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Scenes from a party Friday, February 4, 2005 • read strip Viewing 111 comments:

The Whole Sick crew, partying in the bathroom.

Ray booked the Tenmen for the 200 Flushes party? That's pretty impressive.

I think it's less that Ray booked them then that they were simply in the tub.

maybe he won them in a contest?

The Tenmen just know where to be.

It's the same as with the GOF. When an event becomes epic enough, the Tenmen appear, ready to celebrate the happening with their music.

Two thousand flushes, dude. Also, how did Click Robot unbury himself?

That was Philippe's imagination; Click Robot was in the corner the whole time.

Not a mere two hundred, my friend.
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NOOOOOOO!

chubbied for Epic Failure Of Some Proportion.

By their nature, epic failures are of epic proportions.

Thomas Pynchon references = a thousand blessings upon your land, good sir. I cannot chubby you enough.

Hold on...is that the same painting on the wall that will show up on Ray's Magical Mexican Sarape/sheep years later?

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This is a perfect strip. Click-Robot doing the click-boogaloo to the tubbed TenMen...Any strip where Onstadt is wondering wtf in his own alt-text....

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I feel bad for Philippe every other strip he's in. :(

Yeah it's just too sad. But at least he bounces back. I still haven't figured out exactly why he's living with these characters.

Every strip that ends with Phillipe in tears or screaming has been given a 5 by me. I'm kind of ashamed at what that says about me.

"'Screw you, man.' Why, I never." Imagining Cornelius saying this makes me laugh.

you mean, just the " screw you, man " part?

Click bot's dance is pure, unadulterated joy.

Poor Philippe! I love him.

Emeril just makes me smile every time I see him. I wish I knew somebody who talked the way he does.

You must become the change you wish to see in the world centipede_damascus. You know what you must do.

Become the ruling body.

... dude!

I know what you mean. I know a decent Ray/R.B. combo, but I've never met an Emeril.

One day I'll move to New York or LA and meet someone like Emeril working in a record store, then he'll get annoying about halfway through our first trashspotting excursion.

Todd all passed out in his own vom

Good eye.

it

This strip would get a 5, but I just can't stand to see Philippe that sad.

The 7th panel is a masterpiece among the archive. I desire cats in black suits to play music in my bathtub.

Sure it SOUNDS neat, but trust me, the execution is a logistical nightmare.

Your having attempted to put cats in black suits with musical instruments inside bathtubs having gone awry? That sucks.

I always thought they were just black cats with white faces and sunglasses who made ridiculously awesome music

mind you just should not be in that there comment

What's the picture on the wall in panel 7?

It looks kinda like Ralph Macchio.

Go read the alt text to this and feel really good...go on, go!

Phillip should feed the click robot again. Five times in a row. He's too nice for it, unfortunately. :(

I love that Ray has a Nagel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Nagel) in his bathroom. It's like crapping in a Korean nail salon!

Wasn't that particular framed picture used on the wall of the game Glider for the Mac?

The tenmen are playing and Roast Beef is no where to be found.

I just love that the Tenmen showed up to Ray's impromptu toilet party

Beef is off rescuing Molly.

This kind of makes me want to get a "SCREW YOU, MAN" tattoo.

I am going to learn Emeril's dance.

That is an old school "Twist" that he's rocking.

Philipe looks like he's wearing mascara.

Lyle's face in panel 7 is great... I've been that kind of drunk where you have to close one eye and squint with the other in an attempt to see straight.

Don't worry little Phillipe, being in trouble is a fake idea.

But this is DEEP trouble

But unfortunately pianos are not.

I love:

That this bathroom is a perfect expression of Ray. Gigantic, yet all of the appliances came straight out of the bargain bin at Home Depot.

That Cornelius has no problem with Philippe being at a bathroom pot party until he accidentally gets a tattoo.

That there are Tenmen in the bathtub because no other comic artist would ever have done that.

Basically everything about Achewood.

i love that click robot would intentionally reverse the writing he displays so that it would be burnt the right way on philippe, making him look the baddie. nasty genius

Goddamn sausagefest all up in Ray's place, but who gives a shit, have you seen his crapper? Fuggin thing's like a ceramic shrine...

Achewood is a sausagefest I don't know if you've noticed

Yeah. It's sort of weird that way, isn't it? A bunch of late twenties, early thirties guys who still believe they're adolescents.

Or at least that's my interpretation.

You'd think if they were adolescents they'd get some goddamn poontang to toss around, though.

