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Heaven/Earth Reciprocal Tuesday, June 15, 2004 • read strip Viewing 73 comments:

A comment left by antsama was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by divot, lamelliform, whoper, Ebessan, Flaaron, Tragic_Johnson, Doc_Rostov, Shinkicka, pquinn87)

Dude, that's Gramma K! She's the reason Beef's afraid of creeks!

Although I am pretty sure this is the only time we see her "on screen."

And with good reason. Lady's crazy.

I actually think she appears on the grand wedding.

Just had to make sure.. and the sleeping pills ran out last night anyway. https://m.assetbar.com/achewood/uua8s5mHx , square 4.

Actually, that's Doc Andretti's mother. I thought the same thing at first though.

aw man, spoiler :(

I know the dude has strange cares, but Beef seems to use creeks as an aid to meditation (or was that only when he was younger?).

Coincidentally, in one of the few strips where we hear his mom's voice, the sequence ends with him in his parka, floating down the creek.

Since this was presumably the time he left the care Corliss, maybe Gramma K instilled the Fear after this event.

Also: No No is already sliding up behind Beef, jonesin' to perform the murder act. Creepy!

A comment left by untilyouaresonude was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by 7th_shot, drago25, _cheesekayke, Ebessan, nutmeg)

What, a pair of striped socks is all it takes for you to consider someone Gothy McJohnnydepp?

Absolutely.

I don't think I can imagine Molly as Helena Bohnam Carter... They both have infinite appeal - but in their own unique ways...

Striped stockings are truly the acme of nudity-prevention.

While an intriguing idea I think that striped stockings combined exclusively with nudity is actually greatly superior and up there with the best of all human achievements.

Yea and verily.

(in many cases) nudity-prevention is the enemy.

Gramma K is who raised Beef after his mom shot his dad and went to jail. At least, I think that's what happened.

I have never seen quite such a combination of cutoffs and striped tights before. Is Molly really from a time of pirate ships and thus has an awkward concept of modern dress, or am I just reading too much into this?

I think you are kind of right.
Damn, if I met a girl with a strange pirate dress sense who liked reclusive folks who have myriad personal issues with their own egos and problems with intimacy, I'd...
Erm...
"I'D HIT THAT!!!!!!!!"
(That's what you say on the Internet, yes?)

See yes exactly it is what my roommate used to refer to as "sticking my dick in bear traps" but it is not the kind of thing I have ever truly regretted.

i love your icon

Man, y'all are sheltered. Come to London and visit Camden. You'll be spoilt for choice.

Hey, I'm at the airport. Can you pick me up?

Oh Flynn, you lovable rapscallion.

according to her wikipedia entry, Molly "was born in seventeenth-century Wales. She died in the wreck of the Gwynqeathe. "

ironically, this puts her first life smack dab in the middle of the classic era of piracy, perhaps explaining the tights.

though that doesn't explain my wife's same appreciation of them.

But Molly knows Computer Science.

Check out her early blogs too.

" When I was a kid we had a lot of Bill Cosby's old comedy albums around, and I always used to play them. Why Is There Air, Right!, Wonderfulness, Himself, Revenge, I Started Out As A Child, etc. "

Somehow i think Cosby isn't that old.

She was still a small child when the ship sank, so maybe she aged in Heaven.

I could totally see that. Somehow, being trapped forever in a child's body doesn't mesh with the heaven we'd seen so far. And instant adulthood would suck equally.

Old old comment, but I was actually the dude who added that info to wiki. Normally if I'm adding anything, it's scathing criticisms of wallpaper, but in this case, it was that.

Attractive female Striped stockings = hot. An immutable truth in any era. Molly knows this.

Okay... "Attractive female PLUS striped stockings EQUALS hot." Any reason why the symbols didn't show?

[IMGS OFF]

yeah...basically.

...Assetbar.

You must not live in Williamsburg (Brooklyn). This is pretty much standard hipster dance party attire.

A comment left by rowboat was marked lame too many times and excluded. (marked lame by tekende, TonyHighwind, gnjdfsgk)

Well, there is another Williamsburg , and I sometimes think of one when I should be thinking of the other. This usually ends up making me feel like my brain shifted gears without the clutch.

I have to say when I hear "Williamsburg" I think of the one in Pennsylvania first and then of the one in Virginia that Tellumo posted. As there are 13 states with a town called Williamsburg (not counting Williamsburg County in South Carolina) I don't think it is that outrageous to identify it the way Achillesbow did.

I just noticed your username is actually "achilles elbow ".

I have seen ladies who dress that way.

There are many of that like in California; I promise you I would not kid you about this.

I would not kid you about this on the internets.

I appreciate your candor concerning this matter on the internets.

There is such as a lady who dresses like a pirate-type lady with striped stockings and plays the accordion down on the pier every Saturday at the farmer's market. She is completely awesome.

did you get all up in her pastry puff?

Introducing Grandma Kazenzakis

Daaaaamn! Look at the size of Grandma K's whiskey jug!

That's probably a jug of cheap wine.

I'm going to wager that's a jug of Carlo Rossi, which is in fact cheap wine. Not the worst thing in the world if you're like me and don't know anything about wine except that you like either the really expensive or the really cheap kind.

...you could buy a wholotta Mum's...

spodeeodee

"They was cured of many things at once" = 5.

Trouble Man and No-No are amazing.

Onstad's at his best writing esoteric freaks, one of whom cannot speak. Trouble Man's got the best character voice ever.

They was cured of many things at once. I like how threatening yet non-specific this line is.

gramma k: drinkin' hooch out of a wine glass.

pure class.

I think that counts as a snifter?

Trouble Man and No-no have stood in that exact same spot for time upon times. They saw the construction of the building, and they saw it burn down.

Well, they did move enough to burn the building down. You don't think they just happened to be there, right? They're evil , jack!

and Godot will be there tomorrow.

This is basically exactly the impression I have of Gramma K's life: wheelchair, drawn blinds, dark room, jug of wine, day after day after day.

Gramma K. reminds me of Cancer Man from X-Files.

No No is already sneaking up behind Beef. I never noticed that before.

Dude, you know that jug has at least three X's inscribed on it.

Nah, it should have a good Achewood name like Liquid Banjo or Old Windmill. I would call my whisky 'This Earth, Our Hospital' or 'Bad Collusion'

Those sound more like band names. For a simple whisky name, put "Old" in front of anything. Old Bookends. Old Monitor. Old Holepunch. Okay, is it obvious that I'm just looking around the room for inspiration?

I love lamp.

OK! Then it'd be Old Lamplighter whiskey.

Done.

Old Lamplaughter

that's how it should be.

Ancient Shenanigans

I love... carpet.

She died back to life? I hope that's what happened, because that would be awesome.

Those are some rad stockings Molly.

A match made in heaven