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Scary Go Round guest strip Monday, May 26, 2003 • read strip Viewing 51 comments:

A comment left by fuckyoufriday was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by salvagebar, NDCaesar, Wite_Rabit)

This is the best guest strip, slightly edging out Phillipe getting beaten with a belt.

:(

the avatar says it all

ACE OF SPADES!!!

i wish i remembered what the hell i was talking about. .. What avatar? Whose*? Saying what? To whom?


* that's a word, right?

Oh, mine used to be a very distraught looking Beef. Don't worry, you're not crazy.

Oh thank you, i was seeing hair on my palms and talking to myself there, it's a relief to know i don't have to.

...It seems I spoke too soon.

I think the manatees also go well with the sad face.

They are sad looking.
Also they are failures of biology.

oh god please don't change your avatar again i don't want to be in this situation i am too young

I disagree. It's hard to imagine Teodore marrying a spunky Brit, but the image of Phillipe's upright mother turning into a monster once the blinds are shut is a transition so easy to make I've wondered why Onstad himself hasn't done it.

This one is good, tho, ain't no doubt about that.

A comment left by catachresis was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by apocowarg, korukyu, suprememongoose)

This is something that I can agree with.

This isn't a guest strip. Onstad did this strip.

Well technically it IS a guest strip, but in reverse.

The whole fox-and-eel thing is now synonymous with British food for me. Best non-Achewood Achewood evar!

Not quite a NIN video, something has to be naked first.

This is a Tool video, not NIN, I agree with you

The one about Phillipe meeting the Beach Boys is pretty good, although it's surprising straightforward considering that John Allison wrote it.

yeah, john really loosens up in this one. just thinking about braised ivy made pain shoot through my jaw.

We eat that stuff all the time. I can't get enough mayonnaised owl.

Oh, tell me about it. I make a fantastic aspic suspended fox/eel fight.

It sounds like a scrumptious oily musky nightmare of a dish. Pip! Pip!

man nothin like crackin a couple beers in the afternoon and gettin in real deep with some fermented weasel

"Owl all smeared in mayonnaise" singlehandedly keeps me from eating mayonnaise. It's mustard for me from now on! Also tartar sauce.

You realised tartar sauce is just six-month-old mayonaisse that's been soaked in corpses, right? Just so you know.

Also this strip is hilarious .

The corpses seal in the flavor.

Ironically, there are also seal corpses in it.

more like STEAL the flavor.

i first typo'd 'steak' instead of 'steal' and i had to laugh.

Your grammar suggests that there are corpses lined up, split down the middle and filled with mayonaisse, soaking in.

no it suggests that corpses are liquid

I was going to make smeared owl and braised ivy, but I'm so offended by this strip that now I won't. I hope you're satisfied, Onstad.

Or 'Staddo, as I understand he prefers to be known.

Owl all smeared in mayonnaise........I'm starvin'....

Second guest strip in a plane. But NOT the funniest guest strip involving planes. The Phirripe hug-bomb cannot be trumped.

Honeymoon's over once Amy finds out that T-Bear is hung like a cranberry.

I am hoping that my fiance likes Owl Mayonnaise more than Teodor does.

I like to think that this was how Dennis Kucinich and his wife got together. Teodor even has a pretty Kucinich look here.

What is the deal with those crazy kids anyway?

She's mesmerized by his health-care plan and love for civil liberties? Or else she just thinks skeletons are sexy.

He's old enough to have been the DJ at her sweet 16.

No seriously he is twice her age.

Okay, this strip is cold hilarious.

Although I don't really understand where the writer (I'm sorry, I don't know anything about Scary Go Round) got the idea that British food is anything like this? I mean, I'm not offended or anything (as a nation, we are easy to make fun of), just totally confused.

John Allison is a Brit himself, from Greater Manchester I think...either they eat that sort of thing up there, or he's just kinda making fun of us (and himself) here. Also personally, Scary go Round is one of the few comics I check as often as Achewood.

Onstad wrote this strip for Scary Go Round. Check the copyright. It ran on SGR but then Onstad ran it on Achewood later, probably on a low-inspiration day.

Argh, my comment is now that of a foolish person >_<

Onstad was just making fun of how completely sick British food is.

I get the impression that many of Onstad's jokes about British things are playing around with the American perception of "British-ness." When most of us Americans think of British people, there is usually some kind of boiled or aspic-suspended animal in the background, regardless of the context said British people are being imagined in.

There's an alt text somewhere that reads "Why does that guy from Scary Go Round keep emailing me?" Or close to it. Can't remember which strip or when. It inspired me to seek out SGR and read a few, which didn't draw me in. Allison blogged about how if only cartoonists X, Y, Z, and A would only retire or die, he would become the greatest working Internet cartoonist. Onstad was on the list.

Two words - blood pudding. Also: spotted dick.

I could do this all day.

Only Teodor would refer to a meal as depressing!

It's good for a guest strip. Teodor's lines are very convincing.