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sncether » neu 2 years ago
Oh, Fuch! Philippe! Where did you find those AMC Movie Nachos?! I've been looking all over for those! ... Philippe?
blindspot » neu 2 years ago
[IMGS OFF]
zem » neu 2 years ago
I definitely come to achewood to have things explained for me


the dudes are going to a bar on friday and philippe seems to be home alone and needing attention
kenny » neu 2 years ago
Come on.
Onstad gives some seriously subversive and upsetting details/non-detail in this strip. He's BUILDING CHARACTER... that takes time.
meetzorp » neu 2 years ago
I think it's more for the sake of exposition - I sense a new story arc coming up.
farqussus » neu 1 years ago
Why, because someone wrote a paragraph in agreement?
deusoma » neu 1 years ago
I believe he was referring to the fact that history proved that this was not in fact the start of a new story arc, and was indeed just one weird throwaway strip.
scraggg » pro 2 years ago
Perhaps the wanton neglect of Phillipe is a just a joke unto itself.
steerpike66 » neu 2 years ago
Urg. I don't know about discussion. The posts are getting unwieldy to say the least. There's a lot of unthinking blah starting to appear; neither the brief, pithy fan-posts that make us laugh, nor the microscopic analyzes that make us think that the poster may be abusing his Ritalin again. Spelling mistakes and micro-feuds are cropping up doggs; this is all getting out of control.
rowboat » pro 2 years ago
"Micro-feuds," I can deal with. It's the spelling mistakes that make me itch.
silver_lake » neu 2 years ago
MAD FAT PERSON MAD AT A CARTOON ALERT EVERYONE GET ALERTED
poing » neu 2 years ago
REPAIR!!
poing » neu 2 years ago
here's the chorus to my new single Trial Loving:TRIAL LOVINGGGGGGG/JUST A..."TEST RUN FUCKING"
afkpuz » neu 2 years ago
This, right here, this is classic achewood. A flashback to the '04 days of yore.

You don't read strips like these for a chuckle. You read them for a confused chuckle. This is life, man!
jrpigman » neu 2 years ago
I didn't feel this strip was all that confusing. Phillipe got sassy on junk food and wrote a swear, and Beef, obviously jovial on juniper oil got a groucho stache for the amusement of some strippers. No doubt he was goaded into doing so by the sensuality of Destynee's purple easy spirit pumps.
spinynorman » neu 2 years ago
I find Philippe's singing and crooning to be kind of creepy. Repetition and stretching out words just... never sounds right.
daidai » neu 2 years ago
You don't liiiiiiike it?

You don't liiiiiiike it when people talk like this?
jonbaltrusaitis » pro 2 years ago
Oh, daidai, you are hilarious. And that's a fantastic avatar too!
daidai » neu 2 years ago
Wah thank yah kandly. Thank yah kandly vury much.
spectre » pro 2 years ago
I think this is the beginning of a story arc. It reminds me of Phillipe at the Transfer Station.
blastradius » con 2 years ago
I don't refer to the basic premise of the comic - "dudes in bar, phillippe home alone". I refer to the point Onstad is trying to make. The comic feels hell of incomplete, rushed, addled. An idea he wasn't able to translate to strip form adequately.
wolfslice » neu 2 years ago
no man, this is the best strip achewood's had in 2 months. The joke is that Philippe has a bad life.
unquotable » neu 2 years ago
i get it
killingthejay » neu 2 years ago
chubby for the avatar of ahmedigetitinejad.
nokidding » neu 2 years ago
give it time! this could turn out to be a long and involved arc... when phillipe went to find the couch at the dump, very little was explained in that first strip either.
dovey » neu 2 years ago
Although to be fair he did explain that it was going to be a story arc in the alt-text. Not that I would expect him to it again here.

I voted this a 3 but if it turns out to lead on to a good storyline, I'd be happy to retcon it up another point!
audhumla » pro 2 years ago
you crazy. the lack of explanation makes it fantastic. you must not remember that chick named tyrone
sargasm » neu 2 years ago
I don't need to have these things explained to me because I PAY ATTENTION. I PAY ATTENTION.
thesyndicate88 » pro 2 years ago
I work for AMC. Even at employee pricing, I tend to avoid said nachos. lol
daidai » neu 2 years ago
Nachos in a movie theatre aren't nachos. They're chips that got too old to be sold as chips.
thesyndicate88 » pro 2 years ago
Hey our chips are fine. It's the cup of yellow-orange 'cheese' sauce that scares me.
daidai » neu 2 years ago
I did not mean to offend you -- or your chips.

I apologize for my senceless remark.
stormagnet » neu 2 years ago
Is it true that they make that stuff out of some kind of synthetic polymer?
thorfinn » neu 2 years ago
Actually, it's made out of the stuff left over after they club a baby seal and turn it's skin into a coat, mixed with the runoff waste from the SPAM factory.
catgrl131 » neu 2 years ago
Nuh-uh! I heard it's made from unicorn tears and the blood of virgin babies.
lateadopter » neu 2 years ago
There are places one could go from the implied rareness of virgin babies, but all of them are bad.

- wishes he had eaten movie-house nachos while watching Saw rather than reading that comment
loneal » neu 2 years ago
Maybe she means blood from babies born from virgins. Which is pretty much just Baby Jesus. So unicorn tears, and Jesus blood, but from when he was a baby.
catgrl131 » neu 2 years ago
Nope, I meant virgin, unspoiled babies.
But, yes, there are traces of baby Jesus blood.
selbencoirlo » neu 8 months ago
It's okay you can use wine as a replacement if you don't have any Jesus blood.
possums » neu 2 years ago
...nice icon.
straw » neu 2 years ago
You know, I think spelling fuck, "fuch," is kind of dumb.
sncether » neu 2 years ago
Philippe's compressed K looks like an H to me. I'm happy to spell fuck. Fuckity fuck fuck kcuf. crap
rowboat » pro 2 years ago
Well, since we're all just spinning our wheels and filling this board up waiting for Onstad to convalesce, I will again assert my belief that "fuck" or "fuch" was written by The Boys. Not the boy.

I'm so sick of this strip.
straw » neu 2 years ago
A general consensus, I think, as the rating has dropped.
pox » neu 2 years ago
<:C
straw » neu 2 years ago
That's some serious gas there are you protein boosting?
flazisismuss » pro 2 years ago
I'm confused. Did Phillipe go to the strip club? Is that someone else or does Beef have an iron cross pasted on his face? What kind of monster would abandon nachos on a floor?
sncether » neu 2 years ago
Philippe was left alone in the house while the boys went out on the town. Unfortunately, he got a little rambunctious (possibly on the ol' not-water-juice) and apparently got into Lyle's supply of AMC Movie Nachos, from when he was working the snack stand, and also found what appears to be a magic marker. The question is, did he sniff that magic marker to get high, or merely write a profanity, truncated due to space? I think most of us learn the spatial requirements of the word "Fuck" around the time of middle school marble notebooks, but apparently Philippe's disillusionment is a bit more rapid. I hope that this has been of assistance to you.
scramblesthedog » pro 2 years ago
Excellently explained.
bojangles » neu 2 years ago
An explanation of excellent quality.
lucidz » neu 2 years ago
While its quite obvious you explained the Phillipe side of things, I do not believe you have adequately described how Roast Beef got from A. to B.

Kudos on the Phillipe interp. though. I skipped it in my version, since I was stumped!
pyromancer » neu 2 years ago
Except that Phillipe doesn't live at either Ray or Beef's house, so don't tar them a negligent caretakers. They're just innocently enjoying life.
peterjoel » neu 2 years ago
Lyle, Cornelius and Vlad(?) can be seen in silhouette at the same bar as Beef and Ray. I don't see Teodor and I suspect he is home, absorbed with his computer (work or pleasure), and not giving Philippe any attention.
peterjoel » neu 2 years ago
Also, I like that Lyle brought his own bottle to the bar.
rowboat » neu 2 years ago
I don't know why I feel the need to speak up about this, but people keep assuming that it's Vlad and I have to say that, unless Vlad left his hair at home, that is Lie Bot.

