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Bust Rodd posted:I just feel like Onstadt is paralyzed by anxiety about Achewood. It’s truly lightning in a bottle and every time he goes back to twist the lid and try again it seems like more of the spark seeps out and it fades. Just rebottle the lightning in a crisp new package and ship it, you dweeb! I've seen that happen to other artists. When something is just this stupid, fun thing it has a sense of vitality. You can mess with it, change it around, who cares. But years go by and all of a sudden it's now ART with SIGNIFICANCE, and you're scared to mess with it, and you've lost touch with what drove it to begin with.
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Bust Rodd posted:Just give me a giant hardcover anthology with all the strips and there alt texts as captions, I would LITERALLY pay $150 for such a book if it existed. I always thought the strips with the blog entries mixed in chronologically would make a great book
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Middling achewood is better than the best of any other webcomic. More please
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You thought any of the last few matches were "middling"? I'm fine with no more- but I would like some sort of collected archive of strips and blog posts + extras.
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I'll go to bat for some of the one-liners in the Penny 2 arc. Daffodils are fantastic! I say! SHITS just BARF you DIDN'T HONOR.
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I'll take the Penny Arc as the end of Achewood over the limp noodle "Let's get RB stoned because it makes him happy" bullshit it actually ended with.
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Shibawanko posted:The final Penny arc was real bad and I don't want to read something like that again
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I'm torn cause I thought there was enough good stuff in that last yearlong revival to justify it but I also think that for example the Simpsons (the only thing that might might contribute as much to the vocabulary of my inner monologue as Achewood) demonstrates the possibility of almost entirely negating the value of your good stuff with a lot of bad stuff. Especially I think the blogs from that time were really good, better than the comics, and I would like to see Chris set the comics aside and work in prose whether it's Achewood or something else entirely.
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I know this thread is basically just a support group at this point, so I had a memory today I want to air. One time back in college I was hosting a party (maybe 13 years ago? christ) and a guy showed up wearing a shirt of the rabbit ambulance. I told him that ambulance was probably employing the principles of hopping, and we both had a good laugh. I'm a little sad in my confidence that I will never, ever experience a moment like that a second time.
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Sometimes I feel like getting an Achewood tattoo just in case someone IRL will ever see it and then they can start talking to me about Achewood. I’m completely serious.
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Scags McDouglas posted:I'm a little sad in my confidence that I will never, ever experience a moment like that a second time. Just be really good at paying attention and when somebody asks you how you manage to do it, you can let them know it beats you why most people suck but it's just not your scene 
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Bust Rodd posted:Sometimes I feel like getting an Achewood tattoo just in case someone IRL will ever see it and then they can start talking to me about Achewood. I know how you feel. A person's reaction to Achewood honestly tells me a lot about them, and how compatible we are. It's just one of those magical rare things.
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:What is Onstad even doing these days? https://www.instagram.com/onstad/?hl=en
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Bust Rodd posted:Sometimes I feel like getting an Achewood tattoo just in case someone IRL will ever see it and then they can start talking to me about Achewood. I suggest JAMES GANDOLFINI across your chest.
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Deathlove posted:I suggest JAMES GANDOLFINI across your chest. [Cornelius_Star Wars.jpeg]
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Looks like he's putting lao gan ma into burgers so as far as I can tell he's doing better than me.
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Archyduchess posted:Looks like he's putting lao gan ma into burgers so as far as I can tell he's doing better than me. that sauce is life
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Scags McDouglas posted:I know this thread is basically just a support group at this point, so I had a memory today I want to air. One time back in college I was hosting a party (maybe 13 years ago? christ) and a guy showed up wearing a shirt of the rabbit ambulance. Sharing Achewood references IRL is a bit like sharing Withnail & I references, I imagine.
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Zereth posted:if my monitor resolution gets much higher they're going to get hard to read, yeah. 
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Bust Rodd posted:I just feel like Onstadt is paralyzed by anxiety about Achewood. It’s truly lightning in a bottle and every time he goes back to twist the lid and try again it seems like more of the spark seeps out and it fades. Just rebottle the lightning in a crisp new package and ship it, you dweeb! Even if it isn’t autobiographical, at its best it definitely was the snapshot of a man from a place at a time in his life. He can’t really recapture the voice or feel of Achewood because he isn’t the person who made it anymore. There’s a reason shows that are good and last forever have interchangeable writers and character bibles... and even then end up not being very good after long enough. “poo poo’s hosed, Ponyboy.” I think that’s how that quote goes.
