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platero posted:My guess is Ray, and he orchestrated the entire thing to get Philippe home. He will claim it is because he pays attention, but we will find out that Roast Beef is behind it somehow. DeNeuve only got puzzled when he saw Philippe's mom. Maybe he thinks they're not biologically related? I dunno, I'm kind of torn between whether DeNeuve is a kindly type who Onstad unintentionally turned into a dead-eyed horror, or whether he really is as sketchy as he appears to be.
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Apr 9, 2010 18:07
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A gentle reminder that Nice Pete's van is padlocked on the inside.
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May 12, 2010 07:27
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choobs posted:Never EVER assume anything when it comes to Nice Pete. The serial killer's dish delights the tastebuds of my mind.
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May 20, 2010 01:29
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Revol posted:Oh man, I feel like Teodor has just made a fatal mistake. It's one thing to play along when you have no choice, but now he's escalated things. Teodor has been Nice Pete's friend for years, ever since he developed tiny murder gifs for him. That's why he's in this low situation to begin with. So yeah, you're pretty much absolutely right.
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May 24, 2010 21:10
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The woman has an rear end-mouth. Pete imagines using the power of his Gaze to kill the woman, to twist her until warm warm blood gushes from her foul orifice and the sounds of breaking glass and burning birds finally cease. For tonight. Who knows what tomorrow may bring.
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Jun 1, 2010 23:19
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Also Teodor is absolutely the type of person who believes he's intellectual enough to appreciate something that seems so aggressively dull.
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Jan 11, 2012 19:09
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Achewood's coming to an ignominious end. Between Onstad's depression and his inability to let things go, he'll probably just keep picking the comic up to do half-hearted non-sequitur strips like these before dropping it again, and so on and so on, until his finances finally cave in.
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Feb 2, 2012 23:10
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Darthemed posted:Really? The Lash of Thanatos was a pretty lovely arc and, in my view, where the series' rot really began to settle in. That was the first storyline where it felt like Onstad was using surrealism as a crutch.
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Feb 11, 2012 09:24
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Locus posted:My theory is that his dialogue is the result of Cornelius' "voice" being bottled up too long and it getting all dumped into big speech balloons of British slang. That's how I felt about everyone's dialogue in those first few post-hiatus strips. More likely is that Onstad's mentally lost touch with all his characters and is now writing them like caricatures to make up for it.
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May 20, 2012 21:31
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Which is why it's so mystifying that someone with a Gunnerkrigg avatar can make such terrible posts. Also it's a Paranatural avatar and it's amazing and Paranatural is amazing, go read Paranatural. Nothing short of a steady update schedule and maybe several small miracles is going to make the characters sound anything like they used to. Cornelius and Ray tend to get it the worst, though, because Onstad just goes apeshit with the lingo.
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May 22, 2012 01:38
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What the hell does Pat even do for a living? He's the only member of the main cast who's never had a clearly defined job (beyond acting as Vlad's sandwich slave for an undefined length of time). And before he met Rod he had to bring in money somehow, because Nice Pete is more of a hobbyist than a career man and his hobbies only pay dividends in screams. Also, after reading the cookbook I learned that Philippe really is full-blooded French and grew up in Bordeaux. Wonder what made his parents (or maybe just his mom) move to the States and shrug him off on a house full of weirdos.
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Jan 14, 2013 05:08
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Dodgeball posted:The latter was Philippe's mom accidentally mailing him out because she sold a lamp on eBay and thought Philippe was the lamp. Ha ha, she's such a terrible parent
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Jan 14, 2013 05:53
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Clap your hands and turn off the light. We're done here.
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Jan 16, 2013 04:27
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I always imagined Ray as sounding like Bubs from Homestar Runner, and this is close enough.
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Feb 28, 2013 03:57
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quote:Scones are like if classical music was a cookie, and the teacher said you had to memorize it, or they would make you smell their gas. I have a good feeling about this.
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Mar 1, 2013 02:06
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Sigma-X posted:I thought that was an accurate description of sous vide. Sous vide goes for 72 hours, max, and that's in a highly climate-controlled environment to prevent botulism formation. Ray probably just plonked the thing in his bathtub on Monday and forgot about it until Friday.
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Mar 7, 2013 12:50
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Laputanmachine posted:Oh hell and drat yes. Give it another month or two, still can't be certain that he won't crater again.
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Aug 16, 2013 15:25
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He's still burning through his buffer, most likely. Let's see what happens when it runs out. Remember, kids, joy is a fantasy and hope is a lie.
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Sep 20, 2013 14:15
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Achewood: In which Roast Beef is the voice of a nation.
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Sep 27, 2013 14:08
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My Lovely Horse posted:Yeah there was definitely something off about Cornelius even back in May and June. I just recently reread the mini arc where Nice Pete takes Philippe to the Secret Ice Cream Shop and noticed the car Cornelius drives there. A Mini Cooper with custom compartments for fine spirits is so much more a Cornelius kind of car than that frankly ridiculous 1910's probably-Ford T. That just seems like trying too hard. That is literally the case, I think he says in his blog that he bought the thing courtesy of Ray's gambling addiction.