Sorry. The seemingly widespread confusion about this was starting to irritate me. Carry on.
peterjoel » neu 2 years ago
Damnit you're right. We haven't seen either of them for so long, it's easy to forget
carten » neu 1 years ago
A lot of strip joints across the Midwest are B.Y.O.B.
somanywhales » neu 2 years ago
Did you get into the sodium pentothal?
relaxing » neu 2 years ago
But let me ask you this: have you ever been drunk?
tommycrashwreck » neu 2 years ago
[IMGS OFF]
gormster » neu 2 years ago
I think the answer is a resounding 'yes'.
thorfinn » neu 2 years ago
If drinking interferes with your work, you're probably a heavy drinker.
If work interferes with your drinking, you're probably an alcoholic.
heccibiggs » con 2 years ago
Either you're lying to sound cool, or you drink-drive. Whichever it is, incredibly lame, dogg.
lost_buoy » neu 2 years ago
Do we even want to know what the age of first cousin consent is in your state?
tekende » pro 2 years ago
ZING!
irondave » neu 2 years ago
Not to mention that is the U.S. Federally arm-twisted level in many States.
thorfinn » neu 2 years ago
Actually, depending on individual body chemistry, some people reach .08 on 2-3 beers. That's domestic, not micro. I know people, myself included, who are safe to drive at or near .08, and I also know people who are not safe at .05, it all has to do with how your body reacts to alcohol.
clembot » neu 2 years ago
no one is safe to drive at 0.08, only idiots. there is no discreet point between safe and unsafe. any increase in alcohol simply increases the chance of dying. even driving sober is not that safe if you think about it.
rowboat » pro 2 years ago
Mom?
irondave » neu 2 years ago
Quote:
even driving sober is not that safe if you think about it.


I urge you to stay at home.
wulvaine » neu 2 years ago
All right. We give. She's a sanctimonious killjoy. (She is not a sanctimonious killjoy)

And you're a drunk.
streever » neu 2 years ago
Why you all hating on the guy with alchoholism you know it is not rad to have alchoholism.
tragicone » neu 2 years ago
I am certainly not. Drinking is fine. It is his choice. He is the one who has to deal with it not you. Unless you worry for your family, in which case ask him where he lives and tell your family never to go there... oh wait people drive drunk everywhere.
heccibiggs » neu 2 years ago
Yeah, I agree, it IS his choice. He's free to put whatever he wants into his body, I don't care, you're right, he's the one who has to deal with the consequences.

But when you drink-drive, that's when you go beyond just endangering yourself. You're endangering every single person you go near, and that is NOT okay.
dovey » neu 2 years ago
Dude it's totally an ankh
cpnglxynchos » neu 2 years ago
ankh-ankh!
mortshire » pro 2 years ago
ankh-morpork!
buttermoths » pro 2 years ago
The Big Wahooni!
hbaranov » neu 2 years ago
That Chubby you got, that chubby is Terry Pratchett's.
wulvaine » neu 2 years ago
Care for a sausage? Inna bun?
ellie » neu 2 years ago
Onna stick.
wulvaine » neu 2 years ago
Depends. Which Dibbler are we quoting here? Dibbler? Dhblah?
buttermoths » neu 2 years ago
Swallow-Me-Own-Blowdart Dhlang-Dhlang? May-I-Never-Achieve-Enlightenment Dhiblang?
Disembowel-Meself-Honourably Dibhala?
phthoggos » neu 2 years ago
Wow, Promethea #12 reference. Ballsy.
wolfslice » neu 2 years ago
hmm. My take was that all that trash was left over by the gang before they took off to the strip club, and philippe wanders in expecting someone to OK his disneyland wish and instead finds the last panel.
sainttim » neu 2 years ago
I thought this too. Now I dont know what to think about anything.
dovey » neu 2 years ago
I'm with you wolfslice. You slice of wolf, you.
philipmarschall » neu 2 years ago
I would proffer this explanation for Philippe's spatial problems: he is upset, and is writing a swear to take out his anger, but by the end, his five-year-old judgment gets the better of him and he feels ashamed to finish the word in its entirety. We all know how Philippe is around swears.
dickie_roxx » neu 2 years ago
But saying cusses is power!
clembot » neu 2 years ago
You're wrong. The marker was used to draw the fake mustache and eyebrows on beef, and the fact that it's uncapped and the writing of fuck on the piece of paper are because the guys were pregaming before they left the house.
whuppins » pro 2 years ago
Beef became Groucho by ducking into a bathroom and drawing on heavy eyebrows and a mustache with a magic marker. Whether this has anything to do with the magic marker in the last panel, I'm not sure.
featurelessvoid » neu 2 years ago
Thanks, now it makes more sense. I thought the "do it" referred to what Beef had been talking about in panel 2: urinating "into a little plastic toy cube if someone asked [him] to." I thought, wow, um, good for him, sort of. But I secretly wondered what on earth had happened to his face.
catgrl131 » pro 2 years ago
Actually, I think they're stick-ons. Look at the eyebrow overlapping the edge of the face.
paperboy_2000 » pro 2 years ago
I have an alternate explanation. May not be more or less right than sncether's, but it's the way I read it.

Philippe has indeed been left alone in the house, but he hasn't realized this yet. The fact that he is coming through a door from the right in Panel 3 and speaking from the right of Panel 6 makes me believe that he is walking in on the detritus of the pre-party held by the boys before they left for the strip club.

The contrast is between the special future that Philippe believes awaits him and the dirty reality that really does. He is about to be reminded that he is not the center of the universe, not even the center of his little household who have all abandoned him for the evening. His lofty dreams of a sparkling Disneyland will soon be replaced by the base yearnings for any form of escape from the demands of adult life, those same yearnings that have taken hold of his companions.

I made myself sad.
straw » neu 2 years ago
Well, minus the psychoanalysis, this is the viewpoint I subscribe to.
blindspot » neu 2 years ago
I fully endorse this interpretation.


alreadyinuse » neu 1 years ago
Indeed! Further supporting this interpretation is the fact that Beef is wearing a mask - a mask is inherently symbolic of 'yearnings for any form of escape from the demands of adult life,' - a Groucho mask especially so.
autrepoupee » neu 2 years ago
oh my god philippe eternally wandering around an empty house slowly realizing that he's not special and children are forgotten quicker than old cake is like so many alternate universe garfields. why am i so sad now what have you done FUCK this week ;____(
sncether » neu 2 years ago
Do you know, I believe you may be right. Not because of Philippe's entrance and exit points, but mostly because of the magic marker and Roast Beef's Groucho Marx-face (although I originally took those for prosthetics). It's the bloody glove, Philippe is the victim, and Harper's 27 Women is the white Ford Bronco. I think we will have to stay tuned for the next strip to find out who the Real Killers are. Or maybe we'll just get a return of the golf blog instead, to really keep the analogy going.
sncether » con 2 years ago
No, wait, that doesn't make sense, because Roast Beef clearly says he put on the stache and eyebrows in the bathroom. I still think you might be right though.
blindspot » neu 2 years ago
The gang had a six pack of markers. They left the one they killed already and took the rest to the club.

That's how you do up a Friday night correct.
bjorntd » neu 2 years ago
Indeed. It's a method of turning the mother out.
error23 » neu 2 years ago
I can't help but notice a prevalent theme of loss of innocence in Achewood lately. One of the things I love about Achewood is it's emotional range - in addition to being funny, it can also be mysterious, surreal, darkly funny, and down right depressing at times. Truly, it is not a comic for the faint of heart!

Then again, this strip does seem to offer a little consolation - sure, the contrast of the grownup's (are cats and stuffed animals grownups?) sleazy Friday night debauchery against Phillipe's bright and innocent dreams is a little disheartening... but, a future that allows for the opportunity of turning oneself into Groucho Marx on a drunken whim isn't all that bad of a future at all! Perhaps, rather than seeing a sobering contrast between Phillipe's imagined special future and the dirty reality that actually awaits him, we're really seeing more of a mapping from childlike delight in the unattainable prospect of a trip to Disney world to the easily attained grownup delight in... um... getting puzzled on some brews at a strip club.

Oh dang, I just made myself sad, too.
avery86 » neu 2 years ago
You could, you know, stop reading the comic. Just a suggestion since you seem to dislike it so much.
dezufnocosem » neu 2 years ago
woah twin vibes
dezufnocosem » neu 2 years ago
why don't you just stop reading achewood. always comin in here, harshin my mellow, not cool man
gormster » neu 2 years ago
neonfreon, you forced me to do this.

