Charlie Brown, you died  12/27/2004 « prev 1st rand curr next »




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umbra » neu 2 years ago
RIP L'il Folks
tellumo » pro 2 years ago
RIP Sparky
tekende » neu 1 years ago
RIP Lynn Johnston

Oh, wait, too early. Shit.
puguglypress » neu 1 years ago
way to get our hopes up, tekende
duncan5 » pro 2 years ago
I like this one because of many different reasons.
soticoto » pro 2 years ago
Pure... unadulterated... Schadenfreude.
farqussus » neu 2 years ago
Wow. Are you David Brent?
tangles » pro 1 years ago
y'know, anybody but onstand trying to make a punchline out of chuck schultz's death would've just shit all over it. this strip makes me happy and sad at the same time. tasty tasty achewood
tellumo » pro 2 years ago
"Here, put these shoes on and have legs like mine." Classic Achewood/Peanuts logic.
zem » neu 2 years ago
I guess if there's a classic example of achewood/peanuts logic it would have to come from this strip
semiquaver » neu 1 years ago
Okay my defense is that it was late and I was tired and it would be great if Acheworld and I could move past this.
bookofsand » pro 2 years ago
Is it just me, or does Charlie Brown have wicked sack up until panel 7? He's sassing Ray something fierce.

Also, this one might foreshadow the Feb. 11, 2005 strip. "Nonsense!"
nosearmy » neu 1 years ago
Nothing is more presumptuous than telling someone they are dead. Defiance in the face of such rudeness demands only the sack parcelled out to any self-respecting boy.

Let's try it....booksofsand, you died
snatch22 » pro 2 years ago
I feel like this should've been one of Lie Bot's saddest things ever. Telling a little kid that he's dead. Tragic.
sherief » neu 2 years ago
What's worse is Charlie Brown's dogged insistence to the effect that he never really even lived.
cpnglxynchos » neu 10 months ago
that's what that one cop says.
cpnglxynchos » neu 6 months ago
dang, it's like Blade Runner is my THING or something.
geysershitdick » neu 2 years ago
This strip is a warning.
cuddlefish » neu 2 years ago
the illegal ghost bike rides again
petitegitan » pro 2 years ago
It's like a bizarre 6th Sense.
tttt2 » neu 2 years ago
as opposed to the rational one
dougthehead » pro 2 years ago
Best comic strip about another comic strip ever. You'd think it would be easier.
djwhiterabbit » neu 2 years ago
i'm still rather partial to "laying into garfield" myself. (^ ^,)

"Lasagna, Mondays, people have it all figured out."
stevegt500 » neu 2 years ago
up yours garfield
djwhiterabbit » neu 2 years ago
"He toook you down with him like an Egyptian emperor!" == instant 5.

and this'll prolly get me crucified, but shouldn't it technically be "Egyptian pharaoh"?
tellumo » pro 2 years ago
Yes. However, Ray has never been one to sweat such details.
djwhiterabbit » neu 2 years ago
your point is well taken.
saru » neu 2 years ago
Because he's not an Egyptian, he doesn't feel any of the ill-luck associated with referring to the living god directly.

If I remember correctly Pharaoh means something like "high house", so it was an indirect way of talking about the man himself. Typically, in English, it's polite to refer to people of station using their native tongue, so yeah, maybe pharaoh would be best, since that's what his people called him. But as there is no equivalent in Egyptian (such as Kaiser or Maharajah), Emperor isn't really that wrong. Except of course for the fact that I don't think Egypt was really an empire.... Was it?
sirfrederick » pro 1 years ago
Oo, good thinking! And, no, I don't think it was an empire - I think Egypt was comparatively lax in its expansionism, Two closely-related kingdoms which amalgamated somewhere down the line, but the sea and the desert and the mountains made much more military action pretty impractical. But it's not my field, so I'll defer to anyone better informed.
layzerblade » neu 9 months ago
If you've understated the case, it's not by much, according to Wikipedia. During the terrtorial peak of Egyptian-ruled Egypt, its borders extended from Libya in the west and Nubia in the south to Syria in the north, just bumping up against Asia Minor.

