight!

Toniiight, toniiight, someone'll get fried toniiiiight
More people using natural gas than ever befoooooore...

Yeah, I see it now. I had forgotten that an orientation was established in the last comic. Thanks!

(Really, my confusion was as to whether she was turning towards them or away from them, since I had forgotten the orientation.)

If they were named differently, would she be able to keep looking?

She's seeing the bloodied, beaten manbear(pig) inside the van and thinking sodomy is on the menu tonight.

I thought Nathan was a lady in the last panel. Hmm.

Oh and the alt text is too too true. Doing illegal or frowned-upon stuff in public is almost always incredibly safe because who is actually gonna do anything?

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I thought Nathan was a lady in the last panel. Hmm.


So did most other homosexuals

Okay.

YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!

... right?

I gabe u a chup

"Refuge in audacity."

I knew Nathan was a man if only because Nice Pete did not draw him as a bleeding hole.

It would be quite hilarious if this arc never ended and the strip was now all about Nice Pete and his antics; (the last 9 years were just to butter us up).


[Can you have a semicolon followed by parentheses?]

Well you just did.

It's frowned upon, but you're probably safe as long as you're in a Denny's.

It's frowned upon, but with a knowing wink.

; (

I feel your pain (I have also had substantial difficulty avoiding unintentional emoticons); the KJV Bible is full of them since before they were invented.

Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss :-x

And going forth, he wept bitterly :'-(

I would have enjoyed the bible more back in the day if it'd been formatted like that...


And God saw that it was good. :DDDD

You can have anything you like; (just go for it.)

www.zombo.com

I like how you just cold resorted to brackets because of how confused you were.

So, I guess Andy Larson fails the dare?

9 times out of 10, this is exactly what happens when this dare is attempted. That's what makes it so damn hard.

That's not all that makes it hard! HEY!

Incorrect. He has managed, through the wallet of Nathan, to purchase a meal at Denny's while naked. It may not be according to Hoyle, but he did it.

But the dare was to EAT dinner at Denny's whilst in the nude. We do not see any pictorial evidence of a Peter H. "Andy Larson" Cropes consuming food.

Why do you think he asked about the burger, he's chewing some on the way out, look at his cheek in the last panel.

Oh my god

OH MY GOD

Very little is possible...

in a Chevy Astro

Téodor has a choice:
Burger or a spitroast.
Hold the mayo.

That homecoming queen touched Andy in pubic.

Make the most of today's strip, Teodor.

In the next one, you will be Lucky Pierre.

Homecoming QUEEN! Oh, I just got it.

Also why is no-one else terrified for Tacodor.

Is it bad that I'm happy someone else is now involved in this van excursion because it lowers the odds that Teodor is the one who'll be killed?

There is not a limited amount of killing that may occur when Nice Pete is in the room. Bring your friends and there may still be plenty for all.

I'd rather see Teodor dead than Nathan to be honest, Nathan seems like the kind of guy who could get his shit together if he needed to no pun intended.

but did they eat the burger


It isn't depicted again, meaning it's either offpanel or eaten, yet no indication of having done so. Nice Pete's jawline in the last panel seems "munching", but the hand positions (to me) suggest no burger. Thus, the state of the burger is both eaten and whole in simulatenous superposition!

What the FUCK.

Nathan's anus may end up bleeding if he's not careful.

Where did you get your bleeding-anus-meatball from? I've seen him happy in someone's else's avatar, but I don't know who he is.

Search YouTube for "Rejected" and all your questions, or most of them at least, shall be answered.

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For the love of god, and all that is holy. My anus is bleeding!


-- Don Hertzfeldt

[two hipster-demerits]

in hipster demerits, four strikes and you're out. Just like baseball.

Oh Jesus oh God.

But see here's the thing. It's too early to tell but I think if he had left it at "oh yeah that's good" and then moved on to something else, that might have been better than bringing Nathan into the story more. Just seems like the sort of thing Onstad has done that may have been called a miscue in past arcs--not knowing when to leave something as a one-off instead of fleshing it out as brilliantly (but unnecessarily) as he does. Two cents.

Nathan from Dennys? Andy Larson, not from Dennys. Look, here's the funny thing. I don't know you, yet I have decided to create a certain sort of relationship with you. What? Oh. A death relationship.

oh no.... nononononononononono NO!
not again.

