Topic: Look can we just have a topic to talk about Achewood? (Read 40785 times)

SeanBateman · « **on:** 20 Dec 2007, 19:48 »

I know this should be in the comics forum, but fuck that furry-fested place. I want to talk about cornelius' new tattoo, and how he is suffering. I really like the portrayal of his suffering.

We really need to be talking about achewood regularly.

RobbieOC · « **Reply #1 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 19:56 »

Like, how it's apparently Time's best graphic novel of 2007?

Is that the kind of thing to talk about?

David_Dovey · « **Reply #2 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 19:57 »

You could join the Achewood discussion forum (click on any comic on the Achewood page)...

Although, if we're doin' this: I was really worried about Cornelius losing his impenetrable image of "gigantic badass" in the first comic where he had the tattoo, but then he started trying to pull his chest skin off, and beating it with the most painful part of the loafer. So I think that's safe.

About the TIME thing, I think they explained why they gave it to Achewood quite satisfactorily in the little blurb on the website, and I wish people would just shut the fuck up with the semantics already.

RobbieOC · « **Reply #3 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 19:59 »

I was just bringing it up as a discussion topic. I could care less what Time thinks.

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #4 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 20:03 »

I love Cornelius' absolute suffering and despair turning into burning, insane rage at his new tattoo. I fully support this thread.

Tom · « **Reply #5 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 20:21 »

Quote from: RobbieOC on 20 Dec 2007, 19:59

I was just bringing it up as a discussion topic. I could care less what Time thinks.

Even so, if you did, you'd have a lot trouble figuring out what the hell they are thinking. Srsly, Putin, person of the year?

Back on topic, Star Wars

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KharBevNor · « **Reply #6 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 20:40 »

You know person of the year isn't a praise thing? It's simply an estimation of who has been the most essential to the news this year.

I sugfgest that cornelius needs to enter the great outdoor fight so that someones ruips the tattooo off woth their bare hands

SeanBateman · « **Reply #7 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 20:59 »

Achewood as best comic of the year is really awesome!

Ozymandias · « **Reply #8 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 21:08 »

Time is a terrible magazine these days, though. Their number one medical breakthrough of the year is that circumcision decreases your transmission of getting HIV.

That is a terrible breakthrough. Chopping on dicks will not help much!

Wait, hold on.

Cornelius is a man. And a bear. And he will fuck up that damned tattoo. Godspeed, Mr. Bear.

Emaline · « **Reply #9 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 21:41 »

Quote from: KharBevNor on 20 Dec 2007, 20:40

I sugfgest that cornelius needs to enter the great outdoor fight so that someones ruips the tattooo off woth their bare hands

I'm waiting for him to do it himself.

I don't know how I feel about the whole Achewood getting mentioned in Time thing. I mean, its super awesome that it's getting the publicity that it deserves and everything, but I don't know.... I don't really like people saying how great it is and everything, while they don't get the jokes.

SeanBateman · « **Reply #10 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 21:55 »

How do you know whether or not they get the jokes? Are you some sort of joke queen?

Ozymandias · « **Reply #11 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 21:57 »

I think if you can tolerate reading Achewood at all, you're getting the jokes.

In my experience, anyone who doesn't get it seems to have a seething hatred of Achewood.

SusurrusIgnoramus · « **Reply #12 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 22:04 »

that's because those who don't get it secretly know the rest of us are better than them.

Emaline · « **Reply #13 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 22:05 »

Quote from: Dirk Hopeless on 20 Dec 2007, 21:55

How do you know whether or not they get the jokes? Are you some sort of joke queen?

No, but my boss, who I tried to get to read Achewood a long time ago, and who then didn't like it, read it again because of the mention in Time, and now he loves it. He is not the first person I encountered that was like that. I mean, I've tried to get plenty of people into it, who just didn't understand it then, and who told me it was ridiculous, or silly, or stupid, and now they are all over it because its "the next big thing".

SeanBateman · « **Reply #14 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 22:09 »

Oh god, is Achewood selling out? Do I have to stop liking it now?

Shit.

Ozymandias · « **Reply #15 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 22:14 »

Achewood isn't the next big thing.

Also, two years ago I would've told you Achewood was shit. Then I actually forced myself to sit down and read it from beginning to end and I love it. I think you have to be in the right kind of state to get it and enjoy it. It doesn't work as a one-off gag strip, but if you don't read it regularly, it just feels like a terrible one.

