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Dreamwheel And The Child Wednesday, August 2, 2006 • read strip Viewing 60 comments:

A comment left by overmedicated was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by wharfrat, radarjammer, rowboat, Boredom_Man, seren_tremio)

To me, the creepiest part is that one is a tall, gay cat and the other is a South American country that is also the offspring of a person singing an old Negro spiritual.

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The name Dreamwheel and the Child is so perfect my mind is blown.

Simon's long, striped socks add a lot to the image too. Very 70s. I can totally hear "Me and Julio Down By The Schoolyard" playing in the background too.

Chubbied for Paul Simon, but still, you're not making this any less creepy.

Saturdays at Quinn Park must've been something pretty special

The idea that Photoshop would have a filter to make a person look like a flagrant homosexual is inherently amusing.

I hear it was a very highly-requested feature, so they built it into the latest version.

It is a lie that they have added this feature, and a cruel one. It would save me so much time .

"Flagrant homosexual" is a hilarious phrase.

I prefer a nice fragrant homosexual.

alt text: "FILTER > OTHER > MAPPLETHORPE"

What does that even mean?

Mapplethorpe was a photographer whose phallocentric photographs (subtle or otherwise) set off a culture war. At the center of this battle were Jesse Helms and Dick Armey (which sounds like a fake name for Sen. Circus Penis).

The OP was referencing a famous artist focusing on homosexuality to make a joke about the Photoshop filter in a joke made by a cartoon cat to a stuffed bear. It was a good joke, and funny.

And by OP, I mean Onstad. D'oh.

Ah, okay, excellent. Thanks for the explanation!

The more you know

This is a 5 for Portland and for Beef's lines in panels 10 and 13

Portland is an awesome city. It is known for its soft souls and the awesome Saturday Market in Burnside.

It is my city. And yes, the market is such as astonishing. I will be there tomorrow and I will rejoice.

Mine as well, and I also frequent that market. I wonder if we've met.

Probably. I'm at school right now but when I get home for break I will be there every Saturday once more.

I desperately hope to attend college there (at Reed). Anything I should know about the fair city of Portland?

I'm sorry to have to be the one to tell you this, but it's kind of not there anymore.

...what?

I'm so sorry....

I hear Provo is nice.

I always sort of thought that Teodor would be the one who turns out to be gay, but I guess he just likes the Cure.

Teodor is, at the least, bicurious (see "Hiram the Blacksmith").

He's just role-playing. If you break character the game gives your family dysentery.

it just makes sense.

This is another chock full strip that could have ended on panel 4,6,7,10, or 11 and still been great. The Dreamwheel & The Child frame is indeed perfect. I like the concept of a false Thanksgiving, and I really want to know how Beef envisions pulling it off. But Téodor is wise enough to just let that comment go.

Beef's first idea for reconciliation is a false Thanksgiving.

I'm not going to say it, but you know what I'm thinking.

It rhymes with third-gum glances .

I have *no idea* what you're thinking. I fail.

(I did not want to say "circumstances".)

I should've known that. Allow me to dock my slowboat.

For some reason, I keep pronouncing 'glances' with a lisp, despite not typically having said lisp.

Off to Portland with you, then.

This is the absolute best turn Pat's character could have taken. The runner-up has the Mexican camera revealing him to have an uncontainable desire to start a family with Bea Arthur. Yeah, Onstad chose correctly.

The concept of being so angry you rent someone an apartment in another city nets this strip a five.

It is the angriest a person can be, to do this

"FILTER-- OTHER-- MAPPLETHORPE" was the funniest anything I have ever read. Seriously.

Pat's father has good muscle definition on h- OH SHIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTT!!!!!

Am I seriously the first nerd to comment on the perfection of the last panel? That fuckin Logo turtle. He used to run and play and he merely sits and stews.

Yeah, I used to love that little Logo Turtle. I wrote a Logo program where a guy got shot by the mafia in a drive-by and then a little ambulance ran over him.

I was just scrolling down to see if anyone was going to enthuse "dead tern! hooray!"

I like the last panel very much.

I loved the last panel too, and not just because I used to play around with Logo.

Simon genuinely cares so much he still remembers the computer languages Roast Beef wrote as a kid. Roast Beef is so considerate and respectful that he doesn't mention he hasn't programmed in Logo or Pascal in several years.

It's a very sweet moment and we see a lot about just how virtuous both characters are.

Dammit, why doesn't this comment have a green background yet?

You are a Frist Pots Nerd.

I didn't say frist... I didn't say pots... and it wasn't the first post. You confuse me.

Life is confusing. You are a serious nerd commenting about perfection, then. Have another chubby.

Great, I was about to suggest that Beef was maybe spending a little too much time watching Animal Planet. Now I don't have to reveal that I don't know what you are talking about. Thanks.

Wow Pat that's harsh, what a dick.

So, are you referring to panels 7 and 8? ...Or to panel four?

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"As a working artist, I'm perpetually torn between the desire to put forth what I think is my pure vision for Achewood, and the desire to satisfy the reader's craving for rock-hard cat cock."

Nice Pete's blog is great .
"[Tyler Florence's hair] looked quite fine and full, but soft and easily changed."

God I respect Roast Beef and his parent-talk, he is definitely that friend that handles all the parents soo well.

Everyone has one friend that gets on better with your parents than you do.

This comic is chock-full of goodness. Dreamwheel and the Child, Pat making his Dad move to Portland, Beef's code vs. a dead tern AND the alt text. I would give this a six if it were possible, it's just so damn good.

I would add raging cat boner, but that premiered last comic, this one can't really lay claim to it.