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Nov 9, 2013 19:55
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cletepurcel posted:Didn't he say he was going to wrap up the rehab arc in the blogs? Teodor needs to make himself reek like the veteran trash-pickers or they'll cast him out or something. The "got stripes" line is the only bit that threw me - maybe it alludes to a zebra trying to blend in with horses or something?
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Dec 6, 2013 22:42
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Just Offscreen posted:I think it's more of a military experience turn of phrase. The stripes being an indicator of rank. Oh yeah, that makes more sense. If Teodor stinks then he'll earn instant respect with the pickers.
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Dec 6, 2013 23:03
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JoshTheStampede posted:Who, exactly, is Teodor paying rent TO? Isn't he a stuffed animal at Onstad's house? Teodor is a stuffed animal at Onstad's house. He is also a tenant. Welcome to Achewood. There was a short story written during the last hiatus that had T reluctantly meeting the other residents of the house as he got settled in. Assuming nothing's changed since then, the only non-paying tenants are Philippe (who is five) and Lyle (who was technically evicted before Teodor even moved in).
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Vogler posted:I agree. The Great Outdoor Fight was when Achewood started to become painfully self-aware. Take a look at the great stories preceding it: Ray's Toilet Party, The Banjo, and The Volvo of Despair. The humor was unpredictable and visceral. You liked them in a way you couldn't explain. No, I'm pretty sure I can explain exactly why I like them - because they are funny, and good, much like the GOF.
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Jan 31, 2014 17:42
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Clipperton posted:The thing is, none of us know Onstad's personal issues in anything but the most superficial way. Thinking you know an artist's personal issues based on his work and a few interviews and tweets is textbook creepy-fan behaviour. The guy robbed people and then followed it up not by apologizing or even acknowledging the theft, but by asking for more free money. People remember that sort of thing, no matter how many of his fans try to excuse it using Achewood memes.
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If nothing else we have to give Cornelius further props for perfectly recalibrating Teodor's room from "crack den castaway" to "slacker chic."
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Feb 22, 2014 17:59
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Johnny Aztec posted:Everyone in the house is dying from a gas leak. Each character hallucinates their own happy ending. Then how's about we go check in on Lyle's Thunderbird-fueled coma dreams instead of watching Onstad desperately try to rewrite his failed marriage via stuffed animal comix
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Mar 2, 2014 09:17
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SacrificialGoat posted:When Beef fights with Molly, it's because of his divorce. You're seriously dense if you think both scenarios can't share the same source.
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Mar 3, 2014 04:15
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Just Offscreen posted:It got old three years ago. It couldn't have gotten old then, there weren't any comics.
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Phy posted:If you want that particular chicken recipe here it is http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/aching-thighs/Content?oid=2519004 The comment section of that article proves that the best punchline is always an idiot who doesn't get the joke.
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PINING 4 PORKINS posted:onstad can't possibly suck as much as that other webcomic dude who took money for book orders and then literally set fire to all the books John Campbell was tap-dancing on the edge of serious mental illness for years so that freakout wasn't as surprising as it could have been.
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Saoshyant posted:That's- that's three strips in two or three weeks. What is going on. Probably another manic spike. It'll go dead again in a few months.
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Pat and Nice Pete are also the only two adults in the cast who don't seem to hold down steady jobs. I mean, Nice Pete has Considerations, but what the hell does Pat do all day? Even his blogposts are just a jagged trail of failed vegan business ventures and frivolous lawsuits.
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I've said this before, but Pat is the only member of the cast who doesn't seem to have any steady job at all (Nice Pete has a steady job, just not the kind that pays rent). He was Vlad's sandwich slave for a while, but then that fell through and all his blog posts show his every attempt at entrepreneurship blowing up in his face. He's got no discernible skills or talent whatsoever, unless horrible vegan cooking counts.
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Wanderer posted:I always thought that bit where Lyle calls Ray out of the blue and says "I need a hundred dollars and can't tell you why," and Ray comes through with it, said a lot about why nobody's blown up at Ray. The one later arc when he goes on this big capitalist tear against Philippe seemed way out of character for him and one of many reasons why I really don't like the entire "Philippe goes home" storyline.
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Mar 24, 2016 00:55
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Lurdiak posted:I always thought that was perfectly in-character because Ray is under the delusion that he is a good businessman and that he has earned what he has. That part's in-character, but the bit where he'd take it out on Philippe bugged me. This is the guy who hired some men to instigate a death relationship with an Internet pervert because he sent Philippe an email.
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prefect posted:
I remember when the comments section was still active one guy went into detail on each of those dishes - basically none of them even worked, they all had clashing ingredients and would have been unappetizing to anyone of any palate. Teodor fucks up everything he touches.
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prefect posted:Did Pat and Rod Huggins break up? Rod doesn't stay at Pat's much.
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grading essays nude posted:Pete's dialogue is a bit weird too without any of his usual mannerisms, although i love the pause before he says "Pat." Pete's internal discontent is expressed in that strip, and explains why Rod doesn't stay at Pat's much. In one of his blog posts Pete complains of sneezing fits, and suspects Rod for unbalancing his humors. I like to think Pat and Rod mutually agreed that maybe their relationship would best continue away from his vicinity after that, unless they wanted to spice it up with a different kind of relationship. What? Oh. A death relationship.
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