Emaline · « **Reply #16 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 22:22 »

Alls I'm saying is I'm not really sure how I feel about the Time article. I doubt I would really give two shits less if Achewood did sell out, and Ray and Roast Beef started doing commercials for Arby's(because my god, that'd be hilarious.), but I'm not really sure how I feel about people all the sudden loving Achewood because of the article. It's like, it's always been good, why just love it all the sudden?

Anyway, whats everyone's favorite story arcs? I really love the party one.

SeanBateman · « **Reply #17 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 22:24 »

A lot of people probably haven't been exposed to Achewood, seeing as it's a webcomic and all and a lot of people don't read webcomics.

Emaline · « **Reply #18 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 22:31 »

Look, I'm sorry I'm such a nerd that my mind is still blown when people don't know about pretty popular webcomics, or webcomics at all.

Ozymandias · « **Reply #19 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 22:33 »

I hear there's one of them funny page strips on the world wide internet about these two young men who play video games.

They say it's quite the berries.

thehollow · « **Reply #20 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 22:36 »

My favorite arc is probably the Great Outdoor Fight or the Mexican Magical Realism one. Also Beef, Metrosexual.

Emaline · « **Reply #21 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 22:49 »

Beef, Metrosexual is a great one. "Who's fat? Me (I am)" That strip alone always makes me giggle, at least.

Phillipe For America, and Ray's Toilet Party are pretty great too. I really liked the recent Todd one too, but I love Todd.

thehollow · « **Reply #22 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 22:54 »

I love the "weezer having a kid with an iMac" one, it never fails to make me laugh. Also the baby onesies strip, Beef's judgment when it comes to tshirt slogans is hilarious.

Boro_Bandito · « **Reply #23 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 22:56 »

Quote from: Ozymandias on 20 Dec 2007, 21:08

Time is a terrible magazine these days, though. Their number one medical breakthrough of the year is that circumcision decreases your transmission of getting HIV.

Not contributing, I know, and I'm sorry, but just to talk about that for a minute, if all the men in Africa had their penises circumsized and used condoms, it could decrease the transmission of HIV by as much as half, and preventing AIDS from happening anymore is a pretty significant breakthrough, even if we still have no helluva way to cure the disease itself.

Ozymandias · « **Reply #24 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 22:58 »

Cutting off their entire dicks reduces AIDS transmission by as much as 100%.

How about we get the condom part going and the whole education thing working before we start cutting on people?

Emaline · « **Reply #25 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 23:06 »

Quote from: Ozymandias on 20 Dec 2007, 22:58

How about we get the condom part going and the whole education thing working before we start cutting on people?

Agreed. I'm not a fan of circumcision at all.

Now, can we talk about Achewood in this thread, and maybe move the circumcision discussion elsewhere?

Ozymandias · « **Reply #26 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 23:10 »

Teodor is not circumsized.

SeanBateman · « **Reply #27 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 23:12 »

Circumcised penises are just much more attractive guys, sorry.

Also I haven't read the Achewood Archive in a long ass time.

Boro_Bandito · « **Reply #28 on:** 20 Dec 2007, 23:20 »

They are also overall more sanitary in general beyond prevention of AIDS.

I've been reading through Achewood archives slowly over the past week, felt like I need to know what the hell everyone is talking about all the time.

öde · « **Reply #29 on:** 21 Dec 2007, 00:06 »

Quote from: Dirk Hopeless on 20 Dec 2007, 23:12

Circumcised penises are just much more attractive guys, sorry.

Your opinion is wrong!

I don't know what my favourite arc is, there as so many good ones.

Johnny C · « **Reply #30 on:** 21 Dec 2007, 00:15 »

Quote from: Ozymandias on 20 Dec 2007, 22:58

Cutting off their entire dicks reduces AIDS transmission by as much as 100%.

How about we get the condom part going and the whole education thing working before we start cutting on people?

Some people do it for religious reasons you know. Just throwing it out there.

Anyways. Achewood is the best thing.

Ozymandias · « **Reply #31 on:** 21 Dec 2007, 00:17 »

If all African dudes become Jewish, I have no problems with dick mutilation.

Though I do have to wonder what the fuck is wrong with God.

SeanBateman · « **Reply #32 on:** 21 Dec 2007, 00:20 »

Back to Achewood.

Talk to me about cornelius.