[IMGS OFF]
layzerblade » neu 9 months ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Egypt_NK_edit.svg
heccibiggs » neu 1 years ago
So, not only did you just directly quote the above strip with no added comments or opinions; you actually misspelt a word that was right up there?

Poor kid never stood a chance...
nessotron » neu 2 years ago
Dammit, Charlie Brown has always been awkward.
littlefatdog » pro 2 years ago
peanuts gets the onstad approval
cant say the same for garfield, cathy, & marmaduke
deancain29 » neu 2 years ago
Peanuts tribute - Onstad has deep roots.
spinynorman » neu 2 years ago
The fat cartoon cat is telling the little boy he is actually dead.
peterjoel » neu 2 years ago
Oh, I thought it was all a build up to the punchline in the last panel...
saint » neu 2 years ago
did you try reading the strip rather than just reading the comments?
_cheesekayke » neu 2 years ago
Man Ray has a long torso when he puts on Charlie Brown shoes.
charchar » neu 2 years ago
I read that as "Man Ray" has a long torso. (Any photoshop-inclined peoples, please make me such as a jpeg of Ray as a cello or something. We could maybe get the Make-A-Wish Foundation in on it, perhaps.)
pogo » neu 1 years ago
Too much art appreciation.
charchar » con 1 years ago
Nonsense!
stuart » neu 1 years ago
i made this somewhere between 6 months and a year ago. Stupid failing computer parts.

[IMGS OFF]
drycup » pro 2 years ago
Charlie Brown was the world's first emo kid.
laudabilis » pro 2 years ago
Good thing he was too hardcore for actual eyeliner. That would've totally ruined Peanuts.
bucklemyshoe » neu 6 months ago
I've always felt that it was not "emo" when you actually had a situation worth complaining about. And shit was messed up for Charlie Brown.
kilroywashere » pro 2 years ago
Too bad Charlie Brown never hung around long enough to give Pat crap on his insane barber-hatred.
steerpike66 » neu 2 years ago
This could be a really disturbing strip. I think it should have gotten darker until Charlie Brown dissolves into a howling nothingness, pounding his fists on the floor in denial, his voice rising to an hysterical bat-screech as the void claims him. Then, nothing but a thin wind...and silence. Goodnight Charlie Brown. You wishy-washy son-of-a-round-headed-bitch.
pyro_ike » pro 2 years ago
That actually happened, between panels. Why else do you think Ray looks shaken up?
endoftheworld » pro 2 years ago
Charlie Brown, you had fifty years to kiss the Red-Headed Girl. No sympathy from this corner, son.
godfatherofsouls » neu 2 years ago
DEPRESSING
cheapcynicism » neu 2 years ago
"Man, you'd think it'd be easier to give some bad news to Charlie Brown" is the funniest line this hilarious comic has ever made.
scorpio_nadir » neu 1 years ago
If Beef was the shrink in the booth, maybe Charlie Brown would accept it from him. Beef tells bad news well.
tbtabby » neu 2 years ago
I only recently notices that Charlie Brown is wearing a short-sleeved dress shirt, as opposed to his usual polo shirt with the zigzag.
rowboat » pro 2 years ago
This strip is basically a fucking nightmare. And it was the strip for my twenty-seventh birthday. Nightmares abound!
yogurtworld » neu 2 years ago
You and I both have the same shitty birthday. High five!
rowboat » pro 2 years ago
Back a'cha.
pmoney187 » neu 2 years ago
My first Achewood, and a 5 if there ever was such a thing.
postblank » pro 2 years ago
Charlie Brown doesn't seem very decisive on the matter of his age.
gussiejives » neu 2 years ago
I always wondered how Charlie Brown got around on those stumpy-ass legs.
xiaomimi » neu 2 years ago
doc_rostov » neu 1 years ago
Just saying, here... everyone (yes, that means you) should read the Molly entry whether they're following the Adventures of Ms. Blog Girl or not. That's one of the sweetest things I've ever read. And the Cornelius entry is absolutely superb. A choice excerpt:

"My donation must have seemed rather quaint, so I attempted to make reparations with the good bear but he would have none of it, noting that Ray had more than adequately covered the $89 price of the toy with a $500 donation."

