Give it a rest with Achewood, okay?

chillax pat

Also, it sucks.

I enjoy this request, but at not certain to what extent I can restrain myself into applying it.

This is like when I was six and my dad made it a rule that I couldn't talk about Dragon Quest in the same room or car as him. This lead to me quietly drawing a lot of Dragon Quest characters on car trips and in church.

Longer Dan Perry: MAN WHY YOU EVEN GOT TO DO A THING

haha I should have started this thread at noon

This is also like when my dad refused any longer to allow me to read every single strip in a Bloom County compendium to him. ("and then,,,and then....hahahahahaha...and then, okay, and THEN see, Steve Dallas? Is shaving? In the bathroom? and, and, okay?")

ENOUGH, OKAY. My dad doesn't find Calvin & Hobbes funny, either -- as far as he's concerned Calvin is an ungrateful self-centered head-in-the-clouds who is careless with objects and possessions that were purchased/procured for him by others.

sorry ;_____;

wo that is a super depressing take on Calvin & Hobbes

hey perry, why don't you stay the fuck out of everybody's face until you got the fuckin' juice to get a job where they give you a chair

oh you mean calvin is a SIX YEAR OLD

laurel's dad is the opposite of OTM

I do not understand the appeal of this "Achewood" thing.

LOL I OLD ;_;

gay-chewood, morelike

i'm old and i like achewood

Dear Editors,

I am writing because I find the behavior displayed in your paper by the dog "Marmaduke" to be wholly unacceptable, nay, verging on the dangerous.

This dog is never corrected, disciplined or punished. The message sent is that it is comical or even "cool, man" to let one's animal go completely to seed.

Were I in charge of a dog like "Marmaduke", I would have no recourse to have it put down; I ask now that you do the same with this most unworthhy feature of your paper.

Yrs & c,

Jonathan Patrick Lewis (mrs.)

achewood backlash :( :( :(

ilx in constantly harping and obsessing over something good to the point of making that something good seem not so good anymore non-shocker.

see also: the wire thread.

"harping"

"obsessing"

yes, harping, obsessing.

Mr Que is like 68, right?

I think Achewood can be funny but I would rather focus our attention on more important things, like the results of googling "Geir Hongro bangbus".

(lol find/replace "Dr. Morbius" --> "Mr. Que") (even though I think he might be younger than me)

you don't have to click on the threads!

Someone explain *ahem* Bangbus to me.(if you don't know what Bangbus is then I recommend that you keep it that way, ... Geir Hongro (llamasfur), Monday, 7 October 2002 07:39 (4 years ago) Link ...

Mr Que is like 68, right?

Close. Divide by 2 and you will be very close.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=EGLC,EGLC:2007-20,EGLC:en&q=Geir+Hongro+antelope

is this the new googlewhack?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=EGLC%2CEGLC%3A2007-20%2CEGLC%3Aen&q=Geir+Hongro+zither&btnG=Search

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=EGLC%2CEGLC%3A2007-20%2CEGLC%3Aen&q=Geir+Hongro+felching&btnG=Search

^^^^^^^ kudos

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=EGLC%2CEGLC%3A2007-20%2CEGLC%3Aen&q=Geir+Hongro+soulsucking+robot

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=EGLC%2CEGLC%3A2007-20%2CEGLC%3Aen&q=Geir+Hongro+beelzebub&btnG=Search

yeah noodle is the winner already though.

ah que you cheated ;_;

We should devise some sort of "Six Degrees of Geir" game.

More like 103 Degrees, cuz we got Hongro Fever!!!

I signed some receipts as Ray Smuckles last week.

I don't think my dad was ever six years old, is kind of the thing. I'm not even sure he was six when he WAS six.

hstencil is right even though he said "non-shocker" (which has always seemed stupid to me since the whole deal with the "shocker" thing is the implied sarcasm)

this comic is pretty entertaining sometimes. I think the part that weirds me out about its hardcore fans is how hyper-consumerist they are about the shit ton of merch the website sells. I mean, I respect the guy's business savvy for selling all those signed strips and basically offering any kind of product a reader might want, but there are people on this board practically bragging about how much they've spent on a slightly hipper version of Garfield w/ suction cup paws.

http://img27.picoodle.com/img/img27/9/10/8/f_dangwoodm_924272b.jpg

wau

I bow down to your greatness

you have made this thread a thing

OMG

hi guys!

