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The Death Sound Thursday, July 8, 2004 • read strip Viewing 118 comments:

And immediately after this Ray goes and gets hammered. I love it.

Round these parts we call that a Thursday Night, hombre

I tried to chubby this so many times that Firefox got mad at me.

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You euthanized your Nice Pete faster than any Achewood resident on record. Congratulations.

I'm actually beating Asherdan in lame-to-chubby ratio on this little arc right here!

oh balls oh balls.

That's no emo cut, emo cuts are just enough to show up in a picture for your blog. That's a blood gushing, skin flap making, stone cold psychopath cut.

chubby for making me shudder with "skin flap making"

eughhh god damnit

This isn't some animes crap, if your scar doesn't have marks from the stitches you gave yourself with piano wire, it isn't a scar worth showing off.

Nice Pete is not part of any modern popular culture trend. Nice Pete is a psychopathic southern man who murders people and hallucinates about imaginary pies.

I fail to see the connection between the south and West Virginia, but maybe I'm not looking hard enough.

One more concrete argument against homeschooling.

As a music nerd, I figured out that the rhythm above Nice Pete's second sentence, whether intentional or not, makes him creepier.

"Aaa, aand I, have, cut my bo, dy."

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH AAAAAAAAH AH AH AH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

FIGHTER OF THE DAY MAN.

MASTER OF KARATE

"and I am the winner", motion dismissed

This will probably fuck them up even more, or scare them straight.

I had a flashback to Silence of the Lambs the first time I saw this strip.

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Here I see 19 people who don't watch TV and 10 who feel that the flickering maiden's virtue must be defended on the tubes.

Note: in order to deal with Ray speaking, the goths shuffle positions, surreptitiously.

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For the love of god say he tucks or something but don't call it a 'mangina'.

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We've seen his downstairs mixup.

He's Nice Peeeeeeeeeeete

Ever drink bailey's out of a skull?

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Yeah, you'd think Ray would go easy on the Goth angle if it's allowing Little Nephew to hang out with TWO semi-hot chicks, at night, in the middle of the forest. There could've been some Sceptre Hyddying, if you catch my drift.

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Harsh... but fair.

i was actually pretty sure the tall one was a guy. i didn't really give the shorter one much thought as either.

Yeah i totally picked that tall goth as a hella ugly dude.

Aww shit... Freud would have a feckin' field day with my brain.

You totally said that you would do that dude. How come?

Man, overmedicated is CONSTANTLY talking about how much he wants to bone dudes. Like all the time.

Seriously, dogg, the evidence keeps piling up.

(Also, I too pegged the tall one as a guy.)

I think you might want to rethink your use of the word "pegged" in this case.

Looks like you riled up some goths. Ohhhhh shiiiiit.

The tall one could go either way, the short one probably female as I don't think I have seen a goth male with light coloured hair, well this is untrue but it is quite the uncommon thing. Also I believe it is supposed to be wearing a corset, and as much as androgyny is appreciated that is one place that is not gone.

Why aren't there any MEDIUM goths?


I argue that dudes should not be Goths, as they look awful. Chicks often look awesome and/or hella sexay, but dudes rarely if ever do.

Also, further problem with being Goth: no summer wear. We've all seen it tried (read: faded black Black Metal or industrial or gothic metal shirt, crappy cargo shorts), and it always looks forrible.

But... if you're wearing a black/goth metal shirt you're a metalhead, and if you're wearing an Industrial shirt you're a rivethead.

Damnit, goths deserve to be mocked, but do it RIGHT man!

I agree, but the majority of the goths I've known engage in some genre-blending in there. I don't think I've ever seen a full-blown rivethead in the flesh, beyond just a half-goth with chunky boots. When I'm talking rivethead, I'm talking goggles on the forehead that are never worn over the eyes, dusty military trenchcoats, nuts and bolts on your fingers for rings, copper body piercings et al.

Wait, that's some archetype for a steampunk anime character. Okay I don't really know what I'm talking about, apparently. Also, the sleep medicine's kicked in, so I'll blame that.

Putting the semantics aside, it can be reasonably assumed that they should all be slapped around just for being the way they are.

This statement flies in the face of every idea I have regarding personal freedom, but I just can't help but really mean it with all my heart.

I think part of the problem is that with the ladies there is basically only sexy and chubby, but think they're being sexy even though they're really just sad, lonely, and kind of creepy everyone else out. There is basically no in-between.

Are we sure those two are girls? It's hard to tell with Goths.

Why didn't I bother to read the next two comments before posting this? It would have saved me a lot of heartache and about a minutes worth of typing.

That's about six words a minute, Ted. I am solidly of the "hunt and peck" school of typing and even I scoff at that.

This strip is really the reason I've never skipped reading Achewood every day. Lovely. Just lovely.

halloween costume idea.

At the time I first saw this I read it with the girl I was dating and every time one of us saw the other in a bathrobe it was understood that the person in the robe would pose like this and sing Pete's lines.

that is awesome. I plan to to this very thing tonight (on my own, to my cat)

before achewood, you must have had nothing to say in any situation, ever.

