Achewood Thread 12: Hey, Look! We're Back! What Happened?!

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Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

"Go get pegged in a room, supper chunks" is still my favorite FYF bit. I want to use it in real life way more than an insult that esoteric can ever be busted out.

# ¿ May 25, 2019 05:18

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 17:04

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

Johnny Aztec posted:

I was eating this cinnamon bun I got from the state fair, and the icing was fairly thick on it, and I was just thinking about this bit in this strip: http://achewood.com/index.php?date=01082007
where Ray and Teodor are mocking Nice Pat's lyrical ability.

I still bust out "that wizard, he ate it, he ate that coelacanth" and "the boiling log that crushed the orc did bear the wizard's hex" at any opportunity. I will eternally beatbox that dwarf-core.

# ¿ Sep 24, 2019 05:51

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

thrilla in vanilla posted:

I’m taking rays advice

'cause I know that Ray is wise
about important stuff
like alcohol and drugs... and love

# ¿ Mar 5, 2020 05:54

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

I use "honky-tonk-style blowjob" more than I probably should, but I live in Texas and it's such a good descriptor for egregiously over-country-fied crap

# ¿ Mar 14, 2020 22:05

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

davidspackage posted:

gently caress along, now.

I enjoy telling random things that are irritating to me to "go get pegged in a room, supper chunks."

# ¿ Mar 18, 2020 02:26

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

Deathlove posted:

https://www.omnibusproject.com/242?t=2400

I'm listening to the newest Omnibus, with a cast based up around ol' Onstad, and they define chochacho! They say it means newcomer! My mind is blowing!

Link timestamps to the part of the podcast.

Haven't listened to this, but pretty sure the Chinook word in question is "cheechako."

# ¿ Mar 21, 2020 08:18

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

That reminds me -- does the shop on the main website still work? I've been thinking about getting one of the t-shirt designs there, but I have irrational trepidations about throwing credit-card info into the void.

# ¿ May 8, 2020 16:11

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

Sweaty IT Nerd posted:

It's a little off brand for Phillipe but I guess that's the joke. Made me laugh, anyway. Thanks for reminding me!

I view Phillipe strips like this as a reminder that Phillipe has been five for a very long time, and while he's usually just five, sometimes the depths show.

# ¿ Jun 27, 2020 04:57

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

extreme dildo nun posted:

I haven't been here in years (coma). Could someone give me the rundown on what happened to Chris Onstad? I hope it's not as bad as Lotax.

Dude had some pretty bad times involving divorce and alcohol but has straightened out his personal life, afaik? He's doing collaborative art with his kid, which is pretty nice.

# ¿ Jul 3, 2020 01:51

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

thrilla in vanilla posted:

I think my two favorite strips are both of the White Stripes ones.

Jack White getting in the bed is definitely a recurring brainworm for me when I'm going to bed really late/sick/trashed.

# ¿ Aug 13, 2020 22:44

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

ullerrm posted:

It's Nutrition Wednesday! Please have nutrition today.

It's a triumph for your body when you keep yourself fed!

# ¿ Sep 3, 2020 22:41

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

I don't think I have a mental tune for Mister Band, but I read all of Ray's hip-hobbit/dwarfcore lyrics in very specific rhythms every time

THAT WIZ-ARD... HE ATE IT... HE ATE THAT COELACANTH!

# ¿ Sep 19, 2020 03:03

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

The Lash of Thanatos arc isn't great in general, IMHO. The weakest parts of late Achewood are when Onstad tries to redo successful arcs of the past and ends up with diminished returns; Cartilage Head worked once, especially as an extended prank on Ray, but he loses his impact the second time around.

# ¿ Nov 10, 2020 15:45

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

I feel like a lot of Onstad's approach to writing women can be summed up by the fact that he introduced Molly's family via elaborate shenanigans, and then instead of giving Molly any substantial interactions with them, uses them mostly to interact with a third-string male character. At that point, dude isn't even trying to pretend Molly isn't a prop for his increasingly negative feelings about relationships.

# ¿ Nov 12, 2020 01:13

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

disaster pastor posted:

When Cornelius is a main or supporting player in a story, he's usually written pretty well. When he's background, yeah, he's the laziest kind of "old upper-class" cliche. Which is probably why his out-of-character stuff from the early days is more entertaining to me.

Yeah, as well as Achewood generally handled its character development, I have a serious affection for those weird rough gag strips from the early comic. Flavor Flav's blinking tooth, gently caress yeah!

# ¿ Dec 9, 2020 14:03

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

Shibawanko posted:

http://achewood.com/index.php?date=03262002 this is basically what happened

I definitely think about this strip a lot whenever I think about late Achewood and Onstad's personal issues, yeah

# ¿ Dec 11, 2020 03:46

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

I was going to say, if this means the guy buying emergency deodorant on the way to a job interview is real, that's the best thing I've learned in a long time.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2021 00:14

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

"From Circumstances" and "rough chuckles" are definitely useful, but I think my all-time winner is "because of a problem," which I use startlingly often.