I can't get past the way Pete's eyes dilate in the second to last panel.

Yeah, same here.

A blank post with that avicon would've sufficed.

okay. so nice pete is taking this much too far.

can you see into denny's from the parking lot?

WHY FIND OUT?

Get your murdering hats on, people!

I feel like we've seen Nathan before...

Related to the huff junkies from the Junkyard.

He looks a little like that Sound and Motion fellow that Ray fought in the GOF.

The never-foreseen rematch.

Where's retardo when you need him?

Trapped in Hypothesis-Land.

I was trapped there once. I escaped into No Significant Results Territory. Fortunately the Statistical Peoples Front smuggled me over the border into the Alternative Hypothesis Republic and the King there bestowed on me many a Distinction for my contribution to the people's knowledge pool, overlooking my lack of statistical significance. Just like all good Communists.

This is disconcerting on so many levels, not the least of which is that it is taking place between a Denny's and a dingy van.

Man how long can this story continue its freefall into the abyss

There's got to be a point where it becomes maximally nightmarish or something

I really don't like having my name attached to this.

Must we, Chris? Must we?

For God's sake Teodor get the hell out of there.

SERIOUSLY

I WOULD BE RUNNING THE FUCK AWAY

AWAY

but its possible to catch someone on foot when you're...

in a nice van .

especially when you know where he lives

You don't understand, bro.

I would pull some serious Solid Snake bullshit. I would hide out in the Acheworld, and wait for Nice Pete to stop rampaging around in search of his High School buddy.

RETURN TO YOUR POSITIONS!!!

A solid snake is the last thing Teodor needs at the moment.

OH GOD I'VE JUST RUINED THE MGS GAMES FOR MYSELF FOREVER

snake? snake? SNAAAAAAAAKE!! -- stop you are tearing my asshole -- Otdecon

big ups for playing MGS'

favorite fucking games

Played through that game so many times...on normal.

Seriously probably had 8 playthroughs on one of my saves.
Think I did it once on hard. And barely got to the gas chamber on extreme. Cos seriously; holy shit.

Also always kept a save of Sniper Wolf battle part 2.
That scene was the most powerful storytelling I'd ever witnessed and still don't think I've felt anything come close to it.

Final word: credits song.

Everything is possible...

...even basketball.

All we need now is Pat and Rod to cross paths with them at the bowling alley.

See normally I come to assetbar to get away from this kind of thing over at [url=https://TOUAMB.com/]

TOUAMB is like this comic strip 24/7

Wait, actually, I lied.

Nice Pete and Nathan need to be shoving tiny cans of doctor pepper into each other's anuses...or Tacodor's anus...for it to truly reflect TOUAMB.

not to mention all the child molesting on TOUAMB. Also they don't recycle.

Fuck, this is one of the funniest comments so far and I already used up all my chubbies for this strip. Will a tiny can of Doctor Pepper suffice?

Daamn, I never thought it would be this way!

A dude is giving me a can!

IN my can!

He's rocking my can with a can!

Put my ham in your can, wo-man?

Damn.

This can only end badly, at least for someone.

Well I guess I won't be recommending Achewood to any friends until this arc is over. I would probably get punched for recommending a comic where a cat gets felt up in a Denny's.

"HE WAS STILL IN HIGH SCHOOL YOU SICK FREAK!" Then I have to explain to my mother why someone was beating me while screaming that. I'm not sure I could do that, it's a very hard thing to explain. Would I start with it being a cat that's still in high school?

It is a fictional character, you do not have to apologize.

The fictional frog offers sage advice. Chubbied.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand the Dennys sign comes crashing down into the back of the restaurant starting a grease fire which spreads quickly and due to the old guy's horrible greasy Eurotrash ponytail he goes up in flames almost instantly - giving Nice Pete just enough time to jump away. The waitress panics and dashes out into the parking lot where she discovers a tiny ninja mouse attempting to coax Teodor out of the van, having picked the lock. Teodor at the waitress look at each other, then back inside the restaurant, where the fire is spreading even faster due to the flaming ponytail guy (YES) running around while he dies noisily. Their eyes meet again, and the waitress rushes to him so that he may rest his weight on her as they shuffle away as fast as their legs can carry them. The ninja mouse follows, and they scuttle into the sunrise. Meanwhile, Nice Pete exits the burning Dennys shortly before it collapses, having savored his new friend's agonizing death, a cheeseburger in his hand. He notices the open door to his van and closes it silently before slowly wandering his way to a nearby basketball court where he sleeps the morning away. He never mentions this evening again.
THE END

Wat.