*Ignore User*
peterjoel » neu 2 years ago
What exactly are you doing to convince him to stop? Letter bombs?

Or maybe your plan was to get so many lames that Assetbar's server explodes under the strain?
paperboy_2000 » pro 2 years ago
No, I think you're on to something. We have a (literal) backdrop of grind zombies, piss, and girls named Tyrone. But Ray and Beef are taking part in the kind of foolishness that would thrill Philippe. So, yeah, Philippe may have to lower his expectations a bit, and learn that children aren't so special that they're the only ones that enjoy drawing on Groucho eyebrows for a night on the town.
tragicone » neu 2 years ago
the man had the best graphic novel as named by times last year. I think he is allowed some artistic freedom.
flazisismuss » neu 2 years ago
Huuuuugs all around. You can't be truly sad when reading a Phillipe strip. Still, your analysis makes a great deal of sense. Phillipe's pain in this strip is caused by his isolation, caused by his lack of worldly urges. Ray's and Beef's pain is caused by their worldly urges. Pain, regret, and death are what await us all. Except Phillipe, who is Five.
featurelessvoid » neu 2 years ago
I think this strip is all about Philippe's realization of his own mortality. It's about the horrible awareness that some day he will wake up and find himself Six.
johnnyc » neu 2 years ago
Actually, my personal theory is that he is now Six.
cpnglxynchos » neu 2 years ago
if this is true, a few questions arise.

one, will Six be a huge impact? will Philippe still run the Olympic torch? (for that matter, will everyone's future projections still come true? Beef singing and Ray losing his ears? is my avatar now viable to conscription to the flames?) i can hardly imagine Six being the same as Five. after all, they're COMPLETELY different numbers and Philippe knows it. (i suppose it can/will be argued that though his age may change, being A Special Boy never will.)

two, when the dogg is his birthday?
(answer- it's in some blog that i'm not looking for right now.)

seven, which is after six.

and ten: 'grind zombies' will be the main enemy in an upcoming movie featuring Tony Hawk, yes?
johnnyc » neu 2 years ago
He has been Five for the entire run of the strip, hasn't he? And Five for an undetermined period of time before that. He may well be around Seven or Eight by the time Beef becomes Groucho Marx in the big club bathroom in the sky.
cpnglxynchos » neu 2 years ago
in very, very small subtext below the original story of Creation in Genesis, it speaks of how God made Philippe Five before anything else and for a time, it was Good. then God decided to make the Earth for Philippe to Enjoy and then said He wasn't "going to be selfish" and chose to make Man such as to share Philippe with.
gormster » neu 2 years ago
So - wait. This is a just, what, a footnote in Genesis? Like an aside? That seems like important information.

But then, maybe God just figured we would assume it to be the case. To think Man thought himself important!
cpnglxynchos » neu 2 years ago
dogg don't even suggest that rewriting history such as leaving bits like Philippe out hasn't been a Thing in religion.
heccibiggs » neu 2 years ago
I was thinking about this. Like, the whole "Phillipe is five." thing, and how everyone's worried he's going to grow up.

Well, of course he's not going to grow up. He's a stuffed animal. They don't tend to age.

They don't tend to walk and talk and run for President either, but you get my drift.
loneal » neu 2 years ago
Philippe's birthday is August 22nd.

I know this because it is also the birthday of my ex-boyfriend. Like Philippe, he had a birthday every year, but never got any older.
gormster » neu 2 years ago
zing!
fattybeaver » neu 2 years ago
I think the whole spirit of this strip is about how men never change. No matter how old you get as a man, all you want to do is walk around and do and say whatever crazy pointless shit you want and also it is ok to throw your trash on the ground.
heccibiggs » neu 2 years ago
Every time I see your avatar I can't help but notice how much BIGGER her righty is.
tekende » neu 2 years ago
WHOA
heccibiggs » neu 2 years ago
Right??
spinynorman » neu 2 years ago
Meh. Nobody's perfect.
skoora » neu 2 years ago
They may not be perfect, but they are beautiful.
dovey » neu 2 years ago
Hell of zen, dogg
fattybeaver » neu 2 years ago
Also its easier to lie to yourself and say "yea, they could be real"
heccibiggs » neu 2 years ago
I think they are real. I don't think fake ones would jiggle so much. Plus, if you got fake tits, surely you would get them in EQUAL SIZES.
fattybeaver » neu 2 years ago
Meh, its an imperfect art, and I think we can all agree it is art.
lateadopter » neu 2 years ago
I think that's an effect of the lighting. The left one is in shadow, so it only appears to be smaller. Also, the model may be standing with her right shoulder slightly closer to the camera.

Try hitting ESC to freeze the GIF, then take out your calipers and measure each side on four axes. Repeat this exercise a few dozen times to reduce the impact of errors in measurement and the particular point at which you froze the GIF. Report back with 3-page analysis by Thursday.
tekende » pro 2 years ago
Shit, man! I had plans this week, and they didn't include homework!
fattybeaver » neu 2 years ago
Everytime I see my avatar I think how lucky I am to be born a man, because I dont think I would like people calling me butch or a dike very much.
catgrl131 » neu 2 years ago
I'm a straight chick, but still...those tits are friggin' mesmerizing
chuvak » neu 2 years ago
Tits.
lateadopter » neu 2 years ago
No, dude. Goooood Tiiiiiits!
ninjaein » neu 2 years ago
I'm out of chubbies to give, but rest assured I'm currently engaged in side-splitting laughter.

Thanks for making my day! =)
usversusthem » neu 2 years ago
oh shiiiiiiiiiiii
gormster » neu 2 years ago
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lastlarf » neu 2 years ago
I... I can't quite bring myself to chubby this. It makes me feel kind of bad. Sorry dude. It was good though. Maybe we can do a thing.
cpnglxynchos » neu 2 years ago
i am very glad i am wearing such large sunglasses at the library i am reading this at so nobody can see the tear this comment made escape mine duct.
solobuttons » pro 2 years ago
Saddest thing
dwodles » pro 2 years ago
Oh dammit, I wanted to chubby this. I'm sorry you didn't post this earlier. I really am.
steerpike66 » neu 2 years ago
You, sir, are correct. All other interpretations shall heretofore be the object of scorn.
norrin » neu 2 years ago
I didn't understand until now. Thank you.
spinynorman » neu 2 years ago
Man, at first I thought Harpers' was advertising "Dangers," not "Dancers." To me, if a bar has pool, liquor, and dangers, then it seems likely that there will be one or two individuals of the vaginal persuasion there as well, though probably not the sort you can discuss Gaugin with, I'd say.

Dangers would include that cool knife trick Bishop does from Aliens and bobbing for apples except its out of a flaming trash can, not to mention an amateur and spontaneous bout of tattooing.
spectre » pro 2 years ago
Yeah, I saw "Dangers" too at first.
jbushnell » neu 2 years ago
I thought that Harper's Women was some kind of spinoff from Harper's Magazine
madnes » pro 2 years ago
Harper's Bizarre.
divot » neu 2 years ago
For a moment I thought it was a subtle comment on the proclivities of my Prime Minister.

Then I remembered that Canada is pretty pointless in the grand scheme of things.
fattybeaver » neu 2 years ago
Maybe by danger they mean they wont cut you off? For me, that would be danger.
hateandwar » neu 2 years ago
TO BE CONTINUED?!
mysterymeat1001 » neu 2 years ago
I think Philippe went to Disneyland in his imagination. He pretended that he bought the leftover movie drink and nachos at the Hungry Bear Restaurant.

The "Fuck" sign is for holding up to the camera as you're going down Splash Mountain.
tekende » neu 2 years ago
I don't understand this comic. I'm scared.
zem » neu 2 years ago
so what do you think of today's achewood, neonfreon?
wilto » neu 2 years ago
Listen: I hope you fall down.

I'm not saying I want you to get hurt. I just wish upon you the whole "fall, hop right back up, embarrassedly look around for witnesses, realize you were sort of a jerk on the internet, and keep walking" routine.
hurfusdurfus » neu 2 years ago
The worst thing about the "ignore user" feature is that it doesn't completely erase their comments from existence, it just greys them out - thus highlighting them even more and just making me curious to see the car wreck I know awaits. Its like the temptation to scroll below any youtube video and view the idiocy that lies beneath.

