False, Blister Chinese was before this. Although you probably didn't remember, since you had that stipulation. I just had to be a dick to defend the comic that got meinto achewood.

IT'S ALL, CHING CHONG WING WONG.

little-known fact: what roast beef says is terrific but it is also of supreme humorous importance that pat says "I guess friends DON'T change" and that even without what beef said this would easily be a 4.3

Yeah, that was in another strip, wasn't it!

oh shiiiiiiiiiiit!

just a beautiful comment, 117 chubbies and rising...

Mega-chubby. I've yet to see a better comment on Assetbar.

This comment has so many well-deserved chubbies that even replies to it get chubbies.

Am I the only one who thought that it was a bit easy? No... real insight, there.

His handsome pork pie hat was da bomb, I know. Still haven't seen his Darwin Fish Tie ring.

Whoops. I thought I canceled that one.

I bet you just don't like the lead singer's eyeliner.

Ouch! Stop saying that you don't like the lead singer's eyeliner! Robert Smith cannot HEEEEAR YOOOOU!

get too far and you start to forget what you're running from

Let us not forget that Camelot is a silly place.

I really wish my friends hadn't ruined that movie for me. They said every line right before it came up. Now I cringe every time someone quotes it. I'll admit that its funny. I just can never appreciate it fully.

I... I just realized that I <i> am</i> that friend. For both movies.

<i>I AM NOT A RAD FRIEND.</i>

I did this too an ex of mine and Princess Bride. This may be why she is now an Ex.

Nine months have gone by and no one has pointed you towards Lawrence of Arabia.

would pat really like the cure, though? Moby wouldn't wear eyeliner... and i'm sure whatever makeup robert smith uses is tested on animals... y'know... out of angst.

yes, it is. friday im in love has to be the world's worst song, i think. however, i still like the cure.

In Acheworld, the size of your vocabulary is directly proportionate to your metaphorical twanger.

The secret of anatrim is that it is sugar pills and ana-rexia.

"Ruinous passion"

"Abhorred" used TWICE

Oh man.
This is TOTALLY WONDERFUL!

It's a bit like someone wrote a reasonable sales pitch, then went through it again with an open thesaurus, replacing words at random with bigger, more important sounding synonyms.

All your fat are belong to us.

i don't have a twanger. does that mean my metaphorical hoohoo is large? i most certainly hope not.

Me too. It is hard to be an Achewood-fan who likes The Cure. We should start a support group.

The cats these days do not have knobby elbows like they used to.

Ray in third panel is so awesome

i think this is one of the first strips in which the cats are regularly drawn with their mouths open when they speak.

How could a dick such as Pat like such a sensitive band as The Cure? How could he be a vegan? How can that much of a dick like hats?

His alt text betrays him.
Alt text: The Cure made a lot of good music.

So, do Ray and Beef do this to Pat because he's an asshole? Or is Pat an asshole because Ray and Beef do this to him?

And what are the Cure going to do about it, huh?

Out of curiosity, I checked out The Cure on Wikipedia. Both to my relief and regret, Achewood was not mentioned in the "The Cure in Popular Culture" section.

So you should've added it.

Hell, by Wish, even Disintegration, they weren't doing anything decent but come on Beef give Pornography a listen.

no way i love disintegration and wish. they lost me with blood flowers though.

disintegration at times but wish is totally for girls

Which word of Ray's do you emphasize in panel 3? I emphasize both instances of "silly."

"But Pat, the Cure is SILLY. It is SILLY to like the cure."

"The Cure" and "Wish" notwithstanding, I like the Cure. They were a good pop band, really. Although their earlier work, particularly the first album, was most certainly best.

The key to enjoying the Cure is to view the songs as genre exercises rather than taking the lyrics seriously. Love the silliness, and you can enjoy some killer songs.

I was going to say something to the effect of "I think it is okay to like the Cure as long as you realize they are silly" but I think I prefer the way you said it.

I've steered clear of them for most of my life, really without even trying. Around the people I grew up with, it was easy. They spit on The Cure. It just Wasn't To Be Played in our circles, and that was that. I didn't ask questions, mainly because I'd seen pictures of Robert Smith. That kinda made me less than curious. I have peripherally heard a few songs that didn't seem too bad. Regardless of how or why I've never been a fan, I feel somehow vindicated now. I have so many reasons to thank these cats.

by the way i really do like the cure

Only liberals like the cure!

every webcomic i've ever read mentions the Cure at least once. Hell, that's how i found xkcd and what led me to most others. Here's the math...
The Cure= sack of awesome flying puppies of awesomeness
webcomics= a good time had by all
ergo: The Cure webcomics = irrefutable proof of a just and merciful god.

(Come on, even when they 'suck' like in Wish, they're still better than most)

Hear hear!

Plus they're a million times better than the stuff the kids listen to these days. Um-buh-rella ella ella...

I nearly choked to death over this. I'm not going to drink while reading anymore.

I once spent some time pretending to like The Cure to appease a new girlfriend. Slowly, I pushed her towards liking something less silly like The Smiths.

My one regret is that when we finally broke up, I didn't yell after her "And I never liked the Cure anyway! It is silly to like the Cure!"

My god. I can't believe that I didn't vote this one a 5 earlier. I love RB's sass here.... I just wish that I had an opportunity to use it in real life.

I wish I was 239,000 miles from the Cure.

I just KNOW that some day in the future, someone will use that perfect sass line in total truthfulness.
They don't NEED to be on the moon, just 239000 miles from The Cure (who ideally would still exist at that point in time, or some other terrible band will have to be substituted in)

High School Breakups Dintergration= Perfect moping.