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Beef's Green Card Wedding Tuesday, June 17, 2003 • read strip Viewing 47 comments:

I want to help Beef feel better, but he is in that place where a dude knows the man has to get himself out from. To see this thing in a friend is hard.

Yeah I've seen this too. From both sides.
Mostly I try to introduce them to Achewood so they'll have Beef to look up to.

the man has noble intentions, though.

completely all chinese and stuff

I actually share this dream with RB only not a specific nationality or degree. I'd like to marry an endless string of foreign women and help them obtain their green cards before they dump me. This way my stories always seem fresh and new. Also I could learn bits and pieces of different languages and then bust them all out in the same conversation to look like a badass. A [i]learned[/i/] badass.

Maybe one of them would be from the internet[/i/], and they could teach you [i]BBCode .
(Also, I chubbied your comment so I wouldn't feel bad about making this one).

I don't know what makes the sun shine in my brainmeat more. The super gentle way you scolded me for my failure or the beautiful timing of your failure. Thank you, mattylite, you have given me a smile basket.

I make my self feel better about it by thinking it helps my argument. I imagine if I thought harder it might not stay true.

I just thought it was ironic.

EMBARRASSING!!

To be fair... I have done something akin to this.
She was Canadian.
It was nice while it lasted.

I totally thought this was going to lead to another Ultra Peanut story arc. Go figure.

Poor Beef has the self-esteem of a moldy gym sock dipped in sadness.

The perfect characterization of Roast Beef continues

So many strips ring so true. Then there are the ones that actually happened to me.

This is just a superb snap-shot of Roast Beefs character. It's also one that exhibits a lack of confidence and self-worth that a lot of people can identify with. This is one of the only ones I've had on my desktop

Thank god he did not get his wish

Wow, crazy to read this when he just got engaged to Molly today.

Crazy to read this when he had his bachelor party today.

Crazy to read this after Molly leaft him today, after he helped her get here from heaven/wales and everything.

Roast Beef is completely selfless.

There is a large difference between selfless and self-deprecating.

Beef is both, in this strip.

Love this one so much. I would marry it, at least until it got its business degree.

Given Beef's current Circumstances, this is 5'd so hard.

Gets a 5 from me based on the alt text.

Oh my god, Beef is channeling my college chemistry professors love life! (How do I know this?...shut up)

Isn't 'stad's wife chinese? This seems to have grim implications for the future.

Is Onstad the kind of person who would do this? It is unclear.

It is a given that since she is Chinese, she is only interested in a better future through U.S. citizenship.

Beef is such a realist it hurts... like being quartered by your nails.

"At the core of this idea is a generosity and compassion lacking in many marriages"

Right on.

Second panel = win.

A comment left by mr_lostman28 was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by emeraldemon, mtrott, mystkmanat, yomimono)

Contrary to Beef's initial wishes, his wedding was not as he forsaw.

I wish I could have the 2nd panel as a t-shirt. Maybe a woman would take pity on me. Except she'd need to be blind, and then she couldn't read it.

I am currently dating a girl who is completely half Chinese and stuff

How did your date go Tekende, well?

It went well.

I really like this conversation. Seriously.

It went well.

Every time Beef gets like this I call my friend who is exactly like him to see if he's OK.

God dammit Onstad, when will you stop thinking like us?

In the future, Beef instead marries a cat he met in heaven. I think things turned out for the better of him.

its a double-edged sword that 'beef wants to be the go-to-guy and the reliable one. looking outside of yourself/helping people with worse issues than yours is a great way to gain perspective and cope with depression. on the other hand, he could easily become a victim if someone wanted to take advantage of his big heart and his giving-ness.

Your mom takes advantage of my giving-ness

out of pity, im sure.

I think this may be my favourite alt-text.