Yeah, the worst was waiting in what you thought was a bread line and it turned out to be for one of those guys selling apples for a nickel.

And you didn't have a nickel.

When I said "invoking," I meant "evoking." Shit. Onstad is gonna think I'm a real rube.

you've done well to use 'rube,' though, i think you'll get mad props for that.

Don't make it bad.
Take a hay bale, and make it better.

"Could be, doesn't have to be. A dude walks down the street and a plane lands on his head; he never did what mattered. Just sayin'."

"still though man slippery slope to a cradle a mortgage and a grave"

"You even think for a minute there's some better way to play it?"

Absolute true poetry. It was this last panel that made me get married. I mean, Ray is so right. It's an imperfect game, but there's no more beautiful game in the world.

I was half-thinking Envelope would have been able to go back to his original look after Ray and Beef razed the Acres. No shame in having lost a fight to a dude who became the ruling body.

Let's compare and contrast:

[IMGS OFF]

It might be that it's nearly a year and a half later, and judging by the fact he's able to afford living in Ray's neighborhood his "plastic surgeon" who "reattached his face" was "probably" "good." Who knows where he got his chica eyebrows and bathroom dye job? Maybe he thinks that's sufficient evidence, since Ray won the Fight, for all of his peers to believe Ray's story.

If Roast Beef marries Molly I'm totally going to be one of those soap opera-watching housewives all wearing my own veil and crying, like "Love is so beautiful."

I don't even care if he marries her. This arc could end, and I'm already crying. I'm glad I read the alt-text early on because otherwise I'd be having to think about "chica eyebrows and a bathroom dye job" through stifled tears and hells of emotions. That's some dialectical shit.

Beef sasses Ray about wedding snacks, again.

only if that cat is Roast Beef

Attention hackers: if you know how to hack the site so I can give this strip a 6, message me.

Roast Beef has such a quirky, off-beat, unexpected sort of genius. It's very endearing. I'd never think of a false advertising an ultra-patriotic free cheese sandwich as a means of ridding myself of pesky Christian fundamentalists and such, but he comes up with it just as easy as breathing.

Obviously I also would never think of proof-reading a comment before posting it.

it's a whole new level

LOVE IS REMEMBERING THINGS THEY SAY

OUT OF CHARACTER. Oh man don't go saying I jump over shark tanks that is hell of asinine

Hey, thanks for replying with some actual reasoning. That's dope. Anyway, I believe this strip is still within the standards of what we can expect of Achewood, since the comic has always shown a strong character development curve, and it has remained consistent with it. No one complained when Beef and Molly paired up, even if it was breaking the character stereotype of 'eternally depressed and socially incompetent'. A big part of what we appreciate in Onstad's work is how he managed to create endearing characters we can relate to, and then set them off to be free and grow.

Okay, okay. Am I at least allowed to say that this strip jumped the mountain?

did you think you were reading garfield or something? isn't there something else excellent you can ruin, like a birthday cake or a nest of baby birds?

Not at all. I actually found the last panel especially true to my own conflicting feelings on the subject. I think that, when it comes to large life decisions, we all have our inner Ray, indulgent, impulsive, all jumping into the ocean with no life jacket, as well as our inner Beef, shy, scared, all running from any challenge or gamble.

I guess what I am trying to say is that it is basically a thing.

Best Strip Ever.

You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work.

Just read it again...Cried again.

There is a very good chance that I should stop drinking.

Weekend Blogs (Friday - Sunday)

Onstad: Bacon No. 3: Carlton Farms Canadian-Style Bacon