Of course I don't have to click on it, but I just can't resist you know - it's exactly the same with comments that have been lamed to oblivion. I need something more effective, more permanent here.
tekende » con 2 years ago
Oh, thanks for clearing that up, dude.
the_voice » pro 2 years ago
I hate it when I try to write 'FUCK' on a piece of computer paper but I didn't leave enough room and my 'K' just looks like shit.
satellitetv » neu 2 years ago
It really doesn't seem like something Phillipe would do, what's happening?
the_voice » neu 2 years ago
He's on some variety of caffeinated sauce, I expect.
rowboat » neu 2 years ago
Philippe wouldn't write "FUCK." No, never. On the other hand, everyone else in the house would do this. Maybe even simultaneously. That's all I can say for sure.

I can't remember the last time I was so confused by this comic. Maybe never.

My feelings on this asset are: Neu
ford » neu 2 years ago
i sure did puck a fucked up time to start eating mushrooms
ford » neu 2 years ago
it is important to understand that the above post was not just a funny thing to say, I was tripping hard and had no idea what the deal was with this strip. Hell, it confuses me sober.

All at the computer "Why are people so disappointed at Onstad? A snake rode a motorcycle seven miles"
cpnglxynchos » neu 2 years ago
i can imagine the man in your avatar saying the last sentence all in some Dirty Harry style voice...

[IMGS OFF]

perfect..
ford » neu 1 years ago
The man in my avatar is named Bill Hicks, and he is an incredible comedian who died in 1994. If you do not know his work, i implore you to find some. That said, I think i will now try to make that thing you made into my avatar
the_voice » neu 2 years ago
Oh I just an idea. Maybe Phillipe actually started to write "FUCK", but he started to feel guilty and the better angels of his nature took over. Hence the aborted, not quite-complete attempt.
paperboy_2000 » pro 2 years ago
Harper's 27 Women becomes your Disneyland when you reach that special age of 4 PM on a Friday.
bixschmix » neu 2 years ago
Whenever I go into a bar, I like to carry a sign that says "FUCK." Because you know, sometimes yelling it just isn't that satisfying. Or, conversely, sometimes you just want a little love. Conclusion: a "FUCK" sign is a useful accessory for any night on the town.
loneal » neu 2 years ago
Your avatar is my LiveJournal icon and I got SUPER confused for a second. I was like, "Where did I get this opinion?"
rowboat » pro 2 years ago
Is that a picture from when we totally kicked Britain in half? When they were all, "Do this," in a funny voice, and we were all, "No," in a regular voice? I heard about that.
dwodles » pro 2 years ago
Oh dammit! Damn all these delightfully entertaining comments so far down the page that I am out of chubbies. DAMN THEM!
daidai » neu 2 years ago
You are a king.
loneal » neu 2 years ago
No, no, he is a president. We don't do that king thing no more.
kodiakclock » pro 2 years ago
chubby for your super badass picture
ford » neu 2 years ago
I have a t-shirt with the Ford Logo on it, only instead of "ford" it says "fuck," and i find it useful for any night anywhere, especially given that Ford is my genuine first name.
tekende » neu 2 years ago
Is...is your last name Prefect?
daidai » neu 2 years ago
Is...is he Mos Def?
dovey » neu 2 years ago
what
falseprophet » neu 2 years ago
Man you need to get access to the album Black On Both Sides that shit is dope.
tekende » pro 1 years ago
On your recommendation, I did get this album. As well as The New Danger. I am not a rap or hip-hop fan but I very much enjoy both albums. Thank you for expanding my horizons, falseprophet.
ford » neu 1 years ago
It is way too late to hope anyone will read this, especially tekende, but I want to establish that my Mom admitted to reading the Guide in High School and i have established to my own satisfaction that she really couldn't have gotten the name anywhere else.

In short: I am totally named after Ford Prefect.
bixschmix » pro 1 years ago
1. That is so amazing that you get a chubby.
2. I first read Hitchhiker when I was in 6th grade. Every year my (crazy UU) church had a fundraiser where people read books and then dressed up like characters from them. I had to help my dad dress as Arthur Dent and my mom as Trillian... that was an awesome introduction to the world of Adams.
ford » neu 1 years ago
1. that is kickass
2. How does one dress up as two basic people all flung into space?
tekende » pro 1 years ago
Oh awesome ford that is so radical
lucidz » neu 2 years ago
"I went into the bathroom at home and took off all my clothes and looked in the mirror for five minutes. And I said, "This isn't worth $11."

If you notice that the primary texts that aren't said by any of the known achewood characters revolves around sluts, improper urinary procedure, and culminates with man-ladies, I'm pretty sure this is EXACTLY what Beef just did. Sounds accurate anyway.

lucidz » neu 2 years ago
It is now painfully obvious to me, that I am the only one who is embarassingly up to date on Groucho Marx quotes.

I myself have thought it possible to stare in the mirror naked and upon realizing, said image was not worth 11 bucks, felt the need to draw on a mustache and eyebrows.
cpnglxynchos » neu 2 years ago
outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
inside of a dog, it is too dark to read!
nokococo » neu 2 years ago
<3
wulvaine » neu 2 years ago
Groucho Marx is pretty much a hero of mine.
nokococo » neu 2 years ago
I appreciate the dude. I had no idea that expressing internet-love for a favorite quote of mine would get me lamed. Sorry guys. I didn't know less-than-threes were hated.
powderfinger » neu 2 years ago
time flys like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
jgyllen » neu 2 years ago
Harper knows that 27 is the correct number of women.
falseprophet » pro 2 years ago
The terrorists with their 72 virgins clearly have it backwards.
aelindil » neu 2 years ago
It is a requirement of terrorists to be dyslexic.
usversusthem » neu 2 years ago
Which explains why they seems like confused rhetoricists I guess.
usversusthem » neu 2 years ago
...and grammar for the fail. Shit it's almost ten a.m. I should go to bed again.
dovey » neu 2 years ago
No it's ok man, I got it. It was funny! <i>you are rad, usvsthem</i>
tekende » neu 2 years ago
Do you think it is rad to use HTML on Assetbar dovey
usversusthem » neu 2 years ago
I think the lesson here is that nobody is perfect.
bogmad » neu 2 years ago
Panel six is what happens the understandably distracted boob man forgets there's a five year old alone on a Friday evening.
biff » neu 2 years ago
I thought it was just the detritus left after Lyle got all ready to go to the club.
budenhagen » neu 2 years ago
I'm afraid. Something bad's gonna happen to Philippe.

Plus he looks incredibly odd in panel 3.
binlaggin » neu 2 years ago
This stip is sad and scary. Which isn't to say it isn't good. Not a really great way to start my weekend though.
straw » neu 2 years ago
It's fine, just put on "Moonlight Mile" and spark one up things will be tip top in no time.
rowboat » neu 2 years ago
Goddamn if you didn't just describe exactly what I'm going to be doing at approximately 6:30 p.m. That's uncanny, man.
binlaggin » neu 2 years ago
I got some Macallan and Minus the Bear. It's not as good, but it's close.
straw » neu 2 years ago
Just see if you can try to dig up "Dead Flowers" and I think it'll be squared away.
autrepoupee » neu 2 years ago
oh wow those outlines are absolutely lyle, teodor, and one of the robots? it would appear that lyle is the one suggesting pissin on a robot. ps this strip reminds me of that episode of roseanne where becky and darlene tear into some clear alcohol like its the end of times
blindspot » neu 2 years ago
Quote:
those outlines are absolutely lyle, teodor, and one of the robots?


