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I've grown to appreciate Achewood over a long time of seeing it posted here on the forums, and I finally started reading from the beginning. It's definitely more joke-y in 2001.
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appreciating achewood is easier if you are really baked
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Oct 7, 2014 16:56
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Achewood has an amazing inbuilt vocabulary, too. Onstad can turn a phrase. He also does a great job of establishing voices for his characters and then sticking to him. "Bold and unpredictable new talent."
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Oct 7, 2014 17:03
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Chard posted:appreciating achewood is easier if you are really baked 
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Oct 7, 2014 17:04
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Song For The Deaf posted:Achewood has an amazing inbuilt vocabulary, too. Onstad can turn a phrase. He also does a great job of establishing voices for his characters and then sticking to him. Actually this might be my favorite thing about Achewood, even if I'm not a huge fan of it. Some of the phrases are just insanely clever, like pretty much half of the poo poo Roast Beef says.
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Oct 7, 2014 17:08
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Suicide Sam E. posted:Also, you really need to get Achewood before you can appreciate The Great Outdoor Fight, hence my admonition that a link to it is counterproductive to enjoyment. I used to think Achewood was the distilled essence of meh until I clicked that link, and now I have Seen the Light. TGOF has blessed me with sublime understanding of the place of Achewood in history. So don't listen to this loving dimwit, is what I'm trying to say.
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Oct 7, 2014 17:11
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Here's the secret to liking achewood: you have to hear the characters' voices in your head. If you don't you're only going to find it superficially funny, like in the sense of describing someone's STD-acquiring skills as a "bold and unpredictable new talent," and if even that isn't funny to you, then you probably are beyond help and like garbage. STONED LIGHTNING
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Oct 7, 2014 17:24
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Falcon2001 posted:Actually this might be my favorite thing about Achewood, even if I'm not a huge fan of it. Some of the phrases are just insanely clever, like pretty much half of the poo poo Roast Beef says. One thing Roast Beef said that has always stuck with me was he wanted to get "puzzled on some brews". It just sounds right.
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Oct 7, 2014 17:49
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"Oh man you know I get all clopsy on the scotch." - Roast Beef http://achewood.com/index.php?date=05212007
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Oct 7, 2014 18:16
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First Achewood I laughed at. Thanks I guess.
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Oct 7, 2014 18:28
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Achewood is... Well its the best drat stoner/drunk shenanigans comic ever.
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Oct 7, 2014 18:40
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Yeah, I didn't get Achewood prior to reading TGOF either and it was that arc that made it click. poo poo owns.
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Oct 7, 2014 18:44
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I legit think Onstad is a genius character/dialogue writer. Everyone's speech is so distinct and consistent and it amazes me that he did it for the best part of a decade.
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Oct 7, 2014 18:47
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Chas McGill posted:I legit think Onstad is a genius character/dialogue writer. Everyone's speech is so distinct and consistent and it amazes me that he did it for the best part of a decade. For a good portion of that he was also daily blogging in the characters' voices, also. That's a tremendous number of voices to keep straight and churn out work in.
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Oct 7, 2014 18:50
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Achewood is good because the characters are well-crafted and the absurdity is entertaining and fits the internal logic of the world in the comic.
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Oct 7, 2014 18:51
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Song For The Deaf posted:"Oh man you know I get all clopsy on the scotch." - Roast Beef Oh no. Now I'm reading a bunch of Achewood again.
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Oct 7, 2014 19:07
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According to ye olde threadcycle.jpg after "Achewood sucks nuh uh yeah huh" we're supposed to post Nedroid. I'll go first. 
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Oct 7, 2014 19:10
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I liked achewood from the beginning. I found it when there were only like seven strips. Phillipe is standing on it! Haha! Then the great outdoor fight happened. It was a thing that happened, but everyone talked about it like it was when achewood came into its own. I don't get it. It was just a thing and it just kinda happened. Doesn't seem like it's worth making a hullabaloo over. I liked the phrase Honkey Tonk Blowjob, though.
