I believe the monkey puppet represents the now largely maligned group of hipsters who, while aspiring to the likes of kerouac and cassidy, proceed to talk like total, anachronistic douchebags.

onstad is a comic genius

Thelonious Monkeyboy. Totally unappreciated. What gives?

Strange, I just said the same thing about the Flavor Flav strip two days prior to this one. However, I have to disagree with you in this case as Teodor would not say, "Oh, AIDS."

I laughed out loud at this, for longer than was really called for. Good work.

quasi-appearance in the second anniversary collage?

er, uh, I mean collage

you do not need to be a dick, sir

refrain, sir. refrain

yeah man putting that monkey in the strip is just a poor idea

Go Go Gadget Shut The FUCK Up

MONKEY BOY IS SO CONFUSED!

Damn! Monkeyboy is driving Phillipe's car! But it doesn't seem to call him a huge fag.

That fact just made this strip so much better. Big chubby hearts.

In one of the comics (http://chappie.stanford.edu/archives/1996-1997/this_land_america/american_nightmare_-_starring_monkey_boy/), it seems like Death even has Phillipe's shorts. What is Onstad trying to say?

"What gives?" indeed.

Just wanna break the point of the strip, but it was actually someone EATING a monkey that transmitted AIDS to humans.. And then them having sex.

AIDS monkey is a powerful aphrodisiac.

wow, eating a monkey and then proceeding to have intercourse with it is even more appaling... no thanks for that mental image

what came first... the monkey or the aids. these are the questions we need to be asking.

Another great strip from early on!

This is what sets Cornelius apart - he asks the important questions.

(I think it is a sock monkey)

I enjoy your icon immensely. Every time I click a link it goes into slow-motion.

The twin references made me laugh out loud. Chubby.

Yeah, that's the current theory. Monkeys eat crops and produce, starving subsistence farmers gotta eat the monkeys. They also fed slaughtered monkey carcasses to pigs. People on the edge of starvation make choices, you gotta respect it.

Wait, did people ever actually think AIDS came from someone screwing a monkey? I just assumed a monkey bit a dude.

I believe that folks still prescribe to this theory in the American South.

Personally, I like to believe that all terrible diseases start out with interspecies molestation.

Do you want to hear my theory on Swine Flu

PROUD TO BE AN EMT

You can't get HIV from eating infected monkey meat - unless you have a cut in your mouth. Also, monkeys are too dissimilar from humans for the virus to have come directly from them, without going via something more similar, like chimpanzees.

Interestingly, last year they traced the point where the virus spread from beast to man:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/may/26/aids.topstories3

"Forbidden bushmeats" sounds like something that would be more Pat's game than Ray's. /spoiler

I remeber them telling us about AIDS and HIV alot in middle school and HS (though out the 90's) and we all could never figure out the bit about monkeys

"The male latex condom, if used correctly without oil-based lubricants, is the single most effective available technology to reduce the sexual transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections" from WIKI. I remember being lied to repeatedly by every sex ed teacher I ever had about this.

That's because, technically, abstinence is. They're required to say that to get state funding.

no. they said in black and white "condoms DO NOT IN ANYWAY prevent AIDS at all." also who remebers "you would have to wear 70 condoms to prevent contracting aids" it was a bold face lie. not a technical thing.

70 condoms would also handily prevent orgasm.

Unless having sex with plastic bags is basically your thing.

Nothing can ever prevent orgasm. You'd may as well try to prevent...the ocean.

My, my... I hope you have a hoseable sheet/bedroom.

I do, and I hose them regularly.

With my hose.

That does NOT solve your problem. Your sexy, sexy problem.

If cumming all over everything I own is a problem, I don't want a solution.

Either way I found carpet cleaner works.

Correct. I wanna cum.

Correct. I wanna cum.

Happy we could give you a multiple.

Well, if Assetbar was going to screw up a post...

Also note Philippe's car

An aunt of mine once went out with a man who went by the same AIDS creation theory.

I don't think it's a "theory". I'm pretty sure that's accepted as the stone-cold way AIDS came about.

This strip begs to be read aloud. Aloud loudly.

Yes, see below as well.

My favourite 'first panel' in an Achewood comic

First appearance of the bloatee?

He ain't "of gravity!"
He's in good shape!

Monkey Boy was one of Onstad's characters from his college years:

http://chappie.stanford.edu/archives/1996-1997/freshman_number/donkeytown/

Look. He even has Philippe's car!

You are correct, sir.

I think that monkey may well have died of AIDs shortly after this strip.

alt text: she really listened to my problems, and we'd been drinking.