Is Vlad, baby.
wulvaine » neu 2 years ago
As someone said above (Sorry for not paying close enough attention to remember your name, observant internet person!), I think it's Lie Bot. Vlad has hair.
tragicone » neu 2 years ago
Also it isn't Teodor its Cornelius.
nhennies » pro 2 years ago
When you meet a check named Tyrone, dude's notice.
nhennies » neu 2 years ago
oh fuck me... CHICK. not check.
lucidz » neu 2 years ago
Thats one check I would not want to cash.
the_doz » neu 2 years ago
So wrong
andrew_ » pro 2 years ago
"Piss on you" really does it for me.
songbirdspectre » neu 2 years ago
philippe wrote FUCK?

amazing. i have no idea what is wrong with him...
apocowarg » pro 2 years ago
I don't think Phillipe wrote that. It looks to me like he is entering the room were the boys had their titty club pre-party.
nhennies » neu 2 years ago
Whether he wrote it or not, he is in trouble.
toiletstore » neu 2 years ago
R. Kelly makes a cameo in the background of panel four.
falseprophet » neu 2 years ago
I will neither chubby nor lame this, but only recommend that in the future, you man up and link to the YouTube video that you know is there, which I am guessin you ain't do cause you don't wanna make a hella emasculatin BBCode mistake but feel free to point out that I am standing in a shadow called The Wrong.
apocowarg » pro 2 years ago
I enjoy the way the lyrics looked typed out, their brazen absurdity. I think we've all seen the video and the above is just a reference, albeit a long and pointless one. Clearly it is something that amuses only myself. Ye though I walk through the shadow of BBcode, I will fear no evil.
lost_buoy » neu 2 years ago
Your Psalm 23 To The Internaught seems to have worked!
cpnglxynchos » neu 2 years ago
the Monty Python song "Sit On My face" immediately comes to mind when i read these lyrics. i only think of this as a newer and 2-girls version of aforementioned song and dismiss it just as swiftly as those tags dictate.
nokococo » neu 2 years ago
And yet again I wonder why Philippe's overbearing mother trusts these caretakers. And why anyone would eat movie nachos.
autrepoupee » neu 2 years ago
as a former employee of a movie house ive really got to wonder why anyone would eat anything from such an establishment. we served pickles.
toiletstore » neu 2 years ago
Were the nacho cheese and the butter the same thing, or what?
autrepoupee » neu 2 years ago
vats labeled yellow, oil drums of salt brine. i applaud anyone who brings food with them because seriously guys that popcorn has been in the kitschy machine for weeks and the hot dogs are reheated 20 times over and the butter is never a solid at any point and the cheese free from the government
fineoakstructure » neu 2 years ago
My local 20-screener used to be obvious about this kind of shit. They would regularly just have black garbarge bags filled with popcorn (cooked the night before...maybe) in the area by the poppers where, you know, you expect fresh popcorn to be sitting. It was stale and flavorless, and you couldn't even mask it with "butter" since they'd barely put any on it when you asked. And this is the most popular cinema in the immediate area.

They probably still do this; I just don't go to this theatre anymore.
rowboat » neu 2 years ago
I think it's time to face some cold, disturbing facts, here. Answer me this - have we ever seen Philippe and his "mother" in the same frame?

Think Norman Bates.
arbys » neu 2 years ago
No, but she's sent him various things in the mail, and at least one other character (Vlad) has talked to her.
cpnglxynchos » neu 2 years ago
can't think of how to explain the mail but notice how Philippe was nowhere to be seen at the time of that phone call, though...
featurelessvoid » neu 2 years ago
The packages in the mail are easily explained, too. He hitchhikes to another town (his willingness to ride with Nice Pete in the Ice Cream Shop story arc was not a one-time mistake) and mails gifts to himself. That is the saddest thing.
blindspot » neu 2 years ago
We've seen them together, but it's non-canon.
http://achewood.com/index.php?date=03312003
rowboat » pro 2 years ago
Definitely non-canon. So non-canon! Good catch, though.
bourbonsamurai » neu 2 years ago
Man, I love this strip. This is the kind of humor that got me into Achewood, indirect, totally character based. And I can see its leading into another "Phillipe has been left alone and will soon cause hilarious problems, likely involving him getting lost" arc, which are always good.
dovey » neu 2 years ago
I AM SO HAPPY THAT I AM FULLY INFORMED AS TO YOUR FEELINGS ON THIS STRIP
dovey » neu 2 years ago
MY FEELINGS ON THIS ASSET ARE GET A BLOG
sortelli » neu 2 years ago
I bet five dollars that picture is the real neonfreon. And that he already has a blog.
javonathan » neu 2 years ago
YOU JUST LOST FIVE BUCKS NIGGA!
bourbonsamurai » neu 2 years ago
Does anyone ever remember to adjust the "feelings on this matter" slider? What the crap is the point of it?
johnnyc » con 2 years ago
HOW DARE YOU BESMIRCH ASSETBAR
em2 » pro 1 years ago
How could you be so arrogant!?
sortelli » neu 2 years ago
God dammit!
skoora » neu 2 years ago
No, seriously, why does no one like this strip? It's like thousands of people that never read Achewood read this one for their first and just haven't gotten the feel for it.
bourbonsamurai » neu 2 years ago
I concur, Skoora the gentle shark.

(Kids in the hall. Anybody?)
rowboat » pro 2 years ago
Don't hate him! He hates himself.
cpnglxynchos » neu 2 years ago
The Big Bucks
skoora » neu 3 months ago
So, I just read this comment a year after it was posted, and I just want to say thank you for recognizing my name. Not a big deal, it just makes me feel a little special.
autrepoupee » neu 2 years ago
neonfreon this strip really has you all sassed up!
lost_buoy » neu 2 years ago
Apparently, a tent has been pitched.
blastradius » con 2 years ago
i was dissing onstad, bitch, for not spending an appropriate amount of time getting this down onto paper properly. This strip seems rushed as hell, incomplete.
silver_lake » neu 2 years ago
Wow. The account where "neonfreon" is a 41 year old man ALSO wants to whine about the comics! It's like a bunch of dudes crying out for their own dongs. They are SO MAD.
neonfreon » neu 2 years ago
i am passionate about achewoood, what can i say
nokococo » neu 2 years ago
Passionate about whining, maybe.
barrymorefm » neu 2 years ago
So it's not all thoroughly explained, so what? Strips never are, are they? We get to fill in gaps, adding to the fun. I'm not getting the amount of confusion this strip's causing. It's a bit of a surreal one, and a bit sad (and a little manic? anyone getting a manic tone?), but it makes as much sense as anything else. In life. Yeah, I like it. *decided*
mattylite » pro 2 years ago
Me. (I am)
(getting a manic tone, that is, which is one of my favorite tones to get from achewood)
kelissamunz » neu 2 years ago
"I think I'm at that special aaaaage!"

You mean five, Philippe?
dovey » neu 2 years ago
Oh, so that's how old Phillipe is :3
heccibiggs » neu 2 years ago
...No. No no no no no.
dovey » neu 2 years ago
screaming_phillipe.jpg
daidai » neu 2 years ago
Please stop. You make me sad..
wittyname » neu 2 years ago
A young otter with hopes to go to Disneyland searches his home to find that he is all alone.

This is the saddest thing.
tekende » neu 2 years ago
He doesn't seem all that sad about it, though!
wittyname » neu 2 years ago
Reality hasn't set it.

And sadness doesn't have to be from within the person itself. Remember the retarded guy and the egg? He wasn't sad, but our hearts were.
tropicana » pro 2 years ago
I agree. The sadness comes from the juxtaposition of childlike innocence with harsh reality. The innocents (Phillipe, the retarded man) conceive the world as a happy place, where broken eggs get better and that everybody values the child's happiness, and the unnerving sadness relies on the reader's knowledge that those things aren't necessarily so.
binlaggin » neu 2 years ago
This is exactly right. This is why this strip is so sad. Also a bit maudlin, but the more I read it, the more I like it. Voted 5 for the best non-funny strip.

As an aside, I think this strip is way sadder if you are a parent yourself. I think it reflects the way people think when they see their kids getting older. So many times someone puts their own needs ahead of the kids (like putting on a movie instead of playing with the kid, or going out and leaving them with a babysitter.) Then you realize the number of days when they are excited to see you and play with you are limited--and you've wasted so many already.
rowboat » neu 2 years ago
I appreciate your unique perspective, but calling this "the best non-funny strip" makes me want to ask you, with no malice or asshole smirk of any kind, if you've read through everything. If by some chance you haven't, try out this and this. Not to say that they're necessarily "non-funny," but that the humor kind of flits around the edges of a larger territory.

