This summarizes Nice Pete very well.

IT DID.

I totally thought I was losing my everloving mind just then.

I definitely just had a staring contest with that avatar.

That avatar scares the crap out of me, for some reason. I even jumped when I knew it was coming...

he's asked for it, but he didn't take it well.

His experience with Blister - especially the fact that he was unable to visit bloody retribution upon an already-dead critic - has soured Pete on the whole process.

The title of Nice Pete's next book, I assume.

Nice JTHM reference. Here, have a chubby.

It would fit in here.

Dude, the only way Roast Beef would buy that shirt is if someone had just threatened Weldon right before he went online shopping...

Or a thong.

Finally someone is scaring Pat!

I've been reading chronologically, and I'm pretty sure the last Nice Pete strip (where he and Pat are at the therapy session) is where this capitalization of verbs starting with "A" began. I wonder if Pete will retain this idiosyncrasy throughout.

i never Saw that before.

I don't think Pete's vocal capitalisation is alphabetical. It seems to be applied to things he considers Important.

Also: where does Pete live these days? Pat and Rod seem to share a house, so is Pete their rarely-seen roomie?

On one hand, Rod seems too level-headed to stand for such a thing. On the other, Pete definitely has an appreciation for Men having Times of Men (not to mention good Country etiquette), so maybe he makes an excellent flatmate?

for that matter, how do pat's glasses stay on?

electromagnets.

For some reason, I'm wholly amused that this is the strip that opens up the volume 7 book.

Panel 8 makes for a nice away message, especially when used on people who don't understand what auto-reply is.

Alt text: "Grade school would have been so much more interesting if we had had lines like this"

This is so very true.

I thought it said "grad school" for a while

It works either way, really.

Nice Pete's face in the last panel is the angriest face.

Pat's reaction here is fascinating. On one hand, he displays his typical arrogant and vicious sense of smug cultural superiority (echoed in other strips by his insistence that Beef rent his Noam Chomsky dvd and Pat's apparent preference for "intelligent" programming). On the other hand, he plays the ultimate philistine card by describing Picasso's work as "weird crap."

Pat is such a dick it boggles the mind. He manages to be an uncouth dick and a couth-and-don't-you-forget-it dick in the same strip!

To be fair though... Picasso's work IS just weird crap. It just happens to be entertainingly weird crap.

Of course not as awesome as Dali's weird crap.

Ahhh it is late (birds starting to chirp) and I am worn out, stoned. Apologies about this half-coherent slur.
I do stand by the "dimensions" bit, however.

Soticoto: he was never a couth dick.

If anyone can find a strip in which Pat is more hateful than in panel four here, I will reward them in theory.

I submit panel seven.

I submit his blog.

I agree! That finger-wagging thing...oooooh >=|

The text from panel four, along with an animated .gif made from the Daedalus_X strip, was my avatar for the longest time. One of the few tangible benefits from a humanities degree is knowing when not to spend your money on what is obviously a bad job.

what the fuck is up with Pat's arm in panel 7?

Good point. It looks from the angle like his arm is emerging from his groin.

Good call, I guess Onstad momentarily that anatomy was a thing.

For some reason I am fascinated by Nice Pete's lower jaw being under his upper while Pat's lower being over his upper.

I knew someone who would look over my shoulders and edit my papers as I was writing them. I wish I still lived with her, so I could use this line from the last panel.

Nice Pete has fantastic retorts.

There's only one Achewood character that I would like to see immeasureably removed from the strip... Pat, you win this honour.

Pat actually looks conciliatory in the last panel. To think it only took an occasionally mild-mannered serial killer to pull it off.

Nice Pete, why do I love you so?

nuh-uh, mister! *twirls finger*

Pat's so much more of an ASS than Pete. But Pete would kill him if need be

Man look at Nice Pete's face in that first panel. He's staring at Pat's hand as if it were reaching for his momma's throat.

You know he really means it

i find nice pete's armpit hair in panel three to be disturbing.

That is how to deal with critics

Real alt text:
I'm gonna punch the farts outta you

god, pat is a dick... Yes i know this has been stated many a time before but still...Jesus.

It seems that nice Pete is getting a weensy bit more or less sane.