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Charlie Brown, you died Monday, December 27, 2004 • read strip Viewing 110 comments:

RIP L'il Folks

RIP Sparky

RIP Lynn Johnston

Oh, wait, too early. Shit.

way to get our hopes up, tekende

seriously that comic couldn't suck harder if it tried to

I like this one because of many different reasons.

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Pure... unadulterated... Schadenfreude.

Wow. Are you David Brent?

y'know, anybody but onstand trying to make a punchline out of chuck schultz's death would've just shit all over it. this strip makes me happy and sad at the same time. tasty tasty achewood

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"Here, put these shoes on and have legs like mine." Classic Achewood/Peanuts logic.

I guess if there's a classic example of achewood/peanuts logic it would have to come from this strip

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Okay my defense is that it was late and I was tired and it would be great if Acheworld and I could move past this.

Is it just me, or does Charlie Brown have wicked sack up until panel 7? He's sassing Ray something fierce.

Also, this one might foreshadow the Feb. 11, 2005 strip. "Nonsense!"

Nothing is more presumptuous than telling someone they are dead. Defiance in the face of such rudeness demands only the sack parcelled out to any self-respecting boy.

Let's try it.... booksofsand, you died

I feel like this should've been one of Lie Bot's saddest things ever. Telling a little kid that he's dead. Tragic.

What's worse is Charlie Brown's dogged insistence to the effect that he never really even lived.

that's what that one cop says.

dang, it's like Blade Runner is my THING or something.

I like that you came back 2 months later to give yourself a high five

This strip is a warning.

the illegal ghost bike rides again

It's like a bizarre 6th Sense.

as opposed to the rational one

Best comic strip about another comic strip ever. You'd think it would be easier.

i'm still rather partial to "laying into garfield" myself. (^ ^,)

"Lasagna, Mondays, people have it all figured out."

up yours garfield

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"He toook you down with him like an Egyptian emperor!" == instant 5.

and this'll prolly get me crucified, but shouldn't it technically be "Egyptian pharaoh"?

Yes. However, Ray has never been one to sweat such details.

your point is well taken.

Because he's not an Egyptian, he doesn't feel any of the ill-luck associated with referring to the living god directly.

If I remember correctly Pharaoh means something like "high house", so it was an indirect way of talking about the man himself. Typically, in English, it's polite to refer to people of station using their native tongue, so yeah, maybe pharaoh would be best, since that's what his people called him. But as there is no equivalent in Egyptian (such as Kaiser or Maharajah), Emperor isn't really that wrong. Except of course for the fact that I don't think Egypt was really an empire.... Was it?

Oo, good thinking! And, no, I don't think it was an empire - I think Egypt was comparatively lax in its expansionism, Two closely-related kingdoms which amalgamated somewhere down the line, but the sea and the desert and the mountains made much more military action pretty impractical. But it's not my field, so I'll defer to anyone better informed.

If you've understated the case, it's not by much, according to Wikipedia. During the terrtorial peak of Egyptian-ruled Egypt, its borders extended from Libya in the west and Nubia in the south to Syria in the north, just bumping up against Asia Minor.

[IMGS OFF]

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So, not only did you just directly quote the above strip with no added comments or opinions; you actually misspelt a word that was right up there?

Poor kid never stood a chance...

Dammit, Charlie Brown has always been awkward.

peanuts gets the onstad approval
cant say the same for garfield, cathy, & marmaduke

Peanuts tribute - Onstad has deep roots.

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The fat cartoon cat is telling the little boy he is actually dead.

Oh, I thought it was all a build up to the punchline in the last panel...

did you try reading the strip rather than just reading the comments?

Man Ray has a long torso when he puts on Charlie Brown shoes.

I read that as "Man Ray" has a long torso. (Any photoshop-inclined peoples, please make me such as a jpeg of Ray as a cello or something. We could maybe get the Make-A-Wish Foundation in on it, perhaps.)

Too much art appreciation.

Nonsense!

i made this somewhere between 6 months and a year ago. Stupid failing computer parts.

[IMGS OFF]

Charlie Brown was the world's first emo kid.

Good thing he was too hardcore for actual eyeliner. That would've totally ruined Peanuts.

I've always felt that it was not "emo" when you actually had a situation worth complaining about. And shit was messed up for Charlie Brown.

Too bad Charlie Brown never hung around long enough to give Pat crap on his insane barber-hatred.