# ¿ Apr 22, 2021 03:20

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

You know how every social group has that one charismatic rear end in a top hat who's great at parties but terrible to be friends with? Pat is the opposite of that guy: just loving awful if you interact with him casually, but a good friend and partner when things get serious. You just have to get close to him, by playing the Dozens since small times, or fleeing from Al Qaeda into his hotel room in a nearby town.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2021 12:36

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

Cocktail Recipes in his high-school glory days

# ¿ Jun 1, 2022 04:28

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

As someone who has gotten way too involved with Health Products lately, I appreciate Pat's Soothies being described as "nutrio-negative"

# ¿ Jul 16, 2022 00:18

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

Strange Cares posted:

I really want to know more about your experience with Health Products, because I'm sure that that phrase unpacks very differently for you than it does for me.

I'm thinking of the kind of Health Food-Adjacent Product that advertises itself based on how little it contains, ideally nothing -- think the low-cal zero-carb snacks where the goal appears to be "put this in your mouth and pretend you're eating something!" Nutrio-negative Soothies are just the next logical step.

# ¿ Jul 16, 2022 12:49

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

I prefer my BBQ sauce Asleep Style

It's less a sauce recipe and more a sauce concept

# ¿ Aug 29, 2022 10:17

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

ullerrm posted:

https://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=03212014

As someone who has two otherwise-pleasant coworkers who take smoke breaks together and have started smelling like "Cigarettes, But Much Worse!"-flavored vape juice, I relate to that last panel way too much

# ¿ Oct 6, 2022 04:01

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

"Go get pegged in a room, supper chunks" is still a go-to for me even though it's kinda esoteric as insults go

# ¿ Oct 7, 2022 04:58

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

I like that the Pat recipe is clarified as being "genuinely delicious to non-Pat people"

# ¿ Nov 2, 2022 03:01

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

The zine discount with the cookbook just got me to impulse-buy the zines, so yeah, I'm a stooge. Also a t-shirt, because it's the mid-2000's again? I was tempted to buy another Rabbit Ambulance shirt to replace my old one, but I refrained for now.

# ¿ Nov 2, 2022 10:03

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

Got cookbook 87/100 last night along with the zines and shirt. Total length of my personal Cookbook 2 odyssey: a couple days

# ¿ Nov 8, 2022 22:20

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

Folding with a focus and intensity normally only seen in successes

# ¿ Dec 11, 2022 03:58

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

Good underwear is worth the price, though. Beef has his priorities straight in this regard

# ¿ Dec 15, 2022 02:47

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

Yeah, I also have complicated feelings about Tina. She definitely carries a lot of the strip's scorn for the feminine, particularly the scorn for the feminine as something that inherently inconveniences men by having its own tastes and desires (see also: the Bead Store strip, which is hugely funny but is also totally about "gently caress you for having your own interests, romantic partner!"), but on the other hand, I think Tina is the only sort of character who would plausibly put up with Ray's poo poo for even as long as she does. She's very "lady Ray," but written without the obvious affection that Onstad has for Ray (and sometimes takes to extremes), so it feels much meaner.

# ¿ Dec 31, 2022 10:54

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

I do appreciate the tiny perfect revenge of Beef fobbing off an invitation to a performance that Ray will absolutely hate, but which he knows nothing about and is honor-bound to accept because it's exclusive and fancy, given how often Ray has put Beef into excruciatingly awkward situations

# ¿ Jan 1, 2023 13:14

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

I have been irritated with coworkers lately and been very tempted to declare that I'll "take four shits and die" if they don't knock it off, but obviously I haven't. But I keep thinking it, oh, I keep thinking it

# ¿ Jan 7, 2023 23:18

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

Philippe posted:

I can see Lyle being a garden hermit.

Achewood: the Next Generation, where Lyle has been clean for a while and takes up the Mr. Bear "senior voice of reason" role in a new household of young fuckup alive stuffed animals

# ¿ Jan 13, 2023 21:58

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

I'm not really sure you can acquire a Pat, since I feel like a big part of the social archetype there is "friend you've had since forever, who used to just be cool and fun but has steadily become an rear end in a top hat, but sometimes they're still fun and that's enough to keep them around." Pat can still play the Dozens, after all.

# ¿ Jan 23, 2023 06:10

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

10. Dracula had better have his money this week

# ¿ Feb 7, 2023 04:56

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

Rev. Bleech_ posted:

I think it's more due to Oni Press more or less imploding

Yeah, I think this one isn't on Onstad. Mostly it's just making me regret that I only ever bought one or two volumes of the little white self-pubbed books and now I assume it's impossible to get them / they'd cost a skrillion dollars

# ¿ Feb 17, 2023 04:40

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

I still regret that my Sanryobuki Artificial Liver shirt had its design go to poo poo on the first wash, because I loved it

# ¿ Feb 25, 2023 02:08

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 17:04

Antivehicular: Dec 30, 2011; I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

My awkward Achewood shirt anecdote is that I bought a Here Comes A Special Boy shirt my freshman year of college, and when I came home for Christmas, my mother assumed it was my boyfriend's because it was a "boy shirt"

# ¿ Feb 28, 2023 21:17

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