mick +1 -1
Yeep!

porquechutzpah +0 -0
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overmedicated +3 -0
Cropes reminds me of Dr. Kovac in cat form. Only homicidal.

andrew_ +2 -0
I imagine someone has written ER fan fiction where Dr. Kovac is, in fact, homicidal.

jhaela +16 -0
Nice Pete now (not young Pete) has the same hairstyle as Nick Cave now.

zeroasalimit +6 -0
I dunno who scares me more.

pa_ass_nts +4 -0
Get Nice Pete to make a western, then we will know.

bex +0 -0
He actually sort of did!

godfatherofsouls +7 -0
Nice Pete always seems to me like a character from And the Ass Saw the Angel.

rowboat +3 -0
Do-Not-Forget-Your-Brother-Reply

apocowarg +17 -0
I know a guy named Randy who looks very similar to Young Boy Nice Pete. Randy's father used to make him vacuum the trees in the front yard with the hose attachment. Now he works in tech support and wears bathrobe in front of company.

apocowarg +7 -0
Just for clarification, his father did this as a busy-work punishment, not because he thought that's how you clean trees. He also made him sweep the yard with a broom.

saucy_jack +14 -0
That is such a surreal punishment.

toast +7 -0
How do you clean trees, anyway?

tekende +9 -0
Infrequently, at best.

ssddr +13 -0
I like how the dog appears to be holding his tail high. All full of enegrgy and excitement, blissfully unaware of what awaits him.

dans +0 -0
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deancain29 +4 -1
Young Nice Pete looks a little like Hitler.

tekende +8 -1
I am there

And the Jews are there

And I place their bodies in ovens

And I am the winner

I am sorry, Assetbar, I couldn't resist

laserblade +6 -1
I am there

And Terri Schiavo is there

And I pull the feeding tube out of her stomach

And I am the winner

tragicone +1 -1
wow, was that really the best you could do for on-topic humor?

prettyrad +0 -0
His Hitler hairdooo is makin' me feel ill...

tekende +0 -0
And we have crashed his party

tombsgrave +9 -0
The cycle of job/dog/shoot is a vicious one.

wae +2 -1
I watched "American Beauty" last night, and for some reason this strip really seems to make sense in that context.

joeyramoney +0 -0
i do not know what to make of the last panel.

slab64 +20 -0
Then you must not have grown Pubics

Or else your father is Soft

aliiis +0 -0
well, he is Five

canusdivinus +1 -0
Peanut sticks up for her man.

gmm +2 -0
In it's own way, it's one of the most disturbing panels in Achewood ever

gormster +0 -0
The Cropes family buy a new dog every time Daddy gets a new job.

snoozebar +4 -0
Are...are they eating the dog?

relaxing +0 -1
No. That would be wrong .

saru +1 -0
I interpreted it as a mercy killing, since they couldn't feed it otherwise.

cypher +17 -0
The fact that Nice Pete's surname is an anagram of 'corpse' is something I never noticed before now...

trollcollins +5 -0
My mind is not quite blown, but it is definitely a sexy bit of intellectual heavy petting.

zaratustra +0 -0
Why buy? Just get one from outside.

shoinan +1 -0
What makes it is the capital 'P' in Pubics.

envika +3 -0
what makes it is the word "pubics".

slab64 +8 -0
Circumstances

rachel +0 -0
nice pete's head is terrifyingly larger than the rest of his body

damned awkward pubics growing teenagers

stormagnet +3 -0
Maybe he has somehow caught the inverse of the disease that killed his dad.

molesticide +1 -1
how do you just SUDDENLY notice that?

mine took an amount of time sufficient that i was aware of the occurrence as it happened.

however, daddy still killed me for sure anyway.

echidnaboy +4 -0
I don't remember getting Pubics, neither as a sudden realisation or a long drawn-out process. Maybe the experience was so traumatic I've mentally blocked it out.

Hair all sproutin' from my nether regions
All curlin' up as it grows longer

unfun +0 -0
I don't remember it either. I wonder if this is a thing for people.

boredom_man +1 -0
I remember it. However, I was a fancypants Georgia city-slicker. The honest boys of West Virginia presumably work too hard to notice their Pubics before they's fully grown.

snowbeat +1 -1
poor Mom-mom. Her eye will not stop weeping.

professorhazard +1 -0
How Li'l Pete can fear his tiny-headed father is beyond my ability to reckon.

direhaggis +0 -0
The backyard must have doubled as a pet cemetery.

ultimatio +0 -0
The alt text makes this one for me.

daidai +0 -0
Multiple layoffs have apparently led to multiple West Virginian dog burials...if Nice Pete intentionally used the word "always" in panel 3...

canusdivinus +3 -0
Anyone else realize the implications of cats owning dogs? For serious?

wonelove +0 -0
I think by the time little Nice Pete grew pubics his father's head would have been deathly miniscule.

carlyle +0 -0
He could just, you know, not tell his dad about his pubic development.

tekende +0 -0
Probably wouldn't do any good. Nice Pete's family seems like the sort that would regularly check the children over for ticks and such.

greenkoolayd +1 -0
joke is on you guys; i didnt have a dad growing up. i grew all the pubics i wanted without fear.