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I edited Trouble Man and No-No into a 1920x1080 image a long time ago but even that is beginning to feel a little archaic.
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mysterious frankie posted:Even if it isn’t autobiographical, at its best it definitely was the snapshot of a man from a place at a time in his life. He can’t really recapture the voice or feel of Achewood because he isn’t the person who made it anymore. There’s a reason shows that are good and last forever have interchangeable writers and character bibles... and even then end up not being very good after long enough. “poo poo’s hosed, Ponyboy.” Trumps Baby Hands posted:Hot take: I’d be down for new achewood strips Mr. Dick would be down for some more guest strips. Get some of that achewood flavor without all the investment.
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Shibawanko posted:Sharing Achewood references IRL is a bit like sharing Withnail & I references, I imagine. Next you gonna mention lifting up a nacho and seein a big old terrified eye starin at you
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Jerusalem posted:I edited Trouble Man and No-No into a 1920x1080 image a long time ago but even that is beginning to feel a little archaic. Anybody know if Trouble Man and No-No were present in the subscriber comics, or were originally intended to have been recurring characters, or anything? Always struck me as odd that they were named, given a desktop pattern, and only appeared briefly in one storyline.
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Archyduchess posted:Looks like he's putting lao gan ma into burgers so as far as I can tell he's doing better than me. Somebody in the comments mentions Nong's Khao Man Gai sauce as another option and that is also a brilliant idea.
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Jerusalem posted:I edited Trouble Man and No-No into a 1920x1080 image a long time ago but even that is beginning to feel a little archaic.  I'm on a 2560x1440 monitor these days.
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Rollersnake posted:Anybody know if Trouble Man and No-No were present in the subscriber comics, or were originally intended to have been recurring characters, or anything? Always struck me as odd that they were named, given a desktop pattern, and only appeared briefly in one storyline. I would like to read a fan theory that ties them back to the Super-Secret Ice Cream Shop In going back to confirm my memory that it was "Shop" and not "Parlor" or whatever I rediscovered this wonderful moment 
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Clicked not too far from The Super-Secret Ice Cream Shop and got here. All these years I misread this strip and the previous one as Roast Beef puking onto an outlet rather than into it, and thought he was calling the Butterball hotline after the fact. I feel dumb as hell now that I'm realizing that the act was intentional, and probably not even an act of suicide so much as just a way to get to Hell in order to get his dogg out of there.
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Pastry of the Year posted:I would like to read a fan theory that ties them back to the Super-Secret Ice Cream Shop I got in like a good eight-second scream That may not sound like much but try it some time
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Leroy Dennui posted:Clicked not too far from The Super-Secret Ice Cream Shop and got here. All these years I misread this strip and the previous one as Roast Beef puking onto an outlet rather than into it, and thought he was calling the Butterball hotline after the fact. I feel dumb as hell now that I'm realizing that the act was intentional, and probably not even an act of suicide so much as just a way to get to Hell in order to get his dogg out of there. It's nice how smart and world-wise the Butterball hotline is. "My friend Ray sold his soul to the Devil for a magical piano" ... "Yeah to impress ladies with exactly" I never thought the Subaru Brat was such a terrible idea. Terrible name, yes. 
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I think every day was mother-loving vodka day when Onstad was deep into Achewood, so I totally get that he can't get back into making comics if it reminds him of his alcoholism. I hope he's happy sober even if it means no more comics ever.
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"Only one dude I know drives around with a bucket of Colonel and a pint of dippin' gravy."
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CannonFodder posted:"Only one dude I know drives around with a bucket of Colonel and a pint of dippin' gravy." The dudes lifestyle is to diabetes what a nail is to a hammer.
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Ape Has Killed Ape posted:The dudes lifestyle is to diabetes what a nail is to a hammer. POSTMASTER: FIND THIS MAN
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Deathlove posted:POSTMASTER: FIND THIS MAN Can diabetes do this? 
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I think I am developing a thing for corpulent women.
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I regret that I'm not fond of eggplant so I'm never gonna get to ask where all of the assholes are who are not eating it E: my moussaka, that is All with that sauce Phy fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Sep 19, 2019 |
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Johnny Aztec posted:I think I am developing a thing for corpulent women. How do you know?
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