Nahhhhhhhhh...

I like how this one's got everyone tittering nervously. Doesn't it make you feel how you felt when you went on the internet FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME? Rotten.com is loading on your 28K connection and you're seeing some things that are gross and don't make sense, but are presented with such careful attention it borders on tenderness? Anyway, I hope this winds up at an actual homecoming dance.

this is maybe the first normal nice basic human thing Nice Pete has done. Except for the fact that he may not be gay, it's kind of odd in that context, but, hey, gay or straight, he might actually be getting in touch with his human sexuality, which is certainly a start for the Nice Pete we know.

So far this arc is less strange than the Larry E. Craig affair %u2019ve had sex with a Fedex carrier, a plumber, an electrician, a painter, a mechanic, a yoga instructor, a personal trainer, a film star, a porn star, a politician and almost every other profession under the sun in almost every city in the many countries I%u2019ve visited over the years. There have been twosomes, threesomes, foursomes, and fivesomes (and higher numbers too, but who%u2019s counting?)

nothin wrong with a little fuckin

tbh it never even occurred to me that sex is what is going to happen here. It still seems a lot less plausible than, say, a unicorn riding down from a moonbeam and whisking the entire cast away for an adventure in the gumdrop kingdom.

Achewood just doesn't work that way, the naked serial killer luring an elderly homosexual to his murder-van in the Denny's parking lot at 3AM does not result in a blowjob

You're probably right that we can expect some twists, but nice pete is not really a serial killer. See, there are two nice petes in Achewood. One of them is a serial killer. That one is just a foil, a prop, a plot device. The nice pete we are getting to know is an actual character. Sure, he may have serial killer propensities, but Pat is far more insane and mean than is nice pete the character. Nice pete the character has probably never killed anyone. If he did, it was on accident.

Like that would hold up in court.

Well you don't see Molly working counter at Taco Bell or Ray negotiating tour dates very much either. What they do will be obliquely referenced at times; it colors their relationship to the other characters; and it can be assumed these jobs do happen, somewhere off-camera, but it's rarely interesting to watch someone going about their day job so we don't. Nice Pete is a serial killer; Nice Pete is surprisingly nice for a serial killer but not so nice that he will not torture/attempt to kill you for fun sometimes. These are not inseparable elements of who he is.

Come to think does Pat actually have a job beyond being a jerk? The only thing I recall him ever doing when he's not directly engaged in being a jerk to the other characters is sitting around alone in his house being a jerk to radio DJs.

Excuse me, that is a job.

Pretty sure a lot of these characters are jobless. Considering they are - OH MY GOD IS THAT AN ALIVE STUFFED ANIMAL!

The alive stuffed animal thing is apparently less of an employment barrier than you'd think.

I used to earn $50 an hour for running around in one of those suits. Funny story; I once dressed up as a bottle of Corona and the fan keeping the thing inflated stopped. Along with difficulty breathing, one of the drunken punters at the pub in which I was jumping around decided to rough me up. I was told later that while panicked I took a swing at my unseen assailant and laid him out.

Only successful attempt at fisticuffs.

from such humble beginnings to such great heights

I only hope I can once more flail in a plastic suit and prove my mansculinity *flex*

my ex gf only let me use the limp plastic suit once.

Vlad's Subway, right?

Hah! That's right. And he's blackmailed to work there while he is still on the lamb. Pat is totally mint jelly.

I don't think he's on the lamb. Seems to me he's into everything else, but we've had no evidence of bestiality.

On the lam, maybe?

Well, maybe he is on the [correct spelling] lam. I reserve the right to make a Simpsons reference for little reason.

Never watched the show, really. Closest I ever did was the one with that 3-D wormhole.

Got more into Futurama.

Only an atipodean would know the difference.

'antipodean'?

I'm one of those!