My roster of bathrobe songs is more well rounded now, that's for sure.

do you want to go out sometime

I showed this brilliance to a friend of mine. It did not please him. And I was disappointed.

oh isnt that just the worst? it makes you feel pretty alone to enjoy something and not get to share that enjoyment with people. not that alone is necessarily bad, of course.

It is bad to not be able to share your enjoyment.
It is good that we can come here and talk about this.

I'm always taken aback by friends - people who I love and respect - not being instantly thrilled by Achewood. I understand that it takes time to really fall for it completely, but it's just so.... fucked up not to have your mind blown by Onstad's work. I must start trying harder.

And on top of that, I wanted to impress them with it, so I showed them all the Nice Pete ones, because they are the funniest. Now all my friends think I'm a serial killer.

I usually show off this strip:
https://achewood.com/index.php?date=04092003

This is a problem that I share.

At my bridal shower, someone gave me a cutting board, and I made a joke about someday wanting to invent a cutting board that does not hold DNA evidence.

The silence was thick as meaty stew.

So...fuuuucccckkkked up. and I love it

i laughed so hard i fell down and cried the first time i read this

This strip is hell of disturbing, yo.

their expressions in panel 7! Is being so perfect! Do not know whether is best to look away or watch!

Pete makes every part with him shine. I mean, he takes my attention away from Ray!

HE IS THE DEATH SOUND AND HE HAS CUT HIS BODY AND IT WAS IN FRONT OF YOU.

nice pete is so excellent

Damn goths, they don't even use question marks!

Who.

The tall dude who overmedicated totally wants to bone.

I guess Pete is forgiven for kidnapping Philippe

the last three panels are impossibly funny.

woulda been a 4, but the strip right after this one makes it a 5.

i haven't seen a thin goth in years.

The rise of obesity and diabetes has increased the fat and sugar levels of human blood to unhealthy levels.

That or World of Warcraft.

Count on Nice Pete to seperate the goths from the boys...

I find it amusing that Nice Pete's willing to dance naked and mutilate himself in front of strangers, but he's still trying to hide his shame behind his legs.

i think that the mangina option says much more about the mental instability of the individual. a penis is just what you'd expect to see between his legs, but no, he did something a lot more interesting.

I always imagine Nice Pete to be singing this song in a creepy falsetto.

chubbied holy shit

I always imagined him singing it with the cookie monster vocals, but that works too.

Oh man.

I AM DEATH SOUND.
I CUT BODY.
ARARARARAR HOMPF HOMPF
MMMM.

I do not lol often, sir, but I am pleased to report that this made me lol.

It's too sing-song for cookie monster vocals.

Wow, that is a crazy idea. Go to a dungeon.
I imagine it as a flat, deep monotone...like Peter Murphy but with no emotion whatsoever.

Then you mean just like Peter Murphy. Dude's a statue. With pigeon shit on his shoulders.

Whoa now I can't stop hearing this line in my head in Peter Murphy's voice.

My work here is done.

Yep, I always did with a falsetto, too.

so have i.

I can't help but think of some horrible basement industrial music and a groaning plaintive Bowie-ish voice.

Oh my god. My constant linking to this strip has made many people question my sanity.

if I ever have a band I'm naming it Nice Pete & The Death Sound regardless of what it sounds like

There actually is an industrial band called The Death Sound that named themselves after this strip. They got started round back in September of last year. www.myspace.com/thedeathsound

Today's Blogs

Ray: Ken the Jeopardy Champion!
Roast Beef: 32 Pastas
Pat: What is it with people who offer free samples at the store.
Teodor: 'Mad World"
Philippe: New Ink Jet Printer!
Lyle: crap
Onstad: More Risotto.

If Teodor's going to go through the trouble of bashing himself in the nuts with a hammer, I'd think he'd at least try to be as ambitious as a Prince cover. I mean, if you're goin' that far, you may as well go all the way.

Maybe it's just me.

Is Nice Pete cutting himself with a garden trowel?

i had exactly the same thought... can you imagine him getting the call from Ray and just sitting there staring into space for a little while as it slowly dawned on him that he would go out into the yard and start sharpening that trowel... eeeshhhh.

The calm glean in his eyes as he whips out a whetting stone and starts softly, carefully, out-of-his-mindedly works the thing just to cut his flesh.

It's the knife that Jerry Espenson tried to kill Shirley Schmidt with.

This should be obvious to all.

Heh heh, I was the 666th person to rate this strip.

If only this happened to every goth during their younger and more formative years :(

are you new here? i've been liking some of your comments lately

In honour of me getting my signed, framed Death Sound strip in the post...

[IMGS OFF]

Silence of the lambs set to Bauhaus in a fucked up 2000 strip. HELL YEAH! That's a well aged diss 30 years in the making! (Now who's the poser?)

AND I HAVE CUT MY BODY

I always imagine it as being sung like that song kids use to use to tease each other, "nah-nah-nah-nah boo-boo."

Man, this strip is like all kind of disgusting.

impressed by np's use of 'tuck-back'.

Panel six aaaaaah...perfection.

I just see this as portraying what lengths Ray will go to to make sure Little Nephew stays on the straight and narrow.

And by straight and narrow, I mean hip.

And by hip, I mean what Ray thinks.