A friend of mine is concerned it's going to turn out to be temporary. I would be hella disapponted if it was.

thehollow · « **Reply #33 on:** 21 Dec 2007, 00:25 »

for Cornelius' sake I wish it were, but for the sake of the storyline I hope it's not. Maybe Ray will pay for laser removal or something, after Cornelius beats his ass for letting him get it in the first place.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #34 on:** 21 Dec 2007, 00:47 »

I thought it may have been temporary as well, but it just seems like such a gigantic cop-out to do that that I fucking hope it's not, no matter what the ramifications for Cornelius are of it being real.

Ozymandias · « **Reply #35 on:** 21 Dec 2007, 00:59 »

Guys, look at this strip from 2004.

The dude at the front of the line.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #36 on:** 21 Dec 2007, 01:10 »

Yeah Nolan from the Internet has been in it a few times before his appearance at Lyle's coffee stall.

He was also one of the three "intellectuals" who dissect Pat's spiritual good-time folk performance

Stryc9Fuego · « **Reply #37 on:** 21 Dec 2007, 06:47 »

My favorite Achewood is this one. There's something about Roast Beef saying "My Fiesta Name is Pendejo." that cracks me up every time.

EDIT: I thought I'd just edit this post than going on with a new post: I forgot about this one where Teodor finds a business card taped to Philippe's candy bar. "I HOPE YOU BOIL IN A BUCKET OF GYPSY SHIT!"

hahaha

thehollow · « **Reply #38 on:** 21 Dec 2007, 07:03 »

hahaha I love the Fiesta Max ones! This One's probably my favorite of those. The last 3 frames crack me up every time I read it.

Katherine · « **Reply #39 on:** 21 Dec 2007, 07:11 »

Quote from: Ozymandias on 20 Dec 2007, 22:14

Also, two years ago I would've told you Achewood was shit. Then I actually forced myself to sit down and read it from beginning to end and I love it. I think you have to be in the right kind of state to get it and enjoy it. It doesn't work as a one-off gag strip, but if you don't read it regularly, it just feels like a terrible one.

I agree. A friend of mine is big into Achewood and would link me strips all the time. I always read them, and then wondered what on Earth was supposed to be so funny that he felt the need to link it to me. I finally sat down and read the archives a couple of months ago and now I love it. Its definitely not a comic you can just read occasionally and laugh hysterically.

SusurrusIgnoramus · « **Reply #40 on:** 21 Dec 2007, 07:24 »

as someone said on the comment board at achewood regarding connie's "tattoo"

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Portraying utter shame and remorse and then twisting that into feeling like a horse's ass isn't a copout.

It is PERFECTION.

my favorite part of today's strip is, in ray's mind, there is NO POSSIBLE WAY connie is crying. when something doesn't fit his perceptions, he comes up with the most random, roundabout ways of reconciling them, just so he doesn't have to challenge them.

thehollow · « **Reply #41 on:** 21 Dec 2007, 07:27 »

It kinda reminds me of Arrested Development or a similar show in that way. It makes hardly any sense if you were to come into it in like the third season, as so many of the jokes refer to previously established character traits or to things that happened in past episodes. But if you can sit down and watch every episode in order from start to finish, it's insanely good.

mberan42 · « **Reply #42 on:** 21 Dec 2007, 07:49 »

Dang, the tattoo is temporary.

This one is one of my favourites, as is this one.

thehollow · « **Reply #43 on:** 21 Dec 2007, 07:52 »

hell of such as meow

ohh man I love Beef

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #44 on:** 21 Dec 2007, 08:30 »

Man, excellent twist. Of COURSE Roast Beef has the Tron tattoo.

SeanBateman · « **Reply #45 on:** 21 Dec 2007, 10:24 »

Look at these johnny come lately mother fuckers with their favorite strips in 2007.

Pshaw

Katherine · « **Reply #46 on:** 21 Dec 2007, 10:50 »

That Philippe one with the bee costume is awesome, I love him so much.

Liz · « **Reply #47 on:** 21 Dec 2007, 11:28 »

I will always be partial to the arc with Philippe being possessed by Billy Idol, especially this strip.

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #48 on:** 21 Dec 2007, 11:57 »

I could probably never choose a favorite strip but this is definitely one I laughed at for a very long time.

Cartilage Head · « **Reply #49 on:** 21 Dec 2007, 12:15 »

I guess? There isn't really much to do with the rest of the arc in that one, just basically that Ray is horrible at telling jokes.

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