Me too, but not one of 'those.'

Balls.

If Nice Pete wasn't about to murder an old homosexual, I'd say Theodor was about to get another dare.

This warmed my heart until I realized that Teodor is about to be the most unwitting third wheel ever.

unwitting and unwilling

I didn't think it was possible for Onstad to make this many soul-crushingly disturbing strips in a row.

Props.

The muse must have really touched him ... in the no-no spot.

Oh man that is mega nasty

That is dog shit

Americans have issues with sex. Americans have issues...

Americans are from Circumstances.

Where you are from I'm sure people are sophisticated enough to know that it is nothing to frown upon for a elderly person and a escaped convict to have sex in a van outside of Denny's while a badly bloodied person watches against his will.

They just smile, eat their baguettes, smoke their cigarettes, and keep not going to work.

Oh look, I can make annoyingly smug and condescending comments on entire societies too!

Do Eskimos next!

I knew it.

ha ha igloos

Through skill and guile, Nice Pete has acquired a hamburger.

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what a fucking waste

Account created just to comment on this.

Account created but mom is going to be so mad at me.

Account created ages ago to comment on Achewood.

Lie Bot, what's the saddest thing in the world?

Teodor in panel 14.

Egads

go for it
touch my dick--
just below the waist,
it'd be a shame,
to let that burger waste.

I please an old homo
with finesse ,
i don't seek payment,
shit's pro-bono

by-the-by yo name nay- thAN ?
thas coo' my name lar sAN
touch the picture of you,
like a quality silk-screen.
what's that you say, you
wanna be home-coming queen?
need i remind you, nathan
anything's possible
in a nice van


thanx alot yalls 1st pome in while see u bitchs on other end-a ma steele glove n death adder n teh fields of legends. ma wolves shirt gonna get staint wit blood tonight boys.

belieb dat

belieb das*

You're a polygot poet now.

is pete's van even nice?

If you're into that sort of thing.
Teodor is not into that sort of thing.

whatchoo talking 'bout. teodrels in teh van as we speak the fuck he ain't into it.

yous a fucking idio

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asset created to criticise that you did NOT actually chubby it... or is this your version of a VIRTUAL CHUBBY!!!

I see plummet's comment having "1 Chubbies" right now. It also reads "You gave this comment a chubby."

So, I'm assuming I did chubby it.

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it aint starwars

account originally created to make "ironic" racist jokes bot bassbal but now - pomes! lol its a craxy wurld

there 2 kinda racisms

tellin' a joke cuz it mote offend placks
and not tellin a jokes cuz it mote offend balcks -- andy garcia

also i m black so fuck u

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gladi8orrex is not black. I know because I talked to him on the phone once.

what 'bout yellas? spekin which hows that thing going with being tracted to e'm

pretty so-so. now its nearly 100% exclusive chinkyslants wtf u gona do tho, right?

i mena, i aint buggin' er nothin'. its kinda ok

I WOULD REALLY LIKE EVERYONE TO TAKE AS MUCH JOY FROM AN AIU/GLADDI CONVERSATION AS I JUST DID. It's the simple things.

I am so happy to bring happy to your happy. OTEOMCKBAGOL (on the edge of my chair knee bobbing and grinning out loud) AGT (and giggleing too)

Oooooohhhh that guy. I can't see his comments. Has anything changed? I don't like missing out on things.

plummet is tres cool why for to invisble him? I have kammet invisibled right now because her avatar is too distracting it's like TV and it doesn't contribute constructiviely I think.

Hah. TV. I watch so little of it these days that when a bar has one on I find I can't concentrate because of all the pretty colours!!!

isn't that the point of TV?

Yes. Hence it being off most of the time.

In answer though, I don't remember why he made the blank-list. I'll take your advice and let him out to play.

Does a nice man not have a nice van?

Good point. It hadn't occurred to me that these are nice plans in a nice van.

A man, in a van, rockin' my can. Panama.

I, too, enjoy fucking up the classic Panama palindrome. It's such a pleasant cadence to ruin.

I also enjoy the man in the tan van with the golden 'an'.

(No seriously, it's Sesame Street.)

Jesus fucking christ

I say, this here strip seems to be causin' a bit of a stir even among our edgier, cooler members!