This one's decent, but I'm not about to stand up and defend it. Suffice it to say that it's the first time I've dipped below a 4 in a couple of weeks.
binlaggin » neu 2 years ago
Yeah, I've read those, and they didn't hit me the way this one did. I've read the whole archive numerous times. I think my taste must different, because this one (also "non-funny") struck me a lot more than those other ones you cited.

fake edit: I will more than likely mess up the link--I am attempting to link to "The wise points of the crudgens, continued."
loneal » neu 2 years ago
You did mess up the link! Thanks for not disappointing me.
cpnglxynchos » neu 2 years ago
didn't find 'continued' but 'considered'.

hope this is it.
binlaggin » neu 2 years ago
That's it--thank you.
dumase » neu 2 years ago
Am i the only one to grossly assume that Roast Beef made facial hair out of poo?
silver_lake » neu 2 years ago
Why the fuck would you even say that? Assetbar as retardeder than usual today. Good work.
dumase » neu 2 years ago
Assetbar as retardeder than usual today.
Apparently so.

Assetbar is also meaner than i remember it.
wulvaine » neu 2 years ago
Forgive neonfreon. He's just irritable because his last trace of humanity just finished being eaten by his personalitic acid.
ninjaein » neu 2 years ago
Meh. The kid just needs to open up his mind and let imagination free.

Yeah, that's right. I said kid, when his age is in fact twenty-five. I never consider anyone who acts that immature an adult.
echidnaboy » neu 2 years ago
Ugh. Dirty Sanchez Deluxe.
rowboat » pro 2 years ago
No. Don't go.
lost_buoy » neu 2 years ago
Hell of Sincere!
dovey » neu 2 years ago
NEONFREON YOU ARE A VALUED MEMBER OF THIS COMMUNITY

SOMEONE HAS TO BE THE BIGGEST ASSHOLE

YOU ARE THAT GUY
envika » neu 2 years ago
i'll notice that i haven't been seeing much of neonaoneo lately. oh well.
neonaoneo » neu 1 years ago
Woahwoahwoah, just happened to come across this.

You remembered my name, that's quite...odd, don't you think?
lost_buoy » neu 2 years ago
Philippe is very unhappy about the penguins, Mr. Lyle. VERY UNHAPPY.
[IMGS OFF]
lost_buoy » neu 2 years ago
Too obscure? Panel 2?....

Ah, crap! I shouldn't put so much dang effort into this.
buttermoths » pro 2 years ago
No no, we get it. But "effort"? Sir, did you urinate into this little plastic toy cube yourself?
sortelli » neu 2 years ago
I'm going forward with my life by assuming that yellow spill has been drawn in.
lost_buoy » neu 2 years ago
Yes. And excuse my *ahem* pissyness above. I was at work much later than called for yesterday. At the time I wrote that, there should have been ample drinks in my system. My apologies to the group.
sortelli » neu 2 years ago
I thought it was pretty well done.
lost_buoy » neu 2 years ago
Thank you, orange Italian elf-dude!
lost_buoy » neu 2 years ago
Okay, okay - it was a group effort.
thegrayhoodie » neu 2 years ago
I Chubby this, this rendered piss.
mnemonicdevice » neu 2 years ago
Beef did what he said he was gonna do.
sn0wman » neu 2 years ago
Hell, I'm just glad I wasn't the only one a bit confused by this one. I was trying to remember some past strip where Beef had promised to go to a bar with Groucho brows and 'stache, and coming up empty.
catgrl131 » neu 2 years ago
Is it just me, or has Philippe gotten taller and less adorable?
PLUS:
What...what is with the deformed flipper reaching around the door in panel 3!?
PLUS:
Yes, I know otters technically have paws, but you must remember, Philippe is a very special boy.
nokococo » neu 2 years ago
I noticed the creepy arm thing, too. Basically, ever since I noticed he has ears, Philippe has lost some touch of adorableness.
cpnglxynchos » neu 2 years ago
HOLY HELL GUYS.

LOOK AT THE ACHEWOOD SEARCH:

i will assist:
[IMGS OFF]

dag, yo.
cpnglxynchos » neu 2 years ago
crap. i mean [IMGS OFF]
straw » neu 2 years ago
Tite, tite.

Dat is tite noticin.
rowboat » pro 2 years ago
I'm missing something, obviously.
dovey » neu 2 years ago
The subtitle on the banner is "Which was the Time They Said What They Did." The answer is on this strip. This is the time.
dovey » neu 2 years ago
There Comes a Time.
rowboat » neu 2 years ago
Is it just that it's a strip which is representing a time in which they are saying what they did? Man, that happens all the time.

I'll just assume that I still don't get it.
wittyname » neu 2 years ago
I`m with you on the not-getting-things boat.
loneal » neu 2 years ago
Is the not-getting-things boat within the not-getting-things rowboat?
rowboat » pro 2 years ago
Hella metaphysical, lady.
dovey » neu 2 years ago
20 year-old lady
littlefatdog » pro 2 years ago
This abnormal behavior of Phillipe's leaves me wondering if he might be getting around to that stage in a little Otter's life when he gets those strange mushy feelings deep inside, and before he knows it, he's six.
pez » neu 2 years ago
this is not a bad strip. not at all. in fact, everyone struggling to decipher it only makes it better. the best art is never too literal- so why should onstad have to treat us like children? did cartilage head make perfect sense? or ever get a thorough explanation? no, so what exactly warrants giving this strip a low score?

i actually think this strip has a lot of meaning. my interpretation: onstad is contrasting the dreams of both children and grown men, to see what we wanted then and what we want now. philippe thinks he is old enough to go to disney land. the age of innocence. whereas any other achewood character considers a strip club to be their own disney land. at the same time, both beef and philippe are shown to share the same childlike innocence, though philippe has still yet to be corrupted by age. and i think the question is posed: what dreams came true?
cpnglxynchos » neu 2 years ago
we are all mashing on our keyboards, wondering where our real dongs are. also in mouring the loss of our Childhood Drums, Coolers and yes, even Dreams.
cpnglxynchos » neu 2 years ago
m...mourning.
prius_chaser » neu 2 years ago
I've never bought a strip that ranked over 4. Some strips are like stinky fish -- you need them to make the Europeans happy.
spectre » pro 2 years ago
It's the Japanese who eat shiny fish.
nictusempra » neu 2 years ago
not enjoying it that much, mostly, would warrant giving this a low score I guess.

Love this comic, don't get me wrong, this one just wasn't for me~
stevepants » pro 2 years ago
I can't believe the rating is so low on this, this is one of my new favorite strips.
javonathan » neu 2 years ago
man, people is always laming me.
you guys are just no fun.
pr0ncess » neu 2 years ago
That's because the asterisk is next to "cute"...
lateadopter » neu 2 years ago
Not that I lamed you, but you did promise it would never happen again.
javonathan » neu 2 years ago
I know, I know. It's just too tempting though.
It's tempting to tell assetbar users that you just got your bone on.
It's tempting.
rowboat » neu 2 years ago
I'm biting my lip. So hard. But I feel like I was overly harsh the second time (of three) you told everyone this, so I'm just gonna chill.

Seriously, though - get rid of her. If you've taken her for a serious tour of the essential strips (and that's a big IF) and she still finds this comic merely "cute," there's a real problem, there. I mean, on a deeper level than comics.

It's like the girl I was dating a long time ago who couldn't "get" Rushmore. I mean, yeah, it's just a movie. But it's such a basic sort of thing to "get." Not being able to kinda really indicated something deeply unsettling to me.

People who like comics like Cyanide and Happiness will never stick around long. They have no attention span. Appreciation of character development and the general sense of patience which a comic like this sometimes demands is not a quality to be taken lightly.

On the other hand, you're a goddamned teenager. Bone away. But stop telling us about it. It's lame. Or whatever.
javonathan » neu 2 years ago
I will listen to you.
nokococo » neu 2 years ago
I chubbied for your psychological profile of the Cyanide and Happiness reader.
wittyname » neu 2 years ago
I read C H and Achewood. I understand that they`re completely different styles of humour, but both are still good.
nokococo » neu 2 years ago
To each their own, I don't judge by it. I just know from my own samplings in high school that anyone who read ONLY C&H and that type probably would not sit well with me. Some make me chortle, I will admit.
grayfox » neu 2 years ago
What if someone likes Achewood AND Cyanide and Happiness? Is it some sort of paradox?
rowboat » neu 2 years ago
No. You can like Cyanide and Happiness all you want. Just don't expect me to bone you.
tekende » pro 2 years ago
Attn: rowboat

Subj: wow

Body: You rock, man. I'm totally serious.
lost_buoy » neu 2 years ago
He is very much on form here. Bravo, sir. Bravo.
johnnyc » neu 2 years ago
I am reading this twice and I am pretty sure you have told a man that if a girl does not like Achewood you should dump her.