That's a special thing!

that's dan perry.

i don't know him.

i don't know dan perry.

there are people on this board practically bragging about how much they've spent on a slightly hipper version of Garfield w/ suction cup paws.{

Guilty as charged :( Can you just put it down to enthusiasm/embarrassment?

it's not even very funny

when I was 6 and in Kindergarten all my writing assignments had to do with Super Mario World, to the extent that my teacher sent a letter home to my parents saying I needed to think about something else.

ever write about the negative worlds? man those were so trippy, i mean how did people even find out about that. do you suppose it was a game engineer who told some gossipy friend about the magic brick he'd rigged up in 1-2? or was it merely some jump-and-duck prone civilian who happened upon it as a surprise? bet no one even believes him to this day that he was the first to "go negative"

Oh that was Super Mario Bros. Super Mario WORLD had places named after desserts, like Cookie Mountain.

but I wonder how long anyone has played any of the negative worlds, like after a while you'd be on some Warhol shit

my bad/bust

gay-chewood, morelike

― Dom Passantino

burn

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I had a thought about achewood and Onstad this morning, stepping off the train on my way to my second coffee. That thought was He was a guy who could draw a cat standing up, saying emo shit, and he figured out a good way to make oven fries. I am older now, and so I know he isn’t that interesting. Was he the webcomic Strokes?

You're likely onto something.

I remember loving Cornelius, Ray and Roast Beef, but I can’t remember anything they ever said.

Your analogy doesn't entirely work, because the Strokes made really shitty oven fries.

i only know about this because of the amazing one about steely dan

counterpoint: Achewood was a wonderful, broad body of work, cast over multiple media for more than a decade, before the creator focused on creative work in other fields. The Strokes had a couple of vaguely OK singles in late 2001, and the lead singer released Phrazes For The Young.

What's an example of a good Achewood instalment? I don't get it at all - seems like a lot of callback humour and Reddit Man non-sequiturs. Is there a sequence that showcases what it can do without being impenetrable to unfamiliars?

I'm with (sic)

And Achewood might be something that doesn't work in "a single instalment", and I'm fine with that. I don't think there's really a single GBV song that communicates the joy of being a GBV song, and that doesn't diminish the GBV experience a jot.

What's an example of a good Achewood oven fries?

http://www.achewood.com/honorclub/ckbk1_honor_system_full.pdf

Despite the visual consistency created by Onstad's limitations, there's such a wide variety of tones and approaches within Achewood that I couldn't point to one single chunk without knowing what sort of stuff Chuck does react to.

(note that that cookbook includes both Ray's oven fries and Beef's home fries.)

I think I actually bought that cookbook :O

this is the best achewood:

http://achewood.com/index.php?date=07132004

He was a guy who could draw a cat standing up, saying emo shit, and he figured out a good way to make oven fries. I am older now, and so I know he isn’t that interesting. Was he the webcomic Strokes?

i mean is this meant to parse like chris onstad wrote it or

Ha perhaps

the Strokes are good

like honestly give me their precision tuned five car garage rock over the never ending cult of LCD Soundsystem "ooooh I liked New Order and I'm forever 42 and sad about doing drugssss" shit that apparently is so genius

Achewood is great

I loved that debut Strokes EP but its not cooler-than-thouism that makes me pronounce their career a pretty steep exercise in diminishing-returns.

LCD Soundsystem bore the piss out of me

I like the idea that one can only like the Strokes or LCD and nothing else. These are the only choices. It is 2005 forever.

Back on Achewood, there was a lot of stuff about the strip that I didn't like, but when I identify with a character I massively over-identify with a character and that def happened w/ Beef.

achewood's high points were as good as any of the great comic strips

i still skim through random portions of the achewood archive every couple months. as sic said, i don't think there's a pithy way to sum up what achewood was/was not. there's a lot of stuff in there.

It contains multitudes etc

I still don't get this strip.

https://i.imgur.com/O6ExdSc.gif

User 'Oilyrags' used this thread as a dancing floor when it started and had a full dance card. Now user 'Oilyrags' does not exist in the ilx database.

A case of spontaneous combustion?

ILX didn't require registration when it started.

Oily was based out of Austin, weren’t they?

the hardback collection vol 1 has been pushed back to December 28 now

this is the first i've heard of the collection!

Chris Butcher is editing for Oni, trailed as being fully complete, including the blogs and zines

Achewood was so good, just miles above everything else. I have four small Onstad paintings on my walls. I miss Achewood, and I miss there being any good webcomics at all. The last one I dug was KC Green's HIAGB, but I don't think he's returning to that form any time soon. Back was pretty decent, but that's over now too.

I would really like to read something good, that's not about supernatural teenagers or clumsy manga homage or written by men who like to masturbate to their art.

I have an Achewood Big Fight poster my partner bought me and got framed. At its best it was the best.

Simon Hanselmann still does his thing on Instagram, it's not much like Achewood but also not abt supernatural teenagers or manga style. I *suppose* he might be masturbating to it.

just randomly thinking that achewood is probably a thing that lots of millennial dads are going to be telling their sons about when they hit 10-12.

occasionally things remind me of achewood

there is a delightful clip of Keanu Reeves being asked about nfts and his response includes a Roast Beef-esque “hee hee hee!” laugh

Dang, I could hear RB laughing like that.

Keanu Reeves doesn’t get the NFT hype either. Watch our full interview here: https://t.co/ea0NInhtBO pic.twitter.com/UuUNFMtfmf

— The Verge (@verge) December 11, 2021

http://achewood.com/index.php?date=09122002

hee hee hee