Classic Ray.
fermatprime » neu 1 years ago
I'm frankly surprised he didn't go all the way with a six hundo.
hellofditties » neu 2 years ago
Does Ray know he lives in a comic?
charchar » pro 2 years ago
Do we?
echidnaboy » pro 1 years ago
Wait! I am from... fiction!
hellofditties » pro 1 years ago
God damn it echidnaboy I just looked through every single comment I ever made on this site to find that

Pretty funny though.
sirfrederick » pro 1 years ago
He must, considering Onstad's income comes from selling books and merch of it and he gets Teodor to help him ship them.

It makes more sense when you think of all the autobiographical comics out there.
pogo » neu 1 years ago
I see dead cartoon characters.
johnnyrocker » neu 1 years ago
I love "I never know how things like this are supposed to go."

It implies that Ray has been through shit like this before.
johnnyrocker » neu 1 years ago
I am testing out BBCode here because I'm pretty sure no one will see it. italics
bold www.dresdencodak.com
hellofditties » neu 1 years ago
I've been wanting to test this one for a while without looking the fool
hellofditties » neu 1 years ago
Oh, rad.
johnnyrocker » neu 1 years ago
Oh sweet it worked. I didn't think it would work first try.
sp1derbaby » neu 1 years ago
The BBCode monster is a patient one.
joeynarcotic » pro 1 years ago
This is so much better than the other two "end of Peanuts" strips I've seen.
dipstikk » neu 1 years ago
"Here, put these on and have legs like mine."

God, I love this comic.
theirateturk » neu 1 years ago
No one has ever been owned as much as Charlie Brown has in this strip
tekende » pro 1 years ago
Panel three is great. Onstad isn't really sure how old Charlie Brown is supposed to be, so neither is Charlie Brown. Hilarious.
carlyle » neu 10 months ago
I actually let a tear out.
freakytiki » neu 8 months ago
RAY UNCREATED HIM! THE HORROR!
dtuba » neu 2 days ago
your avatar/comment combo freaks me out. nice.
darqhermit » pro 7 months ago
For me, it's the alt text text that brought the 'lols'
darqhermit » pro 7 months ago
For me, it's the alt text text that brought the 'lols'
darqhermit » pro 7 months ago
For me, it's the alt text text that brought the 'lols'
darqhermit » pro 7 months ago
For me, it's the alt text text that brought the 'lols'
darqhermit » pro 7 months ago
For me, it's the alt text text that brought the 'lols'
darqhermit » pro 7 months ago
For me, it's the alt text text that brought the 'lols'
darqhermit » pro 7 months ago
For me, it's the alt text text that brought the 'lols'
darqhermit » pro 7 months ago
For me, it's the alt text text that brought the 'lols'
darqhermit » pro 7 months ago
For me, it's the alt text text that brought the 'lols'
darqhermit » pro 7 months ago
For me, it's the alt text text that brought the 'lols'
darqhermit » pro 7 months ago
For me, it's the alt text text that brought the 'lols'
darqhermit » pro 7 months ago
For me, it's the alt text text that brought the 'lols'
darqhermit » pro 7 months ago
For me, it's the alt text text that brought the 'lols'
darqhermit » neu 7 months ago
Damn.
I can only apologise for this unexplainable spamming. I don't know what happened.
I really don't.
neutralbob » pro 7 months ago
Something about this strip just gets to me. It is funny and yet I am kind of saddened about it. Achewood tends to have that effect on me. Wonderful strip.
bucklemyshoe » neu 6 months ago
So do the shoes give you Charlie Brown legs, or did Charlie Brown just ask Ray to have legs like him and Ray complied?
greenkoolayd » neu 5 months ago
woah, is the zigzag shirt copyrighted, or what?
vulpes-aurum » neu 4 months ago
Whereas five-year-old otters take the news very well.
sxp12 » neu 4 months ago
Charlie Brown pulls a Cloud from FF7 in the seventh frame.
COINCIDENCE?!?!?!?!?!?
....Absolutely.
toomanybros » pro 1 months ago
Strip is so sad. All of the things Charlie Brown always longed for but never in his whole life was able to do. Shit.
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