We oughta write a letter to Onstand or somethin'!

Yes?

Andy Larson was an enigma, the kind of man whose spirit could only be trapped by the nettings of highschool life, our minds could never picture him as a cook, a police officer, or sitting behind a computer... no, we like to imagine that after graduation Andy simply disappeared, a star returning to its place in the nightsky -

*wonder years theme song plays*

In the yearbook, Andy Larson was voted "most likely to meet a homosexual for coitus in a family restaurant" by the student body.

Oh god! Oh God! Jesus Christ!

Philippe%u2019s garlic rosemary shrimp have been marinating way longer than is recommended at this point.

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Somebody is going to die tonight.

This somebody is going to be Teodor.

Suckin' dick bought this van?

dick touchin bought that burger?

Chest drawin' brought the touchin';
Payment requestin' brought the drawin'
Dare takin' brought the payment requestin';
Lawn shittin' brought the dare takin'...

...and somewhere back in time
Ourobouros was dared to eat his own tail...

... and now his teeth are stuck and has to live on the back's of a variety of low characters and on the ankle of that one hot, red-head chick from the X-files.

May that apostrophe be branded on my forehead in Hades.

"Hello Nathan I am Andy Larson and I am in high school." The lack of contractions and periods is always the first sign of a sociopath.

or uh roast beef

Well most women have contractions and all women have periods. So by your definition, all men are sociopatch.

Sociopatch dolls: Cabbage Patch dolls for boys!

Later, Teodor and Nathan, try as they might could not exit the van for they were unable to break the isosceles lock.

Teodor, you don't know me. But I know you. I've been reading this comic for years. I've seen what you've done, what you wish you've done, what you could have. Your mistakes and accomplishments. I know give you one piece of advice, and I pray you hear it.


Run.

Account created to beg a fictional teddy bear to flee from his psychopathic captor.

I can seriously and geuninely think of no better reason to register an account on a website.

... I think this is the official birth of a new meme. Memes are born in the manner of that woman at the start of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.

"Pick that up for me would you dear?"

oh yeah totally it suddenly hit critical mass or something and BAM meme I have never before witnessed the birth of a meme. I imagine that they aren't always this clear cut. I mean, it was, one minute there was no such meme, and then BAM, there it was, plain as day. It didn't slowly edge in or morph from something else or anything. It was like a crappy special effect on some B grade PBS british sci-fi show where they want to transport someone and so they just cut the shot and you can even tell the camera moved a little bit in the interim BAM person appears on screen with maybe a puff of smoke or something stupid like that. BAM meme

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What's all this about creating accounts begging fictional teddy bears to flee their psychopathic captors? I... I've been here a while.

This would make for a very interesting Denny's commercial.

Nice Pete in the News.



Denny's aside, that kind of shit happens way too often...

I like how there are people retweeting the gist of the article. That's a terribly poor application of one's self. If I had a twitter account, and someone twittered that shit to me, I'd lame them.

If they're on twitter, the lame would be redundant.

Hey. Twitter is cool.

Don't just state an opinion. Back it up with reasoning and argument. I want an essay on my desk by tomorrow morning, single spaced, exactly 140 characters, no more no less.

and just slinging in a whole bunch of spaces DOES NOT COUNT!

No.

Only upon a closer reading (which I've few excuses for not subjecting this strip to in the first place) have I realised that it's Andy Larson, not Gary Larson.

The degree to which this makes the strip a little less bizarre is almost imperceptible, however.

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Andy/Larson/
Pick your poison. They're all honest businessmen, honest!

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Alright guys, I gotta go do some plop-plops.

Please, please no one make a moving gif of the last few panels. That would do me in.

.......
Don't tempt me.

God created this account.

So ARROGANT!

Is it homoerotic to caress one's visage drawn on another man's stomach or is it simply autoerotic?

Also:


Nathan is fucking short !

everything is possible...in a nice van.

that should definitely be made into a shirt

Here we see a woman destroyed, a collateral life irrevocably marred and left, in pieces, by the wayside by great passing forces, like a bird's nest rent loose and overturned by the sonic boom of a low-flying jet.

You realize, of course, that the last panels of this strip would work perfectly as Achewood's last scene, as the final words sum up its greatness in a profound and haunting way.