Yeah, maybe he read the atl text, eh?

Oh crap! I meant "alt text."

Shit.

Good call. The weapon that made us effective hunters.

What, anthrax?

What we see in the last panel is almost beyond mere circumstances, quite frankly

You know someone's from beyond circumstances when the very mention of their infancy causes them to seize up and go blank. This is a tragedy.

... Well? How many nickels would you have!? Don't leave us hangin' here bro!

Oh god.

I think you mean the drawing of a bug does not in any way look like a nipple.

Instant 5 for that alone.
And a chubby for you.

Never has a webcomic caused my heart to sink. Figures Roast Beef's childhood flashbacks would do it to me... :(

is future dead person a cat and girl referance? probably not.

Thats what I thought.

Clarification - i DID think it was a reference. Damn, I hate this no editing your posts thing. sorry people

It's a reference to the common baby onesies that say "Future scientist" or "Future teacher" or whatever.

Ecamples:

http://www.littlebigboys.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=8
http://capitolshoppingmall.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=CSM&Product_Code=KTFPO
http://littlelefties.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=LL&Product_Code=FF_O

ah fuck it. just take my word for it. or google "future onesie"

who buys this stuff???

your mom

I wish, no-one would have fucked with me at kindergarten if I'd worn those.

You wore onesies in kindergarten??

I wouldn't buy that fake punk bullcrap, but T-Shirt Hell used to have one with a camo print and a helicopter, with a M*A*S*H-style font that said "Yeah, I was in the shit." If I ever have a baby, I would totally get that for him or her.

Beef's...

what does that have to do with anything?

the last panel is probably the saddest thing I've ever seen. Also, beef had hair?

It's less worrying if you think that it is hair, yes. I personally believe it to be something somewhat... darker.

I was just thinking the exact same thing. I was frightened.

"Is that hair? Or.... Oh my God..."

"future dead person" haha man i would put all my children in that thing it is hilarious.

Yessir, that horribly blank look as he spirals back down Awful Memory Lane makes the strip.

The action lines, as though he were recently pole axed.

FUTURE DEAD PERSON. As a shirt.
Seriously, I would buy it. It's funny because it's true, we are all future dead people.

While I find most of these things funny, this is one of the only ones that made me laugh out loud, thanks to the last panel.

Onstad's psychosis is clearly emerging.

I e-mailed Chris to tell him that I would totally buy a "Future Dead Person" baby onesie, and lamentably he replied that it was pretty unlikely that they would produce it.

"Pretty unlikely" is no excuse not to try

this is the best one

This might be the saddest Achewood strip of all time...

This is my single favorite one-off achewood strip. Just sayin'.

This one went from funny to funny and depressing.

Check and mate, Molly.

Is that a piece of poop at the bottom of the bag?

It's his foot

Ah, I see it now.

Maybe tail?

I am simultaneously laughing at crying so much it hurts

crinkle crink crink crinkle crink

that is what did it for me

that is what did me in

god, that is positively heart wrenching

beef's mouth in panel three

and four

It took me awhile to realize for whom they were buying baby clothes.
In my defense, I read this for the first time two months ago so I missed a lot of the strip-to-life involvement.
Yet this is my shame.
Gub.

This strip explains more about Beef than all others combined.

I include all future strips in this sweeping generalization.

I particularly love the way that Beef's entire body locks up as the memories come back to him.

They are both alive now, so they both have won.

This was my first. It's so beautiful.

Also, baby Beef has hell of gangly legs.

Hell of sad and poignant, yo.

I think I saw that last panel on Animal Precinct.

And if I ever become crazy enough to think I can rear a child, I'm definitely buying it a "Future Dead Person" onesie.

:<

five'd for 'future dead person.'
and..the horrible flashback to Beef's kid-hood.

It's a step up from Dempster's I suppose.

The only reason I can actually read Pat's blogs is that I know he is a fictional character. If he were a real person I would be too disgusted.

There needs to be a onesie section in the shop. Not of these onesie's. Just onesie versions of Roast Beef's self derogatory shirts. I for one would happily buy a -I am the guy who sucks. Also, I have depression.- Onesie for my child, and let them sport it as I wear my "GOD DAMMIT WHAT AM I GOING TO DO ABOUT MY PROBLEMS" T.

The infant Beef cries for satirical novelists.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3nnOMFm1tQ

Molly! Why did you ask that!? You know better!

She was caught up in the moment. She wished she had the words back the second they left her mouth.

"So what if ___ is food, I ain't buggin" has entered the vernacular.

Leaving a comment here so I can come back to it easily. I'm probably gonna get a tattoo of Beef holding the 'future dead person' onesie. That's just too good.

Beef's hair doesn't really look like hair. It looks more like a pile of sludge on his head.

This strip makes me feel claustrophobic and short of breath at the last panel.
Every.
Single.
Time.

I realized Beef is techinally bald.

I've read this strip so many times and this is the first time I noticed that baby Cassandra is not in fact in the rain but merely squirming on the wood floor.

PANEL 6: oh no you dont, molly. oh now you dont.

Oh god... this is some seriously depressing shit. I need a drink.