Rationally, I should disagree, but I'm having a hard time doing it.
eatmorekix » neu 2 years ago
it's not because we're no fun. it's because you're an idiot.
intelligentblue » neu 2 years ago
cyanide and happiness is funny and all but achewood has hell of more plot and better art than it!
cpnglxynchos » neu 2 years ago
nice macro shot.
slalvation » neu 2 years ago
Wow, before my eyes figured out what that picture was, I had just completely assumed it was going to be a penis.
falseprophet » pro 2 years ago
I actually thought it was a penis with a really bad chancre but after I finished sucking it I realized it was a plant.
thegrayhoodie » neu 2 years ago
Hilarious!
bjorntd » neu 2 years ago
When you start mistaking plant parts for cocks, you know you need to spend more time Outside.

Which reminds me, I need to look at some plant parts.
rowboat » pro 2 years ago
You call 'em genital warts, I call 'em pleasure nubs.
daidai » neu 2 years ago
Or speed bumps.

Sorry.
autrepoupee » neu 2 years ago
i havent lamed you for now but for future ref-ref nobody likes a "MY GIRLFRIEND" post especially one that makes it as if you do not treat your lady with Respect i guess
jamers » neu 2 years ago
Alas, I accidentally lamed you. Seppuku seems my only option.
autrepoupee » neu 2 years ago
its okay jamers its the thought that counts !^-^! (and that javonathan is how you win friends and influence people along with disregarding their poor taste in internet comics and you too can have a long fulfilling relationship with YOUR GIRLFRIEND)
ninjaein » neu 2 years ago
For the life of me, I cannot make out what your avatar is. A little help?

I'm leaning towards Locke Cole from Final Fantasy VI, but don't quote me on that.
seanbad » pro 2 years ago
You are correct, it is, in fact, Locke Cole in the stylings of one Yoshitaka Amano.

Now: what exactly is your avatar? I keep trying to resolve it in my head, but it always turns out as the bastard child of a windmill and some sort of rocket-powered varmint.
tropicana » con 2 years ago
Not everyone will appreciate Achewood. And it's pointless to try and make someone like something when they just don't get it. I've had friends who used to try to make me love the object of their fandom as much as they did, and it just doesn't work, no matter how good the sex is.

That said, Cyanide And Happiness is not exactly a sophisticated strip. It's more of a vodka cooler, enjoyed by teenagers and soforth, whereas Achewood would be more like a nice Cabernet Sauvignon. One must develop a taste for it over time. It's complex, something to be enjoyed on many levels, and especially good with robust meat dishes.

However, if you post about having sex with your teenaged girlfriend any more, I will be forced to tell you what it's like to be on a Klondike streak. And believe me, it's boring.
tekende » neu 2 years ago
But he said she won't even read it. I mean, okay, dumping someone because they don't like your favorite comic might be a bit extreme. But she's not even willing to TRY? That's pretty shitty of her, if you ask me. Might not bode well for the future.
tropicana » neu 2 years ago
Well, he's seventeen. If you find your soulmate at the age of seventeen, you are in the minority. And if you were a completely mature and adult person at seventeen, you're in an even smaller minority.

Besides, he's said in the past that he liked her before it became known that she didn't like Achewood, so there's obviously other reasons he likes to be around her. (For instance, she could have great tits, or be the only girl willing to put out for him, or she could be otherwise a fantastic person.) And they've been together for what, two weeks, tops? How very high school.
wulvaine » neu 2 years ago
As one who is technically still in the range of years known as adolescence, I completely agree. Maturity is a commodity that is in ridiculously low supply among teenagers, myself likely included.

Plenty of couples that start in high school are doomed ones, because most high-schoolers don't want a relationship, they want something that'll moan when they hump it. I didn't get into my current relationship for sex, I got into it for friendship and companionship. And sex. I'll be honest. But not ONLY sex, is the point I'm trying to make here. I'm a sentimental kind of guy, and I fell for her hard. There's a reason it's working for us: Sex was an effect, not a cause.

I can understand the euphoria that comes with the first time. It wasn't long ago that I was that guy. But I didn't announce it to the unsuspecting internet. Well, until now, I guess. Damn. There goes my argument.
loneal » neu 2 years ago
I have thought of a way to convince your girlfriend to like Achewood. Just show her all the strangers who read it who you've told about having sex with her.

And maybe stop using terms like faggot-ass? Mainly it's all the Achewood readers who know about her sex life, though.
bjorntd » neu 2 years ago
If she likes Cyanide and Happiness, chances are that she infected him with her faggot-ass vocabulary.
brokeaccount » neu 2 years ago
Oh my God I am drunk but seriously you are cunts for being so amazingly analytical of this strip.
buttermoths » con 2 years ago
I'd be happy if someone bothered to be amazingly analytical about this strip. I'd contribute myself, but I am also hell of drunk right now.
The only thing going on here right now is neonfreon being a toilet seat that smokes a cigar, which I wouldn't classify as "amazingly analytical".
brokeaccount » neu 2 years ago
Basically I'm so drunk that anything that even mentions going ons in this strip seems amazingly analytical to me. Nah there are a few posts towards the beginning that seem to try and describe the meaning or implications of this strip... But they seem to also involve, while discussing the basics of the strip, the writer of said analytical comment(s) twiddling with his own arsehole.
buttermoths » pro 2 years ago
Ah well. At least it's good that we both agree that it is TOTALLY RAD to have alcoholism, brokeaccount.
brokeaccount » neu 2 years ago
We have much cocktails at breakfast time!
nokococo » neu 2 years ago
*slips you guys some water*
wittyname » neu 2 years ago
Why are there so many drunks on this messageboard?
silver_lake » neu 2 years ago
it's friday, they're usually better than this, pants up, etc.
cpnglxynchos » neu 2 years ago
anybody on any sort of wagon was hella disrupted by this week.
heccibiggs » neu 2 years ago
Man I too think it is rad to have alcoholism but seriously, two drunk people having a public conversation on a comic strip messageboard is just NOT what we all came here to see.

Okay maybe some people did.

Seriously, though. God love you both but, "I'm this drunk", "Well I'm this drunk", "Oh but wait I'm THIS drunk", come on guys. You'd best have both regretted this in the morning.
brokeaccount » neu 2 years ago
I regret nooooothiiiiiiiing!
buttermoths » neu 2 years ago
Oh yes, I regretted it. In my defense though, it WAS written at 3 A.M. on a Saturday (Norwegian time, bitches YEAH). Also, I guess it is felt that drunken posting on this particular strip is just keeping in style with this strip itself.
madnes » pro 2 years ago
Norwegians are usually pretty funny drunks. How come?
buttermoths » neu 2 years ago
Considering that a pint of beer costs like $13 on average here, we have no choice but to damn well enjoy it.
laserblade » neu 1 years ago
Perfect answer.
dovey » neu 2 years ago
You'd think this were a message board for discussion of this comic strip or something.
dovey » neu 2 years ago
You're right. We should just pick out our favourite lines from this strip (and from others!) and then type them, word for word, completely unchanged, into the comments box, without any further comment or context.

I have a dream.
cpnglxynchos » neu 2 years ago
Yesterday has made a call to today.


So have past months but they didn't leave any messages.
zoeofdoom » neu 2 years ago
There was a balance of chubbies and lames, but I ruined it in your favour sir! (?)

Mostly for the serious use of CUNT...terrible cunt! Its like poetry.
dino_grill » neu 2 years ago
That looks like a BEER on the FLOOR next to the NACHOS! A beer in a CAN! The boy needs proper GUIDANCE!
buttermoths » neu 2 years ago
I really hope that's not Nolan's speech bubbles in the last panel.
cpnglxynchos » neu 2 years ago
ray: Why did you think of that though
ray: Why would you think of that
(ray has signed off 18:43.23PM)
cpnglxynchos » neu 2 years ago
also, as a joke, my family has always called him Marcho Grouch.
tekende » neu 2 years ago
That's not a very good joke
heccibiggs » pro 2 years ago
Hahaha tekende you're pretty good. I've enjoyed/basicalyl agreed with pretty much all your comments on this strip (that I've read so far).