" A bunch of late twenties, early thirties guys who still believe they're adolescents." Are you talking about Assetbar?

Why whatever do you mean? *looks around*

... oh god. This is a sausagefest!!

Fun fact: I attended an all guys private high school. Before our first football game we would always have a big tailgate party. It eventually became sponsored by Kielbasa... and was subsequently named "The Annual Sausagefest"

And your oppponents probably called it a Weenie Roast.

This is not unlike every party I have attended.

This is actually a rite of passage for young men in China.

Toilet parties?

Getting branded by Click Robot, but yours works too.

oh my god i never noticed the alt-text before. 5/5.

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wha'??

cpnglxynchos, if your "wha'??" was directed at me, this picture is the one in Ray's bathroom. It is by a sort of bad artist.

yes, i realize that's what it is. :) *not trying to sound like a cock to a stranger*

i guess i was more surprised to see, *psag*, something not formed by the O hanging about, though that happens in strips before and after. now, about your avatar. what in the dogg is that biz all about?

I think it pretty well speaks for itself.

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Did you pick that because it looks like Philippe? I've never actually heard that album, but Sons of Society is one of my favorites.

Naw, any resemblance to Lil' P is purely coincidental. I just have an undying love of this album and especially it's art.

By the way, Achilleselbow, you really need to hear some of the old stuff. Without Guy Speranza, they are a shadow of their former selves.

It's funny how many people thought it was an owl. I know it's real small and everything, but I can't believe no one assumed that it was a murderous, purple humanoid with the head of a seal. I mean, c'mon!

And just so you know what m'man's capable of:
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So it's not an owl?...My mind has been shaken.

Didn't Nagel do some album covers for Duran Duran?

Indeed. Well, at least Rio.

Yeah, that's what I thought. Thanks.

Is the alt-text a (The) Fall reference, or do "L.A." and this strip refer to the same, other thing?

they both refer to Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, one of my favorite movies O.A.T.

you will drink the black sperm of my vengeance

and also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlZUOOnJ5hU

how dare you refuse my alabaster charm?

around 1989 my aunt who was about 19 at the time lived with us for a while, she had several posters in her room just like the one in panel 7. I was a little kid at the time, but i remember the first time i had a reason to go in her room, After a few seconds of blank starring my response was exactly like cpnglxynchos' "wha'?"

But... who is he in trouble with ? Who's his guardian? I believe it's Teodor, but I don't think this has been properly established.

Today's Blogs

Pat: SCREW heartburn!
Onstad: Tonight a woman showed me a video.

Who lamed the Blog Girl??

Whoever you are, I will take you the fuck down.

This is the lady you are looking for.

For future reference, to find out who lamed who, you can set your lame limit to one and look at the comment. It reveals the offenders. But I digress. I don't understand how the hell someone could lame such an exemplary wonder of the human race. Assetbar is a cruel mistress. ):

Yeah, I know that technique - Rowboat taught it to me. But I don't like to use it too much; I fear its power .

Most lames seem to come from people who have under fifty comments, I find.

Naturally, this comment will be lamed to oblivion. But I guess I'm willing enough to take the hit.

I've noticed that self-prediction of multiple lames often leads to few or none. That seems to be the case here so far.

But, back to the original question of "who lamed the Blog Girl?": this lame I'm more willing to rack this up to a possible mistake...? The lamer in question doesn't appear to be a troll of any kind, has posted over 200 comments and has way more chubbies than lames (98/4 ratio as of this posting).

Still, she didn't apologize, and that is bad form .

7 Months later...

No Lames...

rowboat teaches us all

also he is not an owl

i know this

That is the first thing which anyone must know about me.

Hello sir nice to meet youOMG YOU'RE NOT AN OWL!

Apparently Pat becomes quite docile when he's ill.

Ray can get the Tenmen to play in his bathtub on a moment's notice.

that is just the sort of dude Ray is, man. he is Connected.

It's because the Tenmen are really just the Fags playing incognito ( their litigation case is still pending with Dick )

Mr. Bear straight-up punk Phillipe.

there goes a special boy.

Here comes a grand piano.

Motelroom, Grandpiano

it's official, my reading of the archives has made me incomprehensible... maybe go home before piano fall on you!

Seventh panel. Check what is on that wall.

Oh my god...shower tiles!

dude. my farts smell like refried beans, but i havent had any in the longest time..... its weird.

Emeril is furious dancer.

The tenmen make my LIFE.