This could be a really disturbing strip. I think it should have gotten darker until Charlie Brown dissolves into a howling nothingness, pounding his fists on the floor in denial, his voice rising to an hysterical bat-screech as the void claims him. Then, nothing but a thin wind...and silence. Goodnight Charlie Brown. You wishy-washy son-of-a-round-headed-bitch.

That actually happened, between panels. Why else do you think Ray looks shaken up?

Charlie Brown, you had fifty years to kiss the Red-Headed Girl. No sympathy from this corner, son.

DEPRESSING

"Man, you'd think it'd be easier to give some bad news to Charlie Brown" is the funniest line this hilarious comic has ever made.

If Beef was the shrink in the booth, maybe Charlie Brown would accept it from him. Beef tells bad news well.

I only recently notices that Charlie Brown is wearing a short-sleeved dress shirt, as opposed to his usual polo shirt with the zigzag.

This strip is basically a fucking nightmare. And it was the strip for my twenty-seventh birthday. Nightmares abound!

You and I both have the same shitty birthday. High five!

Back a'cha.

My first Achewood, and a 5 if there ever was such a thing.

Charlie Brown doesn't seem very decisive on the matter of his age.

I always wondered how Charlie Brown got around on those stumpy-ass legs.

Weekend Blogs

Mr. Bear: Christmas gifts.
Molly: And then you know.
Onstad: A comprehensive list of things which I received for Christmas.

Just saying, here... everyone (yes, that means you) should read the Molly entry whether they're following the Adventures of Ms. Blog Girl or not. That's one of the sweetest things I've ever read. And the Cornelius entry is absolutely superb. A choice excerpt:

"My donation must have seemed rather quaint, so I attempted to make reparations with the good bear but he would have none of it, noting that Ray had more than adequately covered the $89 price of the toy with a $500 donation."

Classic Ray.

I'm frankly surprised he didn't go all the way with a six hundo.

Does Ray know he lives in a comic?

Do we?

Wait! I am from... fiction!

God damn it echidnaboy I just looked through every single comment I ever made on this site to find that

Pretty funny though.

He must, considering Onstad's income comes from selling books and merch of it and he gets Teodor to help him ship them.

It makes more sense when you think of all the autobiographical comics out there.

I see dead cartoon characters.

I love "I never know how things like this are supposed to go."

It implies that Ray has been through shit like this before.

I am testing out BBCode here because I'm pretty sure no one will see it. italics
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I've been wanting to test this one for a while without looking the fool

Oh, rad.

Oh sweet it worked. I didn't think it would work first try.

The BBCode monster is a patient one.

This is so much better than the other two "end of Peanuts" strips I've seen.

"Here, put these on and have legs like mine."

God, I love this comic.

No one has ever been owned as much as Charlie Brown has in this strip

Panel three is great. Onstad isn't really sure how old Charlie Brown is supposed to be, so neither is Charlie Brown. Hilarious.

I actually let a tear out.

RAY UNCREATED HIM! THE HORROR!

your avatar/comment combo freaks me out. nice.

For me, it's the alt text text that brought the 'lols'

For me, it's the alt text text that brought the 'lols'

For me, it's the alt text text that brought the 'lols'

For me, it's the alt text text that brought the 'lols'

For me, it's the alt text text that brought the 'lols'

For me, it's the alt text text that brought the 'lols'

For me, it's the alt text text that brought the 'lols'

For me, it's the alt text text that brought the 'lols'

For me, it's the alt text text that brought the 'lols'

For me, it's the alt text text that brought the 'lols'

For me, it's the alt text text that brought the 'lols'

For me, it's the alt text text that brought the 'lols'

For me, it's the alt text text that brought the 'lols'

Damn.
I can only apologise for this unexplainable spamming. I don't know what happened.
I really don't.

Something about this strip just gets to me. It is funny and yet I am kind of saddened about it. Achewood tends to have that effect on me. Wonderful strip.

So do the shoes give you Charlie Brown legs, or did Charlie Brown just ask Ray to have legs like him and Ray complied?

woah, is the zigzag shirt copyrighted, or what?

Whereas five-year-old otters take the news very well.

Charlie Brown pulls a Cloud from FF7 in the seventh frame.
COINCIDENCE?!?!?!?!?!?
....Absolutely.

Strip is so sad. All of the things Charlie Brown always longed for but never in his whole life was able to do. Shit.