High 5. (Not HIV.)
heccibiggs » neu 2 years ago
Ugh, *basically. I hate myself.
tekende » pro 2 years ago
Thank you, heccibiggs. That means a lot to me on the internet.
tekende » neu 2 years ago
It occurs to me this might look sarcastic and/or rude. It was not intended as such.
cpnglxynchos » neu 2 years ago
he seems a pretty nice guy.

...must drink a lot of water.
tekende » pro 2 years ago
Oh necessarily
heccibiggs » pro 2 years ago
Welcome to the tekende fanclub.

Over 1 members!
rowboat » pro 2 years ago
Yeah. He and I have a history. I was a dick to him once and he handled it with grace and now we're just two dudes on, like, a normal day.

2
buttermoths » pro 2 years ago
I will join this fanclub. I just decided this.
3
I hope I am the last to join, so as to retain my hipster cred. The day being a fan of tekende becomes mainstream, I'm out.
falseprophet » pro 2 years ago
4!

BYE BYE BEEOTCH!
buttermoths » con 2 years ago
OOoOoOOoOh! It's back to Pitchfork for me, then!
You may have thwarted me this time, falseprophet! But you haven't seen the last of buttermoths! Come, neonfreon! SQUEEK EEK EEK
falseprophet » pro 2 years ago
Quote:
OOoOoOOoOh!


OOPS POW, SURPRISE!
tekende » pro 2 years ago
Oh my goodness. You all have warmed the cuckolds of my internet heart. This is TOTALLY WONDERFUL!
spinynorman » neu 2 years ago
Cockles. Cuckolds are dudes whose ladies are getting righteously slammed by other dudes. If your heart has a few of those then I would suggest serious therapy.
tekende » pro 2 years ago
Whoops! heh.
falseprophet » pro 2 years ago
You deserve it, tekende. You were one of the brave few willing to voice your dissatisfaction with my overlong Beef imitation posts without being a cock to me, so you have earned my respect.

You are rad, tekende. You are rad.
dovey » neu 2 years ago
Tekende you get no love from me until you change your avatar back to Ray getting held up by the junk. Just sayin', man.
tekende » neu 2 years ago
Eh, I got tired of that one.
rowboat » pro 2 years ago
Since we're on the subject, is that Christian Bale? And if so, is it from American Psycho? I'm tired of straining my eyes at it.
tekende » pro 2 years ago
No, Luis, it's not me, you're mistaken.

American Psycho is my all-time favorite movie. I can't even begin to count the number of times I've seen it by now.
odei » neu 2 years ago
It's odd how a couple of my favourite guys on this assetbar thing have avatars of men I'm incredibly attracted to. Now all we need is the Ambassador of Japan to the UK.
rowboat » pro 2 years ago
[IMGS OFF]

Let's rock.
autrepoupee » neu 2 years ago
American Psycho is also an excellent book, but unlike most things like that I can't say "oh you gotta read the book!!" because really the movie stays pretty true to the novel and words words words
tekende » pro 2 years ago
They are both enjoyable works in their own way and I find they complement each other quite nicely.
lost_buoy » neu 2 years ago
It's too late!
[IMGS OFF]
I'm still joining, though.
rowboat » pro 2 years ago
That's fantastic, man. Invisi-chubby.
tekende » pro 2 years ago
Oh my god
lost_buoy » neu 2 years ago
Relax, relax. I ordered some for all of us.
tekende » pro 2 years ago
Hmm. I'm not sure I remember this. Was it the whole "blarghamarky is cute" thing? 'Cause I thought your sass was pretty funny, all told.
heccibiggs » neu 2 years ago
I have no idea what situation you're referring to, but I'm relatively certain that blarghamarky is the Acheworld girl that most guys want to bone, so maybe it was some kind of DUEL FOR HER LOVE.
bjorntd » neu 2 years ago
Hey. I want to bone all the achewood chicks equally.

God Bless You, Ladies of Achewood, my heart pines for you, and you set my standards unbearably high. (I call it the L.I.N.C.O.L.N. litmus test)
catgrl131 » neu 2 years ago
I feel it is my duty to let you know that:
a) I am not legal
b) Savin' it for marriage, bitches!
Although point A might just encourage you...
eatmorekix » neu 2 years ago
catgrl listen don't tell the internet you are a minor the result is exactly what you would predict. trust me.
catgrl131 » neu 2 years ago
Oh my lord...What is that breathing?.....What's going o........AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


*oblivion*
cpnglxynchos » neu 2 years ago
aww, she's got that look you get when you fall into the void.
bjorntd » neu 2 years ago
pupils the size of neutrons?
rowboat » pro 2 years ago
Yes, Tekende, I was referring to that episode. I'm glad you thought it was funny. That's the grace of which I spoke.

And I can't speak for him, but I was not dueling for the hand of Ms. Blarghamagarky. I was kind of just up in a clock tower with a sniper rifle, takin' pot shots at the crowd 'cause I was feelin' feisty.

And while she does seem kind and attractive and all (even with her new androgynous avatar) I am already in love with someone who isn't a little box on a computer screen.
heccibiggs » neu 2 years ago
I feel someone should let her know that we're talking about her like this.
spinynorman » neu 2 years ago
It's strange enough to think that there are normal people out in the world whom I could meet face to face that like Achewood, as I've never met one who wasn't my own convert, but it's far stranger to think that there are attractive ladies with similar tastes.
catgrl131 » neu 2 years ago
Yes, I was in Best Buy a while ago (Brother's computer was broken) and I was just spoutin' Achewood references left and right, hoping someone-anyone would recognize. Instead, all I saw that day was a kid with a finger growing out of his elbow. Seriously, it was all just no forearm, and it was hell of grody*.

*W00t! Today is retro slang day, and let me tell you, it is just berries! It is the bee's knees!
tropicana » neu 2 years ago
I've had a few people comment favourably on my Achewood shirt. Most of the people who comment are reasonably cute nerdy boys, so it's not a bad thing.
tekende » pro 2 years ago
I feel that she is kind of used to it by now. All rolling her eyes, going "man why they even got to say a thing..."
budenhagen » neu 2 years ago
She knows. She's omnipotent... and Prince.
dovey » neu 2 years ago
Redundant.
blarghamagarky » neu 1 years ago
"I feel someone should let her know that we're talking about her like this."

someone did
heccibiggs » pro 1 years ago
Hey, uh, I just re-read this little comment thread upon finding your response in my inbox, and I'd just like to apologize on behalf of myself and like probably several other people for spelling your name wrong in various instances.
atticusonline » neu 1 years ago
So are we voting on whether we want to bone blarghamagarky or is it just known that we all want to anyway?
nokococo » neu 2 years ago
So, I have a question, guys. Perhaps it is dumb.

Do you pronounce "Philippe" as "Fi-LEAP" or "Fi-LEAP-ay"? Or do you pronounce it differently? I need assurance.
cpnglxynchos » neu 2 years ago
'feh-leap'
cpnglxynchos » neu 2 years ago
no, i lie. 'phil-leap' that is how i say it.

(what am i going to do about my PRONUNCIATION.)
bjorntd » neu 2 years ago
Ahem.

I'm going to reveal something about myself, because it is unnecessary to establishing my Internet Expertise on this subject. My name is not Bjorn, and I am not of Norse extraction. My name is Felipe, as I will prove later, (pronounced "Feh-leap" as the French.) However, this is a Spanish spelling of the name, and would be otherwise pronounced "Feh-lee-pay". I have had to correct many high school substitutes on this pronunciation. Likewise, when asked my name, I first say "Feh-leap", and then spell "F-E-L-I...", because most expect the French spelling, Philippe. This is because my name is actually Portuguese, and the sound is unpronounceable in the English language, so I simplify it to a phonetically pleasing substitute in the French.

ANYHOW: Philippe is a French name. You pronounce it "Feh-leep", with a sense of Gallic superiority. Done.

ATTACHMENT: felipe_name_proof.exe