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Circus Penis Tuesday, June 7, 2005 • read strip Viewing 39 comments:

if there was a gay porn God there would be an actor known as Circus Penis. Being a cat is optional.

Where are the 5s?? C'mon!! "It's the Circus Penis way" People live and die without hearing one liners as awesome as that.

I rated it 5 for exactly this reason

I rated it 5 for the awesome hat potential. But I'm still with you.

I like how all the cats have hairstyles that are just human hairstyles with the ears moved but the space made for them not moved.

Ray's glasses exhibit the same phenomenon.

Yeah, since his ears are on top of his head... how is he keeping those on?

i never wondered about that.

until now.

crap.

Despite Teodor's thoughts in the second panel, this is the first appearance of Circus Penis.

It seems like Teoder recognises him from porn but doesn't want the guys to know this. (next panel.)

That's my favorite part, how Teodor recognizes but pretends not to know him. For appearances.

4.1 rating? c'mon - this is the essence of Achewood. 5 all the way!!

Circus Penis... I dunno. He kinda creeps me out here.

Oh man, is it bad that I thought "Circus Penis looks like Chuck Norris".

The goatee makes me imagine Circus Penis' mouth functions somewhat like the Predator's

I'd rather not think about how Circus Penis' mouth functions.

How is Circus Penis not the best God damn name there is.

He was pretty lucky, actually. His family pet was Circus the dog, and he grew up on Penis Avenue.

How long have you had Circus Penis envy that your mom didn't name you that?

It's the Circus Penis way. [NWS]

Ew.

"nothing less than a foot long allowed"

Man, that's just disappointingly boring. No clowns or juggling or any references to its name AT ALL.

Way to waste your domain name, fellas.

When Circus Penis moves forward it is a Serious Thing. Your can had best be ready for some Serious rocking.

what sort of rocking, you may ask?

That's right, can-rocking

What I want to know is who this army is going to fight.

Who cares? They will have awesome hats.

Armies don't only fight, you know.

[IMGS OFF]

At least it's appropriate that they couldn't fit in the frame.

I picture Circus Penis talking with some sort of Scandinavian accent (Scandinavians feel free to help me pinpoint it.)

ALSO, Why is it that The Circus Penis Army is less worrying to me than a circus penis army?

Another example of the alt text really making the whole comic.

Just LOOK at Ray in the tenth panel. He's just pleased to be a fly on this great wall.

EVERYONE (AWESOME) HAT

Why do I have absolutely no recollection of this strip? Was it one of the subscriber-only ones that got released later to the general public?

Nope. In fact, it was part of "Hat Week" (see alt text on this strip ).

It's probably more notable as the strip that introduced the mysterious "Darlene"...

[SPOILER]

...a character elaborated on a short 7 years later.

I, for one, would like to know why Teodor is surprised to see that Circus Penis looks healthy.

Also, Circus Penis's beard would appear to be both above his actual lips and below his actual chin. I want there to be some kind of porn-y reason for this.

Circus Penis looks so healthy because of all the f-f-fuckin' he's been doin'!

Speaking of awesome hats...

[IMGS OFF]

Hahaha what