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Oct 7, 2014 19:26
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I always appreciate achewood, but it certainly helps if you have some form of substance abuse to get it. It's always struck me that despite how insane some of the characters are that you knew someone like that in person. Actually to this day I still quote/provide the "bloatee" comic whenever appropriate. Which is actually a pretty good one shot.  Edit: ok now that I've posted this again I'm chuckling to myself like an idiot at lunch MuffinMan has a new favorite as of 20:01 on Oct 7, 2014 |
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Krinkle posted:I liked achewood from the beginning. I found it when there were only like seven strips. Phillipe is standing on it! Haha! Then the great outdoor fight happened. It was a thing that happened, but everyone talked about it like it was when achewood came into its own. I don't get it. It was just a thing and it just kinda happened. Doesn't seem like it's worth making a hullabaloo over. I liked the phrase Honkey Tonk Blowjob, though. It's probably just because it was a long arc starring Ray and Beef that had a lot of good dialogue and world-building. It was an easy section for people to introduce others to because it had a definitive start and end and continuity that kept you reading rather than one-offs.
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Oct 7, 2014 19:57
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Achewood alt text posted:Up through panel seven, this is EXACTLY how a honky-tonk-style blowjob goes.
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Oct 7, 2014 20:06
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Turning from Achewood to something completely different It's real
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Oct 7, 2014 21:18
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"hell of wispy a spider covets" is just the most delightfully, perfectly strange line
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Oct 7, 2014 21:50
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If you have relatives who actively hit flea markets, this oughta set off a note in you. Best one-off Achewood there is:
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Oct 7, 2014 22:02
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My favorite achewood: Context, Ray is really really high. 
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Please don't forget to check out the alt-text on each strip as well, it's usually an extra joke or something that adds some punctuation to the punchline. Probably my favorite alt-text goes along with my favorite ever single strip: Best of... Hot Tub Brawls
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Oct 7, 2014 23:13
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Jerusalem posted:Please don't forget to check out the alt-text on each strip as well, it's usually an extra joke or something that adds some punctuation to the punchline. Probably my favorite alt-text goes along with my favorite ever single strip: This is... kind of inspiring? Chock me up as another fan, TGOF was loving funny.
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Oct 7, 2014 23:27
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My favorite of the "Teodor needs rent" ones
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Oct 7, 2014 23:33
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That lamp has a saga.   Also 
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Oct 7, 2014 23:40
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So i went to the archive of achewood and clicked at random and got a pretty good one Pope Guilty posted:For a good portion of that he was also daily blogging in the characters' voices, also. That's a tremendous number of voices to keep straight and churn out work in. The blogs are really funny.
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It would have been funnier if they didn't say anything in the last panel...um wait... Never-mind.
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I've seen Achewood comics that people have posted here and other places many times. Until this thread I didn't even realise you were supposed to be able to tell the characters apart. To me they have always been "a bear" "another bear" and sometimes "a third bear". They seem completely interchangeable. I don't even know if they're actually bears, they all look pretty much the same and not much like anything identifiable. Even reading a whole bunch of them together in this thread, I don't get it. I can't even identify any jokes, except in that one Comic Sans one where the joke seems to be "Everyone hates Comic Sans", which isn't funny. I keep seeing them and people say "Oh, this one is funny on its own." so I read it and... nothing. What? I can't even identify what the joke was supposed to be.
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Oct 8, 2014 06:46
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Tiggum posted:Even reading a whole bunch of them together in this thread, I don't get it. You need to know the characters to get it. If you're reading them as interchangeable then you're missing a lot of context.
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KC Green does the best, coolest god: And because I  I also happen to sit on a bunch of "OH BABY" that I didn't post, so that should be proof enough of my affection.
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Tiggum posted:I've seen Achewood comics that people have posted here and other places many times. Until this thread I didn't even realise you were supposed to be able to tell the characters apart. To me they have always been "a bear" "another bear" and sometimes "a third bear". They seem completely interchangeable. I don't even know if they're actually bears, they all look pretty much the same and not much like anything identifiable. Even reading a whole bunch of them together in this thread, I don't get it. I can't even identify any jokes, except in that one Comic Sans one where the joke seems to be "Everyone hates Comic Sans", which isn't funny. No that's quite normal. I've been there myself, up until yesteray in fact, when I was shown the light. It'll come when you're ready. It's like pingu in that respect.
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Tiggum posted:I've seen Achewood comics that people have posted here and other places many times. Until this thread I didn't even realise you were supposed to be able to tell the characters apart. To me they have always been "a bear" "another bear" and sometimes "a third bear". They seem completely interchangeable. I don't even know if they're actually bears, they all look pretty much the same and not much like anything identifiable. Even reading a whole bunch of them together in this thread, I don't get it. I can't even identify any jokes, except in that one Comic Sans one where the joke seems to be "Everyone hates Comic Sans", which isn't funny. Huh, I thought they were dogs, but otherwise I'm right there with you.
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