I concur.

how does this comic make you feel?

2004-2005 in my opinion. 2005 is funnier, but 2004 has the two best Nice Pete arcs.

The terror of small otters.....divine.

Your avatar makes this comment look somewhat absurd.

I thought that was from the Mickey Pancake, but then I didn't remember so many shock lines.

Completely. This strip is hanging in my home, immediately next to the door to my bed room. If someone doesn't like it, then they aren't welcome in my bed room. It's important.

"Extra stuff." That's some quality right there.

Do you know, I never thought of that. I guess he's a machine, he doesn't really put a great deal of thought behind it.

No one seems to. Maybe they've always pronounced it "Lé Bot" or something?

It's because he mixes it up. Look back through the archives, half of the time he's telling the truth.

I get the feeling that he's sort of thinking, "Huh. Well, wouldja look at that?"

Another interesting thing is the way that he is holding his sides as if he were laughing, but he is not laughing, just standing there in his bitching shoes, getting props from us plebs.

He maintains the pose for the entire strip. I see him as hooking his thumbs through imaginary belt loops, or around imaginary suspenders....

a SKELETON. So perfect.

Oh god, the intense screaming of Phillippe reminds me of how scared I was of skeletons when I was a kid.

I would have done this when I was about five or so.

Philippe's mouth opens differently now. Compare to http://achewood.com/index.php?date=10152001

He's also gained a button nose since then.

and 2 eyes made out of coal

Yet it's still kind of gross.

Oh, the terror!! Poor little guy...

The fact that he kneels in absolute mind numbing terror makes me gag with laughter.

The problem is, no one other animal is responsible for Philippe. His bringing-up is so inconsistent. Of course, that can be a good thing sometimes - lots of different influences. And Lie Bot *did* get him eating healthy again with the whole dinosaur eggs and king piss thing...

It takes a dysfunctional village to raise a dysfunctional child.

Your avatar displays this perfectly.

Semantics is just glorified word choice.

So you say.

(I later gave up on this battle of terms, but not before the avitaricon and variations were invented.)

shutup shutup

The battle of the very sophisticated avatars.

He looks so adorable in Panel 4

You get the distinct impression he's just going to keep screaming until he passes out due to lack of oxygen.

I like to imagine that he's perfected the method of screaming in abject terror while breathing IN. So he keeps screaming until he hyperventilates.

But the good news is, the whiskey works.

Since the next seven panels also go AAAAAAAA!... I like to think that Philippe in this strip sounds a bit like the dude in the Godfather who finds a horse head in his bed.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

I'm asphyxiating. This is what...I...my...brother...when he was five...BwahHAH!

This strip even translates well to telling it to a friend, no visuals. That's class.

:)

No child has ever felt terror like this before.

All children feel that terror, or they have had uninformed childhood(s).
It is the terror of Future Dead Person

Quite possibly my favorite ever. I would vote a 6 if I could.

Damn you, Lie Bot... damn you.

That door is shaped weird and would not open properly in real life.

How can anyone not love the Philippe vs. Lie Bot strips?

collapsing in sheer terror... poor Philippe.

Philippe is too old to believe in skeletons

Wow, This set up really could use a "review comment before posting feature." What I meant to say is Liebot is a smug, self-satisfied, vainglorious bastard.

Philippe here reminds me of snoopy.

Philippe's face actually ages from terror. That's what stress does.

In my acting class, we were working with emotion, specifically fear. "think of something terrifying." I let my mind wander for a quarter of a second. Skeletons are scary, I think.
I was reprimanded for my loud and inappropriate laugher.

this was the 1st strip i had the pleasure of coming across about 2 years ago.... i cracked up soooo hard. fan ever since.

YES.

INDEED.

FORSOOTH

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

A SKELETON!!

Oh, I dunno. Extra stuff?

Don't worry we can keep this going. Now tell me all the anachronisms of the 13th century prostitutes in rural England.

It was the pads with wings...nobody had wings in the 13th century...those crazy hookers.

Hookers wear feminine hygiene products?

The anachronistic ones do.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Hi, I am Philippe. Nice to meet you.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Are you guys available to perform at parties? This is pretty fantastic.

Oh yeah, yeah, we sure are...

but only if the party took place a month ago!

Car of pain etc

If only I had but one more Chubby to give.

Sixteen times.

A chubby for the doc.

Maybe we should have a reunion tour!

Whenever I see this strip, I immediately want to pair it with this strip.

Fucking. Hell. Yes.

Thank you for making this poor-with-computers guy smile, smile, smile.

the way that lie bot is in the last panel reminds me of a cold, emotionless killer.